Faith, Freedom, and American Foundations

The WallBuilders Show

Tim Barton, David Barton & Rick Green

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🗓️ 26 June 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Have we fundamentally misunderstood the nature of our unalienable rights? The Declaration's famous phrase "among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" suggests there's much more to our God-given rights than these three foundational principles. We dive deep into how the Founders understood natural rights as observable in nature itself – from self-defense to property rights – and how these extend beyond the Declaration into approximately 17-18 distinct rights protected in the B...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the intersection of faith and culture.
0:09.1	It's The Wall Builders Show taking on those hot topics of the day from a biblical, historical, and constitutional perspective.
0:14.5	Love Thursdays because Foundations of Freedom Thursday, you get to drive the conversation by sending in your questions.
0:20.0	We appreciate all of you that have been
0:21.3	sending in questions. Be sure and email them to us. Radio at wallbuilders.com. That's radio at wallbuilders.com.
0:28.4	And if you don't want to send in a question, but you just want to get some good materials,
0:31.3	go to wallbuilders.com and just kind of peruse the site there. There's a lot of great resources for you. Some things you can get for your family, for yourself, you can send your pastor off to one of our pastor's briefings, young people,
0:41.3	our youth trainings in the summer, teachers trainings, you name it. We got all kinds of fun stuff going on.
0:45.7	So check it out there at wallbuilders.com. Oh, by the way, wallbuilders.com,
0:56.1	a great place to give of your life your fortune. Yep, that's right there in the Declaration.
1:00.6	We're talking 250th here. They had to pay for the war. Well, if we're going to win the
1:04.5	culture war and get the culture back to a place that honors God, got to have some fuel in the
1:09.3	tank. So thank you to everybody out there that's been
1:11.2	making those contributions. If you haven't done that, think about investing in freedom by investing
1:15.9	in wallbuilders right there at wallbuilders.com. I'm Rick Green here with David Barton and Tim Barton,
1:21.2	and we're going to jump right into the questions. This first email that we got, actually,
1:25.9	not technically a question, but a pretty
1:27.6	interesting suggestion, guys. Bill said, I was listening to you discussed the idea of changing June
1:33.2	from Pride Month to Family Month. I love the idea. However, if there's pushback, another
1:38.2	suggestion would be to move Pride Month to September. After all, Pride goes before the fall. I get it, Bill. I get it. That's pretty good.
1:48.0	That's pretty good. We'll just, we'll float that right up there with Congress and Mary Miller,
1:54.1	who joined us yesterday talking about making it family month. Our first question is coming from Joe.
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