So the word "worship" troubles you? Well, that's a matter of semantics. You associate that word only with religion, I assume?

I've been observing people worshipping a great number of things all my life. If they ultimately accord it greater importance than anything else in their life...if their attention is fixed upon it...if their decisions depend upon it...if they perhaps give it more importance then it actually merits...if they have more faith in it than they really do in anything else at all...

Then they worship it.

Many people claim to worship God. But in actual practice I find that most of them worship money. It's the number one thing they have an unshakable faith in, and you can determine that easily by how they react when you offer them a VERY large amount of it. ;-) And by the extraordinary things they will do to get it.

Therefore I think it is ironically absolutely perfect for American money to have "In God We Trust" written on it, because the ruling god of this society IS money. It couldn't be a more perfect motto to express what is really going on...the pursuit of the Allmighty Dollar.