It was absolutely clear to the Founders that the United States was “God’s idea of history,” said Eric Metaxas, author of a forthcoming book. Revolution: The Birth of the Greatest Nation in World Historysaid during an appearance on breitbart news saturday.
Speaking with host Matthew Boyle about two months after America’s sesquicentennial celebration, Metaxas explained what he believes Americans must do to ensure America survives the next 250 years and beyond.
“I think one of the things that is coming out is shocking to some people, certainly to leftists or secularists. It seems quite clear that every single person involved in the birth of America 250 years ago believed that this was God’s idea of history,” Metaxas began.
“It wasn’t just some, you know, twist or turn in history. It was God’s idea. Thomas Paine clearly says it’s the birthday of a new world. Now, if you take God out of that equation, he becomes the utopian madness that leads to the bloodshed of the French Revolution or the Bolshevik Revolution. But if God is in the middle of it, if you’re under the King, capital S, Sovereign, you know – Samuel Adams says for them. “That way – if we’re looking straight to God, which all the Founders saw, that’s not what’s being taught,” he said, adding that while many celebrate the birth of democracy in Greece, the reality is that “none of these people hold a candle to what we have in the United States.”
“And the founder, John Adams, again, more than anyone, he saw this, that this is a new day in the history of the world. So, this is not like other empires. This is a new way where people can really rule themselves,” he said.
However, the Founders considered this possible only because they expected God to give them strength and virtue. This is simply a reality that secularists have to accept, even if they don’t like it, Metaxas said. Samuel Adams, he continued, made this perfectly clear in a speech where he said he had restored the sovereign capital ‘S’.
Metaxas said, “We no longer have a dictator, a king, King George the Third. We now look directly to God as our sovereign, and that is right.” “It’s everywhere in our establishment, and they all understand that. They didn’t say, oh, separation of church and state… They understood that we need strong faith and virtue, and that’s how you get real freedom, and you’re never forced to have faith.”
Those realities “have been pushed out aggressively over the last 50 or so years,” he said, emphasizing the importance of the nation looking to God to move forward again. Furthermore, he points out that the “least religious” Founders also understood it on some level.
“And even the least religious, Jefferson and Franklin, they understood it. When they were asked to design a new seal for the new country, they both came up with images of the Israelites in the wilderness of Sinai. And I think, look again, you don’t have to like it. You don’t have to agree with it. But the point is, this is our history. … All of that generation understood it. So, if you want to know, that’s how you get freedom. That’s how they got freedom. And if we want to restore this nation, we have to accept it,” he said.
If we don’t accept this, he warned, America could become like the countries our ancestors fled.
He added, “I hope that people will come to a new understanding that we will talk about this more openly. Because as we move away, we see Europe moving away from freedom. Why are you moving away toward big state authoritarianism? Because you forget about virtues, you forget about trust. When those things are really at the center, like they were in the 13 colonies, you get more freedom. It’s a Kind of…a wonderful paradox.”
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