About that E pluribus unum thing...

It wasn't exactly a surprise, but Congress recently "re-affirmed" our national motto, "In God We Trust."

It wasn't always this way, as the above link and this one points out.

It's pretty clear that what our "new" motto actually re-affirms is:

a) we don't trust ourselves or our own intelligence and goodness,

b) we don't give a crap about citizens that differ from the majority,

c) in fact instead of "uniting" anyone we are deliberately divisive,

d) we obviously completely misunderstand the constitution, which while written by very religious men STILL contained wording deliberately constructed to prevent the government support of any particular god or religion,

e) we give a clear signal to every religious nutjob around the world that we ARE waging a crusade against them, i.e, if well-armed men screaming "In Allah we Trust" landed on OUR shores I'm pretty sure we'd take it personally...

It's worth noting that nothing about "e pluribus unum" says you shouldn't put faith in God. It graciously says those that do and do not will ALL stand firm, together, for our common good. What's wrong with that?

Why can't we just be united for our own good, strong against enemies, foreign and domestic?

Any gods most likely want no part of it.