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Boykin: 'The Bible is Referenced Four Times More Than Any Other Document in our Constitution'

The problem with David Barton's false statements(link is external) and pseudo-history(link is external) is not simply that it receives support from leaders like Glenn Beck(link is external), Michele Bachmann(link is external),Mike Huckabee(link is external), and Newt Gingrich(link is external); it is that his claims get picked up by other Religious Right speakers and, in doing so, get twisted even beyond Barton's original bogus claims. 

Case in point: today we came across these recent remarks(link is external) delivered by Jerry Boykin where he claimed(link is external) that "there is no question that there was divine inspiration" behind the writing of the Constitution, which is why "the Bible is referenced four times more than any other document in our Constitution": 

Of course, the Bible is not referenced at all in the Constitution ... but you will not be surprised to learn that Boykin's claim finds its inspiration in Barton's "America's Godly Heritage" (skip ahead to the 4:00 mark(link is external)) though Barton simply claims that the Bible was cited by the Founding Fathers four times more than they cited figures like Montesquieu and Blackstone.

Yet even Barton's original claim was itself problematic(link is external) and Boykin has only made it worse by falsely claiming that the Constitution directly references the Bible multiple times, when it obviously does nothing of the sort.