Unsolicited gratitude from an attorney/mother/teacher whom we've never met: "I love Conservapedia, and was able to check a few things. I learned from you that the first thanksgiving was to give thanks for the Constitution."
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As long as we're retconning the history of the United States, I propose that the first Thanksgiving was to give thanks for gas prices finally dropping below $4 a gallon, that Martin Luther King Jr. was the original host of Survivor, and that George Washington only crossed the Delaware because he realized he'd left his Hot Pockets in the microwave.
I was taught at school (in England) that the first Thanksgiving was by the Pilgrim Fathers to give thanks for their successful settlement in the New World.
What hope do you guys have over there if even your teachers don't know your own history?
"Unsolicited gratitude from an attorney/mother/teacher whom we've never met: "I love Conservapedia, and was able to check a few things. I learned from you that the first thanksgiving was to give thanks for the Constitution.""
I didn't know Patriot University granted law degrees. Apparently this one specializes in Constitutional law.
Well, once again my theory that the Pilgrims were actually a race of time traveling aliens is confirmed!
I'll just disregard that notion that the first mention of a feast of giving thanks was after a group of settlers returned from destroying a native village without any loss of (European) life.
I'm actually starting to feel sorry for Andy. It's nigh impossible for someone to be so fucked in the head without someone, probably his venomous mother, fucking with one's head. The only question I still have is; was the abuse purely emotional or was the poor retard actually deprived of oxygen and/or lobotomized as a child?
Andy, you fail at reason,
*sporf*
WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *cough* *choke*
First of all, I doubt it was "unsolicited", or even from an attorney/mother/teacher -- it sounds like something Andy wrote himself.
Secondly, the Constitution hadn't been written yet....
>"I learned from you that the first thanksgiving was to give thanks for the Constitution"
>>"first thanksgiving was to give thanks for the Constitution"
>>>"first thanksgiving Constitution"
WAT
It's possible the attorney/mother/teacher was joking and Andy took it seriously.
Also possible, she misread this:
http://conservapedia.com/United_States_Constitution
"Established on November 26, 1789, the first national "Thanksgiving Day" was originally created by George Washington as a way of "giving thanks" for the Constitution."
First "national" Thanksgiving Day (i.e, first one established by the US gov't), not first Thanksgiving ever.
Either way, Andy comes out a moron.
Alright, so we've had the Fundie index for less than a year now. If you add up Andy's 33 quotes posted here since then you get a total Fundie index of 1553 . The few frequently quoted fundies I could think of were nowhere near this. He's averaging 47 per quote (104 is enough to get you into the Top 100, where he already has two quotes).
I think we've stumbled onto a level of fundie here that, until now, has been only theorized to exist.
OK, I don't know whether the "attorney/mother/teacher" in question was stupid or a Poe, but Andy has no excuse. This man claims to be an educator. That someone said something this stupid is hilarious; that a man who claims to provide a reasonable equivalent to a high school education is endorsing this is frightening.
...As President, on October 3, 1789, George Washington made the following proclamation and created the first Thanksgiving Day designated by the national government of the United States of America:...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving_(United_States)
He gave thanks to a lot of things, including constitutions.
If you have to specify "unsolicited" and "whom we've never met", then I get really, really curious. That's like "a friend of mine" needing or wanting something.
I'm Swedish, and I had a feeling that the first thanksgiving ever must have been much earlier than the 1780's. know for a fact, but it felt very wrong, the statement from Conservapedia.know .
Ok, an attorney-mother-teacher, or a 200 pounds momma boy looked in the basement?. Since you never met them and the statement is dumb, I don't know if this is for real.
To Night Jaguar
Also possible, she misread this:
http://conservapedia.com/United_States_Constitution
"Established on November 26, 1789, the first national "Thanksgiving Day" was originally created by George Washington as a way of "giving thanks" for the Constitution."
First "national" Thanksgiving Day (i.e, first one established by the US gov't), not first Thanksgiving ever.
That has to be it. At least this way it only looks mildly off.
Well, as Thanksgiving is just a renaming of fall harvest celebrations (a European pagan practice, ever wonder why the cornucopia full of foods visual is still used?) co-opted into Christianity I could care less about it's 'official American' counterpart.
Just something else Christian Americans have twisted to their own purposes
It seems to me like the attorney/mother/teacher was being sarcastic.
Of course, Andy is too retarded to realize that.
Andy, I think that might actually be a criticism, not praise. Because, y'know, the information she "learned" from your site was, well, wrong.
Wait, an attorney/mother/teacher? Sounds like one of those damn femi-nazis to me! Everyone knows that "Suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence."
I agree that she was just messing with him but he was so impressed with himself that he didn't notice. Dunning-Kruger effect I tells ya.
"Unsolicited gratitude from an attorney/mother/teacher whom we've never met"
brb laughing very hard
Okay, I half-believe that Andy's just a troll. His dedication leaves to be desired, though.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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