Eric Metaxas: Is atheism the enemy of freedom? Here's how retreating from faith makes US less free
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Religious liberty – meaning we can chose any faith or none – was a wild concept when the Founders tried it 250 years ago. But it has made America one of the most religious countries on the planet.
If the people in a free nation abandon faith – and virtuous behavior – or even let it erode away slowly, the government will inevitably step into that vacuum.
The American Revolution enabled us to create a nation that enshrined religious liberty in its laws. But the French Revolution did the opposite. The Jacobins saw the monarchy and the church as two parts of the same oppressive system. As they shouted their slogan of liberte, egalite, fraternite, they butchered priests, monks and nuns alongside monarchists and aristocrats.
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