The Founding Fathers on Rights and Responsibilities

Conversations That Matter

Jon Harris

Society & Culture

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Jon gives an overview of what the Founding Fathers thought of rights and responsibilities and how it differs from today's assumptions (using examples like Covid 19 overreach and how prominent evangelicals have reacted to it).

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Mentioned in this Podcast:

Biblical Parellels Between the US Constitution and Bible

https://nccs.net/blogs/articles/parallel-concepts-between-the-u-s-constitution-the-bible

Thomas Jefferson on Rights and Duties

https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2012/07/thomas-jefferson-on-rights-and-duties-jeffersonian.html

Founding Fathers on Virtue

https://thefederalist.com/2017/04/28/the-american-founders-knew-a-virtuous-republic-requires-virtuous-people/

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Conversations That Matter Podcast. My name is John Harris. We have a short episode today. Some of you will like that. I know my audience is split. Half of you seem to like the long ones. Half of you like the short ones. Well, this one's for those who like the short ones. It is important though. We're going to talk about something that's a little different, something I'm really positive about. I love studying history, the founding fathers. I mean I am sitting in a location
0:24.3	where Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, likely walked at some point, but of course I
0:29.4	am separated from them in time and I like to study the world they inhabited because honestly the assumptions of that world are so different than the assumptions of today.
0:38.0	Metaphysically, ethically, especially, and one of the problems, one of the disintegrating problems in this country
0:45.9	why it's going to pot it seems like in some ways and why people are at each other's
0:50.0	throats is because we have founding documents that are not compatible. The
0:54.6	assumptions in those documents are not compatible with the country that we
0:58.7	are inhabiting today. And so it's helpful to understand why that is. What did the founding fathers
1:04.5	assume about things like rights, which is what we're talking about today, and
1:07.5	what do we assume today and what's the difference? And not all of us assume
1:11.8	of course the same thing.
1:13.8	So navigating conversations, having communication is very important.
1:18.0	But lately, this is why it's different.
1:20.4	I've been doing a number of podcasts on different ministries and people and
1:25.3	bringing logical principles, biblical principles to bear on their ministries, looking at
1:31.6	those ministries and trying to ask hard questions about them.
1:35.7	And I'll be honest with you, I don't always like doing that.
1:38.2	In fact, I almost never do.
1:40.2	I don't think Jesus or Paul got up in the morning either. I think of Paul did he get up and say man I just can't wait I'm gonna really slam those Corinthians
1:48.0	I'm gonna correct them no I don't think so you don't get that in that tone in his letter and of course if you did I think it would be a pride if there was some kind of an assertion that I'm so superior and you're you're messing up and I want to stay away from that to be honest with you I don't
2:04.2	want to ever enjoy that kind of thing and I don't enjoy it. It's why I really go out of my
2:08.5	way to try to if I can read with giving the benefit of the doubt I try and I'm not saying I always
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