20 May 11
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Originally posted by FMF"How can I get me one of them iphones?"
And by modern Americans I mean Left, Right, weird, fusty, gay, nerdy, All-Star, talkback callers, cowboy poets, Nascar People, soccer players, Wall Street executives, Deadheads, attack admen, people in therapy, and all the rest, whoever, whatever.
21 May 11
Originally posted by FMFThey would be revolted by what we've become.
And by modern Americans I mean Left, Right, weird, fusty, gay, nerdy, All-Star, talkback callers, cowboy poets, Nascar People, soccer players, Wall Street executives, Deadheads, attack admen, people in therapy, and all the rest, whoever, whatever.
Revolted, but not surprised.
21 May 11
Originally posted by SoothfastThe Pilgrims didn't believe in freedom of religion. They wanted to be free to practice their own religion, and they wanted everyone else in their town to practice that very same religion. They would probably be horrified by the diversity of people and religions that we have today, just as they would be horrified by the concepts of play, free time, choices, and women participating in government. Luckily, the English who first arrived here weren't the ones who got to make the rules a hundred years later.
They'd be horrified by the theocratic demagogues like Glenn Beck who today go around spreading lies about them, distorting the record by claiming them for their own and asserting that they intended to establish an exclusively "Christian nation." The very notion would be anathema to them.