[stormer]

"History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes."

-Thomas Jefferson to Alexander von Humboldt, Dec. 6, 1813.

[CitizenUSA]

You’re very good at quoting a few carefully selected (out of context) lines from Jefferson, an influential man who was but one of many, many people involved in the founding.

[b359]

Perhaps this was the context you were looking for?

“It can not 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!”

-Patrick Henry

[CitizenUSA]

BTW, your quotes don’t even logically follow the points of the article. Did the author call for church-controlled government operated by priests? If so, I must have missed that part.