Bend a Twig When It Is Young 0
And it grows up bent.
Behind this is a truth: The facts of history do not list to the far right. Wingnuts recognize this, so they manufacture their own facts, such as their bogus idea that the Founders created the United States as a Christian nation.
As they wrote Constitution when the European religious wars of the Reformation were recent history; had lived, many of them, obligated under British rule to support an established church; and witnessed persons persecuted by the British colonial rulers because of their religious beliefs, the last thing the Founders wanted was to establish a church. Hence, the establishment of religion clause in the First Amendment.
Manufactured facts have the troubling characteristic of not being factual.
There is another word for manufactured facts which are not factual.
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Lies.
H/T Karen for the link.
