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America’s founders—not only Thomas Jefferson and
Ben Franklin, but Thomas Paine, Ethan Allen, and Thomas Young, the
forgotten Founder who kicked off the Boston Tea Party—were called as
“infidels” and “atheists” in their own time. The ideas that inspired
them were largely ancient, pagan, and continental. Matthew Stewart looks at the philosophical ideas that inspired America’s revolutionaries. His book Nature's God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic,
uncovers the true meanings of “Nature’s God,” “self-evident,” and many
other phrases crucial to our understanding of the American experiment.
Nature's God by Matthew Stewart
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