A federal judge in West Virginia has ruled that the state corrections agency can’t force an incarcerated atheist and secular humanist to participate in religiously-affiliated programming to be eligible for parole.
A federal judge in West Virginia has ruled that the state corrections agency can’t force an incarcerated atheist and secular humanist to participate in religiously-affiliated programming to be eligible for parole.
The country was founded of freedom of religion by the fanatics who were too fanatical for England.
Nope. This country was founded on the idea that weathly people shouldn’t have to pay their fair share of taxes.
I assume you have detailed statistics go back up this claim.
No certain colonies were founded by zealots too fanatical for England and the Netherlands, the country was founded by slave owning wealthy people
Which is the line perpetuated by England and hardly based in reality.
In reality they were pretty moderate Christians who just believed that religion was a private matter and the governments involvement in it was abhorrent. Did they use their religion to beat anyone to death who got in their way? Yeah. But so did everyone else. They were no more fanatical than the Church of England. They just had a different opinion of how religion should go about being made.
They were fairly puritan however. That much is true. That’s why most of white North America freaks the hell out at seeing nipples on a woman in public.
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The Founders were steeped in the Age of Enlightenment. Modern Americans wouldn’t even recognize it as Christianity. Like The Jefferson Bible
You could label their morality puritanical but I think cynicism would also equally apply. If you view humans as naturally greedy and selfish, society needs to codify expected behavior to keep it in check.
Jefferson raped other people’s children and sold his own. Washington was not only a slaver but used his victims’ flesh as a cosmetic. (Washington’s famous “wooden” teeth were actually harvested from enslaved humans)
Secular government is a good idea on it’s own, not because 18th century R. Kelly and Leatherface said so.
When will this myth die