A school bus driver and amateur artist in the northern Chicago suburb of Zion filed a petition in order to change his name legally in Lake County Circuit Court. The 57-year-old Steve Kreuscher wants to be known as “In God We Trust,” the Associated Press reports. The man’s first name would be “In God” and his last name “We Trust.”

”Those words are an endangered species,” Kreuscher added.

”You might take it off the money, but you can't take away my name.”

The man says the new name would symbolize the help God gave him through tough times. He explained the motto perfectly symbolizes his life because his belief in God helped him survive depression, divorce and a home invasion.

”I've had to trust God through incredibly hard times,” Kreuscher said.

However, he told the (Arlington Heights) Daily Herald that he was worried that atheists may succeed in removing the phrase “In God We Trust” from U.S. currency.

Kreuscher recalled that the phrase “God Reigns” was removed from the Zion city seal in 1992 after courts deemed it unconstitutional. Zion was founded as a theocracy by a religious group that believed the Earth was flat.