As anyone who has read any history knows, the idea that slavery was ordained by God through the Bible was an argument frequently and forcefully put forth by the institution’s most dedicated Christian defenders leading up to and throughout the Civil War.

But in the telling of modern day revisionist historians like David Barton, it is now taken as an established fact that the Bible does not support slavery and never did, meaning that it was failure to follow the Bible that was responsible not only for the institution of slavery but for every bad thing that has ever happened in America.

As Barton conveniently summed it up for Andrew Wommack recently, “the Bible is what shaped the good things in American culture; ignoring the Bible is what shaped the bad things in American culture”: