America’s Founding Formula - with Eric Metaxas

The WallBuilders Show

Tim Barton, David Barton & Rick Green

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🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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America’s 250th birthday is more than a party date, it’s a stress test for our national memory. We ask a blunt question: what actually made the United States free, stable, and resilient, and why are so many cultural gatekeepers determined to tell the founding as a story of nothing but oppression. From a biblical, historical, and constitutional perspective, we dig into the principle that shaped the Revolution: rights come from God, not government, and the purpose of government is to protect th...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the intersection of faith and culture. It's the Walboehlers Show, taking on the hot topics of the day from a biblical, historical, and constitutional perspective.
0:14.5	The topic we've talked about quite a bit, but it's going to continue to be a big topic the rest of the year.
0:19.3	Since this is the 250th birthday of the nation
0:21.4	is where we came from as a nation. What was it that created America as the greatest nation in
0:28.0	the history of mankind? What's the formula? And what are those secret ingredients? Rick Green here
0:32.7	with David Barton and Tim Barton later in the program. Eric Metaxus will join us talking about his
0:37.3	new book, Revolution. Of course, David and Tim, a later in the program, Eric Metaxus will join us talking about his new book,
0:38.2	Revolution. Of course, David and Tim, a topic very familiar to us here at Wall Builders,
0:43.4	but love Eric Metaxus's books and just the perspective he takes on them. It's super
0:47.8	excited to learn about this one. You know, I was thinking about this last night, and the
0:52.2	revolution aspect, it's kind of a revolution, but it really was more of a principle-driven thing.
0:58.2	There's revolution all over the world, and they happen all the time, and they happen because somebody different wants to be in charge or because whatever.
1:04.7	We were really principle-driven in what we did, and so I was thinking about this last night, 250 years. It struck me that we've gone through
1:10.9	some 80-year cycles, because if you go back to the American Revolution, George Washington,
1:15.7	that's when at that point in time, we won liberty. For the first time, we're a free independent
1:21.0	nation. We have a constitution, declaration principles. We have liberty. But then it slides down
1:25.9	over the next two generations, and we end up
1:27.9	in the Civil War, and here comes Lincoln, and he brings a rebirth of liberty, going back to the
1:33.2	documents he wrote and talked about, and it really did. It rebirthed liberty, and we get back to
1:37.9	a solid America again, and then we go through another couple of generations, and we get to World
1:42.7	War II, and at that point in time, FDR
1:45.5	FDR literally has to defend liberty and save liberty for us from all these bad guys who have now
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