Amergin

I realise that I only had the isolated quote. Paine, Jeffereson had more definitive statements in their writings and letters. It is still even out of context, a statement never to be heard coming from any modern American politician running for office. My impression is that American Revolutionaries generally wanted to dissociate from the Christian religion, the one with the worst history.

I suspect that they would be horrified. Jefferson who wrote a demythologised Jefferson Bible and denied the divinity of Christ (equivalent to the myth of Minerva bursting from the brain of Jupiter). To see the 2000 election as a contest of which wanker could work the words Jesus or God into every sentence, would have amazed them. Now the issue is not a secular republic anymore, it is whether the USA should be a Christian Nation or a Taliban like Theocracy.

Maybe the Afgans will send troops to America to lead the coalition to liberate it.

Amergin.