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Atheists & Agnostics

onager

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5. Here's a good start.

Reply to JDDavis (Reply #3)

Sun Feb 1, 2015, 09:35 PM

Feb 2015

The Cesspit Of Lies!1!

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Charleston,_South_Carolina

Fascinating facts:

--One reason Jews were welcome in South Carolina - because its Royal Charter was written by John Locke. His Charter specifically said the new colony would welcome "Jews, heathens and dissdents."

So much for that "Christian Nation" hogwash, again.

--South Carolina was the first U.S. state to elect a Jew to public office. That happened before the American Revolution.

--Charleston attracted many Jewish settlers from Georgia, when Spain invaded that state. The Jews feared another Inquistion, and I don't blame them.

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If our Founding Fathers were all Christians, why did they say this? [View all] Panich52 Feb 2015 OP

Not really amazing that Christians particularly, (probably Jewish and Muslims, too)... JDDavis Feb 2015 #1

Which is why we can have so much fun correcting their history... onager Feb 2015 #2

Thanks for this, something I knew nothing about. JDDavis Feb 2015 #3

Here's a good start. onager Feb 2015 #5

Thanks for this. Curmudgeoness Feb 2015 #4

Christian governments in 1789 AlbertCat Feb 2015 #6

Thank you guillaumeb Feb 2015 #7