[jess35]

David Barton has on occasion resorted to shoddy scholarship. He's had to retract several spurious quotations (under intense pressure) that he claimed came from the FF. He's just as agenda driven as the anti-religion crowd.

[Between the Lines]

David Barton has on occasion resorted to shoddy scholarship. He's had to retract several spurious quotations (under intense pressure) that he claimed came from the FF.

The only places on the net that question Barton are all athiest or seperation of church and state sites. And even they do not claim that he has made any retractions.

He's just as agenda driven as the anti-religion crowd.

Of course he is. Did you even see where this article came from? The Christian Broadcasting Network News.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

David Barton has on occasion resorted to shoddy scholarship.

Here's an example from this piece:

"Barton said, "The Founding Fathers were overwhelmingly Christian…I love to spend time on the least religious founders. You have Franklin, as governor installs the Bible and Christianity in the public schools of Pennsylvania. Franklin was the man who made sure we had prayer at every session of Congress and that we had paid chaplains to do so.""

Clearly Barton implies Benjamin Franklin ("The Founding Fathers . . . ", of which Benjamin is clearly one) did this "as governor." Unless I'm horribly mistaken, Benjamin Franklin never the governor of any state or province. His son, William, of course, was the last royal governor of New Jersey. He was also a die-hard Loyalist---and had a massive falling-out with his father over it---so he was hardly a Founding Father.

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