From the historic campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, where the good, the true, and the beautiful are taught, nurtured, and honored, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country.

This is not the type of weapon that is used in the average murder in America.

In fact, hands and fists and screwdrivers and baseball bats are used in more murders than these type of guns usually are.

This is your host, Scott Bertram, and that's Larry Correa.

You might know him from the Monster Hunter series of books, but he is a new one in defense of the

Second Amendment.

We'll talk in depth with Larry about that coming up later on today's program.

First, we're joined by Dr. Corey Moss,

Associate Professor of History at Hillsdale College. Dr. Moss, thanks for joining us.

I'm glad to be here. Thanks for having me. Speaking today about the history of religious

liberty, it's still a contentious issue in the courts and elsewhere. Presently, what do we

mean by the phrase religious liberty?

That's a very important question, and I'd offer that one of the reasons it remains such a contentious topic is because we're not entirely sure what exactly it means.

What kind of liberty it entails, what the scope of that liberty might be, or even, frankly, what

exactly is encompassed by the term religion. You might remember that a few years back, there was

some brief controversy when in this context, Hillary Clinton, she might have been on the campaign

trail, referred to her desire to protect freedom of worship. I just wrote down that point to follow up so good.

You're going to cover this.

Yeah, and that provoked a backlash.

I don't know that she meant anything particularly sinister by it, but critics were rights

to question whether or not religious liberty and freedom of worship can be conceived of as synonyms.

There's further confusion because we use a whole host of other terms and phrases very often, at least colloquially, as synonyms.

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