Despite the fact that the Religious Right still loves him, there can be no doubt that David Barton’s reputation has suffered in recent years due, in large part, to the efforts of many Christian historians and professors who have worked diligently to debunk his pseudo-history.

Barton, of course, doesn’t see it that way, as he explained to a conference last year when he declared that the real reason all these professors were attacking him is because they are hostile to any teaching about God.

Asserting that the true purpose of history is to chronicle the way in which God has carried out his plans through humanity, Barton said that professors at Christian universities had been trained in secularism by their professors and were now intent on indoctrinating their own Christian students with that same agenda.

As such, when he wrote a book challenging that agenda, academic historians attacked him because “by and large, that profession as a whole is now the most hostile to God things of any profession in the nation”: