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At least the founding fathers knew better as well as some rather famous people:
"Religions are all alike - founded upon fables and mythologies." - Thomas Jefferson
"In no instance have . . . the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people." James Madison
"This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it."
John Adams
"The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma." Abraham Lincoln
"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, & the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people." - The whole quote by Karl Marx
"'In God We Trust.' I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true." Mark Twain
"So far as religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake... Religion is all bunk." Thomas Edison
"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.", "Lighthouses are more helpful than churches." Benjamin Franklin
"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of....Each of those churches accuse the other of unbelief; and of my own part, I disbelieve them all."
Thomas Paine
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