After 250 Years, Our American Republic Is Coming Aparti

The Federalist ^ | 6/25/26 | John Daniel Davidson

[EnderWiggin1970]

The crisis we face today is existential. Too many Americans, both native-born and naturalized, have been taught to despise their country.

If it sometimes seems like the American cultural mainstream is ignorant of the role of Christianity in the founding of the United States, or even hostile towards it, that’s because it is.

The story told about America’s founding by the corporate media, book publishers, libraries and other institutions is one in which the Christian faith, so central to our history and founding, is almost wholly absent.

I don’t mean that anecdotally. A recent report by conservative book publisher Brave Books analyzed more than 300 books across 25 reading lists curated by children’s publishers, public libraries, and other institutions for our country’s upcoming 250th anniversary. The report found that these lists contain zero titles that directly addressed religious liberty, faith, or the role of Christianity in the founding of the United States.

Instead, the books on these reading lists included titles like Ibram X. Kendi’s Stamped for Kids and Nikole Hannah-Jones’ Born on the Water, a picture book that’s part of the discredited and ahistorical 1619 Project. According to Brave Books, the central themes of these reading lists were the American Revolution, minority perspectives, Black history, civil rights and women’s history. But nothing about the Christian faith — or even about religious freedom, which is enshrined in our First Amendment.

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KEYWORDS: christianity; founders; foundingfathers; worldview

[EnderWiggin1970]

I've noticed that modern leftists are sincere in their ignorance of the role of Christian teaching in the establishment of our culture and American government. Having grown up in their indoctrination camps but then deprogrammed myself reading dissident literature, I see how flawed their teachings are. We need to re-establish the historical truths about the influence of biblical teaching in the thinking of the Founders and in building a successful and enduring republic.

[crusty old prospector]

Hear, hear.