Blade_Runner wrote:
Being a Unitarian, you ought to just burn your Bible and start studying the Koran.
Okay, I will reply to this despicable breach of decency by your blind assumptions. (How can you stoop that low?)
Unitarians have liberal views of God, Jesus, the world and purpose of life as revealed through reason, scholarship, science, philosophy, scripture and other prophets and religions. Many early immigrant groups traveled to America to worship freely, particularly after the English Civil War and religious conflict in France and Germany.[10] They included nonconformists like the Puritans, who were Protestant Christians fleeing religious persecution from the Anglican King of England.
Franklin was a Unitarian. Washington cared little to nothing about religion but conceded the need for a moral code. Most of the rest of the Founding Fathers were Deists or Universalists: translated, Liberal Thinkers. Not founded as a Christian Nation, but an escape from it. Why? The wars and oppression of one sect over another in Europe. How many states in America were created because of persecution of a denomination?
Plymouth Colony was founded by Pilgrims, English Dissenters or Separatists, Calvinists.
Massachusetts Bay Colony, New Haven Colony, and the New Hampshire were founded by Puritan, Calvinist, Protestants.
New Netherland was founded by Dutch Reformed Calvinists.
The colonies of New York, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia were officially Church of England.
The Province of Pennsylvania was founded by Quakers, but the colony never had an established church.
West Jersey, also founded by Quakers, prohibited any establishment.
Delaware Colony.
The Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, founded by religious dissenters, is widely regarded as the first polity to grant religious freedom to all its citizens.