skyjedi2005 said:

I really dislike people who want under god taken out of the pledge of allegiance or in god we trust taken off the money.

Because it makes a blanket statement about the entire population. Its not a big deal because atheists can, after all, ignore it because as far as they are concerned its all mumbo jumbo anyway, but it encourages further state-religion connection and ideally such national items as the pledge of allegiance and the currency should represent the beliefs of all its people, not just some of them.

I'm sure people would make a big stink if its says "in Vishnu we trust". Because what do you care--you don't believe in Vishnu so whats the difference, just ignore it. But its making assumptions about who you are, or who you ought to be, by putting it on currency and the like. I'm not going to even get into the goals and beliefs of the American founding fathers because thats another issue, but its really seperate from the principle here.