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David Barton (born 1954) is an American evangelical Christian minister, conservative activist, and author. He founded WallBuilders, a Texas-based organization which promotes the view that it is a myth that the US Constitution insists on separation of church and state. Barton is the former vice chair of the Republican Party of Texas. He has been described as a Christian nationalist and "one of the foremost Christian revisionist historians"; much of his work is devoted to advancing the idea, based upon research that many historians describe as flawed. that the United States was founded as an explicitly Christian nation. Barton collects early American documents, and his official biography describes him as "an expert in historical and constitutional issues". Barton holds no formal credentials in history or law, and scholars dispute the accuracy and integrity of his assertions about history, accusing him of practicing misleading historical revisionism, "pseudoscholarship" and spreading "outright falsehoods". According to the New York Times, "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. Barton's 2012 book The Jefferson Lies was voted "the least credible history book in print" by the users of the History News Network website. The book's publisher, the Christian publishing house Thomas Nelson, disavowed the book and withdrew it from sale. A senior executive said that Thomas Nelson could not stand by the book because "basic truths just were not there."
Will David Barton Fill Oklahoma’s Curriculum With Lies and Disinformation?
Earlier this month, Oklahoma’s Christian nationalist state superintendent of education Ryan Walters
announced that he was creating an executive review committee to overhaul the state’s social studies curriculum and that it would be stocked with far-right activists and ideologues. Among those appointed to the committee was Christian nationalist pseudo-historian David Barton, a longtime religious-right activist who has repeatedly misrepresented his academic credentials and whose scholarship is so shoddy that one of his books was pulled off the marked by his own publisher in 2012 after it concluded that “basic truths just were not there.” Barton is notorious for misrepresenting history in order to bolster his right-wing political agenda and for continuing to repeat his false claims long after they have been debunked. Both of these tendencies were on display when Barton appeared on “The War Room” over the weekend.
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Earlier this month, Oklahoma’s Christian nationalist state superintendent of education Ryan Walters
announced that he was creating an executive review committee to overhaul the state’s social studies curriculum and that it would be stocked with far-right activists and ideologues. Among those appointed to the committee was Christian nationalist pseudo-historian David Barton, a longtime religious-right activist who has repeatedly misrepresented his academic credentials and whose scholarship is so shoddy that one of his books was pulled off the marked by his own publisher in 2012 after it concluded that “basic truths just were not there.” Barton is notorious for misrepresenting history in order to bolster his right-wing political agenda and for continuing to repeat his false claims long after they have been debunked. Both of these tendencies were on display when Barton appeared on “The War Room” over the weekend.
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Trump 'supercharged' decades of work to remake GOP as Christian nationalist party: column
Religious fundamentalists have spent decades generating propaganda and disinformation to form a myth that the U.S. was founded as an explicitly Christian nation, and no figure has been more important to that charade than "huckster" historian David Barton, whose research is considered a joke by scholars and whose claims are rejected by even conservative Christian academics. "Yet Barton's influence is so vast in the world of Republican thought it's immeasurable," Marcotte wrote. "He's heavily promoted through right-wing media and consults with major Republican leaders, including the new speaker of the House, Mike Johnson. But even people who have never heard his name have likely absorbed his ideas through the right-wing media ecosystem, which is infused with them. When Republicans repeat false talking points, like 'separation of church and state is a myth' or 'the Founders envisioned a Christian nation,' most of that goes straight back to Barton and his fake histories."
(Travis Gettys/Raw Story 12/13/23)
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Religious fundamentalists have spent decades generating propaganda and disinformation to form a myth that the U.S. was founded as an explicitly Christian nation, and no figure has been more important to that charade than "huckster" historian David Barton, whose research is considered a joke by scholars and whose claims are rejected by even conservative Christian academics. "Yet Barton's influence is so vast in the world of Republican thought it's immeasurable," Marcotte wrote. "He's heavily promoted through right-wing media and consults with major Republican leaders, including the new speaker of the House, Mike Johnson. But even people who have never heard his name have likely absorbed his ideas through the right-wing media ecosystem, which is infused with them. When Republicans repeat false talking points, like 'separation of church and state is a myth' or 'the Founders envisioned a Christian nation,' most of that goes straight back to Barton and his fake histories."
