One
of the topics we discussed in Micah was, “Was the United States
founded as a Christian nation?”
I
am reading Andrew L. Seidel's The Founding Myth: Why Christian
Nationalism Is Un-American.
I can recommend it wholeheartedly. It is a good read as well as an
informative one. One caveat: He writes as an atheist as well as an advocate. It is not intended to be a balanced study. As someone who has spent over forty years advocating other's positions in a variety of tribunals, I like the approach.
Just
this week I found an interesting juxtaposition between the news and a
quote from the book.
The
news:
Donald
Trump emerges from his “meeting” with congressional Democrats and
complains (three times I recall) about the “I-word.” I guess
with Trump in a different context, this word could be “immigration”
or “immorality” rather than impeachment. But context is
everything.
The
quote from the book was from Harry Potter and the
Sorcerer's Stone. The
quote:
“Call
him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear
of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”
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