Reply To: Let’s just agree to mythologize American history

The American Revolution should be fully mythologized so we can act like the United States has more right to exist than Israel. The Civil War is more complicated, but we can choose to apply a concept of abstract heroism in which you can still be heroic fighting for the wrong side. We can also blame the Christian idea at the time that the slaves were heathens before they were slaves, and pretend that slavery only existed because Christians wanted to “save” the heathens. This spreads the blame nicely onto an ideology that is not around anymore in its purest form.