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Liar David Barton Claims That U.S. Constitution Quotes ‘Almost Verbatim’ from Bible
“You’ll find almost verbatim wording in many clauses of the Constitution to passages in the Bible. It’s a one-to-one correlation on the wording.â€
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David Barton Falsely Claims Declaration of Independence Condemns Slavery
“The Declaration of Independence had two clauses condemning slavery as a reason we were leaving Great Britain…we don’t cover that.”
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Fake Historian David Barton Has Some Really Bad Advice for Evangelicals
The election results showed that a lot of people didn’t want to follow the “timeless principles that have guided us,” but he has a solution
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David Barton Says if You Don’t Believe in the Bible, You Don’t Believe in the Constitution
“The fervency with which someone follows their religious faith, a biblical faith, is nearly always a direct indicator of how well they will follow the Constitution.”
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David Barton Finds Someone Dishonest Enough to Republish His Jefferson Lies
David Barton got his book of lies about Jefferson back into print again, thanks to the liars at World Net Daily, a match made in hell
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David Barton Claims Conservatives Want to Know All the Facts Before They Speak
David Barton who invents fact like nobody else, claims conservatives like him don’t open their mouths unless they know all the facts
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David Barton’s Appalling Lie that the Constitution Puts God’s Law Above Man’s Law
Barton says the Founding Fathers were all about God’s law trumping man’s. The problem is, the idea is nowhere found in the U.S. Constitution
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David Barton Says Woman on $10 Bill Denigrates Entire Economic System
This is an attempt to erase our history, we are told by a conservative on a show hosted by a guy who makes his living re-writing our history
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David Barton Rejects Retirement as a Pagan Concept
Were he being honest, or did his words bear an even passing resemblance to fact, I would say that I have never been more proud to be a Pagan
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David Barton Lies That Lawsuit Which Did Not Take Place Proves He Doesn’t Lie
David Barton tried to refute his long history of lying by falsely claiming a lawsuit which never took place proves his innocence
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David Barton Disciple Joining U.S. House Next Year Vows Holy War on Nonbelievers
Barry Loudermilk says he will fight against people who think they have a right to ruin Christmas by not being Christians like everybody else
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David Barton Claims Evangelical Voters Have Been Ignored by Both Parties
Not very ignored: David Barton was one of those, with fellow Religious Right hater Tony Perkins, who wrote the 2012 Republican Party Platform
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David Barton Pins Global Warming Effects on America’s Alleged Failure to Support Israel
David Barton, who has been doing his own level best for years to destroy America, renews an old refrain when he said on TBN’s “Praise The Lord” last week that God is going to get the US for not supporting Israel. Watch courtesy of Right Wing Watch (if his shirt bothers you, just close your…
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David Barton Invents Reasons Founding Fathers Did Not Grant Women the Vote
Barton proceeds from a false premise: The Founding Fathers did not decide whether or not women could vote. They only left the matter up to the states
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Glenn Beck and David Barton Agree That the Bible Tells Us All We Need to Know about Politics
“We disconnect this [the Bible] from politics [but] this gives us everything that we’re supposed to know,” crowed Beck
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God Does Not Want you to Drink Starbucks, Says David Barton
God really does NOT want you drinking Starbucks! It’s that “holiness” or “sanctification” thingie. Just don’t ask Barton which verse it is
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Ted Cruz is Attending David Barton’s Conference for State Legislators
Barton is not a scientist. He is not a historian. He pretends to be a constitutional scholar but has no law degree. So why is Ted Cruz listening to him?
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David Barton Thinks He Scares Us
“I’m really scary,” Barton declared. “I am very scary for people who have a secular worldview.”
