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Originally Posted by Joshua G
no dude. there were some puritan douches who burned some witches. but the founding fathers were guided by the enlightenment teachings of locke. they did not want any religious tyrannies like they had in europe. shit the christian people that came to america were fleeing the christian nutjobs in europe. the state of rhode island was founded of the premise of religious freedom, hence the capitol of the state, providence. all that judeo christian nation stuff is a pile of shit.
but yeah, as congress is run by christian wackos, it makes sense that the jewish & christian wackos both think its OK to undercut obamas presidency. you know obama being the secular muslim kenyan potsmoker.
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Well, USA (not yet USA at the time) got religious refugees, like the puritans you mentioned. But there wasn't religious tyrannies in Europe at that time, kinda opposite; that why more extremist religious folks run away (they were persecuted). At the time of Columbus there were inquisition in Spain, but that didn't reflect much to North America, or that much into South America either.
To sum it up; religious differentiality wasn't popular in Europe. You know, if you were different you got harassed. But Martin Luther had already made religion as less nuts in big parts of Europe, especially where I live.