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In reply to the discussion: How a Christian Fighter Pilot and FOX News Tried to Stop Fort Bragg Atheist Festival (And Failed) [View all]Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion. (Treaty of Tripoli, Article 11: Written during the Administration of George Washington and signed into law by John Adams.)
George Washington: "The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy."
Thomas Jefferson: "There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites."
Thomas Jefferson: "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 political as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purpose."
Thomas Jefferson: "Religions are all alikefounded upon fables and mythologies."
Ben Franklin: "Lighthouses are more useful than churches."
Ben Franklin: "The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason."
James Madison: "Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise."
John Adams: "This could be the best of all possible worlds if there were no religion in it."