{"id":13453,"date":"2022-06-25T23:52:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T23:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=13453"},"modified":"2022-06-26T23:55:57","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T23:55:57","slug":"2022-06-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2022-06-26\/","title":{"rendered":"The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism is Un-American"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"427\" height=\"363\" src=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/humanists.org_2022_06_26_Andrew_Seidel.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13455\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<h3>A video of a talk by Andrew Seidel<\/h3>\n<p><strong>11 a.m., June 26, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This Sunday we will watch and discuss &#8220;The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism is Un-American,&#8221; a presentation by Andrew Seidel, a constitutional attorney with the Freedom from Religion Foundation. This talk was given in March 2020, but the issue is becoming more important every day. He based this talk on his book of the same name, available at https:\/\/andrewlseidel.com\/the-founding-myth\/.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch this 1-hour-and-8-minute video of his talk at www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nVEqYk-hjNM.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Because of the coronavirus situation, this Forum will be held online.<\/p>\n<p>To see the Forum, and to ask questions or make comments, if you wish, click <a href=\"https:\/\/us06web.zoom.us\/j\/81653890712?pwd=QzN4MTVNbGEwQ0Zua3d1VG9tVE50UT09\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<br>Our host will admit you from the waiting room. Joining the meeting via the above link will download and install the Zoom app on your desktop computer, if it&#8217;s not already installed, and then take you to the meeting. 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This talk was given in March 2020, but the issue is becoming more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2022-06-26\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism is Un-American&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[258],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13453"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13461,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13453\/revisions\/13461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}