A federal judge in West Virginia has ruled that the state corrections agency can’t force an incarcerated atheist and secular humanist to participate in religiously-affiliated programming to be eligible for parole.

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      No certain colonies were founded by zealots too fanatical for England and the Netherlands, the country was founded by slave owning wealthy people

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      Which is the line perpetuated by England and hardly based in reality.

      In reality they were pretty moderate Christians who just believed that religion was a private matter and the governments involvement in it was abhorrent. Did they use their religion to beat anyone to death who got in their way? Yeah. But so did everyone else. They were no more fanatical than the Church of England. They just had a different opinion of how religion should go about being made.

      They were fairly puritan however. That much is true. That’s why most of white North America freaks the hell out at seeing nipples on a woman in public.

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      Nope. This country was founded on the idea that weathly people shouldn’t have to pay their fair share of taxes.