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		By: Timothy Kincaid		</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[From Religious Dispatches...
It seems that David Barton is used as a text book at Liberty Law School.
&lt;blockquote&gt;The Foundations class is unlike anything offered at secular law schools, its purpose being to guide students toward a &quot;Christian worldview&quot; of the law. In the 2008-09 academic year, the required texts included David Barton&#039;s Original Intent, which Barton&#039;s website describes as &quot;essential resource for anyone interested in our nation&#039;s religious heritage and the Founders&#039; intended role for the American judicial system,&quot; and Francis Schaeffer&#039;s Christian Manifesto.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
They also seem to be instructing law students that they should have encouraged Lisa Miller to go to Nicaragua.  They even put it on an exam.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From Religious Dispatches&#8230;<br />
It seems that David Barton is used as a text book at Liberty Law School.</p>
<blockquote><p>The Foundations class is unlike anything offered at secular law schools, its purpose being to guide students toward a &#8220;Christian worldview&#8221; of the law. In the 2008-09 academic year, the required texts included David Barton&#8217;s Original Intent, which Barton&#8217;s website describes as &#8220;essential resource for anyone interested in our nation&#8217;s religious heritage and the Founders&#8217; intended role for the American judicial system,&#8221; and Francis Schaeffer&#8217;s Christian Manifesto.</p></blockquote>
<p>They also seem to be instructing law students that they should have encouraged Lisa Miller to go to Nicaragua.  They even put it on an exam.</p>
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		By: Bernie		</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[After I saw the entire interview, I was left saddened. There was the perfect opportunity to nail him, yet it seemed that Stewart was ill-prepared or unwilling to do that.  A perfect moment to point out his falsehoods, and, alas it was thrown out the window like yesterday&#039;s news.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After I saw the entire interview, I was left saddened. There was the perfect opportunity to nail him, yet it seemed that Stewart was ill-prepared or unwilling to do that.  A perfect moment to point out his falsehoods, and, alas it was thrown out the window like yesterday&#8217;s news.</p>
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		By: Throbert McGee		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Throbert McGee]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[(I&#039;m just researching and learning as I go along, here...)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>(I&#8217;m just researching and learning as I go along, here&#8230;)</p>
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		By: Throbert McGee		</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hmmm... unlikely as it may seem, I may have to (slightly and provisionally) defend Barton on one point.
RightWingWatch says:
&lt;blockquote&gt;First &lt;strong&gt;Barton lies about [John] Adams&#039; faith&lt;/strong&gt;, positing that he was a &#039;Trinitarian Unitarian.&#039; Unitarianism, however, is based on the rejection of the Trinity and noted Unitarian thinker James Freeman Clarke writes that &quot;Unitarians, strictly speaking, are those Christians who reject the Church doctrine of the Trinity, and do not believe that Jesus is God the Son, equal with the Father, or that he is the Supreme Being.&quot; &lt;/blockquote&gt;
Actually, it&#039;s not obvious to me that Barton was lying (or confuse, or sloppy) when he said that John Adams was &quot;a Unitarian who believed in the Trinity&quot;.
Those familiar with Christianity (and with the history of Christian &quot;heresies&quot;) can appreciate that it&#039;s possible to believe in the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost while simultaneously rejecting the Nicene formulation of the Trinity that describes the inter-relationship and the specific characteristics of &quot;Big Daddy, Junior, and Casper.&quot; Or in other words, you can reject the &lt;strong&gt;Trinity&#8482;&lt;/strong&gt; but still believe in some sort of Celestial Troika. To the best of my knowledge, for example, Mormonism emphatically repudiates Trinitarianism, and yet speaks of the Father, Jesus, and the Spirit.
But at the colloquial level, it&#039;s normal to conflate &quot;believing in the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost&quot; with &quot;believing in the Trinity.&quot; And since Jon Stewart is secular, from a non-Christian background, and offering &quot;edutainment&quot; rather than meticulous scholarship, it seems pretty defensible for Barton to use a loose, colloquial definition of what the Trinity means.
For that matter, Jon Stewart (and RightWingWatch) seem to be using a modern  definition of Unitarianism -- God is One, Jesus was not divine at all, and &quot;Holy Spirit&quot; is simply a synonym for &quot;God&quot;.
