David Barton—the Newest Anti-Mason

A Critique of David Barton’s
Original Intent— The Courts, the Constitution, and Religion

Aledo, TX: WallBuilders Press, 2004, 1st 2000; 534p.

By Dr. Michael G. Maness

www.PreciousHeart.net/freemasonry

This following is the full version of the critique,
that was originally intended for part II chapter 4 of my book,

Character Counts—Freemasonry USA’s National Treasure
and Source of Our Founding Fathers’ Original Intent

The book version is now condensed, to make room for other more important material.

A. David Barton’s Original Intent Attempts to Revise History

1. Barton Not a Straight Arrow

2. David Barton’s Revisionism of Freemasonry

3. Tree of Freedom and Barton’s Revision of History

4. Our Christian Roots

5. Our USA Born Out of Wedlock from British Oppression

6. First Distraction in Barton’s Original Intent—Freemasonry Absence

Chart 8. Barton’s Founding Fathers in More Light

B. Founding Fathers Not Evangelicals—That Impacts Intent

C. How Barton Misses Some of Our Founder’s Original Intent

1. Barton Rebuilding a Wall while Tearing Down a Wall (?)

2. Barton’s Confusion on Pluralism

3. Barton’s Revisionism Not so Subtle