Deleting History
Posted by SDR on the 5th of July, 2008 at 5:08 pm under Government/Politics. This post has no comments.
Ed Brayton, writer over at “Dispatches from the Culture Wars,” pointed out another example of the subtle (and not-so-subtle) acts that the Bush administration, at the behest of the religious neoconservative goal to rewrite history, have used to remove the skeptical views of religion from mentions of our country’s history.
I’ll let you read the specifics over at his post, but the gist of it is that Bush, at Monticello for Independence Day, quoted a passage from Thomas Jefferson - leaving out original sections which discuss a move away from supernaturalism (i.e. religion).
Actually, before you click that link, let’s play a game. Here’s the original quote. Guess what Bush cut out.
May it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government.