What role did religion play in the founding of america?Was seeking Religious fr?

The Atheist answers here are unbelievable.

Many of the *very* first colonists in what would become America were fleeing religious persecution. There is the obvious example of the Pilgrims, but another would be Maryland, which was originally Mary's Land, where Catholics fled from persecution in England. Also, Pennsylvania was founded on the very principle of religious freedom by the devout Quaker William Penn. The literature of the Revolution is completely saturated with Biblical mentions and appeals to Christianity, even the Deist writers did it, calling the Revolution the "Holy cause of Liberty" and explaining how the monarchy of England was unjust because it was so unlike Biblical rulers like David and Solomon.

A small class of immigrants thinking that they could set up their own religiously intolerant regimes and make individual fortunes doing it were willing to risk the dangers inherent in immigration. When the immigrants arrived, they found the land already inhabited, but because the immigrants had true ownership of the land being in possession of the necessary documents from their European governments saying so, they preceded to pillage, steal and generally wreak genocidal warfare on the inferior brown skinned people they found there.

Though people like the Puritans came here for religious reasons in the 1600s by the late 1700s the founders had different ideas and founded a country which was not beholden to any religion.

I take it that you would rather live in the US than in any of the countries, past or present, that were inspired by atheism (USSR, China, Albania, North Korea, Cuba, Cambodia under Pol Pot, Vietnam, etc.)?

And if you could not live in the US, I’m sure your choice of where you would like to live would basically rank countries as to how they have been most influenced by the Gospel of Jesus Christ (as rediscovered in the Reformation).

People who work to minimize the influence of Christian churches on the public life in the US (and other countries) are actually working to ultimately re-enslave citizens and bring about the demise of their nations.

Liberals would have us believe that America was founded with a dedication to "free enterprise." That it was founded to be a "God neutral," multi-cultural society. They teach little children that America wasn't founded by Christians, but by "faith neutral" deists. This simply isn't true. For proof go to the following link.

http://www.biblebelievers.com/gipp_we_americans.ht...

I suggest doing research. Quite.

very small role

even though most of them were religious people, they believed in the ideas of the enlightenment, among them is the Idea of separation of church and state.

america was founded on a deep fear of religion and its effects on a government. the founding fathers were mostly non-religious and recognised the dangers and stupefying effects it offers

http://www.barefootsworld.net/founding.html

First site that popped up when I put "founding fathers religion quotes" in google. Please do your research on your own.