thread: 2007-02-13 : Exorcism
On 2007-03-02, Larry L wrote:
Sydney, I have to call you on your implication that "In God We Trust" on money proves something about the Founding Fathers. "In God We Trust" was not printed on US coins until the Civil War, and not on on paper money until the Cold War.
Now, I won't begrudge you that this phrase is within the spirit of the important concept in American law that natural rights are granted by the Creator—which to my secular view, is simply a way of asserting that those rights are explicitly not granted by the say-so of any man or government. But the way you have invoked it as evidence to support the rest of your argument is basically stating something that is untrue.
