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US Politics 17w

.gaia.

 I mean part of him isn’t wrong. Many of the first settlers were religious lunatics who simply wanted a place to practice their lunacy, along with rich noblemen and merchants that wanted to get richer, and indentured criminals promised land after servitude
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Republicans push their nationalist Christianity down our throats and it’s fucking disgusting. Exhibit A of why I left the religion.
63 upvotes, 6 comments. Yik Yak image post by Anonymous in US Politics. "Republicans push their nationalist Christianity down our throats and it’s fucking disgusting. Exhibit A of why I left the religion."
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Anonymous 17w

True I thought about this too. But the people who actually founded our country as an independent nation we definitely mostly in favor of separation of church and state. Hell I’ve heard that lots of them weren’t even Christian and were deists? Whatever that is.

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Anonymous 17w

Weren’t they literally leaving the country that was telling them how to practice their religion?

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 17w

Not really. That’s the myth we’re told, yeah. Their home countries of England and Wales said “hey don’t be crazy and try to make us follow your moral policing” and then the Puritans left England for Holland, who didn’t want them either and then they got a charter from the crown to go to America because England thought it would get rid of them and they’d make money off of it.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 17w

So I mean, in a way, yeah they came here to practice their religion freely…… because the people of Europe thought they were insane and they were trying to make others follow their *puritanical* rules. Heck, we don’t even follow many of the rules they did

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 17w

The whole point of is having freedom of religion here be a thing is because each of the sects of Christianity thought the other was in some ways nuts and none wanted any other to restrict the others.

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Anonymous replying to -> .gaia. 17w

*of having

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Anonymous replying to -> .gaia. 16w

ahhhh I forgot that part about them going to the Dutch

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