This pole is a great, all be it pleasent suprise to me. Its a poll concerning whether or not “In God We Trust” should be on our currency. However what suprised me is the overwhelming support for it and the news media site its on. See for yourself and vote. Im in favor of keeping it on the currency. Its the way the founders laid it and it should stay that way. Just my.02
ETA- the stuff in bold is my original post, I was wrong. And corrected
I think the “In God We Trust” motto on U.S. currency was added by the U.S. Treasury following several acts of Congress in the years immediately following the Civil War. It was not initiated by the founding fathers.
Sorry about that, I just assumed that it has been on our currency longer. I have some confederate money that I think has “In God We Trust” on it though. Ill have to check. Thanks for setting me strait, I need it every once in a while. But I still support it on our currency
I don’t think it belongs on our currency, and I’m an Evangelical Christian.
The founders would have pitched a fit had they been around. The fact that it began during the greatest unholiness in our history (the Civil War, BTW, point of order, it actually first appeared on U.S. currency, not Confederate) says enough for me.
Our original de facto motto, E pluribus unum is the greatest testament we can give to our Creator.
The similar phrase “In God is our Trust” is in the last stanza of The Star Spangled Banner (written in 1814):
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: ‘In God is our trust.’
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave
Maybe US currency should say; “In God we Trust, all others pay cash” 
I’m not sure you know our founders as well as you think you do. They may not have included God on the currency but they included him everywhere else.
It depends on which founders you’re talking about. Were there some religious fanatics? Of course there were.
But if you want to talk Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Paine, and the like were all pretty much agnostic, never mind not wanting it as a part of government. Did most of them believe in the idea of God? Sure, but not the way most people would look at it today.
Hell, Jefferson created my favorite version of the New Testament by cutting all the hocus pocus parts out of it.
It shouldn’t be on there, since it denotes a generic god. All this public “god” talk that goes on in the gov’t is hardly Christian.
To thopkins22
You just can’t help spewing your Christ hatred can you?
Most of the signers were religious. People mistake Jefferson as not being religious because his main concern was that no one religion get preference over another. Many think he created the University of Virginia as secular. That is not true, he assured religious teachings - but of no single faith.
John Adams - “The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.”
Thomas Jefferson - "The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend all to the happiness of man.
The practice of morality being necessary for the well being of society, He [God] has taken care to impress its precepts so indelibly on our hearts that they shall not be effaced by the subtleties of our brain. We all agree in the obligation of the moral principles of Jesus and nowhere will they be found delivered in greater purity than in His discourses.
I am a Christian in the only sense in which He wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to His doctrines in preference to all others.
I am a real Christian – that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus Christ.
James Madison - " I have sometimes thought there could not be a stronger testimony in favor of religion or against temporal enjoyments, even the most rational and manly, than for men who occupy the most honorable and gainful departments and [who] are rising in reputation and wealth, publicly to declare their unsatisfactoriness by becoming fervent advocates in the cause of Christ; and I wish you may give in your evidence in this way.
Robert Treat Paine - "
I desire to bless and praise the name of God most high for appointing me my birth in a land of Gospel Light where the glorious tidings of a Savior and of pardon and salvation through Him have been continually sounding in mine ears.
I am constrained to express my adoration of the Supreme Being, the Author of my existence, in full belief of His Providential goodness and His forgiving mercy revealed to the world through Jesus Christ, through whom I hope for never ending happiness in a future state.
I believe the Bible to be the written word of God and to contain in it the whole rule of faith and manners."
I credit all this information to wallbuilders.com. The original sources can be found there.
BTW, if you meant Thomas Paine you are right - NOT a Christian.
I don’t see that. It’s just a discussion. Everyone has his own opinion and a right to it. We are both Christians, how bad could we disagree?
Oh, I see what you mean.
Dude, that was seriously funny. 
This is a history of “IN GOD WE TRUST” on money and as mentioned in here also touching on it as the US Motto
http://www.treas.gov/education/fact-sheets/currency/in-god-we-trust.shtml
I’m a part Irish Protestant how much troubles could I cause.
Jefferson and Adams were Unitarian as were most of the “Christian” signers, so most wouldn’t consider them a true Christian by the dogma of the evangelical movement (The whole Christ was God on earth thing).
I’m not much on dogma. If you believe in Jesus (Christ) and follow his teachings you’re a Christian in my simple mind.
I am a Christian, not devout - but militant.
Muslims believe Christ was a prophet but they don’t believe he was God on earth (trinity) the only difference between a Muslim and a Unitarian is Mohamed. Unitarian’s don’t believe in the trinity, and the trinity is what defines Christian dogma.
Considering when and why it was added to currency, I would not have supported it being added in the first place. As I was born into a time where it’s already on our currency, I support removing the slogan. It has no purpose being on currency, any more than “I like corn dogs.” or “Boobies!” does.
-B
Well I guess I’m kinda like Jefferson in some of my beliefs. I never did get the holy trinty thing. But, that brings us back to “In God we Trust.” It doesn’t say "In Jesus we Trust. " That removes the question as whether we are a Christian nation to are we a nation of God.