Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Well, I think the US was originally colonized by people who wanted their own 
> religion rather than the state religion, so that sort of makes sense. The 
> laws say "the state can't force me to change my religion", and it's 
> *because* the people coming here were sufficiently religious that they'd 
> spend three months crossing an ocean and leaving everything they knew behind 
> in order to be able to do their own religion exactly as they liked.

  I find it implausible that all, or even the majority of, or even a
significant portion of, the people who moved to the US did so for religious
reasons. I have always understood that the main motivation was economic
(most people who moved there were poor, who were after a better life and
better opportunities).

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