We have to skirt this issue at work a lot because most of the folks who participated in the writing of the declaration and constitution were deists at best, non caring and ‘worst’. This ‘devine providence’ bullshit always rears its ugly head, when most of the founding fathers believed in (restricted to white, land…

How is it that we haven’t managed to get to a point that we’re able to separate individual belief from how our country functions? Some days I feel like we're going backwards as a country.

Disagree. If we shouldn’t have a Muslim president, then we shouldn’t have a religious president at all. How do we know Christians are more “impartial?”

I know republicans tend to forget about constitutional amendments that don’t start with “second,” but if you’re going to be president of these beleaguered United States, it doesn’t matter what your religion is because you’re not supposed to use political power to force your religion (even Christianity!) on other…

From a speech Kennedy gave during his campaign:

I don’t want any religious fundamentalist in the White House, Congress, or Supreme Court, whether Jew, Christian, or Muslim.

The constitution very specifically says there shall be no religious test for public office. You can’t make it any clearer than that.

This is the republicans entire platform though. They lure people in with social conservatism and fears that gays and planned parenthood and Muslims are going to steal Christmas and then they do all the unChristlike stuff like exploiting and deriding poor people and immigrants. They are like fairy tale antagonists.

“no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.”

I would advocate that Ben Carson read the fucking Constitution. I can even tell him where to look. Article VI, Paragraph 3.

They confuse the bible and the constitution. Those are different documents and they don't say what most conservatives thinks it says.

Weren’t people afraid of this when JFK was elected? that he’d force everyone to eat fish on fridays and make the pope king of america or something?

Just for funsies, here’s the main chunk of the letter President Jefferson wrote to a dissenter group, the Danbury Baptists, in 1802: