Quotes from Brooke Allen

The Founding Fathers] were not advocates for a monolithic notion of "God and Country," as promoters of a Christian America would now have us believe. They were precisely the opposite: the very prototypes, in fact, of the East Coast intellectuals we are always being warned against by today's religious right.

George Washington rewrote the presidential addresses crafted for him by others so as to omit all references to Jesus Christ.