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I think you misread my statement "America was founded by Protestant Christians". America was founded by innumerable Protestant Christian sects and individuals. Most came here as inheritors of the unique English variation of Western, Christian civilization. The "founding fathers" merely formalized what was already established over a hundred years by the people (Jefferson said as much). These people came here as Europeans intent on establishing their own little colonies according to their own views. Over time they softened and discovered that life was better if they tolerated the heretics in the next town. It was wonderful to have distracted kings more than a month away by ship. We learned self-government because we had to; an opportunity almost unique in the world. "You will do me justice to remember that I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave to himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it. The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason. I have never used any other and trust I never shall." I have been talking about the people that came here and settled in the hundred years before the Revolution. They were Europeans and had not yet discovered the America of the Declaration. Many at that time thought that they were founding little religious theocracies. Of course many didn't care one way or the other. Self-government caught on much earlier than religious freedom. I have not been talking about the "founding fathers" or any other much later figures. Nor am I talking about the formation of our government after the Revolution.
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