buddenblog: Teaching US History, Right Wing Christian Style: "'....Providential history is true history. Many modern educators deny the Providential view of history and would have us believe that their promotion of one of several 'secular' views of history is simply the recounting of brute facts. They fail to tell their students that their own humanistic presuppositions and religious doctrines determine their choice of people, places, principles and events. They fail to communicate that neutrality is not possible in the teaching of history, for the historians word-view will dictate his perspective. Even as there are not many interpretations of Scripture (2Pet.1:20,21), neither are there of history ... there is really only one correct view; that which is the Author's [i.e. God´s] interpretation and perspective. God is the Author of Scripture and History. "
Only one view of history? And I am wondering how this Providential view of history explains attempted Indian genocide, slavery, child labor, Japanese Internment?
This is more David Barton style of history and demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of how history is practiced. I guess if you don't like the conclusions, you just change the approach. But the real tragedy is that the historical conclusion are not the threat to people of faith that they seem to think. Their approach, however, is a huge threat to the rest of us.
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