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All right, Kenneth says this slogan, faith, family, and freedom is used frequently. Can you define freedom in this context? Such a good question.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. While I take it in, I see it is a very western set of values, faith, family, and freedom. It tends to be specific to the golden triangle of freedom that our founding fathers talked about.

We've talked about that a few times here, so they believed in order to be truly free, you had to have faith, because only faith traditions provided the virtue tradition by which you can responsibly self-govern.

So virtue, particularly civic virtue, was the necessary precondition for true freedom. But in order to have a real faith, you also, it kind of worked the other way. You have to have freedom because faith can't be coerced.

So freedom requires faith, and true faith requires freedom, and the linchpin between the two is virtue. So virtue provides the resources by which we can self-govern effectively, and therefore don't need laws, don't need tyranny, etc., so we can be free.

But we only get that true virtue from a faith tradition of some kind. So they didn't see virtue as something that was self-created. They saw it as handed down by some kind of western tradition.

They talk about the Islamic tradition as well, if I recall Thomas Jefferson had a Quran in his library. They talk about larger traditions than just the West, faith traditions, but it had to be rooted in some kind of larger virtue tradition.

So if you want to be free, you have to have faith because faith provides the virtue. But if you want true faith, you got to be free because faith can't be coerced. You can't impell someone to have a faith.

And that's the golden triangle of freedom. Freedom requires civic virtue, but civic virtue needs a faith to have true faith. You've got to have freedom which requires virtue, which requires faith, freedom, virtue, faith.

So faith-family and freedom all intersect with one another. And the family is the place, the way, so you've got faith and you've got freedom there. Family is the place where we learn that we are obligated to people, places, institutions, practices, traditions that we didn't choose ourselves, but that chose us.

So Hannah jokingly brought up Meghan Markle, but one of the things that makes Meghan Markle frankly so odious is she and Harry, they threw away the obligation that they have inherent to the family.

So what the family does is it's an institution that says, look, you're born into a world of moral obligation and the family embodies that. You are obliged to things. You are obligated to things that you did not personally choose for yourself, whereas Meghan and Harry said, hey, if I didn't choose that moral obligation that I'm not bound by it, that's liberalism.

Liberalism says you have no inherent moral obligations apart from that, which you personally choose for yourself. And now it's gone nuts. It's absolutely freaked out wokeness. Whereas in the classical world and history and throughout civilizations, they recognize that the family and kinship and so forth is the place where we learn about our moral obligations, our faith obligations and the like.

And again, it should there's a freedom that it's not opposed to freedom. There's a freedom there, but it's a true freedom. It's a freedom for what we're supposed to do as opposed to a freedom from coercion. It's a freedom for not. I think that's where we ultimately learn that positive side of freedom, the freedom for doing what we ought to do as opposed to the negative side, which is again also important, the freedom from coercion manipulation and so forth.

So the family is the place where we learn that and then the family writ large people would argue is the community. It's the nation. So so patriotism is a virtue. It's an important part. Nationalism is an important part of being human because it's an extension of this notion that we're we're obligated to people and places and traditions that we didn't choose ourselves, but that chose us and it chose us so that we can we can be free.

And faithful and virtuous.

It reminds me that this weekend was the the one year anniversary of the passing of her majesty. So it's here's a great embodiment of all of that.

Yeah. Oh my God. She she as did her father yet in the king's speech is one of my favorite movies.

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