Just because Thomas Jefferson made this quotation, it doesn't mean that he disbelieved in a Supreme Being. However, many of his contemporaries who helped draft the Constitution were Christian ministers. And may we not forget that the Ivy League universities, such as Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Brown, Cornell, etc, were founded as seminaries (for training in Biblical literacy). Look at the mottos: Brown - In Deo speramus (in God we hope); Columbia - In lumine Tuo videbimus lumen (in Thy light, we shall see the light); Dartmouth - Vox clamantis in deserto (a voice crying in the wilderness), in reference to John the Baptist who "prepared the way" before Jesus in his ministry; Princeton - Dei sub numine viget (Under God's power she flourishes); University of Pennsylvania - Leges sine moribus vanae (laws without morals are useless); and Yale University - Lux et veritas (light and truth). ... It seems that we are the ones who have drifted, not the foundations. If you look at our culture, you'll see that it's only the rebellion against God that has caused us to shift and begin to crumble, like a house moved off its foundation in a mudslide. ... Light and Truth. Jesus said "I am the light of the world. ... I am the way, the truth, and the life." He has provided us the way, and we have prospered as a nation while we followed the Almighty. We have crumbled and decayed as a nation since beginning to publically deny his name and his ways. I believe that Thomas Jefferson was very intelligent, but he did not draft the articles of this nation alone. He had the hand of the God he may have denied even guiding his pen, along with John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, James Madison, and Ben Franklin. After the momentous signing of the Declaration by President of the Continental Congress, John Hancock, Samuel Adams stated: "We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom alone men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and ... from the rising to the setting sun, may His kingdom come."