Liberals’ Lies about Religion in American History
- Selwyn Duke - JBS.org
- Jun 21, 2010
When I was in high school in the early 1980s, I knew that my education was a cakewalk as compared to that of two generations earlier. And I assumed the other teens knew this, too. It took me a while to understand that many people are so immersed in their age that, to them, history is a mystery. How does one understand a past he has never experienced? Here’s how I explain it: If a doctor knows the pathology of a certain disease, can’t he look at a patient with an advanced case of it and tell you what the symptoms would have been during the early stages?
So it is with civilization. If you understand what social disease ails yours, you can “run the tape backwards” and have a good idea what the state of the patient was many years before. This brings us to the subject of creeping secularism and religion in America.
The Texas Board of Education (TBE) has been receiving a lot of criticism for its recent decision to revise the left’s revisionist history (otherwise known as restoring tradition). And what really irks liberals is the board’s decision to emphasize America’s religious heritage. As an example of this irksomeness, TBE member and Liberty University School of Law professor Cynthia Dunbar read the following invocation during closing arguments over the education standards:
I believe no one can read the history of our country without realizing that the Good Book and the spirit of the Savior have from the beginning been our guiding geniuses. Whether we look to the first Charter of Virginia or the Charter of New England or the Charter of Massachusetts Bay or the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, the same objective is present – a Christian land governed by Christian principles. I believe the entire Bill of Rights came into being because of the knowledge our forefathers had of the Bible and their belief in it: freedom of belief, of expression, of assembly, of petition, the dignity of the individual, the sanctity of the home, equal justice under law, and the reservation of powers to the people... I like to believe we are living today in the spirit of the Christian religion. I like also to believe that as long as we do so, no great harm can come to our country.
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