It was a reaction to communism during the McCarthy era.
Damn it! I was too late
2007-02-10 16:50:44
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answer #1
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answered by Anonymous
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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. It was written to Secretary Chase by Rev. M. R. Watkinson, Minister of the Gospel from Ridleyville, Pennsylvania
2007-02-11 00:47:23
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answered by K 5
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In 1956 it was made law that all currency would have "in god we trust" printed on it. Pryor to that only one or two mints did it and not even on all denomintaions.
I have a dollar bill from 1935, instead of federal reserve note it says "silver certificate", above united states of america it says, "this certifies that there is on deposit in the treasury of" also under one dollar it says "in silver payable to the bearer on demand" of course it lacks the "in god we trust".
To all those people that think the founding fathers put it there, please don't answer stuff you have no idea about. We are not a christian nation, stop re-writing the history books, we are seculure from the onset of inception!!
2007-02-11 01:15:44
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answered by Woody 2
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It was NOT placed there because of our founding fathers. You people seriously need a history lesson. It was placed there around 1864. It has nothing to do with the "one nation under god" being placed in the pledge. The money thing happened about 100 years before.
Here's the link...read for yourself.
http://www.ustreas.gov/education/fact-sheets/currency/in-god-we-trust.shtml
2007-02-11 00:51:09
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answered by Stormilutionist Chasealogist 6
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Actually, it was a swing against the Communists. They put it on there as an anti-Communist thing in 1956 during the Red Scare. Maybe they thought the "Godless Commies" wouldn't handle it. The Constitution was based on Enlightenment principles, not Christian morals.
2007-02-11 00:48:33
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answered by The Doctor 7
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The say freedom, but theirs no real freedom if your different,so theirs no freedom.especially if your Cherokee.they say in God we trust but they dont do what the great spirit wants of them to do,they kill.they take my people on the trail of tears,and no regrets do they have,freedom,? theirs not so much as people or lead to believe, God.what God do they have.?they have killed half a million ennocents in Iraq.with that money that says in GOD we trust,who trusts God in this country/ I dont see the spirit working through any one in the government, the government is evil.,.do people care? no .not many.God, ? there only God is the god of money . greed and power.but God help us. the war of civilizations is coming near.
2007-02-11 01:44:06
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answered by Anonymous
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Because in the cold war 50's era of Mcarthy, people overreacted to the evil communist.atheist scare and printed that slop on our money. That's also when they began the pledge of alliegance garbage. This stuff, contrary to popular belief, dates back 50 years. Not to the founding of the nation. A lot of other things that happened in that era....like loyalty oaths and the witch hunts....stopped. I wish they'd take the God crap off the money....but it isn't that big of a deal. It is non-sectarian, and the fight's cost isn't worth the reward.
2007-02-11 00:49:17
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answered by Anonymous
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Because someone decided that everyone in America believed in God and thought hey why don't we put it on our money... sounds like a good idea to me. They were a little off I'd say. It needs to be taken off, separation of church and state is becoming less a fact and more a way of the past. SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE NOW!
oh and most of the founding fathers were atheists, they in no way wanted that on our currency... hell we didn't even have a currency when they were around.
2007-02-11 00:46:47
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answered by Satan 4
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"In God We Trust" is the current national motto of the United States. It was declared as such by an act of Congress in 1956, displacing the existing national motto, E Pluribus Unum.
2007-02-11 00:49:36
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answered by sophieb 7
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It was added in 1956 to the pledge to separate "us" from the "godless commies" (and earlier to currency just because christians could get away with it)
To the first answerer (and actually, most of them): Either you don't know the founding fathers were deists and this change is recent, or you were lying.
2007-02-11 00:46:52
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answered by eldad9 6
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I count eight people out of 26 who think "In God We Trust" was put there by the founding fathers.
2007-02-11 00:53:52
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answered by . 7
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