By Raoul

May 24, 2010 2:18 PM | Link to this

If those darn Fox News folks would quit stirring up it’s mindless viewers the liberal/progressivescould sure change this world, and we could be more like Canada, or Germany, or Greece, even. Mark, there is nothing ‘Stalinesque’ about many’s belief in the role Christianity played in our nation’s founding. I think you are treading on very thin ice, and referencing Stalin may be a tad extreme. Nobody is being sent to Guantanimo nor to any Gulag’s for not believing there is a strong Christian influence in our nation’s history. The classical view of our history is of being a Christian based nation; therefore it is folks like you providing the ‘revisionism’.

By Alice

May 24, 2010 2:06 PM | Link to this

“Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.” (Thomas Jefferson) Why does God dislike Glenn Beck so much?!?!?

By Alice

May 24, 2010 1:47 PM | Link to this

Glenn Beck is the right’s Oprah? I love it in more ways than one… LOL… Beck is Oprah AND the guest all rolled up into one giant book-selling emotional bag crying over new ways to play the victim (ok, maybe more like 80’s “I-was-molested by my daddy” Oprah AND 90’s book-selling Oprah.)

By Mim

May 23, 2010 10:25 AM | Link to this

Wiencek’s book is hardly unbiased.

By Lil'Grunion

May 22, 2010 1:03 PM | Link to this

I made it through 51 seconds of that youtube video…sometimes my endurance amazes even me!

By Bubba

May 22, 2010 5:49 AM | Link to this

Watch this until the end… youtube.com/watch?v=JW6roFN7NAE

By TRS

May 21, 2010 7:53 PM | Link to this

May want to check out Beck’s website 1st in the future Vick as he’s kinda becoming the new Oprah, at least on the right. As for the founding fathers being diests, perhaps some were, but many invoked the name of Jesus and were avowed Christians. Ben Franklin is supposedly one of the least religious; yet, in a critical moment at the Constitutional Convention he implored the participants to prayer. Wouldn’t think a man as brilliant as Franklin would advise praying to a God who he thought wasn’t around anymore. As for GW’s view on slavery, I don’t think anyone believes the founders were perfect, but I think we practice a certain cronological arrogance when we don’t look at the time period these things take place. Who knows, 200 years from now if we’re still around as a nation people may look at our time and write a book with the same disdain about abortion that we now hold toward slavery.

By DreamCatcher

May 21, 2010 6:31 PM | Link to this

Maybe it was founded by the Great Spirit. “They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.”~Chief Red Cloud

By Mark from St Paul

May 21, 2010 4:54 PM | Link to this

It’s also very hard to find an objective (i.e., non-Christian) review of this book which was apparently written to counter the historical records that show Washington was a Deist. By my standards, Deists were Christians, but most modern day American Christians would find the Deists of Washington’s day to be guilty of extreme heresy. Deists ignored Jesus Christ and believed that God created the universe and had been sitting back not interfering with his creation ever since. Ignorance of Deist beliefs (which were VERY common among our Founding Fathers) drives much of the confusion about ours being a “Christian” nation. Our frontiers were as godless as they came, and the cattle towns of the Wild West probably ran more preachers out of town than they embraced. In truth, the Christianist reimagining of our nation’s religious history is almost Stalinesque in its scope and revisionist “embroidery.”

By H. Lee

May 21, 2010 2:36 PM | Link to this

I see you beat me to the Glenn Beck connection, Vick. Good for you. Gotta love dittoheads.

By H. Lee

May 21, 2010 2:33 PM | Link to this

Some folks in this country feel it is very important to establish that the country was founded by Christians. Probably someone on Fox News has been pushing this book. (Hey, I’m correct! I just looked again at the Amazone site, and I see it is on Glenn Beck’s list of favorites.) See the Amazon customer reviews of the book, to get a very strange perspective on the beliefs of some appreciative readers. Note:I have no reason to doubt the GW was a Christian, at least in the conventional sense of the word. To get a balancing view, you might read Henry Wiencek’s “An Imperfect God,” in which Washington’s attitude and actions in regard to slavery are examined.

By Insider

May 21, 2010 1:24 PM | Link to this

People like to experiment with creating their own reality? (Odd seems to be the new normal) Maybe they are attempting to arouse passion for our political roots.