(October 4, 2014 at 2:13 am)Aractus Wrote:(October 3, 2014 at 11:45 pm)Chuck Wrote: Yes, clearly it was not the desire to keep it the collection of nominally christian colonies that made them violently into a country.Yes, but without the colonisation the USA as it is today couldn't exist. And that's my point, the country was originally founded by the British. It was changed to a secular government later, but it wasn't founded as one.
The country was founded with a secular government. There is no country until the Constitution is adopted.
You are very confused as to what constitutes a country.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
Science is not a subject, but a method.