Ken Burns

obligation to make ourselves better and then closer to whatever that being is because if you're worse you're cruder and you're devolving and you're closer to the animals and and many might say Satan but there there is such a

I've spent a lot of time looking at deism and I find it such an interesting thing and nobody wants to do.

I mean, I'm traveling around the country and people say, well, this is a Protestant, a Christian nation.

And you go, well, you know, they're Jews and they're Catholics and there's, you know, all the animus religions that are brought over in the slave ships.

including Muslim relationship.

And then Native Americans have their own stuff.

This is really polyglot.

And people are in different parts of the country susceptible.

One of the things that they resented in the back country of the Carolinas and Georgia was that if it was the Anglican church or the Presbyterian church or not Presbyterian, but some other church that was the favorite of the governor,

then you had to pay for the minister's salaries.

And you didn't like that if you're a Methodist or a Baptist or a Presbyterian.

And so you have this sense of being suspicious of somebody trying to tell you their way is the only way and that the government should in any way favor any one flavor, faith, whatever you want to talk.

And if you go to deism and understand it's just your and my responsibility to move closer to God, however we see that.

to divine providence, to the miracle of this snowfall out my window or the sunset that will come in a little bit.

And I think that what they realized, I mean, you have to say that we are

The manifestation of the enlightenment in the form of a country, the first ever.

I've said it on the road.

I didn't say it in the film per se.

I mean, I said it's a consequential revolution in history, but I said it's the most important event since the birth of Christ.

in world history because it's set in motion revolutions for two centuries, but instead in motion, which for 250 years is produced, you know, one of the greatest countries now have there been series of mistakes?