Check out these two excerpts from the 1691 New England Primer:
In Adam’s Fall
We Sinned all.Thy Life to Mend
This Book Attend.
Where were the protesters and objectors and suers?
And the parents — didn’t they care?!
Where were the legislatures and the courts and the governors and the city counselors and the district attorneys and the meter maids?
What about equality and equal time and fairness doctrines for other religions and non-religions?
Didn’t they care separation of church and state?
And the poor children with such dreadful thoughts poked in their heads!
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Ah, those were the days. No wonder the country then was in such poor shape. 😯
(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.)