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To: SirRealist who wrote (18662)2/13/2002 10:22:38 AM
From: Win Smith  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
It's true enough that many of the original colonists were interested in religious "freedom" only to the extent where they got to impose their own, but there are indications that the founders had a different view on things. Despite considerable revisionist blather from the "Christian Nation" front on what the establishment clause is supposed to mean. Couple links:

A Nation Still Learning What Madison Knew nytimes.com

The Real Jefferson on Religion secularhumanism.org



To: SirRealist who wrote (18662)2/13/2002 12:43:19 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell  Respond to of 281500
 
Re: witch hunts, an outbreak of rye ergot supposedly played a part in the Witch Trials

RYE ERGOT AND WITCHES

In 1976 Linnda Caporael offered the first evidence that the Salem witch
trials followed an outbreak of rye ergot. Ergot is a fungus blight that forms
hallucinogenic drugs in bread. Its victims can appear bewitched when they're
actually stoned.

uh.edu


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