Good to see y’all Papists in here on Sunday morning. Aren’t you supposed to be at Mass?
Those of us descended from the Roundheads look past Lord Protector Cromwell’s um, faults to see his magnificent achievement in bringing the idea of the Republic to life.
Next you’ll be upset about Drogheda or something!
But why did you follow us here, Darlings? Couldn’t you have just moved to France or Rome?
I have an objection to the lauding of men like Cromwell, who --- you want me to believe --- "brought the idea of the Republic to life" by ruling via unlimited tyranny and bringing so many of his subjects and neighbors to death.
"But why did you follow us here, Darlings? Couldn’t you have just moved to France or Rome?"
It would be clearer if you would specify who is this "you" you are addressing, and what you mean by "Follow us here".
"You" obviously does not mean ME, since my forebears are all Rhineland Palatinate; "here" apparently doesn't indicate Upper East Tennessee.
I didn’t know that Papist was a nickname for deacon in a Southern Baptist church. But that being the case, I guess I’ve been a Papist for the last 13 years. I’ve also been a Sunday school teacher for much of that time as well? What do you call those?
I also didn’t know that being a Protestant meant having to admire genocidal tyrants. Nor did I know that being conservative meant denying that fact that revolutions, even against corrupt regimes, often end up replacing those regimes with something much worse.