“If you say that that’s proof of secularism, that means you haven’t read the Constitution, you haven’t read history and you haven’t read what the Founders said about the Constitution,” Barton insisted, saying that in order to believe there is no mention of God in the Constitution, “you have to buy into a bunch of pablum by brainless kind of professors that either doesn’t know what they’re talking about or they’re speaking maliciously trying to undermine and shift the nation to move in a different direction.”
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...in order to believe there is no mention of God in the Constitution, “you have to buy into a bunch of pablum by brainless kind of professors that either doesn’t know what they’re talking about or they’re speaking maliciously...
...or you could just read the document for yourself to see where it mentions -
The text is clear and easily understood. Barton is either ignorant or speaking maliciously - maybe both.
One thing he's not doing is speaking factually. And he's firing verbal spitballs at other people for their inexcusable crime of having the reading-comprehension skills of someone educated to somewhere between the fifth and eights grades.
It's right in the first fucking amendment. And if you think you can weasel about saying "Christianity is not a religion" which seems to be stupidly popular nowadays along with calling everything else a damned religion may I point you to the Treaty of Tripoli, which assures that America is - and I quote - in no way founded upon the Christian religion .
Or would you rather commit some real sacrilege and call the Founding Fathers a bunch of liars who can't be taken at their word for anything by anyone even when it's down in writing?
As a Christian myself, I can honestly say David Barton is not only wrong, he couldn't be more wrong. The Constitution is really more like a paper Caesar for Americans. (It's not unlike the way the Bible acts like a "paper pope" for conservative Protestants.)
The Constitution claims to be the source of our freedoms, it offers us prosperity if we will submit to its supremacy in all things, it claims to be the embodiment of reason and nature, etc. It claims to be the source of human rights and moral enlightenment and yet numerous abuses were committed using it as the justification.
If the Constitution could talk, it would not worship God, it would claim to _be_ God.
This idiot, finally admitting I guess when pressed that it's not there now claims the Constitution is an extension, or part two of The Declaration Of Independence and since it mentions God several times the Constitution just left it out, because, why, that's just obvious.
These are the type and quality of the straw providers in Fundieland.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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