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well, this is America , where , at least for now, we are free to make such choices. There is a bit of Glory to GOD in it.. but then there is what some could say is using the LORDS name.. if you will, in Vain. Should folks be allowed to make such name changes? YES.. it is apart of our Freedom as Americans and human beings. Providing it doesn't cause some serious problems in a community or in the government itself.IF every one changed their names to BUSH we might have a problem. Do i think the person is healthy who wishes to be called "IN GOD" "WE TRUST"? No.. i think there are better ways to Glorify GOD than taking on an odd motto. near to half the new testament shows us how we can glorify GOD in a pleasing and healthy way. We are also to avoid doing things that make folks believe we are " MAD". i think this might qualify.
just my personal opinion.
Forestwalkerjoe

It sounds ridiculous to us, but there was a time when such names were common--in the mid 1600s. One of the most famous, or silly depending upon whom is writing the history, was a Puritan named Fight the Good Fight and Flee Fornication Williams. Yes! That was his real name! And he did not have a cheap nursing home to lock his parents away in back then, but no doubt in his darker moments fervently prayed for them to be visited by the plague.

To whom it may concern,
I am, Steve Kreuscher, the man from Zion Illinois, seeking to change his name to "In God We Trust";

So that you all know and understand my reasoning behind my choice to change my name to "In God We Trust".
I would also like to take a moment to clear up the statement in the "Lake County Daily Herald", in last saturday's news paper. I did not at all give up on orginized religion; I have felt for 20 years now that God uses me to minister to so many people, who will not go to a church buiding. But also, I have so many christian friends, who I would not for one moment try to discourage them from being a part of orginized religion, unless they were for some reason being done great harm there at the church that they are attending. At that point, if I felt they wanted and felt full need to be a part of a church somewhere else, then I would encourage them to do so 100 %. I have chosen this coarse strictly for myself, I guess that you could most properly look at me as the servant of "The Good Sheperd, who has chosen to leave the ninty- nine safe sheep and go out on the dangerious mountain leadges to search and search for the one lost one.

The following is the whole reasoning behind me wanting to change my name to "In God We Trust; So that You know the whole truth about why I am doing it and see that I am more down to earth, then you probably thought at first.

"I have been a very creative artist since 1967. I have been searching for a new powerful and meaningful signature for my artwork, for the last 10 years. I was looking for a signature, which would best express my charactor of "Trust In God", my life of "Trust In God" and most of my artworks, which faithfully express my "Trust In God" also.
"Being born and raised in Zion Illinois, the city which the world renown faith healer, Dr. John Alexander Dowie, founded in 1900, I had a stong "Trust In God" since childhood. But then at 23 years old, I had a very dramatic spiritual experience and full whole hearted conversion to Christ, in October 1973, which is also the title of one of my very important works; "October 1973, My Conversion". Most of my artworks since my conversion, are very deeply religious. Being very religious, those artworks faithfully express my "Trust In God". Also many of those artworks express powerful stories about many tribulations that I went through in my life and how God used those trials to develope and increase that "Trust In Him" to where it is today.
"Therefore, changing my name to "In God We Trust" is my newest creative artwork; painted not with paint, but instead with those beautiful, powerful and meaningful words, on the canvas of my life. Those words "In God We Trust" most truely and most faithfully express me and who I am, in a beautiful creative word painting, a million times better, than the name Steve Kreuscher does.
"Those beautiful words are now the person, who God has made me into, by "the free riches of His power and His grace, In Christ Jesus" , my Lord and Savior
"And finally, by taking those precious words as my new name, I am joining those beautiful words, which are so dear to me, in a permanent way, to myself, preserving them for myself as part of me for ever."

Needless to say, My four children, my five grandchildren and myself need all the prayers and support that you can give us, for God's Divine protection, wisdom, strength and any thing else that God knows we will need through this all, and especially on Friday the 13th of June. I would love to see June 13th to be made into the offical "In God We Trust" day here in America. And last of all, my hopes and prayers are that Christians, all over America and all over the world, on that day figure out some creative, loving, peaceful way to take there own little personal stand for "In God We Trust" on that day.
All my love "In Christ Jesus, our Lord and Savior"; Steve Kreuscher ( In God We Trust )

And....these people vote! Frightening!!!!!

I think it is ridiculous as well. There is only one LORD to be cold Lord or God!!

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