The National Park Service is suggesting apparent mistakes about the historical record of the Founding Fathers presented by a tour guide to visitors to the Independence Hall National Historical Park in Philadelphia are just part of the "multiple points of view" that are designed to let visitors "draw their own conclusions."
That apparently includes the performance of a guide who "mimicked and mocked [a Christian] carrying and swinging an oversized Bible ... ."
"Even if I said the founders were Christians, how could we really know? Just because people carry a big ol' Bible in their hand, they can still be atheists!" said the guide.
"Each ranger leads a tour in his or her own way, weaving stories and information around core topics such as the drafting of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. Our staff is taught to present tours from multiple points of view and allow visitors to draw their own conclusions or, hopefully, be inspired enough to seek out more information on their own," the agency responded to a chaplain who challenged the accuracy of some of the information.
Among the guide's statements that DuBord challenged:
"George Washington didn't even attend church!"
"While the NPS guide physically hunched over, mimicked and mocked one carrying and swinging an oversized Bible in his hand, he said to the crowd: 'Even if I said the founders were Christians, how could we really know? Just because people carry a big ol' Bible in their hand, they can still be atheists!"
"Most of these men owned slaves. How could good Christians do that?"
"We know that Benjamin Franklin was a deist."
"We don't really know for sure about their religion. It's open for interpretation. You'll have to do your own study on that."
DuBord wrote to the facility that the statements simply are wrong. READ MORE...
Know your FACTS and correct these tour guides because they are rewriting history which undermines the GREATEST nation on the face of the Earth.
ReplyDeleteI corrected a tour guide on a DC tour when he said that on each landing of the staircase in the Washington Monument, there are precious stones donated by the states that tourists were removing, hence the staircase has been closed since a particular date.
I walked up those stairs in 1976 and corrected the man about when the staircase was closed off and also that the TRUTH is that there are BIBLICAL quotes on each staircase landing donbated by the states.. We cannot let them Obama-ize our nations history. They mean NO GOOD by taking God out of our history.