Why should we keep the (IN GOD WE TRUST) on U.S. money and why did the pilgrims come to America in the first ?
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We should keep that there because it is a piece of our history, even if we're striving for political correctness now.  We can't erase the fact that our country was very religious at its start and for most of its history.  \n\nThe pilgrims came to america for a variety of reasons, although the answer most people use is that they were searching for religious freedom.
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Because America was found for religious freedom, and what religion were they, therefore the made sure to put in what they thought was best.\n\nthe only & only\n-Mini Carmel-
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It would have been 1 pence.\nJamestown is the first English settlement in the United States and the settlement was in 1607, Shakespeare died in 1616.\n\nThere were no dollars until after the revolution in 1776. Most of the money was English and a little Spanish. (Remember pieces of 8, they could be broken into 8 pieces.)\n\nHope this helps.
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Because God has blessed America. Without Gods blessing we would be just another third world nation.
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Creflo Dollar is a con man. Religion is the ultimate con, it is government protected, tax free and the product they sell doesn't have to be delivered until you reach a place that doesn't exist. No wonder so many people jump on this manured money wagon. He is not to be believed about anything.
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Because that's not even what Thanksgiving was about...It was about the fact that the Pilgrims were thankful for the Natives helping them out. The Natives actually learned many things from the settlers too.\n\nThe Holiday as it is today...is carried on out of tradition. What it's about today is exactly what the name says. It's a day to actually stop and think about what you have to be Thankful for...your friends, family, health, etc. Just like Christmas isn't about Christ or about Santa anymore. It's a retail holiday. Retail stores make so much money off of Christmas....The U.S. is really the only country that celebrates Christmas the way we do. The U.K. for example doesn't celebrate it at all.
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The people who wrote the First Amendment never imagined they would be accused of being against God or against religious beliefs.  Their only concern was that no religion be established as the official religion of the nation, and therefore have an advantage over other religions.  \n\nAs to the line "In God we trust" on our coins and the phrase "under God" in the pledge of allegiance, the term God is generic enough that it does not belong to any one religion, not even to Christianity, not even to a more general Judeo-Christian tradition.  It means Higher Power, however you define it.  Or as the twelve step programs say, "God, as we understand him," and many 12-steppers amend that to "him or her."  Many others say "as we fail to understand him -- or her," which is still more honest.
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It is a holiday that began with the first English settlers in America. Their voyage was long and hard, and after they arrived, they nearly starved in the first year. But the second year they had an excellent harvest, and they were thus blessed with a relative bounty of food to eat. They decided to have a party to celebrate 1) their good fortune for a good harvest, 2) the now fairly obvious fact that the colony would be successful, and 3) their faith in God, not necessarily in that order. They invited the local Indians to the celebration and they all had a very good time. Thereafter they decided to repeat the party every year, to mostly celebrate their good harvest. In today's world, it is a family gathering time that is usually free from the commercialism that has grown up around Christmas, Easter, the Fourth of July, etc. The traditional dish is roast turkey, because it is a large bird that is native to America and was thought to be the main dish at the original celebration. Other traditional foods for Thanksgiving include pumpkin pie and perhaps something made out of corn (maize), something made from sweet potatoes, and something made out of cranberries since these were the newfound foods that are native to the American continent that the early settlers were able to obtain in quantity, and they were largely new and different from what they were used to eating in the British Isles. If you are a new arrival in America, please have a happy Thanksgiving! Perhaps you can also celebrate your own safe travel across the Atlantic to the new world!
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The 13 colonies were all founded by European countries. Basically, the more land you had, the richer you were. So land in the Americas was important. \n\nThe Europeans came for :\n\nGold/Wealth\nGod (to spread their religion)\nGlory of the country.\n\nThey were aslo hoping to establish trade.\n\nJamestown, the 1st colony was established in, 1609.\nThe pilgrims came in the mayflower in 1620
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Because there is not enough stored gold to guarantee the value of the currency in circulation. That is why the US went to the silver standard. Then we found out that there is not enough silver to guarantee the value of the currency in circulation. That is why US currency is now backed by "the full faith and credit of the United States."
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The Pilgrims founded Plymouth Colony.
