In god we trust
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Right you are. I meant to say that on July 11, 1955, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed Public Law 140 making it mandatory that all coinage and paper currency display the motto.
It was Lyndon Baines Johnson (D-TX) who introduced the bill as Calendar No. 642, H.R. 619
It was Lyndon Baines Johnson (D-TX) who introduced the bill as Calendar No. 642, H.R. 619
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It's not surprising that 'In God We Trust' was mandated to the currency during the Fifties.
It was the height of the Red Scare and McCarthyism.
Loyalty Oaths and Blacklists were created and I believe that was also the period when "under God" was added to the Pledge of Allegiance.
It was the height of the Red Scare and McCarthyism.
Loyalty Oaths and Blacklists were created and I believe that was also the period when "under God" was added to the Pledge of Allegiance.
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It's not surprising that 'In God We Trust' was mandated to the currency during the Fifties.
It was the height of the Red Scare and McCarthyism.
Loyalty Oaths and Blacklists were created and I believe that was also the period when "under God" was added to the Pledge of Allegiance.
It was the height of the Red Scare and McCarthyism.
Loyalty Oaths and Blacklists were created and I believe that was also the period when "under God" was added to the Pledge of Allegiance.
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Can't understand why. I don't use cash that much anyway.
Now if somebody tries to put it on my VISA card they are gonna have me to deal with.
Now if somebody tries to put it on my VISA card they are gonna have me to deal with.
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It's not surprising that 'In God We Trust' was mandated to the currency during the Fifties.
It was the height of the Red Scare and McCarthyism.
Loyalty Oaths and Blacklists were created and I believe that was also the period when "under God" was added to the Pledge of Allegiance.
It was the height of the Red Scare and McCarthyism.
Loyalty Oaths and Blacklists were created and I believe that was also the period when "under God" was added to the Pledge of Allegiance.
The original Pledge of Allegiance, which was written in 1892 by Francis Bellamy, a Baptist minister and a Christian Socialist. Aren't commies socialist? Was our pledge of allegiance created by a commie? Additionally, Bellamy's version was completely secular and contained no reference to a “God.”
In 1954, President Eisenhower encouraged Congress to add the words, 'under God,' to the Pledge, after he was approached by the Knights of Columbus (A Catholic fraternal organization). Not sure how the Evangelicals can be too happy about that. So now the Pledge is both a patriotic oath and a public prayer. Which I guess cancels out it's communistic origins.
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BTW, here's a transcript of the letter Jefferson wrote to the Danbury Baptists.
To messers. Nehemiah Dodge, Ephraim Robbins, & Stephen S. Nelson, a committee of the Danbury Baptist association in the state of Connecticut.
Gentlemen
The affectionate sentiments of esteem and approbation which you are so good as to express towards me, on behalf of the Danbury Baptist association, give me the highest satisfaction. my duties dictate a faithful and zealous pursuit of the interests of my constituents, & in proportion as they are persuaded of my fidelity to those duties, the discharge of them becomes more and more pleasing.
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.
I reciprocate your kind prayers for the protection & blessing of the common father and creator of man, and tender you for yourselves & your religious association, assurances of my high respect & esteem.
Th Jefferson
Jan. 1. 1802.
To messers. Nehemiah Dodge, Ephraim Robbins, & Stephen S. Nelson, a committee of the Danbury Baptist association in the state of Connecticut.
Gentlemen
The affectionate sentiments of esteem and approbation which you are so good as to express towards me, on behalf of the Danbury Baptist association, give me the highest satisfaction. my duties dictate a faithful and zealous pursuit of the interests of my constituents, & in proportion as they are persuaded of my fidelity to those duties, the discharge of them becomes more and more pleasing.
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.
I reciprocate your kind prayers for the protection & blessing of the common father and creator of man, and tender you for yourselves & your religious association, assurances of my high respect & esteem.
Th Jefferson
Jan. 1. 1802.
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3rd commandment: You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.