(Travis Gettys/Raw Story 12/13/23)
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'A war for the essence and character of American Christianity' described in new book
American Christianity is at an inflection point. There is “a war for the essence and character of American Christianity,” writes Tim Alberta, a national political reporter for the Atlantic. The son of an evangelical pastor in Michigan, Alberta challenges conservative Christian culture from an insider’s perspective in his new book, The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism. Alberta says that for decades, American evangelicals have been taught that the United States is rightfully theirs and is being taken away from them. Figures such as Liberty University founder Jerry Falwell Sr., Ralph Reed of the Faith and Freedom Coalition and David Barton of WallBuilders and, more recently, others such as Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA, Jerry Falwell Jr. and evangelical talk radio host Eric Metaxas have spread this message.
(Jon Ward/Yahoo 12/5/23)
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American Christianity is at an inflection point. There is “a war for the essence and character of American Christianity,” writes Tim Alberta, a national political reporter for the Atlantic. The son of an evangelical pastor in Michigan, Alberta challenges conservative Christian culture from an insider’s perspective in his new book, The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism. Alberta says that for decades, American evangelicals have been taught that the United States is rightfully theirs and is being taken away from them. Figures such as Liberty University founder Jerry Falwell Sr., Ralph Reed of the Faith and Freedom Coalition and David Barton of WallBuilders and, more recently, others such as Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA, Jerry Falwell Jr. and evangelical talk radio host Eric Metaxas have spread this message.
(Jon Ward/Yahoo 12/5/23)
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Texas activist David Barton wants to end separation of church and state. He has the ear of the new U.S. House speaker.
For nearly four decades, Texas activist David Barton has barnstormed statehouses and pulpits across the nation, arguing that the separation between church and state is a myth and that America should be run as a Christian nation. Now, he’s closer to power than perhaps ever before. One day after little-known Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana was elected as the new House speaker last week, Barton said on a podcast that he was already discussing staffing with Johnson, his longtime ally in deeply conservative, Christian causes.
(Robert Downen/Texas Tribune 11/3/23)
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For nearly four decades, Texas activist David Barton has barnstormed statehouses and pulpits across the nation, arguing that the separation between church and state is a myth and that America should be run as a Christian nation. Now, he’s closer to power than perhaps ever before. One day after little-known Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana was elected as the new House speaker last week, Barton said on a podcast that he was already discussing staffing with Johnson, his longtime ally in deeply conservative, Christian causes.
(Robert Downen/Texas Tribune 11/3/23)
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David Barton
“Strikingly, only nations who respect Biblical teachings and traditions offer protection for the rights of religious conscience. Secular and non-Biblical nations, and those with state-established churches (such as those that predominated in England and Europe at the time of the American Founding), do not allow rights of conscience but instead demand conformity, which often requires governmental punishment coercion concerning religious beliefs, which violates the Scriptures.”
– Wallbuilders.com, “Biblical Christianity: The Origin of the Rights of Conscience” 2022
– Wallbuilders.com, “Biblical Christianity: The Origin of the Rights of Conscience” 2022
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Jan 21, 2022: Right Wing Watch: David Barton and the Evolution of Lies
Christian nationalist pseudo-historian David Barton delivered a series of presentations to the religious-right organization City Elders earlier this month that contained, predictably, various misrepresentations and falsehoods. Ironically, Barton closed out his final presentation on the importance of truth by repeating two lies. April 27, 2021: Republican Party of Texas: Episode 104 With David Barton: Report from Texas and Around the Nation
I am joined today with historian and former vice chairman of the Republican Party of Texas, David Barton. Great to have you here. Thanks so much for joining us. Nov 10, 2016: Right Wing Watch: David Barton: N.C. Gov. McCrory Lost Because He Got ‘Squishy’ On State’s Anti-LGBT Bathroom Bill
On today’s episode of “WallBuilders Live,” Religious Right activist and right-wing pseudo-historian David Barton provided a recap of Tuesday’s election results and declared that North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory lost his bid for re-election because he got “squishy” on defending HB2, the state’s anti-LGBT bathroom law. Aug 18, 2016: Warren Throckmorten: David Barton Again Says His Christian Critics Were Recruited to Attack Him David Barton recently gave a speech to the Arkansas Tea Party Alliance. At the end of his presentation, a person in the crowd asked him about the background of his book The Jefferson Lies. Specifically, the questioner wanted to know why it was pulled from publication. Barton then launched into his false victim narrative. |
It has been well-documented that Christian nationalist pseudo-historian David Barton routinely misuses and misrepresents both American history and the Bible in order to promote his right-wing political agenda.
