In a message dated 9/11/2007 3:25:12 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Kevin Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think it comes from the time when this country was first founded. > Bible toting people formed the Nation Under God. Under a Creator. The founding fathers were deists and not church-going men as a whole. And those who were not theists or deists were extremely skeptical of organized religion, having suffered under monarchs who claimed Divine Right. Even mainstrean Protestism was suspicious Catholics and the allegiance to the Dogma proclaimed by the Vatican and any religionists who assumed to intervene between God and any individual person. The Dutch capitalistist/settlers under Peter Stuyvesant fought any laws based on religion as a practical matter: it would interfere with their multicultural worldwide trading. ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com
