Vendaval
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And of course there were these fine colonial gentlemen, "Religious liberals, especially Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison, fought for and eventually attained religious freedom for minority denominations, atheists and non-Christian believers. According to the founding fathers, America should be a country where peoples of all faiths, including those who profess no religious belief, could live in peace and mutual benefit. Full religious liberty meant not only freedom of religion, but freedom from religion. James Madison summed up this ideal in his motto: "Conscience is the most sacred of all property."" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Enlightenment#cite_note-18 quote:
ORIGINAL: juliaoceania quote:
ORIGINAL: Vendaval You are so wrong on this. Hinduism, Buddism, Judaism and Islam are all major world religions. Pick up any world religion text book at a college bookstore or do some basic research. And in the "modern civilization" at the time slavery was still legal as was killing someone accused of witchcraft. quote:
ORIGINAL: FatDomDaddy I did not not say the US was "founded" on Christianity but in the mindset of the Founders, Buddism, Hindusim, Islam... we're cults at best and not Religions at all and they did not place in their "modern civilzation" at the time. He is saying that the Founders were so ignorant that they were unaware of these groups as "religions"... basically he thinks the Founders were illiterate rubes without a clue
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