Uncle Roger's Notebooks of Daily Life
My life is, to me, ripe with frequent challenges, occasional successes, spontaneous laughter, adequate tears, and enough *life* to last me a lifetime. To you, however, it surely seems most pedestrian. And therefore, I recycle the name I used previously and call this my Notebooks of Daily Life. Daily, because it's everyday in nature, ordinary. These conglomeration of events that are my life are of interest to me because I live it, perhaps mildly so to those who are touched by it, and could only be of perverse, morbid curiosity to anyone else. Yet, I offer them here nonetheless. Make of them what you will, and perhaps you can learn from my mistakes.
Sinasohn.Net
| Home | Notebooks | Photos | ||
| Contact | Notable |
Family
|
Dad Rachel Jared Sara |
Scotty Daniel Harry |
Stan Sellam Doug |
Business
TechSynthesis
Roger Sinasohn, Author
Fun
Uncle Roger's Classic Computers
The Vintage Computer Festival
Northern California Rover Club
Atari Bay Area Computer Users Society
iStockPhoto (My portfolio)
Listology
Recent Comments
Who's the Pussy Now? [3]
Magnalite Memories [2]
What It Means To Be An American [1]
Why I Care -- The Daddy Edition [1]
To Those I Have Offended [2]
|
An RSS Feed is also available.
|
powered by blosxom |
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
I happened across a message posted via Twitter that I felt required a response. @Clergywomen, a "Clergy-Community and Political Activist," wrote "Americans now understand R forefathers fought socialism, communism & atheism 2 protect faith in God 4 R future. -me"
Aside from the fact that she simply can't know what all Americans understand, the founding fathers weren't fighting "socialism, communism & atheism" and their purpose in breaking away from England had nothing to do with faith or God. Now, I'm certainly no expert in American Revolutionary History, but my understanding was that the reasons for declaring independence were primarily economic. Certainly, England was not a socialist or communist country, nor was it atheist. England was, at the time, a monarchy linked heavily to the Church of England.
So, really, a more accurate statement might be that our forefathers fought monarchism and Christianity to protect their financial interests. Except that they weren't really fighting Christianity, of course. Many of the founding fathers were, indeed, Christians. Of course, many were also Deists. Religion, however, was not their concern when setting up a new country.
Naturally, I responded: "Our forefathers could see the future? Communism came about 75 years after Decl/Independence." and "And the constitution was written so as to protect the country (and its citizenry) FROM religion. Old, tired misinformation." Seventy-five years refers to the Communist Manifesto and, although the idea did not spring forth fully formed from Marx's pen, it was hardly in a state to have been fought off in the late 18th century.
The response came quickly. The communism comment garnered "R U serious? -me" while my constitutional analysis prompted a more strident query along with its answer: "And the constitution (snip) --FromClergywomen: Where do these people come from?? HELL. -me"
Apparently, protecting the constitution is proof positive that you are a former denizen of the underworld. Still, I wasn't quite clear whether it was I who came from Hell or the founding fathers, so I asked. "Are you saying our forefathers came from hell or that I did? Allow me to remind you... judge not lest ye be judged."
Alas, I guess once I was identified as being a minion of the dark one, she had nothing more to say to me. That was the last I heard from her.
Note: I would link to ClergyWomen's specific tweets, but she has them "protected." I guess she doesn't want to be held accountable for her nonsense.
|
Related Links |
[ Posted: 23:00 | home | print ] |