This post originally appeared on TheHumanist.com I wasn’t an English major, but it seems to me the phrase “In God We Trust” affirms only one thing: a collective trust in a deity. Implicit in that affirmation, of course, is an underlying belief that a deity exists. Dissect the words any way you wish, but their literal meaning cannot stray far from that interpretation. (It’s noteworthy that “In God We Trust” is a complete sentence. Rearranged in more standard subject-verb-object order, it would read: “We Trust in God.”) But if you believe today’s conservative culture warriors, “In God We Trust” has nothing to do with asserting God-belief. Having launched a campaign to plaster the phrase everyw
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