But from Googling and wikipedia, I get the impression that &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; 18th-century Unitarians (though not necessarily John Adams himself) would&#039;ve accepted that Jesus was in some sense an Incarnation of the Divine, and was bodily resurrected, while totally rejecting the doctrine that JC was coeternal with the Father.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hmmm&#8230; unlikely as it may seem, I may have to (slightly and provisionally) defend Barton on one point.<br />
RightWingWatch says:</p>
<blockquote><p>First <strong>Barton lies about [John] Adams&#8217; faith</strong>, positing that he was a &#8216;Trinitarian Unitarian.&#8217; Unitarianism, however, is based on the rejection of the Trinity and noted Unitarian thinker James Freeman Clarke writes that &#8220;Unitarians, strictly speaking, are those Christians who reject the Church doctrine of the Trinity, and do not believe that Jesus is God the Son, equal with the Father, or that he is the Supreme Being.&#8221; </p></blockquote>
<p>Actually, it&#8217;s not obvious to me that Barton was lying (or confuse, or sloppy) when he said that John Adams was &#8220;a Unitarian who believed in the Trinity&#8221;.<br />
Those familiar with Christianity (and with the history of Christian &#8220;heresies&#8221;) can appreciate that it&#8217;s possible to believe in the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost while simultaneously rejecting the Nicene formulation of the Trinity that describes the inter-relationship and the specific characteristics of &#8220;Big Daddy, Junior, and Casper.&#8221; Or in other words, you can reject the <strong>Trinity&#8482;</strong> but still believe in some sort of Celestial Troika. To the best of my knowledge, for example, Mormonism emphatically repudiates Trinitarianism, and yet speaks of the Father, Jesus, and the Spirit.<br />
But at the colloquial level, it&#8217;s normal to conflate &#8220;believing in the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost&#8221; with &#8220;believing in the Trinity.&#8221; And since Jon Stewart is secular, from a non-Christian background, and offering &#8220;edutainment&#8221; rather than meticulous scholarship, it seems pretty defensible for Barton to use a loose, colloquial definition of what the Trinity means.<br />
For that matter, Jon Stewart (and RightWingWatch) seem to be using a modern  definition of Unitarianism &#8212; God is One, Jesus was not divine at all, and &#8220;Holy Spirit&#8221; is simply a synonym for &#8220;God&#8221;.<br />
But from Googling and wikipedia, I get the impression that <em>some</em> 18th-century Unitarians (though not necessarily John Adams himself) would&#8217;ve accepted that Jesus was in some sense an Incarnation of the Divine, and was bodily resurrected, while totally rejecting the doctrine that JC was coeternal with the Father.</p>
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		By: mlargles		</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Throbert, I think Andrews Norton wasn&#039;t a unitarian of that stripe, but I can&#039;t find any sources on how he perceived the divine, just how he didn&#039;t think the trinity made sense. He was extremely rationalist (ie: a watch therefore a watchmaker type Christian) who didn&#039;t seem to think God interfered much in human affairs. That doesn&#039;t quite sound like a Christian who turns trinitarian entities into unitarian roles.
Honestly though, I can&#039;t figure out where Norton fits on that scale from more liberal unitarians (who completely throw out the Holy Ghost) to more conservative ones (who usually are more inclined towards the &quot;roles&quot; or &quot;sock puppet&quot; type explanation). He was more conservative than many unitarians, in that he completely rejected transcendentalism and all of those more liberal conceptions of God, but he still fiercely seems to have disliked the trinity. I&#039;m not sure where he fits in (if anywhere without qualification).]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Throbert, I think Andrews Norton wasn&#8217;t a unitarian of that stripe, but I can&#8217;t find any sources on how he perceived the divine, just how he didn&#8217;t think the trinity made sense. He was extremely rationalist (ie: a watch therefore a watchmaker type Christian) who didn&#8217;t seem to think God interfered much in human affairs. That doesn&#8217;t quite sound like a Christian who turns trinitarian entities into unitarian roles.<br />
Honestly though, I can&#8217;t figure out where Norton fits on that scale from more liberal unitarians (who completely throw out the Holy Ghost) to more conservative ones (who usually are more inclined towards the &#8220;roles&#8221; or &#8220;sock puppet&#8221; type explanation). He was more conservative than many unitarians, in that he completely rejected transcendentalism and all of those more liberal conceptions of God, but he still fiercely seems to have disliked the trinity. I&#8217;m not sure where he fits in (if anywhere without qualification).</p>
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