>>like progressives, who believe the Founders were athiests,
Maybe that's just because those "progressives" haven't read the writing on the Walls of the Jefferson memorial, where Jefferson's belief in a Creator is articulated multiple times -- for all to see with their own eyes and FREE mind.
BUT THEN, perhaps the same thing could be said of those who influenced the Texas board of edumacation in its decision to exclude Thomas Jefferson from certain sections if its curriculum... sections regarding "Revolutionary Thinkers".
How'come America's "Historian", who the Texas SBOE appointed for textbook advice, didn't immediately repudiate such an egregious act of revisionism?
How come Libertarians don’t ever win elections? Why do they always sew the seeds of doubt, on ground that will not grow them?
Libertarianism=Perversion in Progress
——————How’come America’s “Historian”, who the Texas SBOE appointed for textbook advice, didn’t immediately repudiate such an egregious act of revisionism?-——————
Because it didn’t happen, not the way everybody has been led to believe.
Even something as clearly anti-conservative as this can’t help but swerve into the truth:
http://www.texastribune.org/texas-education/state-board-of-education/sboe-removes-thomas-jefferson-blames-media/
==========The New York Times, in its story on the board’s vote, did mention the Jefferson amendment, accurately, but did not add that Jefferson is covered elsewhere in the curriculum.============
Loman, you’ve been slimed by the NY Slimes. Which is OK, it happens to us all. Happens to me too. They purposefully run with a half truth............
This is why they’re called the drive by media. They roll by slowly, spray a bunch of crap in the air, then drive off quickly while someone else has to clean up the mess.
==========But here’s what the board did: Early in the day, member Cynthia Dunbar, R-Richmond, successfully moved to remove Thomas Jefferson from a list of philosophers in the World History standards=============
So this is only an issue of a list of philosophers. Not the whole curricula.
Even Jefferson himself has noted the significance of Blackstone:
———————The opinion seems to be that Blackstone is to us what the Alkoran is to the Mahometans, that everything which is necessary is in him-—————————
Now, Jefferson didn’t seem to always like the idea about Blackstone’s influence during his day. But that’s another matter.