Thursday, April 13, 2017

Louis Sirico: "Benjamin Franklin, Prayer, and the Constitutional Convention: History as Narrative"

Apparently an entire law review/legal writing article was written on the Ben Franklin, prayer myth. See here. A taste:
This is an article about history and false history and how both shape our laws and our cultural traditions. The article illustrates its point by focusing on a single event at the Constitutional Convention of 1787: a failed proposal by Benjamin Franklin that the Convention hire a chaplain and begin each day with a prayer.

The story of Franklin’s proposal lives on in popular and political history. ...

3 comments:

Tom Van Dyke said...



Actually, stuff like "God save the United States and this honorable Court!" and the employment of congressional chaplains [over the objections of James Madison] are far more probative. The secularist left buries them, and so the mooks of the religious right aren't even aware of the best arguments for their own position.


https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/procedures.aspx

Tom Van Dyke said...
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Tom Van Dyke said...

"This is an article about history and false history and how both shape our laws and our cultural traditions. The article illustrates its point by focusing on a single event at the Constitutional Convention of 1787: a failed proposal by Benjamin Franklin that the Convention hire a chaplain and begin each day with a prayer."

What a completely dishonest and obviously left-leaning spithead.

The "This is just one another example of..." tactic is usually one of the few examples that fit the author's polemic. For 2 rebutting historical examples, see above. God, I'm so sick of these people.