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WOW! Now that's a loaded question. It all depends on who you ask.\n\nThe Extremely short, short answer: Money, Power and Politics.\n\nSlightly more elaborated answers:\n\n* Because we are trying to put an end to terrorism?\n* Because we are trying to bring freedom and democracy to the masses?\n* Because war is good for the pockets of American Businessmen?\n* Because the U.S. Governments wants to strip away American rights and freedoms giving themselves more power and to do this they needed to fabricate a war on terror?\n\nBut the most compelling:\n*Because many Middle eastern nations, including Iraq, have plans to switch their currency base from the U.S. Dollar to the Euro and this would slowly erode the worth of American currency essentially knocking us out of our vaunted place of power in the World Economy.  \n\nI hope this helps.
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Actually, we don't have all presidents on our currency.\n\nWe have Hamilton (secretary of the treasury) on the $10, Franklin (postmaster general) on the $100, Sacagewea (indian guide for lewis & clark) on the $1 coin and Susan B Anthony (feminist) on the $1 coin.\n\nOn previous issues of currency, there was also Salmon P. Chase on some high denomination bill ($100,000 or something).\n\nOn specie, we've had buffalos, Indians and Eagles on different coins.
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American was founded on guns and religion.  Many of the early settlers came here to escape religious persecution.  They separated from England with guns, and "tamed the West" with guns (i.e. kicked out the people already living here.)  The idea of a great untamed wilderness, and the so-called "Western Expansion" still resonates in the American psyche.  Because of the importance of guns and religion, protections for these areas were written into America's founding documents.
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Any time someone purchases an item(besides food), crosses a toll road, etc...they are paying taxes.  One of the greatest things about living in the U.S, is the pride that ALL of our citizens have the RIGHT to display.  It could be said that our freedoms allow a christian to build churches, display crosses, turn religious days into national holidays, etc...when christianity wasn't a native religion, and english wasn't the native language.  But. thankfully we are the UNITED States, and their is a place for everyone!
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It's all history - being in the right place at the right time - or wrong. Remember America is the new land of the Puritans. The Puritans didn't leave England because they were persecuted as much as they left because they lost their bid to frame the theology of the Anglican Church. In America they were free to influence the new and growing Protestant population. The underlying themes were church control and strictly dictated morality. \n\nYou have to skip ahead a couple hundred years for the rest. By this time, the Puritan philosophy had entered mainstream American Protestanism:\n"In 1883 a group of Christian bible scholars met for the first time at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, near Niagara Falls and established the principles of Christian fundamentalism. Article XIV of the 1878 Niagara Bible Conference Creed states, 'We believe that the world will not be converted during the present dispensation, but is fast ripening for judgment, while there will be a fearful apostasy in the professing Christian body; and hence that the Lord Jesus will come in person to introduce the millennial age, when Israel shall be restored to their own land, and the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord; and that this personal and premillennial advent is the blessed hope set before us in the Gospel for which we should be constantly looking.'"\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niagara_Bible_Conference \n\n"The term fundamentalism was first used in the early 20th century to refer to an American Protestant movement that asserted the literal truth of the Bible (not only against unbelievers but also against "sophisticated" theological interpretation) at a time when Darwinian evolution, secularism, and liberal theology were emerging. The centerpiece of this movement was a twelve-volume publication printed between 1910 and 1915 entitled The Fundamentals: A Testimony to the Truth." \nhttp://www.ssrc.org/sept11/essays/teaching_resource/tr_fundamentalisms.htm\n\n"In the protestant milieu of the USA, fundamentalism crystallized in response to liberals' eagerness to bring Christianity into the post-Darwinian world by questioning the scientific and historical accuracy of the scripture. Subsequently, the scourge of evolution was linked with socialism, and during the Cold War period, with communism. This unholy trinity came to be regarded as a sinister, atheistic threat to Christian America...Bruce [Chpt. 9 of Caplan 1987] suggests that to understand the success of the Moral Majority, an alliance between the conservative forces of the New Right and the fundamentalist wings on the mainly Southern Baptist Churches, we have to appreciate these fears, as well as the impact of a host of unwelcome changes - in attitudes to 'morality', family, civil and women's rights, and so on - which have, in the wake of economic transformations since the Second World War, penetrated especially the previously insular social and cultural world of the American South." (Caplan 1987: 6)\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamentalism\n\nHere's the official view from the Catholic Church (The Whore of Babylon, according to some fundamentalists):\nhttp://www.catholic.com/library/Fundamentalism.asp\n...and their broadminded take on a few sticking points:\nhttp://www.catholic.com/library/faith_science.asp
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It appears that way and makes perfect sense! Why wouldn't they trust? Those with the big bank accounts feel safe with our money hungry govt.- they all on the same page- allow the rich to get richer, provide them with the tax breaks. It's all about the "in group" and the middle class gets left out.