On “The Ben Shapiro Show: Sunday Special” this week, Ben Shapiro speaks with historian and author David Barton about the faith of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Were they deists? Were they Christian? Barton debunks the myths surrounding the Founders and where they actually stood on matters of faith. Video and partial transcript below:
Ben Shapiro: Let&#8217;s talk about the religious perspective of the founders. The typical narrative goes in public education, I was in public school and I went to public school for college as well. Historians tend to say that the founders were basically deists, that they believed in the clockwork universe maker. God set the universe in motion, and then through natural law discoveries we came up with all of these wonderful ideas, but the Bible is really sort of a secondary afterthought, that these were theist. They may have been sort of the root-level theist belief system that they believed in. But when it came to the Bible, they didn&#8217;t take it literally, not seriously. What do you make of that characterization of the founders?

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