Friday, February 10, 2012

David Barton Gets Kirk Cameron

It looks like I'm going to be busy for quite some time. David Barton isn't backing down but hiring getting Kirk Cameron to spread Christian nationalism. Cameron notes he wants it to be a "movement." If you've seen his "Way of the Master" videos, you'll note Cameron has a very strict view on what it means to be a "Christian." Accordingly a great deal of the "Founding Fathers," though they weren't strict deists and did think of themselves as "Christians" in some sense were not "Christians" according to Cameron's strict spiritual standards.

Likewise a lot of Cameron's "Christians" from the colonial era -- the Puritans, for instance -- did indefensible things like executing Quakers, banning Roger Williams and having laws on the books that demanded the death penalty for among other things worshipping false gods.

4 comments:

jimmiraybob said...

If you've seen his "Way of the Master" videos...

I will never ever again be able to look at a banana without smiling, maybe openly chuckling. If he* does half as much for the founders/founding as he's done for comedy........

*Yes, I realize that it was his comedy partner that actually set up the banana joke. But, he kept a straight face.

Anonymous said...

Barton hired Cameron? Link for this?

Jonathan Rowe said...

Anon: That's not what I meant. I was talking about discipleship and mantle passing. Barton is involved in the event if you look at the production credits. I didn't mean he financed it or "hired" Kirk Cameron in an employer/employee/independent contractor/proprietor sense. Perhaps I should have chosen a better title for my post.

Jonathan Rowe said...

I'm going to rewrite a sentence in the post. I've never used the "strike thru" feature before. I'll see if I can do it.