[Bubba]

I guess we will have to agree to disagree on this subject.

Originally Posted by Detector

IN GOD WE TRUST first appeared on the 1864 two-cent coin.


http://www.treas.gov/education/fact-...we-trust.shtml

I don't really care when the phrase first appeared on a coin. If you read your whole source page you will find that it agrees with me that the phrase didn't appear on all coins until 1908 and didn't appear on paper money until 1957. It happened when Ike signed a bill during his Presidency in 1956 making it our National Motto and that is when they decided to put it on paper money.


The point I was making is that the founding fathers didn't put it there. Even using your date of first appearance on a coin it's almost a full 100 years after the founding fathers. Using the date of 1957 when it appeared on all US money, its a full 180+ years after the founding fathers.