Um, anyone know?

Why did they Federalize this land anyway?

And compared to a lot of stuff I have seen protected as historical, how can this cross no qualify.

I don't appreciate atheist' being lumped together in this, and the OP is of course being ridiculous as well, but this is the kind of thing that makes the ACLU seem completely insane.

Incidently, I have no interest in bowling over Arlington, and leaving religious propaganda on our mostly worthless money seems fit, but I am tired of this alleged blanket endorsement for the the Christian Right from the founders. The idealized Christianity of the founders was one nearly bereft of supernaturalism and superstition, and many were very critical of the churches themselves.

And our country was not founded on Judeo-Christian principles, whatever those are. It was founded on modern liberalism, from Declaration of Independence to the Bill of Rights.