Hot on the heels of the US House resolution last month supporting the ideas of Christmas and Christianity is another resolution proposing that (Christian) religion played such an important role on our early history that we need to honor it with a special week in May.

Of course, House resolutions are completely meaningless when it comes to matters of constitutional law; they are just chances for Congressional reps to blow hot air. This resolution is a different matter. The sheer number of “whereases” contained in the resolution (HR 888) appear to be an attempt by Christian revisionist historians to embed their cockeyed arguments about “this Christian nation” in the Congressional Record for later exploitation.

Revisionists argue that the Founding Fathers used Biblical principles to construct the US form of government, and that the USA is in fact a Christian nation. Most historians reject revisionist arguments, countering that the founders relied on purely secular resources, but it’s doubtful most of the Congress knows anything that detailed about US history.

So unless voters get their representatives’ attention, it’s more than likely that this piece of trash will be approved (probably overwhelmingly if the Christmas/Christianity resolution vote is any indication).

Chris Rodda at The Daily Kos has a detailed refutation of the points contained in all those whereas clauses in HR 888. Read Rodda’s piece and then wonder if the supporters of HR 888 aren’t trying to rewrite US history to suit their religious agenda.

January 7th, 2008 | Category: Commentary, Random rants | Subscribe to comments | Leave a comment | Trackback URL