politcally correct? or incorrect?

[saden1]

"In God We Trust" motto indicates preference of theistic religion to no religion at all. Congress did in fact pass a legislation (H. J. Res. 396) that made it a national motto in 1956. I wonder how you guys would feel if we replaced God with Jesus and used "In Jesus We Trust?" This motto is not limited to just money either, it is fully flaunted in court houses all across the country and the Supreme Court is ducking the issue, and for an understandable reason. It's politically too hot and hard to swallow for the majority, especially folks who believe "we're a Christian nation."

I don't mind using the word God and I think it's great message to have on our currency, in court houses not so much, a court house is after all a place of reason not faith. Unlike you folks I am not in denial about the whole matter being in violation of the constitution especially as indicated by the writings of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.


Jefferson doing it big as always:

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.

-Thomas Jefferson