Flipping TV channels this morning. A Nick says watch Japanese cartoons. Yahoo said a painting show was on PBS! Bob Ross! Bob Ross! But it wasn't him. So I didn't really watch. This Nick thinks Bob Ross is dead.
And I never got around to changing the channel. The next show on is about historic trails.
The narrator said something about the Brits coming over to form colonies where people would be free to worship as they chose. And as I thought about it, a clarification of that phrase is crucial to properly understanding it.
Did they want merely to be free to worship in a way that was illegal in their homeland? Or did they really want their fellowman to have the freedom to worship or not worship in whichever way they chose? I think this phrase can be and has been twisted for both cases.
If, indeed, our forefathers wanted citizens to have the choice to not worship or worship other gods, then some ultra-conservatives in our nation may be aiming for exactly the opposite of their beloved ancestors. I think some (certainly not all) Evangelicals may naively be aiming for an American theocracy. And an American theocracy is exactly not what the founding fathers wanted. It's what they were escaping from.
Could you say that this morally mixed-up society is the dream establishment of Tom Jefferson and friends?
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I told you so.
http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/artists/bob-ross/
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