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To Celebrate Veterans Day David Barton Lies About What Bible Says About PTSD
Barton might want to think about the fact that nowhere does Jesus say that liars and hustlers and grifters will get into heaven
David Barton Says Fear of God Will Fix U.S. Literacy Rates
Barton says that fear of God induces literacy but does not explain why when America was a Christian nation literacy rates were lower than today
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David Barton Says We’ve Got to Have the Same Guns the Government Has
David Barton says the Founding Fathers would want us armed with the same weapons available to the government – because the Bible says so
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David Barton and Bryan Fischer Get All Three-Year Old on Their Critics
Barton can’t win an argument on merits so he attempts to delegitimize critics instead by assigning them to the category of constructed “other”
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David Barton’s Christian Publisher Finds His Book Deficient and Cancels It
David Barton found himself without a publisher Friday when Thomas Nelson pulled his books from the shelves and canceled its publication
David Barton Finally Answers his Critics – by Attacking Them
Barton’s The Jefferson Lies has been criticized by scholars, but Barton won’t argue history: he’s more interested in character assassination – and his own martyrdom
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David Barton Supporters Say Criticism of Barton Proves Barton is Right
David Barton’s deputy Rick Green and the ACLJ’s David French claim that criticism of David Barton proves that Barton is telling the truth
David Barton’s New Thesis: People Who Are on Welfare Don’t Read the Bible
David Barton attempts to prove we’d all be better off economically if we read our Bibles with a pedestrian attempt at developing a thesis
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The Barton Lies: A Review of David Barton’s The Jefferson Lies
In the Jefferson Lies (2012), David Barton lets loose a barrage of lies and invents terms to turn Thomas Jefferson into a non-racist, clergy-loving Christian
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Jon Stewart Dissects David Barton Who Responds by Lying
Unsurprisingly, David Barton did not stand up well to Jon Stewart’s questioning, dodging issues, misrepresenting facts and when necessary, outright lying
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David Barton Says Science Can’t Cure Divine Punishments like AIDS
David Barton claims that science won’t be able to cure AIDS because AIDS is a punishment for sin showing he is as ignorant of science as he is of history
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David Barton Lies About Who was Burning Whom at the Stake
David Barton wants to pretend Christians were being burned at the stake by the government but doesn’t mention it was a CHRISTIAN government
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Jesus Says David Barton Doesn’t Speak for Him: An Exclusive Interview
David Barton has little to do with actual Christianity and even less to do with first century Judaism, as Jesus explains in this exclusive interview
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An Interview with Nonbeliever Nation’s Author, David Niose
I ask David Niose, author of Nonbeliever Nation, a few questions about his book and about recent events in both America and around the world
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Nonbeliever Nation by David Niose is a Secular Manifesto
David Niose’s timely book is not another look at the Religious Right; this call to arms is written for Secular Americans about secularism
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Glenn Beck May Give Barton’s Book of Lies a New Lease on Life
David Barton’s Christian publisher may have dropped his book of lies and who better to save lies about a Founding Father than Glenn Beck?
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Constitutional Dunce Scalia Needs To Be In An Asylum, Not SCOTUS
Scalia may have surpassed charlatans like David Barton in an attempt to “establish Christianity” as the nation’s state religion
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The Truth is, Religious Bigots, if Islam is Not a Religion, Neither is Christianity
David Barton presents a geo-political Christianity Rev. Jody Hice says Muslims can’t have, meaning Barton’s Christianity is not a religion
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Ted Cruz Finds Fellow Constitution Haters on the Religious Right
Ted Cruz whined to Janet Mefferd and David Barton about President Obama’s imaginary attack on “traditional” marriage
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School District Indoctrinates Ohio Children With Course Teaching Fictional Right Wing History
David Barton is reaching out to corrupt the minds of Ohio children by teaching his fantastical tales of an America that never was
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Right Winger Sells Lies to Repurpose America’s Past for Conservative Agenda
David Barton’s fundamentalist culture war agenda colors all he does and all his attitudes and it is no surprise that historians are his ultimate bogeymen
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Opinion: Texas GOP Bill Allows Officials to Refuse Same-Sex Marriage Licenses
“Texas Senate has no problem with taxpayer-funded discrimination against virtually anyone who doesn’t meet a public official’s personal [religious] standards.”
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Jeff Sessions Believes the First Amendment Separation Clause Is Unconstitutional
Jefferson stating separation of church and state is contained within the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment is “unhistorical” according to Sessions.
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Vice President Mike Pence Wants the Bible Taught As Science
The evangelical fundamentalists, all 13.2 percent of them, are appealing to vice president-elect Pence by petition and demanding that he, as head of domestic policy, inform president-elect Trump that it is crucial to immediately issue an executive order in”definitely banning†the teaching of evolution as science.
