Theocracy Thursday

[lovmelovmycats]

I like alliteration (who doesn't?), history, and my secular government. So I'm thinking of writing a little thing weekly about famous theocrats. I would like to do it on Facebook, but that's too short, and I'm still ambivalent about pissing off all my relatives. So I'll do it here (and link to it on facebook! Yay

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[kest]

Did you know I have an ancestor who was hung as a witch?

[lovmelovmycats]

I'm sorry to hear that! No, I didn't know.

[cos]

American Thanksgiving Lore is, of course, completely wrong on the assertion that the original Puritan colonists had any thought of establishing a country with religious liberty. They had their religious practice, it was not winning over the rest of England, so they came to a new place where they wouldn't have to win anyone over and could just set up governance based on their religious practice. That was their explicit goal, and welcoming any other forms of religion was never part of it.

Isn't it ironic, though, that Massachusetts was the first state to legalize gay marriage, and Rhode Island will be New England's last one to do so?

P.S. Speaking of theocrats,

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/02/29/grand_ayatollah_or_grand_old_party

[lovmelovmycats]

They shoulda bided their time over there 'til Cromwell burned down the fuckin' country to make it over in his bloody murderous Puritanical image, amirite?

[lovmelovmycats]

I guess it's ironic, but I'm not so up to date on New English politics.

[cos]

As long as you know that Massachusetts was the original Puritan Central, and Rhode Island was founded by Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams after Boston banished them, then you don't need more to appreciate the irony.

[lovmelovmycats]

Whoa. I'm sorry to hear that! (and yet it's cool to have a history connection?)