Students in this class want to remake America. They want to bring it back to what they say it once was: a nation established by Christians, for Christians.
They're taught that this is their birthright. They need only reach out and take it.
I really dislike this elitist bullshit! The idea that you are somehow special or chosen by God is precisely how groups attract frightened little people into joining their organizations and help them to put forth an agenda that is usually not terribly open to alternate points of view.
On the screen, Barton talks about the Founding Fathers. Many of them were evangelical Christians, he says. He says that Benjamin Franklin called for prayer at the Constitutional Convention. He says that, through prayer, George Washington made himself bulletproof during the French and Indian War.
Studies show, he says, that 97 percent of Americans believe in God. Only 3 percent are atheists.
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We've been robbed," Barton says. "Robbed by the 3 percent. The 3 percent has taken away our heritage. We've got to get involved and take it back."
George Washington was bulletproof? Damn if they would have taught history like that to me in the second grade I would have payed closer attention. Morons!
And this supposed poll that shows that 97% of Americans believe in God is terribly misleading. That assumes that all of those individuals believe in the Christian God which is incorrect.
And by the way those of us who are not religious make up 16% of the worlds population which makes people of our belief system (or lack of a belief system) the third largest in the world. Christians make up 33% of the worlds population.
This kind of self serving historial revisionism is harmful in the long run because it serves to further separate those with differing religious beliefs. If we are each taught a different version of reality how can we ever find a common ground?
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