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🗓️ 11 May 2023
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On this Foundations of Freedom Thursday, we take some time to address listener questions- Is there anything in the constitution preventing states from printing their own currency? How can we consider letting each state set up their own policies, when there are big issues such as abortion and mutilation of children that should not be permitted in any situation? With such divisive issues at play, is civil war inevitable? People quote Jefferson as saying that Christianity cannot be a part of the common law. Is this accurate? And if so, what does it mean?
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0:00.0 | President Thomas Jefferson said, |
0:05.0 | I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society, but the people themselves. |
0:19.0 | And if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, |
0:24.0 | the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. |
0:29.0 | This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power. |
0:34.0 | Welcome to the intersection of faith in the culture. |
0:36.0 | This is Walboulders Live and its foundations of freedom Thursday, |
0:39.0 | we're diving into those foundations, and we're taking your questions so you can guide the conversation |
0:43.0 | on which particular area of those foundations we're going to discuss. |
0:47.0 | But we're always talking about hot topics in the culture from a biblical, historical, and constitutional perspective. |
0:52.0 | We're having that conversation today with David Barton. |
0:54.0 | He's America's premier historian and the founder of Walboulders. |
0:57.0 | Tim Barton is a national speaker and pastor and the president of Walboulders. |
1:00.0 | And my name is Rick Green. I'm a former Texas legislator. |
1:02.0 | You can find out more about us and the program. |
1:04.0 | And you can also listen to some of the past programs over the last few months. |
1:07.0 | Right there at Walboulderslive.com. |
1:09.0 | That's our website for the radio program. |
1:11.0 | You can get a list of our stations, a lot of other great information there. |
1:14.0 | And then over at Walboulders.com, you can get some great tools for your family, |
1:18.0 | whether it's DVDs or watching videos online or getting some of the books, |
1:21.0 | or just reading some of the articles right there on the website. |
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