tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8697060800242665861.post831664969134218665..comments2023-11-07T10:47:56.941-05:00Comments on The Past isn't Past: David Barton: The Right's Historical PropmasterMark Byrneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02022137257615203375noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8697060800242665861.post-47535721250314844972011-07-04T20:08:24.346-04:002011-07-04T20:08:24.346-04:00This is a good post. The point that Barton, et. a...This is a good post. The point that Barton, et. al., assert, and the point on which there has not been sufficient push back, is that the reading they make off old documents establishes first principles for them from which to dictate the form and structure of government. Even if the reading they give to the documents is correct, things change. Even if all of the Founding Fathers were full-on, baptized-by-immersion, born-again Christians, that does not mean that we are locked into government that they proposed. Things change, and we are free to adapt the government in response to those changes.<br /><br />"We, the People, do ordain" is the simple sentence that starts the Constitution. Barton and his fellow travelers act like Bible numerologists, who count letters in words, words in verses, verses in chapters and seek to find the secret meanings from combinations of those numbers. They pay no mind to the fact that they are using an English translation of ancient texts. The thing that draws them is the idea that they, and they alone, are worthy of the secret knowledge that can be unlocked through this process. So it is with Barton and his ilk.<br /><br />Barton is a fraud and anyone who references Barton should be held in contempt.Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08379466699172376242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8697060800242665861.post-77856575154385024912011-06-20T15:31:43.445-04:002011-06-20T15:31:43.445-04:00Thanks--it's always nice to know someone out t...Thanks--it's always nice to know someone out there is reading!Mark Byrneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02022137257615203375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8697060800242665861.post-40046314889851716732011-06-20T14:48:51.956-04:002011-06-20T14:48:51.956-04:00Have I said lately how much I learn from your post...Have I said lately how much I learn from your posts? It has also simply shored up the mindset that just because some person on television with possible political aspirations, or who considers themselves an expert on politics cause they got a tv show, doesn't make it so.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com