For decades, Barton has worked diligently to convince conservative Christian activists that the Founding Fathers intended for the United States to be an explicitly Christian nation that operates according to biblical precepts. He has doggedly worked to “prove” these claims by incessantly (and falsely) insisting that multiple passages of the Constitution were taken directly out of the Bible and that our laws and branches of government were crafted based on biblical principles. |
September 14, 2015: Religion & Politics: Pulling Us Back In: David Barton, Ted Cruz, and the Evangelical Grassroots
Like Michael Corleone in The Godfather Part III, who thought he could squirm out of his former life, I thought a few years ago that I was done. That is, so done with the subject of the Texas ideological entrepreneur David Barton. The self-styled historian had developed a one-man heritage industry out of his insistence that the founding fathers had created America as a Christian nation. Long operating in the same kind of alternate intellectual universe in which figures such as the creationist Ken Ham had operated, Barton collected historical documents and research purporting to show America’s divine origins, Christian heritage, and sacred purpose. His endless supply of quotations and impressive personal library of thousands of original documents from the founding era lent him the credibility of being a true scholar, studying the original texts in the way true Christians were to study the Bible. So did his slams at “Deconstructionism, Poststructuralism, Modernism, Minimalism, [and] Academic Collectivism,” terms he uses to mean, basically, “anyone I disagree with.”
Like Michael Corleone in The Godfather Part III, who thought he could squirm out of his former life, I thought a few years ago that I was done. That is, so done with the subject of the Texas ideological entrepreneur David Barton. The self-styled historian had developed a one-man heritage industry out of his insistence that the founding fathers had created America as a Christian nation. Long operating in the same kind of alternate intellectual universe in which figures such as the creationist Ken Ham had operated, Barton collected historical documents and research purporting to show America’s divine origins, Christian heritage, and sacred purpose. His endless supply of quotations and impressive personal library of thousands of original documents from the founding era lent him the credibility of being a true scholar, studying the original texts in the way true Christians were to study the Bible. So did his slams at “Deconstructionism, Poststructuralism, Modernism, Minimalism, [and] Academic Collectivism,” terms he uses to mean, basically, “anyone I disagree with.”
Apr 9, 2015: Right Wing Watch: Barton: America Will Collapse Within 80 Years Without 'Premarital Purity And Postmarital Fidelity'
In an interview at a Cleveland Right to Life Event last year, self-proclaimed historian David Barton declared that “no nation” has ever survived more than 80 years past a collapse of “premarital purity and postmarital fidelity.”
Mar 13, 2015: Warren Throckmorton: Here’s What David Barton Calls Vindication of His Historical Claims
Recently, I questioned the way World Net Daily writer John Aman characterized David Barton’s defamation suit against W.S. Smith, a writer for Examiner.com who criticized Barton’s historical claims.
Jan 23, 2015: Warren Throckmorton: David Barton Plagiarizes Eric Metaxas’ WSJ Article on a Fine-Tuned Universe
Without any mention of Eric Metaxas or the Wall Street Journal, David Barton, on his Wallbuilders program today, described the exact illustrations and arguments used by Metaxas in his WSJ article “Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God.”
Dec 30, 2014: Right Wing Watch: A Banner Year For David Barton: From Pseudo-Historian To Time Traveler
-2014 was another banner year for David Barton, who once again managed to continue to spread his particular brand of Christian America pseudo-history and patently absurd statements around the world while somehow maintaining his reputation as a well-respected Religious Right activist and speaker.
In an interview at a Cleveland Right to Life Event last year, self-proclaimed historian David Barton declared that “no nation” has ever survived more than 80 years past a collapse of “premarital purity and postmarital fidelity.”
