"Federal lawmakers authorized a reference to God on a 2-cent piece in 1864, according to the Associated Press. Congress passed a law that required all U.S. currency to bear the words 'In God We Trust' in 1955."

Michael Newdow, Sacramento doctor atheist, wants a totally secularized America. Therefore “In God We Trust” must go.

He has spent $8000+ on court cases, per Religion News Service’s Daniel Burke.

A federal judge ruled “against an atheist on June 12 who argued that minting the phrase ‘In God We Trust’ on US currency violated constitutional prohibitions against the government promoting religious ideas.”

And so the beat goes on.

Judge Frank C. Damrell Jr. reasoned that “’In God We Trust’” is the American national motto and therefore will stand. It has “’nothing whatsoever to do with the establishment of religion,’” he informed media.

“’It’s such a fraud,’ Newdow said in an interview. ‘In this nation that’s supposed to be this beacon of religious liberty, a bastion of equality. What’s next “In Jesus We Trust,” “In Protestantism We Trust”?’”

It was this same atheist who took to the Supreme Court his angst over “under God” in the flag pledge. So what’s new with Newdow? Nothing. And so the man will continue to continue till death on behalf of the power of darkness.

Thank God there are those who still believe in sanity when it comes to the Judeo-Christian religion as America’s historic backdrop. And thank God there are those who understand that “separation of church and state” relates to no one denomination being the “state church” and nothing to do with religious expression in our free society.

“Newdow’s ‘In God We Trust’ case claimed that the government was ‘excluding people who don’t believe in God,’ and violating the constitutional principle of a separation between church and state.”

Once again, the atheists and secularists don’t get the freedom of religion as guaranteed in the First Amendment. How many times does that basic lesson need to be repeated throughout the country before so-called intelligent persons get the drift?

There is a God. He is watching and taking.

God is God; therefore, when God has been pushed over His patience line, He will act according to His eternal wisdom. In the meantime, those who are wise will stand alongside the God who has the last word in all matters planetary.

“Jay Sekulow, chief counsel of the conservative American Center for Law and Justice, said Newdow’s lawsuit is an ‘attempt to alter history by removing a legitimate expression of our religious history.’”

True.

Copyright © 2006 by J. Grant Swank, Jr.