This post was made on The History Channel’s Facebook page. There are many more like it. I hesitate to call it ignorance because that would imply the ignorant person could learn. This person is stupid and is happy staying that way.

Source.

As we reflect on the sobering lessons of the atheist extremism of the twentieth century, let us never forget how the exclusion of God, religion and virtue from public life leads ultimately to a truncated vision of man and of society and thus to a “reductive vision of the person and his destiny”

Comic by Matt Bors.

From the NY Times op-ed piece.

Glenn Beck is fond of warning his viewers that America is sliding towards some sort of mutant totalitarian amalgam of socialism and fascism (oxymoronically ignoring the fact that through most of the early 20th Century Nazis and Communists were at each others throats) but Beck seems to have learned a trick or two from German fascism and Soviet-style communism – both movements were fond of rewriting history. Why ? George Orwell, in his dystopian novel 1984, summed it up – “Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future.”

David Barton’s lies, which have gone surprisingly mainstream (his revisionist interpretation of church-state separation has been featured on PBS and promoted by the Department of Defense), are concocted to buttress the inaccurate claim that America was founded as a Christian nation.

Read more here. While there may be different interpretations of the facts of history, you can’t just make shit up like David Barton does.

The Liars for Jesus website has a wealth of information you should check out as well.

1948 – Boy Jumping into the Hudson River by Ruth Orkin

1938 – Brooklyn, The East River, Kids Taking a Plunge, Williamsburg Bridge on the right

1939 – Kids at play, New York City by Helen Levitt