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Part I. The founders, independence, and the colonies :

1. Interesting and irrelevant, the religion of the founders

2. "Religion and morality": religion for the masses, reason for the founders

3. Declaring independence from Judeo-Christianity

4. Referrals: the Declaration's references to a higher power

5. Christian settlements: colonizing the continent, not building a nation

Part II. United States v. The Bible :

6. Biblical influence

7. Christian arrogance and the golden rule

8. Biblical obedience or American freedom?

9. Crime and punishment: Biblical vengeance or American justice?

10. Redemption and original sin or personal responsibility and the presumption of innocence

11. The American experiment: religious faith or reason?

12. A monarchy and "the morrow" or a republic and "our posterity"

Part III. The Ten Commandments v. the Constitution :

13. Which ten?

14. The threat display: the First Commandment 15. Punishing the innocent: the Second Commandment

16. Suppressed speech: the Third Commandment

17. Forced rest: the Fourth Commandment

18. On family honor: the Fifth Commandment

19. Unoriginal and tribal: the Sixth, Eighth, and Ninth Commandments

20. Perverting sex and love: the Seventh Commandment

21. Misogyny, slavery, thoughtcrime, and anti-capitalism: the Tenth Commandment

22. The Ten Commandments: a religious, not a moral code

Part IV. American verbiage :

23. Argument by idiom

24. "In God we trust": the belligerent motto

25. "One nation under God": the divisive motto

26. "God bless America": the diversionary motto

Conclusion: take alarm, this is the first experiment in our liberties