Mar 13, 2015: Warren Throckmorton: Here’s What David Barton Calls Vindication of His Historical Claims
Recently, I questioned the way World Net Daily writer John Aman characterized David Barton’s defamation suit against W.S. Smith, a writer for Examiner.com who criticized Barton’s historical claims.
Jan 23, 2015: Warren Throckmorton: David Barton Plagiarizes Eric Metaxas’ WSJ Article on a Fine-Tuned Universe
Without any mention of Eric Metaxas or the Wall Street Journal, David Barton, on his Wallbuilders program today, described the exact illustrations and arguments used by Metaxas in his WSJ article “Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God.”
Dec 30, 2014: Right Wing Watch: A Banner Year For David Barton: From Pseudo-Historian To Time Traveler
-2014 was another banner year for David Barton, who once again managed to continue to spread his particular brand of Christian America pseudo-history and patently absurd statements around the world while somehow maintaining his reputation as a well-respected Religious Right activist and speaker.
Nov 4, 2014: The Blaze: David Barton Explains How You Could Be Committing Three Felonies a Day
Many are aware of the complexity of the U.S. legal code, and well aware that there are likely parts of it they are unfamiliar with. But historian David Barton on Tuesday said there is an enormous risk in having a extraordinarily lengthy legal code, and the average American could be committing three felonies a day without even knowing it.
Sept 8, 2014: Dispatches from Culture War: Oh Look, More Lies From David Barton
I know this will be a terrible shock to my readers, but David Barton is lying again. A lot. After a caller to his radio show told what is almost certainly a false story about a TV show that supposedly said that Thomas Jefferson “hated Christianity and considered it a dangerous religion” and that it caused the inquisition, Barton claimed that the Christianity that caused the inquisition was totally different.
Aug 11, 2014: Politicus USA: David Barton Claims Evangelical Voters Have Been Ignored by Both Parties
David Barton claims that Evangelical voters have been ignored by both parties, a shocking claim in light of the fact that the GOP has for a long time kowtowed to the very voters Barton claims have been ignored. Republican politicians regularly hobnob with the likes of Bryan Fischer, Tony Perkins, and Barton himself.
July 21, 2014: History News Network: Ukrainian Leaders Are Using David Barton's Theocratic Pseudo-History To Build Their Nation
Last month, Glenn Beck mentioned that David Barton had been invited to deliver his standard presentation of lies and misinformation to high-ranking government leaders in some former Soviet nation that is seeking to model itself on the United States.
July 18, 2014: Warren Throckmartin: Bob Barr’s Strange David Barton Claim
This is old news but an article on right wing opinion site American Thinking got me to writing.
July 16, 2014: FreeThought Blogs: Glenn Beck Hearts David Barton
Bob Barr (yes, that Bob Barr) recently criticized his opponent in a House race in Georgia for being endorsed by fraud David Barton and Glenn Beck has leapt to the defense of his buddy Barton, assuring his listeners that Barton is just a wonderful, delightful man
July 15, 2014: Politicus USA: David Barton Pins Global Warming Effects on America’s Alleged Failure to Support Israel
David Barton, who has been doing his own level best for years to destroy America, renews an old refrain when he said on TBN’s “Praise The Lord” last week that God is going to get the US for not supporting Israel.
July 14, 2014: TFN Insider: David Barton Wildly Distorts Key Poverty Statistic
How do lower- and working-class Americans get duped into supporting right-wing public policies that do them economic harm? They listen to phony “experts” like David Barton — a former Texas Republican Party vice chairman and the head of the religious-right organization WallBuilders.
May 18, 2014: Eye of Vigilance: Frederick Douglass Foundation Condemns Installation of Common Core and the Nationalization of Education
As David Barton said, one of the problems with our educational system is that, in the 1920s, the government began to change the way it educated students. Barton fought the implementation of C-Scope in Texas as a member of the curriculum board.
May 13, 2014: Watchman On The Web: David Barton’s Bible Rewrite is ‘The Only Answer’ to Save America??
“After hearing Glenn Beck promoting a special kind of bible, I skimmed through the numerous websites promoting the Founders’ Bible and the ministry of David Barton, Glenn Beck’s token Christian Pastor. The Bible is more a declaration of the holiness of the United Sates of America than a true study bible.”
