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America's Hidden History | President's Day | May 16, 2021
- - MALE NARRATOR: MODERN HISTORIANS HAVE REVISED,
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- REWRITTEN, AND EVEN DELETED ENTIRE CHAPTERS
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- OF AMERICAN HISTORY, SO WHAT ARE WE MISSING?
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- WHAT HAPPENED TO THE HISTORY THAT DIDN'T MAKE
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- THE BOOKS?
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- JOIN HISTORIAN DAVID BARTON, TIM BARTON, AND
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- SPECIAL GUESTS AS THEY UNCOVER THE FACTS SOME
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- HISTORIANS DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW.
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- THIS IS AMERICA'S HIDDEN HISTORY.
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- [ MUSIC ]
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- AMERICA'S HIDDEN HISTORY.
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- I'M DAVID BARTON, AND WITH ME IS TIM BARTON,
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- PRESIDENT OF WALL BUILDERS, AND OUR SPECIAL
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- GUEST STEVEN MANSFIELD HISTORIAN, AUTHOR OF
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- NUMBER OF BOOKS.
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- WE'RE GOING TO BE COVERING
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- PRESIDENT'S DAY TODAY.
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- WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT PRESIDENTS FROM EARLY
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- PRESIDENTS UP THROUGH THE PRESENT, AND ACTUALLY,
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- STEVEN, YOU'VE DONE A LOT OF WRITING ON PRESIDENTS.
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- YOU'VE DONE A COUPLE DOZEN BOOKS AND A NUMBER
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- ON PRESIDENTS AND LINCOLN AND OTHERS AS WELL, SO
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- WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A LOT OF FUN WITH YOU TODAY.
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- - STEVEN MANSFIELD: I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO IT.
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- THANKS FOR HAVING ME.
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- - AND LET'S GET STARTED KIND OF WITH WHAT
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- WE'VE GOT AROUND.
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- YOU SEE A LOT OF STUFF ON THE SET.
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- YOU JUST LOOK AROUND THE ASSESSMENT LET'S KIND OF
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- TAKE IT THROUGH SOME OF THE STUFF.
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- WE'VE GOT, FOR EXAMPLE THERE'S A LOT OF BOOKS
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- THAT WE'LL GET TO LATER, BUT DOWN IN FRONT YOU'VE
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- GOT GEORGE WASHINGTON WASH HERE, AND BACK HERE
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- IS THOMAS JEFFERSON, AND BACK THERE IS JOHN ADAMS,
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- AND TIM, YOU GOT SOME STUFF OVER ON YOUR
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- SIDE AS WELL.
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- - YEAH, SO FROM THE FRONT THERE'S A DRUM THAT
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- ACTUALLY CAME FROM MOUNT VERNON FROM GEORGE
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- WASHINGTON'S HOME.
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- SO IT'S ACTUALLY A REVOLUTIONARY GUN.
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- BESIDE IT YOU HAVE A CANNON BALL.
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- BESIDE IT ALSO WE HAVE ALL KIND OF DIFFERENT
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- ARTIFACTS FROM GEORGE WASHINGTON AND JOHN
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- ADAMS AND THOMAS JEFFERSON UP HERE
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- ON THE TABLE.
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- PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATIONS FROM THESE
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- GUYS, DIFFERENT SPEECHES, DIFFERENT LETTERS, SO A
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- LOT OF STUFF WE CAN GET INTO AND TALK ABOUT.
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- - WELL, LET'S TALK ABOUT -- I MEAN, ALL THESE GUYS
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- WERE INVOLVED IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, SO
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- LET'S GO BACK TO THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
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- FOR A BIT.
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- FREEDOM WAS WON BY SOLDIERS ON THE GROUND
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- DOING SOME REAL THINGS, SO LET'S GET A VOLUNTEER
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- TO COME UP AND LET'S TALK TO SOMEBODY.
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- - OKAY. HEY, I'M TIM.
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- - I'M SARAH.
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- - SARAH, NICE TO MEET YOU. OKAY.
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- - HEY, SARAH.
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- COME ON OVER.
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- - WE'LL START ON THIS SIDE.
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- - FIRST OFF, HOW TALL ARE YOU?
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- - UM, 5'4.
