Ken Burns

Left, right, center.

My lawn sign says love multiplies.

It's the only sign.

functioning theory of the entire universe.

It is what it's all about, right?

It doesn't matter what religion, what philosophy you might subscribe to or not.

Thomas Jefferson says in our film, if my neighbor believes in 20 gods or no god at all, it neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

Like, we are so religiously intolerant today.

Well, I know that if I had been born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, I'd still be a born-again Christian.

No, you wouldn't.

You'd be a Shiite.

I mean, a Sunni.

And you'd be at war with the Shiites across the border in Iran.

You know, I'm sorry to break the news to you.

And that all of them, all the great religions, have the same thing in mind.

Right.

That's crazy.

And who's to say?

I mean, what was essential about the founders, particularly Jefferson, is that they were deists.

And while they all had their own particular, mostly Protestant denominations that they had come out of, and I think still to some extent in some cases practiced, less so Jefferson, is that they believed that there was a supreme being who was disinterested in the affairs of man and did not distinguish between faiths.