During his recent discussion with Mike Jacobs, David Barton made a bizarre assertion that fear that the Religious Right seeks to implement a theocracy in America is “stupidity” because “as long as you have elections, you’ll never have a theocracy.”
Barton asserted that “this far left stuff that says if Christians get involved, they’re trying to make a theocracy” is nonsense and is just something that “wackos on the left and secularists and progressives try to use to keep us intimidated, to make us ashamed of our faith and our values.”
“As long as we’re having elections,” he declared, “there is no possibility of a theocracy”:
--Right Wing Watch: David Barton's Bizarre Definition Of 'Theocracy' 3.4.14
On a Veterans Day broadcast program, televangelist Kenneth Copeland and controversial historian David Barton told listeners that soldiers should never experience guilt or post-traumatic stress disorder after returning from military service.
Reading from Numbers 32: 20-22, Copeland said, “So this is a promise — if you do this thing, if you arm yourselves before the Lord for the war … you shall return, you’re coming back, and be guiltless before the Lord and before the nation.”
“Any of you suffering from PTSD right now, you listen to me,” Copeland said as Barton affirmed him. “You get rid of that right now. You don’t take drugs to get rid of it. It doesn’t take psychology. That promise right there will get rid of it.”
Barton added that many biblical warriors “took so many people out in battle,” but did so in the name of God.
“You’re on an elevated platform up here. You’re a hero, you’re put in the faith hall of fame,” Barton said. “… When you do it God’s way, not only are you guiltless for having done that, you’re esteemed.”
--Religion News Service: David Barton & Kenneth Copeland: PTSD isn’t biblical 11.13.13
Nov 4, 2014: The Blaze: David Barton Explains How You Could Be Committing Three Felonies a Day
Many are aware of the complexity of the U.S. legal code, and well aware that there are likely parts of it they are unfamiliar with. But historian David Barton on Tuesday said there is an enormous risk in having a extraordinarily lengthy legal code, and the average American could be committing three felonies a day without even knowing it.
Sept 8, 2014: Dispatches from Culture War: Oh Look, More Lies From David Barton
I know this will be a terrible shock to my readers, but David Barton is lying again. A lot. After a caller to his radio show told what is almost certainly a false story about a TV show that supposedly said that Thomas Jefferson “hated Christianity and considered it a dangerous religion” and that it caused the inquisition, Barton claimed that the Christianity that caused the inquisition was totally different.
Aug 11, 2014: Politicus USA: David Barton Claims Evangelical Voters Have Been Ignored by Both Parties
David Barton claims that Evangelical voters have been ignored by both parties, a shocking claim in light of the fact that the GOP has for a long time kowtowed to the very voters Barton claims have been ignored. Republican politicians regularly hobnob with the likes of Bryan Fischer, Tony Perkins, and Barton himself.
July 21, 2014: History News Network: Ukrainian Leaders Are Using David Barton's Theocratic Pseudo-History To Build Their Nation
Last month, Glenn Beck mentioned that David Barton had been invited to deliver his standard presentation of lies and misinformation to high-ranking government leaders in some former Soviet nation that is seeking to model itself on the United States.
July 18, 2014: Warren Throckmartin: Bob Barr’s Strange David Barton Claim
This is old news but an article on right wing opinion site American Thinking got me to writing.
July 16, 2014: FreeThought Blogs: Glenn Beck Hearts David Barton
Bob Barr (yes, that Bob Barr) recently criticized his opponent in a House race in Georgia for being endorsed by fraud David Barton and Glenn Beck has leapt to the defense of his buddy Barton, assuring his listeners that Barton is just a wonderful, delightful man
July 15, 2014: Politicus USA: David Barton Pins Global Warming Effects on America’s Alleged Failure to Support Israel
David Barton, who has been doing his own level best for years to destroy America, renews an old refrain when he said on TBN’s “Praise The Lord” last week that God is going to get the US for not supporting Israel.
