This is what The 1619 Project denies and distorts

Akhil Reed Amar: “[The] constitutions that sprang to life in 1776 [had] certain overarching elements that are now so commonplace that we forget how truly revolutionary they were back then: writtenness, concision, replicability, rights declaration, democratic pedigree, republican structure, and amendability. Never before in history had this particular combination of features come together. After 1776, this cluster would sweep across the continent and, eventually, across much of the modern world.”

“The history of the world before 1776 was a history of “accident and force.” Most people in most places were ruled by brute power or by old customs that the populace had never formally consented to in any self-conscious moment of collective choice. Very few advanced societies in or before 1776 could be described as self-governing. The history of the world was a history of emperors, kings, princes, dukes, czars, sultans, mogul lords, tribal chieftains, and the like.”

The spirit of 1776 updated politics, despite the essentially Marxist spirit of The 1619 Project.

Tragically, Organized Religion has not been updated. It still reverts to sultan language Jesus transcended: God of Wrath, Jealous God, not compatible with Loving Father. In the KJV version of Matthew’s Gospel, the Lord’s Prayer ends, “For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory forever.”(1) Not only did Jesus never say that, it contradicts his teaching that God is kind, generous, loving and good. If Jesus had seen the “Christian” religion continuing the language of “emperors, kings, princes, dukes, czars, sultans, mogul lords, tribal chieftains, and the like,” he would have been as angry as he was at the money changers in the Temple.(2)

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(1)The translators of the 1611 King James Bible assumed that a Greek manuscript they possessed was ancient and therefore adopted the phrase "For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory forever" into the Lord's Prayer of Matthew's Gospel. - Wikipedia

(2) “It is written, 'My house shall be called the house of prayer,' but ye have made it a den of thieves.” - Matthew 21:13