192939495969798999's Journal: My one comment on moral foundations in the USA

Someone recently commented that "If it wasn't for the Bible, the USA wouldn't be here." That's true, but for a different reason than first meets the eye. The Bible caused our forefathers to flee their countries and move to create the USA -- so they would be FREE FROM state-mandated religions. They didn't come here to establish a country in the name of a particular religion. They may have been fueled by religion to do certain things, but they certainly didn't write it into the constitution explicitly, because that's exactly what they were trying to get away from.