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Saturday, August 30, 2014

Bob Ruppert: "The Influence of “the Black Robes”

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Check it out here . A taste: Just as the clergy based their theology and Church structure on the law of God, so they based their political...
Friday, August 29, 2014

Rod Dreher: "When The West Had An ISIS"

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Check it out here . A taste: Michael Brendan Dougherty remembers when the English state and its religious manifestation, the Church of E...
Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Buzzfeed: "Nearly Every Founding Fathers’ Quote Shared By A Likely Future Congressman Is Fake"

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Now that's a bad record . A taste: The Thomas Jefferson Foundation said it has “not found this particular statement in his writings”...
Sunday, August 17, 2014

John Fea: "The Author's Corner with Barry Shain"

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Check it out here . A taste: JF : What led you to write The Declaration of Independence in Historical Context? BS : I was motivated to w...
Saturday, August 16, 2014

Bill Fortenberry on Matthew Stewart, "Nature's God"

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Check it out here . A taste: Thus we see that both Pope and Bolingbroke, the two people that Stewart credits with introducing the phrase “N...

Book TV: Matthew Stewart, "Nature's God"

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Watch a clip below.

Brayton: "More Christian Nation Nonsense"

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Check it out here . A taste: I always laugh when people cite the Puritans and their alleged influence on the founding fathers. The colony ...
Monday, August 11, 2014

Frazer Posts @ Fortenberry's

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Check out this guest post by Dr. Gregg Frazer at Bill Fortenberry's website. A taste: If someone merely quotes someone else talking a...
Friday, August 08, 2014

William Livingston: "Primitive Christian"

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William Livingston represents the truth that one errs when one looks superficially at the denominations America's Founders were associa...
Saturday, August 02, 2014

The term "Primitive Christianity" and its connection to Deism & Unitarianism (and Mormonism & JWism)

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If you look closely at the historical record, many of America's Founders speak positively of something known as "Primitive Christia...
Saturday, July 26, 2014

WSJ: "Book Review: 'Nature's God' by Matthew Stewart & 'Independence' by Thomas P. Slaughter"

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From the Wall Street Journal here . A taste: It's not clear, in any case, why Mr. Stewart thinks we are in danger of forgetting radic...
Thursday, July 24, 2014

Frazer: "Problems with Matthew Stewart’s Nature’s God (not in any particular order)"

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Note : Dr. Gregg Frazer sends over what is reproduced below: Problems with Matthew Stewart’s Nature’s God (not in any particular ord...

NPR: "Founders Claimed A Subversive Right To 'Nature's God'"

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Check it out here .  A taste: RATH: So can you tell us - back in 1776, what did nature's God refer to?  STEWART: So nature's God...
Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Boston Globe: "‘Nature’s God’ by Matthew Stewart"

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Here . A taste:  The book is a pleasure to read, its often surprising conclusions supported by elegant prose and more than 1,000 footnote...
Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Rothbard: "Coercing Morality in Puritan Massachusetts"

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By Murray Rothbard here (and newly reproduced here ). The whole thing is worth a read. I'm going to reproduce below an interesting quot...
Monday, July 21, 2014

On Being: "STEVEN WALDMAN AND PHILIP HAMBURGER — THE LONG EXPERIMENT OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY"

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Check it out, or listen to it here .

Right Wing Watch: "Ukrainian Leaders Are Using David Barton's Theocratic Pseudo-History To Build Their Nation"

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This is , if nothing else, current. If I may make a personal observation: Ukraine deserves better.
Friday, July 18, 2014

Lillback v. Boston on Washington's Faith

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Peter Lillback takes on Rob Boston on George Washington's faith. I don't know a whole lot about this dialog, but I wonder if Lil...
Thursday, July 17, 2014

Volokh: "'In a country professing Christianity, … I find my religion and myself attacked'"

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Eugene Volokh reproduces a firsthand account from early American artist John Trumbull in 1793 where one of Jefferson's invited guests ...
Saturday, July 12, 2014

Joseph Blast: "A Founding Father Profit Sharing Fix for Inequality"

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From The Daily Beast here . A taste: In fact, while Adams drafted the new Massachusetts Constitution, some of his political colleagues co...