>> "If we took the element of God out of the bible and distilled it down to useful teachings on life I wonder how useful non-religious people would find it." h

>> "If we took the element of God out of the bible and distilled it down to useful teachings on life I wonder how useful non-religious people would find it." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Bible http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Bible Thomas Jefferson. Yeah... that Thomas Jefferson... not just some random dude with a common name. There is a propaganda campaign to convince people that americans were united as hard core puritan evang neocon christians continuously from the earliest days until a very recent fall like when the Beatles arrived, but that fantasy has nothing to do with reality, of course.