Congress first authorized a reference to God on a two-cent piece in 1864.

In 1955, one year after Congress had the words "under God" put into the Pledge of Allegiance, Congress passed a law requiring all U.S. currency to carry the motto "In God We Trust." All in an effort to combat those "Godless Communists.

So that's when all that malarky occured....:uhh: How righteous! :rolleyes: :p

I didn't shop it, I found it online, but if it's a shop it's a good one - you can see the shaddows of the letters on the reverse showing through very clearly...

I think it's from a locla paper somewhere near Bumfuck, a small town in the Bible Belt. :oogle:

If that letter that Daniel_ posted would have named any other group other than Atheists, there's no way it would have even been printed. Outlandish.

When I first read the OP I really didn't think this was a big deal. So they assembled a panel that didn't have any atheists on it: so what? The identities of the panelists were irrelevant to me, particularly on an issue such as this, where I assume that most Americans are in fact fairly reasonable.

Then I watched the clip of the debate.

This reminds me of why I really don't watch television news anymore. It scares me to death that thousands of otherwise intelligent people actually consume this tripe daily and see it as a source of information on which they base their view of 'reality'.