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One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America | Kevin M Kruse

This is quite literally the only time you‘re going to hear me chant this... say it with me now... BUILD THAT WALL!!! BUILD THAT WALL!!! BUILD THAT WALL!!!
#KevinKruse #OneNationUnderGod #history #whyhistorymatters #factsmatter #buildthatwall #whyconservativesdontlikehistorians

TheBookHippie https://www.pbs.org/show/rise-nazis/ If you can watch this and shutter. Hitler having not succeeded at getting democracy destroyed from the outside does it from the inside. FYI he did this in under four years -brought democracy down. Also this is our problem now your quote up there RELIGION SHOULD NOT MAKE LAW. Ever. Period. The government should not control women's bodies.
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TheBookHippie FYI Hitlers slogan was Make Germany Great Again. 4y

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️ I always suspected it was. Simultaneously, I suspected Make America Great Again wasn‘t original. Nothing that comes out of his mouth is original. He hasn‘t had an original thought in his life. 🙄 4y

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GingerAntics @TheBookHippie that‘s what made me so terrified when he took office. It took Hitler less than 4 years. So far (knock on wood) we‘ve managed with democracy still in fact. The sooner 20 January gets here, the better. 4y

TheBookHippie @GingerAntics tell women to give up their careers and become housewives make it illegal for the news to talk bad about the government make protesting and free speech illegal ... sound familiar ? 4y

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie I think you and I have had this conversation before. I completely agree with you on religion never making law. The founding fathers agreed that religion should never make law. This “wall of separation” thing was in this book and the book before this. My thought was “that‘s the only constitutional wall, and we need to build it back up.” It‘s been torn down brick by brick since the 1930s. 4y

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie yup!!! It‘s truly terrifying. 4y

TheBookHippie @GingerAntics I totally agree. And all these Trump supporters that love books about WW2 and feel moved by the Holocaust ...really do you? Because you‘re siding on the side with the oppressor aka Hitler aka Fascism aka trump and alt right 🤯 4y

TheBookHippie It‘s a long time until January 20 4y

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie I literally have a book in the wings right now called “American Facists.” It‘s all about this very topic. It‘s logical to read it next, but I think I‘m going to wait until 20 January. My anxiety and fear can‘t take it right now. 20 January is frighteningly far away.

American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America

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One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America | Kevin M Kruse

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This is a terrifying book that, as a modern American who is not Christian, is a window into the conservative so-called Christian movement that has now become “the right” and more frighteningly the “alt-right.” For a movement that likes to tell everyone else to “learn your history,” they clearly have no idea about their own. This is such an important book for all Americans. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

GingerAntics I was honestly familiar with most of this history, but hadn‘t linked all of it together in this way before (probably because this faction has taken over the education system and certainly would never allow these provable facts to be taught - just look at the prayer in school nonsense). If I hadn‘t already disliked Billy Graham, this book would certainly have made me dislike him. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 4y

GingerAntics If you are an American that is not Christian, or are the type of Christian that believes people are free to believe what they want, this book will terrify the living daylights out of you, as it should. There is a reason this group doesn‘t want the constitution read or taught beyond the preamble: their argument falls apart when you do. I will now be reading the entire document (all seven articles) that was signed in 1789. 4y

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TheBookHippie The entire reason they have their own schools and work tirelessly to destroy public education. It is why they underfund libraries. They are way more evil than you ever dreamed. I've been fighting it for over 30 years.
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TheBookHippie FYI this is why I preach to use the library and demand they have certain books in print. Even if I purchase books myself I make sure to take books out of the library so they will keep them on the shelves. It is why I keep books in kids hands and promote literacy with everything in me. Especially in title one schools. IF everyone were educated at the same level we wouldn't be having this conversation. 4y

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie PREACH!!! To absolutely all of that!!! Yes!!! The sad thing is, they are under educating their own children. I really don‘t get it. It‘s why they don‘t like historians, scholars, separation of church and state (build that wall), science. So many things they despise because they will reveal the monsters these people are. 4y

TheBookHippie @GingerAntics can‘t rule by fear if there‘s knowledge ignorance = fear 4y

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One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America | Kevin M Kruse

This seems like the most logical follow up to Ed Asner‘s “The Grumpy Historian.” It probably won‘t be as funny, but it‘s been on my TBR for ages and this seems to dovetail with part of Asner‘s book quite well.
#KevinKruse #OneNationUnderGod #history #whyhistorymatters #factsmatter

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Libertarians on the Prairie: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane, and the Making of the Little House Books | Christine Woodside

Again, wrong on the historical points. This was not the case for black or brown people in America. Then again, they seemed fine with taking Indian land and outraged when they were told land wasn‘t theirs so they had to leave. 🙄 White privilege on display again, here. #factsmatter #historymatters #whyhistorymatters #ChristineWoodside #LibertariansOnThePrairie #WomenAlsoKnowHistory #LauraRoseReadathon

