It's all about money

I have wavered back and forth,,,include this article or "ignore" it. Not that it's highly inflammatory, but because it comes out of nowhere so to speak. What I mean is that the article, IMHO, appears to assume that you know who David Barton is and what he exposes on a daily basis. For the sake of brevity I am going to assume that y'all do know who David Barton is.

The author of this piece bring a very interesting thought to the table as noted in the title-- "Selling the Idea,,,":

Some of that is because of the skill of Barton and his organization WallBuilders at ideological entrepreneurialism. Barton’s intent is not to produce “scholarship,” but to influence public policy. He simply is playing a different game than worrying about scholarly credibility, his protestations to the contrary notwithstanding. His game is to inundate public policy makers (including local and state education boards as well as Congress) with ideas packaged as products that will move policy.

The Christian Nation “debate” is not really an intellectual contest between legitimate contending viewpoints. Instead, it is a manufactured “controversy” akin to the global warming “debate.” On one side are purveyors of a rich and complex view of the past, including most historians who have written and debated fiercely about the founding era. The “other side” is a group of ideological entrepreneurs who have created an alternate intellectual universe based on a historical fundamentalism. In their drive to create a usable past, they show little respect for the past as a foreign country.

I must admit it is a different take on a complex problem. Altho looked at from the authors viewpoint there is no problem, there is no debate--it's all about money.

Selling the Idea of a Christian Nation: David Barton’s Alternate Intellectual Universe