Quote:because of its history, which goes back to the colonies.
True in some cases...mainly New England. Most of the southern colonies were commercial enterprises. New York was founded by the Dutch who stole it from the Indians and who in turn were robbed of it by the English.
The real crazed fundie horseshit movement that we are dealing with it now began with John Nelson Darby in the 1830's and a nutty teenager with visions of fucking jesus in the sky. Our resident moron contingent can in one way or another trace their insanity back to that pair of clowns at least as far as all this rapture bullshit goes.
