Roger Williams & the Origins of American Religious Liberty, with Andrew Linn

Podcast: The Libertarian Christian Podcast · Libertarian Christian Institute

Opublikowano: 2026-05-29

Most Americans trace "separation of church and state" to Thomas Jefferson. The real origin is 150 years earlier — a devout Puritan named Roger Williams who argued from scripture that the church needed protection from the state, not the other way around. Filmmaker Andrew Linn joins Doug Stuart to discuss his documentary Church and State: Roger Williams and the Founding of Freedom of Religion. They cover: Why the Puritans fled religious persecution and then replicated it in MassachusettsWilliams's two-table reading of the Ten Commandments and what it limits government from enforcingHis "garden and wilderness" metaphor: how state-church fusion co...