Today In Names That Should Get You Beat Up On The Playground

By aaroncynic in News on Aug 9, 2010 8:30PM

A man from Zion, Illinois changed his name a second time over the weekend in a planned series of seven religious name changes. Born Steve Kreuscher, he first changed his name to In God We Trust in 2008, the official U.S. national motto passed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956. The Chicago Tribune reports now In God We Trust has now changed his name to “One Nation Under God.”

Under God told the Trib he plans to make seven total name changes to promote Christian “unity” and because of the loss of religious freedoms in the United States. In the future, he plans to change his name to 777, What Would Jesus Do, No Cross No Crown, Thermando Zattersof and Angelico Zioneero.

Curiously enough, though Under God took his latest moniker after the phrase inserted into the pledge by a Joint Resolution of Congress in 1954, he doesn’t say the pledge, saying “Christ said make no oaths.” As for perceived lost religious freedoms in the United States, we’re left wondering if those losses count the 25% of Americans who aren’t Christian.