Pseudo Historian David Barton - Declaration of Independence and The Bill of Rights Came From Bible
More revisionist history derp from one of the kings of such derp.
As Barton explained, the purpose of the Declaration was to declare that there was a God, that God created inalienable rights, and that government exists to protect these rights. As such, there were some two dozen rights listed in the Declaration, which eventually were codified into the Bill of Rights, and all of which were taken directly from the Bible.
“They held that all of those came out of Genesis 1-8,” Barton said. “That’s what they looked to. Genesis 1-8, they went through and said, ‘Here’s the two dozen rights we see and that’s why governments exist.’ So this is the God factor and that’s what made of different from the beginning.”
Barton went on to declare that there is no such thing as separation of church and state or government neutrality toward religion because the Declaration declares unanimously, on behalf of every level of government, that God exists.
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