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The WallBuilders Show

Challenging Myths: Washington's Religion and Gender in the Military

The WallBuilders Show

Tim Barton, David Barton & Rick Green

Wallbuilders Show, Education, Constitutional, Church, Christianity, History, Conservative, America, Family, Christian, Biblical, Religion & Spirituality, Wallbuilders.show, Government, News, Politics

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Unlock the secrets of George Washington's faith as we guide you through the intricate world of historical truth and myth-busting. With a focus on primary sources, we aim to dismantle longstanding misconceptions about Washington's religious beliefs and highlight the hierarchy of evidence necessary to unveil the facts. Our discussion promises to redefine your understanding of the founding fathers, contrasting the credible research by seasoned historians with the speculative theories often propa...

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0:00.0

Welcome to the intersection of faith and culture. It's The Wall Builders Show, taken on the hot topics of the day from a biblical, historical, and constitutional perspective into the new year. Here we are. Let's see, second day of the year, and we're already getting to your questions. Thank you for sending

0:21.0

them in. You can email those to radio at wallboulders.com. Rick Green here with David and Tim Barton,

0:26.4

Foundations of Freedom Thursday. So we'll see how many questions we can get to. Guys, first one up is from

0:31.3

Janus. She says, I have a Christian friend who is a voracious reader who has read many biographies

0:36.6

of famous people, including Founding Fathers.

0:38.4

He claims George Washington brought out managing of his letters and journals after his presidency,

0:42.5

and in his own words, did not believe that Jesus was God.

0:46.7

This is confusing to me.

0:47.7

Where can I go to find out the truth about our Founding Fathers?

0:50.2

Online, there have been so many rewrites of history that I don't know what to trust. David and Tim, this is actually in the same vein as a lot of questions we get.

0:56.9

They're like, man, there's so many sources out there and people say this and different sides.

1:01.4

And, you know, David, four years ago, you said finding truth is getting harder and harder.

1:05.4

Even with all the information out there, it's harder because there's, you know, so many people trying to stop the truth from coming out.

1:11.4

So faith of the founders is something wallbuilders absolutely is the expert on. And David, I think

1:16.5

you have probably read more of the Founding Fathers than anybody alive today or maybe anybody in history.

1:21.9

So this is a great question for you. How do we find the truth about the faith of folks like George Washington? Well, I'm going to

1:29.3

punt this to Tim in a minute because this is the kind of stuff that we deal with, and Tim particularly

1:33.4

deals with every summer with Summer Institute, where we have college kids that come in. And this is

1:39.3

the kind of stuff that they need help with because this is the kind of stuff that professors do on a

1:43.3

regular basis today. I'm going to start by saying, well, when you're after information here, what you're after

1:49.2

is the truth. You're not after one side or the other. You want to know what the truth is on this.

1:53.9

And the way you go at truth here is the way that a court of law is supposed to work and used to work

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