Our founding fathers were Christians?

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Originally posted by Laelius

[Yes of course as it was the Massachusetts Bay Colony's obscene Theocratic Tyranny which proved the necessity of removing religous elements from the federal government.  Oh and the legal foundations of the United States is British Common Law, not the lunatic rantings of some fringe Christian group of fanatics.
  Bzzzt  - and thank you for playing. 

        A note for those scoring at home: 

        The Mayflower was one of two ships hired by Brownist dissenters, who were 
anything but Church of England,  to take them to Virginia (the other was the 
Speedwell, but it turned back with severe leakage.).   The Mayflower arrived 
off what became Provincetown on Cape Cod, and then finally settled ashore to 
establish the Plymouth colony, all this in 1620. 

        The Puritans, who were the radical innovators of the Church of England, 
arrived in Boston harbor in 1627/28 with over a dozen ships and a thousand 
people, essentially a city pre loaded on boats, taking advantage of a 
"loophole" in the company charter that allowed them to hold company meetings 
outside of London.   Well, one must admit that Massachusetts is "outside of 
London".   They were not happy with the discovery of the Pilgrim colony "up the 
coast", south of Boston. 

tschus 