Steve HermanJul 5, 2023
On the #4thofJuly, a US senator tweeted a fake quote from one of America’s founding patriots. https://fakehistory.wordpress.com/2009/06/14/fake-quotations-patrick-henry-on-religionists/
Fake Quotations: Patrick Henry on “Religionists”

Did Patrick Henry say: It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Chr…

Fake History
Show threadSteve HermanJul 5, 2023
Such fake quotes are part of a campaign by some on the political right to challenge a traditional value of the American political system — separation of church and state —and have the US officially proclaimed as a “Christian nation.” https://www.npr.org/2023/02/14/1156642544/more-than-half-of-republicans-support-christian-nationalism-according-to-a-new-s
Show threadClayton Slaughter
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They don’t have to.
The Robert’s Court is making it so with revisionist rulings and selective memory.
Jul 5, 2023 at 9:54pmWeb