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Re:James Webb Space Telescope launch [video] by Symbiote on Saturday December 25, 2021 @08:57AM (#29683383)
Understood, but it's still there, and is obvious to foreigners and visitors. We see "In God We Trust" printed prominently on the money, senior politicians emphasizing their religious credentials, and much more visible religion in daily life.

See, for example, the chart at [1], for the number of people who pray daily.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/07/31/americans-a...

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Re:James Webb Space Telescope launch [video] by el_nahual on Saturday December 25, 2021 @11:04AM (#29684318)
"In God We Trust" was added to currency in the mid 1950s as part of the "Red Scare" and anticommunist sentiment.

Before 1957 the national motto was E PLURIBUS UNUM - One From Many. Too commie!

This was the same time that "under god" was added to the pledge of allegiance, which before just read "... One nation, indivisible"

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Re:James Webb Space Telescope launch [video] by mulmen on Saturday December 25, 2021 @05:43PM (#29687711)
It turns out Barry Goldwater was right about the preachers.
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Re:James Webb Space Telescope launch [video] by mulmen on Saturday December 25, 2021 @09:04AM (#29683432)
Ok? So we agree? I have seen American money. I find it particularly distasteful that we also carved “In God we trust” into the halls of Congress. I’m missing your point though.
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