Why are you laughing? This is America we're talking about, not Europe. America is the opposite of Yurop in that fundamentalism in America is an upward swing. Back then, you had presidents supporting positions that are leaning on deism and atheism. George Washington and the founding fathers were deists with chips in their shoulders that lambasted Christianity, and they founded America's secularism, upon the Treaty of Tripoli, a very secular document.
In today's America, you would NEVER even be CONSIDERED a candidate if you spouted the shit these guys said about religion.
"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
"The way to see by Faith is to shut the eye of Reason." - Benjamin Franklin
Instead of laughing, learn some history. America fluctuates in terms of religiosity, depending on the time period and the zeitgeist.
Baka. Fuck, Lager, you made me bust out a legitimately smart post. Now I'm fucking pissed. I POST TO TROLL, DAMMIT.