Righting the Revisionists

Robert Carver in the Illinois Conservative on America is not a Christian nation:

This is in response to the November 17 letters regarding, "More evidence against so-called "separation of church and state," November 17.

As a historian, I am dismayed by the letters I see that proclaim that America was founded as a Christian nation. Ms. Wittman’s letter is typical of those who take quotes out of context and buttress their argument with quotes from those who had nothing to do with the writing of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

Then I see that Ms. Normand and Mr. Ellyn believe that the Founding Fathers were escaping from religious persecution. They are not only in error but also off by a few centuries in their assessment.

Those who first came to America were not running from religious persecution. The Puritans were a minority in England and were intolerant of the majority religion and left England for Holland so their children would not be exposed to what they saw as a false belief system. Holland was even worse for them so they set sail for the newly established colonies in America. Once they arrived, they set up an intolerant system to prevent the exercise of any belief system that differed from their own.

Read the rest here. Ignore the screaming revisionist 'victims'. Our nation is secular. Our faiths are many. Our freedoms are priceless. This ain't no theocracy. It was never meant to be. Sorry folks.

Link courtesy of Tristero.