It's That Texas Textbook Again.

I don't know if you remember my telling about the Texas state School Board coming up with a new history textbook? Well as it turns out the guy who is responsible for it is David Barton. He's a math teacher/ high school principal/ ordained preacher. He has no history degree. He claims to have widely read much literature and writings from the first century of our country. Especially the founding of the country and it's founders. The thing is, he's a fundamentalist who is convinced that America was supposed to be a Christian country.  Problem is, the founding fathers, who were very explicit on nearly everything, also explicitly left that out of the constitution. He claims that it wasn't left out of six of the original states' constitutions. Now I think that if it was in the states' constitutions and they left it out of the National Constitution, there must have been a good reason. No matter which came first. And there was never a decision by the founders to make any change to agree with Mr. Barton. Never the less, he advises conservative presidential contenders. Seems to me that Mr. Barton is a novice who cherry picks words and phrases to suit his agenda. I mean no disrespect, because most everyone does some of that  kind of thing. But of course, most everyone isn't in a position to influence the whole country's policies. Or change history to agree with our opinion.
He likes to point out that most, if not the whole country's schools are buying his history textbook. However, because Texas is the single largest buyer of textbooks, publishers choose that one to print. Anyone who wants anything else is pretty much out of luck. It's a take it or leave it deal. Sounds like nothing to crow about.