On today’s radio broadcast, Glenn Beck went full David Barton, claiming that one-third of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence came straight out of the Bible; more specifically, right out of the Book of Deuteronomy.
Continuing his argument from last night that the Bible is the “cookbook” of America’s system of government, Beck echoed David Barton’s claim that the Founding Fathers were so well-versed in the Bible that they quoted it continually in their correspondence.
When Barton made this very claim on Beck’s show a few years ago, we pointed out that it was total nonsense, but Beck cited it as true nonetheless this morning before adding his own bizarre assertion that “thirty-three percent of every federal line in our Constitution and Declaration of Independence … comes from the Book of Deuteronomy”:
Not surprisingly, this claim is also pure Barton bunk, as Chris Rodda explained back when Barton made this claim on Beck’s program in 2010.
But even worse, Beck somehow managed to utterly misrepresent things even further by claiming not that one-third of the quotes from the Founders came from the Bible, which is what Barton misrepresents the original study to claim, but that one-third of our Constitution and Declaration of Independence came straight out of Deuteronomy.
