Sheriff’s 1-Word Reply To Atheists’ Demand He Remove Godly Phrase Is PERFECT

Sean Brown

A group of atheists are hounding a Tennessee sheriff to remove the Godly phrase “In God We Trust” from his patrol cars, but he doesn’t appear to be caving in. Instead, he had just one beautiful word to say in response, and the angry atheists aren’t going to like it.

Henderson County Sheriff Brian Duke followed the lead of numerous other departments by putting the popular slogan on his patrol cars last month, but it didn’t sit too well with the angry atheists at the Freedom From Religion Foundation, reported WBBJ-TV. The folks at the FFRF sent Sheriff Duke a two-page warning letter demanding he take the phrase off, so the sheriff responded the only way he knew how.

“The U.S. Supreme Court says it’s perfectly legal,” Duke said.

In a follow-up phone interview, a spokesman for the group said they think a more appropriate phrase would be “In God some of us trust.” Unwilling to cave to the demands from the FFRF, who only has about 23,000 members across the entire country, Duke sent them a letter of his own.

“Basically everything I had to say I included in my letter,” he said.

Sheriff Brian Duke

So what did his written response to the group say? In big, bold letters, it simply read “NO!”

Isn’t that awesome?

Sheriff Duke said he hasn’t even received any complaints, except the one from the angry atheists, of course, so he has zero intentions of removing the phrase any time in the near future. Besides, residents in the town seem to be on board with the idea, despite the FFRF’s concern that people might feel like they’re being profiled if they don’t believe in God.

“It’s what this country stands for,” Billy Franklin said.

Indeed, and it’s groups like the FFRF that are trying their best to change it. It always amazes me how people take issue with such things when it really has no bearing on them at all. Nobody has the right to not be offended, yet daily, we hear stories of people demanding things be removed, replaced, or changed because someone doesn’t like it.

Kudos to this sheriff for standing up to the anti-religious bullies at the FFRF. Maybe if more people did the same, they’d finally go away and leave the rest of us – the sane portion of the nation – alone once and for all.

[H/T: Western Journalism]