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5🌟 I highly recommend this book to anyone who feels like they are the only one in the country who still believes in the separation of church and state, cultural diversity, or that Christians have never ruled the entire country (let alone the entire world). If, like me, the madness around you and the flames of anger being fanned by Christians around you is making you ask tough, uncomfortable questions, this is a book for you. (cont‘d below)

As per his reputation, Obama is the hope at the end of the book for the future of America.
#onenationundergods #petermanseau #barackobama

Just one more reason to love this man: he actually has a clue!!!
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This is usually a good thing. To each their own and all, but I think this is also how we got MAGA. It certainly seems to be something of a cult, with a great pumpkin deity.
#onenationundergods #petermanseau #whyhistorymatters #whycriticalthinkingmatters #thinkcritically

Because the supposedly Christian guy we have now is just the antithesis of materialism and dictatorship. Uh-huh. Right. 🙄 I‘m sorry, but some of the most legalistic/dictatorial and materialistic people I know are devout Christians. Jesus is not the magic pill that makes that stuff go away. In fact, it‘s these very people who loosed Christmas (and all it‘s materialism) on the world.
#onenationundergods #petermanseau #truth

Welcome to America, where even in death, crazy Christians will force Christianity on you, because they don‘t want to see anything else in the world. 🙄
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I am greatly enjoying this book!!! The evidence it brings into play is thought provoking. I also rather like his writing style. Its not too academic, but you never question if he‘s done his homework on this thing.
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I think we need to actually study our founding fathers and not the mythology that has risen up about them. They are all rolling over in their graves right now at the way “true Americans” are behaving.
#jamesmadison #onenationundergods #petermanseau

MIC DROP!!! 🎤
We‘re done here.
#petermanseau #onenationundergods #whyhistorymatters #liesyourteachertoldyou #history #religioushistory #realhistory

250+ years and not much has changed. Wait, nothing has changed. Most people want the separation of church and state, yet the loudest group are the Christians willing to do anything to silence people who are not Christians. At least they‘ve (mostly) taken the death penalty out of the equation.
#petermanseau #onenationundergods #religion #politics #seperationofchurchandstate #history #whyhistorymatters #religioushistory #christianity

Not exactly the picture painted by American Christians today...and by not exactly I mean the exact opposite.
#petermanseau #onenationundergods #religion #christianity #history #religioushistory #whyhistorymatters #america #europe

Prior to 1776, religious adherence in the colonies was just 17%.
1776-1850, religious adherence in the U.S. was just 34%.
A lack of religion in the U.S is in no way new, so people are going to have to come up with a new excuse for the “fake” idea of climate change. It is not “God‘s Wrath.” 🙄
#petermanseau #onenationundergods #truth #history #whyhistorymatters #notachristiannation #falsehistory #revisedhistory #religioushistory

I don‘t think modern Christians got this memo.
#petermanseau #onenationundergods #doubt #unbelief #christianity #faith #history #religioushistory #whyhistorymatters

Oh, look at that. An atheist signed the Constitution. There goes that whole “Christian nation” argument.
#petermanseau #onenationundergods #atheist #religion #history #religioushistory #whyhistorymatters

Rather disheartening that among all of the other glimmering bits of cultural awareness in this book, Manseau has decided to continue with the “ours is real, yours is mythology” doctrine. It‘s sad. It negates a lot of what he has to say. I guess he‘s not as aware and open minded as he‘d like us to believe.
#petermanseau #onenationundergods #mythology #religion #history #religioushistory #doublestandard

Good thing we‘ve moved past this! (Where is that sarcasm emoji when we need it?!)
#petermanseau #onenationundergods #medicalscience #religion #religionvsscience #history #religioushistory

Sage advice from the founder of what would become the state of Maryland. If we could all stop trying to shove our own beliefs down others‘ throats, maybe we could all get along a little better. Especially seeing that it‘s the shovers who have problems with the neighbours, while their neighbours generally ignore them.
#petermanseau #onenationundergods #tolerance #religioustolerance #religiousfreedom #history #religioushistory

Oh look at that, people of faiths other than Christian have been in this country just as long as the Christians. Check that out. Love how this is left out of the white, male, Protestant narrative they call K-12 (and most basic college level) American “history.” 🙄 Never mind the “godless” peoples they found did in fact have faith systems of their own even before that.
#petermanseau #onenationundergods #history #whyhistorymatters #religioushistory

We really need to stop calling people‘s beliefs that don‘t fall until Christianity, Judaism, and Islam “mythology.” If we‘re going to call their beliefs mythology, then so too must we call our own mythology (they are actually, but don‘t tell that to an evangelical if you plan on living to see tomorrow).
#petermanseau #onenationundergods #faith

If only Americans could remember this mentality, today.

Starting this book today. It finally came in from my hold at the library. I feel like it will probably go well with American Gods when I can (hopefully) start reading it at the end of the week.

#onenationundergods #petermanseau #thomasjefferson #history #whyhistorymatters

Great analysis of the tricky history of Puritans in colonial era and, more importantly, the role of non-Christians in establishment of the United States. Great info about Muslims who helped the Spanish explorers and made up ~20% of slave population.