In God We disTrust

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When I was given a DVD of a protest rally in the small town of King, near where I live, I was shocked by the sight of five thousand people waving Christian Flags and cheering one of the speakers when he said that everyone there should "encourage" those who weren't Christian in the area to move somewhere else.

My first reaction was anger and I told my wife, Susan, we were going to put our house up for sale the next day and move somewhere more tolerant. But the next morning, I decided that I would do something else first. I took my video camera down to the Veteran's Memorial in King's Public Park and started interviewing people.

I learned that the rally had been ignited by a returning Afghanistan Veteran who threatened to sue the town if they didn't remove the Christian Flag from the public Veteran's Memorial.

I was surprised that most residents believed that Separation of Church and State is a myth and that the Founders intended this to be an officially Christian Nation. They quoted so many historical facts from a man named David Barton to back up their claims, that I really wondered if what I'd taken for granted might be incorrect.

And thus began a year-and-a-half journey in my spare time to find out the truth and source of the idea of Separation of Church and State, as well as interviews with half a dozen different religious groups in the area about what and why they believed what they do. The story quickly became as much about what we believe about God as what we believe about the Founders of the United States -- and how we evaluate truth itself.

Although I started the project out of anger, I ended up truly liking the people I interviewed on all sides of the issue and it helped to diffuse my own negative emotions to the point where I felt a responsibility to honestly represent the viewpoints of even those I disagreed with the most. To that end, I have not done any narration, but have simply let the people themselves give their opinions in their own words. I will leave it up to you to decide who you agree with.

This was just me with a camera on my own, so it is definitely not a professionally produced documentary, but I hope some will find it as interesting a subject and as much an education as I did in making it.

Scott Burdick

"Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice." - Ayaan Hirsi Ali

D.M. Murdock - http://freethoughtnation.com/

John Ragosta's book, "Wellspring of Liberty" http://www.amazon.com/John-Ragosta/e/B003GVRB0W

An excelent website that details the lies of David Barton http://liarsforjesus.com/

My own website and paintings - http://scottburdick.com/

The music in this film was created and used by permission of

Samuel A. Taylor
Donovan Quixote
Bruce Burgess
http://www.shockwave-sound.com/
http://musicbakery.com/

Here's a link to a radio interview I did about the film
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/reasonpodcast/2012/01/30/reason-podcast

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• separation of Church and State
• David Barton
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• James Dunn
• In God We Trust
• In God We disTrust

[TheRecoveringLiberal]

An amazing piece of Satanic propaganda.

[ScottBurdickArt]

@TheRecoveringLiberal I assure you no Satans, Vishnus, Jehovahs, Allahs, Unicorns, Santa Clauses, or other supernatural and imaginary beings were utilized in the creation of this documentary.

[TheRecoveringLiberal]

@ScottBurdickArt The problem is that you assume the supernatural IS imaginary. And therein is your bias.

[ScottBurdickArt]

@TheRecoveringLiberal Yes, I assume any tall tale is imaginary unless someone shows me some verifiable evidence that it is real. If your neighbor told you he had ten tons of gold in his basement but wouldn't show it to you, I think you'd also assume it was imaginary, at least until he gave you some proof. Why don't you use the same reasoning when it comes to a supernatural god that even more astonishing claims are made of?

[spinkham]

You say there is a DVD of this on your website, but I can't find it. If true, can you add the link to the notes?

[ScottBurdickArt]

@spinkham The dvd is finally available for $12.50 and I added a link to it in the notes. Much higher resolution than the youtube version.

[ScottBurdickArt]

@darkt0aster Well, I thought of using happy music when people were telling me about how they'd kill women and children if god asked (or that slavery isn't immoral because it's sanctioned in the Bible) but it just didn't seem to fit that well.

[emagneticboy97]

When I watch this I have a hard time liking the Christians. They sound like fanatical lunatics and they clearly want a totalitarian state based on Christianity. This makes them my enemy

[verbalswordsman]

@DanielARochester If only there wasn't a Cabal controlling both sides regardless of beliefs.

[TheRipperRypien]

What's with religious nutjobs and neon green? God does not approve of this colour!

[Nichevo1994]

This made me so angry I went straight to...reddit.

[Nichevo1994]

@TheRecoveringLiberal That wasn't clever...

[amphibient09]

separation of church and state (the establishment clause) protects believers and non-believers of all types. bigotry wrapped in religion is still bigotry.

[11Lucidity1]

@ScottBurdickArt Delusion- A false belief that is resistant to reason or correlation with actual fact. A belief based on incorrect inference about external reality. Here lies the problem with Christianity. they accept it on faith A priori of actual experience, their faith cant be shaken by actual facts because in their profound self delusion they think they already have the truth. paradoxically they say others are 'closed minded', in the end its group delusion.

[Blurtex33]

@TheRecoveringLiberal Presuppositionalism.

Atheists do not presuppose god’s non-existence, atheists are simply unconvinced of god’s existence. Arguments made by theists can be refuted without appealing to god’s non existence.

Arguments made by atheists against god’s existence, be they a priori or a posteriori, are not invalid due to the fact that proponents of presuppositionalism have failed to establish reason and logic as being dependant upon the existence of god.

[DanielARochester]

If only we could have these people and the extremist muslims fight it out somewhere else, away from the rest of us...