Kephas

Truth in History March 10, 2010

Heh, its funny to me the raging debate over history textbooks. I understand its great significance, but it seems that truth is truth. America does have Christian roots; why not at least be honest about that? I’ll tell you why, because you can largely manipulate the future (or direction anyway) of a country if you can are allowed to define what happened previously. Its like trying to do a calculus problem and people saying that changing the initial conditions doesn’t affect anything. Or saying that changing #include doesn’t change the code itself. Or saying that you have to write a new chapter for a book, and the preceding ones don’t matter. Sorry feeling analogous today… No wonder people don’t know what “Truth” is; something as simple as a log of previous events is appartenly subjective.

I realize there are inherent biases possible any in particular written work, but it seems that with all of the people that witness things we should be able to reach a fairly objective consensus.  Forget if it ain’t pretty, whether or not you agree with it. But if it happened it happened.  I guess I’m tired of people trying to start telling me that America wasn’t founded on Christian principles, regardless of how our behavior reflects this base today or not.  People will bring up perhaps the least religous “founders” only in there debate, neglecting the others that also signed and were involved in the creation of such documents like the Declaration of Independence, others who it seems we as a society don’t even know that names of anymore.    I expect there to be more to follow on this topic, as I wish to broaden my  understanding of the subject so that I can refute the naysayers and take a stand for our heritage.