Trump’s Freedom 250 sparks debate over America’s Christian origins
USA TODAY
Historians say a White House prayer anthology and 250th anniversary events promote a Christian-centric view of US history.
The first pages of a new White House prayer anthology open with a myth: a depiction of English colonists landing at Cape Henry, near present-day Virginia Beach, raising a tall wooden cross and dedicating the land to God through prayer.
The event “reveals the extent to which Christianity ‒ particularly Protestantism ‒ accompanied the English colonial enterprise from its inception,” the booklet says.
Except, as the document later acknowledges, there’s no evidence the prayer occurred.
Historians and religious experts have raised alarm that its inclusion represents a broader effort by President Donald Trump’s administration to recast the nation’s origins as explicitly Christian during the country’s 250th anniversary year.
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