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OT: Tonight we are all Patriots.

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Uh-uh. We'd rather have the nuclear waste if those are our choices.

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Of course not. It's pronounced "Jayayzoos".

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"Hopefully, we have learned this lesson after 800 years of losing ground"

Let's see. 2015-800 = [takes off shoes to count on toes] = 1105. Well, 1215 actually, but as Tom Lehrer said, "the important thing is to understand what you're doing rather than to get the right answer." Now what happened in 1215? Well, King John signed the Magna Carta, only to repudiate it six weeks later (and provoke a war), followed by the Pope declaring it invalid that same month, and the Fourth Lateran Council took place. So either the Magna Carta or the Lateran Council marks the start of the slide.

Wouldn't Luther count as an apostate? And Calvin? And Wesley? And count the letters in each name! 6-6-6! I'm sold.

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Explains why so many people believe in conspiracies. If you think the Universe is ruled by a malevolent entity, of course you're going to see evil plots everywhere.

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I hate to interrupt the fun snark with an actual fact, but their villain is John Dewey, who believed public education was essential for creating a well-informed democracy. The fiend.

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Note to self: revisit this post in seven years and small change, so that I may mock Kevin Swanson from within the high walls of my liberal ivory tower.

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I'll chip in for the tuition.

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And let's get Dewey's so-called "Decimal System" out of our libraries now! We only need one book in the Christian library, and we're not even sure about that O.T. part of it, what with all those Joos and stuff.

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The Mormons are already on that idea. Or do I mean the Scientologists?

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You probably live in one of them thar big cities full of sin and such.

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Obviously, the whores etc wouldn't have gotten any secularist ideas into their pretty little heads if it weren't for those Apostate men.

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About the time we build the FEMA death camps. Competition is healthy.

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"Each man becomes his own ‘pope’ and makes up his own religion as he goes along.”

He must know what he's talking about, since this is pretty much what every fringe groupuscule of the Protestant Reform does.

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The collapse of Western Civilization has a lot of benefits: longer life expectancy, large middle class, cell phones, chocolate ice cream.

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<i>"For one thing, it was the first time that the leading presidential candidates associated themselves closely with Mormonism, Mohammedanism, and Marxism...." </i>

I missed that campaign.

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