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Thomas Jefferson: "I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.

"Read the Bible as you would Livy or Tacitus. For example, in the book of Joshua we are told the sun stood still for several hours. Were we to read that fact in Livy or Tacitus we should class it with their showers of blood, speaking of their statues, beasts, etc. But it is said that the writer of that book was inspired. Examine, therefore, candidly, what evidence there is of his having been inspired. The pretension is entitled to your inquiry, because millions believe it. On the other hand, you are astronomer enough to know how contrary it is to the law of nature" (Works, Vol. ii., p. 217).

"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter" (Works, Vol. iv, p. 365).

"Of this band of dupes and impostors, Paul was the great Corypheus, and first corrupter of the doctrines of Jesus" (Ibid.).

"Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one-half the world fools and the other half hypocrites."

"In every country and in every age the priest has been hostile to liberty; he is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own."

Please, lets have no more of this claptrap about how the founding fathers were all good Christians and founded our nation as a Christian nation to follow the Commandments. The very first Amendment contradicts the very first Commandment. Moreover it is the law of the land, signed by Adams in the Treaty of Tripoli, that this nation was in no way founded upon the Christian religion.

Historical revisionism is the refuge of fools.

"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ! For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship." --Patrick Henry

"Lastly, our ancestors established their system of government on morality and religious sentiment. Moral habits, they believed, cannot safely be on any other foundation than religious principle, nor any government be secure which is not supported by moral habits." --Daniel Webster

"No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand which conducts the invisible affairs of men more than the people of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency.... We ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of heaven cannot be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which heaven itself has ordained." --George Washington

"We believe that the principles set forth in the Holy Scriptures should determine the decisions to be made and the course to be followed by those who would seek to lead this nation. We believe that obedience to the commandments of God is the best and greatest hope for our continuation as a Divinely blessed and protected people."

In short, we believe in a theocracy.

"The battle must be won and the key to victory is the appointment of judges who both respect The God of Heaven and correctly understand the intent of our founders when they penned the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America."

Of course, the declaration of independence has no bearing on American jurisprudence. And the constitution is deliberately religion-neutral, saying nothing about religious purity tests for judges, implementation of Christianity as the state religion, or implementation of laws that ostensibly accord with scripture. But don't let that get in the way of a good rant.