By Chris Rodda, William N. Esborn
ISBN-10: 1419644386
ISBN-13: 9781419644382
Liars for Jesus debunks a few of the ancient lies invented and utilized by the Christian nationalist historical past revisionists of their efforts to extra their a ways correct political time table and ruin the wall of separation among church and nation in the United States. Liars for Jesus isn't really a ebook approximately faith. it's a heritage publication, offering and completely documenting the real tales and ancient proof which are distorted within the "Christian country" pseudo-history promoted through the spiritual correct.
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In other words, they were only voting on what they were going to be voting on. The vote on the motion was close – seven states voted yes; six voted no. A second motion was then made to pass a resolution to import the Bibles, but this was postponed and never brought up again. No Bibles were imported. This little problem is solved in the religious right history 4. Studies in Bibliography, Vol. 3, (Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 19501951), 275-276. 5. Worthington C. , Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789, vol.
According to James H. ’” The following was McLene’s entire resolution. Resolved, That it be recommended to such of the States who may think it convenient for them that they take proper measures to procure one or more new and correct editions of the old and new testament to be printed and that such states regulate their printers by law so as to secure effectually the said books from being misprinted. 6 The timing of McLene’s proposal makes it next to impossible that it wasn’t prompted by the fact that Philadelphia printer Robert Aitken had begun work on an edition of the Bible.
13. ibid. ” The Aitken Bible was first dubbed “The Bible of the Revolution” by Robert Dearden and Douglas Watson in 1930. Dearden and Watson, who were trying to sell over five hundred Aitken Bible leaves, had the leaves, along with facsimilies of various documents related to the Bible, made into books. The books were sold as An Original Leaf from the Bible of the Revolution, and an Essay Concerning It By Robert R. Dearden, Jr. and Douglas S. Watson. The essay written by Dearden and Watson for this book is one source of the versions of the lies used by today’s religious right for both their 1777 and 1782 Bible stories.
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