I’m glad the attendees enjoyed themselves. But from what Derb argues below, it doesn’t seem like much new ground was covered. The atheists and agnostics were impressed with Heather’s substantive arguments, the believers were impressed with her grace. But there is no denying that the Founders were people of faith — albeit different faiths, denominations, and fervency. (Even Jefferson and Franklin were diests.) I am unaware of any atheists who signed either the Declaration or the Constitution. Maybe there were one or two but they were not open and avowed if they existed at all. And as a group, the Founders relied on a belief system that emphasized divinity, providence, and natural law, from which unalienable rights are derived. Had most of them been atheists or agnostics, the nation’s beginning would surely have been much different. So, the American experience is not borne of the atheist or agnostic but of the believer. It is grounded on the existence of God. In this there is no debate.