“In the old days” they might resign and/or take up other trades. Yet they don’t, because there are no other careers, the pension doesn’t vest if you rock the boat, and several layers of intermediary officers offer an even more plausible veneer to what’s happening, being subject themselves to differing stresses.

(I do still remind us that, assuming some kind of genetic triumph, it might take up to a generation before people stop worshiping some mythical Rabbi who wants you to forgive your enemies and will always forgive those enemies so don’t go too far. Letting the last few of them do their awful, offensive dances and revel in appropriation would be a difficult task, but if they can just figure out how to do that without letting invaders back in and showering them with food and housing, they’d soon die off and their descendants could look at the stars and invent things without giving lip service to said rabbi.)

If we survive genetically, we should be more critical of teaching our history, and not assume that people who showed up or went through the motions inwardly believed in or agreed with them. Again, look at Harry, who assumes the American founding fathers believed in a Middle-Eastern Rabbi who arose from the dead, just because they went to the largest available community events and communicated in understood terminology about issues that people cared about. There’s no way to tell what they actually believed, and maybe some of them actually did believe in that Rabbi, just like some people who spent 3 years in the Middle East actually wanted to defend Israel with their lives, or some people really thought the biggest problem in Middlesex was white drivers who exceeded posted speed limits.

…or that the best way to run society is to put an obese inbred in charge and do whatever his attendants say he says. We need to be smarter about our history, and stop assuming that things existed because everyone thought it was the best way to do things. VATs and income taxes, for example, are paid because of a complicated dynamic of repression, appearance, and warnings, but not because everyone, let alone a simple majority, agrees with the idea or what the taxes are being spent upon. Like so much else since JC arrived, a majority of people could be privately hating/doubting, but be prevented from expressing it due to their individualized preferences against being hammered upon, and the amazing quantity of funds available to their oppressors. A new history would be currently dangerous, in the sense that it would expose who was actually creating this system of shifting illusions, but it would be something we could do if we survived.

Your prose is impenetrable.

Fred W. possesses a bias so complete he is robbed of even the capacity for embarrassment.
Again, that it does not penetrate his skull that 100% of the Founding Peoples identified as Christian is proof enough of the charge.

Other matters confirming his dishonesty compelled by bias follows:

The three major foundational documents of the United States of America are the Declaration of Independence (July 1776), the Articles of Confederation (drafted 1777, ratified 1781) and the Constitution of the United States of America (1789).

There are 204 unique individuals in this group of “Founding Fathers”(those signatories). These are the people who did one or more of the following: – signed the Declaration of Independence – signed the Articles of Confederation – attended the Constitutional Convention of 1787 – signed the Constitution of the United States of America – served as Senators in the First Federal Congress (1789-1791) – served as U.S. Representatives in the First Federal Congress.

Religious Affiliationof U.S. Founding Fathers# ofFoundingFathers% ofFoundingFathers

Episcopalian/Anglican 88 – 54.7%

Presbyterian 30 – 18.6%

Congregationalist 27 – 16.8%

Quaker 7 – 4.3%

Dutch Reformed/German Reformed 6 – 3.7%

Lutheran 5 – 3.1%

Catholic 3 – 1.9%

Huguenot- 3 – 1.9%

Unitarian 3 – 1.9%

Methodist 3 – 1.2%

Calvinist1 – 0.6%

TOTAL – 204

If there is one reader of this thread that is capable (and I think there are more) that can simply credit the virtual absoluteness of the Christian population, culture, and society of early America (and btw, as “late” as 1883, the SCOTUS…UNANIMOUSLY in the “Trinity Decision” voted to IDENTIFY the USA as a…wait for it…CHRISTIAN NATION)…AND *ACKNOWLEDGE* that when the word “religion” is employed by the national “Fathers,” that the Founding Peoples understood them to mean THEIR RELIGION…which would be…that’s right THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, then I will not have completely wasted my time with this.

You can be sure our friend, Fred, will not be among that one…or more.