As America’s 250th birthday celebration on July 4th of 2026 inches closer, Dr. Ben Carson is doing his part by reinvigorating the national conversation around the country’s faith-based origins with a new children’s book set for release around the same time. Carson, President Donald Trump’s Housing and Urban Development Secretary in the latter’s first term, spoke about the lack of real education in schools where the intent often seems to misrepresent America’s past and undermine traditional faith and history.
“A lot of people really don’t understand the role of faith in our country, and they say we’re not a faith-based country,” Carson said in an interview with Fox News Digital. “I wonder if those people have read our founding document, the Declaration of Independence, which says that our rights come from our Creator. Very cogent. It’s a fundamental part of our foundation.
Carson would go on to explain away the longstanding myth that many founding fathers were mere deists who acknowledge the existence of God but not His active role in their lives. “And they say that our founders were Deist. They believed that there was a God, but they didn’t think he played any role. Obviously, they don’t know a lot about our history, about George Washington, and how much he prayed, and how he was called the Bullet Proof Washington,” he said of the matter.
Continuing with Washington’s forgotten nickname, he added: “[B]ecause during the Battle of Monongahela, during the French and Indian War, he was the only carrier that wasn’t shot and killed. He had two horses shot from beneath him. Had four bullet holes in his coat, bullet fragments in his hair, no flesh wounds.”
“And interestingly enough, one of the Indian chiefs came to him many years later, still, before he became president, and said, I just needed to see you before I die, because I’m an expert marksman, and I shot you 17 times, and my men shot you. And pretty soon I told him, stop shooting that this man who’s protected by the Great Spirit above, and I just wanted to meet the man who would become the father of a great nation,” Carson recounted.
He then lamented the lack of patriotic and historical accuracies on account of political correctness and liberal agendas. “And that used to be in all of our history books, before it became politically incorrect, and they want to take it out,” he concluded in the interview.
As mentioned, Dr. Carson has a new children’s book that focuses on these buried stories of America’s founding and history, set to be released around the timing of the momentous 250th birthday celebration. As described on Amazon, where the book can be preordered, Carson blends educational tactics such as rhyming with grounded truths that serves to both entertain and instruct on the true nature of Christianity’s role in America’s founding.
“Liberty the eagle invites young patriots on a soaring journey through America’s founding. From Washington’s pocket Psalms to Franklin’s urgent warnings, readers discover how the Founders’ faith in God shaped their boldest decisions. Through rhythmic verse and powerful truths, children learn that freedom isn’t sustained by strength alone―it’s anchored in hearts that seek God’s wisdom and trust His guidance. America’s foundation wasn’t built on human perfection. It was built on divine direction,” the book’s description states.
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