The Botkins are pimping the Revolutionary War (biblically)

[meda]

Having exhausted the Civil War, Egypt, and the Academy Awards, they now attempt to pander to their "The South will rise again! " Constituency by delving into the Revolutionary War. Basic premise: New England started it, but the South finished it! :roll:

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A Biblical Perspective on History

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What These Lessons Mean to Us Today

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[Elle]

"... and appreciate the men who sacrificed their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to give us the freedom and prosperity that we still enjoy."

You mean the men who favored the legal owing of other human being to beat and sell like animals?

Is this an admission of racism? Blacks had no rights at all, just the one very general rule to not separate black babies form their mothers until they were old enough to survive without their mothers and to be worth enough to sell (older childhood, but long before the teens years). White MEN enjoyed freedom, and white women still fared far better than blacks, though were still more or less property of men and could be beaten. But let's overlook the issue of sex. The Confederacy favored slavery. So what freedom and prosperity is she talking about the south defending, unless she's not counting blacks as human beings?

[GeoBQn]

I'd show this to my dad, who taught middle school American history for several decades, but I'm scared that it will give him a heart attack.

[Talitha Cumi]

You mean the men who favored the legal owing of other human being to beat and sell like animals?

Those dedicated minorities had an impact on history! :angry-cussingblack:

[fluttershies]

I suppose I should be grateful that fundies have yet to co-opt the English Civil Wars (one of my particular favourite areas of study). Yet.

[meda]

I suppose I should be grateful that fundies have yet to co-opt the English Civil Wars (one of my particular favourite areas of study). Yet.

Doesn't Peter Bradrick have a son named Cromwell? Although in VF world, it isn't a fabulous historical event unlessyou can make it into a costume party. Perhaps the codpieces and dour clothing give even Dougie pause? :think:

[mockingbird]

Why are they supporting the Revolutionary War? Shouldn't America have been submitting to England? If only the colonists had prayed more, maybe God would have laid it on King George's heart to free them without having to rebel.

[synchroswimr]

Why are they supporting the Revolutionary War? Shouldn't America have been submitting to England? If only the colonists had prayed more, maybe God would have laid it on King George's heart to free them without having to rebel.

No, no, no... Amurrika is the GREATEST. COUNTRY. EVARRR. We have never done anything wrong. We are the bestest, and don't you forget it.

[fluttershies]

Doesn't Peter Bradrick have a son named Cromwell? Although in VF world, it isn't a fabulous historical event unlessyou can make it into a costume party. Perhaps the codpieces and dour clothing give even Dougie pause? :think:

Damn, I dimly remember Kim at LiaS giving Chicken Poop Deck Baby 'Cromwell' as a middle name.

Also codpieces weren't around by the time the English Civil Wars rolled around - and don't forget the Cavaliers! Although they were the losers....

[fluttershies]

Why are they supporting the Revolutionary War? Shouldn't America have been submitting to England? If only the colonists had prayed more, maybe God would have laid it on King George's heart to free them without having to rebel.

King George was an ebil Anglican though, only one step away from ebil Catholicism!

[Guest Anonymous]

Damn, I dimly remember Kim at LiaS giving Chicken Poop Deck Baby 'Cromwell' as a middle name.

Also codpieces weren't around by the time the English Civil Wars rolled around - and don't forget the Cavaliers! Although they were the losers....

Yeah, but they did have great hair, and lace collars, and thigh boots. That should be enough to start.

[SamuraiKatz]

And the website was designed by Serven Design? THE Servens? Oh and it's an "online" tour....lame.

The Botkin men need to give it up already....

[tropaka]

Wow, they really want to push the South, don't they? (of course, I'm Canadian and have several "Loyalists" who fled to (the free land in) Canada in my background).

[thoughtful]

Yeah, but they did have great hair, and lace collars, and thigh boots. That should be enough to start.

Thigh boots, Dougie -- THIGH BOOTS!

C'mon, you know you want to . . .

[snarkbillie]

I'm confused. Are we talking about the Revolutionary war or the American Civil war? The Revolutionary war wasn't a north/south thing.

[Conuly]

I'm confused. Are we talking about the Revolutionary war or the American Civil war? The Revolutionary war wasn't a north/south thing.

Well, that's one perspective. Apparently there are others.

*thinks*

I suppose if you consider Canada "the North" and the USA "the South" it IS a North/South thing in that loyalists often fled up North to be safe. But that's beside the point.

[Elle]

I'm confused. Are we talking about the Revolutionary war or the American Civil war? The Revolutionary war wasn't a north/south thing.

You seem to think these people every get anything correct. They'd never side with the parts of American that went on to be the Union in the Civil War. I do not think they're referring to Canada being the North and the US being the South. I don't think those idiots realize Canada has the same queen as the UK (or king and England in those days). I think in the Botflies' heads these events were so close together (a general "long time ago") that the US North and South had already firmly divided, and their "brave boys" saved the day and are the reason America managed to separate once and for all from England.

[Marian the Librarian]

Yet another bushel of Botkin bloviation...

[Maude]

I'd pay to see the Botkins debate with an actual historian (provided the funds go towards promoting actual history).

[Sweetpea1]

Thigh boots, Dougie -- THIGH BOOTS!

C'mon, you know you want to . . .

:lol: :lol:

I'd pay to see the Botkins debate with an actual historian (provided the funds go towards promoting actual history).

I'd donate to that cause.

[RR88]

The American Revolution is one of my favorite eras of history. I wish fundies would stop co-opting all the cool stuff that I like. :(

[RR88]

King George was an ebil Anglican though, only one step away from ebil Catholicism!

:lol: Both of you gave me a chuckle.