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0:00After four years of overt persecution by
0:03the Biden administration, where elderly
0:05prolifers were rounded up and thrown in
0:07prison for non-violent protests outside
0:09abortion clinics, where the FBI
0:11explicitly wrote about a crackdown on
0:13radical Catholic violent extremists, uh,
0:16and where peaceful demonstrators were
0:17hunted down by SWAT teams at their homes
0:19at gunpoint in front of their children.
0:22It's hard to overstate how much has
0:24changed for Christians in this country.
0:26The federal government no longer uses
0:27the force of law to compel Christians,
0:30especially Christian schools to violate
0:33central tenants of their faith, for
0:34example, by facilitating abortion or
0:37transgender insanity. People have more
0:39options to send their children to
0:41Christian schools. Instead of importing
0:43millions of Muslims from failed states
0:45like Somalia, who spend every waking
0:46moment finding new ways to defraud us,
0:48were taking in Christian refugees from
0:50places like South Africa, where they've
0:52been persecuted because of their faith
0:54and their skin color. All this is
0:56happening because for the first time in
0:59memory, the federal government is
1:01willing to affirm in explicit and
1:02unambiguous terms that America is a
1:06Christian nation with an obligation to
1:08spread the faith and advance the
1:10interests of Christians. So, this is a
1:13post featuring uh Marco Rubio that went
1:15up on the State Department's official
1:17social media accounts this week. It's a
1:19video that has led to predictable
1:21meltdowns from every depraved demonic
1:24corner of the left. And and for that
1:26reason, naturally, we're going to play
1:28it in full. It's a It's a great video.
1:30Watch.
1:32Our faith calls us outwards into the
1:35limitless darkness of the unknown. It
1:39tells us to go forth and preach the
1:40gospel to the world as a witness unto
1:42all nations, unto the ends of the earth.
1:46From that command came America. Our
1:50nation, more than any other in history,
1:52was shaped by this Christian idea. This
1:56is who we are. And from the beginning,
1:59we have carried the belief that our
2:01country represents something new in the
2:02world. But the soul of our nation
2:06has always been rooted in an ancient
2:09faith.
2:15So all the pride month depravity which
2:17the previous state department tried to
2:20export to every corner of the earth was
2:23really of course a direct assault on the
2:25Christian history and lineage of this
2:28country that Marco Rubio just outlined.
2:31As we know the goal of leftist ideology
2:33is not to create anything coherent or
2:35functional. They don't want so much to
2:37produce a new set of rules for governing
2:39an orderly society or ensuring human
2:41flourishing, but rather to destroy the
2:43rules of sources of human flourishing
2:45already established. Their followers, in
2:48addition to being profane and
2:49nihilistic, are obsessed with grievance
2:51and weakness and narcissism and shame.
2:54They complain endlessly. They melt down
2:56at even the slightest criticism. They
2:58try to ruin people's lives when they
3:00step out of line. They give themselves
3:02the powers of gods, but at some level
3:05they understand it's all fraudulent.
3:06It's an act and not a very convincing
3:08one. And that's why for all their talk
3:10about pride, they're as we know clearly
3:13miserable people. Now, on the other
3:15hand, the message of Christianity is
3:18very different. It's the diametric
3:20opposite. In fact, it's a religion that
3:22teaches uh you know um not only about
3:25mercy but justice and virtue and
3:28preaches the promise of salvation. At
3:30its core, this is obviously inherently a
3:33hopeful message. Any sinner can be
3:35saved. And every great man of American
3:38history, without exception, understood
3:40this. Our government leaders should not
3:43be shy about saying it either. And
3:45historically, they haven't been. Now,
3:48the occasion for this video from the
3:49State Department is something called
3:51International Religious Freedom Day,
3:53which was created in 1998
3:55uh through a law that was passed during
3:57the Clinton administration. And although
3:59it you know uh progressed through
4:01Congress because of Christian
4:02persecution all over the world, Clinton
4:04himself of course insisted that the law
4:06had nothing to do with Christianity in
4:09particular. He stated the goal was quote
4:11to promote the religious freedom of
4:12people of all backgrounds whether
4:14Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Jewish,
4:16Buddhist, Hindu, Tauist or any other
4:19faith.
