Pesky facts

Thomas Jefferson: "Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law." "Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man." "Religions are all alike — founded upon fables and mythologies." John Adams: "The government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion." "The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a jewish or a Mohammedan nation." Thomas Paine: "Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the word of God. It has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind." James Madison: "Religion and government will both exist in greater purity the less they are mixed together." "The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries." DAMN THOSE PESKY FACTS