[Alouette]

religionists found it necessary to alter the secular National Motto that the Founding Fathers themselves chose,

OK, what was it before "religionists" changed it to IN GOD WE TRUST?

[f.Christian]

The ' wall - separation ' ... should be to KEEP these --- aclu liberal fascists atheists nazis OUT !

[reasonseeker]

"OK, what was it before "religionists" changed it to IN GOD WE TRUST?"

If you don't know, then I suppose you're no worse than a judge I experienced during jury duty a while back, who, despite his apparently being old enough to remember when the National Motto was changed, thought that "IN GOD WE TRUST" was the original motto, and I had to correct the judge. FYI, the original, beautiful, eloquent, uniting motto that the Founders chose was "E Pluribus Unum," not the divisive "In God We Trust."