Next week, we’re talking about the kind of freedom that doesn’t fit on a bumper sticker. It’s not about what the government’s doing — it’s about what you’re doing. It’s called self-government — and it’s the one kind of freedom you can’t vote for, protest for, or hashtag into existence.
The Founders talked about it all the time, but for some reason, nobody teaches it now. Why? Because self-government requires personal responsibility, and that’s harder to sell than victimhood and excuses.
But here’s the hard truth: You cannot govern a nation if you can’t govern yourself. If your emotions run you, if your phone owns you, if your impulses control you — you’re not free. You’re a slave with WiFi.
This week, we’re going there.
Monday: What the Founders actually expected from free men.
Tuesday: What the Bible says about ruling yourself.
Wednesday: Why weak men always invite strong tyrants.
Thursday: What real self-government looks like in 2025.
Friday: The Outlaw Faith challenge — building a life that needs no babysitter.
It’s going to be funny. It’s going to hurt. But it might just be the most important thing we talk about all year.
Alright outlaws — this is the big one. We’ve spent all week tearing down the lie that faith and politics should never mix. Now let’s build something better in its place.
If you remember nothing else from this week, remember this: You cannot keep freedom if you lose faith.
That’s not my opinion — it’s baked into reality, and the Founders knew it. In fact, they hammered this point so hard, you could frame the entire Constitution with their quotes about it.
Faith & Freedom Are a Package Deal
Here’s how the Founders actually saw it:
Faith teaches people to govern themselves.
Self-governed people need less government.
Less government means more freedom.
Lose faith — people stop governing themselves.
People act like fools — government steps in to control them.
Freedom dies.
That’s not theory — that’s history. And we’re living the consequences of forgetting it.
The Founders’ Greatest Hits (Faith Edition)
John Adams:
“Religion and virtue are the only foundations…of republicanism and of all free governments.”
George Washington:
“Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”
Benjamin Rush:
“Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.” (Imagine saying that at a PTA meeting today — they’d have him canceled before lunch.)
What Happens When You Separate Faith from Freedom
If you want a country with maximum freedom, you need people who govern themselves — people who don’t cheat, steal, or punch each other over parking spots because they fear God, not because there’s a cop watching.
When you take faith out of the equation, you don’t get more freedom — you get more laws.
Don’t believe lying is a sin? Here’s 47 pages of corporate disclosure regulations.
Don’t teach kids that all humans bear God’s image? Here’s a 300-page anti-bullying policy.
Don’t value honesty in contracts? Here’s 12 agencies to monitor your business.
Lose internal control — government adds external control.
Freedom Without Faith = An Expired Coupon
Here’s the brutal truth: Freedom only works when people are capable of handling it. That’s why the Bible says:
“Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.” — 2 Corinthians 3:17
No Spirit? No freedom. Period. You can vote all you want, but if people aren’t governed inside, you’ll end up begging for laws to protect you from your neighbors.
Modern Example: The Parent Swap
This is like firing your strict-but-loving dad and replacing him with a weak babysitter who’s scared of the kids. At first, it feels like freedom — no rules! Candy for dinner! But after about three days, the house smells like armpits and Axe body spray, the dog’s missing, and nobody knows what’s real anymore.
That’s what happens to a nation when you trade moral self-control for legal loopholes and personal “truth.”
The Outlaw Faith Challenge
Faith and freedom rise and fall together — always have, always will. If you want to keep your freedom: ✅ Strengthen your faith. ✅ Teach your kids real truth — from the Bible, not TikTok. ✅ Build a home that needs zero government intervention because you handle your business like a man. ✅ Be the guy who prays first, acts second, and never bows to Caesar unless God says so.
Next Week: Back to the Founders — but this time, we’re going tactical with what they actually wanted government to do — and what they wanted it to stay out of.
Alright, outlaws — time for some bad news and hard laughs. The Founders didn’t just talk about God because they were bored or trying to pad their word count. They knew something we forgot:
A nation without God turns into a circus.
That’s not me talking — that’s them, in their own words. And if they could see 2025 America, they’d be like, “Yep, called it.”
