--- In [email protected], "Rory Goff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], off_world_beings > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > <snip> > > > Nope. America = Liberal and there's no denying it. Right wing > > > religious nuts don't belong here...and they know it. > > > Liberal = American, and the day that changes....it's not > > > America anymore. > > > > Actually America was first *settled* by right- > > wing religious nuts who came here because they > > were being persecuted for their nuttiness in > > the Old Country. > > Not sure this is totally true -- Cape Ann and Salem, Mass., and > Maine, for example, were settled by a bunch of people wanting to > fish in peace until the Massachusetts Puritan fundies arrived in > 1630 and immediately took over Salem (and annexed Maine a bit > later). Both the Popham Colony and the Jamestown Colony were > founded in 1607, before the Mayflower Separatists of 1620. And what > about St. Augustine, Florida? (And if by "America" you mean more > than the USA, then we have a whole new ballgame.)
I meant the USA, and I'll take your word for the numerous exceptions, with thanks. It's just that it was the Puritans who got all the publicity. And there *does* seem to be a lot of evidence > that even the USA was colonized by numerous cultures through the > millenia, if you believe Barry Fell at all :-) AAAAGGGGHHHH. I try to be politically correct, truly I do... Country had been settled for centuries (millennia?) by the <cough> Native Americans before the first post-Columbian Europeans showed up, of course, not to mention God knows how many other visitors from afar who put down roots for a while. > But still and all, I agree with your understanding of the "right- > wing nuttiness" of the fundy Puritans, for sure :-) I do wonder what they would have thought of today's religious right, though. I suspect there would have been at least a few rather strong points of disapproval. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
