Posted on 04/15/2015 7:13:57 AM PDT by Kaslin
We could open a real can of worms if we stated that the Founding Fathers ONLY meant those religions practiced in the states at the signing of the Constitution.
No new ones allowed.
But then, the libs would try to force the same thing for the complete first and Second Amendments.
NEVER trust a liberal or Democrat.
That was my thought exactly.
We can thank the 17th Amendment for booting Christianity from the public square.
Except that the federal government DOES indeed essentially subsidize religion through the tax exemption policy. It's part of the reason groups like the Church of Scientology can continue to rake in vast sums of cash pushing all its nonsense. It's also made the Christian "megachurch" business extremely lucrative.
Bitter and self-pitying is no way to go through life, son.
So quit doing it.
When you don’t have anything to useful to say about a useful, informative post, try to lay off the childish stuff.
Boo hoo hoo! Poor ansel!
Are you drinking?
Suddenly you want to just jump on a thread to vent and be childish?
Here, have a tissue.
Boy are you misinformed. Read too many British oriented histories of America. The Roman Catholic Lief Ericsson founded a colony that had eventually had 14 Catholic parishes in the 11th century. Columbus, de Leon, and Champlain(etc) were all Catholics. The City of St. Augustine is the nation’s oldest permanently occupied European settlement, having been founded by the Spanish in 1565. It was Catholic of course. Stossell gets it wrong about the colonies. Twelve of them were intolerant and forbade Catholicism. The thirteenth , Maryland, which was founded by The Catholic Lord Baltimore had religious tolerance for all religions. It was the 12 other Protestant colonies that were intolerant. The majority of immigrants in the 17th Century to the 13 colonies were Irish Catholic SLAVES. There were more white (usually Catholic) slaves brought to the colonies in 17th century than Africans. They outnumbered the free residents but were not counted in census data. Canada’s large successful colonies of French Catholics (Arcadians)were there for 150 years, mostly before the late comer British arrived and conducted an ethnic cleansing of Catholics.The survivors are Catholic Louisiana’s Cajuns. Look it up.
Boy are you misinformed about the history of the United States and it’s population who created it.
Catholics do that a lot.
It is not you fault that this misinformation is so common Check it out and you will see.
http://www.amazon.com/White-Cargo-Forgotten-History-Britains/dp/0814742963/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1429216020&sr=1-1&keywords=white+slaves
LOL, the United States was not founded by Leif Erickson and Spain.
In fact Catholics were almost non existent in our nation, at it’s creation.
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