4:20So this is the kind of leadership we've
4:22been uh used to for some time. Our
4:24politicians bulk at the idea of
4:26promoting Christianity in any way. So
4:29it's just another faith along with all
4:31the others they say you know sending the
4:33message of course that Christianity has
4:36no particular relevance to America.
4:38We're supposed to take seriously the
4:40idea the fantasy that taloism and like
4:44seekism are somehow just just as crucial
4:46to the American identity as the religion
4:48Christianity that quite literally built
4:51the country.
4:53And so it's just totally false as we'll
4:55discuss in a moment. But it's also
4:56ironic in this case given that the whole
4:58idea of international religious freedom
5:00day is to celebrate religious freedom as
5:03the name suggests which exists because
5:06of Christianity. In fact the first
5:09person in western history to use the
5:10words freedom of religion as far as we
5:12know was a Christian apologist in North
5:16Africa named Tertalian. Uh this is circa
5:19197 AD. This is from the Russell Kirk
5:22Center in Michigan. Quote, Tertullian,
5:23the second century North African cong
5:26convert is most famous today for his uh
5:29observation about the blood of the
5:30martyrs being the seed of the church at
5:32a time of harsh if sporadic persecution.
5:35Tertalian argued that Rome should allow
5:37Christians to exercise their faith
5:39because religious freedom was an
5:40essential component of human nature. It
5:43is only just and a privilege inherent in
5:46human nature. He wrote in his apology
5:48that every person should be able to
5:49worship according to his own
5:50convictions. For one person's religion
5:53neither harms nor hurts another.
5:5616 centuries later, Jefferson would
5:58write something remarkably similar in
5:59notes on the state of Virginia. It does
6:01me no injury for my neighbor to say that
6:03there are 20 gods or no god. Historian
6:05Robert Lewis Wilin notes that Jefferson
6:08had a copy of the apology in his
6:09personal library and marked the passage
6:12about religious freedom. So, for many
6:15reasons, it was appropriate for Rubio
6:17State Department to release this video
6:18for International Religious Freedom Day.
6:21Even if you're a godless communist, you
6:24should be able to admit that Christians
6:25deserve credit as pioneers in the field
6:28of religious freedom and every other
6:30kind of freedom. By the way, our entire
6:32conception of human rights as we
6:34understand it today is inexurably tied
6:36to Christian teaching. Human rights are
6:39certainly without question a religious
6:41doctrine. You know, the idea of
6:43inalienable rights somehow spiritually
6:45endowed in us from the moment of our
6:47creation cannot even be understood or
6:51made sense of at all except through a
6:54religious framework. The idea of human
6:56rights are are actually incoherent
6:59without the religious framework. And the
7:02religious framework that makes the most
7:03sense of them and that formed human
7:05rights as we know them today as a
7:07doctrine is Christianity.
7:10And that's just a truth of history.
7:11There's no way around it. And yet, one
7:13after another, all of the most perverse
7:15and unhinged leftists in the country
7:17came out to condemn this video right on
7:20Q. And leading the charge was Scott
7:23Weiner, who's about to take Nancy
7:25Pelosy's seat in Congress. And apologies
7:28to anyone watching the video podcast,
7:30but you know, looks like we just put a a
7:32picture up on the screen of this guy.
7:34This is the model uh of the Democrat
7:36party. This is the model. This is the
7:38model Democrat party politician, you
7:40know, at the moment. It's it's
7:42everything they stand for. I guess Hakee
7:44Jeff, you know, might be in contention,
7:46too, as he's, you know, the illiterate
7:48black Obama impersonator who's been
7:50promoted far beyond his level of
7:52competence. But I don't know, Scott
7:54Weiner is up there. If these people had
7:56been in power when Mount Rushmore was
7:58was built, it would have looked like
8:00this. It would have looked like that SNL
8:01Chippendale sketch, the one with Chris
8:03Farley is basically what the And there
8:05it is right there. We needed to show you
8:06that, too. So, just picture their faces
8:08on on mountains in South Dakota, and you
8:10get the idea. This is what tourists
8:12would be subjected to if the demented
8:14gay perverts had been running things
8:16back in the early 20th century, or at
8:18least if they had been out of the
8:19closet. But in any event, Weiner is
8:22perhaps most famous for leading the
8:23campaign to decriminalize the
8:25intentional spreading of HIV,
8:27which is a thing that he did. He's also
8:30known for making it more difficult for
8:31prosecutors to incarcerate gay men who
8:34pray on children. You know, quite a
8:36resume. And as you'd expect, given that
8:38he's a genuinely repulsive individual
8:41who shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a
8:43school zone, much less should he be
8:45allowed to hold public office. Weer was
8:47shocked, appalled by Rubio's video,
8:51positively a gasast by the whole thing.
