Earlier this month, we published a piece exposing how religious-right pseudo-historian David Barton routinely misrepresents history and scripture to support his Christian nationalist political agenda. In that case, we examined how Barton distorted a speech delivered by Benjamin Franklin during the Constitutional Convention to claim that it was filled with Bible verses. As we have […]
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Barton’s Bible Bunk: More Evidence of How David Barton Misuses History and Scripture for Political Purposes
September 30th, 2022 Awake Goy
14 Bible Verses: How David Barton Misuses History and Scripture for Political Purposes
September 9th, 2022 Awake Goy
There is perhaps nobody more responsible for the widely held belief among right-wing activists that the United States was founded to be an explicitly Christian nation than religious-right pseudo-historian David Barton. Despite the fact that Barton’s misuse and misrepresentation of both American history and the Bible have been well-documented, his work has played a key […]
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