# Roger Williams & the Origins of American Religious Liberty, with Andrew Linn

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Podcast: [The Libertarian Christian Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-libertarian-christian-podcast-1116062)
Published: 2026-05-29T09:00:00+00:00
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Most Americans trace "separation of church and state" to Thomas Jefferson. The real origin is 150 years earlier — a devout Puritan named Roger Williams who argued from scripture that the church needed protection from the state, not the other way around. Filmmaker Andrew Linn joins Doug Stuart to discuss his documentary Church and State: Roger Williams and the Founding of Freedom of Religion . They cover: Why the Puritans fled religious persecution and then replicated it in Massachusetts Williams's two-table reading of the Ten Commandments and what it limits government from enforcing His "garden and wilderness" metaphor: how state-church fusion corrupts the church Why religious liberty is a Christian idea — and why Christians should be its loudest defenders What Christian nationalism gets wrong, and what Williams already said about it Andrew Linn's documentary is free on Faith Channel, Fawesome TV, YouTube, and RedeemTV.com. churchandstatedoc.com Audio Production by Podsworth Media - https://podsworth.com Use code LCI50 for 50% off your first order at Podsworth.com to clean up your voice recordings and also support LCI! Full Podsworth Ad Read BEFORE & AFTER processing: https://youtu.be/vbsOEODpQGs ★ Support this podcast ★

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