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Religious Right Clergy at Capitol Hill to ‘Drive Out Satan’ Drive Out Freedom Instead
“[T]he serious enemies are the priests of the different religious sects, to whose spells on the human mind its improvement is ominous.”
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Conservative Scholars and Writers Ask Republicans Please Don’t Vote for Trump
“He is a unique and dire threat to the political principles, liberties, and cultural values of justice, fairness, honesty, and decency we have long defended”
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Liberty University Students Denounce Their School’s Support of Donald Trump
“A man who constantly and proudly speaks evil does not deserve our support for the nation’s highest office.”
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Donald Trump’s Minority Outreach – Tell Blacks Same Lies He Tells Whites
Republicans have gotten whites to vote against their self-interest for years and years. Trump’s plan is to somehow get blacks to do the same.
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The National Review Says Because Theocracy Has Been Held Off, the Threat Never Existed
On the contrary, we have seen religious laws against abortion, contraception, marriage equality, religious diversity, education, and even global warming
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Joseph Farah Objects to Scripture Reading at DNC And Gets Everything Wrong
Farah objects to Jesus being called a Palestinian, even though by the time of his birth the region had been called Palestine for 500 years
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg is Not Alone: Historians Think Trump is a Disaster Too
Ruth Bader Ginsburg has garnered much negative attention for her remarks about Donald Trump and his unsuitability for the office of president (i.e. because Trump is a madman), but she is far from alone. On Facebook, a group of prominent historians led by Pulitzer Prize winning author David McCullough and documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, have…
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Bill O’Reilly Says Obama’s ‘Deep Emotional Ties’ to Islam Put Country in Danger
Bill O’Reilly likes to write fake history, much like David Barton, and he has proven himself to be just about as impervious to facts as Barton. His work is so bad it is difficult to believe he is not really “pulling a Colbert.” He is that over the top. On Wednesday’s edition of Fox News’…
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Trump Puts Michele Bachmann on his Evangelical Advisory Board
“I have such tremendous respect and admiration for this group and I look forward to continuing to talk about the issues important to Evangelicals, and all Americans, and the common sense solutions I will implement when I am President.â€
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Bryan Fischer Claims Anderson Cooper Must Recuse Himself From Covering ‘Gay’ Stories
“Cooper, who is an open, admitted homosexual…ought to recuse himself from any story…as fraught with emotion as the homosexual agenda.”
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Ammon Bundy’s Defense is That 200 Years of Legal Precedent are Meaningless
Bundy plans to go all the way back to 1787 to overturn 200 years of legal precedence, citing previously unknown documents
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Oath Keepers Predict Civil War if Hillary Clinton Wins
“The level of hatred among conservatives for that woman is so stratospheric I cannot see any other outcome,” claims Oath Keepers website
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If You Think Trump is Insane, Listen to What the Cruz Campaign is Selling
One could easily come to the conclusion that a prerequisite for the GOP is a history of mental illness and a refusal to accept treatment for it
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Friday Fox Follies – Blaming Brussels Bombs on Obama
Fox “News” finally hits back at Trump, then attacks President Obama’s Cuba trip and for not rushing home when the bombs exploded in Brussels
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Joseph Farah Offers Bizarre, Nonsensical Endorsement of Ted Cruz
Farah says Cruz is the ‘real deal,’ a new Reagan when all Democrats Sanders and Clinton offer us is the past – oh wait…Reagan is the past
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Phil Robertson at Cruz Rally: Rid the Earth of Tolerance
From the grave, an epic smackdown of Phil Robertson and Ted Cruz by James Madison, who reveals exactly what America can expect from a Cruz presidency, that establishment of religion brings only superstition, bigotry and persecution
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The Christian Jihadists Are at the Gates and They Want Your Rights
Christian jihadist terror is grasping at the heart of America, culminating in cries by presidential candidates usurp the Constitution
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Nikki Haley Enrages Religious Right and GOP by Being ‘Soft’ on Gays and Muslims
By calling out Trump and calling for respect for differences in modern marriage, Haley has placed herself between a rock and a hard place
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Bill O’Reilly Attacks on Muslims Another Facet of GOP Revisionist History
Bill O’Reilly dishonestly claims that Germans looked the other way when Hitler rose to power and that Muslims are doing the same with ISIL
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Ben Carson Vows to Punish Liberal Colleges if Elected President
Carson wants to punish liberal colleges for teaching things he doesn’t approve of – “extreme political bias” – otherwise known as facts.
