Teabaggers vs The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution

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They wear tricorner hats and wield signs saying "Don't tread on me" as they talk about taking their country back, as they are protesting Mosques, and asking what the founding fathers would do.

But, let's take a look back at what the founding fathers considered inspiration.

The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience was a book written by Roger Williams, the founder of the colony of Rhode Island and the leader of the oldest Baptist church in the United State, and in this book he argued for a "Wall of Separation" between church and state and for the state to accept Catholic, Pagan, Jewish, Muslim, and Anti-Christian beliefs among their populace.

It was a radical idea, and the book was burned in many places.

But that wasn't enough to stop it, and the ideas of the book were enshrined in a little thing called the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, the book was also mentioned in several of Thomas Jefferson's writings.

So, when you call Islam cult instead of a religion, when you try to obstruct Muslims from building structures, when you set fire to their construction sites, and when you try to blame them for everything from the assassination of RFK to the sinking of the Titanic; can you really claim the mantle of the founding fathers?

The Bloudy Tenent here:
http://www.reformedreader.org/rbb/williams/btp.htm

[Cirque du So-What]

1. How unfortunate that a lesson from history is lost on these cretins

whose willful ignorance allows them to pick & choose which aspects of the American Revolution suit their purpose. Their specious claim to kinship with the original Boston Tea Party lies strictly with the word 'taxes'; after that, all resemblance ends.