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. ...
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:
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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.
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"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.
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