"I don't really know an answer. I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell. It doesn't frighten me." Richard Feynman, Physicist, quoted from interview with Christopher Sykes, recorded in preparation for "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out", BBC-TV, 1981.
"The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion." Robert S. Jackson U.S. Supreme Court Justice Zorach v. Clausen (1952)
Not that anyone wants to believe this, but...
" One of the most common statements from the Religious Right is that they want this country to "return to the christian principles on which it was founded". However, one only needs to do a little research into American history to discover that the individuals who were responsible for building the foundation of the United States wanted nothing to do with christianity, and were in fact directly opposed to it.When the founders wrote the nation's Constitution, they specified that "no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States." (Article 6, section 3) This provision was radical in its day-- giving equal citizenship to believers and non-believers alike. They wanted to ensure that no one religion could make the claim of being the official, national religion, such as England had. Nowhere in the Constitution does it mention religion, except in exclusionary terms. The words Jesus Christ, Christianity, Bible, and God are never mentioned in the Constitution."
From the Family Freethought Alliance Web Page.