Chez Chesler

I wonder why I don't terribly object to things like "Laws of Nature and of Nature's God" and "In God We Trust" on the currency, or the iconic Ten Commandments, as much as I do the public creche, or even the public reindeer. (The for-purpose Kansas Ten Commandments, or the 1950s addition to the Pledge of Allegiance, occupy an intermediate position in my mind.) I'm wondering if it is because nobody has ever been forcibly converted to Monotheism. (Not that nobody has ever been forcibly converted to a putatively monotheist religion, but when that happens those holding the force use it, the fact that those they are forcing are already monotheistic, or would convert to a different monotheistic religion, wouldn't satisfy those holding the force.) So generic, bland, somewhat politically correct Monotheism doesn't bring to mind bad acts.