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John Oliver Hilariously Demolishes Fake Founding Father Quotes
The GOP and Religious Right have been throwing fake Founding Father quotes at us for years. John Oliver hilariously rips this industry apart
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Ben Carson’s Use of Fake Jefferson Quote Reveals His Distance from Founding Ideals
Ben Carson repeatedly used a quote he attributed to Thomas Jefferson to justify his gun position. Unfortunately for Carson, Jefferson said no such thing.
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Religious Right Encounters the Constitution and Tosses its Collective Cookies
The Religious Right had a bad week with Constitution. You wouldn’t think people could be this, well, dirt stupid, but they can, and they are
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CNN Host Drops U.S. Constitution Truthbomb on Ben Carson Supporter
Alisyn Camerota read the “No Religious Test” clause out loud and said, “Carson’s belief system violates that part of the Constitution”
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Look Out! “General” Jerry Boykin Says Christians ARE the Government
Boykin claims “when you hold up a Bible, you need to hold up the Constitution right next to it” and pretend they’re the exact same thing
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Reality Check for Religious Nuts: Laughing at You is Not Persecution
Religious nuts hate being mocked and laughed at when they say catastrophically stupid things, but that’s freedom of speech, not persecution
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Upset with #IranDeal, Ted Cruz Vows for the Fourth Time to Block Obama Nominees
Ted Cruz has returned to his old game of refusing to approve Obama nominees in order to punish the president for not obeying Congress
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Ann Coulter “Accuses” Nikki Haley of Being an Ignorant Immigrant
Of course, Haley is no more an immigrant than Coulter is a student of history, and as well-informed as Coulter, which admittedly is not saying much
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Jesus May Welcome You to Hawkins, Texas, But He Shouldn’t
Mayor Will Rodgers says that “Jesus is part of every major religion in the world, so you can’t pin one religion on Jesus.”
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Rick Santorum Says He Decides What is Constitutional, Not the Supreme Court
Rick Santorum says says you refusing to believe what he wants you to believe is a violation of the First Amendment
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The Revolution is Not Over, My Friends
Conservatives have for a long time controlled the discourse on freedom and liberty, but these are liberal ideals, and we must take them back
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Fox & Friends Outraged That Students are Learning about Islam
Fox & Friends wonders if students learned that the Qur’an says to kill nonbelievers, ignoring that their Bible says the exact same thing
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Michigan Republican Says Schools Should be a Ministry of the Church
When Pink Floyd sang that “we don’t need no education,” I don’t think church ministries are what they had in mind.
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Mike Huckabee Says He Has Magic Powers and Will Use Them to Kill You
Mike Huckabee thinks he can call down fire from heaven to smite his opponents, an act (phew!) in violation of the United States Constitution
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Why We Can’t Let Jeb Bush Pretend His Brother’s Wars Never Happened
Jeb doesn’t realize how critical it is he convince us he is not his brother, because the more you listen to him, the more alike they sound
Conservatives Can’t Find Their Way to the Future Because They Can’t Understand the Past
Context is everything, and in willfully misrepresenting the past, Republicans create a false premise upon which to build their plans for the future
CNN Suddenly Seems to Notice Republican Reliance on Religious Right
CNN is reporting that the GOP moves early to court conservative Christians. We are told that, “The first votes of the 2016 campaign won’t be cast for another year but there’s already a race well underway: The Christian primary.” Republicans are actively courting white evangelical and born again Christian voters, knowing they will be crucial…
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The Religious Right Wants to Choose the Republican Candidate for President
Bryan Fischer wants an Evangelical conclave to choose candidates for president. Tough luck, Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Atheists, and others
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If Only Santa Anna Had Been a Better General, Texas Would not be OUR Problem
Just think of it: Rick Perry and Greg Abbott and Ted Cruz and Louie Gohmert would all be Mexico’s problem today if Santa Anna had won
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Midterm Madness – Meet the Latest Republican Crazies to Hold Office
Gordon Klingenschmitt brings his demonic obsessions to the Colorado State Senate and Michael Peroutka his neo-Confederate secessionism to Anne Arundel County, Maryland
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Of Ebola and Fundamentalist Fantasies about Being Enslaved by Sodomites
“We’ve been taken over by sodomites,” Warns Rick Wiles. “The Lord has told me vast numbers are going to be consumed and the survivors will be slaves”
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Louie Gohmert Indulges in Fantasies About Gay Massages Rather than History
Gohmert says gay soldiers in ancient Greek just wanted massages, but Philip of Macedon, who fought them, knew the worthiness of the paired lovers of the Theban Sacred Band
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Republicans Say Rainbow Flags Remind them of Nazi Flags – But Actual Nazi Flags Don’t
Mike Huckabee says he’s tired of this. All I’ve got to say is that we’re tired of it too, and that it’s time for America to unfriend the Republican Party
Colorado Republican’s Claim that America Ended Slavery Voluntarily Steals Our History
Pamela Mazanec asks, “Shouldn’t our students be provided that viewpoint? This is part of the argument that America is exceptional.”
