WallBuilders, LLC, a company founded by evangelical author and activist David Barton, is now selling a special "Founders' Bible" as a "Mother's Day" gift.
The new version of the holy book includes special essays by Barton and others between passages, wrote Peter Montgomery on Friday for the liberal organization People for the American Way's (PFAW) Right Wing Watch.
The group wrote that the Bible passages are wrapped within "often-debunked Christian nationalist history." They called it "an audacious way to try to give Barton’s claims the sheen of divinely inspired truth."
In 2022, Religion News Service reporter Jack Jenkins noted that Barton had emerged in Christian nationalist contexts since Trump’s election.
In an email Friday, WallBuilders offered $25 off the $139.99 price tag for an “heirloom edition” of the Founders' Bible, but only until midnight on Saturday.
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It isn't the first version of the Founders' Bible, however. It was first issued in 2012, and at the time, Right Wing Watch called the book “full of the sorts of absurd claims we have come to expect from Barton.”
Writer Peter Montgomery recalled all members of the Iowa state legislature getting a free copy from a right-wing group in 2015. He wrote then, Barton’s essays, "Go beyond his claims about the biblical origins of the U.S. Constitution; The Founders’ Bible, a New American Standard Bible translation, is also filled with Barton’s arguments that right-wing economic policies are divinely mandated.”
Montgomery recalled in the column Friday that last month, Barton bragged on social media about being part of a delegation of those on the religious right welcomed to the White House for a meeting with President Donald Trump. Barton's organization announced that he and his son Tim were part of a group planning religious events around the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
Montgomery closed by saying their involvement in the festivities "suggests that actual historians will have their hands full dealing with propaganda from the White House and its allies."
