"In God We Trust" Any of you find it offensive or maybe just wrong that this "motto" is on U.S. currency and coins? In June the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals found against a satanist who sued over it saying it's just a motto, it doesn't recommend any god and you can still use the money whether you believe or not.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a law officially declaring “In God We Trust” to be the nation’s official motto. The law, P.L. 84-140, also mandated that the phrase be printed on all American paper currency.

The First Amendment says: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion..."

Anyone find this law to violate the First Amendment just on it's face? Pretty sure using the word god "respects" religion.

Update: Here is the scary language of a majority Supreme Court opinion in 1952 : "We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being... To hold that it may not would be to find in the Constitution a requirement that the government show a callous indifference to religious groups. That would be preferring those who believe in no religion over those who do believe." (yeah, wouldn't that suck? )

Here is language from a dissent in that case:
"Colonial history had already shown that...zealous sectarians...with governmental power to further their causes would sometimes torture, maim and kill those they branded... "atheists" or "agnostics." [n5] The First Amendment was therefore to insure that no one powerful sect...could use political or governmental power to punish dissenters whom they could not convert to their faith. Now, as then, it is only by wholly isolating the state from the religious sphere and compelling it to be completely neutral, that the freedom of each and every denomination and of all nonbelievers can be maintained."