Celebrate the 250th by Studying the Founders’ Principles
About this episode
The episode discusses the foundational principles of the United States and their implications for citizenship and government accountability.
Let's review the principles of the founders. Here is an introduction, a primer. (Not to be confused with the New England primer that taught reading.) Returning to and understanding of the basic principle's of the founders is of great need. 1. Rights are given by God, not government. 2. Governments are given the power to protect the citizens. 3. Citizen should be freemen who hold government accountable to the original principles. 4. For this reason, all citizens must be able to read, so they can read the Bible, so they can be sure that the laws are following the Bible. Think how very different that is from our philosophy today. I had a pastor actually argue with me that governments, not God, give rights! And surely, to suggest that laws should be founded on Biblical principles is hardly under consideration. But let's us consider it. Let's read actual history and actual political philosophy. And the very words of the founders, which we indeed have. BTW, then, one highly educated like I am will see that not only was most of this left out of our education, we were actually taught lies. Washington being a deist is ridiculous; he was a very devout Church of England man. There is a…
People in this episode
Host: Sharon Sarles
Topics covered
- founding principles
- citizenship
- government
- biblical principles
- education
- historical philosophy
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Church of England
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