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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.”
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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No Global Warming? NOAA Says January Was Fourth Warmest on Record
You have to go all the way back to 1976 – the year Paul McCartney and Wings made it to #1 with “Silly Love Songs” and Elton John and Kiki Dee followed close on their heels with #2’s Don’t Go Breaking My Heart, to find a below average temperature for January.
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Jerry Boykin Says Manly Man’s Man Jesus Will Come Back Toting an AR-15
Boykin assures the faithful, “I believe now – I’ve checked this out – I believe that sword he’ll be carrying when he comes back is an AR-15”
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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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The Theocratic Agenda Behind the Anti-Marriage Equality Movement
The Religious Right says legalization of same-sex marriage is like banning interracial marriage but then they think tyranny is anyone besides themselves having rights
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Bryan Fischer Rejects Constitution – Says Evolutionists Disqualified from Political Office
Fischer says that an evolutionist “does not share the political worldview that established the United States of America” – except that worldview gave us Article VI banning religious tests
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Sarah Palin Disgraces History With Claim Adams and Jefferson Support Her War on Christmas
Sarah Palin’s contention that Founding Fathers John Adams and Thomas Jefferson would join her in the war against the imagined war on Christmas is too much of an affront to American history.
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Michele Bachmann Says Obama has Rewritten Constitution For Himself
“You’re not a king, you’re not a dictator, you can’t do whatever you want. Our Constitution limits the president’s power, even though President Obama doesn’t act that way.”
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Tissues for the Tea Party’s Issues
The tea party is the intersection of cognitive dissonance and reality. It’s certain to become a reality show. Oh wait – it already is.
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Mike Huckabee Renews Assault on Sanity of a Living Wage
Huckabee complains that it is easy to spend somebody else’s money; it is apparently far easier from his perspective to starve somebody else
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The GOP is Unrepentantly Evil and This is Why
They will reduce working class Americans to serfs, put our children to work, rape our wives, sisters, and daughters, and let us die when we get too sick to be of any further use for them.
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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
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Festival of Lights Invites Demons into White House Says Bryan Fischer
Bryan Fischer says of Hinduism, “This is a counterfeit religion,. It is an Eastern religion. It is, in essence, an occult religion.”
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For the Last Time, the Constitution is Not Based on the Bible
Tom DeLay says “God created the nation and God created the Constitution; it is written on biblical principles.”
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Reality Messing with your Narrative? Invent a More Congenial World
Republicans can talk about things that never happened as though they did, but Democrats cannot talk about things that DID actually happen
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Michele Bachmann Says Only God Can Defeat Hilary in 2016
Republicans know they are in such trouble in 2016 that only divine intervention can save them from themselves and those mean old atheists
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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Mike Huckabee Complains Teaching Kids Basic Anatomy is Indoctrination
Mike Huckabee feels that teaching children basic anatomy, that all living things reproduce, and inappropriate touching, is indoctrination
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Johnny is Demonically Possessed Because he Chose a Gray Crayon
Careful what color Crayon you choose to draw the human brain: Dr. Mungadze can tell if you’re gay or if you’re demonically possessed
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Pink Swastika Author to be Tried for Crimes Against Humanity
Scott Lively claims he is being persecuted for persecuting LGBT persons, but he thinks his own crimes are excused by the Bible
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Republicans Try To Disprove Evolution By Claiming that Dragons Really Existed
The more science discovers about how the universe works, the more regressive Republican thinking becomes. Dragons were real and prove the authority of the Bible. The proof? Dinosaurs of course!
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Getting Cray-Cray for God in Iowa – or Let’s Party Like it’s 2016
Though we’re three-years-plus out from Election Day 2016, the Iowa clown car is fast filling up with those jockeying to be in position
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Things Thomas Jefferson Never Said About Gun Control
Conservatives love to invent quotes to back up their positions and they hate it when somebody – including “communist” CNN – corrects them
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Christian Nationalism Defines the Rhetoric of Rand Paul, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio
The tenets of Christian nationalism – control of the government for Jesus – is behind the political aspirations of Rand Paul and others
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The True Jeffersonian Face of Religious Freedom
For Thomas Jefferson, religious freedom was neither freedom to coerce nor a coerced mind, but rather a free mind
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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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Gay Representative Barred from Speaking Because He is in Violation of God’s Law
Apparently, those who find themselves in violation of God’s law, lose their rights under Republican governance
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E.W. Jackson Whines That Religious Tests Only Apply to People He Doesn’t Like
Virginia’s GOP nominee for lieutenant governor feels he can say whatever he wants and you have absolutely no right to talk about it
How Christian Myth Overinflates the Religious Right’s Sense of Self Importance
The Fundamentalist Christian sense of self-importance paradoxically makes them essential to civilization, which existed long before the Bible
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Fox News Says Rep. Keith Ellison Is ‘Very Dangerous’ Because He’s a Muslim
Apparently if you actually exercise your First Amendment rights to be something other than Christian, you’re dangerous.
Bryan Fischer Says Liberals Hate America and Christianity
Bryan Fischer dishonestly says liberals hate America and Christianity because they want to replace America as it was founded
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The GOP’s Boston-inspired Insanity
The GOP: Sodomizing our shared reality – and you
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Pat Robertson Says You Have Demons in Your Underpants
Pat Robertson thinks there are demons in your underpantsr, so be sure to rebuke them before heading out of the house
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Show Me State Republicans Need Somebody to Show them Reality on Gun Control
If any facet of the GOP’s war on America has grown to lunatic proportions, it is gun control. The more people die from gun violence, the more the GOP sinks into denial.