8:53So, he wrote uh he wrote this with with
8:55maximum indignation. He wrote simply,
8:58quote, "This is an official United
9:00States government account promoting the
9:03Christian gospel.
9:05Now, when I saw this, I hadn't actually
9:06seen Rubio's video yet. So, I was
9:09genuinely thankful that Weiner pointed
9:11it out. He performed an actual public
9:14service for once in his life by helping
9:16to spread this fantastic video around
9:18the internet. And, you know, if I didn't
9:20know any better based on the caption, if
9:24I didn't know who this guy was, I would
9:26think that he was celebrating the video.
9:29Indeed, the official US government
9:30account is promoting the Christian
9:32gospel and that's a wonderful thing.
9:36You know, it's impossible for the
9:38promotion of the Christian gospel to be
9:40anything but a wonderful thing.
9:44Promoting a false gospel is bad. But if
9:46you are if you are promoting the actual
9:49Christian gospel,
9:51then it's a good thing always and
9:53everywhere.
9:55And this goes to show how the two sides
9:57of the ideological divide live not just
9:59in different countries but different
10:00universes. If you needed yet more
10:02evidence of that, you know, to uh to
10:06Weird Weiner and his weird followers, a
10:08phrase like promoting the Christian
10:10gospel
10:11has, you know, the exact opposite
10:13connotation. It's it's not something
10:14that automatically is good to them. They
10:16they see it as inherently bad in all
10:18contexts.
10:20And so much so that he doesn't even need
10:22to explain why it's bad or include any
10:25other commentary about it. He could just
10:28say they're promoting the Christian
10:30gospel. And to his followers, they
10:32immediately see that as obviously bad to
10:35him. You know, saying they're promoting
10:37the Christian gospel is akin to saying
10:40they're drowning puppies in the river.
10:42Like you don't need to you don't have
10:43you don't you don't feel the need to
10:44explain why you oppose it. It's just
10:46obviously terrible. That's how they see
10:48it.
10:49Christianity to Scott Weiner is like
10:51garlic to a vampire. But but you have to
10:53wonder if this guy knows anything about
10:56American history, which he doesn't, or
10:58if he cares, which he also doesn't,
11:00because he seems shocked by the idea
11:02that the government would ever promote
11:03Christianity in any way. Meanwhile, for
11:06the for most for most of American
11:08history, especially at the founding and
11:11for a long time thereafter, the
11:13government was expressly in the business
11:15of promoting, defending, and
11:16promulgating Christianity.
11:19That's not up for debate. Again, it's
11:22it's an historical fact. No matter how
11:25you feel about it, that's what happened.
11:28For example, in April uh 1776, just a
11:30few months before the Declaration of
11:32Independence was signed, the Continental
11:34Congress hired a Christian missionary
11:36for the express purpose of converting
11:38the Indians.
11:40quote resolved that the commissioners
11:42for Indian affairs in the middle
11:44department employ a minister of the
11:45gospel to reside among the Delaware
11:48Indians and instruct them in the
11:49Christian religion a school master to
11:51teach their youth reading writing and
11:52arithmetic and also a blacksmith to do
11:54the work of the Indians in the middle
11:56department.
11:58So yeah, it's an interesting little
12:01detail and and then just a few years
12:02later as the war for independence raged
12:04on, Congress went out of its way to
12:06explicitly endorse the Bible. This is
12:08from the Daily Signal. Quote, on
12:09September 12th, 1782, Congress under the
12:11Articles of Confederation officially
12:13endorsed the Atkin Bible or the Bible of
12:16the Revolution as the first complete
12:19English language Bible in America. The
12:21Bible was named after its printer,
12:23Robert Atkin. The uh endorsement was
12:26supported by the chaplain of Congress at
12:28the time.
