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by Inspector Javert on June 3rd, 2007

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Do atheist attempt to undermind what the United States are founded on? Someone just told me, so I 'm very curious how.

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  • by Anonymous on June 4th, 2007

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    Atheists are simply living their lives, not believing in god. We don't go around door-to-door trying to convert people to atheism, we don't send out anti-religious material. We simply DON'T believe in god, and we have every right to do so.

    The US was not founded on Christianity. In fact, many of the first settlers in the new world were PURITANS who were fleeing religious persecution in their native land.

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    • knock knock, I want to tell you what to believe or not to believe. Good points doobie.

      Nelson - Jetpacking from bed

      by Nelson - Jetpacking from bed on June 17th, 2007

    • Cheers Doobie!

      Penny The Wise

      by Penny The Wise on June 21st, 2007

    • Not to pick nits, but the Puritans were Christians. Another difficulty is that they were fleeing persecution for their beliefs that they should be allowed to persecute their own members beyond what the law would allow. Of course, the United States of America wasn't founded by the Puritans.

      eternal0void

      by eternal0void on September 15th, 2007

    • think that the Puritans turned out to be worse than the people we left England to escape!

      moriah winde

      by moriah winde on January 15th, 2008

    • Religions change, the puritans that fled England had no intention of persecuting their members. On arriving in Virginia they set up an colony 'guided by God' and THAT is where persecution started. Soon only puritans could hold office in the colonial administration and a growing number of secular professions were also restricted to puritans only ("you want the shopkeeper to be an honest god-fearing Christian, dont you?").

      It got so bad that people fled in drowes, And that is a big part of the history the founding father learned from in setting up their new nation.

      By the way one of the people who fled was called Roger Williams, He then founded his own colony on Rhode Island. He is generally considered the founding father of Baptism in the US. Williams was the first to use the phrase "wall of separation" to describe the relationship of the church and state. He called for a high wall of separation between the "Garden of Christ" and the "Wilderness of the World." Initially in a sermon named "The Garden and the Wilderness". I have been unable to find a copy of it, and that is a shame as Baptism also have changed quite a bit since then.
      Wiki on Roger Williams: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Williams_%28theologian%29
      modern theist interpretation of Williams: http://www.unitypublishing.com/Government/SeparationChurchState.htm

      JakobA I^_^I the alooney

      by JakobA I^_^I the alooney on February 21st, 2011

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