From a Memorial Address for President Lincoln on April, 24, 1865, “...the last act of Congress ever signed by him was one requiring that the motto, in which he sincerely believed, ‘In God We Trust,’ should hereafter be inscribed upon all our national coin.”

It wasn’t until 1938 that the motto was added to all U.S. money and not until 1956 did Pres. Eisenhower make it the official U.S. motto, superseding “E Pluribus Unum” (Latin for Out of Many, One).

On February 15 2007, the U.S. Mint officially released the first presidential $1 coin displaying George Washington. What’s different about this new coin besides its slight gold color? A tiny bit larger than the quarter, the presidential image has been enlarged. But the most significant change concerns our U.S. mottos. The powers-that-be made the coin edges smooth and embedded the two mottos around the rim.

Is there a possible correlation between this coin and the ongoing actions in all areas of society and our court system to delete any public reference to God, to Christianity, and the transition of our nation to total materialsim with a State religion of Humanism? Without God? Without reliance on God’s providence?

We now have a coin which has pushed God and our once heartfelt unity to the edge. Does it have anything to do with the constant blatant attack on history and our Christian heritage, revised and disseminated in government schools? Voiding the mention of God in education has affected and influenced millions of children and produced adults with no inkling how they were indoctrinated with a reinterpretation of America’s history.

Does the divisiveness, the political correctness (censorship of all that is true and good), the tolerance (until someone is offended), and banishing Christianity and Christians to the edge of the public awareness -- do these speak to us? Meanwhile debauched entertainment and a mindset of self aggrandizement and propaganda for worldly Humanism has taken God’s place. Add materialism and consumerism to the mix and we have a purposeless nation.

In 1954, just two years before Congress declared “In God We Trust” as the U.S. official motto, Congress and Pres. Eisenhower instituted the phrase “Under God” into the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance. Over the last ten years, there’s been a movement to strip the phrase “Under God” from the pledge -- mostly sought by one man, Michael Newdow, hellbent on removing God’s name from any remembrance or mention in our nation.

Then there are the many and continuous American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) cases of Christian symbols which ended up in court cases, carried on a wave of individual and mostly atheist complaints. There’s the San Diego case of the Soledad Cross (Just one supposed person, a declared atheist, couldn’t stand the sight of the cross so sought to rid the public of it). There’s the cities, counties and states which have a tiny cross or other religious symbol on their seals. To avoid lengthy and costly court involvements, they have given in to the complainers; such as Los Angeles which finally removed the tiny cross from their seal.

No American may declare ignorance of the “Ten Commandments.” Yet the movement to deprive our nation and eliminate the commandments from our history and the present era is destroying what was once the world’s strongest and free nation. The ACLU again; include the personal agenda-driven history “re-writers” who are also hellbent in revising history until God never existed in America.

These significant baby steps towards national Humanism, like the continuous crashing waves on the coastline, gentle or harsh, small or large, have no end. In the bashing and seeking to destroy Christianity’s importance, wiping it from historic references and depriving our children of its remembrance serves only to deprive us of the Founders’ original intent for liberty and freedom.

There is H-O-P-E. Christians will remember and teach the next generation what we should never forget -- that God was very much a part of the thinking of the first people who arrived on the shores of a raw land and of the Founders who looked to God’s providence and instituted God’s Word as a good education for the children.

As for the new coin, the publicity is low key. Unlike the issuance of state quarters, the Mint is not spending much to alert Americans that the coin is now available. For me, it displays just one more sad sign that we are headed on a path to a nation void of God and his providence.

But I still pray “God Bless America!”

© 2007 Bonnie Alba

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