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Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen
As for In God We Trust on the currency, that was the result of a petition from Reverend M. R. Watkinson shortly after the start of the American Civil War, where he thought it was super important for the Union to recognize Almighty God on it's currency, regardless of the separation of church and state. Frankly, it should never have been put there in the first place. Take it off too.
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US currency is not controlled by the government. The US Federal Reserve is a private holding, not a public (aka governmental) one. As such, they can put whatever they like on there without needing to conform to any "separation of church and state" - though that in and of itself is not in the US Constitution. The idea that it should be taken off as well is a statement that one (or many) private citizens have the right to tell another private enterprise what it must do to "conform". If you take issue with US currency - don't use cash. But your opinion that the "separation" bit has any bearing on the current design of physical US currency is incorrect.