[Osx-nutters] The separation of church and state.

[David P. Henderson]

On 10 Dec 2007, at 08:56, Charles Bennett wrote:

> Obviously a man among men.   If our country had been founded as a
> prison colony rather than by a bunch of tight asses
> then we'd have more fun too..
>
The Carolinas and Georgia began as penal colonies; Eventually  
criminals (mainly debtors, hell my founding ancestor was a Scottish  
Jacobite who was mercifully exiled instead of executed as was the  
usual practice) were spread through all the colonies, and lets not  
forget that the loss of the US colonies prompted the exploitation of  
Australia as a replacement.

And while the New England colonies were founded by "tight asses" most  
of the others were not. Virginia was founded by adventurers and we  
partied heartily while the Puritans were in control of England and  
New England.

Dave
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