To: AustinNovelist
I would rather see the entirity of Western civilization fall than have it thrown into the hands of morally judgemental ChristiansYou mean Christians just like our Founding Fathers?
6 posted on
10/17/2003 2:54:20 PM PDT by
Gritty
To: Gritty
"You mean Christians just like our Founding Fathers?"
Many of the Founding Fathers (Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, etc.) were Deists.
The Pilgrims who founded the 13 Colonies were Christians (minority Protestant denominations of Puritans, Quakers, Huguenots, and Anabaptists fleeing religious persecution by majority Protestant and Catholic governments in Europe. E.g., in 1606, Pilgrims were driven out of England because they illegally separated from the Church of England).
Religious persecution isn't good when practiced by anybody. (However, only the Koran says to murder and enslave everybody who isn't Muslim.)
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