Religious tensions

Friday 30 September 2005

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.

Comments

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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