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What They Built and What We Lost

What They Built and What We Lost

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They didn't just write a Constitution. They built a moral architecture — and we've been dismantling it for 60 years.

In Part 2 of "250 Years: Did We Keep the Republic?" Tom Sears walks through the three pillars the Founders built this nation on: the sanctity of the individual conscience, the necessity of virtue in the governed, and the covenant nature of the American experiment.

These weren't political theories; they were biblical convictions. And Washington, Adams, Madison, and Lincoln all said the same thing in different ways: without God, the republic cannot stand.

Then Tom asks the harder question. What happened to those pillars? From the prosperity of the Industrial Revolution to the theological liberalism that gutted the mainline churches, to the Supreme Court decisions of 1962 and 1963 that removed prayer and Bible reading from public schools, the unraveling didn't happen overnight. It happened the way it always does. Slowly. Quietly. One compromise at a time.

This episode also puts a human face on the cost of the founding, men like Thomas Nelson Jr., who ordered his own cannons fired on his own home rather than let it shelter the enemy, and Carter Braxton, who died in poverty having given everything to the cause. They signed that document knowing the price. The question Tom leaves you with: what are we willing to pay?

| Part 2 of 4 |

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