Michael Medved on the ‘Invisible Hand’ Behind America's Founding

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Author and radio host Michael Medved believes America’s founding was guided by divine providence and shaped by what he calls a “special destiny,” a theme he explores in his new film "The American Miracle." Medved hopes the movie will inspire viewers to feel gratitude -- not guilt -- for the blessings and responsibilities that come with American freedom.

The film was inspired by Michael Medved's 2016 book of the same name. Tim Mahoney directed it.  

"Part of what all those Founders agreed on was the idea of divine providence -- that they had a special destiny for which God had determined a path for the United States," Medved told Crosswalk Headlines. "And that -- it seems to me -- is one of the things that we need to recapture, sending a message that we should feel gratitude, not guilt, about our nation's past." 

 

The film is launching approximately one year prior to the nation's 250th birthday. Medved cites George Washington's 1789 inaugural address, when the first president acknowledged the "Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men." Washington asserted that "every step" of the founders and citizens "seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency." 

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