America and the Exodus., The Free Press. The story of Passover is not just a Jewish one. Our founding fathers were profoundly inspired by it. So was Cecil B. DeMille.
Why, asks Sacks, did Britain and The story of Passover is not just a Jewish one. Our founding fathers were profoundly inspired by it. where France and Russia failed?
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- The explanation is surely complex but much—perhaps all—turns on how a society answers the question: who is the ultimate sovereign, God or man?. . . . For the British and American architects of liberty, God was the supreme power. . . . For the French and Russian ideologists, ultimate value lay in the state. . . when human beings arrogate supreme power to themselves, politics loses its sole secure defense of freedom. . . . Societies that exile God lead to the eclipse of man.
- The Renaissance, Nelson notes, reflected the pagan inheritance of antiquity and generated an approach to politics that was secular in character, whereas following the Reformation, “Christians began to regard the Hebrew Bible as a political constitution, designed by God himself for the children of Israel.” Liberty, Nelson argues, took root in the political Hebraism of the English-speaking world.
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