and this history of holy wars, the catholics fighting the protestants, the crusades, the inquisition, witchcraft trials, the rack and the screws and torture of people because of their religious views. the american enlightenment revolutionaries wanted to break from that violent history of religious conflict which they were fleeing in europe. and so wrote into the first amendment these incredible principles that there will be no establishment of religion here and every person would be guaranteed a liberty of conscious to make his or her own choices to worship how he or she pleases or not at all as many founders chose not to do. many of them were described as deists and infidels and thomas jefferson was considered a radical and jacobin because of scepticism toward the constitution. the truth doesn't mention the word god. article six says there should be no religious test for public office. and our founders wanted to create a society safe for