Charlie Kirk's Christian America, Part Two
With this episode of the Telling Jefferson Lies podcast, I complete the fact-check of Charlie Kirk's video
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In this segment, I examine the notion that there was something exceptionally Christian about America's founding era. Last week, I fact-checked Charlie Kirk's viral video defense of the belief that America was founded as a Christian nation in the legal sense. Most of what Kirk had to say was irrelevant or incorrect.
Today, I evaluate Charlie Kirk’s assessment of the American population at the time of the founding. He said it was “so Christian and so Protestant.” Was it? Listen in to see how guests Jemar Tisby, Mark Noll, George Marsden, Caleb Campbell, and Aaron Cowan evaluate the conduct of America during the colonial period through the Civil War.
In addition in this episode, I contradict Charlie Kirk's call to return to America's Christian roots. In fact, those roots don't seem very Christian when one considers the injustice and atrocities throughout the historical record.
From the segment: "With slavery, treachery, mass murder, betrayal and theft embedded in the legacy of the nation, what does it matter how many times a Supreme Being is mentioned in the Declaration of Independence or if the Liberty Bell has Leviticus on it?"
Written and produced by Warren Throckmorton
Music provided by Earl's Taco Shack, Jonathan Swaim, and Jonus Fair