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- - YOU'RE PERFECT.
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- THAT'S A SOLDIER IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 5'4.
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- NOW, IF YOU'RE IN THE REVOLUTION, YOU'RE
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- FIGHTING, YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE A GUN, SO LET'S GET
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- YOU A GUN, AND YOU NEED A GUN TO BE ABLE TO FIGHT
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- WITH, SO TAKE --YOU KNOW HOW TO SHOOT A GUN?
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- - YES, SIR.
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- - OKAY.
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- LET'S SEE YOU PUT THAT ON YOUR SHOULDER AND WHAT
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- YOU CAN DO WITH IT.
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- - IT'S KIND OF BIG.
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- I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO.
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- - SEE IF YOU CAN PUT THAT UP ON YOUR SHOULDER.
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- - UP.
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- I'LL HOLD IT FOR YOU.
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- - IT'S REALLY HEAVY!
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- - YEAH.
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- - DON'T DROP IT ON THE STUFF.
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- NOW, WHAT YOU NEED TO DO YOU GOT TO FIGHT BATTLES
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- WITH THAT.
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- YOU'RE ONLY GOING TO HAVE TO MARCH 40 OR 50 MILES A
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- DAY CARRYING THAT.
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- - YOU CAN JUST GIVE IT TO ME.
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- - YOU'LL HAVE A WOOL JACKET WHEN YOU DO IT AND
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- ALL YOUR CAMP GEAR, SO THAT'S A LITTLE START FOR
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- WHAT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN LIKE TO BE IN THE
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- AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
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- - SO DOES THAT SEEM BIGGER MAYBE THAN ONE OF
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- THE GUNS YOU'VE SHOT.
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- - UM, A BIT, YEAH.
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- [ LAUGHTER ]
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- - A LITTLE HEAVIER.
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- - YEAH.
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- THANK YOU, SARAH, FOR HELPING.
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- WE NEED SOMEBODY ELSE, AND ACTUALLY WE HAVE
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- SOMETHING ELSE TO LOOK AT.
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- IT'S A LITTLE BIGGER, SO WHY DON'T YOU COME UP
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- AND HELP US.
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- OKAY.
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- THIS IS A 43 POUND MORTAR.
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- - YOU GOT IT?
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- OKAY.
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- [ LAUGHTER ]
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- NOW, WE DIDN'T GET TO MEET YOU.
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- WHAT'S YOUR NAME?
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- - JIMMY.
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- - JIMMY.
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- AND NORMALLY YOU DON'T SOUND STRAINED WHEN YOU
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- SAY YOUR NAME.
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- [ LAUGHTER ] BUT HOLDING 43 POUNDS IS A LITTLE
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- HEAVY, RIGHT?
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- - YES, SIR.
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- - OKAY.
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- CAN YOU ROLL THAT FORWARD SO WE CAN SEE THERE'S A
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- HOLE IN THE FRONT OF IT WHERE YOU WOULD FILL THIS
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- WITH POWDER.
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- YOU WOULD THEN PUT A FUSE IN IT.
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- YOU PUT IT IN THE MORTAR, SHOOTS IT OFF AND
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- HOPEFULLY IT EXPLODES OVER THE ENEMY AS IT GOES.
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- - A COMPASS.
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- - A COMPASS.
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- DO YOU KNOW WHAT GEORGE WASHINGTON DID IN
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- HIS EARLY LIFE FOR HIS PROFESSION BEFORE HE'S
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- REALLY AN OFFICER IN THE MILITARY, DO YOU KNOW
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- WHAT HE DID?
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- - HE WAS A SURVEYOR.
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- - HE WAS A SURVEYOR.
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- THIS WAS HIS SURVEYOR'S COMPASS THAT HE USED, AND
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- ACTUALLY SO IF YOU HOLD IT UP ON THE SIDE, RIGHT,
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- YOU CAN KIND OF LOOK UP AND THAT WAS HIS LINES,
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- SO THIS WAS GEORGE WASHINGTON'S
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- SURVEYING COMPASS.
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- NICE TO MEET YOU.
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- THANKS FOR HELPING GUESS WHAT THIS WAS.
