RWNJ Claims He Has A Contract To Write ‘God-Centered’ Textbooks For Public Schools (VIDEO)

David Barton, the evangelical activist and historian, claims he has been contracted to write a very God-centric government textbook to be used in classrooms. They meet Texas’ criteria to distribute them to the state’s public schools.

This textbook will say that the Founding Fathers used the Bible as a “blueprint” for our Constitution. This is false.

Barton said:

“I just contracted about two weeks ago, we’re doing a government textbook, a national government textbook but it will be very much in this kind of vein, but it will meet the Texas TEKS [educational] standards and all the national standards for any state, it can be used in any state, except it will have a lot of God in it.”

Barton believes that history curriculum have been corrupted by “liberal bias.” Is that why they call facts now? They believe that people have been “indoctrinated” with a view of history in some kind of conspiracy to make America stay secular.

We are not a Christian nation. We are supposed to be secular. Listen to the Founding Fathers themselves; they meant for us to be a secular nation with the Separation of Church and state, with public schools falling under “state.”

John Adams said:

“We should begin by setting conscience free. When all men of all religions shall enjoy equal liberty, property, and an equal chance for honors and power we may expect that improvements will be made in the human character and the state of society.”

James Madison said:

“Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.”

These textbooks are not the only horror Barton is providing. David and Tim Barton are working on an entire curriculum:

“‘After we get done with this, our next project is to write a history curriculum,’ David Barton says in the video. ‘We’ve got these old history books and you cannot read an old history book without seeing God all over the place because God was just involved.'”

As an atheist and a taxpayer, the government should not be providing funding for this, and these types of books should not be allowed in classrooms. Republicans need to quit trying to shove their fundamentalist agenda into our secular government.

If you want inaccurate history books, share them with your congregation.

Here is Barton talking about the textbook:

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