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Convince me that the Founding Fathers of the United States of America were the greatest thing in the history of the world since sliced bread and I will lighten up.

You can't be serious?

But your analogy is a bizarre transformation since you are comparing the founder’s understanding of liberalism with modern-day “progressivism”, which is communism (the ideology of modern-day “liberals”).

And if you'll read closely you'll note that this isn't my analogy. I was explaining how those modern "progressivists" see it.

Why the fixation on paganism within the ranks of the Founding Fathers?

Your not even trying to read my posts. You've formed a character of what I must be in your mind, and it doesn't really matter what's in my posts anymore...

then you are not above criticism, contrary to your own personal belief.

Well duh... I practically accused myself of being arrogant, but you must have missed it. The point of my comment was apparently to subtle.

But I am not isolated.

Yes you are if your MO is to characterize your assumed opponents as Streisand[?] ACLU types; as you did with your original post to me. I don't know if this strategy works in some parallel universe or what, but here it's the sign of a lazy mind.

>>>I don’t know if this strategy works in some parallel universe or what, but here it’s the sign of a lazy mind.<<<

Either that, or you are plagued with writer’s laziness. Hard to tell, but there is no doubt that all my friends who read the original post I questioned (all are college grads from good schools, and at least one has a masters) believed you are an elitist, arrogant, Founding Father basher.

I also showed them your first post, which read:

>>>”Well if we work it hard, we could probably interpret America as a the 8th “empire.” When you consider that the Founders were all nerds trying to create some new and better version of pagan antiquity in America, the analogy becomes at lest as plausible as any other.”<<<

They all considered that to be as bizarre as your second post.

In the future, I recommend you refrain from writer’s laziness. For example, if you are making a “tongue-in-cheek” remark, kindly identify it as such. Freepers typically add [/sarcism], the smile :), or other comment to identify “tongue in cheek” remarks. I assume the reason they do this is because we cannot see their body language and facial expressions, nor can we read their minds.

I also recommend that you write in more General-American prose, rather than Northeast-Liberal-Elitist prose. Wait, I think I recommended that in a previous reply.

I also recommend that in the future you refrain from labeling the Founding Fathers as “nerds” working toward “pagan’ goals. That is reasonably convincing evidence that you are a mole — a seminar poster paid by the left to disrupt this web site — and you certainly don’t want that, do you?

I forgot to mention, regarding your statement:

>>>Yes you are if your MO is to characterize your assumed opponents as Streisand[?] ACLU types<<<

Listen up, sonny. It is common knowledge that every Freeper recognizes the “Barbra Streisand” phrase as a substitution for “B.S.” (e.g., for “Bull Sh.t”). I am not surprised you did not know.