Religious Forefathers

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As I relaxed upon the couch a few days ago and began to read the freshly printed pages of Catherin Millard’s The Rewriting of America’s History I began to feel as warm and cozy about our countries past and the role Christianity played in it as the freshly printed paper in my hands. It seems Millard set out to find this “lost chapter” in American history and reported back with all kinds of evidence that pointed towards the profound role Jesus Christ teachings played in the early stages of this country.
Catherin starts off by telling an account of how on one of her more recent tours of Washington D.C she conducts, (showing tourist Christian landmarks and background in the capital) many in the group were in a kind of awe about what she was showing to them. It seemed like these new revelations had gone against everything these people had been previously taught or conceived to be the truth. Millard then states that because of this all too common thought-pattern among Americans citizens she is taking up writing this piece in hopes that readers will rediscover their deeply rooted Christian heritage in this country and throw out the falsehoods and stories they had been taught up to this point.
I did find one point particularly interesting Catherine touched upon. She raised the question of why when talking about our early beginnings do when spend so little time (this class being the exception) discussing things pertaining to the founding period of our country. We read about every battle that took place during the Civil war and all the events that led up to and followed it. This, of course, was arguably the biggest event in our young countries history because of the many effects but what about how our country was started though? Yes, we read about the making of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights but do we know as much about the beginning of our nation as we do about Civil War times? Why is that? I guess ma...