David Barton Quotes

#1. The Founders believed that pluralism survived only within the concept of religious liberty espoused by American Christianity.

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#2. The Founders never intended to separate Christianity from government, only to keep a single denomination from running the nation.

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#3. The 1947 Court (Everson v. Board of Education) for the first time had used only Jefferson's metaphor - completely divorced from its context and intent.

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#4. There should be absolutely no 'Separation of Church and State' in America.

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#5. We do have a Godly heritage in America, but we have been robbed - robbed by the 3 percent.

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#6. Washington's address is virtually unknown today and has not been seen in most American history textbooks in nearly four decades. Perhaps it is because of all the religious warnings Washington made in his 'Farewell Address.'

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#7. The Court explained the problem with his writings (People v. Ruggles. 1811.): an attack on Jesus Christ was an attack on Christianity; and an attack on Christianity was an attack on the foundation of the country; therefore, an attack on Jesus Christ was equivalent to an attack on the country!

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#8. The Court abandoned the traditional constitutional meaning of 'religion' as a single denomination or system of worship and instead substituted a new 'modern' concept which even now remains vague and nebulous, having changed several times in recent years.

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#9. You don't have a right to vote, you've got a duty of vote.

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#10. The current version of ... separation of church and state says you can be salt, and you can be light, but only inside the four walls of the church.

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#11. Recent decades clearly demonstrate that the more secular our Public Schools become the less successful they become academically.

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#12. It is evident from their writings that the Founding Fathers would never have tolerated the separation that we have embraced today. They knew that religious principles provided morality and self-control - the lifeblood for the survival of any self-governing community.

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#13. In 1962 (Engel v. Vitale), the Supreme Court explained that the word 'church' would no longer mean a federally established denomination; it would now mean a religious activity in public.

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#14. That's exactly what made America so different, we don't have that colonial aspect of let's go conquer somebody else and make our nation bigger and that's because of the faith element.

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#15. That wall is a one directional wall. It keeps the government from running the church but it makes sure that Christian principles will always stay in government.

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#16. Separation of church and state is the big club pulled out to beat back the Christians .

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#17. It is interesting to note that during the last ten years Washington's 'Farewell Address' has begun to reappear in college textbooks - minus the four religious warnings.

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#18. The Founders intended only to prevent the establishment of a single national denomination, not to restrain public religious expressions.

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#19. To support its conclusion that 'this is a religious people ... this is a Christian nation,' the Court paraded a veritable litany of precedents from American history: taken from Church of the Holy Trinity v. U.S.; 143 U.S. 457-458 (1892).

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#20. In the case Stone v. Graham, the Supreme Court ruled that - under 'separation of church and state' - it was unconstitutional for a student in school to even see a copy of the Ten Commandments.

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