Quote Originally Posted by Weber View Post
Our country, the US was founded primarily on the basis of escaping the religious persecution that was taking place in England. Pilgrims made their way to this land where they settled at Plymouth Rock. Now lets advance forward to when we became a government. The Declaration of Independence was written for the protection of our religious beliefs not for the opposing thereof. The separation of Church and state was written as a way to make sure that the government could in no way shape or form have any influence on the church. This was also written in a time when Christianity was the primary religion. We now have countless religions in our country, even some satanic cults claiming that they have the same religious rights as other religions do. So it's very hard to uphold a true separation between church and state in this new society that we have today.
Yes, this highly offensive national mythology is well known in The Netherlands. A country those people really left before they went to the America's. The real reason why they left The Republic was not religious persecution but the fact that they were just one of many denominations tolerated by the Dutch government.

Also, it doesn't hurt to point out that the part of the New World they went to was a part claimed by the English Crown. One has to wonder why people supposedly fleeing English oppression went back to live under English rule.