#Jonathan Emord Part 2

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Jonathan Eam Ward is our special guest here live at the Trinity Health Freedom Expo. We're going to break there about, you know, the history that is a part of the authoritarian, right, and how you walk through the history, but how we can't forget things like, for example, the Magna Carta. Right. Yeah, the movement that began with the Magna Carta, where the lords had taken issue with the crown because the crown was attempting to tax them, and for the first time in ways that were not previously allowed, that whole movement then ultimately gave birth to the English Civil War and to the Cromwell Republic. And then thereafter to the rise in rights. And we were talking about how by the time of the end of the 17th century, even as Sir Robert Filmer was publishing Patriarcha in defense of the divine right of kings, there was a rising, which would ultimately express itself in the 18th century in the publication of Locke's two treatises on government, Algernon Sydney's works, and Hufendorf and numerous other philosophers of freedom.

This notion of individual rights that the crown, unlike what Filmer argued, the crown was not the only individual who had rights, that actually rights were from God, that they were not from the state, and that they were not given by God to one person based on their birth, but actually were a birthright of all people. And this then was translated into a movement called the radical Whig movement, and it was championed in England by a number of people, including John Wilkes and Thomas Gordon and John Trenchard, who wrote 144 letters on liberty published in the London Gazette from 1720 to 1723. And those letters and that philosophy were adopted by our founding fathers and were actually the impetus for the American Revolution, the ideology that drove it, that underlay, for example, common sense by Thomas Paine, most popular tract in the revolutionary period. And it also, wherever acts of tyranny occurred in the colonies, when, for example, John Peter Zinger was prosecuted for seditious libel, or numerous others were prosecuted throughout the colonies for seditious libel.

In those colonies and throughout the colonies in protest to the action, there would be re-publication of Cato's letters, the particular letters on liberty that were in defense of freedom of speech. And wasn't liberty then also supported by the Great Awakening? I mean, you think about the pulpits and what they were preaching from the pulpits. They were preaching true freedom. They were preaching liberty. And, of course, the author of liberty is Christ.

Right. And the amazing thing about this is that interwoven with free agents or with Christianity is, of course, free agency. Free agency underpins Christianity. Each person is allowed to sin.

That is part of your free agency. There is no satanic plan of perfect conformity. Rather, we are allowed to be free and we are responsible for our actions and ultimately responsible to God. And that Christian belief underlays the entire concept of American liberty. It also underlays our entire criminal justice system. Right.

Exactly. Folks, if you want to get more of this, get the book. The Authoritarian is the name of the book. Jonathan Emord is the author of that book. And I really encourage you to pick up The Authoritarian today. You can get it at emord.com. You can also currently get it at Amazon. And if you happen to choose to use that service, get Smile Amazon and go ahead and put in Faith Harvest Church and you'll support what we're doing here. As well as the ministry we do in India, which we do a huge amount of ministry in India. And you can find out more about that at CG4I. I'll be back with more after this.