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Rapture Enthusiasts Fantasize About a Post-Rapture America Ruled by Atheists
“End Times” prophet Ed Hindson appeared on VCY America’s Crosstalk last week to talk about the Rapture, that point in the End Times when Christians float up into the air to meet Jesus, and the United States. This is a discussion, just to be clear, about something that doesn’t exist (the Rapture), and which is…
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Scott Lively Lies About Bible While Calling Gay-Friendly Christians Heretics
Lively claims, ” A dangerous modern heresy called “gay theology” is infiltrating the Christian church at an alarming pace.”
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Republicans Have Answers at their Fingertips if Only They’d Listen to Themselves
Chad Connelly says if more people cast their ballots based on biblical values the Republicans would win more elections but doesn’t draw the obvious conclusions
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Religious Right: Robin Williams Died When Demons Exacted Their Price for His Success
“Williams recognized these powers had manifested a very evil influence on stage and that there could be a hefty price to pay for their assistance.”
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Tony Perkins’ Latest Money-Making Scheme: War on Common Core
Tony Perkins says Common Core is more dangerous than bullies, child molesters and school shootings.
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Most Americans Concerned About Government and Immigration While GOP Cries War and Economy
Gallup also reveals that approval of Congress “has never been as low in a midterm election year as it is now.”
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Neo-Confederate Pro-Slavery Secessionist Says Lincoln Was a Commie
It is difficult to tell from Swanson and Kennedy’s rhetoric which was the worst sin, freeing the slaves or establishing public schools.
New Curriculum Endorses Teaching Historical Facts – Horrify Conservatives
The last thing conservatives want is “history from below,” that focuses on how native Indians and Africans suffered at the hands of Europeans
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A Liberal’s Handy Guide to the Bible’s Exaltation of the Poor
Because the only Jesus who concerns them is a long-haired cracker with an AR-15, it has fallen to the alleged “party of the Godless” to preach the Gospel to the GOP
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Gordon Klingenschmitt Says if You Can’t go to Church You Can’t Use Public Restroom
Where, logically, is the connection between assemblies of the Lord and bathrooms? Even if it were the law of the land, the Bible doesn’t mention public restrooms
Supreme Court Throws Out Establishment Clause With Public Prayer Ruling
When Americans in the near future look back and wonder how, why, and when their democracy was lost to theocracy, and the Constitution replaced with the bible, they can look back at the Court’s ruling as a pivotal moment, not the deciding moment, in democracy’s demise but a very significant one all the same.
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Alabama Supreme Court Justice Says First Amendment Applies Only to Christians
Moore leaves out that the Founding Fathers agreed to a secular Constitution that has NOTHING to do with God – anyone’s God
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GOP Senate Candidates at FAMiLY LEADER Forum Vow to Block Judicial Candidates Lacking a Biblical View of Justice
According to Bob Vander Plaats, “You cannot run away from the heart of God and expect God to bless the country.”
The Founding Fathers Risked Their Lives so Pastors Could Meddle in Politics?
We are told the Founding Fathers signed the Declaration and Constitution because they, “believed so strongly in the involvement of pastors and Bible teachers in political matters”
