Quote Originally Posted by Autumn Rain
If people feel something isn't right, they work to change it. It's called "PROGRESS". You should look into it.
Not all change is progress. Just to let you know.

Quote Originally Posted by Jebus
Why does everybody think America was founded on Puritan principles? Roanoke and Jamestown were the first English settlements in America, and they were there for Financial reasons by the Virginia company. Same reason the Massachusetts Bay colony was founded, and most of the other colonies, not counting Plymouth.
The first settlements, yes, were founded as financial colonies. The country was founded, and populated, on religious principles.

America was founded to preserve people's life, libery and pursuit of happiness (property), and therefore establishes freedom of religion and freedom from religion.
Wrong again. Not to preserve life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness -- by the way, property has nothing to do with it -- but to preserve our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Nowhere does it establish that we shall be free of any encounter with something that offends or inconveniences us. And when the U.S. Constitution and all fifty State Constitutions mention God (that was another thing these schmucks wanted to do, rewrite all the Constitutions), it's pretty hard to say religious beliefs didn't have a huge part in this country's founding.