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["Toni Hawryluk" <tonihawr AT msn.com>]

> "In God We Trust" is our  national motto. This is not some Christian, right 
> wing, political slogan. We  adopted this motto because Christian men and 
> women, on Christian principles,  founded this nation, and this is clearly 
documented. 

Christian ? oops .... :

http://www.hooverdigest.org/002/novak.html<http://www.hooverdigest.org/002/novak.html>

excerpt :

A Common Faith 

When our founders talked religiously about politics they borrowed mostly from 
the 

Jewish Testament, 

not the Christian. 

Scholars often mistakenly refer to the God of the founders as a deist god. 

But the founders talked about God 

in terms that are radically Jewish: Creator, Judge, and Providence. 

These were the names they most commonly used for him, notably in the 
Declaration of Independence. For the most part, these are not names that 
could have come from the Greeks or Romans but only from the Jewish Testament. 
Perhaps the founders avoided Christian language to avert divisiveness, since 
different colonies were founded under different Christian inspirations. All 
found common language in the language of the Jewish Testament.