{{short description|American author and blogger}} '''Chris Rodda'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/frontline-faith|title=Frontline Faith|author=Weatherbe, Steve|work=National Catholic Register|date=September 5, 2010|access-date=October 19, 2016}}</ref> is an American author and blogger, who has commented extensively on religious and historical matters. She is the Senior Research Director for the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF).<ref name="Cupp2010">{{cite book|author=S. E. Cupp|title=Losing Our Religion: The Liberal Media's Attack on Christianity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uUZ232q5THYC&pg=PA24|date=27 April 2010|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-1-4391-7645-0|pages=24–}}</ref>
==Activities== Rodda is the author of ''Liars For Jesus: The Religious Right's Alternate Version of American History'' {{ISBN|1419644386}} (BookSurge Publishing, 2006) and wrote blog "This Week in Christian Nationalism," which was part of the blog group Freethought Blogs. ''Liars For Jesus: The Religious Right's Alternate Version of American History'' (2006) "debunks many of the historical lies invented and used by the Christian nationalist history revisionists in their efforts to further their far right political agenda and destroy the wall of separation between church and state in America",<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/Liars-For-Jesus-Religious-Alternate/dp/1419644386 Liars For Jesus: The Religious Right's Alternate Version of American History, Vol. 1]</ref> and has been described as "a useful factual critique" of the views of David Barton.<ref name="Cook2013">{{cite book|author=Martin L. Cook|title=Issues in Military Ethics: To Support and Defend the Constitution|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wBA9DJRcUZAC&pg=PA247|date=4 March 2013|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=978-1-4384-4692-9|pages=247–}}</ref>
She blogs at Talk2Action.org and the ''Huffington Post''. She comments on Christian nationalist revisionism of American history<ref name="Fischer2013">{{cite book|author=Fritz Fischer|title=The Memory Hole: The U.S. History Curriculum Under Siege|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dyu4AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA14|date=1 December 2013|publisher=IAP|isbn=978-1-62396-534-1|pages=14–}}</ref> and religious issues in the military.<ref>Jacqueline L Salmon. "The Pastor Who Has Obama's Attention; Chaplain Survived a Tumor and War to Preach at Camp David." {{Cite web |url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-20883754.html |title=The Pastor Who Has Obama's Attention; Chaplain Survived a Tumor and War to Preach at Camp David - the Washington Post | HighBeam Research |access-date=2019-02-16 |archive-date=2018-11-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181115140148/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-20883754.html |url-status=dead }} The Washington Post. Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive. October 14, 2009.</ref>
In 2008 she opposed a Congressional resolution introduced by Randy Forbes to designate an "American Religious History Week."<ref>[https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-177175846 "Religious Right Groups Promote 'Christian Nation' Proclamation in Congress."]{{dl|date=July 2021}} Church & State. Americans United for Separation of Church and State. 1 March 2008.</ref> She has also campaigned on behalf of Native Americans in South Dakota.<ref name="Hayasaki2014">{{cite book|author=Erika Hayasaki|title=The Death Class: A True Story About Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7NcGBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA198|date=30 December 2014|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-1-4516-4294-0|pages=198–}}</ref>
By 30 April 2014, she gave up her writing presence on Freethoughtblogs, citing disagreements with some who use the website.<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/chris.rodda.75/posts/10203623562939730?stream_ref=10 "So, I have now officially left FTB."] (Facebook)</ref>
==Publications== * ''Liars For Jesus: The Religious Right's Alternate Version of American History'' *{{cite book |first=Chris |last=Rodda |year=2010 |chapter=Against All Enemies, Foreign And Domestic |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-5FnvJEclewC&pg=PA69 |pages=69–98 |editor1-first=James E. |editor1-last=Parc |editor2-first=David A. |editor2-last=Levy |title=Attitudes Aren't Free: Thinking Deeply About Diversity in the U.S. Armed Forces |publisher=Enso Books |isbn=978-1-58566-204-3}} *{{cite book|author1=James E. Parco|author-link1=Jim Parco|author2=David A. Levy|title=Attitudes Aren't Free: Thinking Deeply About Diversity in the U.S. Armed Forces|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-5FnvJEclewC&pg=PA69|year=2010|publisher=Enso Books|isbn=978-1-58566-204-3|pages=69–}}
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