What do you people think about taking off "In God We Trust" from U.S.A money ?

Question

Alright, I must start off by saying yes, those atheist people might feel disrespected and or not as an American and not really show the mixture of religions in our country. but however America is built on God.( past, present)
I don't care if you say differ cause your wrong. All of our founding fathers based their religion with God. If the American Government does take if off any coins or bills then you must take off the Presidents and our founding fathers that are printed along.
For if they had been living this present day, they would not want to be on this coin or bill for the fact God wasn't on it. America is based on democracy stating majority rules. Most Americans are believers in God so why would we change something that already started. I understand that not everyone believes in God but look past that and see what we have become with this powerful statement . We humans can make a conflict with our Government over a quote on money but not make a big deal about killings in our

Answer 1

The U.S.A. should trust God, as God trusts in it. The only problem is that half of it has fallen away from the vine. But as a fig tree casts its untimely figs, so will God cast them out.

Answer 2

"In God we trust" is the national motto of the United States. These words have been on our money since the 1860s, the darkest period of American history when there was profound doubt whether the United States would survive the Civil War.

The idea of dependence upon God goes even further back in history, to 1776, in our Declaration of Independence. America's Founders based our claim for independence on the idea of fundamental natural rights. As the Declaration says, "We are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

Unless there is a Creator who grants and sustains our rights as unalienable, then our "rights" as Americans are mere wishes, convenient fictions that some future government can abolish, as in much of the rest of the world. The great Communist empires of the 20th century called religion an "opiate," and with the official derecognition of God, they abolished freedom and murdered people by the tens of millions.

Our knowledge that God made us and dignified us with unalienable rights drives our work as Americans. It led to the abolition of slavery, the addition of the franchise to women, and to the civil rights movement. It must not only remain on our money, but also it must be taught in our schools and written in our hearts.

Cheers,
Bruce

Answer 3

Don't you find it interesting that we have lost more religious freedom and acknowledgement under this so-called Christian president when he had a Republican congress than at any other period of time in this country's history? I don't care if they take "in God we trust" off the money, because Jesus said you can't serve God and money/the world (mammon) and coming from the government which makes the money, it's a lie, anyway.

Answer 4

I think it is a big mistake, when this country stops recognizing God it is going against the very essence of our being as a country. Our ancestors who fought and died to make this country a republic would be appauled already at what has become of it. We don't even have a real flag anymore. You can't say a prayer in public no more. We are headed for a crash I am afraid. When you don't believe in something, you fall for anything.

Answer 5

I hesitate to read any posts before responding to this question. Why?

When I was a boy we had , in school, a home room. Here we assembled for the start of our school day. There we took role and pledged our allegiance to the flag. We knew all the words to our national anthem and God bless America. Our teachers taught us history. Our countries history, in detail. They taught us about our government We learned in school and was re-enforced at home our patriotic duty as Americans to be proud of our country and know about our country.

Recently I heard one of our congressmen being helped saying the pledge of allegiance!.Our current President blesses the United States Of America yet those below him do all they can to not only throw dirt in his face but in the faces of all our soldiers fighting overseas Our congress is yellow and weak, They wish to bring our soldiers home again defeated.

Long gone is the country that responded to Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, that stood beside England to defeat the Nazis in Germany, That stood together as the strong and the brave. Had we had the congress then that we have now, we would all be Germans and The United States would no longer exist.

We have a woman wishing to be President that only serves herself and wishes nothing for the people of this country. It is politicians like her and her party that wish to remove God from every thing that has made our great country what it is.

We left our former country so that we could have the rights we are now watching being taken away. Not only will they take that quote off our coins and cash but also out of our lives and in the end we will be under the very same control we fled over 200 years ago.

Do not remove that from our money. In fact make it bigger! Because in reality God is the only one in which we can trust.

Namaste

Answer 6

It's not necessarily having anything to do with any citizens belief in God, in the USA, in our constitution, there is a blurp about the seperation of church and state. Since in our country not everyone believes in the "same God" or even in God, we can't assume that everyone would be, or should be comfortable with it on our national currency. But as some answerer's stated, it's part of our history and in that part, it has meaning, but I agree with the answerer who stated their wishes for our return to the original motto.

Answer 7

I think those people have no life.

Also before the American revolution there was the Great Awakening when new ideas about religion came around. At this time, the idea that the colonies shouldn't feel bad about going against Paralament spread because they believed in only answering to god. This was one of the catalysts to the American Revolution. So it is this thought pattern (whether you believe in god or not) that is a huge part of our history.

And although it maybe in refrenece to the Chritsian god, it could mean any god. Most people believe in some sort of god. In a way it is saying "we are all united in the sense that we blieve in god" which shows our tolerance of religion.

if you don't belive in god, then you could think of it as saying that "we answer to nobody." So the "In god we trust" is not so simple as it seems. It is in representation to our history and the belifes that untimatly lead to the American Revolution.

Answer 8

As a Christian, I am all for taking God's name out of anything that has to do with the U.S.A.
Once, I would not have said that.
Once, this truly was "The land of the free, and the home of the brave"...
These days, it is "The land of the weak, and the home of the blind"...
Oh, we have a few strong, brave men and women left...but they are becoming fewer and further between.
Why?
I can only guess...
We have left our first love.
We sit quietly and watch our freedoms being taken away, one by one, till we have forgotten why we fled from tyranny in the first place.
Those that go on about "the separation of church and state" make me sick. What has happened is that the history of our nation has been re-written and watered down, because, God forbid, our children should be "offended"...
*wipes the tear from her cheek*
Please, read the Declaration of Independence.
Then tell me that we were not intended to be a Christian nation.
Then, read the Constitution, and please, show me where the phrase "separation of church and state" appears.
And, please....don't tell me about "The Treaty of Tripoli"...at least, not before you have learned the history...

*closes her eyes against the pain in her heart*
Thank God, it's almost over...

Answer 9

Do they still put that on the paper stuff? Wow, I really didn't know...I haven't handled paper money in quite a long time. I've got my Elmonit card (Electronic Monetary Unit), and haven't handled the physical thing in awhile.

That phrase isn't on my elmonit card, and it isn't on the account I access, and it doesn't exist as I pay things over the I-net...So it's only if you use that primitive paper stuff you actually touch it...

As for the "Under God" thing in the pledge...I just drop it and say "One Nation, indivisible"...tough if it offends some of the more "Deity Sensitive"...Still a free country, and enjoying every minute of it...

Hail Eris! All Hail Discordia!

Answer 10

It's the right thing to do. I've always perceived the God on US money as a vague, general term that doesnt specifically mean any particular diety. But whatever.

Answer 11

It's only been on bills since the '50's.

Doesn't matter.
Now if could be a true statement, then possibly.
But this country really trust in it's armaments.
Now you have to agree with that.