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David Barton on the Daily Show

May 5, 2011 |

Last night’s program with Jon Stewart on the Daily Show was underwhelming at best. Stewart did not get to Barton’s use of quotes out of context until the end of the 2nd clip and then Stewart did not pin him down on specifics. In the extended sections embedded below, Stewart…
The Cincinnati Bible Wars: When the Bible was removed from schools

May 4, 2011 |

The month of May marks the 400 anniversary of the publication of the King James Version of the Bible. The most published book in history, the KJV was once widely read in public schools around the nation. However, in 1872 that trend was reversed by the Ohio Supreme Court in Minor…
David Barton on the Daily Show tomorrow

May 3, 2011 |

Pass the popcorn. According to Jon Stewart’s Daily Show website, David Barton will appear tomorrow night May 4 at 11pm. Wait, what? He won’t come on the Paul Edwards Show with me, but he’ll go on the Daily Show? UPDATE: Well, that was disappointing.
David Barton on Thomas Jefferson: The Kaskaskia Indians

April 19, 2011 |

UPDATE: For more information about Getting Jefferson Right: Fact Checking Claims about Our Third President, go to GettingJeffersonRight.com. Recently, I have been writing about the First Amendment. In the process, I have been reading much about the religious views of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and James Madison, all firm defenders…
David Barton: Pluralism not the goal of the First Amendment

April 18, 2011 |

Now I know where Bryan Fischer gets at least some of his material. On an April 11, 2011 archived program, a brief statement is made by Barton which sounds a lot like Bryan Fischer’s argument that Christianity is the only religion covered by the First Amendment. Monday, April 11, 2011…
More on Thomas Jefferson and Christianity

April 13, 2011 |

Monday, I disputed the notion that Thomas Jefferson was an evangelical Christian who hoped to evangelize Native Americans with his edited version of the New Testament. There I provided evidence that Jefferson was not a Christian in the evangelical sense. Here is additional evidence that Jefferson was not the Christian…
Was the Jefferson Bible an evangelism tool?

April 12, 2011 |

David Barton says it was. Barton is a collector of historical documents who is a favorite of Mike Huckabee and Newt Gingrich. On his website, Wallbuilders, Barton says: The reader, as do many others, claimed that Jefferson omitted all miraculous events of Jesus from his “Bible.” Rarely do those who…

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