Originally Posted by filtherton

Atheism is a belief system, not a religion. Maybe that's just semantics, but another distinction between the two is reflected by the fact that, at least to my knowledge, no war has been fought under the pretext of atheism.

What it says in the declaration of independence is a lot less important than what it says in the constitution and how said contents are interpreted. It seems to me that the constitution goes out of its way to prohibit a nonsecular government. This doesn't seem like a sound endorsement of the christian need to write god on everything to me.