Brook Wilensky-Lanford Has No Clue of the Religious Basis of America's Founding

I just saw this piece, at the New Republic, at Memeorandum, "The Dangerous Lies We Tell About America's Founding" (and here). The author is Brook Wilensky-Lanford, who is the editor of a religious-hate magazine, Killing the Buddha.

She's young, as you can see at her Twitter feed.

Her New Republic piece deserves a thorough fisking, one that deploys authoritative academic texts especially, although I've fleshed out a preliminary rebuttal in a series of tweets. This woman is someone who's latched onto some fringe theories to bolster some pretty out-there claims about the nation's founders and the sacred ideals that gird America's democratic order:

.@modmyth You're not right about the founders and deism. It's certainly not fundamentally atheism, as much as you like it to be.

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 5, 2014

.@modmyth And you cite exactly 3 of the founders as "deists." But we had 13 original colonies, many of which were Protestant or Catholic.

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 5, 2014

.@modmyth Can you please reconile those real "facts" w/ the so-called "myths" upon which your entire screed is based: http://t.co/pZyhGlen1r

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 5, 2014

.@modmyth And your rote review of the books cited leaves enormous lacunae casting aspersions upon your knowledge of the texts.

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 5, 2014

.@modmyth Simply, you have an agenda, you cherry picked some hip books to bolster your hatred, and generalized way beyond what's supported.

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 5, 2014

.@modmyth In other words, you're a hack, a hippie anti-intellectual who's got no clue of the religious basis of America's founding.

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 5, 2014