Debunking "Beck U" -- Faith 102 with "Professor" David Barton

[Joanne98]

This week's class at Beck University was the second class taught by "Professor" David Barton, and, as expected, the class was packed with quite a few of Barton's pseudo-historical lies and distortions. In fact, Barton managed to get over a dozen separate lies into this single half-hour class.


The entire goal of Barton's "Faith 102" class was to prove that the two least religious founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, had no intention of separating church and state. I've debunked many of the lies Barton used in this class before, so, since I've been a bit swamped with my "day job" at the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, and didn't have time to make an entirely new video this week, I've thrown together a few videos debunking some of the lies from "Professor" Barton's Beck U class, mainly using my debunkings of these same lies from a video series I made last year.

Barton's lie that more than half the signers of the Declaration of Independence were ministers (he also used this one in his first Beck U class):

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2010/7/31/123919/659/Front_Page/Debunking_quot_Beck_U_quot_Faith_102_with_quot_Professor_quot_David_Barton

Videos at link

[Enthusiast]

1. Beck's purpose actually is re-education.

Why do Beck and his allies wish to change historical fact? What is their motive for doing this?

[Fearless]

3. Power.

[missheidi]

2. Ugh. He's as crazy as Rev. Jim Jones and David Koresh

...the way people follow him and believe everything that he spews. Dangerous, folks!