We Are Endowed by Our Creator With Certain Unalienable Rights

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In a liberal democracy, of citizens, there is citizen responsibility for the system to work. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our constitution as a whale goes through our net. Liberal democracy recognizes the dignity of man but also falls because it doesn't respect the fallenness of man,. including leaders who try to possess and wield power for the good.

Liberal democracy is under military threat abroad, and intellectual threat in America. And many of these domestic attacks are coming from within Christianity. So should Christians care about defending democracy? What are the connections between our Christian faith and America’s form of self-government? This week David and Curtis dive headlong into this deep and fascinating issue, including some history, some theology, and some critical guidance for why we Christians must indeed care about the state of our democracy and its institutions.

Show Notes:

-French Press: “A Christian Defense of American Classical Liberalism”

-Sarah Repucci & Amy Slipowitz (Freedom House): “Democracy Under Siege”

-From John Adams to Massachusetts Militia, 11 October 1798

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