Who says America won't elect an atheist?
"The founders of our nation were nearly all Infidels, and that of the presidents who had thus far been elected [Washington; Adams; Jefferson; Madison; Monroe; Adams; Jackson] not
a one had professed a belief in Christianity.... Among all our
presidents from Washington downward, not one was a professor of
religion, at least not of more than Unitarianism."
-- The Reverend Doctor Bird Wilson, an Episcopal
minister in Albany, New York, in a sermon preached in October, 1831;
first sentence quoted in John E Remsbert, "Six Historic Americans,"
second sentence quoted in Paul F Boller, George Washington & Religion, pp. 14-15
From: http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/quotes/qframe.htm
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