evidence: This July 4, Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley got on Twitter and quoted founding father Patrick Henry. According to Hawley, Henry told the world that "[i]t cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ." This immediately generated vast Twitter unhappiness because Henry, while a devout Anglican, never said this. [...] Seth Cotlar, a professor of U.S. history at Willamette University, dug up the origins of the spurious Henry quote. The words first appeared in 1956 in a magazine called The Virginian — not attributed to Henry, but as the publication’s own gloss on "the spoken and written words of our noble founders." To give you a sense of where The Virginian was coming from, Cotlar points out that it dared politicians to speak the plain truth "that the mainspring of the conspiracy to mongrelize white America lies in the powerful, wealthy Jewish organizations."