I think it was Thomas Jefferson who decided that religion should be allowed in America no matter what the domination, but it had no place in politics and should not be allowed to influence the government and how the country runs. I think he was sort of into God as a spiritual entity, but didn't hold much truck with the idea of Jesus, walking on water and all that stuff - other than being a nice story and Jesus being a real person but not definitely the son of God. I think he had quite a modern, before his time, way of thinking about God - like many people do today, i.e. they like God, pray to God sometimes and generally believe in a God, but think religion as such is a waste of time at best and down right dangerous at its worst.

I'm not sure what he'd think of all the "God Bless America" politics of today.

Still, though he did envision freedom for all Americans, he did have a lot of slaves still as well who were not included/protected by the DoI. Though he did plant the seed of such thoughts in everyone's mind, which meant it was inevitable that the slaves would also want the same freedoms before too long. Incedentally, I think a lot of the slaves in America turned to religion as a way of gaining the freedom originally denied them by the Declaration.

P.S. I don't like Palin or the other guy who's name no one can remember. If I was American I'd vote Obama, even if it were only because he's not the other lot, because I like the way he comes across.