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- [ APPLAUSE ]
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- SO CERTAINLY A LOT OF FUN STUFF FROM HISTORY, A LOT
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- OF ARTIFACTS, BUT REALLY IN THE MIDST OF ALL OF
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- THIS THERE'S A LOT OF MYTHS THAT ARE PUT OUT
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- THERE TODAY ABOUT PRESIDENTS, RIGHT.
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- STEVEN, YOU'VE WRITTEN A LOT ABOUT SOME OF THESE
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- AND SOME OF YOUR BOOKS WHICH I REALLY ENJOYED
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- READING, BUT ONE OF THEM WE HEAR A LOT IS ABOUT
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- GEORGE WASHINGTON, AND WE HEAR TODAY THAT
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- GEORGE WASHINGTON WASN'T A CHRISTIAN.
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- WE HEAR THAT GEORGE WASHINGTON WAS A
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- DEIST, THAT GEORGE WASHINGTON DIDN'T REALLY
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- BELIEVE IN JESUS OR A GOD THAT WAS INVOLVED.
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- - BUT THE FACT IS GEORGE WASHINGTON WAS A MAN
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- WHO WAS A VESTRYMAN OR SORT OF AN ELDER OF HIS
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- EPISCOPAL CHURCH FOR YEARS.
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- HE KEPT A JOURNAL OF PRAYER.
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- HE BOUGHT A NEW TESTAMENT EVERY SINGLE YEAR FOR HIS
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- WIFE ON HER BIRTHDAY BECAUSE SHE WOULD READ
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- THE BIBLE THROUGH IN A YEAR AND WEAR IT OUT.
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- SO IT BECAME A THING BETWEEN THE TWO OF THEM.
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- I'LL BUY YOU A BIBLE EVERY YEAR ON YOUR BIRTHDAY.
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- SO HE WAS ABSOLUTE EA CHRISTIAN, ABSOLUTELY
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- DEVOTED TO A CHRISTIAN WORLD VIEW, AND THE
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- EVIDENCE IS THERE.
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- WE JUST DON'T TEACH IT ANYMORE.
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- - THE COOL THING ABOUT THAT ERA IS THAT THEY
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- WROTE EVERYTHING DOWN.
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- TODAY WE RECORD EVERYTHING, YOU KNOW.
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- WE GOT OUR SMART DEVICES AND RECORDING.
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- THEY RECORDED IT TOO, BUT THEY DID IT WITH PEN AND
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- PAPER, AND BY THE WAY, HERE'S ONE OF GEORGE
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- WASHINGTON'S ORIGINAL LETTERS, SO YOU
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- TAKE HIS HANDWRITTEN LETTERS AND THERE'S ABOUT
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- 40.000 LETTERS THAT GEORGE DID.
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- SO YOU TAKE HIS HANDWRITTEN LETTERS, AND
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- WHAT YOU DO IS YOU COLLECT ALL THESE AND YOU
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- COME OUT WITH THIS IN 1832.
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- THAT'S THE FIRST SET OF GEORGE WASHINGTON WRITINGS.
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- EVERYTHING THEY FOUND, EVERYTHING THEY COULD
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- FIND A RECORD OF THEY HAD IT THERE.
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- NOW, IT'S GROWN OVER THE YEARS.
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- TODAY IT'S NEARLY 100 VOLUMES OF THE PAPERS OF
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- GEORGE WASHINGTON WATER, BUT WE START WITH 12
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- VOLUMES HERE, AND FROM THOSE 12 VOLUMES YOU THEN
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- GET THIS BOOK THAT COMES OUT A COUPLE DECADES LATER.
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- THEY'VE GONE THROUGH ALL THE VOLUMES, SAID MAN,
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- WASHINGTON HAS SOME SMART STUFF TO SAY, AND SO THIS
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- GUY, JOHN FREDERICK SCHROEDER, IT'S CALLED THE
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- MAXIMS OF WASHINGTON, HIS POLITICAL, SOCIAL, MORAL,
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- AND RELIGIOUS MAXIMS.
