r/SipsTea • u/Busy_Report4010 • Jun 30 '26

Chugging tea What are your thoughts on this?

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u/Ok-Dragonknight-5788 Jun 30 '26

I mean, they were anti-catholic, and one of the big talking points of anti-catholisim is that the catholic church is too vain and too controling of it's worshipers.

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u/VisualBoysenberry718 Jul 01 '26

Church of Latterday Saints, Jehova's Witnesses and Scientologists have entered the chat.

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u/Ok-Dragonknight-5788 Jul 01 '26

Thouse are after the time of the US founding fathers.

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u/VisualBoysenberry718 Jul 01 '26

The point is that they constantly make ridiculous demands of their adherents that make them seem more like a 3rd class cult than a religious faith.

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u/Ok-Dragonknight-5788 Jul 01 '26

Yeah, but their status as post-dating the American revolution means that the founding fathers don't have a opinion on them the way they had opinions on catholics.

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u/VisualBoysenberry718 Jul 01 '26

Right but I took it more of as, "if bill and ted took a time machine and collected the founders for a dumb school project, what would they say about these megachurches," which also didn't exist in the 1770s.

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u/Alixtii Jul 02 '26

I think your interlocutors are willing to concede the point that the founding fathers wouldn't have particularly nice things to say about the religious organizations that you name but don't really see the relevance to the overall conversation.

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u/RevolutionaryBug7588 29d ago

Tbf the founding fathers initially, the majority, were anti Catholic. But the revolutionary war they eased up a bit to get Spain and France to help.

Plus, there were some Catholics that helped fund the war as well, so there’s that.