#83 - John West
The Eric Metaxas Show
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4.7 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Today On The Eric Metaxas Show, Eric talks with John West about America’s founding, God given rights, the Declaration of Independence, and why forgetting those truths puts freedom at risk. Later, Eric speaks with Paul Brown about Tucker Carlson, Joe Kent, anti Israel rhetoric, and why he believes a deeper political and spiritual fracture is opening up on the right. Subscribe for clips from The Eric Metaxas Show to hear politics and culture from a Christian perspective.
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| 0:30.6 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:31.5 | In case you didn't know, this is America's super centennial, our 250th year. |
| 0:37.1 | We're going to be spending a lot of time in the weeks and months ahead talking about America, |
| 0:41.6 | talking about our founding. |
| 0:43.6 | And today, for example, we talk to our friend John West. |
| 0:48.0 | He's been on this program many times. |
| 0:49.8 | He has a new book out called Endowed by Our Creator. |
| 0:53.7 | It explores the founding father's true beliefs |
| 0:56.5 | on religion. All of that stuff that I love to talk about. So let me talk to my friend. |
| 1:08.2 | Here he is. John West, welcome back. Eric, thanks for having me back. This is so important. In my book on The Revolution, I didn't |
| 1:16.6 | write it with a subject in mind or an angle or anything. I just want to tell the story. But in just |
| 1:22.5 | telling the story, everything you write about in your book comes out. It so shockingly inescapable the faith of the |
| 1:30.8 | founders was so central to everything and we have kind of swept that away over the decades it's |
| 1:37.4 | vital just for the sake of truth that we understand us that that Americans understand |
| 1:43.5 | who we are who we have been. And so tell us |
| 1:48.2 | about your book. And I don't know if you want to start. I know there was a new poll recently. |
| 1:51.6 | Maybe you want to start there. Yeah, we actually, in conjunction with the book, we did a poll of |
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