Magical thinking in Texas

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8. Damned fools need to read up on the Nativist Riots in Phladelphia in 1844

which were also called the Prayer Riots.

The WAS{ citizens of Philadelphia, English and German, mostly, thought they were being invaded by the Irish, people they saw as dirty, ignorant, mentally deficient, and worst of all, following a religion long abandoned by sensible people. In a paroxysm of religious weenie wagging,, they passed laws using the KJV bible exclusively in religious studies, recitation of the Lord's Prayer, and of course, the version of the Ten Commandments that were to be posted in every classroom.

Naturally, the Irish weren't having it and fighting between the worst hotheads in both groups ensued. There were a handful of deaths and more serious injuries.

Eventually the laws were repealed as unworkable in a pluralist country, not to mention unconstitutional and downright dangerous. I just hope the religious weenie wagging in Texas ends before there is bloodshed. Texas has too many guns.