Take America Back to What? The Founding Atheists?
For all of the — rather successful — efforts over the past decades to convince the nation that our founders were holy men devoted to keeping God as our national co-pilot (Beck is only the most recent in a long line ahistorical claimers), sometimes Christians have to call it the way they see it. Christian J. Pinto, a documentary filmmaker, isn’t out to give a glorified shine to the constitution-writers. He wants to move America forward to a new faithfulness, not back to those “athiests” who got us started. In his new film, “The Hidden Faith of the Founding Fathers,” Pinto says that Christians could find better role models than the likes of Jefferson, Washington, and Adams. So who were the Founding Father’s appealing to when they wrote the constitution, if not God? Ultimately Rome, says Pinto, as a means of escaping British rule. Continue Reading →