All refuted here:
http://www.atheists.org/courthouse/charlotte.html
Here are what the presidents had to say about your lies:
“The greatest achievement ever made in the cause of human progress is the total and final separation of church and state. If we have nothing else to boast of, we could lay claim with justice that the first among the nations we of this country made it an article of organic law that the relations between man and his maker were a private concern, into which other men have no right to intrude. To measure the stride thus made for the Emancipation of the race, we have only to look back over the centuries that have gone before us, and recall the dreadful persecutions in the name of religion that have filled the world.”
(David Dudly Field (1805 - 1894) in describing ‘American Progress in Jurisprudence,’ as quoted in Anson Phelps Stokes, “Church And State In The United States,” Vol. 1., pg. 37)
“The United States have adventured upon a great and noble experiment, which is believed to have been hazarded in the absence of all previous precedent -- that of total separation of church and state. No religious establishment by law exists among us. The conscience is left free from all restraint and each is permitted to worship his maker after his own judgment... Such is the great experiment which we have tried; our system of free government would be imperfect without it.”
(Pres. John Tyler, 10th U.S. President and supporter of state-church separation).
“I believe that in America where the separation of church and state is absolute -- where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote -- where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference -- and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him.”
(President John F. Kennedy)
“The twin doctrines of separation of church and state and liberty of individual conscience are the marrow of our democracy, if not indeed America's most magnificent contribution to the freeing of Western man.”
(Clinton Rossiter, American historian)
In addition, the New York Supreme Court, in a well known case (Miami Military Institute v. Leff 129 Misc. 481, 220 N.Y.S. 799, 810) said of the principle of religious freedom that “it, ‘has always been regarded by the American people as the very heart of its national life.’ This would be difficult to maintain in a democracy without constitutional separation of church and state.”
(Anson Phelps Stokes, "Church And State In The United States," Vol. 1, p. 34)
Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity.
-Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782
Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper, February 10, 1814
To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to say they are nothings, or that there is no god, no angels, no soul. I cannot reason otherwise: but I believe I am supported in my creed of materialism by Locke, Tracy, and Stewart. At what age of the Christian church this heresy of immaterialism, this masked atheism, crept in, I do not know. But heresy it certainly is.
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Adams, Aug. 15, 1820
This is excellent too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6h2fKZ_p6Y
I'd rather be in the pits of hell with Gandhi than in heaven with a tyrannical, egotistical, sexist, homophobic, genocidal, and evil deity. Then again, Jesus is probably be a thing of the fairytales in the future.
The reason why American is such a great, secular country is this:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vkXOwBIRX7Y
