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Originally Posted by mytmouse57  Sounds as if there's quite a few ignorant people out there.
For starters, the Founding Fathers were all over the place -- religiously speaking. There were a couple of hard-core evangelicals.. to be sure. But there were also deists, agnostics and just sort of run-of-the-mill, I go to church on Sunday types.
So, to foist this idea that they were all of one mind from a religoius standpoint is just plain ignorant.
That's why they agreed on the policy of everybody pretty much checking his/her religion in at the door when it came to the public sphere. Which I agree with.
'Cause as I like to tell evangelicals who want to lead my kids in Bible study in public schools... well, okay,that's fine...
...so long as I get to lead your kids in Baha'i studies in the next room. | Don't forget that they remembered why people came to this country in the first place; to escape religious persecution. They saw what came with having a state sponsored religion, and knew nothing good would come of it. |