Comments on: David Barton, Robert Aitken and the Importance of a Narrative https://wthrockmorton.com/2013/01/15/david-barton-robert-aitken-and-the-importance-of-a-narrative/ A [retired] college psychology professor's observations about public policy, mental health, sexual identity, and religious issues Wed, 30 May 2018 20:07:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Warren https://wthrockmorton.com/2013/01/15/david-barton-robert-aitken-and-the-importance-of-a-narrative/#comment-91855 Wed, 30 May 2018 20:07:34 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=13960#comment-91855 In reply to Johnny Cox.

Johnny – Barton just told legislators from Montana that Congress printed the Aitken Bible. He says that at most of his talks on the subject. This is fundamentally false. He doesn’t make it sound false, what he says directly is false. There is no sense in which Congress printed the Aitken Bible. It is a very easy fix for him; I don’t understand why he continues to say that Congress printed the first English Bible for the use of schools unless he doesn’t care that it is misleading.

]]> By: Tom Van Dyke https://wthrockmorton.com/2013/01/15/david-barton-robert-aitken-and-the-importance-of-a-narrative/#comment-88633 Wed, 30 May 2018 19:21:34 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=13960#comment-88633 Congress did approve and recommend The Aitken Bible. That would be a good enough claim. In fact, that’s all that Barton’s official website DOES claim.
http://www.wallbuilders.com/libissuesarticles.asp?id=46

]]> By: ken https://wthrockmorton.com/2013/01/15/david-barton-robert-aitken-and-the-importance-of-a-narrative/#comment-88634 Wed, 30 May 2018 19:21:34 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=13960#comment-88634 Tom Van Dyke says:
March 9, 2013 at 3:00 pm
“In fact, that’s all that Barton’s official website DOES claim.”
but that isn’t all Barton ever claims about the Aitken Bible is it?

]]> By: Johnny Cox https://wthrockmorton.com/2013/01/15/david-barton-robert-aitken-and-the-importance-of-a-narrative/#comment-88635 Wed, 30 May 2018 19:21:34 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=13960#comment-88635 First off,
Hi!
Second, what your wrote here is how I took Barton in the first place. To print a Bible would “establish a religion”, so I agree that what you have here is how it should have happened. I will listen more closely to Barton and see if I hear the “Congress Bible Thumper” angle you say Baron makes it sound.
Maybe why I have not been alarmed is because I never took it that way from Barton in the first place. That’s why I was not swayed (on the other post) when I learned Aiken paid for the printing. It just made sense to me . . .

]]> By: Norm! https://wthrockmorton.com/2013/01/15/david-barton-robert-aitken-and-the-importance-of-a-narrative/#comment-88637 Wed, 30 May 2018 19:21:34 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=13960#comment-88637 This reminds me of my childhood when I would look at the boxes of little bible’s in my grandparents’ basement. My grandparents were Gideons and it seemed there were always boxes of bibles in their basement. On the first or last pages of each bible was a page with an American flag and probably the pledge of allegiance, so I assumed the bibles were somehow as official as an American flag.

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