claiming that a comment about someone’s height in a story told by Benjamin Franklin was a “vehement denunciation” by Thomas Jefferson of the religious opinions in that person’s writings!

But look at it the other way round – if you ever find Barton commenting negatively on somebody’s height, it’s a safe assumption that it would be somebody with whose religious opinions he vehemently disagrees. On the other hand, he would never mention any sort of physical shortcoming – or any kind of shortcoming – on the part of somebody who is on his side on those issues. So all that Barton really did was projecting his own petty mindset on Jefferson.

But as long as Barton is freely making up stories, couldn’t he at least make them interesting? I want to know what happened when Jefferson called Ed Elric a shrimp.

Also maybe of interest regarding Jefferson and the Trinity, here and here.

I’ve been reading and commenting at AC for 2-3 years and a sad fact is that TVD has a habit of attempting to drive off anybody, and by anybody I mean everybody*, that threatens his tightly held views. Some people have gone so far as to say that he doesn’t argue in good faith. Go figure.

*and usually successfully, but I’m much too stubborn and have too much free time.

I loathe David Barton and his ilk for continuing their assault on the truth about this nation’s formation. There must be a way to counter these specious arguments and Chris you’re providing the necessary ammunition to continue fighting the David Barton’s of this nation. Thank you for continuing your struggle and for giving us ammunition to fight back and the revisionists of this nation.