Originally posted by Sleeper:
Correction to my earlier post;
I mis-spoke about Allah. (Brain fart).
But that was all I was wrong about.
Buddhism is not a religion, it is only accepted as one.
Would atheism be considered a religion?
No its a set or moral & ideological beliefs.
And yes, this country was founded on Quaker (and to a lesser degree Puritan) beliefs.
Ever heard of the mayflower? The pilgroms were Quaker.
More than 50% of the US was Quaker before the 19th century.
I do not hate all religion, infact I don't hate any religion.
I actually believe religion is a good thing.
What I hate are the extremisst who twist and turn religion and use it for their own cause.
Sometimes you make this to easy. The English ship the Mayflower carried the Separatist Puritans, later known as pilgrims, to Plymouth, Mass., in 1620. The ship was made ready at Southampton with a passenger list that included English Separatists, hired help (among them Myles Standish, a professional soldier, and John Alden, a cooper), and other colonists who were to be taken along at the insistence of the London businessmen who were helping to finance the expedition.
Try learning your history. Here is a good book to start with.
Mary Beth Norton et al., A People and a Nation: A History of the United States Volume One: To 1877, 6th ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001), 28.
