Originally posted by leonheartmm
its funny, how a bunch of ****ers ran away from england complaining that it did not "seperate" church and state, came to america, drove out the natives, fought a BITTER war for secularism and freedom from the colonial british and ESTABLISHED a nation based on "seperation of church and state" only to find 200 years later that it became THE MOST relegious first world country on the planet while britian in contrast became a VERY secular nation. has a morbid sense of humour to it doesnt it. and yes many of the founding fathers were DEISTS which is very different from THEISTS or CHRISTIAN theists to be exact. even among the christian father who might have PERSONALLY prayed for the nation in a christian way or considered morality to be christian, there was a LEGAL consesnsus that the only way to CREATE a free nation in contrast to europe at the time which was filled with relegious persecution, WAS to seperate church and state fundamentally. america might have been a nation OF christians, but it was never meant to be a CHRISTIAN nation, there is a huge difference between the two.
America isn't as religious as Europeans or Canadian hippies like to think. We're not a nation crawling with millions of Fred Phelps's who think 9/11 was caused by gay marriage.
When Christopher Hitchens (author of God is not Great) was a guest on Bill Maher's show two years ago promoting his book, Maher asked him "Why are we so far behind Europe in this respect?" (referring to secular modern thinking), and Hitchens corrected him and put to rest the popular myth around the world of every American is living like a 17th century pilgrim. If anything, our unofficial state religion is money; the Constitution declares secularism, but "In God We Trust" in on all of our denominations.
Q: Why are banks closed on Sundays?
A: Because churches would empty.