David Barton is a Dolt (Direct Quotes from the Bible Edition)

I've done a takedown on this before (https://hill-kleerup.org/blog/2011/03/25/david-barton-is-a-dolt-biblically-plagiarized-constitution-edition.html), but since Barton keeps at it it, saying things like …

'If you will take the Constitution in one hand and read its language and take a Bible in the other hand and read it, you'll say "wow, that's a direct quotation out of a Bible verse." Yeah, exactly. If you'll look through the Constitution, you'll find so many direct quotations right out of Bible verses because that's what they put in the document.'

… then it's worth a review of how doltish this particular claim is (or otherwise how little Barton understands what the term "direct quotation" means).

Of course, if this were just some crank on the street corner ranting and raving and handing out badly photocopied screeds, that would be one thing. But Barton is a highly prominent and influential evangelical, is given air time by folks from Huckabee to Beck, on TBN and The 700 Club and Fox News, and gets cited by GOP lawmakers on the freaking floor of Congress fergoshsakes. And if nobody points out that his "research" and "teaching" have no clothes, then even more people will take it as, so to speak, Gospel.

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