Many of us are getting a lot of calls from journalists trying to understand the argument about a "Christian founding." This is a helpful piece in explaining that a key piece of inconography was, like much else about the founding, the work of 19th c nationalist nostaglia.
@npr.orgA painting of George Washington is being used by the Trump administration to argue the founders were devout Christians, but historians have doubts about whether the moment depicted actually happened. n.pr/4wIUdCu
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Conservative Christians love this painting of George Washington. The event it depicts may not have happened
A painting of George Washington is being used by the Trump administration to argue the founders were devout Christians, but historians have doubts about whether the moment depicted actually happened.
