00:20:37.600what we're doing is Overton Window shifting work,
00:20:40.020which takes a significant amount of years to do that.
00:20:43.260And there has to be somebody on the front edge of the Overton window. But to be outside of the Overton window by 10 miles is you have less and less people. And so, again, when we're trying to talk about these positions, I think one of the key principles over all these pillars that you're going to talk about here shortly is for me and I think for all of us here is, is it reasonably defendable from Scripture, these positions?
00:21:10.780Are we the first people to ever come to these exegetical conclusions from the scriptures?
00:21:17.120I appreciated J.D. Hall's line that he got from someone else's, you know, if it's new, it's generally not true.
00:42:54.460I think the biggest blunder of the Founding Fathers was their lack of clarity on their intent.
00:43:00.900They used words like religion when they should have used Christianity, which was a clear synonym at that period of time.
00:43:07.980And, but we know that, you know, 98%, I recently said this in one of my episodes of American Glory, is that if a Muslim nation was started by 10,000 Muslims and produced a government, and everybody that immigrated was also Muslim, and that was the same thing for 100 years, would we say that that's not a Muslim nation?
00:43:31.680No, of course, it's clearly a Muslim nation.
00:43:34.060It's a nation for Muslims, by Muslims, to perpetuate Islam.
00:43:40.120It's implicit because it's just a fact that you can see.
00:43:43.420And that's exactly what happened with the United States.
00:43:45.820And so I would say, yeah, when it says freedom of religion, we know what that really meant.
00:43:50.720What that really meant was, you know, Maryland was Catholic and Virginia was Anglican.
00:43:55.440And, you know, other states held their other traditions of Protestantism.
00:43:59.980Yeah, and sorry to interrupt, but let's not forget, this is, you know, less than 100 years after the English Revolution where they were burning Catholics at the stake and, you know, there was real bloodshed over this.
00:44:10.660So that's what they were trying to, they were specifically trying to avoid that outcome.
00:44:14.340They were trying to avoid intramural battles.
00:44:16.620Exactly, holy wars that were occurring.