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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 2331051, member: 12789&quot;]For quite a time, about a hundred years or so the majority of the population of England didn&#039;t share the state religion of the monarch.&nbsp; That despite prohibitions against their faith and meetings.&nbsp; Even their majority was replaced in the 17th century by puritanism, calvinism, etc that just served to boil over in the manifestation of the English Civil War.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Inasmuch as religion and it&#039;s discussion is a very divisive topic in the 21st century it was very much different and much more hostile a topic in the 16th and 17th century.&nbsp; I like to believe our founding fathers were very forward thinking in recognising religion&#039;s place while respecting the varying beliefs.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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