Why the American Government wrote on the US currancy and the Passports : IN GOD WE TRUST ?

Question

This Question no one can answer the real answer as I belive . I am requestig yahoo to make it for fourty days .

Answer 1

"In a letter to the Mint Director on December 9, 1863, Secretary Chase stated:

I approve your mottoes, only suggesting that on that with the Washington obverse the motto should begin with the word OUR, so as to read OUR GOD AND OUR COUNTRY. And on that with the shield, it should be changed so as to read: IN GOD WE TRUST.

The Congress passed the Act of April 22, 1864. This legislation changed the composition of the one-cent coin and authorized the minting of the two-cent coin. The Mint Director was directed to develop the designs for these coins for final approval of the Secretary. IN GOD WE TRUST first appeared on the 1864 two-cent coin.

Another Act of Congress passed on March 3, 1865. It allowed the Mint Director, with the Secretary's approval, to place the motto on all gold and silver coins that "shall admit the inscription thereon"

http://www.ustreas.gov/education/fact-sh...

In God We Trust is our national motto.

A law passed by the 84th Congress (P.L. 84-140) and approved by the President on July 30, 1956, the President approved a Joint Resolution of the 84th Congress, declaring IN GOD WE TRUST the national motto of the United States

Answer 2

That's easy...because they trust in God!  That's not the issue though.  The question we should really be asking is...

...who is the god they're referring to?

...In God We Trust?

...Allah, Buddha, The Virgin Mary?

...Jesus?

...or Lucifer?

...hmmm???????

Answer 3

Don't really know the answer, but I do know that Everyone else must pay cash.

Answer 4

In the 1950s, we had a senator named Joseph McCarthy.  He was rabidly anti-Communist.  He created a fervor of anti-Communism that was very much centered on the concept "Godless Communism," because the Soviet Union declared itself atheist.  So in reaction to that, "In God We Trust" was put on our money (ironic place for it, eh?), and "under God" was inserted into the Pledge of Allegiance.

For many people, to be atheist was to be un-American. You'd think by the 21st century, we would have gotten over this neurotic attitude.  Problem is, status quo is always easier to maintain than to change.  If you tried to put "In God We Trust" on money now, people would probably not support it.  But taking it off just sounds too scary for too many people.

Think of it as a historical artifact; an anacronism.

Answer 5

It should be: In corruption we trust since all politicians need to have their brains fixed.

Answer 6

who else are you going to trust!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 7

It was during the cold war to show the Communist countries that we have freedom of religion and they didn't ... Congress voted to do in 1955  After the Civil war it appeared on some coins to establish the fact we were a nation founded on Christian principles

It wasn't signed into law until Eisenhower on July 11, 1955  

Answer 8

In God We trust, all others pay cash! Its because we live in a country filled with religious nut cases.