Well, the two, I think, key things that affect our values are the Revolution and the institutions that flowed from it, the Constitution and Bill of Rights, but also something which we rarely think about or realize. We are the only Protestant sectarian country in the world, i.e., the overwhelming majority of Americans belong to the Protestant sects, the Methodists, the Baptists, and the hundreds of others. They were all state churches. They're hierarchical, and the relationship of the parishioner to the church is that he's supposed to be obedient. He's supposed to listen to the bishop and the priest and so on.
American sectarians are congregational.
The minister is an employee of the members, and the sectarianism requires that the members read the Bible, study the Bible, make their own decisions, and, and whatever they come to the conclusion is moral, they're morally obligated to, to do it. So we're a much more moralistic country. But once you've reached those, it, it also makes us more moralistic as well. I was interested in that. Standing there next to his widow.