Religious tensions

Friday 30 September 2005This is 19 years old. Be careful.

Leave it to Charles Miller, an Australian software engineer, to neatly sum up the origins of the USA’s religious tensions:

I like to explain the schizophrenia of the USA on religious matters as the result of a bunch of pilgrim settlers who left England because the Church wasn’t hard-core puritan enough for them founding a nation founded based on (amongst other things) religious freedom.

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Sylvain Galineau 10:01 PM on 2 Oct 2005
Gee, I don't know how that could have happened. Could they have been escaping religious persecution ? Maybe ?

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