I spent many a bus trip in my evangelical youth watching David Barton videos discussing how everything good in American history was created by Christians, and not just Christians, but ones that thought and believed just what we did, so when I see this guy hanging with Glenn Beck and Republican presidential contenders, it’s no big surprise. However, if you’re not familiar with this guy’s political and theological views, you might want to make yourself familiar, because you’ll be hearing his words and ideas quite a bit as the 2012 election approaches:
In an unmarked office building in this ranching town, among thousands of Revolution-era documents and two muskets with bayonets, David Barton might seem like a quirky history buff. But the true ambition of this slender man in cowboy boots is to use America’s past to remake its future, and he has the ear of several would-be presidents.
Mr. Barton is a self-taught historian who is described by several conservative presidential aspirants as a valued adviser and a source of historical and biblical justification for their policies. He is so popular that evangelical pastors travel across states to hear his rapid-fire presentations on how the United States was founded as a Christian nation and is on the road to ruin, thanks to secularists and the Supreme Court, or on the lost political power of the clergy.
Through two decades of prolific, if disputed, research and some 400 speeches a year on what he calls the forgotten Christian roots of America, Mr. Barton, 57, a former school principal and an ordained minister, has steadily built a reputation as a guiding spirit of the religious right. Keeping an exhaustive schedule, he is also immersed in the nuts and bolts of politics and maintains a network of 700 anti-abortion state legislators.
This article appears in May 5-11, 2011.
Follow the man who seeks the truth.
Avoid those who say they’ve found it.
Its very simple, if the Weekly is for it ..be against it, if it’s against something or someone be for them or it. It is hate filled, slated, self-righteous “alternative” (yeah right, alternative to what the Star?) newspaper. And the other person who stated “follow the man who seeks the truth…ditto. The Weekly and its ilk should heed those words….they’re supposed to the “free Press”…This guy’s a minister, he is supposed to believe in absolutes.
BTW if you don’t believe we are on the “road to ruin”, have a conversation with your average 18 year old about morality, ethics and religion. Then imagine what their grandchildren will believe, influenced by decades secularism, modern pop culture, soon to be virtual reality ultra-violent games, ubiquitous hard-core porn, and mangled family structures. They’ll be sitting next your great-grandkids in class.
Barton is as unamerican, anti patriot as they come. any ass who seeks to run our secular country with the bible should be tried as a traitor.