No, they wanted other people’s religion out of government
But they left Europe in part to get away from church government. First amendment and all that. Most of them were religious but they wanted it out of government.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They were not even the same religions as one-another, so that makes no sense. Also, there’s no basis for that idea.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Yeah but they each wanted to be in charge. Authoritarians always do. They settled for neutrality
AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well if you call putting it into the constitution “settling” for neutrality, then so be it, have whatever terminology you want. They didn’t want a theocracy, but the fundies of today would like nothing more than that.
Triasha@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Some of them wanted it out of government. The fundies of the day we’re willing to go along because their parents and grandparents were chased out of England for being wackados.
AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The point is that they put the separation of church and state right into the constitution in the first amendment. The fact that they codified it as such, established that it was a primary principle they wanted for the nation’s foundational philosophy.
Taalnazi@lemmy.world 1 week ago
And now they’re putting up a fascist theocracy. The irony.