[Wallace T.]

Considering that many of the Founders of this republic were Calvinists, with a theology that would be considered by many as fundamentalist by liberals and non-Christians, your comparison of fundamentalist Christians with the Taliban is ridiculous. I have yet to see Southern and independent Baptists, members of the Churches of Christs or Assemblies of God, Nazarenes, conservative Presbyterians and Lutherans, etc., behead people with dull knives or blow up buildings.

Your nation was mainly founded and settled by evangelical Christians. As a "rebel", perhaps you should also be reminded that Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, etc., were devout Christians. If you find this offensive, perhaps France, Germany, Sweden, or some other more nation more de-Christianized and socialist than America would be preferable for you.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

The Founding Fathers might have been religious men but they were also products of the Age of Reason and were smart enough to keep religion at arm's length.

As for Lee, he had too much personal honor and integrity for me to ever consider him a complete Fundamentalist : )

[NucSubs]

I understand part of your point, but, respectfully, the founders were 55% Episcopalian/Anglican. There were actually more Catholics than Calvinist founding fathers.

[onyx]

Religions of the Founding Fathers.