The founding fathers didn’t have much good to say about organized hierarchical religions or the role of the Catholic church in their day and in history.Odd, very odd. You see, count-your-change wrote:
And the attitude of the founding fathers was a “live and let live” in matters of religion.Now the truth allmendream is that you are correct, but that is not what count-your-change wrote. Another error? Wow, it looks like NOTHING count-your-change wrote is accurate. mImagine that!
It neither picks my pocket or breaks my leg if my neighbor says there are two gods or twenty. They may live and let live, but not without criticism based upon ideology history theology etc.
Our founders were critical of Catholicism but were perfectly willing to let them live teach convert etc. But not free from criticism.
While the rest of the world was busy killing over differences in religion, our founders advanced the ideology of freedom of conscious.