12:30Shockingly enough, at the time, you
12:31know, there were no gay shirtless men
12:34wearing leather pants and black ties for
12:36some reason who objected to this
12:38resolution.
12:40It's almost as if like the scrawny gay
12:42HIV fanatic is not in fact
12:45representative of America or its
12:46traditions or its history. He likes to
12:49pretend that Rubio State Department just
12:51violated some some kind of ancient norm.
12:54But in reality, it is Scott Weiner who
12:56has made a career
12:58of mocking this country and its
13:00Christian traditions and its norms.
13:04And if you're ignorant of our history,
13:05then you might be inclined to believe
13:06what he's saying. You might buy into the
13:08idea that, you know, this country's
13:10government somehow never endorsed
13:11Christianity. You might buy into the lie
13:13about about the separation of church and
13:15state, which is a mostly fabricated
13:17concept that only became fashionable in
13:21the 1960s.
13:23Never mind the fact that in the early
13:2519th century, the federal government
13:27financed a Catholic church under
13:29Jefferson's administration, no less,
13:30even though Jefferson is closely
13:31associated with the idea of separating
13:33church and state. Also, forget about how
13:35in 1819, Congress through the
13:37Civilization Fund Act provided a
13:40significant amount of money for schools
13:42that converted Indians to Christianity.
13:44Pay no attention to the fact that in
13:461869, the president, Ulysus Srant, spent
13:49a paragraph of his inaugural address
13:51promoting the idea that the so-called
13:54Native Americans should be Christian.
13:56Now, if you pull up some transcripts of
13:58Grant's speech, you'll find that many of
14:00them actually omit this line or edit it
14:02out, believe it or not. But but here's
14:04what he said in full. Quote, "The proper
14:08treatment of the original occupants of
14:10this land, the Indians, is one deserving
14:12of careful study. I will favor any
14:14course toward them which tends to their
14:16civilization, Christianization, and
14:19ultimate citizenship.
14:21Now, notice how for Grant a a necessary
14:24precursor of citizenship was
14:26Christianization.
14:28And basically every prominent leader of
14:30this country for its first century and
14:33beyond felt exactly the same way. But
14:36what's remarkable is that if you look up
14:38this speech on most websites, including
14:39Yale Universities, the quote will say
14:41this. The proper treatment of the
14:43original occupants of this land, the
14:44Indians, is one deserving of careful
14:46study. I will favor any course toward
14:48them which tends to their uh civilian uh
14:50their their civilization and ultimate
14:53citizenship.
14:54So, they just they took out the middle
14:56part there about Christian
14:57Christianization. They just flat out
14:59censor it. They're relying on a
15:01compilation of Grant speeches that was
15:03created decades later, which itself
15:06omits the word Christianization. And
15:08meanwhile, the contemporary versions of
15:09the speech, the ones where stenographers
15:12wrote down what Grant was saying while
15:14he was saying it, include the word
15:16Christianization.
15:18So there's no reasonable question about
15:20what Grant said. But various historians
15:22would like to pretend he didn't say
15:24that. Even though in his State of the
15:26Union address one year later, he doubled
15:28down on exactly this sentiment.
15:30Specifically, Grant said, quote, "Indian
15:32agencies being civil offices, I
15:34determined to give all the agencies to
15:36such religious denominations as adhere
15:38to for establish missionaries among the
15:40Indians and perhaps to some other
15:42denominations who would undertake the
15:44work on the same terms, i.e. as a
15:46missionary work. The society selected
15:48are allowed to name their own agents
15:50subjected to the approval of the
15:51executive and are expected to watch over
15:53them and aid them as missionaries to
15:55Christianize and civilize the Indian and
15:57to train him in the arts of peace. The
15:59government watches over the official
16:00acts of these agents and requires of
16:02them as strict an accountability as if
16:04they were appointed in any other manner.
