Ep. 1543 Did America Have a Christian Founding?

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Government, News

4.8 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Mark David Hall has written an important book on a topic that both sides of the debate tend to treat superficially. We discuss whether the United States can be said to have had a "Christian founding," what such a thing would look like, and what the implications of the answer are.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	The Tom Wood Show, Episode 1543.
0:03.4	Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.
0:07.9	Your daily dose of liberty education starts here.
0:11.5	The Tom Wood Show.
0:13.4	Books, as you know, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been spreading
0:17.4	some pretty terrible ideas and she's wrong on just about everything.
0:21.0	While I've put together the definitive smash of all of it,
0:24.0	the Green New Deal, affordable housing, so-called free college,
0:27.8	high tax rates.
0:29.0	It's in another free e-book, yes, a free e-book called AOC is Wrong,
0:33.0	the upside down world of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
0:36.3	Grab your free copy at aociswrong.com.
0:40.6	Hi, everybody, Tom Woods here.
0:41.9	Talking about a fairly controversial historical and political topic today,
0:46.1	namely, whether America had a Christian founding,
0:49.6	and we're talking about this with Mark Hall,
0:53.0	who is Herbert Hoover Distinguished Professor of Politics
0:56.0	at George Fox University,
0:57.9	and he's the author most recently of,
0:59.9	did America have a Christian founding,
1:02.0	separating modern myth from historical truth?
1:05.2	This is one of these topics that generates a lot of heat on both sides,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Tom Woods, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Tom Woods and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.