[QuantumDelta]

Meanwhile, I don't even bother with notes.
If it ain't electronically available via chip'n'pin I just don't wanna do it.

Doubley, it means I'm virtually unrobbable, since my money is kept in an account that cannot be accessed by anything other than my internet banking and can only be moved onto my card account, which can only be used via my card.
Mwahaha.

nope but you are just as vulnerable to being hacked, and not to long ago in the UK Northern Rock was hacked for a notable (to the public) amount of money

My main account is setup so that there is no way of getting money off of it 'cept my card :>
Does make online banking a pain in the ass sometimes.

[Nemesis6]

In God We Trust? Sweet Knights of Colombus!

[Turambar]

Why do we still have those archaic ideologies on our currency?

[QuantumDelta]

In God We Trust? Sweet Knights of Colombus!

Dawkins commented on it mentioning that the British equivalent had Darwin on it

[karajorma]

Lions and Unicorns could beat up an Eagle

Sorry to burst your My Little Pony bubble but unicorns don't exist.

That's what they want you to think. You just get a horn sticking out of you about 3 inches above your navel and have just enough time to wonder what a narwhal is doing in the middle of town before you expire.

[BloodEagle]

Lions and Unicorns could beat up an Eagle

Sorry to burst your My Little Pony bubble but unicorns don't exist.

That's what they want you to think. You just get a horn sticking out of you about 3 inches above your navel and have just enough time to wonder what a narwhal is doing in the middle of town before you expire.

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=653#comic   

[Mongoose]

Meanwhile, I don't even bother with notes.
If it ain't electronically available via chip'n'pin I just don't wanna do it.

Doubley, it means I'm virtually unrobbable, since my money is kept in an account that cannot be accessed by anything other than my internet banking and can only be moved onto my card account, which can only be used via my card.
Mwahaha.

I find cold hard cash to be a far better alternative myself.  You actually think about how much you're forking over for something when you have to count out the $10s and $20s.  Online banking can wind up getting too abstract for your own good.

[Unknown Target]

Why do we still have those archaic ideologies on our currency?

Because those "archaic" ideologies are the principles the country was founded on and the go-to values for how it should be run? What would you prefer "*****es, hos, and cash" on the back of all our money? Is that contemporary enough?

[General Battuta]

Why do we still have those archaic ideologies on our currency?

Because those "archaic" ideologies are the principles the country was founded on and the go-to values for how it should be run? What would you prefer "*****es, hos, and cash" on the back of all our money? Is that contemporary enough?

Not to open a giant writhing can of worms, but weren't the Founding Fathers quite a mixed bag faith-wise? Christians, Deists, what-have-you's? I always got the sense they were a bit leery of such things, and that the great religious sentiment in our country comes from the Great Revival, which was much later.

[karajorma]

Because those "archaic" ideologies are the principles the country was founded on and the go-to values for how it should be run?

Seriously, separation of church and state. Read something about it.

[General Battuta]

Yeah, the In God We Trust thing wasn't added until the Civil War.

So this

Because those "archaic" ideologies are the principles the country was founded on and the go-to values for how it should be run?

seems like a bit of a misconception at least with respect to the motto on currency. It doesn't have anything to do with our country's founding, and it didn't even make it to paper currency until 1957!

I'm not particularly anti-Christian, but I do stand with the Founding Fathers' belief in a secular government. To quote Madison in the Treaty of Tripoli,

As the Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion...

Washington, Franklin, Jefferson and Paine seemed to share similar sentiments.

Then on the other hand we've got Patrick Henry, who seems to be of mixed opinion on it. We've got:

It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists but by Christians, not on religion but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We shall not fight alone. God presides over the destinies of nations." - Patrick Henry