DAVID BARTON: HISTORIAN OR PROPOGANDIST?

Without question, David Barton is the leading history teacher among those who long to hear stories about the Christian founding of America, and as we know, for the past year, he has operated as Glenn Beck’s historian on Fox News. As believers, we all rejoice to hear about those who stood strong in the faith, especially in the face of difficult trials. But does this apply to the Founding Fathers of the American Revolution? Were they Bible believing Christian men fighting to establish a Christian nation?...

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CONFRONTING THE PATRIOTIC FAITH

Perhaps more dangerous than yoga, psychology, or any of the new age doctrines that have crept into modern churches, is the ongoing love affair that some believers have with patriotic Christianity. Many Christian leaders, who can easily spot the lies of the New Age movement, abandon all discernment when it comes to the history of America and the idea that this country was founded as a Christian nation...

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THE ORACLE OF THE REVOLUTION: THOMAS PAINE

While often overlooked or marginalized by modern historians, the American Revolution, in many ways, begins with Thomas Paine. The Marquis de Lafayette said, “A free America without her Thomas Paine is unthinkable.” Paine wrote the famous pamphlet, Common Sense, which is called “by far the most influential tract of the American Revolution” by not a few historians, who also maintain that it influenced Jefferson’s writing of the Declaration of Independence.

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THOMAS JEFFERSON

If there were ever a man utterly ruined and spoiled by vain philosophy it was surely Thomas Jefferson. Along with Thomas Paine, he was America’s greatest deceiver and antichrist – if you judge him according to the scriptures. Jefferson perhaps more than any other, typifies the last days “scoffers, walking after their own lusts” warned about in the bible...

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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: WHO WAS HE REALLY?

One of the most influential founding fathers, and the only one of them to have signed all of the original founding documents (Declaration of Independence, Treaty of Paris, and the U.S. Constitution) was Benjamin Franklin. Franklin was responsible for three important phases of America’s development: 1) Unifying the colonists in their rebellion against England; 2) Philosophy concerning the rights of mankind; 3) Facilitating the American Revolution by publishing the writings of Thomas Paine.

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