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- AND HE'S TAKEN ALL THE WISE HE'S GOT AND PUT
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- THEM TOGETHER, AND THE BEGINNING OF EACH SECTION
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- HE ALWAYS HAS PEOPLE WHO KNOWS GEORGE WASHINGTON
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- INTRODUCE WASHINGTON, SO WHEN HE
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- GETS BACK TO HIS RELIGIOUS MAXIMS,
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- THERE'S A SECTION ON CHRISTIANITY, AND IN THAT
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- SECTION IT'S INTRODUCED BY GUYS WHO KNEW WASHINGTON.
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- - JEREMIAH SMITH WHO WAS ACTUALLY A
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- SOLDIER WITH WASHINGTON IN THE REVOLUTION, HE'S A
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- GUY THAT WASHINGTON MADE A FEDERAL JUDGE.
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- YOU HAVE CHIEF JUSTICE JOHN MARSHALL WHO WAS
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- ACTUALLY AN AID TO WASHINGTON IN
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- THE REVOLUTION.
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- GOT ALL THESE GUYS THAT KNOW WASHINGTON, AND THEY
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- ALL SAY OH, HE WAS A STRONG CHRISTIAN, OH, HE
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- WAS REALLY A CHRISTIAN.
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- - A SIN VEER BELIEVER IN THE CHRISTIAN FAITH.
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- - HE WAS A CHRISTIAN.
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- - SO EVEN ON THIS PAINTING UP HERE WITH
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- GEORGE WASHINGTON THERE'S ACTUALLY TWO PEOPLE IN
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- THE PAINTING, THERE'S GEORGE WASHINGTON, AND
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- THEN OVER ON THE SIDE IS A GUY, LITTLE ISAAC POTTS.
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- - SEE THAT IS THIS -- - ISAAC POTTS IS A GUY
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- E REASON THIS PAINTING WAS DONE,
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- AND THERE'S A LOT OF PAINTINGS WITH GEORGE
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- WASHINGTON KNEELING DOWN AND PRAYING.
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- IT WAS SOMETHING THAT MANY GENERALS THROUGHOUT
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- THE REVOLUTION REPORTED SEEING WASHINGTON PRAY,
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- THAT WASHINGTON WAS A MAN OF PRAYER.
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- SO THAT WAS NOT AN UNUSUAL THING AT ALL.
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- PEOPLE KNEW THAT.
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- WELL, THIS PAINTING WAS DONE DEPICTING AN ACCOUNT
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- THAT WAS TOLD BECAUSE THIS MAN, ISAAC POTTS, HAD
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- ALLEGEDLY SEEN WASHINGTON HAVE THIS ENCOUNTER WITH
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- HIM, AND ISAAC POTTS WAS A QUAKER, SO THIS QUAKER IS
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- WALKING THROUGH THE WOODS, HEARS SOMETHING
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- IN THE WOODS.
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- HE STOPS AND LISTENS BECAUSE THIS IS TIME OF
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- WAR, AND SO I'M JUST CURIOUS WHAT'S GOING ON.
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- WELL, HE STARTS WALKING THROUGH THE WOODS TO
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- INVESTIGATE.
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- AS HE GETS BACK, HE SEES -HE THOUGHT IT WAS
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- MULTIPLE PEOPLE HAVING A CONVERSATION.
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- IT WAS ONLY ONE MAN, AND THE ONE MAN WAS ACTUALLY
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- KNEELING DOWN PRAYING, AND SO HE STOPPED AND
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- JUST LISTENED FOR A LITTLE WHILE, LISTENED
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- ENOUGH APPARENTLY SO HE TURNS AND LEAVES AND GOES
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- HOME, AND WHEN HE GETS HOME APPARENTLY HE GOES
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- IN, HE OPENS THE DOOR AND GOES INTO THE
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- KITCHEN TABLE.
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- HE SITS DOWN, HE PUTS HIS ELBOWS ON THE TABLE.
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- HE BURIED HIS HEAD IN HIS HANDS, AND THEN HE
- 00:07:30.340 --> 00:07:32.676
- EXPLAINS, I JUST CAME FROM THE WOODS AND I SAW
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- THE COMMANDER OF THE AMERICAN FORCES PRAYING.
- 00:07:35.212 --> 00:07:37.147
- WHEN A MAN PRAYS LIKE THAT, HIS PRAYERS ARE
- 00:07:37.214 --> 00:07:38.849
- GOING TO BE ANSWERED.
