No God in my Country... according to the founding fathers

Okay, I had been curious about this, I knew that the Pledge of Allegiance originally did NOT have any mention of god in it... I had also heard that there was no "In God We Trust" on our money... before we had the real beginning of neocons in power. I found the proof. On the article about the pledge you will find a bunch of links for further information scattered throughout the article. For the most part, the three sites occasionally overlap (when reporting dates at least) but each one brings a bit of information that the other does not. Thoughts? Comments? Ideas on how to disseminate this to keep the neocons from continuing to claim that all this god crap was the idea of our founding fathers??

Found at: http://slate.msn.com/?id=2067499

The Pledge of Allegiance
Why we're not one nation "under God."
By David Greenberg
Updated Friday, June 28, 2002, at 1:39 PM PT
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I found this: http://quasisemi.com/ego/money.htm


I recently sat down with my wallet and began ritualistically crossing out the "In God We Trust" off the back of all my bills. I do this regularly to support the idea of separation of church and state. This particular time I came across a ten dollar bill that lacked the offending mark. Closer examination indicated that it was a 1950 series ten dollar bill. In addition to the lack of a "In God We Trust" mark this bill also promised to pay me ten dollars in legal currency upon presentation to the department of the treasury, an interesting element for another writer and another article.
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And I will conclude with this: http://www.religioustolerance.org/nat_mott.htm

The original national motto: "E Pluribus Unum"
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The replacement motto: "In God We Trust:"
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