Glenn Beck says he’s “reclaiming the civil rights movement,” but his ideas about race are rooted in the theology of a historical revisionist who had no problem with “biblical” slavery.
David Barton, Glenn Beck’s favorite history “professor,” is the creator and purveyor of a revisionist history of race in America that is rapidly gaining traction in conservative and Tea Party circles.
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Barton frames the details for maximum impact on contemporary politics, to an increasingly growing audience. Like Barton’s larger revisionist effort to develop and perpetuate the narrative that America is a “Christian nation...."
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Barton’s narrative is gaining a hearing.
via www.religiondispatches.org
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