Welcome to the Eric McTaxis show with your host, Eric Mettaxas.

Hey there, folks. Welcome to Hour 2. It follows Hour 1, typically, traditionally. And I'm continuing my conversation with our friend

Tim Barton, president of wallbuilders. Check out wallbuilders.com. Tremendous resource. You were

just saying earlier, Tim, a very important point that sometimes gets glossed over, that the pilgrims who arrived in 1620 and meet Squanto in 1621,

Squanto helped them to broker a treaty with the native tribes that lasted for 50 years.

It is an incomprehensible thing.

It's something that should be wildly celebrated.

It's just amazing that at the beginning,

you want to talk about like,

what happened in the beginning?

What are our original sins?

How did it start?

It started with 50 years of a level of peace, comedy between the natives and these pilgrims

that, I mean, you could just write a book about that, how amazing it is, that with all the

history of difficulty following that, for 50 years, we had this extraordinary piece.

Yeah, and it wasn't just in Plymouth either, because if you look at the history of Pennsylvania

with William Penn, they had incredible relations with the natives, actually with multiple tribes.

If you look at Roger Williams and Rhode Island, if you look at most of the New England colonies,

they were founded as religious colonies. And as a religious

colonies, one of the things that was kind of a foundation in biblical Christianity, and this was

something even coming out of the Reformation that was contrary to the king, was they believed in

private property. And this was a big deal for them coming out of the Reformation, because under

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