Religious fundamentalists who insist that this is a Christian nation are woefully ignorant of history. Why is this so? Because they wish to preserve their position of Christian privilege while denying the same rights to people of no faith in a deity.

I don't believe they are woefully ignorant. That suggests a serious lack of knowledge. Instead, they purposefully ignore history and replace it with something that sounds better to them.

Can't argue with you there OC. I suppose I was using the term ignorant not in its usual way but more in keeping with its root - ignore. If all they choose to read are holy books or writings of apologists then to me they are ignoring the vast amount of data that would not fit into their preconceptions. Call it willful ignorance?

Most definitely.

Yeah, if they were ignorant of history, they wouldn't spend so much time and propaganda trying to revise it.