America is NOT a Christian Theocracy!

Thomas Jefferson and other of America’s Founding Fathers (Madison, Monroe, Adams, Washington, et al) were careful to design the rules of our birthing nation so that the Church and the State would be separated by “a wall.” The drafters and signers of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were well aware of the way religion dictated behavior, morals, education and even the practice of medicine and science in many European countries. And how otherwise law abiding citizens were persecuted, tortured and even put to death for daring to question religious teaching. Indeed Galileo was damned to hell because he had posited and proved that the Earth rotated around the sun and not vice-versa.
In fact, the Constitution makes it plain that being a Christian – or a member of any other religion – would never be a requirement of elected office. Jews, Buddhists, Hindis, Muslims, agnostics and atheists are all welcome to serve this nation as long as they are legal citizens.

Jefferson was a DEIST and believed in some universal creative power. Although raised as a Christian, he often questioned the tenants he learned as a boy and even compiled his own version of the Good Book. It is called “The Jefferson Bible.”

One of his quotes about the Bible:
The whole history of these books [the Gospels] is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and such tricks have been played with their text, and with the texts of other books relating to them, that we have a right, from that cause, to entertain much doubt what parts of them are genuine. In the New Testament there is internal evidence that parts of it have proceeded from an extraordinary man; and that other parts are of the fabric of very inferior minds. It is as easy to separate those parts, as to pick out diamonds from dunghills. -Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Adams, January 24, 1814

Here are some other interesting things President Jefferson had to say on this subject:

I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. Thomas Jefferson, letter to Francis Hopkinson, March 13, 1789

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes. Thomas Jefferson to Alexander von Humboldt, Dec.6, 1813.