(October 3, 2012 at 8:00 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Two possible scenarios here, either someone is hazy on the concept of "manifest destiny" and how that played into American expansion...or they were intentionally shitty textbooks. That a mythical narrative was spun is undeniable, but by whom and why can be a little bit more complicated. Manifest Destiny was primarily pretext and political capital. That large segments of our population could be led so easily to throw their chips in with such a thing is hardly surprising, we still are.
They weren't textbooks. I'll try to find them and link them here if there's previews on google books. They'd be funny to read.
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"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
