I like this one:
"Whenever... preachers, instead of a lesson in religion, put [their congregation] off with a discourse on the Copernican system, on chemical affinities, on the construction of government, or the characters or conduct of those administering it, it is a breach of contract, depriving their audience of the kind of service for which they are salaried, and giving them, instead of it, what they did not want, or, if wanted, would rather seek from better sources in that particular art of science." --Thomas Jefferson to P. H. Wendover, 1815.Also, in all of his writings on morals (set in us by a "Creator") I've never seen this stupid "accountability" line. If any Christian out there is only being a good person because he fears an "accounting," I don't trust that person any more than I would trust Jeff.
Tell me that's not better than having the same guy be a muslim and figure Allah WANTS him to rape and pillage...