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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Aren't they the genesis of your beloved Separation of church and state?
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No, they're not. They left England to avoid persecution, and then came to America and practiced exactly the persecution they left to avoid. The Puritans are the true mentors of the unwashed literalists littering the country with their fundamentalist idiocy.
The separation of church and state was nailed by Jefferson, I believe.