Ethics

David Barton Revs Up the Bullshit Machine

By Ed Brayton

A reader emailed me a link to this audio interview with David Barton where he spews the usual Christian Nation nonsense upon which he has built his entire ideology. And the bullshit comes hard and fast. Like this:

"If you take the Bible and Christianity out, you will not have a Republican form of government in America. You will not have a free market economic system. You will not have a benevolent nation. You will not have common school education available for every student. You will not have freedom of conscience or religious toleration. They go through at least a dozen characteristics that are unique to America that were produced by Christianity and the Bible...they don't exist in other cultures, they exist here and they're the fruit of the Bible."

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on December 23, 2009 (boomark / email).