During the warring period between Britain and the 13 Colonies of the "New World", There are a lot of pictures of propaganda, and the pictures mostly are of snakes. One, with the caption of "Don't Tread on me,""Join or Die", many bold statements and all the slogans, flags, posters, whatnot, have snakes on them. Why snakes? Does it have anything to do perhaps, with the Bible, and Christianity being the Brits main religion? At least, that's what I think it is. There a few points of evidence I can refer to here on my theory. One, the Americans, Puritans, hated the British for many reasons, kicking them out of Britain being one of them. Two, Puritanism was very different from Christianity, and the British kicked the Puritans out in the first place because they were not following Christianity. Three, Puritans didn't care for the Christians (Duh). And our conclusion? Puritans made Americas "Mascot", a snake because they were such horrid animals to the British, and they were pretty much the same as demons. There are probably more "correct" reasons as to why the Americans used a snake as their poster critter, but my theory is both interesting, and opposes the British so I win. Also on a side note, snakes are pretty scary man, if you step on a rattle snake, you better be wearing long pants or you're going straight to the ER. That probably added some effect to the whole, "Don't tread on me" to make it, "Don't tread on me unless you want to go to your medic and have to get your leg sawed off" Not very appealing.
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I agree with you, but you didn't explain why snakes are considered evil in Christianity. The reason is because, in the book of Genesis, Satan takes the form of a serpent in order to temp Adam and Eve into eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good an evil. Because of this, sin came into existence. Basically, a serpent, who is most commonly depicted as a snake, screwed the world up.
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