"This would be the best of all possible worlds if there were no [organized] religion in it" John AdamsForce said:Whether you accept it or want to live in denial this country was founded upon Judeo-Christian beliefs, but in that it is not imposed. No one is forcing you to be a Christian but that is our heritage.
So far as religion of the day is concerned, it is a ****** fake... Religion is all bunk. Thomas Edison
I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe. - President William Howard Taft
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. - President Thomas Jefferson
"I have examined all the known superstitions of the word, and I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology. Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned. What has been the effect of this coercion? To make one half the world fools and the other half hypocrites; to support roguery and error all over the earth." -- Thomas Jefferson
"Christianity...(has become) the most perverted system that ever shone on man. ...Rogueries, absurdities and untruths were perpetrated upon the teachings of Jesus by a large band of dupes and imposters led by Paul, the first great corrupter of the teaching of Jesus." -- Thomas Jefferson
"The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into a contrivance to filch wealth and power to themselves...these clergy, in fact, constitute the real Anti-Christ." -- Thomas Jefferson
"The doctrine of the divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity." -- John Adams
"The Government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion." -- John Adams
The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster, cruel, vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging, three headed beast-like god, one only needs to look at the caliber of people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes: fools and hypocrites." -Thomas Jefferson
Would you like examples from modern authors? Or are two of the most influential people in the founding of our great nation good enough for you?
If I really tried I could also find stuff from Thomas Paine.
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