Texas Gov. Gets History Wrong in Opposing a Monument

You can check out the display in the Patheos article. I don’t find it offensive at all. But then again, I like satire, parody, iconoclasm, South Park among other things.

But the Governor claims “it promotes ignorance and falsehood” to suggest G. Washington, B. Franklin, and T. Jefferson “would worship” the Bill of Rights over “Jesus.” I don’t suggest that these men worshipped the Bill of the Rights. But they worshipped God, not Jesus. Jefferson was a militant unitarian in his rejection of Jesus’ divinity. Franklin was gentler in the way he dealt with the Trinity. But he is on record supporting the unitarian project and claiming to “have doubts” as to Jesus’ divinity (though Franklin never doubted Providence). And George Washington also gives no evidence of being a Jesus worshipper as opposed to a Providence worshipper.

We could say, well the Governor goofed with one word. He should have just said “God” and not “Jesus.”

But because of the lack of real evidence for George Washington being a Jesus worshipper, the Governor cited a long passage from the Daily Sacrifice (which uses orthodox Trinitarian language), a spurious document.

This is a real example on how Christian Nationalist revisionist history harms.