Now HERE'S a nimrod fundy.....

[A HERETIC I AM]

This guy just visited my workplace wearing this T-Shirt.....obviously handmade, which proclaims "Puritans 1776" over a cross. I asked him what it referred to and he said "You cant figure it out for yourself?" I said "I know what it means, i just want to know what YOU think it means" He told me it referred to the FACT that this country was founded by Puritans! I told him the framers of the Constitution were mostly Deists and members of the Masonic order and he insisted i was wrong, that they were Puritans!

For fucks sake, dipshit, read a damned history book and stop getting your history from D. James Kennedy!

On one shoulder of this apparent work of wearable art it says "Puritan Power" and on the one you can see it says "In god we trust - United we stand"

What a complete fucking nimrod

oh yeah...notice the coiffure. What a fashion plate, eh?

[immoderate]

1. I wonder if he knows how mean and nasty the Puritans were.

They took great joy in putting Quakers to death.

--IMM

[A HERETIC I AM]

2. I doubt it. When i said what i said he looked at me as if i was ignorant

and turned and walked away. My difference of opinion was for him, it appeared, a statement declaring my stupidity and nonconformity. He struck me as the type who knows hat he knows because it feeds into his core belief system and NOTHING is going to change that. He is comfortable in his worldview. He hung around for about 20 minutes and i SOOO wanted to engage him in a further debate but i thought better of it. He was, after all, a customer. An asshole, but a customer nonetheless.

[immoderate]

3. Yeah, it's hard to be discreet sometimes.

Further questions would be about if it was some organized group. I mean, didn't the Puritans kind of, die out? Otherwise, is he the lone Puritan? Did Puritans wear t-shirts?:shrug:

--IMM

[A HERETIC I AM]

4. LOL! Exactly! The Puritans had a pretty short half-life.....

It seems to me their numbers dwindled pretty quickly because the young people in the clan wanted nothing to do with the ideology of their parents.

The above dumbass must think something that died a natural death is worthy of keeping alive.

[progressoid]

5. Sheeesh. What a tool.

I worked for a Reich wing ditto head for a while. One day a guy comes in wanting us to make him some posters so he could picket a planned parenthood clinic (baby killer posters). I told him he needed proof of copyright ownership of the images before we could do any work. He left.

A few days later I see a different job in house for this guy. Turns out, our catholic receptionist went over my head and got it OK'd with my boss. Grrrrrr. So, we deliberately did a shitty job for him.

[FM Arouet666]

6. ROTFLMAO!!!! Please someone get him some Haldol.... n/t

[GOPFighter]

7. A proud ignoramus

From Wikipedia:

The word Puritan is now applied unevenly to a number of Protestant churches from the late sixteenth century to the early eighteenth century. However, Puritans did not, by and large, use the term for themselves, and the word was always a descriptor of a type of religious innovation, rather than a particular church. The closest analogy in the present day to the meaning of "Puritan" in the 17th century would be "fundamentalist": Puritanism was a movement rather than a denomination.

That said, the single theological movement most consistently self-described by the term "Puritan" was Calvinist and became the Presbyterian Church. The term was used by the group itself mainly in the sixteenth century. By the middle of the seventeenth century the group had become so divided that "Puritan" was most often used by opponents and detractors of the group, rather than by the practitioners themselves. The practitioners knew themselves as members of particular churches or movements, and not by the simple and nebulous term "Puritan." (emphasis mine)

It was a movement, not a denomination, and by 1776 there were no "Puritans" in America!

Sheesh, what an ignorant dork! And he's wearing his ignorance with pride. Bwahahahahahahahahahaha!

[Gelliebeans]

8. He prolly doesn't wash that shirt either

ooops my mistake it was just my dirty computer screen.
:rofl:

ps personally the pants just finish off the look he was trying to achieve ;)

[JNelson6563]

9. Oy! What a dumbass!

Little does he know it was piracy that first brought the English here. So much for puritanism. ;-)

Julie

[BiggJawn]

10. Fancies hisself a modern-day "Solomon Kane", eh?

What a Marroon!

[beam me up scottie]

11. WHOA!

Hold me back, boys! I've been waiting for a real he-man like that my whole life!
Is his name Bubba, by any chance?

[Deep13]

12. Is that cross growing out of his pants?

Anyway, Mass. was originally settled by puritans, but when the Kennedys came all that changed. :beer: Virgina predates Mass. and was certainly not settled by puritans. The puritans brought a commitment to literacy (something fundies have abandoned) and suspicion of the monarchy. Puritans had little incommon with fundies. Having said that, the vast majority of Anglophone settlers were members of the Church of England and were not puritans. People then were not especially religious or pious in their observances. English people never have been, really. Their speech have had many religious references, but that is because an established church was a simple fact of life then, not because of any piety.

With the English Civil War in recent memory, the founding fathers were deeply suspicious of organized religion.

Still, even if they were religious, so what? That does not mean we must be. Americans have never been more religious than they are now.