I'm sure he'd be proud of what we've done with his courageous, innovative plan for a secular nation. The world envies America's impartial religion-free government. Some mis-informed people don't understand the importance of governmental godlessness, but it gives us the moral strength to act impartially for good causes anywhere in the world. Secularism is our uniquely American strength. I'm sure our First Amendment freedom will survive this round of religious foolishness, just as it has so many times before.
Atheism is older than America, of course.
We atheists can use that historical fact to protect our American Wall of Separation through the changing waves of religious fads. After dark, I visited the other Washington Wall. It was my birthday, a good time to face my fears and make my first trip to that other wall of my history, the one I had been avoiding so long. It was 33 years ago that I helped start the Vietnam war, but the Wall still hit me like a bomb, just like it does so many other veterans. Some of those 58,196 names belonged to men that I carried on my ship to their deaths.