Well, here it is Sunday, a day in which millions upon millions of Americans will go to church and Sunday school. These millions of Americans, a significant portion of them children, will be taught diverse things, much of it from the Bible. I don't really have any problem with this, except for the fact that in many of these Sunday school classes both adults and children will be taught fiction as fact, myth as reality, and superstition as common sense. To me, that's not only sad, but unhealthy.
In many of these churches across our land, here's one myth that is going to be taught: America is by heritage and design a Christian nation. According to this myth, the "Founding Fathers", i.e. the men who gathered, debated, framed, drafted, created, designed, and wrought the U.S. Constitution did so using the Bible as their main source of inspiration and reference. This myth is, of course, utter baloney sauce. It is history revisionism at its worst. More specifically, it is fundamentalist, Religious Right Christian history revisionism, and is utter nonsense. Nonsense promoted as truth is something I do have a problem with.
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