Of course, it’s worth saying that all accounts of history — left-wing or right-wing, secular or Christian — can also be, in a sense, a form of propaganda. Any narrative of America’s foundation will, of course, be mediated by the specific biases and concerns of the teller. (Historian Fea does a great job pointing out that the secular counterpart to the Barton narrative, that all founding fathers were non-Christian, deist secularists, is also wrong).
Saturday, January 27, 2018
Vox: Latest Hit on David Barton
It's entitled, Understanding the fake historian behind America’s religious right. A taste:
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Warren Throckmorton once inveigled a visiting faculty member at Grove City into providing copy for his blog in the form of a 'review' of a trade book which had been published 15 years earlier.
You've been recycling discussions of this man's work for about five years now. You might just think up another topic.
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David Barton, the much-criticized Christian nationalist historian whose deeply skewed perspective on American history has been used by a number of Republican politicians to bolster a false narrative of America as a historically Christian nation.
But America IS a historically Christian nation.
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