The faces on the american bills

I keep hearing it... it doesnt stop. "america was founded on christianity", "thats what the founding fathers would have wanted".

The founding fathers were above all, secularists who escaped england from religious oppression and persecution. Traditionalists are usually wrong when they claim abortion is wrong because it is a sin, and the founding father would have been against it.

here are some quotes by thomas jefferson... for those americans who have no idea who he is... he is one of your founding fathers.

"To talk of immaterial things is to talk of "nothings". To say that the human soul, angels, god are immaterial is to say that they are nothings, or that there is no god no angels no soul. i cannot reason otherwise... without plunging into the fathomless abyss of dreams and phantasms. I am satisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be, but of which i may not have any evidence"

"Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Sit reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because if there be one, he must more approve of the HOMAGE OF REASON THAN THAT OR BLINDFOLDED FEAR"

"Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man"

here is one by WASHINGTON

"As the government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen; AND AS THE SAID STATES NEVER HAVE ENTERED INTO ANY WAR OR ACT OF HOSTILITY AGAINST ANY MEHOMITAN NATION, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions SHALL NEVER PRODUCE AN INTERRUPTION OF THE HARMONY existing between the two countries"

i would have loved to live in the america they talked about

and of course Benjamin franklin...

"lighthouses are more useful than churches"