This week we take a step away from the news and politics to touch on, we feel, some extremely relevant history. Digging into Patrick Henry and Thomas Paine and the circumstances surrounding their more famous works and how they came to be. And then tying that all together into today's circumstances and Rand Paul's call to be civilly disobedient. At some point we are to decide where our lines are on the things we are willing to surrender. When that time comes, will you "bestir" yourself to hold that line, or will you let it slide out of "timidity" as Thomas Paine puts it. Thanks for the continued support, and please share and follow and such on our various platforms. We found out that we might have been caught up in Facebook's algorithms that might be keeping our podcast posting from distributing like it used to. Stay vigilant friends.
 
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Thomas Paine "Common Sense": https://www.law.gmu.edu/assets/files/academics/founders/Paine_CommonSense.pdf
 
Thomas Paine "American Crisis": https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.03902300/?st=text
 
Patrick Henry "give me liberty or give me death": https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/coretexts/_files/resources/texts/1775%20Patrick%20Henry%20Liberty%20or%20Death.pdf
 
The story behind Patrick Henry's speech: https://wallbuilders.com/give-me-liberty-or-give-me-death/
 
How Benjamin Rush gave us "Common Sense": https://declaration.fas.harvard.edu/blog/dd-common-sense
 
Rand Paul's call to defend your liberty: https://mobile.twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1424399282447298563
 


Bestir yourself:
-2 Samuel 5: 24
-Alma 60: 29 (Four our LDS Friends)

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