we are a country of SETTLERSand FOUNDERS....america was a vast empty space with minimal peoples who were content to live off the land subsistently...northern european protestants came here looking for religious, and governmental and monetary opportunities that were not available in the old world under the type of monarchies, tyrants and rulers they had...
our whole nation was FOUNDED by people who related to what was wrong with those societies in europe and determined to make a better one here...based on the rule of law, which is based on the bible..even though our country has no state sanctioned religion...yes..it was brutal at times..pushing "native" peoples out of the way and annexing parts of the continent from france, spain and fighting britain for freedom, fighting mexico for the southwest, and basically stealing alaska from russia for a song...this is what a country must do to survive ....or...we could all be speaking spanish or french right now with their societies mores...
2006-12-11
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