16:08So basically a grant gave control of
16:09around 70 federal Indian agencies,
16:13agencies headquartered on Native
16:15American reservations over to Christian
16:17missionaries and church leaders. This
16:20was his so-called peace policy. And
16:21amazingly enough, there was no outrage
16:24whatsoever that Grant was violating the
16:26separation of church and state. No one
16:28claimed that Grant had violated the
16:30First Amendment or done something
16:32shockingly unconstitutional. The thought
16:34never crossed anyone's mind. Actually,
16:36that's because at the time and for most
16:38of this country's history, right up
16:40until the civil rights era, no one
16:42thought that the church should be
16:44separate from the state. Instead, we
16:46understood the First Amendment
16:47prohibited the government from
16:48establishing a national religion or
16:51barring the practice of other religions.
16:53That's it. So if Grant had given control
16:56over these agencies to one particular
16:58Protestant denomination as part of a
17:00plan to make that one denomination into
17:02a national religion
17:04then people would have been upset. That
17:06would have been unconstitutional. But
17:07because he gave control to many
17:09different Christian groups no one had a
17:11problem with it. There was no
17:13expectation that the government because
17:15of the first amendment could not promote
17:17Christianity.
17:19I mean that idea would have been absurd
17:21to the typical American when it comes to
17:23the separation of church and state. The
17:24only thing the first amendment was meant
17:26to prohibit
17:27was the government was exactly what it
17:29says which is the government mandating
17:31that its citizens follow one particular
17:34faith. But as for promoting, preaching,
17:38passing laws based on its teachings and
17:40precepts. There was no such prohibition
17:44and nobody ever thought there was any
17:46such prohibition until modern times.
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19:38To the extent that anyone opposed
19:39Grant's peace policy, it was coming from
19:41the corrupt senators who wanted to
19:43retain their control over these
19:44agencies. It was also coming from people
19:46who wanted to eliminate the Indians
19:48entirely instead of negotiating with
19:49them and managing them. But it was not a
19:52first amendment issue. Now admittedly,
19:54it's true that thanks to unrestricted
19:56mass migration, we now have far fewer
19:58Christians in this country than ever
19:59before as a total um as a percentage of
20:02the population. The overwhelming
20:04majority of people living in the United
20:05States are Christian, but the percentage
20:07has been declining. That's accurate.
20:10Major cities like New York and Los
20:12Angeles and Minneapolis are now
20:13unrecognizable as a result. Since 9/11,
20:16Muslims in particular have conquered
20:18large portions of the United States. But
20:20that doesn't mean that we are no longer
20:23a Christian nation. You that'd be saying
20:26that'd be like saying Iraq became a
20:27Christian nation after we invaded it.
20:30You know, the presence of hostile
20:31foreign hordes
20:34does not somehow negate this country's
20:37Christian heritage. Christianity is
20:39embedded in our traditions and our laws
20:42and our constitution. And all you know,
20:45for anyone who likes to say America is
20:47an idea, which it isn't. It's much more
20:48than that. America is a nation. But if
20:51you think America is an idea, well,
20:52guess what? It's a Christian idea.
20:56And all the ideas that lay at the
20:58foundation of our actual nation, which
21:00is a nation, not just an idea, are
21:02Christian ideas. Now, there's even
21:04something called the Sundays accepted
21:06clause in the Constitution, which states
21:07that the president has 10 days to veto a
21:09bill accepting Sundays
21:12because Sunday is the Christian Sabbath.
21:15And these are things that you're never
21:17told in school. And therefore, leftists
21:18don't know any of this. Or if they do
21:20know it, they deny it. Along those
21:22lines, here's how a guy named Jacob, who
21:24apparently has a hockey podcast or
21:25something, responded to uh Rubio's v
21:28video.
21:29He specifically is referring to the idea
21:31that Christ that America was shaped by
21:33the Christian tradition.
21:35And uh he writes, quote, "No, the actual
21:38f it wasn't holy. In fact, the exact
21:41opposite is true. It should be
21:43terrifying to everyone that a nation
21:45founded on religious freedom and the
21:46separation of church and state is
21:48touting this ideology.
21:51Now, first of all, as we've discussed
21:53before, the term separation of church
21:55and state is nowhere in the
21:56Constitution. It comes from an 1802
21:58letter that Thomas Jefferson privately
22:00wrote to some Baptist in Connecticut. He
22:02was trying to convey the idea that
22:04religion is a matter which lies solely
22:06between man and his god, which is not
22:08remotely controversial. Uh he wasn't
22:10establishing any kind of, you know, bar
22:13on on the government promoting religion.