- 00:07:38.916 --> 00:07:40.350
- THE WAR IS OVER.
- 00:07:40.417 --> 00:07:41.852
- IT'S OVER.
- 00:07:41.919 --> 00:07:43.020
- THE WAR IS ALL OVER.
- 00:07:43.086 --> 00:07:44.888
- NOW, WHAT'S INTERESTING ABOUT THAT IS YOU HAVE A
- 00:07:44.955 --> 00:07:46.857
- GUY CONVINCED IT HAS ALREADY BEEN DECIDED
- 00:07:46.924 --> 00:07:48.992
- BASED ON THE PRAYER LIFE OF WASHINGTON.
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- - THE PRAYER LIFE OF THE DEIST I'LL POINT OUT.
- 00:07:51.395 --> 00:07:53.630
- - WELL, YEAH, SO - [ LAUGHTER ] BUT EVEN TODAY
- 00:07:53.697 --> 00:07:55.966
- SOME HISTORIANS DISPUTE THE IDEA THAT ISAAC POTTS
- 00:07:56.033 --> 00:07:58.235
- WAS A REAL PERSON WHICH CLEARLY HE WAS A REAL
- 00:07:58.302 --> 00:08:00.337
- PERSON OR THE DETAIL OF THE STORY.
- 00:08:00.404 --> 00:08:02.739
- - CAN I POINT OUT THAT IF YOU WANT TO GO TO
- 00:08:02.806 --> 00:08:04.207
- VALLEY FORGE YOU CAN GO VISIT THE ISAAC POTTS HOME
- 00:08:04.274 --> 00:08:06.176
- THAT IS AT VALLEY FORGE, THE STONE HOME THAT STILL
- 00:08:06.243 --> 00:08:08.412
- EXISTS WHERE HE LIVED?
- 00:08:08.478 --> 00:08:10.914
- - WELL, SO EVEN IF THERE WAS SOME DISPUTE OVER THE
- 00:08:10.981 --> 00:08:12.583
- - WELL, AND THIS IS WHAT I WANT OUR YOUNG AUDIENCE
- 00:08:12.649 --> 00:08:15.118
- TO KNOW AND THAT IS THAT MODERN HISTORIANS HAVE NO
- 00:08:15.185 --> 00:08:17.187
- PROBLEM SIMPLY CUTTING THE RELIGIOUS CONTENT OUT
- 00:08:17.254 --> 00:08:19.323
- OF OUR AMERICAN HISTORY.
- 00:08:19.389 --> 00:08:21.224
- FOR EXAMPLE, CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS SAID HE SAILED
- 00:08:21.291 --> 00:08:23.160
- TO THE NEW WORLD BECAUSE THE HOLY SPIRIT GUIDED HIM.
- 00:08:23.226 --> 00:08:25.228
- HE WAS GUIDED BY THE SCRIPTURES VERY CLEARLY,
- 00:08:25.295 --> 00:08:26.863
- AND YET I CAN SHOW YOU FOUR VOLUME HISTORIES AND
- 00:08:26.930 --> 00:08:28.999
- BIOGRAPHIES OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS THAT
- 00:08:29.066 --> 00:08:31.568
- NEVER MENTION HIS FAITH, NEVER EVEN MENTION THAT
- 00:08:31.635 --> 00:08:33.537
- HE WAS A CHRISTIAN.
- 00:08:33.604 --> 00:08:35.539
- SO MAKE SURE THAT YOU GO TO THE ORIGINAL SOURCES.
- 00:08:35.606 --> 00:08:37.574
- MAKE SURE THAT YOU'RE NOT LOOKING AT A MODERN
- 00:08:37.641 --> 00:08:39.543
- VERSION THAT MIGHT EXCLUDE HIS FAITH WHEN
- 00:08:39.610 --> 00:08:41.612
- HIS OLDER VERSION CAPTURES THE TRUTH ABOUT
- 00:08:41.678 --> 00:08:42.980
- GEORGE WASHINGTON.
- 00:08:43.046 --> 00:08:44.681
- YOU GOT TO BE AWARE OF THAT.
- 00:08:44.748 --> 00:08:46.383
- IT'S NOT THAT THEY SET OUT TO DECEIVE YOU.
