Agreed, there are many more important things to deal with. Preventing the populace from being easily distracted from these issues by wily politicians is the challenge!
The 'In God We Trust' motto is actually alright by me because there is no set definition of the word 'God', and so the statement is not sectarian in nature. For a non-theist, it could just as well mean 'logos', 'intuition', a Unifying Theory of Physics or even The Force.
If they put 'In Jesus We Trust' then a more clear case could be made for a violation of the 1st Ammendment.
We know "God" means theism, in our current implementation we all know it refers to the Christian god.
I just don't think it represents this country. E Pluribus Unum is much better.