Bold & Blunt: America’s divine founding

Friday, May 16, 2025

Cheryl K. Chumley

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Reprinted from The Washington Times

America is great because America is good — that’s the widely quoted phrase attributed to Alexis de Tocqueville. It’s wrongly attributed; this exact phrase is not found in his writings. But the theme applies nevertheless.

American greatness is rooted in the idea of individual rights and liberties coming from God — which means God has to play an active role in American culture — which means Americans have to continue to believe in, worship and obey God, else lose the concept of God-given rights and liberties.

Since America’s founding, God has been the guiding force of this nation’s growth, prosperity and liberty — and saving graces.

“The United States has been specially blessed, specially favored as basically all our founding fathers believed people who question that premise point to the fact that, well … we just had a happy accident,” said Michael Medved, who has a new movie, “The American Miracle,” based on his book of the same title.

But America was not so much an accident as a godly design, Medved said. And history bears that truth, he added.

“Those people [the founders] — each of them, including those among them who were religiously unconventional,l believed America was specially blessed … instead of random [creation],” Medved said.

His movie, “The American Miracle,” hits 1,000 theaters around the country this June.

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