IN GOD WE TRUST: do you think that writing this on the bank-note is a misuse of God's name?

Question

Taking God's name in vain?

Answer 1

I do, expecailly when God says that the love of money is the root of evil.

1 Timothy 6:10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Answer 2

truly i imagine that's a breach of the widely used, enshrined in the first change of the U. S. structure, that 'Congress shall make no regulation respecting an institution of religion'. There should be no element out of God on any document issued through the U. S. Federal authorities. If some thing, pointing out God on the greenback bill takes the state's call in ineffective.

Answer 3

Well, considering that I think the IN GOD WE TRUST is referring to the god of MONEY, no...I don't think it's taking the god of money's name in vain. I don't think this was the original intent for the IN GOD WE TRUST that is seen printed on money, though. If you are referring to the Real God, of who ever's understanding, the Higher Power God, how I would answer your question is this: I don't think it is taking God's name in vain, if you truly MEAN and feel the true intent of the IN GOD WE TRUST. Of course you know the rest of this saying....IN GOD WE TRUST, all others must pay CASH!

Answer 4

I do not beleive this is taking Gods name in vain.

However, I do beleive that this statement amounts to the Government sponsoring one religion over all others - which is WRONG WRONG WRONG. How would you feel it the money read IN ALLAH We Trust?? You'd be pissed, right?

It is a little known fact that this slogan was not added to the American currency until 1957 (yes, in Florida, it was on bank notes in the 1860s - but that one state, not the Fed Govt.) So it is a recent addition, and it should be removed just as quickly.

Answer 5

i don't really think so, as i assume this originates from Christians who did trust in God, although i supose most of the people who use this money do not trust in God. still, the prescence of the words there is at least a reminder of the existance of God, so i supose it can't do any harm, and may even lead an unsaved person into conversation with a believer, which could one day lead 2 them being saved, so in that respect it's a very good thing that it's there.

it's said that money talks, but perhaps sometimes God can talk through money.

Answer 6

Yes absolutley. I'm not an American, but I love America. It is sad that your country has this on a dollar bill, yet they have a pagan symbol also on the bill, and they refuse to allow God into school.
Americans need God in the country again. that doesn't mean that the're isn't any Christians. I know many God fearing men and women in the country.

Answer 7

No, I think that it is a worthy reminder to people not to trust in the bank note but in God. I think that it is a very good place to put such a reminder.

"My mouth shall speak wisdom; the meditation of my heart shall be understanding. I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will solve my riddle to the music of the lyre. Why should I fear in times of trouble, when the iniquity of those who cheat me surrounds me, those who trust in their wealth and boast of the abundance of their riches? Truly no man can ransom another, or give to God the price of his life, for the ransom of their life is costly and can never suffice, that he should live on forever and never see the pit. Psalms 49:3-9

"Therefore do not be anxious, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. Matthew 6:31-33

Answer 8

Some facts: 1. Money didn't originally have this; 3 separate acts added it to money (the first in the mid 1800s and the final in the mid 1950s). 2. Fundamentalist Christianity is not the foundation of our country (if one reads the writings of the founding fathers -- ALL of their writings). Given this, it would be helpful to return money to its original intent and remove this. Like Jesus said, 'Give to Caesar what is Caesar's'.

Answer 9

As a new country I think many of our founders did trust in the one true creator God of the bible, but as time as gone on and in today's world, most people don't really trust God. If they did they would know more about Him from carefully studying the Bible (His word to a fallen world).

Most churches of today don't seem to teach the correct information that is clearly spelled out in the Bible that anyone can see if they just spend the time with sincere prayer.

If anyone wants some good direction in their Bible study they should go to amazingfacts.org

Pat, Christianity in its true from is a belief that includes freedom to worship according to one's conscience.

Answer 10

No, because it's just a word, and it really depends on who you ask, a believer, or a non-believer. The phrase "in god we trust" was added to both currency and the pledge of allegience by President Eisenhower who signed the resolution into law on 30 July 1956.

Of course, this phrase violates what our founding fathers had in mind, so it's not a misuse of god's name (and what god are we talking about, Allah, the Christian god, Mithra, Zeus?), it's a misuse of the Constitution.

Kassie: America was NOT founded by Christians either, no matter how much you want to believe that or what you've been told by mommy and daddy or preacher. The founding fathers were mostly Deists, believing in a supreme being but not trying to limit that to a particular religious ideology.

Abraham Lincoln once said, "The Bible is not my Book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma."

John Quincy Adams said this about Thomas Jefferson, "If not an absolute atheist, he had no belief in a future existence. All his ideas of obligation or retribution were bounded by the present life." In fact, Thomas Jefferson was quite the opposer of god and a support of the separation of church and state.

My most favorite quote from Jefferson is this one: "We discover [in the gospels] a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication."

Benjamin Franklin said that "I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life I absented myself from Christian assemblies."

Thomas Paine's famous quote is that "of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst."

Susan B. Anthony wasn't a Christian either, saying, "I distrust those people who know so well what god wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires."

James Garfield say that "the divorce between church and state ought to be absolute. It ought to be absolute. It ought to be so absolute that no church property anywhere, in any state, or in any nation, should be exempt from taxation, for if you exempt the church property of any church organization, to that extent you impose tax upon the whole community."

John Adams, friend of Thomas Jefferson, once said that "the divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. Nowhere in the Gospels do we find a precept for Creeds, Confessions, Oaths, Doctrines, and whole carloads of other foolish trumpery that we find in Christianity."

James Madison said that "the purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries."

And so on, and so on, and so on. If the founding fathers were alive to see America today, they would be rolling in their graves, asking themselves what the hell did YOU all do to this country.