Man Made God in Man's Image

There are many reports dealing with Emporer Nero The Donald's (better than Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and Napoleon Bonaparte) fixation on his White-Supremacy-Evangelical-Protestant morons connected to America 250. Here's one from the usual suspect.

Cardinal Robert McElroy, the Roman Catholic archbishop of Washington, said in a recent interview that language describing America as a Christian nation "can be destructive," especially when it's used to center culture around the exclusion of certain groups.

Some 80 years ago, Catholics were routinely excluded in American public life, he said.

"They wouldn't say, this is a Christian nation, they'd say, it is a Protestant nation," he said.

And, for the record, this is the relevant bit of the 1^st

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof

We ain't just Puritans.

Roger Williams was kicked out of Massachusetts even before there was a USofA.

Initially a Puritan minister, his beliefs evolved and he questioned the authority of the Puritan church in enforcing religious conformity. He was expelled by the Puritan leaders from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and he established Providence Plantations in 1636 as a refuge offering what he termed "liberty of conscience" making Rhode Island the first government in the Western world to guarantee religious freedom in its founding charter.

Jews attempting to escape Nazis were barred from coming to America, fur instance.

And so on.

Ya cain't have all them dirty Irish and German and Italian folk "poisoning the blood of our country" during the 19^th century, and even the earliest part of the 20^th. As Emporer Nero The Donald (better than Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and Napoleon Bonaparte) says it.

"No Irish need apply." A history. It wasn't just the jingoists of the 19^th century

The 1924 National Origins Quota Act (known as the Johnson-Reed Act) establishes that quotas will be calculated based on 2 percent of each nationality's proportion of the foreign-born US population in 1890, as indicated in the 1890 census. The use of the 1890 census to set the quotas is criticized as discriminating against southern and eastern Europeans, who arrived in the United States in greater numbers during the last decade of the 19th century and the first two decades of the 20th century. Students, nationals of Western Hemisphere countries, members of certain professions, and the wives and minor children of US citizens are exempted from the quotas.

The Dark Ages were impelled by religious zealotry. It's gonna be a rough ride. Tom Lehrer gets it on the nose, yet again.