Check out these two excerpts from the 1691 New England Primer:<\/p>\n
In Adam’s Fall
\nWe Sinned all.<\/p>\nThy Life to Mend
\nThis Book Attend.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nWhere were the protesters and objectors and suers?<\/p>\n
And the parents — didn’t they care?!<\/p>\n
Where were the legislatures and the courts and the governors and the city counselors and the district attorneys and the meter maids?<\/p>\n
What about equality and equal time and fairness doctrines for other religions and non-religions?<\/p>\n
Didn’t they care separation of church and state?<\/p>\n
And the poor children with such dreadful thoughts poked in their heads!<\/p>\n
\ud83d\ude44<\/p>\n
Ah, those were the days. No wonder the country then was in such poor shape. \ud83d\ude2f<\/p>\n
(And I suppose next we’ll hear parents spanked their children and made them be quiet at the table and didn’t let them play all rowdy-like on Sundays.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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