When did the schools start revising American History to ignor the religious nature of our founding?

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The Honorable the Congress having recommended it to the United States to set apart Thursday the 6th of May next to be observed as a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer, to acknowledge the gracious interpositions of Providence; to deprecate [to pray or intreat that a present evil may be removed] deserved punishment for our Sins and Ingratitiude, to unitedly implore the Protection of Heaven; Success to our Arms and the Arms of our Ally: The Commander in Chief enjoins a religious observance of said day and directs the Chaplains to prepare discourses proper for the occasion; strictly forbidding all recreations and unnecessary labor.” —George Washington, First President of the United States..religious zealot that wanted a theocracy.... wait what...

All Through American History great speeches were made from Presidents and Generals with references to Our Lord and Creator Our Forefathers knew first hand how religious persecution felt in Europe The very reason why our ancestors came to America progressives wish to erase this part of history

Great question! I can't wait for someone on the left to cite separation of church and state! the left can't admit to themselves or anybody else that the very passing of the separation of church and state was unconstitutional. Only way it passed was because of a liberal supreme court.

This country was founded on religious principles! Even back in the 70s-80s when I was in school, the Constitution was still taught and mentions of religion were added into American History classes. Todays kids aren't being taught, they're being indoctrinated to a secular belief system that is supported by the federal government (not just this administration but for the past 10-20 years). Odd how with the changing of the way of teaching (ie the exclusion of the arts, American History, Econ, government, PE and other classes) that the education and knowledge of todays youth has taken a nosedive!

via fact maximum USians are a minimum of social christians, so as that they the two do not recommendations or like, those religious intrusions into the common public sphere, and that they don't evaluate that greater faith of their public lives would mean being greater like Iran, with much less freedom for each guy or woman, and with what the U. S. founders warned against, direct state involvement with putting faith into government. people who call for greater XTian ideology being made a factor of government have faith that as long as they're those On right, that thats a competent factor. Narcissism which includes that may not uncommon, yet this way of severe narcissism is rarer. Its form of like NIMBYism.

The Founding Fathers were products of the Enlightenment. Yes they were Christian (or Deist), but the Enlightenment was notable for how SECULAR it was, not how religious it was. The 1700s was not far removed from the era of religious warfare and intolerance that swept through Europe. The Enlightenment emphasized reason over religious dogma, and it emphasized freedom of religion and religious tolerance. The Founders were NOT trying to create a Christian theocracy, like Santorum and his ilk seem to want.

Do youselves a favor and read up on the Enlightenment. I'm sure you've never heard of it if you are a Republican. It basically shaped our entire country/government and started the American Revolution. But conservatives would like to pretend it never happened, and that the Founders were holy crusaders. Sorry, but they just weren't. Thomas Jeffereson (who wrote the Declaration of Independence) and James Madison (who was the main author of the Constitution) BOTH believed in the separation of church and state.

Thumbs down for the truth? You conservatives are pathetic. Google "enlightenment." Please. You might gain some.

Since the Founders were products of the Enlightenment, and the Enlightenment was notable for how secular it was compared to the previous era, it would be silly for textbooks to portray the Founders as Bible-thumpers. That would be like textbooks saying the hippies of the 1970s were notable for their Christianity. While most hippies were Christians, they were noteworthy for the anti-war movement, counter-culture, drug use, etc.

Dont worry, the American Ayatollahs made up for it by putting In God We Trust on coins.

Now you can feel safe abt America' "religious nature."

It's perfectly obvious anyway, the Traditional Conservatives voting to eliminate funding for AZ's organ transplant list wasnt unChristian or unCharitable, it was just teaching Moral Responsibility.

Hey, there's always collateral damage, things happen, the Lord works in myterious ways.

Holy crap, are you honestly using TJ as an example of a Christian Founding Father? Hop on the bus, son, it's time for me to take you to school.

"History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes."

-Thomas Jefferson to Alexander von Humboldt, Dec. 6, 1813.

"The whole history of these books [the Gospels] is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and such tricks have been played with their text, and with the texts of other books relating to them, that we have a right, from that cause, to entertain much doubt what parts of them are genuine. In the New Testament there is internal evidence that parts of it have proceeded from an extraordinary man; and that other parts are of the fabric of very inferior minds. It is as easy to separate those parts, as to pick out diamonds from dunghills."

-Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Adams, January 24, 1814

"Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law."

-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper, February 10, 1814

"In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own."

-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Horatio G. Spafford, March 17, 1814

"Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him [Jesus] by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence; and others again of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism, and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same being."

-Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Short, April 13, 1820

I could keep going.

They started doing it in the 30's when the 'Progressive' movement started gaining momentum. There are ENDLESS quotes from the Founders speaking about God. If you want a good History of this Country, read A Patriots History of The United States, by Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen, it will tell you the Truth.

Not soon enough. I am so sick and tired of the phony bologna, and keep your stupid-*** religion out of my government. If you want to live in a theocracy, go live in Iran.

Well said. Our founding fathers were also very moved by making sure that the church and the state were separate as they were ostracized for their religious beliefs in the countries their families fled.