Well you do so much brown nosing I'd have to take a fecal sample from the tip of your nose to find a specific DNA match.
Ope, I guess blind_fury's insecure and can't support his argument.
Dude, there is no "argument". You are saying things that are ridiculous.
When you see a homeless, hungry child, the thing that drives you to give them some money to buy food, is that you have more resources than they do and you feel sympathy for them.
The dollar bill could say "Mecha-Lekka Hi Mekka
Chani hO!" and you'd still want to help, OR, if you're not a generous person, you might not.
The idea of "God", or threat of his "wrath" is not necessary to spark philanthropy, and we KNOW why it was put on money.
It was Voodoo, to keep America Strong and inside God's bubble of Defense, and to make sure future generations knew we were a "Christian nation". It has nothing to do with trying to encourage generosity.
The motto
In God We Trust was placed on
United States coins largely because of the increased religious sentiment existing during the
American Civil War. Secretary of the Treasury
Salmon P. Chase received many appeals from devout
Christians throughout the country, urging that the United States recognize God 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 Reverend M. R. Watkinson, Minister of the
Gospel from
Ridley Township, Pennsylvania, and read:
Dear Sir: You are about to submit your annual report to the Congress respecting the affairs of the national finances.
One fact touching our currency has hitherto been seriously overlooked. I mean the recognition of the Almighty God in some form on our coins.
You are probably a Christian. What if our Republic were not shattered beyond reconstruction? Would not the antiquaries of succeeding centuries rightly reason from our past that we were a heathen nation? 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.
This would make a beautiful coin, to which no possible citizen could object. This would relieve us from the ignominy of heathenism. This would place us openly under the Divine protection we have personally claimed. From my heart I have felt our national shame in disowning God as not the least of our present national disasters.
To you first I address a subject that must be agitated.
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As a result, Secretary Chase instructed
James Pollock, Director of the Mint at Philadelphia, to prepare a motto, in a letter dated November 20, 1861:
Dear Sir: No nation can be strong except in the strength of God, or safe except in His defense. The trust of our people in God should be declared on our national coins.
You will cause a device to be prepared without unnecessary delay with a motto expressing in the fewest and tersest words possible this national recognition.
It's meant to express a belief and trust in God that we DON'T all share as a nation. That means it's bulls***. And it costs tax dollars to print it there.
I guess that means he sincerely believes that God is the ONLY source of moral guidance and that men are inherently evil that without faith in God, there is no good in man.
