Misrepresenting our Founding Fathers (to include other notable free-thinkers)

[Something completely different]

No, I wanted to avoid the almost inevitable piling on from that anti-American faction.

I am certainly not anti American. It is infact my opinion that it was the American revolution which lit the spark for all the revolutions which would occure in Europe during the 19th century.

Just look at the Flag of the Irish Republicans during the 19th century:



Or one of the flags raised in the failed 1848 German revolution:



I am certainly not someone who doubts the historic significants of the American revolution and I am certainly not anti american.

I simply believe that political nostalgia and the invoking of a glorious mystified past is something very dangerous and damaging for a democratic society - everywhere in this world.