Buffman (Glen P Goffin) Religious Propaganda #5
Originally posted in Secular web Church state seperation forum
March 15, 2005, 04:13 PM #2255665 / #5
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Buffman, I'm tempted to send your post in to the Atheist News Service
for reprint, what do you think? Your message deserves a big audience.
IMO, anything posted in these forums is in the public domain and may
be utilized in whatever manner one chooses. However, my OP was
addressed to this C-SS audience rather than in support of any other
specific group. My hope was that some folks would take the time to
read the William A. Dunning article and realize just how difficult it
is to uncover and publically reveal accurate history when there are
those who have been doing all within their power and means to keep it
hidden or distorted in order to protect and advance their own personal
faith beliefs.
What could be more hypocritical than claiming that the 10 Commandments
are the foundation of morality, American law and "family values" while
simultaneously 'bearing false witness' against accurate history? IMO,
that is immoral and unethical... and a fact which should be preached
from every pulpit, broadcast from every media outlet, taught from
every educational podium and condemned by every thoughtful man, woman
and child with an ounce of integrity and honor left within their bodies.
As you must know, I have been an outspoken detractor of people like
David Barton and William Federer because they are knowingly distorting
and lying about U.S. History in order to advance their specific
religious faith beliefs...but they are hardly the first to do so.
In this country, the Christian propaganda machine has been at work
since the first "Holy" Bible came to these shores. The first pervayers
of this faith belief system did so with uninformed sincerity, fervor
and not a small measure of their own religious intolerance. Even our
founding/framing fathers were not in possession of the amount of
accurate knowledge currently available to today's religious believers.
So why would these current Christian apologists continue to
propagandize about the past if they did not fear the revelations of
accurate history and modern knowledge.... unless they were unethical
and immoral individuals? (And that also applies to those who support
them.)
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