Episode 073: AMERICA Then and Now (The Last Best Hope...)

From My Standpoint

Also a promotion for my new poetry book America Then and Now a poem by Josh C. Jones

America. Who was she? What has she become?

John Adams once said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

Liberty, according to our founders here in America, could not exist without morality, which itself cannot exist without religion, but not just any religion, as their lives were examples of and their writings clearly indicate.

The argument of our founders and of their generation was so widespread that it was indisputable by facts; and According to James Hutson of the Library of Congress, “America’s founders believed that republican government requires a moral citizenry and that religion is necessary for morality.”

Is America a beacon of hope, still? Is there still patriotism? Americans?

In this episode we will look at a few quick examples and also encourage you to read the poem AMERICA Then and Now (a poem by Josh C. Jones), which you can find on Amazon.

NOTES:

Intro/Outro Bumper Music: Evening Melodrama Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

The Wisdom of Dad Joke Music: The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Patriotic Intro Music: Ultimate Victory https://www.videvo.net/royalty-free-music-track/ultimate-victory-30s/232836/

This podcast uses these sounds from freesound: sounds by deleted_user_96253 (https://freesound.org/s/351304/)