Message 9/11
Date: 07-Aug-06 @ 04:56 PM -
RE: ha ha ha - surely u saw this?
what I will find is that they were running away from the fact that their neighbors weren't puritans.
True, most folks in Europe were unnaccepting of "alternative" religions... but the vast majority of
protestants who fled the old world did so because their lifestyles and beliefs were too conservative
and outside of the main stream.
Its nice that the "founding fathers" wrapped their desire for unbridled spiritual fervor in "freedom of
religion" but it was hardly the same motivation that brought the crazy, uptight religiously intolerant
loons to the US in droves during the first two migrations... in the case of the early colonies people
did not come to the US to escape religious intolerance. They came because after the
rennaissance their homeland cultures didn't support their rigid thinking any longer.
Kinda like these shitforbrains evangelicals who are now moving to planned christian communities
in order to tip voting districts toward their ethos and create puritan communities in the south.
I know I know... such thinking and quite in line with the propoganda... but reality rarely is...
???
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