The horrible danger we face

With an announced atheist in our government:

"Congressman Stark's statement is a very sad benchmark for America. It could be the moment which defines the decline of our country or it could be the spark which marks an important day. That would be the day that religious Americans stood-up to the liberal bullies who are so determined to use the power of government to silence prayer and every other religious expression of free speech.

So...being an atheist threatens the very existence of religion? Who knew faith in God was so ... fragile?

Update: Steve Bates reminds us Congressman Stark is an Unitarian Universalist. Some other ones connected to American history:

	Abigail Adams*
	John Adams*
	John Quincy Adams
	Ethan Allen
	Chester Bliss Bowles
	Harold Hitz Burton
	John C. Calhoun
	Joseph S. Clark
	William S. Cohen
	Paul H. Douglas
	Emily Taft Douglas
	Thomas H. Eliot
	Edward Everett
	Millard Fillmore*
	Benjamin Franklin*
	Horace Greeley*
	Hannibal Hamlin
	Thomas Jefferson*
	Edward S. Mason
	Wade McCree
	Maurine Neuberger
	Lucius Paige (1802-1896)
	Thomas Paine
	William J. Perry

	Paul Revere*
	Josiah Quincy (1722-1864)
	Elliot L. Richardson
	Leverett Saltonstall
	Francis George Shaw
	Col. Robert Gould Shaw
	Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)*
	William Howard Taft*
	Daniel Webster*