shrine to the prophet of americana

Give us another forbidden amhist take!

Anonymous asked: Give us another forbidden amhist take!

kontextmaschine:

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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