Today, Rick Green and David Barton weighed-in on the tragedy at Sandy Hook by laying out not only the standard Religious Right solutions of putting prayer and the Bible back in schools, but also adding a unique suggestion to start arming everyone from early childhood.

Explaining that he began teaching his own kids how to use guns at the age of four, Barton said that people only want to get rid of guns because they are afraid of them, which can be attributed to the fact that they don’t know how to use them.

As such, if everyone had a gun and was taught how to use it from childhood, there would never be any firearm incidents or accidents, just like during the founding era:

That’s what these guys do not see and do not look at; they’re just flat scared of guns.  And the solution to that is exactly what the Founding Fathers said and that is you start teaching kids to use guns when they’re very young because gun accidents are caused by non-familiarity with guns; once you’re familiar with them, you don’t have accidents with them.

I have searched and in the founding era I think I’ve only ever found two gun accidents and everybody was hauling guns back then; you took your guns to church, you were required by state law in some states to take your guns to church.  We didn’t have accidents because everyone was familiar with how to use them.  It’s not being familiar that makes is dangerous.

David Barton’s tendency to utterly misrepresent things in order to promote his own right-wing political agenda is well-established, but it never hurts to keep documenting examples, especially since he continues to provide them on a regular basis.

On today’s broadcast of “WallBuilders Live,” for instance, Barton claimed that the reason President Obama won re-election was because voters “were not thinking right.”  And one of the reasons voters don’t “think right” is because the higher education system is dominated by Obama supporters, as demonstrated by the fact that, according to Barton, 96% of the professors at Ivy League colleges donated to Obama’s campaign:

After the election, we had those two days where we talked about it afterwards and we went through a lot of the numbers just showing that people were not thinking right.  They voted according to what they thought, but they were thinking wrong about so many areas.

And so, if we’re going to change the direction of the nation and the way its headed, we have to change the way people think.  It’s real simple. 

What are the areas that cause us to think the way we do?  Well, the media is one, education is one, the pulpit is one.  There are several areas that help us shape the way we think.  Now, I will point out, if we’re looking for help out of universities, it ain’t going to happen.

This is a report that I just read that is kind of amazing: 96% of the faculty at the elite colleges donated to President Obama … Not just voted; 96% of faculty donated.

So you have 96% of faculty who donated to the Obama campaign; 96% from the elite colleges.  So if we’re looking to get help out of the schools, that ain’t going to happen.

You will be undoubtedly be surprised to learn that the report to which Barton referred found not that 96% of faculty donated to Obama but rather that 96% of the donations made by faculty and staff from the Ivy League schools went to the Obama campaign.

Think about it: if only one donation was made by a faculty member from a particular university and it went to the Obama campaign, then the percentage of donations coming from that university that went to Obama would be 100%. But that doesn’t mean that 100% of the faculty at that university donated to Obama, which is the claim that Barton is making.

Considering that Barton is a former math teacher, you’d think he’d be a little better at math.

On today’s episode of “WallBuilders Live,” Rick Green and David Barton interviewed the ALCJ’s David French about a piece he wrote following the election entitled “Progressive Evangelicals’ Epic Fail.”  The discussion prompted Barton to declare that there really should be no such thing as the Religious Right or the Religious Left, as all Christians should just be “biblical” in their voting … and since things like health care reform and climate change are not mentioned in the Bible, they shouldn’t be things that Christians consider when casting their ballots:

Where does the Bible line up on education? Alright, that’s where I am.

Where does the Bible line up on taxation?  Okay, that’s where I am.

Where does the Bible line up on social programs? Alright, that’s where I am.

And from that standpoint there has been, over the last twelve years particularly, especially every presidential election there’s been a lining-up of the Religious Left and the Religious Right.

Religious Left runs in, as they have the last few years, and says ‘Christians, you can’t be concerned about stuff like life and marriage, you gotta be concerned about climate change, you have to be concerned about health care’ and they go through all these things.  And I am concerned about that, if I can find it in the Bible. And that’s really what it has to boil down to.

Sometimes we let our cultural positions or our political positions trump our biblical positions.  And that’s what the Religious Left has done, saying ‘yeah, yeah, yeah, we know the Bible is about life and marriage and those other things, but we’re really concerned about global warming and about saving the planet and et cetera and so we want you to be concerned about that too.’

Alright, show me that in the Bible and I will be concerned about it.

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Patrick Colbeck, the Michigan state senator who, along with state Rep. Mike Shirkey, was the driving force behind Michigan’s anti-union “right to work” legislation, appeared on “WallBuilders Live” today where he, and David Barton, attributed the legislation’s passage to “divine providence”:

I had a great colleague in the state House, state Representative Mike Shirkey has been phenomenal, he’s a phenomenal Christian. 

We’ve also got what I call kind of a patchwork quilt that if any one of those patches would have came out of the quilt, this never would have happened.  We had folks at the grassroots level, we had union members that were for us, we had business leaders that were for us, we had folks that had been in the political environment for quite some time, we lobbyists helping us.  There were people all over the place and, reflecting upon everything that happened, if any one of those pieces – simple little pieces – would have disappeared and we wouldn’t have had them, then it never would have passed.

So this is, we believe, knit together with some divine providence and when we pursued it, we pursued it with biblical principles.  We had what we called the Philippians 4:8 Strategy that said focus on what’s noble, true, excellent, and praiseworthy.  Don’t go off an do the usual political whack-a-mole when you find somebody who’s not a hundred percent agreement with you; you go off and systematically work through them, make the values proposition for them and give them a reason to vote it and not against it.

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We are really starting to wonder if David Barton literally does not understand the meaning of the phrase "direct quotation" since he continues to falsely claim that the Constitution contains dozens of direct quotations from the Bible.
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