[Melas]

Nope, near as I can tell from the bits of Washing, Franklin, Jefferson and Adams that you quoted, they were merely stating their belief that a religious people was necessary to secure liberty. I'm more than fine with that. What I'm less than ok with is domineering jackass's who think they're better qualified to tell the rest of us how to live, than we are to make our own decisions.

I have no problem with you, or anyone else proclaiming the need to be a christiran, a jew, or a cyclon if that's what melts your butter. When you decide that you're going to make/force/compell/command me behave like a christian, a jew, or a cylon, that I'm going to fight back.

[little jeremiah]

I guess slavish devotion to pornography lends a new meaning to "from my cold dead hands".

Picking and choosing which morality to abide by in terms of what should be legal and illegal is the most important choice to be made, not counting how to defeat Islamic Jihadis.

What do you think of Peter Singer? He's the poster boy of rejecting the moral absolutes which are essentially the same in every monotheist religion in the history of the world. You should like his proposals, since you and he are on the same wavelength of how to decide right and wrong.