That's a lie, it's not from burning man.
I've been in many churches, even behind the pulpit, and he's right. In most you're taught to believe what your told things mean by the pastor/priest, who's seen as an "authority".
When Jesus died on the cross, the "veil" was torn. The men of the cloth desperately try to uphold that veil. Some knowingly, others out of ignorance and pride.
That coin is from 1967, not 1968. 34 years before 9/11. It's a 6 year war commemorative coin.