In God W E Trust

The carnage of the Civil War and the terrible upheaval that followed found the population of the country in a religious and philosophical mood. A desire to nationally express this feeling led to the addition of the motto IN GOD WE TRUST to U.S. coins. First used on the two-cent piece of 1864, the motto was added to the Coronet eagle in 1866, inscribed on a ribbon over the eagle's head.

The 1908 Saint-Gaudens double eagle is the second of a two-year type coin created when President Theodore Roosevelt requested the motto "In God We Trust" not be used on the coins. Roosevelt was a very religious man and he felt that having God's name on coins that would be used for gambling, liquor, brothels and other activities showed irreverence and was sacrilege. None of the 1907 Saint-Gaudens double eagles bear the motto. The motto was placed on the coins by order of Congress in 1908, but not until after some No Motto coins were struck.

the motto "In Gopd we Trust" was added to our paper money (currency) after WWII by Congress during the Truman administration...As in Guido's reference to the post-Civil War time when the motto was added to our coins, the times after WWII found most in our nation also waxing philosophical and closer to God, after having had such a traumatic experience battling pure evil during WWII and the onset of the Cold War, not to mention Korea.

I'm not in an uproar. this was purely a historical comment and I wanted to see the different reasons why the motto was added or removed. I agree about the civil war and the state the country was in at that time. also the 1908 double eagle