AFA Labels David Barton a 'History scholar'

At American Family Association's OneNewsNow website there is an article titled "History scholar hopes to revamp Texas curriculum." They are referring to revisionist historian David Barton. As the thinking world knows, Barton received a Bachelor of Arts degree in religious education from Oral Roberts University in 1976, but has no academic qualifications in history. He was a math and science teacher in Texas. As Arlen Specter wrote in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy:

Probably the best refutation of Barton's argument simply is to quote his own exegesis of the First Amendment: "Today," Barton says, "we would best understand the actual context of the First Amendment by saying, 'Congress shall make no law establishing one Christian denomination as the national denomination.' " In keeping with Barton's restated First Amendment, Congress could presumably make a law establishing all Christian denominations as the national religion, and each state could pass a law establishing a particular Christian church as its official religion.

All of this pseudoscholarship would hardly be worth discussing, let alone disproving, were it not for the fact that it is taken so very seriously by so many people.