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Scholar says God being purged from history
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Cahterine Millard
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A scholar who spent 18 years studying original manuscripts of
the founding fathers says the federal government is actively
revising American history, erasing the impact religion had on
them and history.
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Catherine Millard, founder and president of Christian
Heritage Ministries, told a public meeting at the Evangelical
Covenant Church Monday evening that original manuscripts and
artwork showing the founding fathers as men of faith are
systematically being lost or locked away.
In some cases, altered representations of the material is
being passed off as original. And the alterations all remove
references to faith or religious belief.
Millard said her research has uncovered enough instances to
prove a pattern of quiet government censorship that tends to
support more recent historical revisions portraying the
Christian historical figures as either non religious or
degenerate.
"We should be outraged at the revised history of America that
our young people are being exposed to," Millard told the
group.
Last night's speech covered revisions in the history of the
founding fathers and leaders of the civil war on both sides.
She said Lincoln was a deeply religious man who relied on
Wednesday night trips to a nearby church to get him through
the Civil War.
She said Lincoln knew the scriptures almost by heart and that
the influence of the scriptures permeates his writings, most
famously in the Gettysburg address and his second inaugural
address.
She said Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, famous Civil
War generals, were both deeply religious men who agreed with
Lincoln that slavery was wrong because slaves were "made in
the image of God" and slavery was a "great moral evil and
contrary to God's will."
She gave examples of how original artist renderings and
manuscripts have been altered to give the appearance the men
were not religious.
Millard is the author of eight books on America's Christian
heritage including "The Rewriting of America's History."
Millard said the effort to downplay the role of religion is
subtle and pervasive and that those who try to point it out
are being isolated as "right wing religious nuts."
But she characterized the changes as academic fraud. "All you
need to do is go to the original material and compare it with
what is being published today to see how history is being
revised," she said.
But she said original papers from the Civil War era have been
"buried" in the vault of the Library of Commerce since the
1930's which is why they have not been studied directly since
then.
"We need to get back to God by getting back to the original
history," Millard said.
Millard is in the area as part of Christian Heritage Week
2002, an event promoted by Christian Heritage Ministries now
officially recognized in 50 states.
She is speaking to public and private school groups this year
including Garfield, Green and Morganville schools in USD-379;
Riley County High School; Flint Hills Christian School in
Manhattan and the Alert Covenant Church and Evangelical
Covenant Church.
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©Clay Center Dispatch 2009
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Michael Ledo |
Mar, 22 2002 |
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I know of no church Lincoln attended regularly as an adult. I would have to see a church attendence listing to believe it. What church has a sign "Lincoln worshipped here"?
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Tom Meek |
Feb, 20 2002 |
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The principle of separation of church and state works both ways. If Millard's assertions are correct, it is a case of the state dictating what religious beliefs are acceptable. That is a violation of the separation of church and state.
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