(June 9, 2015 at 2:34 pm)SteveII Wrote: Can you give an example how the past was rewritten? Or are you just pointing out that Christians use this idea in political arguments?
It hasn't actually been rewritten. But there are plenty trying. Here's one of the worst offenders...
Quote:Barton has collected 100,000 documents from before 1812 — original or certified copies of letters, sermons, newspaper articles and official documents of the Founding Fathers. He says they prove that the Founding Fathers were deeply religious men who built America on Christian ideas — something you never learn in school.
http://www.npr.org/2012/08/08/157754542/...r-heard-of
Then there are things like the adding of the phrase "under God" into the pledge of allegiance by Christians in the 1950's. There's more, but don't have the time right now...
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
