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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Since when is religion a core American value?[/quote]

Someone forgot their colonial history.  Several states were founded as religious colonies.

https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel01.html#:~:text=The%20New%20England%20colonies%2C%20New,way%20they%20believed%20to%20be

Here's the library of congress's position:

The New England colonies, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland were conceived and established "as plantations of religion." Some settlers who arrived in these areas came for secular motives--"to catch fish" as one New Englander put it--but the great majority left Europe to worship God in the way they believed to be correct. They enthusiastically supported the efforts of their leaders to create "a city on a hill" or a "holy experiment," whose success would prove that God's plan for his churches could be successfully realized in the American wilderness. Even colonies like Virginia, which were planned as commercial ventures, were led by entrepreneurs who considered themselves "militant Protestants" and who worked diligently to promote the prosperity of the church.

People forget that the 1st amendment wasn't binding on the states at the time of the founding.  Many states had different established state churches that eventually were disestablished by the 1840s.[/quote]

Is slavery a core American value then, too? Sounds like you are making an argument that would support such a claim. [/quote]

At the time until the 1860's, sure I would agree. Slavery was considered a natural state for some peoples which had existed for 1000's of years until industrialization rendered it useless.

Religion was fundamental to the English colonies, and one would be blind to notice how the Christian religion in particular has effected US culture to this day. [/quote]

Religion has always been used to control people more than any other purpose. [/quote]

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