Event video: Religion and America

February 20, 2018

Trent England

American government sits on a foundation that includes, prominently, the Bible. In fact, no book was more referenced by the leading American Founders. In many homes of the time, the Bible was the only book. Children learned from it, adults read it, and public discourse was full of references or allusions to it. No one can understand American law and government without knowing something about this Biblical heritage.

OCPA welcomed Dr. Daniel Dreisbach, a professor at American University and the author of “Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers,” to our Advance Center for Free Enterprise yesterday to discuss this history. He shared key Bible passages that shaped the debates about American independence and the Constitution.

For more from Dr. Dreisbach, you can follow him on Twitter or read his books or this interview he did for PBS’s “God In America” program.