Why does USA have "In god we trust" on it's money?

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TheRealMafoo said:

Craan said:

TheRealMafoo said:
I think the reason, is paper money is worthless. In the old days, what you had in your hand had intrinsic value. If you had a 20 dollar coin, the coin had 20 dollars worth of gold in it.

The best way to get a very Christian country to feel safe with paper money that has no intrinsic value, is to say “in god we trust” on it.

Today it’s meaningless. I don’t care either way if it fell off or stayed on the next design.

gold is worthless the only reason it's worth anything is because people say it is.

The real answer:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_God_We_Trust

 

90% of Americans approve of the message.

Odd.

Only like 75% of America are Christians to my knowledge...

and even then i think atheism is under reported.