22:16and he was far more concerned about the
22:17government's toxic effect on religion
22:20than on religion's effect on the
22:22government. So his point of many ways
22:25was the opposite of what you know
22:26midwits like Jacob here will say. As
22:29much as I'm hesitant to bust out
22:30Google's engram viewer again, uh this is
22:33actually a useful tool. They scan books
22:34and historical texts going back
22:36centuries and they look for key terms
22:38and how they became popular or less
22:41popular with time. And as you might
22:44remember from our real history episode
22:46on the Indians, the engram viewer showed
22:48that the uh term Trail of Tears only
22:51became popular in the 1960s,
22:53long after the Trail of Tears supposedly
22:56occurred. It was largely an invention of
22:59activists in the civil rights era who
23:00wanted to use the alleged plight of
23:02Indians to demand concessions from the
23:03Nixon administration. So in the same
23:05vein,
23:07here is the engram viewer's accounting
23:09of the use of the term separation of
23:11church and state over the years.
23:15And as you can see, it was basically
23:17non-existent.
23:18There's one little spike there in the
23:201830s, but basically non-existent
23:23um until about the late 1950s and 1960s,
23:26and now it's everywhere. People became
23:28convinced that separation of church and
23:30state was a real idea that our founders
23:32came up with. and based our system of
23:35government on largely because of a
23:37series of very dumb left-wing court uh
23:40Supreme Court decisions. But there was
23:42never any historical basis for believing
23:44this. It's yet another modern fiction
23:45invented during the hysteria of the
23:471960s back at a time when a lot of
23:50historical fictions were being invented.
23:53Now, we'll read one more reaction to
23:54Rubio's uh video just to illustrate how
23:57desperately unhinged and wrong these
23:58people are. This one comes from a
24:00nonprofit called the Freedom from
24:01Religion Foundation.
24:03Um,
24:05it says, quote, "Christianity's global
24:07spread was marked by colonialism, forced
24:09conversions, destruction of indigenous
24:11cultures, and religious persecution.
24:13International Religious Freedom Day
24:14should celebrate the freedom to believe
24:16or not believe, not the spread of
24:18Christianity."
24:20Now putting aside the fact that the
24:22spread of pretty much every major
24:23religion has been marked by colonialism
24:25and the destruction of cultures, Islam
24:29in particular is that would be true of
24:32and also putting aside the fact that
24:33Christians were the first people to
24:34advocate for religious freedom in the
24:36west. Putting all that aside, it's
24:38necessary to respond head-on to this
24:40objection by affirming
24:42that colonialism and the destruction of
24:44indigenous cultures was good actually.
24:48And if you don't understand why, we have
24:49several real history real history
24:51episodes that go into great detail on
24:53this topic. Uh these so-called cultures
24:56were barbaric. They were unsustainable.
24:59They were violent and savage. They led
25:02in every single case to widespread death
25:04and horrors beyond human comprehension.
25:07To the extent that Christians intervened
25:09forcefully to put an end to this misery,
25:10they created the conditions necessary
25:13for civilization to flourish today. They
25:17created conditions that allow religious
25:18freedom in the modern era. Without
25:22colonization, these primitive people
25:24would either be dead or they'd still be
25:26ripping each other's hearts out to
25:27appease the sun god.
25:30As the saying goes, the Aztecs were
25:31famously good at open heart surgery.
25:33They just couldn't figure out how to put
25:34the heart back in was the idea. And
25:37every single person who complains today
25:38about the uh Christian colonialists is
25:41much much happier and much freer and
25:44more comfortable than they would be had
25:47the Christian colonialists never
25:48existed.
25:50That again is inarguable. Without
25:52Christianity and without Christian
25:54colonialism and imperialism in
25:56particular, your life would be
25:58significantly worse if you existed at
26:02all, which you probably wouldn't. And
26:04again, that's just a fact.
26:06Really though, the idea of religious
26:07freedom day is not the main issue here.
26:09This is a fake holiday that was created
26:11by Clinton in 1998. So, who really
26:13cares? The main issue is that more
26:16Americans need to understand that we in
26:18fact are a Christian nation and we
26:21should devote more government resources
26:23towards spreading Christianity and and
26:25benefiting Christians in particular.