What the Founders Actually Said (and What They’d Say Now)
John Adams:
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
Translation: This system only works if people can control themselves. If they can’t, the government has to do it for them — and that’s how you get surveillance drones watching your lawn and 42-page regulations on how to grill a hot dog.
George Washington:
“Religion and morality are indispensable supports.”
Translation: If you yank those out, don’t be surprised when everything collapses like a Jenga tower at a frat party.
Benjamin Rush:
“Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.”
Translation: If you’re ‘educated’ but think truth is whatever you feel today, congratulations — you just got scammed by the education-industrial complex.
Kicking God Out: A Quick Timeline of Disaster
✅ 1960s — Toss prayer out of school. ✅ 1970s — Discover consequences are optional. ✅ 1990s — Replace morals with “follow your heart.” ✅ 2020s — Your heart identifies as a toaster. ✅ 2025 — Government prints pamphlets teaching kids how to sue their parents for calling them the wrong Pokémon.
The Founders saw this coming because they understood one thing: If God doesn’t set the standard, someone else will — and that someone will always be Caesar, Karen, or Karl Marx.
The Bible Saw It Coming Too
Proverbs 29:18 — “Where there is no vision, the people cast off restraint.” (Modern translation: No truth = no brakes.)
Isaiah 5:20 — “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil.” (Modern translation: Welcome to the news cycle.)
The Founders’ Prophetic Roast
What they said:
“Virtue, morality, and religion. That’s the foundation.”
What we did:
“Let’s see what happens if TikTok and Washington write the rules.”
What they’d say if they came back today:
“Ben Franklin found TikTok, and now he thinks we fought a revolution for 15-second dances and eating laundry detergent.”
The Outlaw Faith Challenge
This isn’t about whining for the ‘good old days.’ The Founders gave us a manual to fix this mess — but only if we have the guts to use it. ✅ Bring back real truth — not “your truth.” ✅ Teach your kids who actually defines right and wrong (hint: not influencers). ✅ Be the guy who knows the Constitution, the Bible, and how to change his own oil.
Tomorrow: Faith & Freedom — Not Either/Or. It’s Both or Bust.
Welcome back to Outlaw Faith, where today we’re opening one of the most misquoted lines in Scripture:
“Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.” — Matthew 22:21
This verse gets thrown around whenever someone wants Christians to sit down and shut up about politics — like Jesus was telling us to mind our business and just pay taxes. But if you actually look at the context — and ask the right question — you realize this isn’t about keeping God out of government at all. It’s about recognizing who actually owns everything in the first place.
The Setup — and the Mic Drop
The Pharisees tried to trap Jesus by asking if Jews should pay taxes to Rome. If He said “yes,” He’d look like a sellout to Rome. If He said “no,” they could accuse Him of rebellion. Classic setup.
Jesus asked for a coin and said:
“Whose image is on this?”
“Caesar’s,” they answered.
That’s when He dropped the line:
“Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.”
Most people stop there. But the real punch is what He didn’t say.
The Real Question: What Belongs to God?
Here’s the logic Jesus was setting up:
The coin has Caesar’s image on it — fine, give it back to him.
But what has God’s image on it?
You do. Your kids do. Your marriage does. Your whole life bears God’s image. That means Caesar has no rightful claim over any of it. It’s all God’s — your work, your parenting, your land, your education, your body, your loyalty.
So if we render unto Caesar things that actually belong to God — like handing over our kids’ education, our moral compass, or even our understanding of truth — what are we saying? We’re saying we don’t think those things belong to God.
That’s not just bad politics — that’s bad theology.
What We’ve Handed Over (Without Even Thinking)
Here’s a list of things Americans (including a lot of Christians) have handed to Caesar with a shrug:
✅ Our kids — letting government schools teach them what to believe about life, truth, gender, history, and even God. ✅ Our rights — acting like government grants them instead of recognizing they come from the Creator. ✅ Our money — assuming taxes are the price of being “safe,” even when they fund evil. ✅ Our morality — waiting for laws to tell us right from wrong instead of starting with Scripture.
What’s Left for God?
If Caesar gets all that, what’s left for God? Just an hour on Sunday morning and a prayer before dinner?
