Am 17.12.2012 22:08, schrieb Stephen:
> On 17/12/2012 3:40 PM, Warp wrote:
>> If you think about it, that constitutional law not defining what it means
>> by "Almighty God" could hypothetically create an even worse situation
>> than
>> just accepting anybody regardless of their world view, including
>> atheists.
>
> Strange how the Pilgrim Fathers fled England to The Netherlands then
> North America in search of religious tolerance. They certainly found it
> and their descendants are as tolerant as their persecutors were.

The truth is that they never sought religious tolerance in the first 
place - they had always strived for their own rules to be law. 
Unfortunately for them those rules contradicted the Church of England's, 
so they did suffer from religiously-motivated oppression, and this 
indeed happened to be the one factor that drove them to America. But 
that's about it.

It's an all too common misconception that every person subject to 
oppression and fighting against it is automatically a warrior for tolerance.

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