- 00:08:46.450 --> 00:08:48.151
- THEY EITHER DON'T BELIEVE RELIGION IS IMPORTANT OR
- 00:08:48.218 --> 00:08:50.454
- THEY JUST HAVE A BUY AS AGAINST IT THAT CAUSES
- 00:08:50.520 --> 00:08:52.122
- THEM TO FILTER IT OUT, SO GO TO THE ORIGINAL
- 00:08:52.189 --> 00:08:53.790
- SOURCES BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE YOU FIND THE RICH
- 00:08:53.857 --> 00:08:55.292
- STUFF THESE GUYS ARE TALKING ABOUT.
- 00:08:55.359 --> 00:08:57.027
- - AND WHEN YOU GO TO ORIGINAL SOURCES, YOU
- 00:08:57.094 --> 00:08:58.829
- FIND THINGS LIKE THIS IS THE VERY FIRST EVER
- 00:08:58.895 --> 00:09:00.864
- PRESIDENTIAL PRAYER PROCLAMATION WAS DONE BY
- 00:09:00.931 --> 00:09:03.133
- GEORGE WASHINGTON.
- 00:09:03.200 --> 00:09:05.102
- NOW, AGAIN IF HE'S A DEIST HE'S NOT GOING TO
- 00:09:05.168 --> 00:09:06.870
- BE THIS GUY CALLING THE NATION TO PRAY FOR GOD'S
- 00:09:06.937 --> 00:09:08.739
- INVOLVEMENT OR THANKING GOD FOR HIS INVOLVEMENT,
- 00:09:08.805 --> 00:09:10.707
- BUT THIS IS THE VERY FIRST EVER PRESIDENTIAL
- 00:09:10.774 --> 00:09:12.943
- PRAYER PROCLAMATION DONE BY GEORGE WASHINGTON
- 00:09:13.010 --> 00:09:14.811
- AGAIN INDICATING HE CERTAINLY WAS A MAN OF
- 00:09:14.878 --> 00:09:17.147
- FAITH AS IS SEEN FROM ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS.
- 00:09:17.214 --> 00:09:19.082
- - WELL, OTHER PRESIDENTS DID THE SAME.
- 00:09:19.149 --> 00:09:23.053
- I MEAN, WE HAVE PRESIDENT JOHN ADAMS BACK HERE, AND
- 00:09:23.120 --> 00:09:25.288
- JOHN ADAMS CALLED HIM -- THIS IS WHAT HE
- 00:09:25.355 --> 00:09:27.724
- CALLED HIMSELF.
- 00:09:27.791 --> 00:09:29.192
- HE SAID I AM A CHURCH GOING ANIMAL.
- 00:09:29.259 --> 00:09:31.161
- - AND AS YOU MENTIONED, JOHN ADAMS ALSO HAS
- 00:09:31.228 --> 00:09:33.597
- PRAYER PROCLAMATIONS AS PRESIDENT, AND CERTAINLY,
- 00:09:33.664 --> 00:09:35.565
- YOU KNOW --
- 00:09:35.632 --> 00:09:37.501
- - WHAT YEAR IS THAT ONE?
- 00:09:37.567 --> 00:09:39.102
- - THIS IS DOWN HERE IN 1799.
- 00:09:39.169 --> 00:09:41.304
- - AND THAT'S THE RIDGE THAT. THAT'S THE RIDGE THAT.
- 00:09:41.371 --> 00:09:43.073
- FROM 1799.
- 00:09:43.140 --> 00:09:44.941
- - AND WHEN YOU GO BACK AND MAYBE WATCH-- HBO DID
- 00:09:45.008 --> 00:09:47.210
- A SPECIAL ON JOHN ADAMS WHICH WAS COOL THAT THEY
- 00:09:47.277 --> 00:09:49.579
- ACTUALLY WENT BACK TO HISTORY AND SAID LET'S
- 00:09:49.646 --> 00:09:51.548
- LEARN ABOUT SOMEBODY, BUT IN THE WHOLE SPECIAL THEY
- 00:09:51.615 --> 00:09:53.684
- NEVER REALLY BROUGHT UP HIS FAITH WHICH IT'S HARD
- 00:09:53.750 --> 00:09:56.353
- TO STUDY JOHN ADAMS AND NOT SEE HIS FAITH EVEN IN
- 00:09:56.420 --> 00:09:58.622
- HIS LETTERS TO HIS WIFE MUCH HE TALKED ABOUT
- 00:09:58.689 --> 00:10:00.524
- FAITH QUITE OFTEN, BUT SOMEHOW WE LEFT THAT OUT
- 00:10:00.590 --> 00:10:02.592
- OF THE HBO TV SPECIAL.