That’s not rendering to God — that’s tipping Him like a valet. And the Founders knew it. That’s why they tied freedom directly to self-government under God. Because if you’re not governing yourself by God’s truth, some version of Caesar will step in and do it for you.
Biblical Backup
Psalm 24:1 — “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.”
Genesis 1:27 — We are made in His image.
Deuteronomy 6:6-7 — Parents are commanded to teach God’s ways diligently to their children (not farm it out to Caesar).
Acts 5:29 — “We must obey God rather than men.”
So What Now?
This isn’t about saying taxes are evil or that government has zero role. It’s about remembering: Caesar is a steward. God is the Owner. When Caesar forgets that — or when we do — we end up handing over things God never said belonged to the state.
The Outlaw Faith Challenge
This week, ask yourself:
What have I handed over to Caesar that actually belongs to God?
My kids’ education?
My definition of truth?
My family’s values?
My own sense of responsibility for my life?
If the answer is “yes,” it’s time to take it back. Because God doesn’t just want your Sundays — He wants everything.
Tomorrow: The Founders’ Warning — What Happens When We Kick God Out of Public Life.
Welcome back to Outlaw Faith, where today we’re kicking down the door of one of the biggest lies in modern politics: separation of church and state.
If you’ve ever mentioned God in a public setting — or worse, a government setting — someone has probably shouted this phrase at you like they just won a debate trophy. Problem is, they have no clue what it actually means. And if Thomas Jefferson could see what they’ve done with his words, he’d probably chuck a brick through their window.
Where It Actually Comes From
The phrase comes from a letter — not the Constitution, not the Declaration, not the Bill of Rights. A letter Jefferson wrote in 1802 to the Danbury Baptists. They were worried that the federal government might create a national church (like the Church of England). Jefferson assured them that the First Amendment built a “wall of separation between Church and State.”
That’s it.
It wasn’t about silencing faith in public life — it was about protecting churches from government interference. Jefferson wasn’t trying to keep God out of politics; he was making sure politicians couldn’t mess with how you worship God.
The Founders Wanted God In the Public Square — Loud and Clear
Let’s talk about Benjamin Rush — signer of the Declaration, medical genius, and the Father of American Education. You know what Dr. Rush said?
“The only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion.”
He went further:
“The Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life.”
The founder of America’s public school system literally wanted the Bible in the classroom — because he knew you can’t educate people for self-governance without moral truth. And he wasn’t alone.
What Separation Meant to Them (Not What It Means to your average blue-check X feed)
What Modern Culture Says
What the Founders Actually Believed
“No God in public.”
“Religion and morality are indispensable supports.” — Washington
“Faith is private.”
“The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity.” — Adams
“Schools must be secular.”
“The Bible should be read in our schools.” — Rush
The whole point was to avoid a state-run church, not to strip faith from public life. The Founders would’ve laughed (or cried) if you told them the phrase would one day be used to ban nativity scenes from courthouses or the Ten Commandments from schools.
Faith Wasn’t a Side Note — It Was the Bedrock
Washington prayed at his inauguration.
Congress printed Bibles for schools — with tax dollars.
The Northwest Ordinance (1787) — the law for new territories — literally said schools should teach “religion, morality, and knowledge.”
Early Congress sessions opened with prayer and Bible reading — and still do.
The Founders weren’t hiding their faith under the table — they were building the table on top of it.
The Bible’s Take on It All
This whole debate is really about authority. Who’s the ultimate authority — God or government? The Bible’s answer is clear:
“The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.” — Psalm 24:1
Governments don’t create rights — they’re supposed to recognize the rights God already gave. That’s why the Declaration says “endowed by their Creator.” If rights come from God, then governments have limits — they can’t mess with what God already settled. That’s the whole philosophy behind America. No God = no anchor for rights = government becomes your god.
What To Do With This
Next time someone throws “separation of church and state” at you, smile — then explain where it really came from.
Carry a Benjamin Rush quote in your wallet just for fun.
Don’t apologize for bringing your faith into public life — that’s literally the American way.
Tomorrow, we’ll hit the big one — What Jesus Actually Said About Politics. Spoiler: It’s way deeper than just “Render unto Caesar.”
Questions, rants, or stories about getting yelled at for praying in public? Drop them in the comments.