Pseudo-historian David Barton seems to have come up with a new talking point for hitting back at those who criticize right-wing Christians: I know you are, but what am I?
On his “WallBuilders Live” radio show yesterday, Barton mistakenly claimed that Romans 2:21 says that those who condemn others are often only condemning themselves because they are guilty of the very things for which they are attacking others, which he used to attack those who criticize the Religious Right (it’s actually Romans 2:1 that says this).
“Usually what they accuse you of is what they’re guilty of,” he said. “They yell intolerance at us when they’re the intolerant ones. They yell bigotry at us, they’re the bigoted ones. They yell anti-science at us, they’re the anti-science. You get used to when people call you names, it’s because they’re very conscious and sensitive of what that looks like because they are one.”
Apparently Barton was so pleased with this ingenious argument that he repeated it on today’s show, declaring that when “they accuse us of being the haters or whatever; no, that’s because they look in a mirror and they know how to recognize a hater when they see one because they see one every morning.”
