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Podcast: The WallBuilders Show
Episode: Fireworks, Faith, and Founding Fathers: The True Spirit of July 4th
Description: What if the Fourth of July was actually meant to be celebrated as a religious holiday? That's exactly how the founding fathers envisioned it.On this special Independence Day episode we unpack the profound Christian foundations of American freedom. They reveal how John Adams, writing to his wife Abigail on July 2nd (the actual day independence was declared), envisioned future celebrations with "solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty." Sixty-one years later, John Quincy Adams would explain that July 4th had become America's second most venerated holiday after Christmas because "the birthday of the nation is indissolubly...