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he is very famous
for his knowledge of historical facts as well as Biblical truths.
Dr. David Barton is his name. He is an expert on the subject of whether or not the United States was founded as a Christian Nation.
He's also famous for being a crank.
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Many historians dismiss his thinking, but Barton's advocacy organization, WallBuilders, and his relentless stream of publications, court amicus briefs and books like The Myth of Separation, have made him a hero to millions—including some powerful politicians.
Richard V. Pierard, Stephen Phillips Professor of History at Gordon College describes Barton's work as follows:
Moreover, American history is rewritten to become “Christian history,†the story of a people chosen by God and who honored him in the past. David Barton and a host of other evangelicals have produced books and videos setting forth a “holy history†of America—an idyllic past to which we must return if the nation is to be saved from destruction at the hands of secularists.[6]
Writing in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, Republican Senator Arlen Specter states:
Probably the best refutation of Barton's argument simply is to quote his own exegesis of the First Amendment: "Today," Barton says, "we would best understand the actual context of the First Amendment by saying, 'Congress shall make no law establishing one Christian denomination as the national denomination.' " In keeping with Barton's restated First Amendment, Congress could presumably make a law establishing all Christian denominations as the national religion, and each state could pass a law establishing a particular Christian church as its official religion.
All of this pseudoscholarship would hardly be worth discussing, let alone disproving, were it not for the fact that it is taken so very seriously by so many people.
– Arlen Specter, Defending the wall: Maintaining church/state separation in America, [3]
translation:
He's full of crap
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