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If You Can Keep It: The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty

By Scott J. Pearson | August 4, 2018 by Scott J. Pearson

by Eric Metaxas(c) 2016. The title of this book is stolen from Benjamin Franklin when asked if we were founding a monarchy or a republic. With his classic quick wit, he responded, “A republic… if you can keep it.” This book, by a radio talk show host, comprises a series of lecture-type chapters that admonishes patriotism instead of carelessness towards America. It contains many anecdotes which are interesting, such as that of Nathan Hale’s, “I…

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The Age of Reason

By Scott J. Pearson | June 9, 2018 by Scott J. Pearson

by Thomas PaineOriginally published 1794 in the setting of the French Revolution. Thomas Paine, the author of the famed Common Sense in 1776, extends his critique of Western culture from government to religion in this treatise. In it, he appeals for Deism based upon Nature instead of a religion based upon revelation. Like his contention that originally humans were free without a monarchy, he contends that humans originally had no Word of God and thus relied…