David Barton on Glenn Beck - Part 2 of 5

Wallbuilders' Founder and President David Barton joins Glenn Beck on the Fox News Channel for the full hour to discuss our Godly heritage and how faith was the foundational principle upon which America was built.

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[Saebeck32]

@PureChristian01 HA HA HA HA!! If i had my way, Glenn Beck would be place in his FEMA concentration camps he always warns about. You people are absurd.

[PureChristian01]

@Saebeck32 If you had your way, the USA would be the USSR

[cubed07]

@ThePaleoConservative Those were from secondary sources which are still historically factual, such as, friends or family members of the founder in question, David Bartion has said that he will raise the standard by only quoting primary sources and not secondary sources anymore, he's only guilty of quoting secondary sources, that's it

[Saebeck32]

@PureChristian01 There was also a time when there was no wall of separation between church and state....it was called the dark ages!

[PureChristian01]

There was another wall of separation, the Berlin wall!

[ThePaleoConservative]

@cubed07 What about his claims regarding the seminary schools? Or the John Adams letters? I'm willing to forgive the quotes he used that haven't been proven to actually written or said by certain founding fathers, because he did use citations from legitimate books and has retracted these quotes on his website.

[cubed07]

@ThePaleoConservative Jefferson never meant for those words to say that america is a secular or a non-religious nation, that's way out of context. Jefferson was simply distinguishing the American view of Christianity which was more Bible based and on the works of Jesus and the evil Christianity of the RC which burned people alive for not submitting to the Pope and their beliefs

[cubed07]

@ThePaleoConservative the treaty was in context to the pirates who were predominitely muslim, their view of Christianity in America was that they were the Roman Catholic church or Church of England. The muslims and the RC hated each other which is why the pirates would attack american ships and Jefferson sought to distance the nation from that conflict. Jefferson meant by the we are not a Christian nation as in we are not a part of the RC and have no animosity towards the muslims.

[cubed07]

@ThePaleoConservative David Barton quotes original sources including the old documents themselves for a majority of his facts. He doesn't need to do a detail refutation of Chris Rodha, the information and facts alone on his website already refuted her cliams before she wrote her book and a lot of what. Also david quotes in context which is more important than pulling random facts and slamming them togeehr which is what Rodda does a lot of the time.

[gmn545]

"But in what sense can [the U.S.] be called a Christian nation? Not in the sense that Christianity is the established religion or the people are compelled in any manner to support it...Neither is it Christian in the sense that all its citizens are either in fact or in name Christians. On the contrary, all religions have free scope within its borders. Numbers of our people profess other religions, and many reject all."

~ Justice Brewer "The United States: A Christian Nation."(1905)