"Be you Anglican, Baptist, Anabaptist, Puritan, or even Pietist, then worry not in regard to having weighty Stones of sharp points cast upon your Person, or your Land salted and your Mule burnt to the ground as is done to the hooked-nose JEW, and allay your fears of being beat'n about the Head and Boddie, covered in Quick-lime, Tarr, and Ground-Glass, and driven into the Sea, as is the much deserv'd Lot of the wicked PAPIST."
From The Onion, 1783.
Monday, October 06, 2008
"Citizens Are Now Free to Practise Any Form Of Protestantism They Want"
Labels:
1780s,
American Revolution,
cultural history,
humor,
political history,
religion
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