We’ll see what happens in 2025, of course.
The story is much more enlightening, and frankly, more educational than this meme projects. Yes, it’s correct, at least on a surface level, but there’s also the reason they decided to create a secular state. Namely, even though they were all, broadly speaking, Christians or Christian-inspired deists, they also recognised that Christianity came in hundreds of different flavours, not all of which are agreeable. They recognised that a religious state would have to pick a side in all of the hundreds of different spats that Christians have gone through over the most minute details of their dogma. Furthermore, they also realised that a state is most fragile when it is just founded, and thus, to survive, the state would have to have as much support as possible. Pretty much everyone was at least begrudgingly satisfied with a secular state.
You see, if they had created a religious country, they could not guarantee that it would stay loyal to whatever interpretation they had settled on. Future governments could, if they were able to, could easily “reinterpret” the state dogma to whatever they wanted. They understood that if the Government had the power to meddle in religious affairs, it was only a matter of time before someone whose religion was not agreeable to take over and start doing things that you don’t like, justifying it with their religion.
Ooooor instead of all that they remembered that the fist american settlers were puritans chased out of britain for they were the wrong flavour of christians?
Thank you for essentially repeating my point
You didn’t? You didn’t even yet edit your comment to be so?
You babbled on (literally, I am sorry but your comment is painful to read; pls pls you could have said all that in 3 short sentences) personal levels of christians hunting each other (which never happened before! Only states persecuted so, since they usually had large control over the right religion; often made a pretty penny of it too…) and you went on something something about the permanence of the constitution (again silly, the constitution was amended 17(?) times already!)
they also recognized that Christianity came in hundreds of different flavours
They can say and make up anything they want. -IDC because there’s hard enough evidence in the root of their religion which is The Bible which also points to the problems of Genocide and Barbaric Racial Slavery as being a Judeo-Christian endeavor (among many other sick activities). No need to break them up into camps of good and evil; throw the book at them because they all point to it as a root and Jesus: “think not that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets”, “It is not meet to take the children’s bread and cast it to the dogs”, “do not go unto the gentiles”.
