{"id":7542,"date":"2010-02-15T16:14:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T16:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/02\/15\/how-christian-were-the-founder\/"},"modified":"2010-02-15T16:14:06","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T16:14:06","slug":"how-christian-were-the-founder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/15\/how-christian-were-the-founder\/","title":{"rendered":"How Christian Were the Founders?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of recent public meetings by the Texas Schoolboard, Russell Shorto has written an extensive piece for the New York Times Magazine.  Shorto is the author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0307275663?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0307275663\">Descartes&#8217; Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason (Vintage)<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0307275663\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Christian &#8220;truth&#8221; about America&#8217;s founding has long been taught in Christian schools, but not beyond. Recently, however &#8212; perhaps out of ire at what they see as an aggressive, secular, liberal agenda in Washington and perhaps also because they sense an opening in the battle, a sudden weakness in the lines of the secularists &#8212; some activists decided that the time was right to try to reshape the history that children in public schools study. Succeeding at this would help them toward their ultimate goal of reshaping American society.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/14\/magazine\/14texbooks-t.html?em\">Read the article here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of recent public meetings by the Texas Schoolboard, Russell Shorto has written an extensive piece for the New York Times Magazine. Shorto is the author of Descartes&#8217; Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason (Vintage).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1XE","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}