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<blockquote data-quote="texan" data-source="post: 1001285" data-attributes="member: 38206">On this day, 30 July 1956, The phrase “In God We Trust” was adopted as the U.S. national motto.In 1956, the nation was going through the height of the cold war. Partly in reaction to these&nbsp;factors, the 84th Congress passed a joint resolution to replace the existing motto with &quot;In God we trust&quot;. The change was partly motivated by a desire to differentiate between communism, which promotes atheism, and Western capitalistic democracies, which were at&nbsp;least nominally Christian. The law was signed by President Eisenhower on July 30, 1956, and the motto was&nbsp;progressively added to paper money over a period from 1957 to 1966.&nbsp;(Public Law 84-851) The United States Code at 36 U.S.C. § 302, now&nbsp;states: &quot;&#039;In God we trust&#039; is the national motto.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="texan, post: 1001285, member: 38206"] [B]On this day, 30 July 1956, The phrase “In God We Trust” was adopted as the U.S. national motto. In 1956, the nation was going through the height of the cold war. Partly in reaction to these factors, the 84th Congress passed a joint resolution to replace the existing motto with "In God we trust". The change was partly motivated by a desire to differentiate between communism, which promotes atheism, and Western capitalistic democracies, which were at least nominally Christian. The law was signed by President Eisenhower on July 30, 1956, and the motto was progressively added to paper money over a period from 1957 to 1966. (Public Law 84-851) The United States Code at 36 U.S.C. § 302, now states: "'In God we trust' is the national motto."[/B] [/QUOTE]

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