Reply #38: Remember that the Pilgrims, as wildly religious as they were [View All]

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(probably for good reason), were Separatists. They made their journey primarily because they did not want their religion controlled by the state.

The right wingers love to use the Pilgrims as an example of how Christianity founded this country. They hope it will justify their lust for the merging of state and religion. The irony and hypocrisy of it is staggering.

Ultimately, separation of church and state serves not so much to preserve our government from religion, but to protect our various faiths from government.

The recent UCC ad is a very telling and frightening example; it's doubly "fitting" since the history of that denomination involves the Congregationalists--the Pilgrims.