Liberal vs Conservative

“The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.”
—John Adams

"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise"
—James Madison

"During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity, in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution."
—also James Madison

“If I could conceive that the general government might ever be so administered as to render the liberty of conscience insecure, I beg you will be persuaded, that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution.”
—George Washington

“Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, then that of blindfolded fear.”
—Thomas Jefferson

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”
—The Constitution of the United States of America

America's glory days were when it separated atheism and state. Otherwise, we're on the road to the Soviet Union, China, and North Vietnam. It's because the government believes in God that it treats are rights as inalienable.
--Declaration of Independence

I never said we should put atheism in the law any more than we should put religion into the law. For a truly free state, the government has to be agnostic.

Separation of church and state means the separation of political and ecclesiastical authority. Just as two people cannot inhabit the same body. But two people can still enjoy symbiotic friendship. Liberals, however, want to throw religion into an isolation ward. That's not what the writers of the Declaration of Independence wanted.