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history of its drafting, rewriting it to fit their close-minded, authoritarian views. With people like David Barton, an opportunistic religious revisionist who conducts tours of historical Washington and who maintains that the United States is a Christian nation and that the Declaration is a Christian document written by Christians for a new Christian nation and is even more important than the Constitution, it is imperative that Americans understand that the Declaration is a simple, albeit important, document of separation from a tyrannical government. In no way, shape, or form can a document like the Declaration be considered more powerful or dominant over the central document of law of the land.

"Blasphemy" is a powerful book that simply tells us the facts, as devoid of political or religious slant as can probably be written. It should be required reading for anyone interested in law, especially Constitutional law. It definitely is must reading for anyone on either side of the argument over whether or not the United States began as a Christian nation. And it might just be what is needed to curb the rising tide of Christian sentiment, the anti-Jeffersonian ideology of religious hegemony espoused by today's evangelical Christians, that will ultimately, if successful, destroy the document and the true intent and genius that made possible the founding of this nation of laws, that protects all Americans and all their liberties...

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