America's Godly Heritage by David Barton Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of America's Godly Heritage
Book Review: I have read and research everything Barton has written. He is incredibly accurate
Summary: 5 Stars
The first clue that Mr. Barton is telling the truth is the torrent of scathing reviews from the Secularists. I have personally reviewed the facts presented in Barton's books, and have found them to be not just factually accurate, but intellectually honest.
The first thing to remember about secular historicism, is that the facts don't matter, just the political agenda.
We Americans write our own history. And the chapters of which we're proudest are the ones where we had the courage to change. - Al Gore, Speech at the Democratic National Convention (28 August 1996)
Book Review: America's Godly Heritage
Summary: 4 Stars
This is very good. It's loaded with facts. The courts would have a difficult case to prove against Barton if this were a trial.Book Review: Truth about God's place in American History
Summary: 5 Stars
David Barton stands out as one of the foremost proponents of Christian values in public school. He is trying to educate those of us educated in public school in those times when God intervened in American history in the lives of the founding fathers. He gives much insight as to the true intent they had in the Constitution of the United States of American and what it should stand for. All of God's people ought to be ashamed to have been asleep in 1962 when God started being systematically removed from our schools and public places. Thank you David for leading the charge, even if there are not too many of us that feel the way you do. God Bless you.Book Review: A concise, quick reference
Summary: 4 Stars
This booklet gives the views of America's Founding Fathers concerning the proper role of Christian principles in the public affairs of the nation. An excellent introduction to the subject.
Book Review: THE "CLIFFS NOTES" TO BARTON'S MASTERPIECE
Summary: 4 Stars
'AMERICA'S GODLY HERITAGE' is a 30-page booklet, the text of which is simply the lightly edited, transcribed soundtrack from David Barton's videotape presentation of the same name. Being fairly brief and inexpensive, this booklet would make a fine gift to give away to individuals (and interested groups) who seek to know a little bit about this aspect of America's history that has been swept under the rug of secular textbooks for close to half a century now. Although slight in size, 'AMERICA'S GODLY HERITAGE' packs a wallop, and will make the head (that still believes "separation of church and state" is some principal plank of American government) spin!
If you've spent any time browsing the Amazon website, you don't need me to tell you that there are MANY reviewers who exhibit much greater devotion to promoting and defending their chosen beliefs than to seeking the truth - whatever that truth may turn out to be. A reviewer here (I'll call him "Mr. Smith") denounces 'AMERICA'S GODLY HERITAGE' as a misrepresentation of fact. In this case, however, I do not doubt the sincerity of "Mr. Smith" - I think he genuinely believes what he expresses. But I also believe that he has been misguided and led astray.
Yes, there are many publications out there that attempt to paint an untraditional and often unflattering portrait of America's Founders. Considering the age we live in, it's not the least bit surprising that the market has been flooded with revisionist history books that tell, not just little fibs, but Tsunami Lies! In fact, this has become so prevalent in the last several decades that, as I understand it, the Olympic Committee is seriously considering making both, dog-sledding and Founding Father-spinning, officially sanctioned events in the next Olympiad!
I just don't think there are too many different ways a person can interpret this statement by JOHN ADAMS :
"The general principles on which the Fathers achieved independence were...the general principles of Christianity...I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God."
I think BENJAMIN RUSH (a signer of The Declaration Of Independence) meant exactly what he wrote in his autobiography :
"My only hope of salvation is in the infinite transcendent love of God manifested to the world by the death of His Son upon the Cross. Nothing but His blood will wash away my sins. I rely exclusively upon it."
And when JOHN JAY, the original Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court - and one of the three men most responsible for the Constitution - declares :
"Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty - as well as the privilege and interest - of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers."
I have a hard time thinking he meant that in some "rhetorical" way. I don't know, call me a moron if you will, but I think I'm fairly bright as morons go.
(When the Founding Fathers wrote that they were declaring their independence from England, I wonder if they meant that in a merely "rhetorical" way too, but King George III mistakenly took them seriously.)
Make no mistake about it : nearly all of the 55 Founding Fathers who worked on the U.S. Constitution were members of ORTHODOX Christian churches, and many of them were evangelical Christians.
As impressive as 'AMERICA'S GODLY HERITAGE' is, it can't be considered as anything more than the "Cliffs Notes" for Barton's REAL masterpiece : 'ORIGINAL INTENT: The Courts, The Constitution, & Religion.' 'ORIGINAL INTENT' is an exhaustive tome of stellar and scholarly research that covers the same ground, but buries six feet deep the efforts of secular revisionists.
And while 'ORIGINAL INTENT' is the direction I would ultimately point you in, 'AMERICA'S GODLY HERITAGE' might be the best place for those people unprepared for the startling truth to begin an inquiry. Certainly it would be better to let this little booklet prep your mind and whet YOUR INTEREST, than to dive right into 'ORIGINAL INTENT' and perhaps short-circuit your mind and wet YOURSELF!