26:28We're allowed to do that. We have an
26:29upcoming real history episode on
26:31colonization that goes into great detail
26:33on this point. And one of the main
26:35sources we use is Samuel Huntington's
26:37book called Who Are We? Uh it's one of
26:40the strongest arguments you'll find in
26:42support of the idea that America is a
26:43Christian nation. There's plenty of
26:45amazing details in there, which you
26:48don't often hear in schools, which we'll
26:49cover in the documentary. Uh, one of his
26:51more interesting insights is that the
26:53founders were interested in prohibiting
26:55state religions, not because they wanted
26:58to live in a in a Reddit style atheist
27:01dystopia, but because they wanted to
27:03create the conditions for religion to
27:04grow, expand, and and ultimately
27:07dominate American culture and political
27:10life. So, this is from the book, page 85
27:12or so,
27:14and here's what it says. quote uh a
27:17republic can only be supported by pure
27:19religion or austere morals. John Adams
27:22said, "The Bible offers the only system
27:24that ever did or ever will preserve a
27:26republic in the world. Our constitution
27:28was made only for a moral and religious
27:30people." Washington agreed. Reason and
27:33experience both forbid us to expect that
27:36national morality can prevail in
27:38exclusion of religious principles. 50
27:40years after the constitution was
27:41adopted, uh, Toqueville reported that
27:44all Americans held religion to be
27:45indispensable to the maintenance of
27:47republican institutions. This opinion is
27:49not peculiar to a class of citizens or
27:51to a party, but it belongs to the whole
27:53nation and to every rank of society. The
27:56words separation of church and state do
27:58not appear in the constitution. And as
28:00Sydney me pointed out, Madison spoke not
28:02of church and state, European concepts
28:04with little relevance to America, but of
28:06sex and civil authority and the line,
28:09not the wall between them. The pro
28:11prohibition of an established national
28:12religion and the gradual
28:14disestablishment of state religions
28:16promoted the growth of religion in
28:17society. As the state's authority and
28:19religion faded, John Butler notes,
28:21denominational authority expanded,
28:23leading to the single most important
28:24institutional development of
28:25post-revolutionary Christianity. the
28:27shift of religious authority away from
28:29the state toward the voluntary
28:31institutional bodies. Out of this shift
28:33came an extraordinary expansion of
28:35denominational institutions.
28:37This is a thesis that's the exact
28:39opposite of what everyone is taught in
28:41school. You know, you're told that the
28:42founders were skeptical of religious
28:44influence in government. And the truth
28:46is that they wanted more religious
28:48influence in every aspect of American
28:50society. Now, Huntington continues by
28:52pointing out that to European observers,
28:54America was unquestionably a religious
28:56state,
28:58far more so than uh any country on the
29:01planet. Quote, "At the end of the 18th
29:03century, religious establishments
29:05existed throughout European countries
29:06and in several American states. State
29:09control of the church was a key element
29:10of state power, and the established
29:13church in turn provided legitimacy to
29:15the state. The framers of the American
29:17Constitution prohibited an established
29:19national church in order to limit the
29:21power of government and protect and
29:22strengthen religion in the absence of a
29:24state religion. Americans were free to
29:27create whatever religious communities
29:28and organizations they wished. When
29:30substantial numbers of Catholic
29:31immigrants arrived, it was eventually
29:33possible to accept Catholicism as one
29:35more denomination within the broad
29:37framework of Christianity. proportion of
29:39the population who were religious
29:40adherence that is church members
29:42increased fairly steadily throughout
29:44most of European or rather American
29:46history. European observers repeatedly
29:48commented on the high levels of
29:49religious commitment of Americans
29:51compared to that of their own people.
29:52Toqueville uh said quote on my arrival
29:55in the United States the religious
29:56aspect of the country was the first
29:57thing that struck my attention. In
29:59France, religion and liberty opposed
30:00each other. The Americans in contrast
30:03have succeeded combining admirably the
30:06spirit of religion and the spirit of
30:07liberty. Religion in America must be
30:09regarded as the first of their political
30:12institutions. This is why at every
30:14opportunity our government must not
30:15simply tolerate Christianity but promote
30:17it. That doesn't mean establishing a
30:20national church which would be
30:21counterproductive as the founders
30:22recognized. But it does mean that we
30:24should identify new ways to enable
30:26Christianity to flourish. And for
30:29starters, we should do exactly what the
30:30Trump administration is doing, which is
30:31to work to end the persecution of
30:33Christians both in the US and places
30:35like Africa, and also to affirm, as
30:37Marco Rubio just did, that we are a
30:40Christian nation and and always will be.
