GoogleTalks: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America
Steven Waldman, co-founder, editor-in-chief, and CEO of Beliefnet.com, visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book "Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America."
Waldman focuses on the five founding fathers who had the most influence on religion's role in the state — Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Adams and Madison — and untangles their complex legacy. This event took place on April 2, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series.
This is worth listening to just for the beginning anecdote about the evangelical big cheese arriving for Jefferson's inaugural.
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Having almost finished Waldman's book, I highly recommend it as a primer on the religious heritage of the U.S. It was not always simple and peaceful, but because the founders were more attuned to freedom of conscience than adherence to any particular religious belief, we have been given the blessing of preserving that freedom whenever it is threatened.
We seldom recall that the most influential midwives at this birth were, for the most part, not visibly religious by church attendance, but many were Deists, embracing all those who respected and tolerated differences. Where are such men to be found today?
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