re: #126 Charles

100% Agreed.
The founders were tolerant of religion but ABSOLUTELY did not want it to have any influence on how this country and it’s people were governed.

“In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot … they have perverted the purest religion ever preached to man into mystery and jargon, unintelligible to all mankind, and therefore the safer engine for their purpose.”
- Thomas Jefferson to Horatio Spafford, March 17, 1814

“Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.”
- Benjamin Franklin

“Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion?”
-John Adams letter to Thomas Jefferson

But my point (and the point of the article I linked) was that both sides try to distort the truth about these men. This is not an excuse for Fox News or any one else but merely a fact. Fox is the latest in a long line of historians with big erasers who want to bend the past to fit their agenda.