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Freedom FROM religion

In this podcast, Don, Chuck, and Christina begin discussing the January 6th hearings. But in true Right and Freedom fashion, we quickly dive into a discussion about the fact that Herschel Walker has been said to have been more Christian than Ralph Warnock. Now, for the thousandth time if you listen to our podcast, we have to say that laws in this country shouldn’t be based on anyone’s religion. So does it really matter who is the more Christian of the two? Not a chance in hell. And yet, Newt Gingrich is just short of a divinity in the minds of many on the right, so no doubt this endorsement will sway some people.

Troubling indeed.

Couple that with banned books and some side-conversation about parthogenesis among frogs and other animals, and you have the crux of what this podcast episode is about. Mostly — it’s about freedom, and how the only way to a truly free society is to completely extricate the religious arguments from our debates about laws. Period. Because any society that makes its laws based on any particular religion cannot be said to have true freedom of religion, can it? Take a listen and you decide!

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We the People

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

The constitution is a dry document for the most part. It sets the procedures and rules for governing these United States. One way to look at it is that the constitution is the law, but the spirit of the law is enshrined in this pre-amble. It says right there why our rights exist, and if the rules — or the text of the constitution — cause us to move away from the nation described above, then those rules are being interpreted incorrectly. All laws have limits, as do rights, and where those limits should be is defined in the opening paragraph of the Constitution.

Gun rights? Have limits. Free speech? Has limits. Free religion? Has limits. The truth of the matter is that there are already limits, and those limits should be enforced. This episode touches on the topic of school shootings, church influence in politics, and so much more.

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