Jim breaks down a startling statistic: 41% of American Christians say God mandates them to lead seven key sectors of society, and explains how the Seven Mountains Mandate repackages dominionist theology into a strategy for institutional capture.

He traces the movement’s roots, shows how it seeks influence in education, business, and government, and explains how framing politics as spiritual warfare radicalizes followers and undermines constitutional norms.

The episode urges compassionate engagement with believers and a defense of democratic, pluralistic principles against top-down religious power grabs.

This episode examines how Freemasonry functioned as the communication, trust, and organizational network that helped forge the United States. It traces the shift from operative stonecutters to speculative lodges, explains Masonic rituals and symbols, and shows how founders like Washington and Franklin used the lodge’s practices—elected leadership, bylaws, and military lodges—to design and run a republic.

It also addresses modern misconceptions by distinguishing Masonic networks from conspiracy myths, highlighting the lodges’ role in promoting pluralism and civic order rather than a church-based nation, and explaining the symbolism behind the dollar bill and the Great Architect of the Universe.

This episode dismantles the myth that the U.S. Constitution was founded as a Christian charter, exploring the founders' deist beliefs, key Enlightenment influences, and evidence like the Treaty of Tripoli and Jefferson's writings.

Through examples — Franklin's pragmatism, Paine's radical critique, Jefferson's edited Bible, and the distinction between "God" and "Nature's God" — the episode explains how the founders built a secular machine of government and why that matters today.