July 14, 2014: TFN Insider: David Barton Wildly Distorts Key Poverty Statistic
How do lower- and working-class Americans get duped into supporting right-wing public policies that do them economic harm? They listen to phony “experts” like David Barton — a former Texas Republican Party vice chairman and the head of the religious-right organization WallBuilders.
May 18, 2014: Eye of Vigilance: Frederick Douglass Foundation Condemns Installation of Common Core and the Nationalization of Education
As David Barton said, one of the problems with our educational system is that, in the 1920s, the government began to change the way it educated students. Barton fought the implementation of C-Scope in Texas as a member of the curriculum board.
May 13, 2014: Watchman On The Web: David Barton’s Bible Rewrite is ‘The Only Answer’ to Save America??
“After hearing Glenn Beck promoting a special kind of bible, I skimmed through the numerous websites promoting the Founders’ Bible and the ministry of David Barton, Glenn Beck’s token Christian Pastor. The Bible is more a declaration of the holiness of the United Sates of America than a true study bible.”
During his recent discussion with Mike Jacobs, David Barton made a bizarre assertion that fear that the Religious Right seeks to implement a theocracy in America is “stupidity” because “as long as you have elections, you’ll never have a theocracy.”
Barton asserted that “this far left stuff that says if Christians get involved, they’re trying to make a theocracy” is nonsense and is just something that “wackos on the left and secularists and progressives try to use to keep us intimidated, to make us ashamed of our faith and our values.”
“As long as we’re having elections,” he declared, “there is no possibility of a theocracy”:
--Right Wing Watch: David Barton's Bizarre Definition Of 'Theocracy' 3.4.14
On a Veterans Day broadcast program, televangelist Kenneth Copeland and controversial historian David Barton told listeners that soldiers should never experience guilt or post-traumatic stress disorder after returning from military service.
Reading from Numbers 32: 20-22, Copeland said, “So this is a promise — if you do this thing, if you arm yourselves before the Lord for the war … you shall return, you’re coming back, and be guiltless before the Lord and before the nation.”
“Any of you suffering from PTSD right now, you listen to me,” Copeland said as Barton affirmed him. “You get rid of that right now. You don’t take drugs to get rid of it. It doesn’t take psychology. That promise right there will get rid of it.”
Barton added that many biblical warriors “took so many people out in battle,” but did so in the name of God.
“You’re on an elevated platform up here. You’re a hero, you’re put in the faith hall of fame,” Barton said. “… When you do it God’s way, not only are you guiltless for having done that, you’re esteemed.”
--Religion News Service: David Barton & Kenneth Copeland: PTSD isn’t biblical 11.13.13
David Barton, a self-styled Christian historian who claims to debunk left-wing myths about America, is sure of it: If you studied the Founding Fathers like he has, you would know that “as far as they were concerned, they had already had the entire debate on creationism and evolution.”
And the creationists, Barton says, won.
Institute for Policy Studies: David Barton’s Make-Believe Version of American History 8.20.12
And the creationists, Barton says, won.
Institute for Policy Studies: David Barton’s Make-Believe Version of American History 8.20.12
It’s hard to overstate how important Barton has been in shaping the worldview of the Christian right, and of populist conservatives more generally. A self-taught historian with a degree in religious education from Oral Roberts University, he runs a Texas-based organization called WallBuilders, which specializes in books and videos meant to show that the founding fathers were overwhelmingly “orthodox, evangelical” believers who intended for the United States to be a Christian nation. Newt Gingrich has called his work “wonderful” and “most useful.” George W. Bush’s campaign hired him to do clergy outreach in 2004. In 2010, Glenn Beck called him called him “the most important man in America right now.” At the end of the month, he’s slated to serve on the GOP’s platform committee at the Republican National Convention in Tampa.
Daily Beast: Christian Right Historian David Barton in Freefall Over ‘Jefferson Lies’ 8-11.12
Daily Beast: Christian Right Historian David Barton in Freefall Over ‘Jefferson Lies’ 8-11.12
David Barton
“God’s the one who drew up the lines for the nations. So to say open borders is to say, ‘God, you goofed it all up and when you had borders, you shouldn’t have done it.’ And so, from a Christian standpoint, you cannot do that. God’s the one who establishes the boundaries of nations.”
– Wallbuilders broadcast, July 26, 2010