Recently, Georgia state Senator Barry Loudermilk appeared on TBN’s “Praise the Lord” where he made the rather familiar argument that the Founding Fathers took the concepts of the separation of powers and the three branches of government directly out of the Bible.
Claiming that John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington all directly cited the Bible as justification for these concepts, Loudermilk asserted that Jeremiah 17:9’s claim that “the heart is devious above all else” made the Founder realize the need to divide power among various branches of government, which they took directly from Isaiah 33:22’s declaration that “the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our ruler, the Lord is our king”:
If that argument seems familiar, it is because it came directly from David Barton, who has made the baseless assertion time and time and time again:
It is untrue every time Barton says it and is equally untrue when Loudermilk mindlessly repeats it.
