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

[LuKreme]

On 11-Dec-2007, at 05:18, David P. Henderson wrote:
> 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.

That's why the first Thanksgiving was in Virginia, not Massachusetts

But the North was filled with tight-asses.

Course, now it's mostly the other way around :p

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