I DELIGHT IN YOUR DESPAIR! I'll counter all of AP's talking points without reference links and with half my brain tied behind my back Rushian-style:
Anyone who thinks Christians have weakness yet also find media-induced social controls too restricting may find themselves cozy'd up to the classic deist crowd. Thomas Paine was a deist, not an atheist, the difference found when you consider that Christians don't actually believe in ghosts as they have been stereotyped by atheists who felt Christians need further segregation from the "more reasonable" crowd as if they evolved from reptiles.
Opposers to the Declaration of Independence were often fundamentalist Christians and servants to the English crown who, while agreeing with any number of good points brought up in Continental Congress, were mostly afraid of the geopolitical backlash and religious destabilization our Founding Fathers were lucky enough to be able to punt for 300 years. My generation has to deal with that now so atheists need to shut their holes because they're not helping anything. Relabel yourself with the classic deists if you don't appreciate Al Gore or get out of the way.
Atheists are the ones who believe that mankind has the power to pollute the atmosphere, change the climate and melt the polar regions. Not since human beings believed the world was flat has any one idea imposed the height of arrogance and superstition to believe that industry can tilt the Earth before the Earth can tilt you. Try jumping off a cliff if you don't believe me, no amount of pollution can save you. To place limits on anyone's ability is the greatest of Orwellian cruelty. The cult of global warming is a myth created to empower America's enemies and inspire them into anarchist insurrection.
An enemy of Independence is an enemy of the Constitution itself and of the American People.
Atheists are skilled at one thing, skulduggery, slicing you open and removing your hope as painfully as possible. That is not the message of Independence found in Thomas Paine's works. This is why atheists are the ones who must be managed as the village idiots because their own counter-theology worshiping humanism and behavioral exploration is spiritually dangerous to have around as they feast on despair and delight in desecration. It is the atheist who is the barbaric ravager and the Christian is who is the nation-builder and world-mender. George Washington didn't win the Revolution chasing by ghosts.
