Kresta in the Afternoon – July 5, 2021 – Hour 1
God Bless America! Tim Shah looks at the history of religious liberty.
Kresta Comments: “We Hold These Truths”
The Story you Don’t Know about Religious Liberty
The story commonly told about the relation between Christianity and freedom of religion treats Christianity as an inherently intolerant and oppressive religion. The historian Perez Zagorin writes, of “all the great world religions past and present, Christianity has been by far the most intolerant.” But while it is a tragic truth that many Christians have oppressed others, the fact remains that Christian theology is a source for religious freedom. Tim Shah joins us.
