There is a book entitled
Adams vs Jefferson that actually depicts the conditions just described above- Jefferson was known as praying to the Goddess of reason in France, dividing America into sects called Republicans and because he was quoted at saying "
it does me no harm nor brakes my leg if my neighbor has 20 gods or no god"..as a result was called an Athiest- preachers preached he would destroy all bibles, so hide them!! Today he is a hero lol!
Since then, America has endured presidents who over saw every sickness imagineable from the black plague to most recent Avian Flu under Bush. But the world kept on keepin on...America too!
Not taking into account what the natives must have thought about the Jesus-calling immigrants bringing measles, mumps, pox... the world as they knew it surely came to some kind of an end...
Thanks to religion & philosophy; 1/2 the nation is always claiming the end of the world because (their) prez aint in the house.
Less we forgot the last dude in the WhiteHouse claimed he answered to the father on high as to why he took the nation to war and Lt. Boykin..
Crusade | Christian Right | Christian Zionists | Rapture | Holy War
...went to the Islamic world and told them
God put Bush in power to fight them.
IT seems America at some point took on every form of ism, then rejects it when a new ism comes along.
Time then turns those heels into heros from Jefferson the athiest to Andrew Jackson and his Jacksonian governing all now loved by those who didnt live in their day.
It will be interesting to see how time judges Bush & Obama, but we know in reel-time they were both defended by 1/2 the nation an abhored by the other half...
Makes me think of a comedian named Dave Allen at Large he was Irish or somethin' he had a skit where 2 soldiers were about to fight each other and they both prayed to God to defeat the other.
Allen playing God looked at one...
then the other...then pulled out a quarter , flipped it and thats how he chose. LMAO!
Personally I thought it was a funny as hell skit, but true to form on how nations have the ass out audacity to claim they all represent God, less we forget that the NSA head in the 1970s' under Carter-told Al Queada, "God is on your side" ..then Ronald Reagan brought them muthejumpas to the WhiteHouse and backed them
Sleeping With the Devil: How U.S. and Saudi Backing of Al Qaeda Led to 9/11 Washington's Blog
30 years later....
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