Deist or Christian: Who Were the 56 Men Who Founded America? with Bill Federer
I Don't Have Enough FAITH to Be an ATHEIST
Dr. Frank Turek
4.9 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2026
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
How did America REALLY begin? As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, claims that the Founding Fathers were mostly deists and that Christianity had little influence on America's founding have become increasingly common. But does the historical record support those claims, or are misinformed pundits trying to rewrite our past while jeopardizing our future?
Joining Frank to set the record straight is the one-and-only, Bill Federer, author and founder of American Minute. Together, Frank and Bill unpack the biblical ideas that shaped America's founding, explore what made the American experiment so revolutionary, and examine why so many misconceptions about the Founders persist today. Tune in as they answer questions like:
- Who was the first globalist in the history of the world according to the Bible?
- Why did the founders want to escape the ruling of King George?
- Where did America's Founders get the idea that they could rule themselves without a king?
- How was this idea different from the Roman Republic?
- Do our rights come from God or the government?
- How do we know the founders were Bible-believing Christians and not deists?
- Who pioneered the concept of different Christian denominations living together in the same geographic area?
- What event led up to the first Continental Congress?
- What makes America's constitutional republic so unique in world history?
- What did Benjamin Franklin REALLY think about Christianity?
This conversation is only the beginning! Bill returns on Friday's episode to share astonishing stories of God's providence throughout American history--from unlikely victories to moments that seem almost impossible to explain. If you enjoy discovering the surprising ways God works through history, you don't want to miss Part 2 of this fascinating series!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, we're about to celebrate 250 years of our independence from Great Britain. |
| 0:12.0 | We are living under the longest serving constitution in history. |
| 0:19.4 | And what do we know about our founding? and what does it matter what we know? |
| 0:23.5 | First of all, we're going to deal with this question and many questions with one of our favorite |
| 0:29.3 | guests. I'll get to him in a minute. But one thing we're going to deal with today and investigate |
| 0:33.6 | today is what led the colonies, the colonists, to want their independence from King George. |
| 0:39.3 | I mean, what were their basic complaints? Hint, all that is in the Declaration of Independence. We'll talk about that. |
| 0:45.3 | Secondly, there are people out there today who are historical revisionists. They're claiming that the 56 founders of the Declaration of Independence and our other founders, they were |
| 0:55.3 | mostly deists. How do we know they were mostly Bible-believing Christians? And what does it |
| 1:00.4 | matter that they were Bible-believing Christians? Aren't we supposed to be religiously neutral today? |
| 1:06.6 | And then how did these, if they were Bible-believing Christians, how did they justify going to war, |
| 1:12.1 | biblically? I mean, were they supposed to throw off their British, or the British crown? |
| 1:20.7 | Was that biblical? Are you supposed to do that? Take up arms against your own government? |
| 1:25.1 | We're going to talk about that today and so much more |
| 1:28.4 | because I've noticed that so many of us really don't know our history |
| 1:32.6 | and it's important to know our history because, |
| 1:36.3 | ladies and gentlemen, |
| 1:38.0 | I've been to many countries around the world. |
| 1:40.9 | Of course, America's not perfect, |
| 1:42.9 | but this is the greatest country and the history of the world. We course, America's not perfect, but this is the greatest country in the |
| 1:45.1 | history of the world. We're blessed to live here. We're blessed to be here. We're blessed to have |
| 1:50.8 | the freedoms that we have. And we just take all that for granted. And if we continue to take it |
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