"The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion."
Treaty of Tripoli
Ratified by Founding Father and U.S. PRESIDENT John Adams and approved unanimously by the Senate
Treaty of Tripoli, Article 11
"Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law."
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. VICE PRESIDENT, U.S. GOVERNOR, GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL, DIPLOMAT, U.S. PRESIDENT (1743 - 1826)
letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper, February 10, 1814
"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise."
James Madison
Founding Father, U.S. PRESIDENT (1751 - 1836)
Letter to William Bradford, April 1, 1774
"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit."
Thomas Paine
Founding Father, JOURNALIST, INVENTOR (1737 - 1809)
Excerpt from The Age of Reason
"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
Founding Father, U.S. PRESIDENT, GENERAL (1732 - 1799)
Letter to the United Baptist Chamber of Virginia, May 1789
"No religious doctrine shall be established by law."
Elbridge Gerry
Founding Father, Vice President of the United States (1744 - 1814)
Annals of Congress 1:729-731
"In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own."
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. VICE PRESIDENT, U.S. GOVERNOR, GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL, DIPLOMAT, U.S. PRESIDENT (1743 - 1826)
letter to Horatio G. Spafford, March 17, 1814
"Denominated a Deist, the reality of which I have never disputed, being conscious that I am no Christian."
Ethan Allen
Founder of the State of Vermont, American revolutionary (1738 - 1789)
Religion of the American Enlightenment
"No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States."
The United States Constitution
Article VI, Paragraph III
"The civil rights of none shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in any manner or on any pretext infringed."
James Madison
Founding Father, U.S. PRESIDENT (1751 - 1836)
First Federal Congress, Congressional Register, June 8, 1789
"Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory in itself than this thing called Christianity."
Thomas Paine
Founding Father, JOURNALIST, INVENTOR (1737 - 1809)
Excerpt from The Age of Reason
"Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated."
George Washington
Founding Father, U.S. PRESIDENT, GENERAL (1732 - 1799)
Letter to Edward Newenham, October 20, 1792
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