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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Whatever the theological differences were among figures such as Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, George Washington, James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, these men were of one mind in endorsing the crucial importance of religion for the sustenance of public morality. They thought religion was a good thing and made a very strong endorsement of the need for religion to be a force in public life, as a part of public discourse affecting the public sphere.[/quote]

"Lighthouses are more helpful than churches."
-Benjamin Franklin

"The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason."
- Benjamin Franklin

"I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies."
- Benjamin Franklin

"Religion I found to be without any tendency to inspire, promote, or confirm morality, serves principally to divide us and make us unfriendly to one another."
- Benjamin Franklin

"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear."
-Thomas Jefferson

"Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between church and State."
-Thomas Jefferson

"No religious reading, instruction or exercise, shall be prescribed or practiced [in the elementary schools] inconsistent with the tenets of any religious sect or denomination."
- Source: Thomas Jefferson, Note to Elementary School Act, 1817.

"Strongly guarded as is the separation between Religion and Government in the Constitution of the United States, the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies may be illustrated by precedents already furnished in their short history."
- James Madison

"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect."
- James Madison

"the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion"
- James Madison in the Treaty of Tripoli, making it the law of the land

I think that's quite enough
- PP  :)

[quote]America=the separation of church and state, but at the same time the mingling of religion and public life.[/quote]

Nope.  Just the opposite. [/quote]

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