A forgotten thread in this story is how some of these Christian communities doubted the faith practiced by other communities. One branch of my ancestors were among the Puritans/Pilgrims in Massachusetts who would not allow Baptists in their colony. As a result, another branch of my ancestors settled in neighboring Rhode Island.
Thank you. Recalling these facts taught in my American Government classes in high school and college explains something I just figured was what everyone knew. But this current class of Republicans would be so happy for us all to forget the real history. Shame on them. I don't approve of authoritarianism in any shape or form. I remain an ardent supporter of Democracy and all of its many rainbow aspects.
John Adams was a *Unitarian*, for cryin’ out loud! Plus four other presidents. And Jefferson was a fellow traveler: he made many anti-trinitarian arguments, edited out all the supernatural material in the New Testament (now known as the “Jefferson Bible”), and was a Deist. They would all be horrified to see a violent theocracy bubbling up from Hell and flooding the nation.
The only mention of religion in the original (unamended) Constitution is a provision that no religious test may be required of anyone holding any office under the United States. There is nothing else in there, nothing about this actually somehow being a Christo-Republican-Empire with a God-Emperor, none of what we all once knew to be bizarre fascist lies about America, for the good and sufficient reason that this wasn’t even vaguely about their barely concealed sexual rage or their bullshit mid-19th-century made-in-America theology or their modern obsession with power and its convenient hatreds.
A forgotten thread in this story is how some of these Christian communities doubted the faith practiced by other communities. One branch of my ancestors were among the Puritans/Pilgrims in Massachusetts who would not allow Baptists in their colony. As a result, another branch of my ancestors settled in neighboring Rhode Island.
Thank you. Recalling these facts taught in my American Government classes in high school and college explains something I just figured was what everyone knew. But this current class of Republicans would be so happy for us all to forget the real history. Shame on them. I don't approve of authoritarianism in any shape or form. I remain an ardent supporter of Democracy and all of its many rainbow aspects.
John Adams was a *Unitarian*, for cryin’ out loud! Plus four other presidents. And Jefferson was a fellow traveler: he made many anti-trinitarian arguments, edited out all the supernatural material in the New Testament (now known as the “Jefferson Bible”), and was a Deist. They would all be horrified to see a violent theocracy bubbling up from Hell and flooding the nation.
The only mention of religion in the original (unamended) Constitution is a provision that no religious test may be required of anyone holding any office under the United States. There is nothing else in there, nothing about this actually somehow being a Christo-Republican-Empire with a God-Emperor, none of what we all once knew to be bizarre fascist lies about America, for the good and sufficient reason that this wasn’t even vaguely about their barely concealed sexual rage or their bullshit mid-19th-century made-in-America theology or their modern obsession with power and its convenient hatreds.