What were the personal religious beliefs of Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry, George Mason, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton, and what role did they see for religion in the United States? Why did Mason and Madison disagree on the "toleration" of religious beliefs? These questions (and others) arise as Blake leads the second part of our discussion of what selected Founding Fathers held as their religious beliefs, what they thought about the role of religion in personal morality and civic society, how they sought to achieve civic tranquility through religious freedom, and how that played in role in forging the disunited colonies into the United States.
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Chapters:
0:00:00 - Intro
0:01:37 - Thomas Paine
0:10:15 - Patrick Henry
0:15:32 - George Mason
0:31:26 - James Madison
0:47:00 - Alexander Hamilton
1:10:35 - Conclusion & Discussion
1:22:50 - Outro