- 00:10:02.659 --> 00:10:05.829
- - WHAT THEY ASSUME IS THAT THIS IS JUST
- 00:10:05.896 --> 00:10:07.531
- POLITICIANS TALKING.
- 00:10:07.597 --> 00:10:09.466
- THIS IS JUST POLITICIANS MAKING SPEECHES.
- 00:10:09.533 --> 00:10:11.601
- OH, WE INVOKE THE BLESSINGS OF THE ALMIGHTY
- 00:10:11.668 --> 00:10:13.837
- AND ALL THAT KIND OF THING, BUT THE REALITY IS
- 00:10:13.904 --> 00:10:15.839
- LIKE YOU SAY WHEN YOU GET INTO THEIR PRIVATE
- 00:10:15.906 --> 00:10:17.641
- LETTERS AND THE ADVICE THEY WRITE THEIR CHILDREN
- 00:10:17.708 --> 00:10:19.443
- OR THE CORRESPONDENCE WITH THEIR WIVES YOU FIND
- 00:10:19.509 --> 00:10:20.911
- THAT FAITH IS GENUINE.
- 00:10:20.977 --> 00:10:22.746
- IT'S NOT JUST POLITICAL SPEAK, SO THESE MEN
- 00:10:22.813 --> 00:10:24.414
- REALLY WERE DEVOTED TO GOD AND DEVOTED TO GOD'S
- 00:10:24.481 --> 00:10:26.116
- PURPOSES FOR THIS COUNTRY.
- 00:10:26.183 --> 00:10:27.751
- - WELL, AND ONE THAT TODAY -AS WE TALKED ABOUT
- 00:10:27.818 --> 00:10:29.519
- WE HAVE WASHINGTON, ADAMS, WELL, EVEN
- 00:10:29.586 --> 00:10:30.787
- THOMAS JEFFERSON.
- 00:10:30.854 --> 00:10:32.622
- THOMAS JEFFERSON IS THE GUY THAT PROBABLY GETS
- 00:10:32.689 --> 00:10:34.591
- VILLAINIZED THE MOST TODAY ESPECIALLY IN THE FAITH.
- 00:10:34.658 --> 00:10:36.593
- - IN THE FAITH ASPECTS.
- 00:10:36.660 --> 00:10:38.328
- - THAT'S RIGHT.
- 00:10:38.395 --> 00:10:40.097
- I MEAN, HE'S THE GUY THAT WROTE THE LETTER OF
- 00:10:40.163 --> 00:10:41.665
- SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE.
- 00:10:41.732 --> 00:10:43.200
- HE'S THE GUY THAT HAD THE JEFFERSON BIBLE.
- 00:10:43.266 --> 00:10:44.901
- THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS WE HEAR ABOUT JEFFERSON
- 00:10:44.968 --> 00:10:46.570
- THAT ARE SEEMING ANTI FAITH UNTIL YOU STUDY
- 00:10:46.636 --> 00:10:48.171
- JEFFERSON AS A WHOLE.
- 00:10:48.238 --> 00:10:50.140
- WHEN YOU GET THE WHOLE PICTURE, YOU GO,
- 00:10:50.207 --> 00:10:52.142
- WAIT A SECOND.
- 00:10:52.209 --> 00:10:53.810
- I DON'T THINK HE'S REALLY ANTI FAITH THE WAY WE
- 00:10:53.877 --> 00:10:55.145
- PRESENT HIM TODAY.
- 00:10:55.212 --> 00:10:56.947
- - YOU'RE RIGHT.
- 00:10:57.013 --> 00:10:59.249
- I MEAN, JEFFERSON GETS PRESENTED AS THE MOST
- 00:10:59.316 --> 00:11:01.384
- ANTI-RELIGIOUS FOUNDING FATHER, HE AND THOMAS PAYNE.
