At 06:09 PM 7/10/00 -0600, Erik Vistica wrote:
>Our
>founding fathers made sure our money has 'In God We Trust' written on
>it.

Sorry, but the founding fathers were long gone when 'In God We Trust'
started appearing on U.S. money.  It first appeared on a 2c copper piece that
was produced for a short period in the late 1860s/early 1870s.  Its first
appearance
on currency was on the 1923 issue of the $1 note shortly after our currency
size
was downsized from the 'horse blanket' notes to its current size.  (I have both
the coin and the note in my collection.)






>  The constitution does *not* say *separation of church and state*.
>Simply that the state shall make no law respecting ... nor denying the
>*free* exercise... The Supreme Court has the Ten Commmandments engraved
>on the wall. Do you really think our founding fathers meant for prayer
>and the bible to be ripped out of our schools and replaced with sorcery
>and witchcraft and pagan religious practices (which are now readly
>embraced in schools). Our schools tolerate every religion except the one
>our country was founded on.
>
>I don't have to eat dog doo to believe someone else when they say, 'it
>tastes like ^%@@#'. I'm not gonna feed dog doo to my kids even though
>I've never tasted it myself to find out if it is good or bad. It looks
>like 'stuff', smells like 'stuff', glad I didn't step in it.
>
>I won't live long enough to verify everything yourself. Whose counsel am
>I going to trust? People I respect.