In Popular Culture
- A long-standing, irreverent joke slogan was co-opted as the title of Jean Shepherd's 1966 book, In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash.
- In the movie Oh God, God (played by George Burns) says to his reluctant disciple Jerry Landers (John Denver), "Trust me. Like it says on the money."
- In the 1994 remake of the film Miracle on 34th Street, the judge uses the phrase "In God We Trust" (and therein the government's implicit recognition of God) to justify ruling that Kris Kringle was, in fact, Santa Claus.
- Hardcore punk Dead Kennedys titled a 1981 EP, In God We Trust, Inc., as a play on the phrase.
- Christian glam metal band Stryper's third studio album is named In God We Trust.
- An urban myth (wrongly) suggests that it was omitted from new U.S. dollar coins.
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Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:
“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“The man of large and conspicuous public service in civil life must be content without the Presidency. Still more, the availability of a popular man in a doubtful State will secure him the prize in a close contest against the first statesman of the country whose State is safe.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil,—to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than as a member of society. I wish to make an extreme statement, if so I may make an emphatic one, for there are enough champions of civilization: the minister and the school committee and every one of you will take care of that.”
—Henry David David (1817–1862)