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<blockquote data-quote="Hippie Rancher" data-source="post: 479719" data-attributes="member: 4203"><p>From what I have read several were leery of organized religion period. However you are basically correct. </p><p></p><p>I couldn't say it much better than this, especially the last sentence:</p><p></p><p>"Some of the first colonists of the nation for which the Constitution was written had been seeking to escape religious persecution. The constitutions of several of the states prohibited public support of religion (though some did explicitly support or demand adherence to Christianity). Above all, the many varying sects of Christianity in America required that to be fair to all, there could be preference to none. It would have been disgraceful for anyone to wish to leave the United States because of religious persecution. So the authors decided it best to keep the government out of religion. This is not to say that the United States was not or is not a religious nation. Religion plays a big role in the everyday life of Americans, then and now. But what the authors were striving for is tolerance... something I fear contemporary Americans are lacking."</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.usconstitution.net/constnotes.html#Am1" target="_blank">http://www.usconstitution.net/constnotes.html#Am1</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hippie Rancher, post: 479719, member: 4203"] From what I have read several were leery of organized religion period. However you are basically correct. I couldn't say it much better than this, especially the last sentence: "Some of the first colonists of the nation for which the Constitution was written had been seeking to escape religious persecution. The constitutions of several of the states prohibited public support of religion (though some did explicitly support or demand adherence to Christianity). Above all, the many varying sects of Christianity in America required that to be fair to all, there could be preference to none. It would have been disgraceful for anyone to wish to leave the United States because of religious persecution. So the authors decided it best to keep the government out of religion. This is not to say that the United States was not or is not a religious nation. Religion plays a big role in the everyday life of Americans, then and now. But what the authors were striving for is tolerance... something I fear contemporary Americans are lacking." [url=http://www.usconstitution.net/constnotes.html#Am1]http://www.usconstitution.net/constnotes.html#Am1[/url] [/QUOTE]
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