Celebrating the Fourth of July as a Christian

As Americans began rebuilding their lives in the wake of World War II, a movement to tear out the Christian foundations of America had begun; only this time, the attack was not from the axis powers, but academic professors. While families were still sorting through living without their soldier who didn’t come home, and workers were transitioning factories back to building Buicks instead of bombers, post-war scholars had already begun their long march to uproot America’s Christian founding and cast aspersion on the faith of its Founders. Wielding critical theory — Marxism’s cold calculus of class, postmodernism’s disdain for eternal truths, deconstruction’s tearing at meaning’s fabric — they recast the formation of the U.S. as a tale of greed and power. By 1980, it was not novel when Howard Zinn’s history painted the Founders as elitists and their faith a hollow mask.