Make Atheism Illegal?

"Since were a judeo-christian nation and all of the founding fathers wanted America to be a christian nation, can't we just make atheism illegal?"

I found this question on www.questhall.com. It seems more rhetorical than anything, but just imagine if religious-nuts like this guy were to actually get there way? Imagine if atheism was illegal? Obviously people like this would make all religions that aren't Christianity illegal. I just wonder what percentage of Americans believe that atheism should be made a crime. It would be interesting to see the results of a study on this. Obviously atheism being illegal violates the first amendment to the constitution,  so that is a bit of a problem. 

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"


This is a problem because banning atheism would be "respecting an establishment of religion" (Christianity). So constitutionally atheism cannot be banned without an amendment (which will never happen). In the United States, one of our core values is liberty -- obviously to ban atheism would be a sign of the end of that core value. The moment atheism gets banned is the moment that the United States turns into a nutty theocracy, which would be bad for everyone (including Christians). Remember the Dark Ages? To actually ban atheism would make it required that people believe in God (or else), just think about that concept for a few moments.....

book burnings...
public hangings for blasphemy...
society/culture regresses back hundreds of years (thousands?)...

It has happened before.

I find it disturbingly-refreshing how intolerant some people are on the internet, and that these expressed opinions are real, but perhaps unfiltered to an extend (or let's hope).