A historian posts a diary over at DailyKOS with a summary of the how the theocratic forces of today are trying to rewrite history, in a propaganda attempt to convince people that the USA was founded as “A Christian Nation”.

The author argues that 200 years ago the Christian Right opposed our Constitution because it did not give a role to Religion or God. But now the Christian Right is proclaiming that we WERE founded as a Christian Nation. That’s just plain revisionism.

Daily Kos :: The Weakest Link of the Christian Right

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It is long past time for a more concerted effort to challenge the Christian Right on its misrepresentations of our history. I talked alot about Christian nationalism and what’s wrong with it in my book Eternal Hostility: The Struggle Between Theocracy and Democracy. (I also highly recommend The Godless Constitution, by Isaac Kramnick.) We have to challenge a form of historical revisionism that the late theocratic theologian R.J. Rushdoony called “Christian revisionism.”

We do not need to start from scratch. The battle has been underway for some time. Just today, blogger Bruce Prescott links to a story in the Houston Chronicle that details how mainstream Baptists are taking on Christian theocrat Rick Scarborough who heads the political organization, Vision America. “I think he’s a very dangerous man,” said [David] Currie, also a former pastor and a devout Baptist, in a recent interview. “That whole ‘Christian nation’ movement is attempting to undermine the absolute strength and genius of this country, and that’s the First Amendment…. To make judges a religious issue is ludicrous.”

Let’s step into the fray. Let’s start to see ourselves as part of the story of our nation — and not allow the Christian Right to twist our history in support of their contemporary theocratic agenda.