David Barton Explains Why 'You Just Don't Find Atheists' Living Out In The Country

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SUBMITTED BY Kyle Mantyla on Wednesday, 8/17/2016 12:04 pm

Right-wing pseudo-historian David Barton spoke at an Arkansas Tea Party conference last weekend, where he repeated his claim that you only find atheists living in cities because people who live in the country can see proof of God's existence revealed everywhere in the laws of nature.

Barton claimed that God has given us the laws of nature to show us how to live by simply watching how things like ant hills operate, which demonstrates how the government should guide the economy. Just as ants store up provisions for lean times, Barton said, so too should the government save in preparation for economic downturns instead of relying on deficit spending.

Lessons like this are found everywhere in the laws of nature, he declared, which is why you don't find any atheists among those who live out in the country.

"Do you know how hard it is to find an atheist in the country?" Barton asked. "You find atheists in the city. You find atheists in areas that don't get to see God. If you spend time looking at creation, you just don't find atheists out there."

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/david-barton-explains-why-you-just-dont-find-atheists-living-out-country

2:22 video at link.

[dhol82]

1. Asshat.

[guillaumeb]

2. What amazing "logic" here.

Do ants have a banking system?

[villager]

3. Hey, that's right! You find *pantheists* out in the country!

Or maybe... panentheists!

[Old and In the Way]

4. People in cities understand the interdependecy of social structures. Barton's rural ants

Live by themselves, contribute ,othing, and die alone.

[gwheezie]

5. I live amongst the snake handlers

Out here in the swamp. Now there's a fine example of nature at work.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

6. I'm agnostic, but I love the wild.

Your hypothesis is junk.

[handmade34]

7. what baloney

[sinkingfeeling]

8. I'm an atheist and I was born and raised on a farm in Ohio.

Raised my own cattle and hogs from ages 13-18. Saw it all.

[grubbs]

9. I live in a rural area.

What a know nothing bozo.

[LuvNewcastle]

10. I've lived in a lot of rural areas, and I've known

just as many atheists and agnostics out there as we have in town. They're not usually vocal about it, but if you ask their opinion, they'll tell you.

A lot of people think that rural people are ignorant and uneducated too, but plenty of them have advanced degrees. You have to get to know them before you find out much about them, however. They think too many people in cities are rude because they so often go on and on about their opinions. Rural people are generally easy to get along with because they keep quiet about matters that might cause conflict with others. There are good and bad points to that approach, but rural life is in no way inferior to urban life.

[kestrel91316]

11. It's more likely that a lot of atheists out in the country pretend to be religious just so

their fanatical neighbors don't shoot them dead.

[LakeVermilion]

12. According to Brokeback Mountain...

Cowboys are far more openminded about the laws of nature!

[immoderate]

13. Country folk have to watch out for morons like Barton!

--imm