had it ocurred to you that the Founding Fathers would have needed the support and strength of the combined sectarian Christian groups throughout the Colonies, and had placated them through their so-called "unshakable faith?"
if the founding fathers were in fact as steadfast in their morality, then this country's most important documents, such as the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, wouldn't contain liberal sentiments. Puritanism, the vastly dominant religion in America during colonial times, does not value privacy, individualism, or equality. The closest semblance to religion that is evident in those documents mirrors that of the Quakers, who believed in equality and universal suffrage. incidently, the Quakers were the most persecuted of all Christian groups in the new world.
most of the fanatical christian believers were royalists as well, and supported the Protestant king who reigned in England as a result of the Glorious Revolution.
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