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Give us another forbidden amhist take!

Anonymous asked:

Give us another forbidden amhist take!

America has already birthed its signature religion in Mormonism, the LDS Movement coming out of our most intense cultural moment, the Second Great Awakening Burnt-Over District

In response we chased them across the continent and raised mobs against them and lynched their founder-prophet and the government of Missouri declared an honest-to-god extermination campaign against them and they fled to the barren desert and we still sent armies against them in what was a comically transparent update of the Christian and specifically Protestant and specifically Protestant dissenter persecution narratives that American culture was founded on

And by the Constantinian timeline we still have a century-plus left until the country converts en masse as a palingenetic gambit

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