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Point out your objections, this isn't reddit.

• andrepd 3y ago
  The objection is that the people who left Europe for the new world weren't "freedom maximalists escaping theocracies"
  • FredPret 3y ago
    Well, pick up a history book, and you'll see lots of people escaped religious persecution in Europe. They wanted to practice their religion / lack thereof, thus were freedom-seeking. They were willing to brave an Atlantic crossing in small wooden ships and build brand-new lives rather than put up with curtailed freedoms; hence "maximalists". And when you mix church and state, or when the state kowtows to the church by persecuting its enemies, you have at least a partial theocracy.