Nancy I agree, the fair tax would have helped, but alas...I think if ten is good enough for God then the Government should learn how to use it too. Our FF never used the Government as their jobs. They were writers and inventors. That was their income. Why do we have to pay such enormous salaries for public servants? That and all these pork projects is where our money goes. I would just be happy with the price of gas coming down below 4.

I am so glad everyone commenting knew that this quote was from a PRIVATE letter and did not ass-u-me it was the Constitution or Bill of Rights. This quote was a response to a letter from the Danbury Baptist Association in which they aired that they were grieved by the omission of God and Religion in the Constitution. Written Oct 7, 1801. Jefferson replied in a PRIVATE letter this quote. On Jan. 1, 1802. Notice PRIVATE. A letter totally taken out of context, I wonder what would happen in today's times if that happened. Can anyone say Lawsuit!

Rob, as a US History Major doing a research project on the Founding Father's view of God in Government, I would have to say that you are wrong. The Founding Fathers, majority of, were Christians, or of a firm faith. They did not, however, want the nation to have a NATIONAL CHURCH, like England. So the reason behind the lack of religious affiliation in the Constitution was for that very reason. The FF also did not want non-religious people to be excluded from office by having to take a religious test, lucky us! However, Carole is right, George Washington was a devote Christian. And FYI= Secularism and Agnostic by today's standards are a twentieth century thing, this was the eighteenth century, kind of like a square peg in a round hole, don't you think?