"Dan Ceppa -> Ed Hulett"  wrote in
news:9381$HOLYSMOKE{at}JamNNTPd:

 DC>>>> Like it or not, this country was not founded as a xian nation.

 EH>>> I never said it was. It was founded by Christians, though.

 RS>> Dead wrong.

 EH>> Are you saying that the early settlers of what is now the US
 DC>   weren't EH> Christians looking for a place to freely exercise their
 DC>   religion?

 DC> He said 'founders', not 'settlers'.

 DC> And as to freedom of religion, you don't know anything about the
 DC> freedom of religion offered by the New England colonies, do you.

Even the Salem colony was a theocracy.

Dissenters were expelled or hanged.

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