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Message:: [QUOTE="John Burgess, post: 5332427, member: 105098"]The capitalized form "IN GOD WE TRUST" first appeared on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-cent_piece_(United_States)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-cent_piece_(United_States)" rel="nofollow">two-cent piece</a> in 1864. It was hit or miss since then with it appearing on some but not all until it was made a requirement on all U.S. currency by an act of congress in 1956, In response to communism and wanting not to appear as a "godless nation". I don't personally have a problem with it being there, in my opinion it's secular and it's "God" in general, not any particular version of God, just acknowledging a Creator, but not any set of beliefs of any particular religion. During the civil war and after WWII, it was always about not appearing as a heathen nation 100-1,000-10,000 years from now when archaeologists or historians look us up as to what America was. The majority of Americans believe in some form of a God or Creator. I find it funny people get bent out of shape over keeping it there OR taking it off,  Yet the great seal  A pyramid with an all seeing eye (eye of providence), at the top says "Annuit Coeptis" translates to "favored undertakings", and at the bottom reads "Novus ordo seclorum" Translates to "New Order of the Ages". Across the bottom of the pyramid "MDCCLXXVI" meaning "1776". I mean, if you needed any more signs of a New World Order, or the The United States Of America is the all seeing eye chosen by God to lead the world, it's that little declaration right there, as was intended when the great seal was created. "in God We Trust" is the least of the concerns. LOL it just acknowledges or declares we as Americans for the most part believe in something, but what's that great seal acknowledging or "declaring" exactly?[/QUOTE]

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