This is in reference to "Moneychangers" taking control in Sophia Preszler's letter to the editor (April 25). She stated that "History from the beginning of time confirms that only God-given constitutions that preserve the Bible, protect, and defend citizenry will rule in the world."

A lesson about the U.S. Constitution:

To Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin we are indebted, more than to all others, for a human government, and for a Constitution in which no god is recognized superior to the legally expressed will of the people.

They knew that to put God in the Constitution was to put man out. They knew that the recognition of a deity would be seized upon by fanatics and zealots as a pretext for destroying liberty of thought. They knew the terrible history of the church too well to place in her keeping, or in the keeping of her God, the sacred rights of man. They knew that all versions of the Christian Bible uphold the institutions of slavery, of polygamy, of degradation of females, of anti-Semitism and of wars of extermination. They knew that the God of the Bible calls for the stoning to death of adulterers, fornicators, witches, homosexuals, nonvirgin brides, sabbath breakers, heretics, unbelievers, the divorced and unruly children.

The founders intended that all should have the right to worship or not to worship, for our law should make no distinction on account of creed. They intended to found and frame a government for man and for man alone. They wished to reserve the individuality and liberty of all, to prevent the few from governing the many and the many from persecuting and destroying the few.

The history of Christianity is written in the blood of religious wars, inquisitions, holocausts, genocides, ethnic cleansing and wars of extermination. They knew that there is a latent spark in the breast of the true Christian theologian capable of being kindled into an inquisition at any time. And finally, they knew that to be a true believer you must hate the same people that your god hates.