{"id":965,"date":"2011-05-11T16:27:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T20:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/apagansblog\/?p=965"},"modified":"2011-05-11T16:27:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T20:27:00","slug":"the-founders-the-constitution-and-christianity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apagansblog\/2011\/05\/the-founders-the-constitution-and-christianity.html","title":{"rendered":"The Founders, the Constitution and Christianity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest lies being told by David Barton and other dishonest hacks in the so-called &#8216;christian&#8217; right about our nation&#8217;s Founders was that they thought of freedom of religion in purely Christian terms. \u00a0They did not and made it clear to anyone who had the brains to comprehend what the English language said, as is demonstrated<a href=\"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/23\/bryan-fischer-is-a-dolt-constitution-for-me-but-not-for-thee-edition.html\"> beyond <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/23\/bryan-fischer-is-a-dolt-constitution-for-me-but-not-for-thee-edition.html\" target=\"_blank\">sane doubt<\/a> at Dave Does the Blog. \u00a0Yet the mainstream media gives these depraved liars exposure to spread their hatred. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/paganportal\/2011\/05\/11\/productive-anger-get-the-wild-hunt-on-the-daily-show\/\" target=\"_blank\">Star at Patheos has suggested we all write <\/a>the Daily Show to urge them to invite Jason Pitzi-Water on to respond to Barton&#8217;s blatherings. \u00a0He has<a href=\"http:\/\/wildhunt.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/the-question-no-one-asks-about-david-barton.html\" target=\"_blank\"> already done so<\/a> at The Wild Hunt, and it would be great of more Americans could learn the truth.<\/p>\n<p>I have so written and hope everyone else will do so as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest lies being told by David Barton and other dishonest hacks in the so-called &#8216;christian&#8217; 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