DId our founding fathers (USA) design our currency to read "In God We Trust"?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

No. I believe George Washington was the one who came up with one of the first designs and it didn't have anything like that on it. Besides, if we actually take a look at our money, we'll see Egyptian symbols. We place President heads on our coins, just like the Romans did for their Emporers.

Hey, if the Christians can base their "this is a Christian Nation" on the 10 Commandments on a courthouse or Moses on the Congress Building (who is sitting alongside a few Pagan scholars)... I can definitely say this is a Pagan Nation based on the very symbols these "devout Christians" used... those people we call our Founding Fathers. =)

Answer 3

Both "In God We trust" on our money and the addition of "In God We trust" were added by a Republican Congress on the pretext that the change would help fight Communism in the 1950s. I'm not quoting history, I lived it. I'm a Pagan and fought on the side of the founding Fathers original creations, but we were over overwhelmed by fanatic Republian Christians. . . Like many that we have in our midst today.

Answer 4

NO.

That came later.

to repeat myself from another question:


The U.S. Treasury website tells the story.

If you read carefully, you'll notice this bit here:

"This would place us openly under the Divine protection we have personally claimed. "

So, apparently, having a phrase mentioning "God" on our money is a protective magic charm that will keep America and/or Americans from having bad things happen to it/them.

Kind of like carrying an amulet.. Or those other things that Pagans do that Christians denounce as "Satanic"...


Also notice this:

"What I propose is that instead of the goddess of liberty we shall have next inside the 13 stars a ring inscribed with the words PERPETUAL UNION; within the ring the allseeing eye, crowned with a halo; beneath this eye the American flag, bearing in its field stars equal to the number of the States united; in the folds of the bars the words GOD, LIBERTY, LAW."

"the goddess of liberty".

Hmmmmmm.

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It wasn't until 1864 that that motto was approved to be put onto coins; specifically, the two-cent coin (by and Act of Congress).


And then, another Act of Congress passed on March 3, 1865. It allowed the Mint Director, with the Secretary's approval, to place the motto on all gold and silver coins that "shall admit the inscription thereon." Under the Act, the motto was placed on the gold double-eagle coin, the gold eagle coin, and the gold half-eagle coin. It was also placed on the silver dollar coin, the half-dollar coin and the quarter-dollar coin, and on the nickel three-cent coin beginning in 1866. Later, Congress passed the Coinage Act of February 12, 1873. It also said that the Secretary "may cause the motto IN GOD WE TRUST to be inscribed on such coins as shall admit of such motto."

The motto was added to paper currency in 1957, *within the lifetime of some of the people who try to use this as "proof" that this nation was "founded on Christian principles".*

What a load of hooey.

Heck, read the whole story on the website - pretty interesting stuff.

Answer 5

No.
In God We Trust is the motto that has appeared on most issues of U.S. coins since about 1864. Its use on coins stems from the rise of religious sentiment during the CIVIL WAR, which led many devout persons to urge that God be recognized on American coins. Accordingly, Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase asked the director of the mint at Philadelphia to have prepared a suitable device expressing this national recognition. Several other mottos were suggested—among them, "God Our Trust" and "God and Our Country." The use of "In God We Trust" is not required by law.

Answer 6

It was added to paper currency in 1957 and on coins in 1864. Decades after our founding fathers were all dead.


(Under God was added to the Pledge of Allegiance during the cold war to separate us from the "godless communists.")

Answer 7

No. The additions to the currency were very recent.

It was approved by Congress as the national motto of the U.S. in 1956, and permanently adopted for paper currency in 1957, but it originated on the 2-cent piece in 1864, as the result of a Protestant campaign starting around 1861 to pressure government officials to add references to God on federal documents.

The 1956 addition was meant to be a "slap in the face" to the "commie atheists". I'm sure everyone in the Soviet Union and China were very impressed.

According to one such campaigner, the rationale behind such a move was apparently fear of the U.S. being thought of as a "heathen nation" and a "national shame of disowning God". Similarly, one should also despair the implicit atheism of the U.S. flag and national maps due to their distinct lack of a divine protection-granting theistic motto.

Evidently someone decided that we needed an invocation of God on our money for the sake of divine protection. Kind of like throwing salt over one's shoulder, really.

Answer 8

"In God We Trust" was put on all paper currency by an Act of Congress in 1955; the phrase was declared the national motto by an Act of Congress in 1956 and first appeared on paper currency in 1957"

Answer 9

The founding fathers - the signers of the constitution didn't add that the currency. It came much later.

Answer 10

nope. that wasn't added til the 1900's. alot of the founding fathers were deists.