{"id":25222,"date":"2012-01-09T14:15:34","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T21:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/09\/jeffersons-bible-and-david-barton.html"},"modified":"2012-01-10T07:20:28","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T14:20:28","slug":"jeffersons-bible-and-david-barton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/09\/jeffersons-bible-and-david-barton.html","title":{"rendered":"Jefferson&#39;s Bible and David Barton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Barton, pseudo-historian (and dolt), will soon be publishing <i>The Jefferson Lies<\/i>, wherein he tries to demonstrate that Thomas Jefferson was just as much of an evangelical, miracle-believing, Jesus-praising, conservative Christian as &#8230; well, Dave Barton claims to be. <\/p>\n<p>Part of the debate is Jefferson&#39;s Bible. The first was an abridged version, with various teachings and events clipped from the Bible by Jefferson and organized by theme.  The second (which survives &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=AmAJAQAAIAAJ\" >http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=AmAJAQAAIAAJ<\/a>) was an abridged version of the Bible with all the supernatural bits trimmed off.<\/p>\n<p>How does David Barton somehow turn this into proof of Thomas Jefferson as Bible-thumping evangelist who would doubtless support Rick Santorum, et al., as candidates for the White House? Well, he doesn&#39;t do it honestly &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>(See also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/david-bartons-outrageous-fabrication-about-thomas-jefferson\" >http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/david-bartons-outrageous-fabrication-about-thomas-jefferson<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/wthrockmorton.com\/2011\/04\/12\/was-the-jefferson-bible-an-evangelism-tool\/\" >http:\/\/wthrockmorton.com\/2011\/04\/12\/was-the-jefferson-bible-an-evangelism-tool\/<\/a> ) #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fmedia%2Fphoto%2F2012-01%2F67212380.gif' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/commentary\/la-oe-0108-fehrman-jefferson-20120108,0,6146482.story'>Jefferson&#39;s Bible<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRick Santorum &#39;s near-miss in Iowa provides a reminder that, for many Republican voters (and not a few candidates), religion and politics overlap. If you need another reminder, though, consider this: &#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Barton, pseudo-historian (and dolt), will soon be publishing The Jefferson Lies, wherein he tries to demonstrate that Thomas Jefferson was just as much of an evangelical, miracle-believing, Jesus-praising, conservative Christian as &#8230; well, Dave Barton claims to be. Part of the debate is Jefferson&#39;s Bible. The first was an abridged version, with various teachings &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/09\/jeffersons-bible-and-david-barton.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jefferson&#39;s Bible and David Barton&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,109,100,108,110],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-25222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-church-state","category-dolts","category-history","category-religious-zanies","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20694,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/09\/david-barton-is-a-dolt-cold-carbon-dioxide-for-multi-lingual-indians-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":25222,"position":0},"title":"David Barton is a Dolt (Cold Carbon Dioxide for Multi-Lingual Indians Edition)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 9-Apr-11 10:13am","format":false,"excerpt":"Right Wing Watch has been hosting a love set of videos of David Barton mouthing off about things he clearly knows nothing about. \u00a0That's certainly everyone's right to do, save that Barton has been getting increasing attention over the years over the past few years, not only on Glenn Beck's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Dolts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Dolts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/dolts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":25778,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/28\/the-three-men-i-admire-most-the-father-son-and-holy-ghost.html","url_meta":{"origin":25222,"position":1},"title":"&quot;The three men I admire most \/ The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 28-Jan-12 11:54am","format":false,"excerpt":"\"The three men I admire most \/ The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost\"So here's an interesting one. There's apparently a big brouhaha in the Christian publishing world over some new resources (Bibles and Bible story collections) designed for missionary work among Muslims because they've changed the terms \"Father\" and \"Son\"\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":20808,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/19\/unblogged-bits-tue-19-apr-11-1730.html","url_meta":{"origin":25222,"position":2},"title":"Unblogged Bits (Tue. 19-Apr-11 1730)","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 19-Apr-11 5:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... SAD NEWS - TIME CATCHES UPWITH DOCTOR WHO STAR: MadPriest School Children Entertained, Terrified by Life-Like Dinosaur Puppet - This. Is. FANTASTIC. 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