It’s a Masonic symbol, and Freemasonry was fashionable at the time
Didn't they go secular because freemasonry is essentially gnostic and sees all religion as tending towards the divine realisation?
Something like that. IIRC, Franklin, Jefferson and such were deists, i.e. believing that there’s something godlike and numinous but that something is not the Abrahamic God or anything similar, but rather some kind of sacred principle of being or something.
IIRC, Freemasonry requires one to purport to believe in a supreme being, though that is so loosely defined that one can fill the gap with a tautological definition.
"Our country has no preferential treatment for any religion"
"One nation under God"...
"In God we Trust"...
Eye of God on all 1$ bank notes...
i think the "under god" stuff was added later...
As an outsider I always cringe and laugh at anything related to these kinds of things done there and we see on tv. Random political people talking? Then they mention god and all stupid stuff. Justice things like on a judgment and people swear on bibles and shit like that. It's a cult, all of it.
They don't specify a particular God
