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🗓️ 4 June 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Andrew Seidel is a constitutional lawyer, author of books "The Founding Myth" and "American Crusade", and works full time defending the 1st amendment and every Americans right to true religious liberty.
On Flipping Tables we have a discussion about the Christian Nationalist myth that America is a "Christian" nation and the dangers it poses to true individual freedom.
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0:00.0 | In the beginning of April, I was invited to D.C. to attend the Summit for Religious Freedom, |
0:04.6 | which is organized by Americans United, which is an organization you may not have heard of, |
0:09.2 | but is constantly fighting for religious liberty in America, |
0:12.1 | because we do not have freedom of religion unless we have freedom from religion. |
0:16.5 | One of my favorite books discussing this myth that America was founded as a Christian nation is called the founding myth by Andrew Seidel. |
0:25.1 | And I met Andrew at the Summit for Religious Freedom and he is here to talk to us today. |
0:29.6 | Andrew is a civil rights and constitutional attorney. |
0:32.7 | He is consistently fighting against legislation that would allow for religious discrimination and works on the |
0:38.1 | space to keep America America, which means we get the right to live and believe freely, free from |
0:44.6 | discrimination, and understanding that that is a core tenet of our founding documents and what made |
0:50.7 | the American experiment great in the first place. He's also incredibly funny, |
0:55.7 | knows his history, and is one of the most wonderful humans I know, and I'm so excited for you to |
1:00.5 | jump on this more legal current events and American history episode of Flipping Tables. |
1:14.0 | Andrew, thank you for coming on flipping tables. |
1:16.3 | I'm so excited for this conversation. |
1:18.3 | We kind of booked it last minute, but I'm glad you're here. |
1:20.2 | Oh, it is my pleasure. |
1:21.5 | I'm thrilled to join you, Monty. |
1:26.1 | And obviously gave your intro leading in about the work you do with Americans United and fighting for true religious liberty in the U.S. |
1:28.8 | and the fact that you're really freaking smart about all of this stuff. |
1:33.4 | And I'm really excited because one of the most common pushbacks I get on my content and my media is, |
1:39.4 | but we're a Christian nation. |
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