I was watching a couple hours of random TV while working on getting over illness and came across some chatter about faith based initiatives. Through the course of the chatter, one of the panel brought up the idea that each country in the scope of the conversation had a burden to carry from its founders that is impacting conventional issues.
A few examples:
Canada - the French
Australia - the Criminals
United States - the Puritans
Talk about a provocative concept. Which is the worst? The French? Nah, they're separatists and offer little to the Canadian people and country, but that's a relatively light burden. Criminals? If anything, that helped Australia based on the state of that country today.
It's the puritans hands down as I see it.
The very concept of puritanism is yet another one of those 'safe enough sounding on paper but a huge mess when implemented' things. How many times have you seen, read or heard about one of those down the nose lookers (often republican types) being caught with his hands in another guy's pants, or sending naughty emails to underage guys, or being on the top 10 client list at a brothel? I inwardly smile and slowly shake my head when I see the verbal venom slinging preachers vilifying the very things they are most likely involved in, or secretly craving to jump into with both feet.
Puritan is directly interchangeable with hypocrite for most intents and purposes, especially in public life (politics, celebrity etc.) as far as I'm concerned.
If I had the time or the inclination, I'd blog up a list as I cruise around reading about all the recent examples. Instead I'll go with:
Hell, just google 'moral scandal', 'republican scandal' (which is basically synonymous with the previous), 'evangelist likes little boys' or any similar mix of those words.
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