The Onion nails it again

 Posted by on 14 November 2009  Modern Life
Nov 142009
 

Sometimes, satirical newspaper The Onion is just so on that I can’t believe it. I loved their latest:

Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be

Spurred by an administration he believes to be guilty of numerous transgressions, self-described American patriot Kyle Mortensen, 47, is a vehement defender of ideas he seems to think are enshrined in the U.S. Constitution and principles that brave men have fought and died for solely in his head.

“Right there in the preamble, the authors make their priorities clear: ‘one nation under God,’” said Mortensen, attributing to the Constitution a line from the Pledge of Allegiance, which itself did not include any reference to a deity until 1954. “Well, there’s a reason they put that right at the top.”

“Men like Madison and Jefferson were moved by the ideals of Christianity, and wanted the United States to reflect those values as a Christian nation,” continued Mortensen, referring to the “Father of the Constitution,” James Madison, considered by many historians to be an atheist, and Thomas Jefferson, an Enlightenment-era thinker who rejected the divinity of Christ and was in France at the time the document was written. “The words on the page speak for themselves.”

There’s more!

Grant Hamilton

  • http://www.absurdintellectual.com Amy Breen

    The insistence that America was founded as a Christian state always makes me kind of laugh, because, as the article pointed out, many of the men involved weren’t Christians, but deists and atheists.

  • Colin

    They really do satire in the classical definition of the word.
    One that had me on the floor was a recent headline: “American Muslims to Fort Hood shooter: Thanks a lot, asshole”

    Brilliant.