In article <fe9a0c54.0401292102.67a2dfae@posting.google.com>,
ambrosesearle@yahoo.com (ambrose searle) wrote:

Some opponents of the National motto, "In God We Trust," try to claim
that the U.S. founders would never have approved of such a motto. They
point to the fact that this particular motto wasn't devised until
1862, and they claim that if the issue was debated in the founding
period, such a motto would never have been adopted.

If the people who founded America "wanted" a religion-based motto, why
didn't they make the first motto religious?