In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact. - Ernest Renan

Getting its history wrong is part of being a nation

The regeneration of the inferior or bastard races by the superior ones is consistent with God's plans for humanity. The man of the people, in our countries, is always a fallen aristocrat; his hands are made to handle the sword rather than the laborer's tools. He prefers warring to working, that is, he returns to his original calling.

The Semites did not understand the variety, the plurality, the genders in God: the word goddess in Hebrew is the most horrible barbarism.