« Julia Sweeney - 7 Parts - "Letting Go of God"

Summary - http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=B4CFC050177BE180&annotation_id=annotation_583158&feature=iv

Individual Clips - total is 1:08:12

Part 1 of 7 - (9:55) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qixXRkCNrtE&feature=PlayList&p=B4CFC050177BE180&index=0

Part 2 of 7 - (10:07) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh401n_Z1l8&feature=PlayList&p=B4CFC050177BE180&index=1

Part 3 of 7 - (9:37) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-Ke-zH5tIk&feature=PlayList&p=B4CFC050177BE180&index=2

Part 4 of 7 - (9:55) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iGsrH4ysko&feature=PlayList&p=B4CFC050177BE180&index=3

Part 5 of 7 - (10:19) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oxKXc0robc&feature=PlayList&p=B4CFC050177BE180&index=4

Part 6 of 7 - (10:01) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irKPwW53NLk&feature=PlayList&p=B4CFC050177BE180&index=5

Part 7 of 7 - (8:18) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwlymAU_XtA&feature=PlayList&p=B4CFC050177BE180&index=6

TV Interview - (9:16) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3yArZbSDP4&feature=related

Use the links below to read the Foreword, Introduction, and the first few pages of each chapter. In addition to the sample pages below, the entire second chapter, The Northwest Ordinance, is available as a free PDF.

Chapter 2 - The Northwest Ordinance (PDF)

Foreword by Rev. William N. Esborn

Introduction

1. Congress and the Bible

2. The Northwest Ordinance

3. Indian Treaties and Indian Schools

4. Propagating the Gospel Among the Heathen?

5. Thomas Jefferson and Public Education

6. Did Prayer Save the Constitutional Convention?

7. Treaties with the Barbary States

8. Treaties with Christian Nations

9. James Madison's Detached Memoranda

10. The Election of 1800

11. More Lies About Benjamin Franklin

12. More Lies About Thomas Jefferson

13. Jefferson, Madison, and Blackstone?

For years segments of the religious right have been speaking out against what they have perceived as the historical revisionism of the Bible. This makes their attacks and distortions on the real history of the Founding Fathers and the Constitution and Bill of Rights of the United States very ironic and it would be funny if it wasn't doing so much damage to the religious freedom this country was built upon.

Chris Rodda works to set the record straight and she does it with extensive documentation showing how these distortions are intentional and aimed at leading many well intentioned Christians into false conclusions about the faith and the intentions of our Founders. Reading this book you will be amazed by how far these distortions go ranging from creating false rationalizations to carefully cropped quotes ripped from their context to repeating known undocumented and questionable quotes as reliable truth. All these and more are used by the Liars for Jesus to create a psuedo-history of the birth of our nation. Alerted by the evidence of Rodda's detailing of the recorded history you may angered by the fact that this pseudo-history is being marketed to home-schoolers who will never learn the truth and by the fact these lies are making their ways into textbooks for public classrooms.

"Liars" seems a harsh term to apply to professed Christians and until lately I had—admittedly without paying too much attention—assumed that Christian fundamentalists were engaged in wishful thinking and selective quotations when they complained about activist judges subverting both the Constitution and the clear intent of the Founding Fathers to establish a Christian government. But after reading Ms. Rodda's book I realize there is something going on far beyond taking words out of context. When she digs out the words and records that clearly demolish the assertion that no "wall of separation" between church and state was ever intended, "liars" does seem the appropriate word. Those of us who fear that the intrusion of "faith based" activities into our government and the flow of subsidies, in the guise of "contracts", to favored churches, is a step toward a theocracy, will find much useful and carefully documented information in "Liars for Jesus".