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.

In this episode we explore the 1797 Senate ratification of the Treaty of Tripoli and its controversial Article 11, which states that "the government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion."

We trace the context: American sailors captured and enslaved by Barbary pirates, years of failed government response, and Joel Barlow’s negotiations that produced the treaty. The episode explains why the clause reflected an intentional, public statement about the secular nature of the U.S. government and how later debates and mistranslations have tried to obscure it.

This episode debunks the myth that Revolutionary pastors were the true commanders of 1776, showing instead how founders used the pulpit as a mass‑communication tool and how clergy were enlisted as political broadcasters.

It draws lines to modern Christian nationalism — from a pastor preaching with an AR‑15 to the political weaponization of religion — and explains how that alliance backfired by 1800, offering a caution about mixing faith with state power.

Jim dismantles the myth of a modern "war on Christmas," tracing its roots from 1950s nativists and Fox News panic back to Puritan bans, Roman Saturnalia, and 19th-century commercialization. He explains how authority, politics, and cultural control reshaped the holiday into the domestic, corporate version conservatives now defend—and how legal rulings have diluted religious meaning in public displays.

This episode explains cognitive warfare and shows how the religious right uses tactics—certainty, fear, polarization, historical revisionism, and dehumanization—to shift people from evidence-based thinking to obedience to authority.

Using examples from foreign troll farms to the America Praise Initiative, the host exposes how narrative control and cognitive dissonance create separate realities and weaken shared institutions, and presents the Treaty of Tripoli as a key secular counterpoint.

Ultimately the episode calls for cognitive resilience: favoring evidence, critical inquiry, and deliberation to resist manipulative influence.

In this episode of The False Foundation podcast, host Jim continues the investigation into the White House’s America Praise pamphlet, dismantling sections 9–17. He exposes how historical events and speeches—from John Quincy Adams to George W. Bush—are cherry-picked, misinterpreted, or repurposed to construct a narrative of a Christian-founded America. The episode argues these are not traditions but crisis-driven tactics that weaponize faith to silence dissent and justify policy.