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  1. From what I've read the last few days, I think you hit the nail on the head. It sounds like he downplays the role of the Enlightenment and overstates Christianity when explaining the Founders thought process. He is marketing his products to conservative Christians who want the founders to look and sound like modern day Evangelicals. As such, he may be guilty of shaping facts to make it appear that way while omitting the outright blasphemy that Jefferson and other founders wrote. Barton has already lined up another publisher and will be releasing a revised editon of his Jefferson book. Hopefully he took the criticism to heart and will produce a more intellectually honest history of our third president.
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