Reply #10: Fundies like to conflate the Puritans and the founding fathers. [View All]

[smoogatz]

As if 167 years of American history and an entire philosophical/intellectual era had never happened. Here's a hint, Texas BoE: the Puritans were the fundamentalist loons who got thrown out of England in the 1620s and then wrote the Massachusetts Bay Charter upon arriving in the New World. They were also the guys who burned the witches in Salem, and put people in the stocks for committing adultery. The founding fathers were the enlightenment thinkers, mostly Deists, who came along more than 150 years later, rejected, among other things, the notion that political power derives from God, and wrote the U.S. Constitution which is the supreme law of the land. Try to keep it straight, okay?