Quote:To say that it wasn't founded on protestant Christian principles that were basically taken for granted is splitting hairs and really doesn't matter any more.
It was founded on Enlightenment principles which were a direct repudiation of xtian horseshit.
Quote:Twenty years after the death of Luther there were more Catholics than when he was born. And twenty years after the death of Voltaire there were millions less than when he was born.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll