American Origins Of Private Property By Ted Lang 2-26-6
Our nation was founded by courageous individuals that undertook a global pilgrimage seeking escape from ruthless government-sponsored religious oppression. When fleeing one European state and seeking shelter in another, they became increasingly convinced that the best protection from government and religious persecution would be in The New World.
Government-mandated religions, and vice versa, created the abominable partnership of church and state. There has always been this alliance fostering the horrific persecution of those not willing to be dominated by either. But there is a world of difference between domination and tolerance, and the creation of a "New World" free from religious/government oppression. A beneficent guiding influence of a general religious belief, a guiding influence devoid of force and unquestioning obedience, is indeed a preferred state of the state.
George Washington put it this way: "Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."
It is clear that our nation's beginnings were heavily founded in religion. It is also a known fact that when the religion of the New World progressed to the Puritanical influence, it resulted in the grave injustices of the Salem witch trials. Abuses in religion justify the abolition thereof in precisely the same way that bad government justifies the abolition of all government.
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