On Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:32:19 -0700, Telamon wrote:


The framers made very certain that there was no mention of any mythical
beings in the Constitution, being part of the Enlightenment and all.

You are right. God is not mythical.

Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the
conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true. The
consequence was a positively fanatic orgy of freethinking coupled with
the impression that youth is intentionally being deceived by the state
through lies; it was a crushing impression. Mistrust of every kind of
authority grew out of this experience, a skeptical attitude toward the
convictions that were alive in any specific social environment - an
attitude that has never again left me, even though, later on, it has been
tempered by a better insight into the causal connections.

- Albert Einstein, Autobiographical Notes, edited by Paul Arthur
Schilpp

(They don't call it the "Enlightenment" for nothing...)