The Founding Fathers

I've been listening to Glenn Beck a little bit and although some people like to call him radical or off his rocker or some other expression of the kind, the things he says really seem to make sense to me. He has been doing an episode a week about the founding fathers of the United States, and I have watched and really loved all of them so far. I feel a power in the words of the fathers that he shares that can only be the power of God. He, and two experts as well likened their words to scripture. I had the same thought.


I know that the men who led the revolutions and helped to form the nation were led by God. They did what they did because they believed it was God's will and that he would and did support them in the cause of liberty and justice and in seeking the right for all men to worship God as their conscience sees fit among other things.

I've always felt that way. It drives me insane how people always try to claim that separation of church and state is about protecting the state from the rule of religion. I think if most people really thought about it they would see how that doesn't make any logical sense. Unfortunately, the fad of our generation is to just that, that the state must be protected from irrational, fanatical religions (which we all know all religions are, right?).
I'm no expert on 18th century European or American history, but it appears to be relatively plain that the founding fathers were breaking away from the influence of the state, and not from the influence of the church, unless it be the church of England, which was run by the state. Yes, if my understanding is correct, it was the state that ran the church and not the other way around. In countries with catholic influence it may have been different, but in England, where the majority of the builders of the nation came from, it was the state that ran the religion. So what they were afraid of was a state run church like the church of England that would inhibit the rights of an individual to worship God according to the dictates of his or her own conscience and force said individual to worship according to the dictates of law laid out by the state. That is why we have separation of church and state, to protect churches from evil government and not government from evil churches.



Go to watchglennbeck.com to see the specials he has done so far on Samuel Adams, George Washington, and George Whitefield. They are truly inspiring.