From claiming America was started as a Christian nation to pretending they constantly defended civil rights, evangelicals turn the past into a fairy tale that props up their power.
History is expected to be made complex and loaded with uncomfortable facts– nevertheless, it’s about human beings. Not according to evangelicals and their custom-made “alternative facts,” apparently. They want a fairy tale where America was founded by Bible-thumping saints, Jesus composed the Constitution, and every moment of globe history was just God setting the stage for their church dinner– done in the hope that if they repeat it audible, it will certainly become fact.
1 Abortion Was Always Their Holy War
Evangelicals will tell you they’ve always been pro-life, constantly combating to save babies from the bad abortion market– nevertheless, aren’t they the guardians of Christian morality? That has one small problem, however. It’s not real.
Up until the late 1970 s, evangelicals could not care less concerning abortion. What really drank them was that evangelical institutions were shedding their tax-exempt condition due to the fact that they rejected to integrate. Leaders like Jerry Falwell and Paul …