Is printing "In God we trust" on American money sacrilegious? After all, we call money the root of all evil!
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Americans, especially Christians, are quite often very contrary and hypocritical.
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The symbol is from the Freemasons, who don't, as a whole, worship the Devil. Most of the founding fathers were Freemasons, this isn't a conspiracy though. It stands to reason that if you were starting a rebellion you would turn to fellow members of a society that values their privacy.\n\nHow it ended up on the dollar I can't exactly remember.
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Well..I too am offended. I am so sick of people in America making decisions as to not offend others, but pushes our beliefs to the side...I LIVE IN AMERICA...I EXPECT to be able to speak of God when I wish and have his name on what I wish..if these people are so damn offended by God then they need to quit coming here. They use our american currency with God written on it don't they?!? We take God out of everything, take the pledge out of schools and wonder why so many kids are screwing up and going down the wrong path...It's like this because basically America has said...well we have founded ourselves on this BUT as to not offend anyone that has come here we are going to shut ourselves up to please others and keep God out of everything...Do the people in other countries quit worshipping whoever it is they do because we go there? Do they change the words in their pledges or whatever to satisfy us? Do they remove their God from anything public as to not offend anyone?? This is America, land of the free....or so I thought.
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you know the pledge has already been changed once. "under God" was added I believe in 50's or 60's Anyways why does America keep messing with a good thing. Not saying that we should take it out just leave it as is.
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It says "In God We Trust" because for millenia Christians had a lot of issues when it came to money. After all, Jesus said it was harder for a rich man to get into heaven than for a camel to pass thru the eye of a needle. Money was seen as the root of all evil, and the very act of touching a dollar could bring about a bit of guilt in the Christian mind. \n\nSo, in order to make sure the economy moved along smoothly, and that no one felt guilty about spending and making money, they decided to put "In God We Trust" on the dollar. Handing that crisp dollar to the cashier could make your average Christian cringe, but then they would look down and there it was, "In God We Trust", and that would bring a smile to their faces. Suddenly they would feel confident about buying that ice cream, and might even buy double scoop, thereby doubling their trust in God! \n\nWell, it is a theory at any rate . . .
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This is a really WIDE-ranging question, and it's practically impossible to give you a good answer that's practical for use. Fed Reserve prints money, essentially, "increasing the money supply" (counterfeiting) on demand. It is private, yet govt controlled. The govt simply placed it in "private hands" so they could get away with their political sleight of hand without having to worry about the Constitution. The IMF, of which the US is a member with about 17% of the clout, loans federal reserve funny money and usurious rates, then, eventually, puts anyone small (only large companies can afford usurious rates) out of business, out of house, home, food, and everything else. Ask Jamaica. The federal govt, in taking us off the gold standard, has sentenced the US to eventual economic death.\n\nGo to the web and search for Liberty Dollar. You can trade $10 in federal funny money for real silver, and $1 for silver certificates backed by real silver. If enough of us used this, we could make the US financially solvent again, over the years.
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I don't know, but I don't like it. Some companies (such as like the president of this United States) thinks if they "play on" the Christian faith they can make more money (get more support in the case of the pres) \n\nSad and sickening, IMO.
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"In God We Trust" was not placed on the bill until 1957. However, it was originally made the national motto of the United States in 1863 at the suggestion of Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase, who himself had supposedly been prompted to do so by a protestant minister concerned with the waning of religious fervor in the American public. This man purportedly wanted to ensure that the US would always be officially grounded in faith in divine Providence, and thus this motto was put on all American coins ever since, although it did not appear on paper currency until much later. But "In God We Trust" is indeed a Masonic motto – one used in almost all Masonic rituals, in which the participants must pledge to always put their "trust in God" during the ceremonies – and this specific phrase can be found in Masonic dictionaries. Its appearance on the dollar bill in the 1950s may have been meant to bolster a currency increasingly dependent on faith due to changes in American monetary policy.\n\nRoosevelt  had laws passed forcing US citizens to give all of the gold and silver that they owned to the government.\nNixon in 1971, closed the "gold window", announcing that the holdings of foreign central banks would no longer be redeemed for gold by the US government. \nThis was the final step in abandoning the gold standard. Now the value of the dollar floats freely in relation to foreign currencies, with no fixed standard of value. \nSo the dollar that we now use is one backed entirely by faith alone – the public's faith in America's economy, and America itself.
