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David Barton's pseudo-historian son Tim got caught citing a fake quote. He held up a book of sermons, claimed it inspired the Declaration of Independence, and quoted words that aren't in the text. This is Christian Nationalist "history" in a nutshell. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-...

friendlyatheist.comChristian Nationalist "historian" caught citing a quotation that doesn't existTim Barton attributed famous Declaration language to a colonial sermon. There's just one problem: It's nowhere in the text.

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I hate that nowadays I need to wonder if he made it up on purpose or was just being lazy and using AI. Either is plausible (man is still a fraud either way, not historian would outsource the work to the mistake machine)

Selling made up nonsense to gullible idiots is the basis for every religious belief since religion began. As long as people are willingly gullible, their leaders have no reason to change.