FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC!
It's extremely likely that there have been atheist Presidents of the US in the past, but they didn't dare be open about it and instead chose to pretend to secure a chance at winning elections.
Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur.
Well, there have been Presidents who didn't belong to churches, but that's the closest you'll get.
Fuzzy Orange Doomsayer
Well, Madison was a deist
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Regarding atheists and Muslims, believe it or not, there will probably be a Muslim president long before an atheist one.
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/648/romney-mormon
Certainly there are particular segments of our population (consider the odd coupling of Mormons and Black Christians, for example), for which Islam is significantly more palatable than atheism, probably because they feel marginalized enough to empathize with other believers but not enough to empathize with those who are completely Godless.
self loathing hipster
Didn't Jefferson have some pretty radical (at the time) views against organized religion?
I changed accounts.
Nearly everything Jefferson believed was radical at the time. And die-hard Republicans like to take it all as gospel, which is half the reason I only identify with the moderate wing. People forget that he, in between being a states' rights idiot, wanted the country to be Arcadia. Yeah, bullshit.
I am now known as Flyboy.
Raven Wilder
Jefferson's also the one who rewrote the New Testament to remove all supernatural elements, right?
"It takes an idiot to do cool things, that's why it's cool" - Haruhara Haruko
Depressing, but vaguely understandable. Now, in about five years or so, it'll just be depressing, because, unfortunately, nobody will remember 9/11 anymore. Which is bitterly ironic...
I am now known as Flyboy.