I Know it's a Strong Word . . .

But I'm really getting to the point I HATE these people and I wish they would just GO AWAY.

I'm referring to the history revisionists like David Barton (along with his cohort Glenn F*cking Beck) and, just out from whatever rock he was hiding under, former Texas congressman (who may yet still serve some prison time) Tom DeLay.

Among the most absurd things that an American can say is "that God created this nation [and] that He wrote the Constitution, that it's based on biblical principles." That's a quote directly from DeLay. 

Well Tom (and David and Glenn), I'll borrow a page from the playbook of that creationist nitwit Ken Ham and ask the question "Were you there? Did you see God write the U.S. Constitution?" If you were and He did, why have HUMANS had to amend it THIRTY-THREE effin' times (27 have been ratified)? Or did He pop in on a session of Congress when nobody was looking and write the amendments Himself? And why wasn't it PERFECT the first time?

What? You history revisionists weren't there, after all? Thankfully, some people were. The people who ACTUALLY wrote it! Here's a quote from one of the Founders you may have heard of, his name was John Adams:

The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature: and if men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves of artifice, imposture, hypocrisy, and superstition, they will consider this event as an æra in their history. Although the detail of the formation of the American governments is at present little known or regarded either in Europe or America, it may hereafter become an object of curiosity. It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had any interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the inspiration of heaven, any more than those at work upon ships or houses, or labouring in merchandize or agriculture: it will for ever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses. 

The above is a direct quote from the preface to Adams' A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America (with some added emphasis).

I get so sick and tired of hearing this revisionist malarkey, and it makes me sad that there are citizens of this country that are gullible enough to believe this crap. It's time we wake up and sweep these revisionists into the dust bin of history, once and for all. They achieve nothing, except maybe holding back any real progress.

(For the record, I know that Adams was in Britain at the time and Jefferson in France, however, they were both kept informed on the proceedings via letters from the U.S.)