I didn't say they were Christians, I said they were religious. And they were, all of them were religious to some degree. That religion wasn't really Christianity, at least not in all cases, but it WAS religion. I don't necessarily disagree with you that freedom in all things was more of a tradition than religion, but religion is still a pretty huge deal from our founding to now. Some of our founders even favored having Bibles in public schools and teaching it.
As for my own religion and political leanings, the religion I follow now is not the same as it was back then. Mostly because it's impossible to make it the same as it was back then, because we don't know enough about how it was to replicate it in the here and now. But even if we did, it would still be different, because as we evolve, so too do our beliefs. Even the old religions like Christianity, Judaism, and even Islam aren't the same today as they were hundreds or thousands of years ago.
Regardless, I'm not asking you why you aren't religious. I don't really care if you choose to be religious or not. I'm just curious how you can reconcile being a conservative, someone who supports adherence to tradition, and then be as rabidly anti-religion as you are, to the point where you say that the very man many of the founders of this country, among them Thomas Jefferson, revered, is no more than a sick, murdering tyrant, no different than Charles Manson.
And if you're really just picking and choosing which traditions you try to conserve, how does that make you any different than the liberals you hate?