Quote: perhaps it's because the Christians that originally got sent to the US were the fundies that were no longer tolerated over here.
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A handful of Puritans in 1620 are not the cause of today's problem.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental...ristianity
Quote:Christian fundamentalism is a movement that began in the late 19th- and early 20th-century among British and American Protestants.[1][2] It was a reaction to theological liberalism and cultural modernism. Fundamentalists argued that 19th century modernist theologians had misinterpreted or rejected certain doctrines, especially biblical inerrancy, that evangelicals viewed as the fundamentals of Christian faith.[
Put another way - Darwin scared the shit out of them!