Quote Originally Posted by lebru View Post
but the founding fathers set it up so that you could worship your religion without persecution from the government. since it had happened to them, they didn't want it happen to others here. they saw how religion only caused problems. was it john adams who said that they would not involve themselves with foreign matters regarding religion?
You are absolutely right, I was speaking of the puritains that came here to settle this as a colony. By the time our founding fathers declared us a free nation things had changed. Our founding fathers were desendents of the original puritian settlers.