Motto
"God" can mean any of a number of things. You'd have a better argument if it were "In Jesus We Trust".
It's intended as an additional protection against counterfeiting. It serves as a quietly unesttling reminder that one's actions just might one day get judged in a greater and utterly objective forum. By the way, does anyone but me see just how blatantly sectarian it would be for the motto to read "In an absence of God we Trust"? I'm sick and tired of the way the sectarian demands of atheism automatically get a free pass when all other "sectarian" demands long accepted from the time of our Founding Fathers onward continue to get knocked down one after the other. No more prayer in schools, no more Ten Commandments in public places, no Bibles or Bible studies allowed, "religion" rather than "bad science" being the reason to ban Creationism, etc.
No more slavery, no more child labour, no longer allowed to rape your own wife... I mean geez. How far will these liberal sectarians go before they finally get booted out of the country once and for all? Take your damned states and join Canada. That's where ya'll liberal weenies belong anyway.
The bitter irony in what Americans call "atheism" is that it is actually the single most evangelical religion in the country. Even moreso than Mormonism, Jehovah's Witnesses and Scientology. Belief that there is no god is still belief.