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The WallBuilders Show

Journey to America's Past: The Impact of Faith on Our Founding Principles

The WallBuilders Show

Tim Barton, David Barton & Rick Green

Wallbuilders Show, Education, Constitutional, Church, Christianity, History, Conservative, America, Family, Christian, Biblical, Religion & Spirituality, Wallbuilders.show, Government, News, Politics

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Are you ready to journey into the past and explore the fascinating intersection of faith, culture, and the founding of America? Your guide will be David Barton, as we take a deep dive into the contrasting approaches to governance of the Jamestown and Plymouth. Discover how their different priorities have shaped America's values and institutions to this day. In our quest to understand America's past, we also discuss the crucial role of religion in shaping our government and society. Did you k...

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0:00.0

Let the torch of freedom burn.

0:04.0

Welcome to the intersection of faith and the culture. It's Wall Builders where we take on the

0:15.2

hottest topics of the day from a biblical, historical, and constitutional perspective.

0:20.1

We are in the middle of a presentation from David Barton speaking on a tale of two cities.

0:25.2

This was a presentation that he gave at the Pro Family Legislators Conference just a few weeks ago.

0:29.2

We're going to pick up right where we left off. Here's David Barton on a tale of two cities.

0:33.0

What you see here is there's two ships that have landed over here.

0:36.4

1619 will say that's Jamestown that's a ship landing in Jamestown and

0:40.2

up here in 1620 is the ship landing at Plymouth. Now if you take that 16-19 it's hard

0:45.8

for you to see even close much less at the back. There's a circle there. So let me blow that

0:50.8

circle up. You see that circle right there with a ship?

0:53.3

Outside the circle it says, mammon. What's that? Oh Jesus talked about that in Matthew 6.

0:58.5

Mammon, that's a love of money. And on the inside of that circle it says one dollar.

1:03.0

Oh, so they're showing us a coin.

1:04.7

They're showing us that Jamestown was founded

1:06.5

as an economic colony.

1:08.2

It was all about making money.

1:09.6

That's how it was founded.

1:11.6

So when you look at that, there's a lot of bad stuff

1:14.1

that came out of that.

1:14.8

And so they say, God's curse of slavery.

1:16.9

And as you go across that, I'll just read it from here.

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