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Money, greed, and religion.
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money----it is after all "the root of evil"
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((((   wow, cool, with this answer, i achieve level 5 status here on Answers.Yahoo.com !!!  )))\n\nThis piece of MIS-information gets repeated over and over again, and it is simply not true.\n\nYes, Gd in the Bible commands us not to get a tattoo. But Gd also commands us not to do many other things, and the idea that the cemetaries would single out this one commandment and then say that if someone violates this one, then he or she wont be buried here, is just stupidity. \n\nAnd if you dont mind my saying so, the first time i read this was in Readers Digest, when they interviewed Geraldo Rivera. He is a Jew. He told the story of how, when his gang were all getting a tattoo of a cross between the thumb and the forefinger, he got a tattoo of a Star of David, even though 'it meant i could not be buried in a Jewish cemetary.' That alone started everyone, Jew and non-Jew thinking that what he said was true.......WRONG!\n\nso, now i am at level 5, here.....that and a dollar will be buy me a candybar!
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Well, lets see.....   Money wagered at bookies is a little difficult for Uncle Sam to tax.  \n30 years ago, "running" numbers was rampant, but, illegal.  It was illegal because Uncle Sam couldn't get his cut.\nThen Lotteries, Bingo Cards, Pickle Cards, and Powerball came along, and all of a sudden that nasty, evil, corrupt method of separating people from their money became quite acceptable to Uncle Sam, and of course, the tax dollars gleaned from it by the government may have played a "small" role in helping it gain public acceptance.  \nPlease remember:  It's all about money, money, money.  Legal or illegal, its always about money.  I always wondered, if "money is the root of all evil.  Then why are churches always begging for it?".
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money is the root of all evil
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It was part of the Mcarthy era fear of communists. The theory went that those "commies" wouldn't say the word God or have any association with anything with God on it.  So, we added "In God we Trust" to the money and "Under God" to the pledge because Mcarthy managed to stir up enough fear and hatred to get it done.
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Regarding translation and the Word of God.  To say, in general, that I "question" something is not saying that I disagree with it.  I try and question much in translation.  There was a time when I questioned the Word of God.  I have since been convinced of the veracity of God's Word, but I still question translation and try to derive as much as possible from it by reading many different concordance references and multiple versions.  I would say, all in all, general bibles like the NIV and ASV are pretty good translations.  I would definitely get one with a good concordance, explanations, and references, and use them.\n\nOn fundamentalism and the Evangelical movement in America.\n\nThis is a loaded question.  There is 1. A fundamentalist faction.  2. an Evangelical movement and 3. the Moral Majority faction.  These are not one in the same, though members of each may cross over into the other and become affiliated with the other now and again.  NONE OF THESE ARE MILITANT.  Do they feel that America has diverged from a "wholesome" path... absolutely.  Do they feel that they want to be able to let their kids play outside again.... absolutely.  Do they think that God is the answer to the problems with America..... absolutely.  Do they think that their vote can make a difference... they know factually that it can.  But, few support Jerry Falwell for any public office... I believe his call is for evangelism... not politics, though he has a right to voice his opinion when someone asks him.  Is it good for the Republican party?  Well, I guess it would be... considering their "conservative" agenda.  Moreover, I think that is bad for the Democratic party than good for the Republican.  The Democratic Party is now appearing to stand against Christianity and Christians, in general.  Considering there is only one kind of Christian (whether fundamental or liberal) this is a bad progression of events for the Democratic party.  I think that they need to review their stance, or another party needs to creep up.
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You #&$#*$@! HEATHEN!!!\n\nHOW DARE YOU BLASPHEME GOD????!!!????????\n\nThere most certainly is a God and He even has "In God We Trust" engraved on Him to ensure everyone knows who their real God is.\n\nHe is usually green, has pictures of dead presidents on His face and many other embellishments to acknowledge His deity. He is worshiped by more people than all other Gods combined, throughout all of history.\n\nHe is portable and convertible for necessaries and for entertainment.\n\nYou better repent or He will curse you and deprive you of His blessings.\n\nAll Hail the Federal Reserve & the Almighty DOLLAR!!!\n\nThe one true God.
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I feel that the US media is not only dishonest, but is the main reason for the level of ignorance displayed by Americans with regards to other nations. \n\nOne guy I spoke to while there didn't realise that other countries had other currencies \n\n"Doesn't everyone use dollars maaaaaan?"