Is “In God We Trust” on US currency a true statement?
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November 24th, 2008 at 6:51 am
No it is dumb.
November 24th, 2008 at 6:51 am
Yes. It is for me anyway!
November 24th, 2008 at 6:51 am
No, it doesn’t even say which god.
November 24th, 2008 at 6:51 am
No. Even believers don't look at it is that. They only see money as do I.
You can't deny it, believers.
November 24th, 2008 at 6:51 am
"The motto IN GOD WE TRUST was placed on United States coins largely because of the increased religious sentiment existing during the Civil War. Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase received many appeals from devout persons throughout the country, urging that the United States recognize the Deity on United States coins. From Treasury Department records, it appears that the first such appeal came in a letter dated November 13, 1861."
That's almost 100 years after the USA started…
"As the Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity, of Musselmen; and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries."
http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/summer97/secular.html
November 24th, 2008 at 6:51 am
NO. I believe in God, and I am an American but I think the most of the US Politicians DO NOT TRUST in God….some are hypocrites.
November 24th, 2008 at 6:51 am
Yes, because America’s god is currency.
November 24th, 2008 at 6:51 am
nope, not for me anyway.
November 24th, 2008 at 6:51 am
Depends on the person. It’s true to me. Why is it atheist’s spend so much time and energy talking about God when they don’t believe in him?
November 24th, 2008 at 6:51 am
For true Believers….Yes! Just goes to show you what our fore fathers were focused on when they designed currency.
November 24th, 2008 at 6:51 am
Don't we buy Guns, and Drugs, and Alcohol with Us money?
Don't we buy Prostitutes with American money. Isn't that a sin?
November 24th, 2008 at 6:51 am
The Treasury Department does not speak for all of us.
November 24th, 2008 at 6:51 am
Well, He hasn't been to trustworthy lately, has he?
November 24th, 2008 at 6:51 am
unfortunately, no.
Not as a nation anyways.
November 24th, 2008 at 6:51 am
The fact that most of that currency has seen the interior of a hooker’s undergarments is a bit ironic, huh?
November 24th, 2008 at 6:51 am
If by “God” you mean Mammon, then yes.
November 24th, 2008 at 6:51 am
I don’t trust any imaginary sky fairy, whether it is on our money, or not.
November 24th, 2008 at 6:51 am
It’s just a slogan. Nothing to get upset about.
November 24th, 2008 at 6:51 am
Our nation was founded on a Judeo-Christian value system, so I believe that the statement is a historical testimony to the higher purpose of the founding father’s intent.
November 24th, 2008 at 6:51 am
It is hard to understand why “In God We TRust” and yet don’t trust Him to allow prayers in schools
November 24th, 2008 at 6:51 am
there was or is a new currency coin out,that does not have in God we trust.http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_dollar_coin.htm http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,257462,00.html
November 24th, 2008 at 6:51 am
I hope it will always be IN GOD WE TRUST.!!!!!!!
November 24th, 2008 at 6:51 am
I’m god, and yes I trust myself.
November 24th, 2008 at 6:51 am
It was recently discontinued.
Could this explain the current financial situation?
November 24th, 2008 at 6:51 am
No, it was added long after the founding of the nation for superstitious reasons.
November 24th, 2008 at 6:51 am
It has a quaint charm to it. But you must realize the joke in regards to currency is that “All others pay cash.”
November 24th, 2008 at 6:51 am
Yes it is. The founding fathers of our constitution based everything on their collective belief in God. But it was not until around 1940 or so that the phrase was put on the currency and paper money.
November 24th, 2008 at 6:51 am
You may trust god but i doubt he trusts America its one thing to claim god it another to live in his ways and attacking other countries even if supposedly its for their benefit????? Is not god he judges we tolerate, id say its more like your bad doings hide behind that label. Im not against Americans don’t get me wrong i have kids to one i just think its contradicting.
November 24th, 2008 at 6:51 am
its only a matter of time, and that will be removed just like god was removed from the pledge.
November 24th, 2008 at 6:51 am
Our founding fathers thought so. Today it seems that people trust in themselves and money more. No wonder we’re in so much turmoil.
November 24th, 2008 at 6:51 am
I hope not! Because if we did, women would be severly oppressed, and homosexuals and non-Christians would be burned at the stake (unless of course you converted and confessed all your sins, then your throat would be slit first–humane, right?).
November 24th, 2008 at 6:51 am
It is for me. Truthfully, in this market today, who else can you depend on?
November 24th, 2008 at 6:51 am
I think it may have once upon a time had some type of nobel significance but I think it’s somewhat pathetic that we’d put God’s name on currency when supposedly “money is the root of all evil”…
November 24th, 2008 at 6:51 am
i doubt it.
but now that i think about it….it’s kinda rude to be putting that on our money. i mean…..alot of bad stuff has come about because of money, hence the saying “money is the root of all evil”.
so i mean why would you want to put god’s name on it?
* i’m actually an atheist, but it still seems a bit insulting, looking at it from “gods” perspective.
November 24th, 2008 at 6:51 am
It is true for those of us who do believe and trust, for those who do not, it is merely a meaningless motto.