Hear Ye All Christians and Greetings,

The founding fathers were mostly Christian, but also engaged in secret societies like the Free Masons that gave them the kind of networking and good old boy affiliations always necessary to get ahead in business and politics.

These same fathers were acutely aware of the Anglican church's meddling with the English government, even though Henry the 8th had sent the Pope packing with his iron clad rule of much of Europe and the colonial rule.

So the founders decided to separate church and state. This makes religion free from the majority rule of representative democracy. Everyone is free to practice religion as they wish without law requiring it.

Unfortunately, Christianity has been the majority and Christian government leaders have added Christian phrases and Christian prayer to every part of government.

Christians believe in three gods, all embodied in a good man, Jesus, who actually lived, as their martyr. Christians strongly believe in prayer and miracles [kingdom of heaven], while there is little or no evidence except anecdotal testimony bordering on the occult.

Christians are encouraged to force their religion on others, but there is no evidence that being Christian is any better than any other religion.

As an atheist, I reject the ancient artifacts of the cult of Christianity as irrelevant. Certainly, religion helped form our mores and laws, but literal devotion to ancient laws is as dangerous as blindly following the demigods that tout them.

Finally young children should be taught moral, ethical, and legal behavior, not religious dogma.

Ron, a thinker and writer from Houston

Houston. The place where man, in 1968, put two men on the Moon. The two men looked back and saw that their home, created by the mighty forces of the Universe was a small and fragile place, needing to throw off myth and trust in science to help us understand who we are and preserve our place on this beautiful planet, so full of life and wonder.