My Critical Thinking & Argumentation Class is having a Round Table exercise. I am curious on what you think?
My stance: Keep it. Remove it. It doesn’t really matter to me. I say it does not endorse religion. I do believe in God but I don’t think it affects what I believe in any way if the phrase is removed.
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November 30th, 2009 at 7:27 am
I think if it was good enough for the forefathers then it should be good enough now. Besides in a recession do we really want to waste taxpayers money on retooling all the stamping machines?
November 30th, 2009 at 7:27 am
Why should it matter people are going to spend the money anyways
Plus god can mean any religion not just abrahamic Religions
November 30th, 2009 at 7:27 am
this nation is based on the principle of "God-given" rights. without God, there are no rights, which would contradict everything our founding fathers did.
November 30th, 2009 at 7:27 am
its in our constitution!
we must never allow this to happen
November 30th, 2009 at 7:27 am
It has no barring one way or another, it should stay. Canada has God written on our currency also, but I don’t see anyone having an uproar about it .. only difference is ours is in Latin.
November 30th, 2009 at 7:27 am
no because if you read the history it played a very important part of the founding. I myself believe in separation of church and state but its not a statement of the church as many religions have gods
November 30th, 2009 at 7:27 am
Tough call. The left support gay marriage saying that it doesn’t affect those against it. I guess I’d say why change it. It doesn’t affect those against it.
November 30th, 2009 at 7:27 am
"In the dollar we trust" might be more appropriate.
http://socyberty.com/politics/obscenely-presidential/
November 30th, 2009 at 7:27 am
If it were something original to our heritage/past, I would say leave it. But the fact is it’s only 50 years old. I would prefer we go back to E Pluribus Unum.
In god we trust was only added because of the irrational fear of communism. Unfortunately, you can see by some of the answers that many people have no idea of the origin of "In god we trust" and assume, incorrectly that it was the intention of our founding fathers.
November 30th, 2009 at 7:27 am
The dollar will be worthless anyways in two years. So it doesn’t matter.
November 30th, 2009 at 7:27 am
NO!
November 30th, 2009 at 7:27 am
Well, personally, I find it very offensive that it is on the currency as I think it is disrespectful to God. Love of money is an evil IMO. So, I don’t mind them removing it, and frankly,under our Constitution, it should never have been put on there in the first place. I mean, of course it’s the government endorsing a religion. Everyone knows it.
November 30th, 2009 at 7:27 am
I think we should finish the phrase with "all others pay cash".
November 30th, 2009 at 7:27 am
who cares ?? our currency will become useless in 2010
November 30th, 2009 at 7:27 am
No it shouldn’t be removed. America used to be a Godly nation and it still should be. You say you believe in God, but what are your believes?
November 30th, 2009 at 7:27 am
It doesn’t really matter. People have been stealing it, snorting coke with it, and tucking it into the sexy panties of strippers forever, so it’s not like sin will start to run amok, if it is taken off.
I say save the country some time and money, and leave it on there…
November 30th, 2009 at 7:27 am
i don’t care i don’t think most people pay attention to it and it wasn’t added till the 50s.
November 30th, 2009 at 7:27 am
“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim tribute to patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness—these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. . . . reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.”
– George Washington
“[I]t is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People in a greater Measure, than they have it now, they may change their Rulers and the forms of Government, but they will not obtain a lasting liberty.”
– John Adams
“…The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that ‘except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build it.’ ”
– Benjamin Franklin
“Were my soul trembling on the wing of eternity, were this hand freezing to death, were my voice choking with the last struggle, I would still, with the last gasp of that voice, implore you to remember the truth: God has given America to be free.”
– Patrick Henry
“And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“Without God, there is no virtue, because there’s no prompting of the conscience. Without God, we’re mired in the material, that flat world that tells us only what the senses perceive. Without God, there is a coarsening of the society. And without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure. If we ever forget that we’re one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.”
– Ronald Reagan