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.
You can tell the display is ahistorical because Franklin is around a French lady but is keeping his hands to himself.Report
Sort of like the original cover to Axis: Bold as Love.Report
Man, it’s hard out there for an atheist, ya know? I don’t understand any of this. So many circles to square. Radical Islamic fundamentalists wanna place their guy above our bill of rights, too, but somehow they are The Enemy.Report
Well, yeah, that’s cuz the governor of Texas may be a dick but he isn’t sawing people’s heads off or sending gangs of assholes to gun down people who disagree with him. Priorities, man.Report
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