Using History to Mold Ideas on the Right
Posted: May 4, 2011.
Print: New York Times
excerpts:
Through two decades of prolific, if disputed, research and some 400 speeches a year on what he calls the forgotten Christian roots of America, Mr. Barton, 57, a former school principal and an ordained minister, has steadily built a reputation as a guiding spirit of the religious right…Liberal organizations are raising the alarm over what they say are Mr. Barton’s dangerous distortions, including his claim that the nation’s founders never intended a high wall between church and state.
...But many professional historians dismiss Mr. Barton, whose academic degree is in Christian education from Oral Roberts University, as a biased amateur who cherry-picks quotes from history and the Bible.
“The problem with David Barton is that there’s a lot of truth in what he says,” said Derek H. Davis, director of church-state studies at Baylor University, a Baptist institution in Waco, Tex. “But the end product is a lot of distortions, half-truths and twisted history.”








Great . Siiiiic infinit ! Here we go again -Dawkins and Sam Harris (after posting prayer petitions up in Worcester Cathedral ... Yes Mr Atheist !) has now posted the little ‘to woo a woman’ video on his pay per view- channel. I now have to trawl the the whole load of LIES (come to that in a while) to see whether they show me in the audience (N.B.I DID NOT CONSENT… if I am !). Sam and Daw, evidently
changed their litlle tete a tete that night -to suit Sam’s beloved. Right . A speech on morality -N.B. we know the truth RE: proposal -Sam’s married . Sam is sleazy and conniving . (Also, I got the distinct impression that Sammy thought ooh, I’ll wear black for Angie
Well, I was wearing my own colours . They didn’t pay me for the input -well timed Dawkins, as I said before: Sam Harris, J. Anderson Thomson, R. Elisabeth Cornwell, Claire Enders, Richard Dawkins along with their other unmemorables -are still coasting on bringing money in through my statements, please allow silence to fall upon them. In whatever Sam Harris, J. Anderson Thomson, R. Elisabeth Cornwell, Claire Enders, Richard Dawkins along with their other unmemorables do -they instil injustice -to which leads to iniquitous self-indulgence. I’m sure the two witchies will get some nice royalties from my words again -jealous sluts. Lots of money for you eh? Yeah. Sleep easy tonight you whores -you’ve been made aware of what’s going on .
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