Jesus Politics: The White House Wasn't Always God's House: "A fanatic, as Finley Peter Dunne's fictitious Mr. Dooley said, does what he thinks the Lord would do if he only knew the facts in the case. The most dangerous people in the world today are those who persuade themselves that they are executing the will of the Almighty.
Lincoln summed it all up in his second inaugural address. Both warring halves of the nation, he said, had read the same Bible and prayed to the same God. Each invoked God's aid against the other.
As Lincoln said, ' … let us judge not, that we be not judged…. The Almighty has his own purposes.'"
April 9, 2005
Arthur Schlessinger Jr. on politics and faith
This is actually from last fall, but I just read it. This is a real historian, one who has been in the primary documents. David Barton should take notes. He won't.
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I love Schlessinger, he is one of my favorite historians. His books were always on the reading list of many of my history classes, and I have kept every one of them. He presents presidential history very matter-of-factly, as it was, and this will turn off the David Barton's of today's U.S. It doesn't support their revisionist version of our history as that of a solely Christian nation. And you are right Streak - he won't take notes...heaven forbid he learn something.
Yeah, history is a complicated thing, something Barton and his readers don't want to acknowledge. When you think that God orchestrated all history, I guess it does get pretty simple.
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