If you want to know where the 1776 “report” got its twisted view of history, this must-read expose by ⁦ @rklein90⁩ linking textbooks from evangelical outfits Abeka and Bob Jones to the 1/6 insurrection has your answer.

#ExposeChristianSchools https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_6000bce3c5b62c0057bb711f

“These textbooks dismiss evolution as junk science, characterize Nelson Mandela as a “l’marxist agitator’ who helped drive South Africa to ‘radical affirmative action,’ and suggest that Satan hatched the idea of modern psychology.”

#ChristianNationalism #EmptyThePews

“One passage in an 11th-grade U.S. history textbook states, ‘The new millennium heralded a dramatic acceptance of immoral ideology on a national scale. … Three such philosophies are globalism, environmentalism, and postmodernism.’”

All the bugbears of the 1776 “report”—“globalism,” “identity politics,” “divisiveness”—are in these evangelical textbooks, along with glorification of “the pillars of western civilization.”

Which apparently consist of *checks notes* - “nation, family, and God”

Addendum to this thread: https://twitter.com/c_stroop/status/1351655871311278082