Eric Metaxas, "If You Can Keep It" 

Right?!? They're almost completely expunged from our history books.

If the US were as bad as this list, everyone would leave.

Just goes to show how manipulative statistics can be made. Like all statistics, they are not accurate bc of blind shots in our psyche & fact, no one is perfect therefore we cannot & do not have the ability to report without subliminal biases. Today, 7 years after this video of Eric discussing the state of US nation, liberal cities have racked up more homelessness than conservatives. Liberal states have less freedom. They have more restrictive gun laws yet highest rates of gun violence. How’s that working? They’ve removed status they don’t like & try to burn down cities. What Eric has stated is ringing truer & truer with every passing day. To rebuild US, will require those youths who are not educated (brainwashed) in government schools to unite with those who have & decide they want to stop bad education. They will also need to find common ground with foreigners who have invaded. At which point we must say this open border program of liberal is a bigger experiment than founders imagined (who could or would? It’s not been tried since creation of borders but what does common sense say? Those without any ignore all limits, run headlong into walls & die of foolishness. Now there’s a Truth thought 💭 : “The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God.’ They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is none who does good. The Lord looks down from heaven on the children of man, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God.” (Psalms 14:1-2)

You're forgetting some very crucial details. He wrote to many plantations all around the South consistently chastising them for mistreatment of their slaves, going as far as to say they treated them worse than dogs or livestock, which put them at enmity with God. He also advocated for the equal treatment of slaves and blacks in all parts of society, saying that it angered him that they were treated as subordinate to white people. He took a very Apostle Paul approach on slavery. He even dedicated his entire orphanage to educating many of his slaves and genuinely giving them a better chance at life. One slave named Phillis Wheatley write a poem honoring his life after he had passed, going as far as to even call him a saint. You cannot look at it as just black and white. History is MUCH more nuanced than that, and not every slave owner was evil or abusive or wretched. Yes, he owned slaves. So did many of the early church Christians. Are they damned? Is it possible that God used them for good, despite the circumstances? Yes, he pushed for slavery in Georgia. He did so that he could establish his orphanage and give many people a better chance at life, including the slaves he bought. I'm not advocating that we go back to slavery, but you must understand that Whitefield used the institution of slavery to bring about many blessing for people, including many slaves themselves. While it is fair to critique him on his ownership of slaves and that he brought slaves to Georgia, what is not fair is to forget as to why he did it and how he actually treated his slaves and expected others to treat their slaves as well.

@@jacobmerrill7382 Treating one's slaves well is better that abusing them. But, there's no moral excuse for slavery. With Christians, there is an explanation, though. They were following what the Old and New Testaments instructed them. The Bible is very pro-slavery.

@@jacobmerrill7382 I wrote a very in-depth article about this topic called "The Bible Clearly Supports Chattel Slavery Based On Race And Gender". I would love to hear what you think of it. You can find this piece by searching for "disagreements i have with christianity andy rhodes". It includes a long section about the Quakers and the whole history of Christianity related to the approach toward slavery.

@@jacobmerrill7382 According to Encyclopedia Virginia, Whitefield appealed to owners for good treatment of African slaves and yet did not question the morality of slavery itself: “Rather than encourage slaves to run away, Whitefield argued, Christian views would make them better slaves. In the end, Whitefield himself owned a plantation and slaves in South Carolina, but his message of salvation for slaves became typical of white southern evangelicals.”

It's more about the application of history than the representation of history that was criticized.