100% this. A lot of people don't realize that states actually had official religions in the beginning.
The contacts that people don't get because most of them are ignorant of history, is that the people that founded the nation were in many cases fleeing from countries with State government mandated religions where it made it a crime to have any type of theological differences. Kings and church of England for example worked hand in hand and you couldn't speak out against either one of them.
100% this. A lot of people don't realize that states actually had official religions in the beginning.
The contacts that people don't get because most of them are ignorant of history, is that the people that founded the nation were in many cases fleeing from countries with State government mandated religions where it made it a crime to have any type of theological differences. Kings and church of England for example worked hand in hand and you couldn't speak out against either one of them.