No, Mr. Beck, Congress Did Not Print a Bible for the Use of Schools

A debunking of the lie told by pseudo-historian David Barton on Glenn Beck that Congress printed a Bible for the use of schools.

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• Glenn
• Beck
• David
• Barton
• American
• history
• revisionism

[perfectbark]

@ZomBradical

Religions survive because of dogmatism, they are nontheless bronze age myths. And the bible is a myth that has survived thousands of iterations over the centuries, largely because copies were handmade in scriptoriums. Your religion in particular is one of many bronze age myths.

As I have said many times before, believe what you wish, just please keep your filthy divisive, evil, jealous, violent antediluvian religion out of my secular government.

[ZomBradical]

@perfectbark You're in no position to call anything "evil". By your logic, I think it's about time we wiped out every carnivorous animal on earth.....they kill, therefore carnivores are "evil" right? Oh.....and after 2000 years of Jewish, Roman, Muslim, and Communist (athiest) persecution.....Christianity still thrives! .....don't bother replying with some 3rd hand story from an "expert" who heard it from another "expert"....the bible hasn't changed. You're indoctrinated :)

[SuperBspb]

@Calebfulness I think, therefore I am. That is the only absolute truth.

[perfectbark]

@Calebfulness

You have freedom of religion to practice whatever bronze age myth you wish. I, on the other hand, have the freedom FROM religion. Guys like you are a dime a dozen. Guys like you are found on every other cable channel in the form of a lunatic televangelist bilking money from old ladies. You live in a world of delusion, its your choice, but you're a nut.

[Calebfulness]

@perfectbark You continue to speak without knowledge. PEOPLE are evil, often divisive, and often willing to turn others' pursuits into an enterprise.It is the nonbelievers amongst Christians, mind you, who are now leading the church. The Roman pope is a prime example, who teaches whatever the people want to hear, while it's again the people's fault that such leaders are chosen.

Such is your incapability to speak this evil against God. He's the one who warned us this would happen.

[Calebfulness]

@SuperBspb I was right there with you not too long ago. I, like most people in church today, was taught a shallow gospel from childhood. I then felt very confident in my choosing to deny Jesus' claims AFTER persuading myself that there was nothing to fear.Atheism, however, was never an option.

Anyway, I hope you continue to pursue the truth. Pure logic won't get you there, though. Pure logic forces you to doubt everything, even your own existence.

[SuperBspb]

@Calebfulness I had way more doubt as a Christian.

[perfectbark]

@Calebfulness

horseshit. Religion is an evil, divisive enterprise. There will never be peace in the world until religion in all of its incarnations, becomes extinct, as all religions eventually do.

[Calebfulness]

I think the saddest part of this whole thing is that atheists won't admit the doubts they have about their faith. I've been down a similar road, treading down the path of deism, but God never let me forget the foolishness of it and would remind me from time to time of the truth that was staring me in the face. Life has a purpose; it's deliberate; and there is a meaning to it. No man is without excuse, because every atheist gets a nagging doubt from time to time that what he's following is vain.

[Calebfulness]

@perfectbark Yes, number 4 is a clear example of the shallowness of belief that I'm talking about. It's purely intellectual and rests on the philosophy of logic, despite the fallacy in logic which says that you cannot know anything. This fallacy illustrates to the discerning eye that, to be truly intellectual, one must declare his faith in what he is persuaded to believe is true. Similarly, the verb "to believe" found in the English Bible often comes from a Greek verb meaning "to be persuaded."