pretty informative article over at the nation about the founding fathers’ true attitude toward religion as opposed to the current revisionist notion that the country was founded on christian ideals. from the article: our constitution makes no mention whatever of god. the omission was too obvious to have been anything but deliberate, in spite of alexander hamilton’s flippant responses when asked about it: According to one account, he said that the new nation was not in need of “foreign aid.”  haha, witty bastard. see below for a few quotes from the old felers themselves…

madison- “What have been the fruits (of christianity)? more or less in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity, in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution.”

paine- “I believe in one god, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life…. 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.”

jefferson- “civil as well as ecclesiastical (leaders), who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.”

also jefferson- “the day will come, when the mystical generation of jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of minerva in the brain of jupiter.”

still waiting for that day mr. jefferson.