Here is a powerful message by Randy Forbes on the historical foundations of the United States.  Many of the political ideas that formed the U.S. Constitution were captured from European thinkers like Locke, Montesque, Cicero, Plato etc.  Locke's ideas were, in the main, a watered down version of the thoughts flowing from Oliver Cromwell's protectorate.  Ideas of inalienalble rights given by our Creator, that law is from a higher source than man, and even the division of powers because of man's falleness - are all based upon a Biblical understanding of man and God.  We don't have to agree with each other to agree to read the books for ourselves.  The worst thing to do is to take a soundbite and repeat it until you believe it.  That is not education, but propaganda.  Educate yourself by reading the books that formed the ideas used by the Founders of America.  Anything else is just plain mental lazineness.  American's cannot afford to be lazy any longer. God Bless, Orrin Woodward