David Barton's Jefferson Lies Redux
He just can't quit
Before the Texas House of Representatives Public Education Committee, David Barton was in friendly territory. The Republican majority committee allows Barton to say his stories without much push back. On April 29/30, 2025, that changed a little when Barton and Matt Krause testified in favor of a bill which would require posting the Ten Commandments in every Texas classroom.
Barton and Krause both said some historically questionable things to try to erode separation of church and state in Texas. Texas Representatives John Bryant and James Talarico scrutinized Barton's and Kruse's arguments and determined that the current bill was unfair and un-American.
Barton was especially triggered by James Talarico’s mention of Thomas Jefferson. In response, Barton told the committee some questionable “facts” about Jefferson which I fact-check in this episode of Telling Jefferson Lies with the help of my book with Michael Coulter, Getting Jefferson Right. A premise of this podcast is that it takes faulty history to pursue Christian nationalist goals, one of which is to erode separation of church and state.
The episode begins with a passionate appeal by Bryant and Talarico for fairness and ends with an analysis of faulty history which is being used to oppose fairness.
I hope you will listen to the episode wherever you listen to podcasts and recommend it to a friend. Below is the Apple link but it is available on all podcast formats.
I have started a 10 year anniversary historical review of the posts that Warren has done on Gospel for Asia and am posting them up on my Audible Waters channel where my Christmas music has been that many of you have seen around Christmas time. The first episode is now live reviewing the first few posts that were made and what we learned about what is now called GFA World at that time: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLK8B6r21sytx8SMCQMxEXGHuHmYte7KmE
David Barton is a purposeful deceiver. He is all over the place even in Christian Churches deceiving the deceived. He is affiliation with false teachers 'The Wall Builders'. "He has been influential in the faith and intellectual life of Speaker Mike Johnson." They are part of the 'New Apostolic Reformation." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Apostolic_Reformation They believe they are 'prophets, and apostles'. If you clicked on the link above you can scroll down to see some of those involved, but it is not an exhaustive list. Trumps 'Spiritual Advisor and head of his new 'Faith office" is part of this. The 7 mountain Mandate in which they will take over America. 'Prosperity theology' and more. They pretty much with the Southern Baptists, and Calvinists have taken over all the churches. There are not many good churches left. The background of Calvinism is quite awful. John Calvin was a murderer! They claim he was a reformer, but he was only 8 years old during the reformation. Geneva Switzerland was a disaster. JOHN CALVIN IN GENEVA WAS A PERSECUTOR
1. Calvin enforced Christian doctrine and principles at the point of the sword. In October 1563, the Geneva government burned to death Michael Servetus for heresy. Servetus held unitarian views and was definitely a false teacher, but the New Testament nowhere instructs the churches to kill false teachers. Servetus’ death sentence was supported not only by Calvin, but also by Melanchthon in Germany and Bullinger in Geneva and by other Protestant leaders who were consulted about the case.
2. Other men were also put to death under Calvin’s tenure. “So entirely was he in favour of persecuting measures, that he wrote a treatise in defence of them, maintaining the lawfulness of putting heretics to death; and he reduced these rigid theories to practice, in his conduct towards Castellio, Jerom Bolsee, and Servetus, whose fates are too generally known to require being here repeated. At the council of Geneva, 1632, Nicholas Anthoine was condemned to be first hanged and then burned for opposing the doctrine of the Trinity...” (J.J. Stockdale, The History of the Inquisitions, 1810, p. xxviii).
3. In the days of King Edward VI of England, Calvin wrote a letter to Lord Protector Somerset and urged him to put Anabaptists to death: “These altogether deserve to be well punished by the sword, seeing that they do conspire against God, who had set him in his royal seat” (John Christian, A History of the Baptists, Vol. 1, chap. 15).
4. Historian John Christian observes that Calvin “was responsible in a large measure for the demon of hate and fierce hostility which the Baptists of England had to encounter.” wayoflife.org