This is especially good as it discusses the phony Patrick Henry quotation I've seen endlessly repeated. A taste:
Patrick Henry once said, "It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ!" Or at least many evangelicals believe Henry said that. It is actually a line from a 1956 magazine article commenting on Henry's faith, but popular
Christian writers subsequently attributed the quote to Henry himself. The misquote stuck. Even though countless websites have debunked it, this bogus statement still routinely appears everywhere from Twitter to Facebook to books on America's founding, including presidential aspirant Newt Gingrich's
A Nation Like No Other. And Gingrich has a Ph.D. in history!
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I'm guessing that a case can be made to show that the scholarly among us have failed us when it comes to truthful reporting.
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There is no hue and cry regarding the disricable lies floating in the cominate media. Is that the way it has always been?
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Hierarchical structures often fail us.
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