No matter. The commonality of a belief in a supreme being, in a divine Creator, was and is far more important than the specifics of a Being the nature of whom no two religious faiths can agree upon.
I am a "Mormon." I believe in a God who is a perfected and exalted Man, with a body of flesh and bone.
My friends here of the various Christian sects believe in a God who is a spirit, whose "center is everywhere, and whose circumference is nowhere."
And there are a myriad interpretations in between, and to either side.
That is NOT the point. The point is that WE ARE ONE NATION UNDER GOD.
We derive our natural rights FROM a divine Creator. His nature, in this case, is not relevant to those facts.
It is a pity that we religionists, who have such widely differing views on the nature of God, can nevertheless find comfort in a simple acknowledgement of Him; whereas someone like you who claims NOT to believe at all is SO THREATENED by that mere acknowledgement.
To me, you are anathema. You and those like you are living anomalies; you believe in NOTHING but chaos, and not even that, actually, because when you are dead even such a concept as "chaos" has no more meaning.
Yet you are so afraid of a WORD, of an IDEA.
The upshot of all this is, though, it is YOU who have declared war, time and time and time again. No one has tried to force you to believe anything. No one has tried to imprison you, or kill you, because you don't believe (and I will forbear from pointing out that your ilk have not been so obliging; godless, atheistic Communism has slaughtered more people in just these last hundred years for their refusal to bow down to their manmade idol, than all religion combined in the past two millenia).
Yet you insist on your assault on the merest public mention of belief. And you are such liars, too. No one has said "this God is the Christian God." As I've said, the Founders, many of whom--Jefferson, Madison, John Adams, e.g.--were NOT Christians, but Deists, were the ones who spoke most eloquently of God, and the Creator. But you will tout this fact of their being non-Christian on the one hand, but then attempt to blot out their words from the historical record with the other.
You are so pussilanimous, so worthy of everyone's disgust, NOT because you refuse to believe, but BECAUSE YOU INSIST ON A CONSTANT ASSAULT ON THE RIGHT OF OTHERS TO BELIEVE, AND TO EXPRESS THAT BELIEF.
This time, though, my friend, I really think you've gone too far. You have even some of your fellow-travelers like Tom Daschle making very ominous noises.
This will not stand, and you will find, I think, that in the end you will end up less well off than if you had left others alone.