tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post5879162809533678456..comments2024-03-17T14:55:33.289-06:00Comments on American Creation: A Bunch of Barton LinksBrad Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17669677047039491864noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-77548191652504828982012-05-07T11:08:47.853-06:002012-05-07T11:08:47.853-06:00Actually, Marty is speaking explicitly of the text...Actually, Marty is speaking explicitly of the text, leaving no weasel room here.Tom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-76669774975382739232012-05-07T07:19:53.659-06:002012-05-07T07:19:53.659-06:00We need more analysis of the implications of TJ be...We need more analysis of the implications of TJ believing what was left in his Bible after he cut it up.Jonathan Rowehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04079637406589278386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-57216718461494044542012-05-06T14:37:11.672-06:002012-05-06T14:37:11.672-06:00Eminent scholar Martin E. Marty writes:
"Yet...Eminent scholar Martin E. Marty writes:<br /><br />"Yet the most ardent public and pop advocate of privilege and virtual establishment, David Barton..."<br /><br />Is that true? Does Barton advocate the privileging of Christianity? "Virtual" establishment? I'm unaware of this.<br /><br />Marty also writes of the "Jefferson Bible":<br /><br />"Had the Indians been converted with that text, their heirs would have had no place to go but to what became the humanist wing of the Unitarian-Universalist church."<br /><br />Not exactly so, since the 1804 version to which Barton refers contains the Last Judgment [<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+25%3A31-46&version=NIV" rel="nofollow">Matthew 25:31-46</a>], "When the Son of Man shall come in His glory." It is Jesus who judges mankind, separating "sheep from the goats."<br /><br />Many of Marty's other criticisms of Barton are perfectly valid, but even the experts are partially wrong here. I'm not impressed.Tom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.com