[freerepublicchat]

I'd like to add that much of the energy behind modern conservative action comes from from the atheist capitalist Ayn Rand.

We should remember who the real enemy is and work together.

Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Franklin, Paine all had different conceptions of God, but they all agreed that each had the right to be free to determine that conception for himself, without government coercion.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Rand attempted to reason as close to sanity as she could get.

She does have some glancing contempt for Christian principles, for example damning the idea of sacrifice per se. Without a genuine God with genuine bona fides to sacrifice to, sacrificing does not please reason. With a genuine God, it does please reason.