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Podcast: The WallBuilders Show
Episode: Foundations, Freedom, and the Fear of God
Description: Ever wondered whether America’s promise of religious liberty was designed to be wide open—or tethered to a shared moral code? We tackle a pointed listener question about the founders’ intent and explore why the early American consensus protected the rights of conscience while expecting public behavior to align with Judeo-Christian ethics. That balance—pluralism with guardrails—helped secure inalienable rights under a common rule of law without policing private theology.We dig into John Adams’s claim that the “general principles of Christianity” united the generation of independence, then look at early state constitutions and their broad thei...