I continue to be deeply impressed by the honest, unvarnished accounts of those who founded this nation. They were real, flawed human beings—anything but ordinary—yet not the mythic, supernatural figures we often make them out to be. They were brilliant minds shaped by the Enlightenment, courageous enough to risk their lives so that others might live free.
Sadly, that very freedom also allows individuals like David Barton to distort the legacy of these founders, twisting history in ways that diminish certain liberties to elevate others. It’s only through the diligent work of people like Warren and others committed to historical integrity that such falsehoods can be challenged and corrected.
Unfortunately, much of the American Church seems all too comfortable embracing a revisionist history that flatters their worldview and reinforces their dominance. But no group holds a monopoly on the truth—it exists independently of our preferences or beliefs. We must pursue truth for its own sake, not settle for the comforting myths offered by a religion that becomes, as Marx once said, an opiate of the masses.
Happy Independence Day Warren. This day has much more meaning to me lately. Keep up the great work!
"Christian nationalists often point to this story as an illustration of a supernatural event. For instance, David Barton says that Rush had a dream which God brought to pass in a manner similar to those in the Bible. If Barton knows about Rush’s rough draft of this letter, he doesn’t disclose this information to his readers. He doesn’t also consider the fact that Rush often used the word dream to describe his thoughts about other issues." David Barton is a great deceiver. He doesn't tell his followers the WHOLE truth. He picks pieces here and there in his speeches which to create narratives which he chooses which are not true. Yet no one seems to care. He is still popular in Christian circles which include many false teachers. Christian Pinto made a point, "Without question, David Barton is the leading history teacher among those who long to hear stories about the Christian founding of America, and as we know, for the past year, he has operated as Glenn Beck’s historian on Fox News. As believers, we all rejoice to hear about those who stood strong in the faith, especially in the face of difficult trials. But does this apply to the Founding Fathers of the American Revolution? Were they Bible believing Christian men fighting to establish a Christian nation? According to teachers like David Barton, the answer is yes. But as we show in the film, The Hidden Faith of the Founding Fathers, much of Barton’s historical information is quoted out of its full context. He gives the false impression that the revolutionaries supported Christianity, when in truth they rejected the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and were even hostile to its precepts." Here is the documentary that all should see: https://archive.org/details/TheHiddenFaithOfTheFoundingFathers
I continue to be deeply impressed by the honest, unvarnished accounts of those who founded this nation. They were real, flawed human beings—anything but ordinary—yet not the mythic, supernatural figures we often make them out to be. They were brilliant minds shaped by the Enlightenment, courageous enough to risk their lives so that others might live free.
Sadly, that very freedom also allows individuals like David Barton to distort the legacy of these founders, twisting history in ways that diminish certain liberties to elevate others. It’s only through the diligent work of people like Warren and others committed to historical integrity that such falsehoods can be challenged and corrected.
Unfortunately, much of the American Church seems all too comfortable embracing a revisionist history that flatters their worldview and reinforces their dominance. But no group holds a monopoly on the truth—it exists independently of our preferences or beliefs. We must pursue truth for its own sake, not settle for the comforting myths offered by a religion that becomes, as Marx once said, an opiate of the masses.
Happy Independence Day Warren. This day has much more meaning to me lately. Keep up the great work!
"Christian nationalists often point to this story as an illustration of a supernatural event. For instance, David Barton says that Rush had a dream which God brought to pass in a manner similar to those in the Bible. If Barton knows about Rush’s rough draft of this letter, he doesn’t disclose this information to his readers. He doesn’t also consider the fact that Rush often used the word dream to describe his thoughts about other issues." David Barton is a great deceiver. He doesn't tell his followers the WHOLE truth. He picks pieces here and there in his speeches which to create narratives which he chooses which are not true. Yet no one seems to care. He is still popular in Christian circles which include many false teachers. Christian Pinto made a point, "Without question, David Barton is the leading history teacher among those who long to hear stories about the Christian founding of America, and as we know, for the past year, he has operated as Glenn Beck’s historian on Fox News. As believers, we all rejoice to hear about those who stood strong in the faith, especially in the face of difficult trials. But does this apply to the Founding Fathers of the American Revolution? Were they Bible believing Christian men fighting to establish a Christian nation? According to teachers like David Barton, the answer is yes. But as we show in the film, The Hidden Faith of the Founding Fathers, much of Barton’s historical information is quoted out of its full context. He gives the false impression that the revolutionaries supported Christianity, when in truth they rejected the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and were even hostile to its precepts." Here is the documentary that all should see: https://archive.org/details/TheHiddenFaithOfTheFoundingFathers
"Great deceiver" is a much more polite phrase than Liar For Jesus. But, he's very good at deception. He's had decades of practice.