Reply #4: There is also a distinction between the Old & New (Christian) Testaments.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

"The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on
the Christian religion." George Washington

"The Bible is not my book, and Christianity is not my religion.
I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of
Christian dogma." Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865).

"I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the
world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity)
one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and
mythology." Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826).

"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the
Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the
Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my
own church." Thomas Paine.