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Originally Posted by mylittledemon
. . . The "extreme" Judeo-Christian ethic this country seemingly was founded on is dissolving day by day. . . . .
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That statement is incorrect. The USA was founded on the Magna Carter, a system of property rights, and on the fact that we did not want taxation by King George, without representation in his government. True, the non Cathoic demoninations had earlier fled, along with many others for other reasons, to this country to escape religious persecution. But, the fact remains that the drafters of the Const. and other contemporaneous docs, were very clear in their intent to obviate the appearance of sanctioning any particular religion, though the majority of the transplanted population was Judeo Christian.
See Treaty of Tripolihttp://www.earlyamerica.com/review/s...7/secular.html
More to your point though is that violence, unwanted pregnancies, waste, fraud, trickery, etc. in America could be alleviated by less religion in government than more of it. The utter failure of "Just Say No" and "Abstinence Only" are documentation of that.