One nation under FSM

The government has no business promoting a specific religious viewpoint.

It was added, IIRC, because of growing religious sentiments after the civil war.

Anybody who wants to keep it there is an enemy of religious freedom.

my personal thoughts on the matter is it was put on currency by non-religious people to get the majority religious people to accept the worthless paper as having worth .. and 'the govt' has nothing to do with printing money the central bank ie federal reserve does ..

Proof that God wasn't always outlawed in gov.
people use to know what America was founded on

Sounds like illegal promotion of a specific religious group (note the capital G)

I think it should go back to the way it was the year we defeated Hitler…. Not on it.

Well, "God" doesn't necessarily mean "the God of The Bible," although most people in this country certainly read it that way. I don't think the Founding Fathers would have been very happy if they knew that phrase was on there. Wasn't it added as a reaction to the explicit godlessness of Communism?

Don't really care about it, but it should be taken off.

I feel it is pathetic

This country was founded on Christian beliefs and we are one nation under God. While there are many other religions in the United States and people have the right to worship whatever and whomever they choose, they must remember that this is still a Christian nation and will be until Christ returns.

Actually that describes the purpose of creation accurately.
But we have to understand it unrelated to any country, or any religion, meaning the unity of the whole of humankind and the union of this united humankind with the Creator.
In reality nothing else exists only the Creator and the creature, where the creature is the united single humanity (or human soul).
The purpose of our life to realize this while still living our present life in our present bodies.
All the seemingly negative events surrounding us are pushing us to this goal. We can get there the long and painful way, or through a short and joyful way.
This is our free choice.

I would not like it at all. I'm not very fond of "In God we trust" either.

Since it doesn't specify which God I, as a Pagan, have no problem with it. Don't forget that Presidents George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison all stated that the U.S. is not and was never intended to be a Christian Nation, and that Jefferson, in the Declaration of Independence, specified "Nature and it's God" rather than "the God of the Bible" or "Jesus". That was also the purpose of Separation of Church and State in the Constitution, despite all the modern claims to the contrary.

I "feel" that it's your imagination.
"Under God" was added to the Pledge of Allegiance about 1/2 Century ago. It isn't on our money.

I'd prefer E Pluribus Unum; it's a bit more inclusive.

The Constitution says separation of church and state,A belief in God is not a church.And most of the world believes in God,The name,Gender,or material appearance,May not be the same,to every one,But most of believe that we are under God,And they can put that on currency,or where ever else they want to put it,Fine with me

"One nation under God" is part of the Pledge of Alliegence and is not on our currency.

Our currency says "In God we trust."

I think that both of these instances infringe on the freedom of religion of U.S. citizens who are not Monotheists.

The entire world agreed to include freedom of religion in the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights. See Article 2: http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html

The citizens of the United States think this freedom is just as important as the freedoms of speech or the press. All are part of the 1st Amendment of the U.S. Constitution: http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.billofrights.html

Even the Catholic Church seeks and supports the freedom of religion for all human beings. In the Vatican II document, Declaration on Religious Freedom, Dignitatis Humanae (Human Dignity), the Church states:

The human person has a right to religious freedom. This freedom means that all men are to be immune from coercion on the part of individuals or of social groups and of any human power, in such wise that no one is to be forced to act in a manner contrary to his own beliefs, whether privately or publicly, whether alone or in association with others, within due limits.

For the entire document, see: http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decl_19651207_dignitatis-humanae_en.html

With love in Christ.