Quote: Steve T said: Again: where did he say it wasn't on currency? You are avoiding that question?
On the MCcarthy issue, he didn't say it was McCarthy, he just just said the motto was changed during that period, which it was. Maybe it was coincidental. Doesn't change the fact that most of the argueing you seem to be doing is irrelevant to the what Wednesday has actually posted.
Quote: Steve T said: And you are still ignoring much of my questions.
If a liberal posted baseless claims and then ignored your response, you'd chuck a fit.
These were already answered in my responses to Wednesday on page 2 of the topic.
Wednesday implied (with nothing to back it up) that these changes occurred specifically because of McCarthy, and that some unpecedented radical change occurred to our paper currency because of some paranoid/radical legislation McCarthy pushed for.
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"In God We Trust" has been on virtually all U.S. coins since 1866.
Adding that motto to paper currency was hardly a radical change in 1957, when the phrase had already been on U.S. coins for the previous 89 years.
McCarthy is not credited with having any role in adding "In God We Trust" to paper currency in 1957.
Wednesdays characterization of adding "In God We Trust" is insulting (implying skewed and paranoid thought in the 1957 currency change) and misrepresentative of true history. The public demand to add "In God We Trust" had been going on for decades, since 1866 gradually adding "in God We Trust" to increasingly more coins over many decades, long before McCarthy ever entered the Senate. It was not a change that began in the McCarthy era.
You apparently didn't bother to read the articles I posted, from the U.S. Mint and elsewhere, on the origin of "In God We Trust" on our U.S. currency:
Quote: Dave the Wonder Boy said: Wow, indeed.
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Here are two links, regarding the specific origin of "In God We Trust" on U.S. currency:
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This first one, from the U.S. Mint website, tracing the origin of "in God We Trust", first authorized for coins in 1866, and then later to paper currency in 1957.
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And this second site, which focuses specifically on the introduction of "In God We Trust" to U.S. paper currency:
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http://asms.k12.ar.us/armem/martin/
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You will notice that Senator McCarthy was not mentioned in either of these articles.
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McCarthy's hand in these events must have been enormous.
Wednesday says that "In God We Trust" was added to our currency under the "Communist witch hunt" atmosphere of McCarthyism.
I made quite clear that this is a distortion, and that "In God We Trust" has been inscribed on American coins since 1866, and that this was not part of some radical change brought on by McCarthyism.
And in point of fact (as both my linked articles make clear) McCarthy is credited with absolutely no role in these changes, either "In God We Trust" added to coins in 1866 (decades before McCarthy was born !), or to paper currency in 1957.
So much for the liberal allegation of these changes occurring due to a "McCarthyist communist witch hunt".
