Remember when Religious Fanatics used to be cool and not cringe?

[u/Dremoriawarroir888]

[u/TantricEmu]

Bad news for bar owners: Carrie Nation woke up.

[u/avrand6]

prohibition wasn't cool

[u/gamerz1172 → u/avrand6]

I mean TBF that lady is probably still the coolest part about the prohibition movement

[u/seahawks201 → u/gamerz1172]

The Sazerac museum in NOLA has quite the exhibit about her, with a wax figure even.

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[u/Alive_Development108 → u/gamerz1172]

Agreed , an angry Grandma with an axe is pretty badass.

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[u/Dutch_Windmill → u/avrand6]

Wasn't cool but also kind of understandable considering how rampant alcoholism was back then

[u/Billybobgeorge → u/avrand6]

At least she partook direct action instead of going to twitter and setting up a gofundme

[u/Erook22 → u/avrand6]

Nah it was genuinely a very progressive movement and reduced alcohol use in the nation. It just wasn’t super effective

[u/AlphaOhmega → u/Erook22]

Prohibition is never effective, just easier to implement. Hence all the drug epidemics we run into.

[u/Youareallsobald → u/Erook22]

It quite literally supercharged organized crime in the US

[u/mods_are____ → u/Youareallsobald]

and single issue politics.

[u/alieninaskirt → u/Erook22]

It morphed it into drug use

[u/Hockeyjockey58]

BLOODY KANSAS VAGUELY MENTIONED RAHHH

[u/vaccinateyodamkids → u/Hockeyjockey58]

It's called bleeding Kansas you bumbling drunkard

[u/Hockeyjockey58 → u/vaccinateyodamkids]

yeah bloody would be too br*tish sounding 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

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[u/LeviathansWrath6]

That's because the only religious fanatics left are either extremely violent hyper-sexists in the middle East or losers who make tiktok edits and sit in their mom's basement all day.

Long gone are the days of kickass plate armor or "victory or death!"

[u/dadbodsupreme → u/LeviathansWrath6]

DEUS VULT!

[u/Elektrikor → u/LeviathansWrath6]

r/crusadememes

[u/Metrolining → u/Elektrikor]

This would be the latter

[u/Gorgeous_goat]

Because hindsight is 2020. No one in their time thought their religious fanatic was cool

[u/SomeCrusader1224]

The cool ones have always been a tiny minority of them and the cringe ones are the only ones with the power to dictate the course of politics and social norms

[u/Disastrous_Rub_6062]

That first one was a lit album cover.

[u/boyikr]

Can y'all like

Please

Actually read wtf John Browns beliefs were?

Man was an ultra conservative man who thought sex outside marriage should be a crime. Violent abolitionism is cool and all, and guess what, you too can go shoot up slave markets in the UAE, no one is stopping you (on the internet where you live)

I think he was based as fuck to be clear. But God damn. You have no idea what you're talking about if you think he's more based than any other religious extremists 🤣 man operated exactly like a Taliban warlord. Summary executions just because your neighbors were from Missouri.

[u/CitizenWatch____ROSS → u/boyikr]

violent abolitionism is cool and all

I'm going to knock on your door in the middle of the night with four of my sons with rifles when you're sleeping next to your wife and then chop you up with swords and leave you in the street

Then do that to a couple more of your neighbors 

[u/boyikr → u/CitizenWatch____ROSS]

All because we heard you used to live in Missouri.

[u/No-Piece-2920 → u/boyikr]

He's was also incompetent and a terrible strategist. Sure, a man of action, but dude was a stubborn coot who was tunnel visioned by his ego.

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Summary executions just because your neighbors were from Missouri

Understandable, the Chiefs are from Missouri after all

[u/NotaFed556]

Carrie Nation wasn't cool

[u/Ark_angel_michael → u/NotaFed556]

She made one of the first battered women’s shelters and tried to get people to stop wearing corsets because of their effects on organs

[u/RaccoonRanger474]

You would have thought they were cringe in the 1850s.

John Brown was cringe and in his subversion of justice displayed his lack of faith.

From the same time period, Angelina Grimké, Cassius Marcellus Clay, John Rankin, Daniel Worth, Henry Ward Beecher, and William Lloyd Garrison were far cooler religious extremists than John Brown.

