The New York Times Magazine ran this article under the headline “How Christian Were the Founders?”, which might lead the reader to believe the article is a history of the founding fathers’ religious proclivities. The article is actually about the current battle over textbook standards in Texas. Specifically, it is about the bloc of Christian activist board members—seven out of fifteen—attempting to rewrite history textbooks to teach the Christian history of America.
Why should anyone outside Texas care? Because Texas standards govern the textbooks used in most—maybe as many as 47!—states.
I will never get tired of reading about this museum.
I took Paul Bettany, the actor who plays Charles Darwin in the new film Creation, along with me to photograph the [creationist] museum. He has played crazed and murderous apostates in films the devout ban themselves from seeing—in Legion, also out this month, Bettany stars as the archangel Michael, who defies a vengeful God hell-bent on destroying mankind. He once played a Wimbledon champion. Here in Nowheresville, Kentucky, tennis is considered a game for Europeans and other sexual deviants. I can’t imagine what they think of English actors.
