Chris Rodda > Quotes

“As Daniel Patrick Moynihan said, "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.”
― Chris Rodda, Liars For Jesus: The Religious Right's Alternate Version of American History Vol. 1

“LaHaye’s claim that no historian to date has questioned this prayer book’s authenticity is a flat-out lie. Historians began questioning its authenticity almost as soon as its discovery was reported. In fact, it had already been rejected by the Smithsonian Institution even before its discovery was reported.”
― Chris Rodda, Liars For Jesus: The Religious Right's Alternate Version of American History, Vol. 2

“This mere political Priesthood are the agents of Satan to enslave mankind; the most wicked and remorseless Tyrants of the Earth have found it impossible to enslave man by any other means but by uniting with such Priests—with their aid the most sacred rights of man have been easily seized. These men have wickedly instructed their dupes that God required of man passive obedience to the most bloody and savage Tyrants, thus have they profaned Religion, (which is intended to bless mankind, both here & hereafter) to the vile purpose of Slavery and Misery. A union of Church with State is more destructive to the happiness of man than any other conspiracy since the first Apostacy and union of fallen Angels. True Christians have but one opinion of those Priests who wickedly prate about a union of Church and State—they believe them to be only wolves in sheep’s clothing; they are mere Hirelings; they have no call to preach the Gospel except what they fancy they derive from a College education”
― Chris Rodda, From Theocracy To Religious Liberty: Connecticut’s Journey from Thomas Jefferson’s “Wall of Separation” Letter to a State Constitution, as Told Through the Newspapers of the Time

“We are told how Washington carried this little book in his pocket through the Indian wars and how his life was saved by it receiving bullets or arrows aimed at the great chieftain.”23 (It apparently never occurred to Rev. Robinson to wonder why there were no bullet or arrow holes in the book’s pages in Henkels’s facsimile reproduction.) Naturally,”
― Chris Rodda, Liars For Jesus: The Religious Right's Alternate Version of American History, Vol. 2

“They weren’t telling their congregations that what they were preaching was Unitarianism; they were just omitting from their sermons and services anything that conflicted with Unitarianism, with the idea that if their congregations heard nothing that wasn’t Unitarian they would just naturally become Unitarians.”
― Chris Rodda, Liars For Jesus: The Religious Right's Alternate Version of American History, Vol. 2

“by the way, Adams – unlike Madison – actually signed the Bill of Rights.” Well, of course James Madison, as a member of the House of Representatives, didn’t sign the Bill of Rights, and John Adams, as president of the Senate, did!”
― Chris Rodda, Liars For Jesus: The Religious Right's Alternate Version of American History, Vol. 2

“The attacks on Rev. Weems and his work, and the assertion that Washington was a deist rather than a Christian, did not begin until about 1831. By”
― Chris Rodda, Liars For Jesus: The Religious Right's Alternate Version of American History, Vol. 2

“Well if I seem moved, ’tis no more than what I am, I have this day seen what I never expected. Thee knows that I always thought the sword and the gospel utterly inconsistent, and that no man could be a soldier and a Christian at the same time. But George Washington has this day convinced me of my mistake.” He then related what he had seen, and concluded with this prophetical remark – “If George Washington be not a man of God, I am greatly deceived – and still more shall I be deceived if God do not, through him, work out a great salvation for America.”9 There are a number of problems with this story. For one, Isaac Potts’s wife at the time wasn’t named Sarah. Sarah was the name of Potts’s second wife, whom he didn’t marry until 1803. Potts’s wife in 1777-78 was named Martha. Another is that Isaac Potts wasn’t living at Valley Forge when the army was encamped there in 1777-78. Potts”
― Chris Rodda, Liars For Jesus: The Religious Right's Alternate Version of American History, Vol. 2

“So, what was the reason for the number of biblical citations being so high? Well, it was that most of the biblical citations came from sermons, as Lutz clearly explained:”
― Chris Rodda, Liars For Jesus: The Religious Right's Alternate Version of American History, Vol. 2