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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrbrklyn, post: 170355, member: 4381&quot;]This is overstating the importance and the congnative meaning of &quot;In God We Trust&quot; to the revolutionary period.</p><p><br /></p><p>Clearly nearly all the founding fathers moved sharply away from religious conviction, sttectching from Patrick Henry and Sam Adams who made fun and critism orgnazied religion and Christianity in the specific to Hamilton&#039;s near complete ambiviance to religion on the Jefferson&#039;s liberal adoption of religious concepts for political expediency and doctrin.</p><p><br /></p><p>If anything was ment by &quot;In God is our trust&quot; which would have been a poetic invention by Key, it would be understood clearly in its day as a counter to &quot;God Save the King&quot;&nbsp; The use of Religion by the American Radical revolutionary movement which gave birth to this nation was seriously ambiguous about religion if not flat out antagonistic towards it.&nbsp; It reflects in every demographic picture of the population of the period from the highest out of weblock birth rates until the 1960s, church roles,&nbsp; to the extensive writings by the soldiers at the Battle of Brooklyn.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is not to say that the nation was completely without faith.&nbsp; But clearly the strenous radical social experiments, wars, burning of women at the stake, religious intolerance and fighting of the late 1600&#039;s had give way by the 1750&#039;s to a society much more leary about the place of any religious doctrin that couldn&#039;t be used to express the longing desire for political, economic&nbsp; and personal freedom. </p><p><br /></p><p>In a word, by July 2, 1776, when the nation declared its independence and the war officially began, this nations sole religious belief what that of the religion of Freedom, and the pursuit of happiness (ie to make a buck).</p><p><br /></p><p>Ruben[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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