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To Kill a Mockingbird (Anniversary) | Harper Lee

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What idiot came up with this idea?! The Bronte Sisters, Mary Shelley, and Agatha Christy are all rolling over in their graves right now...including every woman we know is a woman now, but had to write under male pseudonyms for centuries in the west. No offence to J.K. but she‘s not that special (I don‘t think she wrote this, though).
#femaleauthors #wtf #factsmatter

LibrarianRyan She didn't. It has been going around twitter for the last few days.
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GingerAntics @LibrarianRyan what idiot come up with this idea? 5y

LibrarianRyan @GingerAntics Someone who was young when HP came out and never got a chance to explore the plethora of other options. 5y

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CarolynM Ridiculous! There are any number of great 20th century female writers. This is spectacularly ignorant. 5y

GingerAntics @CarolynM isn‘t it? I couldn‘t even believe it. Every woman who ever had to write under a man‘s name just to get published is rolling over in her grave right now. Someone didn‘t even look. I‘m sure google would produce millions of options. (edited) 5y

Oldschool_millenial So Jane Austen never existed?! 🤦🏻‍♀️Off the top of my head, I've read Harper Lee and Mary Shelly. I would like to check out George Sands (she's an interesting character), and I own some Octavia E. Butler books I've been meaning to read. 5y

GingerAntics @Oldschool_millenial well, according to this nut, either none of those books actually exist (we must be having mass hallucinations) or they were really written by men who wrote under female names...to fool people?!... and get published easier?! 🤷🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️ 5y

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Your Heart Is the Sea | Nikita Gill

This drives me 🤬 crazy!!! 🙄 It‘s annoying and clueless. This is very nearly a deal breaker (as in I‘m done with the book and the author) for me. I like her so much, it‘s making me just skip this poem, but if I see it again, I‘m out. HISTORY IS NOT A GENDERED TERM!!! Using “herstory” hurts female historians. STOP IT!!!
#NikitaGill #YourHeartIsTheSea #Poetry #history #historyisnotagenderedterm #femalehistorians #factsmatter

quietlycuriouskate That's a pet peeve of mine, too. 😣 5y

GingerAntics @kathedron I‘m so glad I‘m not the only one on Litsy. I know several people IRL. In fact, I‘ve yet to find a female historian IRL who did anything but cringe at it. 5y

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Poems for a world gone to sh*t: the amazing power of poetry to make even the most f**ked up times feel better | Quercus Poetry

Oh the flat earther morons!!! 🤦🏼‍♀️ The complete idiocy is just sad. 🤦🏼‍♀️ This isn‘t a difference of opinion, this is some idiot rejecting scientific fact.
#sciencematters #factsmatter #Poetry #PoetryMatters #WendyCope #DifferencesofOpinion

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Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World | Catherine Nixey

Sorry folks, people were not cheering as Christianity came rolling into town. (That was the allied forces rolling through Europe after the fall of the Nazi regime. Very different.) A lot of people suffered by these people trying to force “salvation” into them. It‘s actually remarkably reminiscent of the Taliban and Isis. It‘s kind of scary, actually.
#catherinrnixey #thedarkeningage #religioishistory #whyhistorymatters #factsmatter

GingerAntics @Weaponxgirl this is an #unpopularopinion and I‘m probably going to take flack for it...I do not care...because this stuff is true. If you‘re going to be a Christian, at least be honest with yourself about the heritage you are adopting. Just saying. 6y

suzisteffen @GingerAntics I‘ve been dying to read this one! Exactly. 6y

GingerAntics @suzisteffen I‘m really enjoying it. I hope you get to read it soon. 6y

Weaponxgirl I think this applies to all of history. We need to stop looking at it through rose tinted glasses. Such as the British empire. We need to be honest about the awful things in the past that happened and how some of us have benefited from them. 6y

GingerAntics @Weaponxgirl I completely agree. 6y

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What Happened | Hillary Rodham Clinton

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4.5 stars. Regardless of how you may feel about Hillary Clinton, you have to respect her at the very least. So damn accomplished and pragmatic. And so god-damned qualified. DRAGGED 👏🏾 DT 👏🏻 AND 👏🏿BACKED 👏🏾 EACH 👏🏼 DRAG 👏🏽 UP 👏🏻 WITH 👏🏼STATISTICS 👏🏿 AND 👏 FACTS 👏🏻 FUCK 👏🏽 YES 👏🏿 HILL 👏🏻 DRAG 👏 THAT 👏🏾 PIECE 👏 OF 👏🏾 TRASH. Also this is just a random image I got off Google; I listened to it on audio! #readharder

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mrozzz #FactsMatter 7y

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