Quote:So apparently Americans, on the whole, have not progressed one iota since then.
Truth be told we've actually gone backwards. While some colonies were religious-based most were commercial enterprises. There is a reason that the Salem Witch Trials happened in New England and not in Virginia or New York. In New England you had nutty protestant assholes running things while Virginia was CoE and New York was fucking Dutch!
It is only in the aftermath of the Revolutionary War that we start to see fundamentalist-type psychos coming together ( Millerites, Mormons, etc). There can be no doubt that Darwin's Origin of Species (1860) prompted a strong reaction by the mentally challenged to re-assert their fairy tales into a world which seemed ready to cast them aside.
The shrieking of religious fucktards about godless commies can only last so long as we are starting to see a growth in atheist - or at least non church based religions - in the general population. The lunacy of John Nelson Darby is fading but it won't go quietly.
