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[-] vis4valentine@lemmy.ml 91 points 10 months ago

Illustrations thinkers: CHURCH AND STATE SHOULD BE SEPARATED! French revolutionaries: CHURCH AND STATE SHOULD BE SEPARATED! US founding fathers: CHURCH AND STATE SHOULD BE SEPARATED!

Republicans for some reason: Yeah, I'm pretty sure our founding fathers wanted a theocratic dictatorship **source: trust me bro**

How can they get away with being so historically wrong and doing such a revisionism?

[-] TallonMetroid@lemmy.world 49 points 10 months ago

Spend 50 years dismantling public education and you, too, can get the rubes to believe whatever the hell you want.

[-] Fixbeat@lemmy.ml 23 points 10 months ago

Their base does and thinks whatever they are told, just like in church.

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Illustration

Do you mean enlightenment?

[-] vis4valentine@lemmy.ml 10 points 10 months ago

Yes, In spanish is called "La Ilustración" and didn't realize that there is a different word for it in english.

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Interesting, cheers

[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 8 points 10 months ago

church = state

source: made-it-the-fuck-up

[-] numbermess@beehaw.org 4 points 10 months ago

They don’t think they’re wrong. They just think the people who tried this before didn’t do it right.

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