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The Myth of a Secular America

When you Google anything about America's religious or Christian heritage one thing is obvious:  the bloggers on the left are careful to omit leading American historians who have dealt with the history of religion in America as a specialty. No quotes from the Library of Congress and their Web exhibit on Religion and the Founding of the United States--which reads like a David Barton book. No quotes from Sydney E Ahlstrom, David D. Hall .  No quotes from Martin Marty (prof. emeritus at University of Chicago and expert in the field of religion in America).   No citations from the brilliant work of David Ross Williams or classics like Moses Coit Tyler , All of these eminent American historians underscore just how much religion and especially Christianity permeated the colonies and the young nation as it fought for Independence, as it formed its Constitution, and traversed it's first century as the United States. Especially targeted on the left's fantastic tirades is Davi