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" Perhaps Thomas Paine is indeed the best founder. I really do admire his views on religion, and it shows a lot of idiocracy going around when only six people attended the man's funeral due to his detestment of Christianity. So much for the USA being a "Christian nation" when most of the Founders were deists." Only six showed
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" Bastards. In my government class essentially our first essay was to criticize Charles Beard's interpretation of history. Being drunk on Madison's masterpiece, I blithely criticized Beard and idolized the founders. I thought that Beard was arguing against free markets, for some reason. Instead, he might have been arguing against corporatism
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Nutty people are ALWAYS the most fun.
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You've read the rules. By participating in the forum, you are agreeing to abide by them. If you have a complaint then talk to a moderator since I am no longer one. Honestly, they are nice people. A lot nicer then I would have been back when I was one but we grow older and wiser.
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" Oh yes, King George the Second." He wasn't so bad. They loved him before the French-Indian war XD
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" I noticed that you suggested that the mods ban me in that other thread..... And I edited what you quoted there as I didn't notice the time stamp." Yes. And they did. Justice served. We can move on now.
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Age of Reason still blows my mind. Whenever I read it. Thomas Paine was a good stylist. But really, how can he compare to a man who thought being black meant that you were infected with the leprosy? That is some really crazy stuff right there. In a way, Benjamin Rush was ahead of his time, he was already creating biologically racist junk before it really
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By the way, did anyone know that an American subject paid less taxes under British rule then under the U.S. government? What really peeved Americans was the fact that they were paying for British troops to protect them along the demarcation line, a line that they continually violated in their quest for new land. When I first heard that, it was somewhat
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Benjamin Rush, because he is crazy. Seriously though, Thomas Paine because he actually stood by his beliefs throughout his life and no one showed up at his funeral because of it.
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" In his first post, the one that is wildly off topic, he brought up the very subject that got the other thread started. He calls Jefferson a "disgusting hypocrite who created the idea of the Empire of Liberty" while going on about " verstehen " as if he practices it at all when speaking like that. He's, again I think, provocateuring