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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	[quote] [b]NoJive said:[/b] I always stand to be corrected but I thought freedom from, was what brought the first settlers to America. Were they not escaping from the rules of a church which were law of the land?Yes you are free to practice the religion of your choice but I thought the basic premise was your government was to be free from religion. [/quote] This is a very misunderstood issue on many levels. 1) the "founding fathers" that we talk so often about were a very different group of people than the first settlers who were their ancestors. 2) there were two very distinct groups of settlers who comprised those ancestors - the puritans of New England and the Jamestown group and their followers in Virginia. To count the Puritans as the founders of the United States will do nothing but confuse things. 3) The Puritans were hardly fleeing persecution (it could as easily be argued that they were the persecutors in Europe), and were hardly looking to found a nation free from religion. The goal was precisely to found a nation based on and run via the premise of their particular and inflexible view of religion. Freedom of religion (and freedom from religion) was a much later view. By the time of the founding of our nation, Deism was far more prevalent among the leading men than christianity, and they were sure to shape their government accordingly. FWIW! Be back later to comment on the topic at hand... [small](Edited by [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/user/163]DL-44[/url] on 01-08-2009 21:40)[/small] Loading...
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