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Gun Nuts to Build 2,000 Acre Citadel in Idaho’s American Redoubt
How do America’s most extreme gun enthusiasts want to live? You’ll soon get to find out as they build their own city in the mountains of Idaho
A Desperate Religious Right Renews the War on Marriage Equality
With growing desperation, the Religious Right tries to stem the liberal tide of toleration, equality, and genuine religious liberty
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The Religious Right Wants You Dead in God’s Name
The endless chorus from the Religious Right that all that plagues our society is the result of divine wrath has grown tiresome…and then some.
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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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Federal Judge Says North Carolina’s Choose Life License Plates are Unconstitutional
A federal judge has ruled that North Carolina cannot offer choose life plates without also offering pro-choice plates
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Conservatives Are Dreaming of a ‘White’ Christmas
Conservatives are dreaming of a ‘white’ Christmas, and that is all Christmas really is to them: a means to an end that has no role for Jesus
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Glenn Beck’s Philosophical Belch – Agenda 21
Glenn Beck takes the new Egyptian Constitution as an opportunity to push his UN conspiracy and to predict a US dictator within 5 years
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Why Conservatives are Wrong When They Say Liberalism Will Fail
Conservatives have convinced themselves of libearlism’s illigitimacy; now they have convinced themselves liberalism will fail
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Romney Lies on CNN. This is his Real Vision for America
Mitt Romney took to CNN’s opinion page to lie about his vision for America but his real vision is somewhat different
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Romney’s Tax Plan Turns the Laws of Mathematics on their Head
Ask yourself why the laws of mathematics work differently for Mitt Romney than for the rest of the universe before casting your vote in 2012
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Kirk Cameron Throws Stones at Gays But Says He is the Stoning Victim
Kirk Cameron has been stoning gays and lesbians but wants to present himself as the victim because people dared criticize his hate speech
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The GOP’s Blatant Support for Theocracy
The GOP has surrendered its platform to the most extremist elements within the Religious Right and offers a candidate who has done the same
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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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Ralph Reed Tries Some Hocus Pocus for a Bush Redux in 2012
Ralph Reed, the 90’s Evangelical Wunderkind, once disgraced, is back again mobilizing the vote he once said was mythical, for Mitt Romney
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Meme of Desperation – Bush Gave Middle East 10 Years of Peace
In a breathtaking revision of history, we are being told that President Bush gave the Middle East ten years of peace
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The Recipe for a Republican Politician
The unsavory ingredients that go into making a Republican politician create a perfect storm for America and the world in 2012
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The DNC in Charlotte To Be Ground Zero for Fundamentalist Bigots
The Democratic National Convention in Charlotte is being targeted by fundies as Ground Zero for acts of martyrdom and cries of persecution
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Clint Eastwood Becomes the Incoherent Face of the Incoherent GOP
Odd as Eastwood’s “Eastwooding” performance was, Mitt Romney was back stage laughing and Eastwood was praised for hitting key talking points
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Florida Family Council-Only Christianity Could Create or Save America
John Stemberger tosses facts aside to claim that only Christianity could create the American experience and only Christianity can save it
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Christian End-Time Fantasies Endanger Us All
Christian end time fantasies are not limited to the world of fiction; these people get elected to office and influence, even control policy
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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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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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Dogma and Expediency War for Conservative Christian Hearts and Minds
For years we’ve been told Obama’s Christianity matters but where Romney’s Mormonism comes in, will expediency win out over dogma in 2012?
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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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Pastor Who Wants to Kill Gays Should Read his Gay Friendly Bible First
Yet another Evangelical hater wants to kill gays like the Pilgrims did but he might want to stop and read his gay friendly Bible first
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Demythologizing Christianity’s Most Cherished Moment: Nero and the Christians, Part One
It is always claimed that Christianity has been persecuted ever since Nero but it can be argued that this is the biggest non-event in history
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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
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Obama Has Removed the Last Shred of Divine Covering Over the White House? Really?
Apparently, President Obama has ripped away from imaginary protective layer over the White House for which surface-to-air missiles are no substitute
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Republicans Defy the Founding Fathers By Allowing Religion to Influence Policy
When the Founding Fathers devised how America would function they knew the danger of allowing religion to govern the country, but Republicans are ignoring the Founders’ warnings.
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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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Why the GOP is the Party of Choice for Sociopaths and Psychopaths
Pastor John Hagee’s hateful preaching is an example of why the GOP has become the party of choice for sociopaths and psychopaths
Trapped by Religion
Thomas Jefferson once hoped to liberate us from being trapped by beliefs not our own but the GOP has made trapping us the basis of their platform
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A Look at 30 Extremists Who Want to Destroy America
Southern Poverty Law Center offers a list of 30 New Activists Heading Up the Radical Right, who represent the worst America has to offer
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Fundie Says Obama is Gay, Imprison Gays Before They Kill Kids
Discredited psychologist and anti-gay “expert” Paul Cameron, claims that Obama is gay and that gays must be imprisoned before they kill kids
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The Dimensions of Fundamentalist Christian Deceit
Did you ever stop to wonder why Throckmorton and Coulter’s Getting Jefferson Right is being favorably reviewed at a liberal news site and not at the Blaze?
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Getting Jefferson Right – A Review
Two conservative Christian scholars team up to debunk Barton’s The Jefferson Lies, exposing Barton’s lies of commission and ommission and cherry picked evidence
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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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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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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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Once Again, Christians Mistake Removing a Special Privilege with Oppression
Fundamentalists are crying oppression because the U.S. Air Force has decided that as of Oct 1 the Bible is not a required item at lodging facilities on its bases