WallBuilders, the organization founded by influential pseudo-historian David Barton and run by his son Tim, is suggesting that its Founders’ Bible would make a great Mother’s Day gift.
The Founders’ Bible is a New American Standard translation supplemented with a bunch of essays by Barton and others. Wrapping often-debunked Christian nationalist history within the pages of the Bible is an audacious way to try to give Barton’s claims the sheen of divinely inspired truth. When the Founders’ Bible was published in 2012, Right Wing Watch reported that it was “full of the sorts of absurd claims we have come to expect from Barton.”
And it’s not just about history. Ten years ago, when an Iowa religious-right group sent copies to every member of the state legislature, I noted that Barton’s essays:
go beyond his claims about the biblical origins of the U.S. Constitution; The Founders’ Bible, a New American Standard Bible translation, is also filled with Barton’s arguments that right-wing economic policies are divinely mandated.This is, as I wrote in The Public Eye magazine, “a Bible the Koch brothers can love.”
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