Mike the Usurper wrote:

When people are spoon fed years in high school and college of anti-American history?

Decius wrote:

I can't decide whether that's silly or scary. I really can't see conservative whitewashing of history becoming a divisive political football - if they started trying to push new text books in schools no one would know enough about history to oppose them.

Let it also be noted that I'm open to disagreement about which link I associated with silly and which link I associated with scary.

Upon following these links, I found myself oddly fascinated by the concept of the "self-professed former atheist" and went forth in search of them. Apparently the species is severely endangered, or perhaps just extraordinarily reclusive. Aside from James Perloff, Google's world-wide search seems to have spotted only one other SPFA in the wild -- fortunately for James, the evidence suggests we have here a female of the species:

Et-tu is a blog by Jen. a self-professed former atheist.

I link here to the search results page, because the actual blog is access-restricted, which only lends further credence to the insular theory.

On the concept of the self-professed former atheist