[VRWCmember]

Slinging religious beliefs about the political marketplace is the tactic of charlatans.

What did George Washington have to say about that?

“It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.”

“Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”

"The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained”

How about John Adams?

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

[angkor]

There are tons of quotations from Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Franklin making exactly the opposite points, and it is completely disingenuous to pretend they weren;t speaking about two different contexts of expression: private and public.

No need to beat that dead horse, you know exactly what I’m saying and what they said.