(April 12, 2015 at 5:41 pm)Nope Wrote:(April 12, 2015 at 4:58 pm)Dystopia Wrote: I've always wondered why is it that America that supposedly separated very clearly and explicitly the church from state (and repudiated monarchies and other similar institutions affiliated with theology and religion) and is much more religion than States like Britan where the Queen is the head of England or Sweden etc
I've wondered the same thing myself. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that in the United States, we have never had a religious war?
Because even as Virginian aristocrats drank claret and mused about what enlightenment had shown, European aristocrats and monarchies were actually busy making life of religious yokel nut jabs uncomfortable, and forcing them over to the new world.