Dr. Robert Jeffress, Christian Nationalist
Jonathan Rowe printable version print page     Bookmark and Share
Wed Sep 10, 2008 at 12:57:41 PM EST
At American Creation we ran into some videos by Rev. Jeffress that repeat almost all of the phony Christian Nation talking points and quotations.  You can view them here and here.  

The bogus "52 out of 55" of the singers of the Declaration were evangelical Christians...George Washington's phony prayer journal...David Barton's "unconfirmed" quotations...it's all in there.

The context of Jeffress' sermon is he had some legal dispute with Barry Lynn.  Whatever the merits of his legal claim it does Jeffress no good to support his case with appeals to fake history.
I sometimes wonder whether we are too hard on David Barton and company.  After all, Barton did write an article way back in 2000 entitled "Unconfirmed Quotations" where he did the "right" thing and conceded these have no foundation in the primary sources.  

Yet, that hasn't stopped an