re: #482 Anymouse

As they might add if this comment were at Wonkette, with a ballot box of votes.

The overwhleming majority of our early national politicians and pundits were Deists or atheists (try to get elected now). See such folk as Benjamin Franklin or Thomas Paine.

Virginia, while still a colony, ended the practice of state-support for the Anglican Church, and eventually the other colonies/states followed suit.

Present-day fundamentalists would have been appalled at the state of Christianity in the 18th century, because their kind of over-the-top preaching and “witnessing” would have probably put them in the local jail. Let’s not ignore “laying on of hands” and falling down gibbering on the floor. That kind of emotional worship developed much later in American history.

Their idea of America as a Christian nation is only an idea, because it never existed in reality, at least in the form fundies want.