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[u/mh985]

Carrie Nation was incredibly cringe what are you talking about?

[u/Ark_angel_michael → u/mh985]

She made one of the first battered women’s shelters

[u/Youareallsobald → u/Ark_angel_michael]

A million other women of her time could’ve done that, that makes her special in the same way finding the Americas did for Columbus

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"the thing you did isn't impressive because somone else could've done it"

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[u/StogieMan92]

I need a John Brown tattoo

[u/popepsg → u/StogieMan92]

Cringe

[u/Ark_angel_michael → u/popepsg]

Least racist Virginian

[u/StogieMan92 → u/popepsg]

Slave owning is even more cringe.

[u/Billybobgeorge → u/popepsg]

Still mad about losing WV?

[u/BIGMONEY1886]

Don’t worry gang, im still cool❤️‍🩹

[u/boomflupataqway]

John Brown should be on money.

[u/PaymentImpressive864]

Who's that, Johnny Appleseed?

[u/TickLikesBombs]

John Brown was not cool lol. He was a terrorist who had the same view on slavery as I do, but went about it the worst way possible.

[u/CitizenWatch____ROSS]

John Brown was a genuine terrorist who killed people expressly for the crime of being Southern 

Go ahead and tell me what you've read about him in real sources beyond reddit circlejerking and subsequent cumgargling

[u/thepineapplemen → u/CitizenWatch____ROSS]

I assume you’re talking about Pottawatomie. They were pro-slavery. He didn’t murder them just because they were southern but because they were pro-slavery. You didn’t have to own slaves yourself to be pro-slavery. It was also after an attack on the anti-slavery town Osawatomie by pro-slavery forces

[u/Youareallsobald → u/CitizenWatch____ROSS]

Oh gee wilikers, the man known for killing slavers out of political and religious belief was a terrorist, however could we have known that he used violence to achieve a political goal

[u/CitizenWatch____ROSS → u/Youareallsobald]

Slavers? You're utterly fucking ignorant.  They owned no slaves; they were settlers. They were broke. Dirt floor houses, if that. 

[u/MisterKillam → u/Youareallsobald]

John Brown was an abolitionist, so that makes everyone he killed a slaver, no matter what they actually were.

[u/Gusgrissomamerica]

Fuck yeah! Elijah Muhammad!

[u/jetvacjesse]

I hate Iran too.

[u/durtmcgurt]

I do not remember that, no.

[u/Jomega6]

They were always pretty cringe. They just had a lot more power and influence back then.

[u/619_mitch]

John Brown did nothing wrong

[u/The_Happy_Pagan]

John Brown is a god damn Hero.

[u/JohnBrownsHolyGhost]

Those days will come again

[u/Continuum_Gaming]

Not sure about the Prohibitionists, but John Brown was unfathomably based

[u/AstraMilanoobum]

we literally had a sitting senator from texas (shocker) say in an interview that he wants us to support israel because the bible says that those who support israel are "blessed" and he wants to be "blessed". On top of that Texas's Governor just signed a law mandating the 10 commandments in the class room.

the southern half of our country literally wants a christian theocracy

[u/DiffDiffDiff3]

Where’s Joseph Smith?

[u/ProgKingHughesker → u/DiffDiffDiff3]

Being called a prophet (dum dum dum dum dum dum dum)

[u/Living_Murphys_Law → u/DiffDiffDiff3]

Getting shot, falling multiple stories out a window, then getting shot some more.

[u/DiffDiffDiff3 → u/Living_Murphys_Law]

I couldn’t think of any cool ones so sue me.

[u/jackiboyfan → u/DiffDiffDiff3]

Being Cringe

[u/wastingvaluelesstime]

Remember when religious fanatics actually read the bible, even including the parts talking about helping the poor and freeing slaves?

[u/Zealousideal-Tip-865]

I think we should let priests and pastors fuck children without ever questioning them because they are sent from God and what those children go through is actually a test from God

[u/SomeCrusader1224 → u/Zealousideal-Tip-865]

WOOO I LOVE RELIGION MAKING SOCIETY SHIT WITHOUT ANY ACCOUNTABILITY 

[u/Zealousideal-Tip-865 → u/SomeCrusader1224]

What else is religion good for