30:44Contrast Huntington's thesis with this
30:46report from the left-wing outlet, The
30:47Intercept, which was published just a
30:49few months ago. The Intercept was
30:51panicking over Instagram posts on the
30:53State Department's official account. And
30:55here's what they wrote. The State
30:57Department has shifted its public image
30:58in favor of explicit Christian messaging
31:00and iconography and away from secular
31:02and multicultural causes. An analysis by
31:05The Intercept of the Department's
31:06Instagram post has found post marking
31:08Passover, Good Friday, and Easter in
31:092026 included explicitly religious
31:12messaging, including imagery of
31:14Christian crosses and references to
31:15Christ's sacrifice and the resurrection.
31:17The intercepts analysis, which cataloged
31:19the department's Instagram post from
31:202020 through early 2026, found these
31:23posts show a clear change in messaging,
31:25not only from the Biden's uh years, but
31:27also from President Donald Trump's first
31:29term.
31:31So, they're really proud of their deep
31:32dive investigative reporting here. They
31:34relentlessly catalog Instagram posts on
31:37the State Department website, and they
31:39found that to their shock and horror,
31:40the State Department is talking less
31:42about gay deviants and more about
31:43Christianity.
31:45Cutting edge journalism to say the
31:46least. He said, "The best part is that
31:47at the top of the page, they have a
31:49gigantic banner where they beg for
31:50donations. So, you know, you can fund
31:53even more articles about the State
31:54Department's Instagram account." But the
31:57point is, look at the contrast between
31:58the wailing of modern-day leftists as
32:00compared to what the Europeans and
32:02Americans were saying about the US in
32:04its earliest days, continuing through
32:06the 19th century. They're talking about
32:08constitutional principles and history
32:10that they don't remotely understand. And
32:12that's because their goal is always is
32:14to rewrite history. They want to
32:15dismantle and undermine Christianity,
32:18not because they want a wall between
32:20church and state, but because they want
32:22total control over it. Now, as the
32:25election nears, we are reminded of the
32:27constant fight against communist ideas.
32:30Uh, the Daily Wire likes to be at the
32:31forefront of that fight, which is why we
32:34have a new movie coming out on November
32:3511th about just that. And, uh, it's
32:38called Confession.
32:40And here it is. Here's the trailer.
32:44Father, I used to feel Christ.
32:49I cannot feel anything here.
33:02>> They take me out of my bed and they
33:04brought me here and they tell me
33:06nothing.
33:06>> What have I done?
33:07>> Article 58, counterrevolutionary
33:10activity.
33:11>> That is all I know. They have to deal
33:14with so many enemies of the state. All
33:17of whom claim their innocence who
33:19protest, who cry.
33:27There are no answers here
33:31other than the ones they put in your
33:32mouth.
33:33>> Your break.
33:36>> Today is your opportunity to demonstrate
33:39your loyalty to the people.
33:43I would like to know why I'm here. Of
33:45course,
33:49>> you already know, don't you?
33:50>> You must believe in something greater
33:53than the party.
33:55>> You will remember your duty. I've told
33:57you I know nothing. We grow like a feral
34:01animal.
34:02>> You stink of failure.
34:04>> You want me to lie?
34:05>> Still a drunk. Damn you.
34:09>> They all break.
34:13Maybe.
34:27So, that comes out November 11th. You're
34:29not going to want to miss that. That'll
34:30uh and that'll do it for the show today.
34:31Next week, I'll be joining other uh
34:33hosts from the Daily Wire for our
34:35election coverage as the results in the
34:37allimp important midterm elections start
34:39coming in. Uh, Daily Wire has a new
34:40midterm hub for polls, forecast
34:42predictions, and so on, which you're
34:44going to want to check. Uh, our live
34:45election coverage starts next Tuesday at
34:48700 p.m. Central. Hope to see you there.
34:51Have a great weekend. Godspeed.

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