The Christian Nationalist Understanding Of Separation Of Church And State

Right Wing Watch 👀 Written by Kyle Mantyla.

Tim Barton, the president of the Christian nationalist organization WallBuilders and son of the organization's pseudo-historian founder, David Barton, appeared on the "Stakelbeck Tonight" program on Thursday night where he laid out a thoroughly Christian nationalist understanding of the separation of church and state.

Barton, who regularly misrepresents history and the Bible in support of his right-wing political agenda, baselessly claimed that the concept of church-state separation, as understood by the Founding Fathers, merely meant that the church and the state were to be two separate institutions, each of which would be governed by leaders who "were getting all their directives from God."

"When people argue [about] separation of church and state, it's really a misunderstanding of a very popular phrase," Barton said.

If you go back to the Bible, you have, as an example, Moses and Aaron, where Moses is the one that God gives the law to and Aaron's the one that God puts over the temple, the tabernacle, [which] became known as the church . . . God had two separate leaders over separate institutions, but neither one was secular because both of them were getting all their directives from God.

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