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Yahoo News reports:
Sen Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) is under fire for a Fourth of July tweet that managed to include both a false claim and a false quote. Hawley tweeted a quote he claimed to be from Founding Father Patrick Henry saying the United States was founded “on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”
Just one problem: Henry ― a slave owner perhaps best remembered for his “give me liberty or give me death” quote ― never said it.
The United States was not founded as a Christian nation ― the First Amendment makes that clear ― and Henry, while deeply religious, didn’t say anything of the sort. Nor did any of the other Founding Fathers.
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Patrick Henry: “It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason, peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity,…
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) July 4, 2023
It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this quotation is fake.
Give me authentic quotations from the Founders, or give me none. https://t.co/dOzrQeWaRL
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) July 5, 2023
You will be unsurprised to hear that Patrick Henry never said this. It comes from a 1956 article in a magazine called The Virginian. But what’s a fake quote between friends? https://t.co/PZCEhfNlqW
— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) July 5, 2023
15 hours and this fake quote is still up. Christian Nationalists’ identity depends on deliberately spreading disinformation about American history, especially the founders and the founding. https://t.co/z6bRSUYnQW
— Andrew L. Seidel (@AndrewLSeidel) July 5, 2023
Christian theocrat uses a fake quote to make his case. Many of the founding fathers were deists and the constitution establishes a secular government. Your version of christian Saudi Arabia is authoritarian and unpopular. Give it up https://t.co/SCu5MFAWjg
— Secular Talk🎙 (@KyleKulinski) July 5, 2023
I think he does this stuff deliberately — this is obviously not an 18th century person writing — in order to get dunked on and raise his profile as a lib-triggerer because (like a lot of members these days) he finds legislating to be boring. https://t.co/99aTDIjbAf
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) July 5, 2023
“As one of the largest Founding Fathers, I wish Josh Hawley would stop using fake quotes” — Abraham Lincoln https://t.co/rmsAq1UV3q
— 🦀 Jon Schwarz 🦀 (@schwarz) July 5, 2023