In God We Trust

On MSNBC's web site there is a live vote being conducted which asks:

"Should the motto 'In God We Trust' be removed from U.S. currency? So far, the vote is 67% against removal of the motto ( http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10103521/ ). I then posted the following in the section devoted to comments about the story:

Unless you are a history revisionist, you know that our Founding Fathers believed that God's hand was involved in the work that they were doing to create the grand experiment called the United States of America. They put their trust in God that He would counsel and guide them in their quest to create a free nation that recognized and upheld each citizen's unalienable, God-given rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, among others.

They truly believed in the free exercise of one's religion, even in the public square, and even while serving in the government. References to God and other Biblical references are found in many of speeches they gave, in many of their writings, and in many of the monuments and buildings they built. They saw nothing wrong with, and in fact, considered it good governance to set aside places and times for prayer.

They truly believed that this experiment they were setting in motion would not succeed, and in fact would fail miserably, if God's guidance and blessings were not sought by the leaders of the nation. They knew that the government they were creating could not succeed unless the elected leaders were moral, God-fearing people. This is clearly stated in the Federalist Papers.

They knew that they could not succeed in throwing off the shackles of involuntary servitude to England and the King without God's intercession. They knew that they could not establish this free nation without God's guidance and blessings. As men of the Enlightenment, they had studied the great philosophers and historians. They studied and quoted the Bible. They knew the history of the Roman and Grecian Empires. They knew that the dark side of human nature tended toward either anarchy or tyranny. They had already experienced tyranny at the hands of the King of England. They knew that anarchy reigned in the last days of Rome and Greece.

They trusted in God to guide them to do the right things to create this new nation. They trusted in God to bless their efforts to create a nation founded on the idea that all men are created equal by God. In my view, it is because they and the majority of the citizens believed and trusted in God, that this country became the wealthiest and most powerful in the world as quickly as it did. It is not the establishment of a religion to recognize and memorialize the indisputable fact that our Founding Fathers did trust in God as they set about creating the greatest country that has ever existed in the history of man.

God Bless You.
God Bless America
God Bless the BSA.
God Bless our Troops.
Patriot Mark