Old news to some, but good stuff to keep in mind during Bush's second four years of Christendom-building... Via Art & Letters Daily:
While France and Spain tightly controlled emigration to their New World colonies to ensure both political and religious orthodoxy, Britain took a different approach entirely. In fact, the British state did not even found the various North American colonies. They were established by profitseeking corporations such as the Virginia Company and proprietors such as Lord Baltimore and William Penn.
- John Steele Gordon
Lets stop celebrating our profiteering as goodwill and call Iraq Et Al what it is - it's a damn shame this shroud of capitalism has gotten wrapped up in pseudo-moral posturing and Christian evangelism...
While France and Spain tightly controlled emigration to their New World colonies to ensure both political and religious orthodoxy, Britain took a different approach entirely. In fact, the British state did not even found the various North American colonies. They were established by profitseeking corporations such as the Virginia Company and proprietors such as Lord Baltimore and William Penn.
- John Steele Gordon
Lets stop celebrating our profiteering as goodwill and call Iraq Et Al what it is - it's a damn shame this shroud of capitalism has gotten wrapped up in pseudo-moral posturing and Christian evangelism...