Getting Jefferson Right: Fact Checking Claims about Our Third President

by Warren Throckmorton

Cameron and David Barton in a brief discussion of late 18th century Bibles. In the clip, Barton makes a claim involving Jefferson about which he elaborates in The Jefferson Lies. In the clip, Barton shows Cameron a folio sized two-volume Bible and says, “This Bible was funded by about a dozen signers of the Constitution and signers of the Declaration as well as by President John Adams and Vice President Thomas Jefferson. They’re the guys that put up the financial backing to do this Bible.” Barton adds, “When you see this stuff, you go wait a minute. These guys…why would any atheist, agnostic, or deist promote the Word of God, fund it and want it distributed to every family and everyone in America?”[204] He then declares that such actions only make sense if those doing the funding (the Signers) were Christians.