We have to admit that we are getting quite an education from our American History textbooks for Christian schools. Last week, for instance, we learned that slavery was unpleasant but had its benefits, like those pretty spirituals. This week, we'll look at the Second Great Awakening, a period of evangelical growth in the early 19th century, and at other popular religious enthusiasms of the time, which were nothing but twisted heresies. Be sure to take notes, because your immortal soul will be on the quiz.
I looked quickly at the dogs in the lower left corner of the illustration, and thought that the one dog was shown as sniffing the other's butt.
I certainly would have thought him dead, but according to wiki, the World&#039;s Foremost Authority is still kicking. There is, apparently, a <a href="http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1560959\/" target="_blank">biopic</a>.
&quot;Though Charles Finney opposed slavery, he did not support the radical movement to force the South to give up slavery.&quot;
How Christian of ya.
&quot;(1) to live in peace with other tribes,&quot;
What the ever loving fuck?! Didn&#039;t a lot of those white dudes use Indians from one tribe to beat the shit out of an other?
&quot;The work of the missionaries and the gospel they brought helped to preserve and sustain the true value of American Indian culture.&quot;
Yeah...the true value of American Indian culture that most closely mirrored white culture.
<i>TOURIST: Howdy there, Colorful Replica Of America&#039;s Past! When is the exciting - in - its - primitive - splendor Snake Dance going to take place? INDIAN: It&#039;s usually in August, but with all our children off in Indian School there&#039;s no one left to do the ceremonies. Eddie gets off the bus. EDDIE: Hiya, Pop! I&#039;m home! INDIAN: Hello, Soaring Eagle! It&#039;s good to have your back from school! EDDIE: Aw, come on! Call me Eddie! I&#039;m an American now! INDIAN: What have they been teaching you? EDDIE: Just what we need for a better life! French horn, Italian, water polo... GOVERNMENT AGENT: Yes, at the Custer Memorial Indian School, Eddie&#039;s one of our Prize students. We&#039;re giving him away next week.</i>
-Temporarily Humboldt Count, The Firesign Theater.
&quot;salvation by grace through faith.&quot;
Right...and what these unutterable shitheels don&#039;t get is that (for one who believes in an afterlife) once you get the worry about your eternal soul out of the way, you can focus on shit around you that needs to get done. See, if I put out water sprinklers, that frees up some time and cognitive headspace for me to go help my neighbor paint his fence.
Your crotch-scratching football coach taught history? Ours taught driver&#039;s ed...and he was almost too dumb for that. Too bad we didn&#039;t have classes on breathing or defecating. He would have achieved professor status.
Not just by the appropriation of land- certainly in my necka the woods, warfare was also fuelled by the desperation of the nations to replenish their population from their neighbours, after the epidemics of European diseases had swept through and destroyed, according to some sources, up to 90% of the population. The only way to keep their nations going was through forced adoption of other nation&#039;s people.
I looked quickly at the dogs in the lower left corner of the illustration, and thought that the one dog was shown as sniffing the other&#039;s butt.
I certainly would have thought him dead, but according to wiki, the World&#039;s Foremost Authority is still kicking. There is, apparently, a <a href="http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1560959\/" target="_blank">biopic</a>.
Football couch- it&#039;s like the couch bunker, but instead of guns you store your sporting goods in it
not to mention decimating their game herds
Country Joe libul!!11!
My favorite: Amazonian tribe converts missionary to atheism. <a href="http://freethinker.co.uk/20..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://freethinker.co.uk/2008/11/08/how-an-amazon...">http://freethinker.co.uk/20...
Hard to figure out how mandating evangelical Protestantism as the one true American way fits in with personal freedom.
<i>&quot;Deism was the &#039;faith&#039; of several American leaders.&quot;</i>
Unless David Barton says so.
&quot;Though Charles Finney opposed slavery, he did not support the radical movement to force the South to give up slavery.&quot;
How Christian of ya.
&quot;(1) to live in peace with other tribes,&quot;
What the ever loving fuck?! Didn&#039;t a lot of those white dudes use Indians from one tribe to beat the shit out of an other?
&quot;The work of the missionaries and the gospel they brought helped to preserve and sustain the true value of American Indian culture.&quot;
Yeah...the true value of American Indian culture that most closely mirrored white culture.
<i>TOURIST: Howdy there, Colorful Replica Of America&#039;s Past! When is the exciting - in - its - primitive - splendor Snake Dance going to take place? INDIAN: It&#039;s usually in August, but with all our children off in Indian School there&#039;s no one left to do the ceremonies. Eddie gets off the bus. EDDIE: Hiya, Pop! I&#039;m home! INDIAN: Hello, Soaring Eagle! It&#039;s good to have your back from school! EDDIE: Aw, come on! Call me Eddie! I&#039;m an American now! INDIAN: What have they been teaching you? EDDIE: Just what we need for a better life! French horn, Italian, water polo... GOVERNMENT AGENT: Yes, at the Custer Memorial Indian School, Eddie&#039;s one of our Prize students. We&#039;re giving him away next week.</i>
-Temporarily Humboldt Count, The Firesign Theater.
&quot;salvation by grace through faith.&quot;
Right...and what these unutterable shitheels don&#039;t get is that (for one who believes in an afterlife) once you get the worry about your eternal soul out of the way, you can focus on shit around you that needs to get done. See, if I put out water sprinklers, that frees up some time and cognitive headspace for me to go help my neighbor paint his fence.
Your crotch-scratching football coach taught history? Ours taught driver&#039;s ed...and he was almost too dumb for that. Too bad we didn&#039;t have classes on breathing or defecating. He would have achieved professor status.
also: Football <i>couch</i>. Heh.
Excellent point.
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Not just by the appropriation of land- certainly in my necka the woods, warfare was also fuelled by the desperation of the nations to replenish their population from their neighbours, after the epidemics of European diseases had swept through and destroyed, according to some sources, up to 90% of the population. The only way to keep their nations going was through forced adoption of other nation&#039;s people.
Yeah, sure, uh-huh, of course, and you betcha.
Yes, accepting Jesus into their hearts helped take their mind off the pain of their lopped off feet and such.