Welcome to the intersection of faith and culture.

It's the Wall Builder Show on a Thursday, and on Thursdays we call it Foundations of Freedom Thursday,

and it's a great opportunity to talk about foundational freedoms and the foundational principles

that produce freedom, and you get to pick which part of that topic we cover. So you send those questions in to radio at wallbuilders.com. Radio at wallbuilders.com. Question about the Constitution, Declaration, history, maybe even an application, maybe even a policy that's being discussed right now. Send them into us. We love getting your questions. Rick Green here with David Barton and Tim Barton. And guys, our first one

is coming from Blake. He said, did the founding fathers desire freedom of religion for all

beliefs and religions or only Christian foundation religions? Have a hard time believing our founding

fathers were okay with Islam, Hindu, voodoo, etc. practices if our national laws were

biblically based. Thank you. Okay, great question, guys. And I'm actually excited to hear how you answer this because one of the kids of Patriot Academy with our friends from Leaders Academy in Hot Springs this week asked this very same question. So I wish y'all had been in the room to answer it, but let's see where y'all go with it. Go for it.

Well, we'll see where you end up, but I'll take the first shot.

I think the founding fathers desired freedom of religion for all beliefs as long as the behavior of those beliefs did not violate what would be considered biblical standards. Now, I think it's a different question to say that they desire all beliefs to be the foundation of America.

I think they had a biblical foundation for America, but we're willing to accept all beliefs coming in

if they're not trying to overthrow those foundations, those basic Judeo-Christian moral foundations.

If you believe something else, that's fine.

But do you come here, we are going to do things like don't kill and don't steal

and don't purge yourself, which is Judeo-Christian, but if you believe something different,

that's okay, but you're going to have to follow those laws. So I think they were willing to accept,

I don't think they wanted coercion. I don't think they wanted any type of religious or mental

coercion, but I did think they wanted conformity to behavioral standards,

not necessarily a theological belief standards, but certainly behavioral standards,

and those behavioral standards were based on that Judeo-Christian basic ethics that we have and still

help and still use. So that would be my thought. Tim, Rick, you guys? Yeah,

I mean, I think very similarly, if you look at the story of Joshua, probably most famously,

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