[MuttTheHoople]

No wonder they lost the Revolutionary War! In Sunday School in the mid-1990's, our teacher explained to us that England during the Revolution was a morally reprehensible place. We caught G. britain at the right time to break from them. It was before the Wesleyan revival had truly taken hold, and the leadership in both the Army and Navy was generally weak and incompetent (how else would explain the Colonial success against the Royal Navy during the war?).

Nobility was engaged in drunkenness, wife-swapping, prostitution was rife. The British mocked the colonists as a bunch of religious bible-thumpers because we were morally strict for the times.

We had a tougher time with the british in the War of 1812, because the nation had more fully embraced Christianity, and it's people weren't as debauched. We were lucky that GB didn't take us back over.

[Morpheus2009]

wife-swapping? WHAT?!!!

[TruthWillWin]

Thanks for the history lession.

I was sorta joking but sounds like I was accurate.

[Yulee]

The British mocked the colonists as a bunch of religious bible-thumpers because we were morally strict for the times.
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Isn’t that exactly what the Europeans have claimed Americans are for over a century, “bible-thumpers”.

[gleeaikin]

England was also very busy fighting to hold on to much more valuable India during the Revolutionary War. I don’t know how much that might have changed by 1812. In addition, French were our allies in the RW. By 1812, they were full bore Napoleon marching on Moscow, and had no spare energy to help America.

[Pelham]

“The British mocked the colonists as a bunch of religious bible-thumpers because we were morally strict for the times.”

Evidently they hadn’t met Ben Franklin.

In reality lot of colonial Americans might embarrass their modest descendents of today.

At least the ones outside of the joyless Puritan re-education camp up in New England, who even found celebrating Christmas to be too carnal to be permitted.