while we are on a quote kick:
Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him [Jesus] by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence; and others again of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism, and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same being.
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Short, April 13, 1820
A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic – on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg – or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God; or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.
—C.S. Lewis
Those who would willfully ignore and deny the theistic basis for American governance and liberty, and most particularly the Judeo-Christian theism of that foundation, will push aside any mountain of evidence in defense and pursuance of their chosen self/man-centered world view.
But beware of those who would deny that our existence and our rights come from our Creator. If unalienable rights are subject to the whims of man, any evil, any degradation, is possible, and looking at the clear evidence of all history, likely.