(February 9, 2009 at 1:07 pm)leo-rcc Wrote:(February 9, 2009 at 10:29 am)DD_8630 Wrote: If my American history serves, it's actually the opposite: people left for the Americas to escape religious persecution. That's why the Founding Fathers of the USA were so against religious influence in politics (First Amendment, Treaty of Tripoli, the various letters written by the Fathers, etc).
You are absolutely correct.
The original colonists were hyper religious, witch burning puritans. They were not the founding fathers. Those guys were over 150 years later, and they were a different breed of rich landowners and intellectual atheists.
