This should be of interest to a few members of this forum: Chris Rodda has made her book, Liars for Jesus, available for free online (pdf). The book is a debunking of modern revisionist histories written by authors like David Barton and Gary DeMar. Topics range from the obvious (no, Jefferson was not an evangelical Christian) to the less obvious (no, the Northwest Ordinance was not widely used to encourage religious teaching in public schools). It’s a useful resource for those who, like me, are not well-educated in history. It also works as a case study of confirmation bias: chapter after chapter shows that the evidence for many of the revisionist claims is based on passages taken out of both literary and historical context, thus ignoring relevant counterevidence.
Liars for Jesus
This should be of interest to a few members of this forum: Chris Rodda has made her book, Liars for Jesus, available for free online (pdf). The book is a debunking of modern revisionist histories written by authors like David Barton and Gary DeMar. Topics range from the obvious (no, Jefferson was not an evangelical Christian) to the less obvious (no, the Northwest Ordinance was not widely used to encourage religious teaching in public schools). It’s a useful resource for those who, like me, are not well-educated in history. It also works as a case study of confirmation bias: chapter after chapter shows that the evidence for many of the revisionist claims is based on passages taken out of both literary and historical context, thus ignoring relevant counterevidence.