Why Does IN GOD WE TRUST Appear? The Truth?

Have you ever wondered why "In God We Trust" appears on our currency?



When the pilgrims arrived in America, the Mayflower's sister ship, the Speedwell, had a chaplain. As this boat entered the "harbor," he proceeded to give a sermon, thanking God for a safe journey.



The title of this sermon?



"In God we trust, God trust us".



In the days to come, this standard became known as the "pilgrims' motto", and was so commonplace among our founding fathers and settlers, it was placed on our currency.



Oh, by the way, a picture depicting this scene can be found within the rotunda of our Capitol building, in Washington, DC.

Why Does IN GOD WE TRUST Appear? The Truth?
This nation was founded by christians and we should all trust in GOD.
Reply:Most of those who created the constitution were "deists" at best, and probably atheists, including G. Washington %26amp; T. Jefferson.



"In God We Trust" was adopted in 1954 and has no legal significance. The US God is money, so it's appropriate he is labeled as such. Report It
Reply:I'm sure that the aim of this is that one person asks a question and everyone else answers. Not someone asks and answers a question and other people say they're wrong or they disagree. Report It
Reply:FACT is, most of the founding fouthers were not christians.



Thats according to THOMAS JEFFERSON himself in his own words in letters to others...



This country was founded on religious principles but not on necessariy christian principles.. (that also per Jefferson). Report It
Reply:What a stupid best answer. No we should NOT all trust in GOD. We are free to believe whatever we want to. Oh, and it's funny how "people spread such lies." Such as this 1794 penny that DOESN'T have in god we trust?



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Reply:And for almost 200 years thereafter, our money didn't have "In God we trust" printed on it, yet we did just fine. Then, Senator McCarthy started seeing communists under every bush and shrub and decided that we needed to teach them a lesson. So, he stirred up enough fear and prejudice to get enough people worked up, and the rest is history.



To go against McCarthy then was to go against America in general, sounds familiar doesn't it?



This country was founded by people who were looking to get away from religious zealots, not to set up a new nation of them.
Reply:Humm you are going to have to work hard to prove that one to me. Please show me references. I have heard another story.
Reply:it started appearing on US Currency in the 1950's. same time "under god" was placed into the pledge of allegiance. this occured during the cold war with russia, to show "we are godly, and russia isn't" -- it was more of the same religious paranoia and religious nonsense that we see today.
Reply:You really are for enforced Christianity, aren't you?
Reply:in the mid 1950s, cogress voted to add the term to the currency, before then it wasn't there.
Reply:It appears on our currency because it was added in the 1950s as a backlash to "atheist" communism.
Reply:I always cross out 'god', wherever I see it.
Reply:im not exactly sure but what i do know is that there is alot of diff gods that people that everyone believes in so its not just one specific one
Reply:History of 'In God We Trust'

The motto IN GOD WE TRUST was placed on United States coins largely because of the increased religious sentiment existing during the Civil War. Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase received many appeals from devout persons throughout the country, urging that the United States recognize the Deity 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 Rev. M. R. Watkinson, Minister of the Gospel from Ridleyville, 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 hearth 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.



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 was found that the Act of Congress dated January 18, 1837, prescribed the mottoes and devices that should be placed upon the coins of the United States. This meant that the mint could make no changes without the enactment of additional legislation by the Congress. In December 1863, the Director of the Mint submitted designs for new one-cent coin, two-cent coin, and three-cent coin to Secretary Chase for approval. He proposed that upon the designs either OUR COUNTRY; OUR GOD or GOD, OUR TRUST should appear as a motto on the coins. In a letter to the Mint Director on December 9, 1863, Secretary Chase stated:

I approve your mottoes, only suggesting that on that with the Washington obverse the motto should begin with the word OUR, so as to read OUR GOD AND OUR COUNTRY. And on that with the shield, it should be changed so as to read: IN GOD WE TRUST.

The Congress passed the Act of April 22, 1864. This legislation changed the composition of the one-cent coin and authorized the minting of the two-cent coin. The Mint Director was directed to develop the designs for these coins for final approval of the Secretary. IN GOD WE TRUST first appeared on the 1864 two-cent coin.



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 use of IN GOD WE TRUST has not been uninterrupted. The motto disappeared from the five-cent coin in 1883, and did not reappear until production of the Jefferson nickel began in 1938. Since 1938, all United States coins bear the inscription. Later, the motto was found missing from the new design of the double-eagle gold coin and the eagle gold coin shortly after they appeared in 1907. In response to a general demand, Congress ordered it restored, and the Act of May 18, 1908, made it mandatory on all coins upon which it had previously appeared. IN GOD WE TRUST was not mandatory on the one-cent coin and five-cent coin. It could be placed on them by the Secretary or the Mint Director with the Secretary's approval.



The motto has been in continuous use on the one-cent coin since 1909, and on the ten-cent coin since 1916. It also has appeared on all gold coins and silver dollar coins, half-dollar coins, and quarter-dollar coins struck since July 1, 1908.



A law passed by the 84th Congress and approved by the President on July 30, 1956, the President approved a Joint Resolution of the 84th Congress, declaring IN GOD WE TRUST the national motto of the United States. IN GOD WE TRUST was first used on paper money in 1957, when it appeared on the one-dollar silver certificate. The first paper currency bearing the motto entered circulation on October 1, 1957. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) was converting to the dry intaglio printing process. During this conversion, it gradually included IN GOD WE TRUST in the back design of all classes and denominations of currency.
Reply:The Truth is not what the others have spoken. Our country is living a lie because they do not trust in God when they still punish criminals and not have love or forgivness for one another despite the way things are now. God cannot trust a people who refuses to believe they can be as loving as He. So why is this printed on money? You tell me. I believe the Government is just doing false advertising. Then again, how is the government not God? Politics do not play any role here. Why the need to vote? God rather us devote our lives to Him and His will, not declare mottos or would-be sermons which have little to do with Him. We trust in God because we are born again in Christ. That is not the message on our currency though. The devil I do not want to know deceives the world to trust money instead of God, who has nothing to do with paperwork either.
Reply:Yes, I have seen the picture in person when i went to Washington D.C. and it is beautiful.

irene