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The Most Influential Evangelist You've Never Heard of : NPR

1 lawhawk8/09/2012 5:16:11 am PDT

Quoted for truth and accuracy (and it’s something Charles and others have pointed out time and time again when it comes to Barton. He just makes stuff up. It’s not mere revisionism. It’s straight up lying about the facts and history surrounding the Constitution, the Founding Fathers, and religious freedoms in the US.

“You look at Article 3, Section 1, the treason clause,” he told James Robison on Trinity Broadcast Network. “Direct quote out of the Bible. You look at Article 2, the quote on the president has to be a native born? That is Deuteronomy 17:15, verbatim. I mean, it drives the secularists nuts because the Bible’s all over it! Now we as Christians don’t tend to recognize that. We think it’s a secular document; we’ve bought into their lies. It’s not.”

We looked up every citation Barton said was from the Bible, but not one of them checked out. Moreover, the Constitution as written in 1787 has no mention of God or religion except to prohibit a religious test for office. The First Amendment does address religion.