Reply #58: I have to disagree.

[ieoeja]

In God We Trust first appeared on our money during the Civil War when each side tried claiming God as being on their side.

Under God was not added to the Pledge of Allegiance until 1954.

U Pluribus Unum, the National Motto since the founding of this country, was not replaced by In God We Trust until 1956.


It appears to me the battle is not to CHANGE the current status quo and push this stuff "out", but rather to push this stuff "IN". The defenders of Jefferson's "wall of separation" between Church and State did not start this process.

It isn't as if Alabama had a ten-ton monument to the Ten Commandments in the statehouse the past hundred years. One jackass decided to install it a few months back because he believes that you must be Christian in order to be a good American.