Encatuse, Thanks for finding those quotes, I was looking for something similar

The American Forefathers got 100% of their rhetoric from the French (yikes!) enlightenment movement. And all of these French philosophers were if not atheist, deists (meaning they might believe in some superior being, a creator, but this creator is absent now; an absentee landlord, if you will). That is why France gave the Statue of Liberty to Americans, because Americans were the first to put into practice the philosophies of the Enlightenment, and successfully. Needless tto say, the French Revolution would soon take place as well (1789).

That's pretty much why today the French go to extremes to keep Church and State completely separate. They went through many many years of civil war and senseless killing because of religion, and their doing their damnedest to keep it from happening again.