Mike Huckabee Wants People To Be Forced to Listen To David Barton At Gunpoint

You Tube ^ | 3/24/2011

[Right Wingnut 2]

“I almost wish that there would be, like, a simultaneous telecast, and all Americans would be forced–forced at gunpoint no less–to listen to every David Barton message, and I think our country would be better for it. I wish it’d happen.”

[Old Landmarks]

Each state was filled with the vast majority of people who were Christians who consented to have the first amendment as they understood it, to be made the law of the land.

Christians did not want to be forced by the federal goverment to attend or not attend the church of their choice.

The Bible was quoted at the founding convention far more than any other source and was considered of infinite value for forming this nation.

[meadsjn]

Each state was filled with the vast majority of people who were Christians who consented to have the first amendment as they understood it, to be made the law of the land.

Yes, we almost agree on this. Enough reasonable people at the time recognized the propensity of religious fruitcakes of various types wanting to force their beliefs on unwilling people of other congregations, that to the majority, such protection of the rights of each person to worship as they saw fit needed to be protected. Today is another such time.

Christians did not want to be forced by the federal goverment to attend or not attend the church of their choice.

Again, we are almost in agreement. The majority of reasonable people, regardless of their religious convictions, did not want religious fruitcakes of various types trying to force their beliefs on unwilling people of other congregations.

The Bible was quoted at the founding convention far more than any other source and was considered of infinite value for forming this nation.

On that, we will have to disagree, unless you can provide a specific reference to the contrary. It was common practice back then, as it was until recent years, to open public meetings with a prayer, and possibly the reading of a verse or two. But the overwhelming majority of materials discussed in the structuring of our government through the development of the Constitution came from writings about the governments of Greece, Rome, France, England, and other previous governments of Europe.

The founders and framers were not trying to create an asylum for religious fruitcakes. They were trying to design a government pretty much like is summarized in the Preamble, and detailed in the Constitution. Nothing in Biblical history provided any sort of example for such a government.

The difference between reasonable religious people and religious fruitcakes, is that the fruitcakes seem compelled to just make stuff up.

[Old Landmarks]

The First Amendment purposely says: CONGRESS shall make no law...

Fruitcakes? I have met fruitcakes of all shapes, sizes and beliefs.

When someone speaks of fruitcakes it is better to be very specific because the word fruitcake is often used by the left to refer to what would include most conservatives.

Some real 'modern' fruitcakes think Christianity, serious Christians and the Bible should be ignored or demonized.