In any country where religion plays a strong role, religionists will always have a political advantage over those who are not. If certain religious beliefs can be correlated and identified with specific political or economic positions, that advantage is further magnified. There weren't too many atheists in the 18th century, but it was the Age of Reason, and enlightened men understood this perfectly well and had recent bitter experience of the contribution of religion to both conflict and tyranny. The religious beliefs of the Founding Fathers were, as a rule, that there was almost certainly some kind of god, but that his intervention in human affairs was minimal, and that free men and just societies had to be organized with that thought in mind. The concerted effort by the contemporary religious right to rewrite this aspect of our history to serve their own political and social agenda is the best evidence of their own corruption and evil, and proof that the Founding Fathers got it right.
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It's quite simple, actually.
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- Bit my lip
- Life is far too short to have to deal with such people
- What kind of people send their kids to religious schools anyway?
- re: Bit my lip
- To be fair...
- I don't think that's unusual.