- 00:11:01.451 --> 00:11:03.120
- IT'S AN INTERESTING THING BECAUSE WHAT WE HAVE
- 00:11:03.186 --> 00:11:05.989
- RIGHT HERE, FOR EXAMPLE, THAT'S CALLED THE JOHN
- 00:11:06.056 --> 00:11:08.191
- THOMPSON HOT PRESS BIBLE.
- 00:11:08.258 --> 00:11:09.960
- THAT'S PRINTED IN 1798.
- 00:11:10.026 --> 00:11:12.262
- THOMAS JEFFERSON HELP FUND THE PRINTING OF
- 00:11:12.329 --> 00:11:14.798
- THAT BIBLE.
- 00:11:14.865 --> 00:11:16.967
- NOW, IF THOMAS JEFFERSON IS THE ANTI-RELIGIOUS, I
- 00:11:17.033 --> 00:11:19.136
- HATE THE BIBLE GUY, WHAT'S THAT?
- 00:11:19.202 --> 00:11:21.905
- AND BY THE WAY, THIS BOTTOM STACK OVER HERE,
- 00:11:21.972 --> 00:11:24.608
- THAT'S THE THOMAS SCOTT BIBLE.
- 00:11:24.674 --> 00:11:27.010
- IT'S ACTUALLY AN 8 VOLUME BIBLE.
- 00:11:27.077 --> 00:11:29.212
- WE'VE GOT THREE VOLUMES THERE JUST FOR SPACE, BUT
- 00:11:29.279 --> 00:11:31.381
- IT'S 8 VOLUMES.
- 00:11:31.448 --> 00:11:33.383
- THOMAS JEFFERSON HELP FUND THE THOMAS SCOTT BIBLE.
- 00:11:33.450 --> 00:11:36.353
- - NOW, IF JEFFERSON IS FUNDING BIBLES, I THOUGHT
- 00:11:36.419 --> 00:11:38.421
- JEFFERSON CUT OUT EVERYTHING HE DIDN'T
- 00:11:38.488 --> 00:11:40.190
- BELIEVE IN.
- 00:11:40.257 --> 00:11:41.691
- [ LAUGHTER ]
- 00:11:41.758 --> 00:11:43.460
- - THAT'S WHAT WE HEAR.
- 00:11:43.527 --> 00:11:44.661
- - NOT TRUE.
- 00:11:44.728 --> 00:11:46.463
- - I KNOW I SAY THAT, RIGHT, TONGUE IN CHEEK
- 00:11:46.530 --> 00:11:48.465
- BECAUSE I KNOW HE DIDN'T, BUT THAT'S WHAT WE HEAR
- 00:11:48.532 --> 00:11:50.433
- TODAY IS THAT JEFFERSON DIDN'T BELIEVE IN ALL THE
- 00:11:50.500 --> 00:11:52.102
- BIBLE SO HE MADE HIS OWN BIBLE AND HE CUT OUT
- 00:11:52.169 --> 00:11:54.404
- THINGS THAT HE THOUGHT WEREN'T TRUE.
- 00:11:54.471 --> 00:11:55.939
- SO WHAT'S THE ANSWER BEHIND THAT?
- 00:11:56.006 --> 00:11:57.274
- - HERE'S THE EXPERT.
- 00:11:57.340 --> 00:11:59.042
- - WELL, YOU HAVE TWO ANSWERS.
- 00:11:59.109 --> 00:12:00.644
- ONE IS HE DID TWO JEFFERSON BIBLES.
- 00:12:00.710 --> 00:12:02.312
- PEOPLE THEY TALK ABOUT THE DID HE EVER SON --
- 00:12:02.379 --> 00:12:03.880
- I HAVE FUN WHEN PROFESSORS DO THAT.
- 00:12:03.947 --> 00:12:05.649
- - IS THAT LIKE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT?
- 00:12:05.715 --> 00:12:06.883
- - EXACTLY.
- 00:12:06.950 --> 00:12:08.351
- [ LAUGHTER ] THEY SAY OH, THE JEFFERSON BIBLE SAID
- 00:12:08.418 --> 00:12:10.053
- -WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?
- 00:12:10.120 --> 00:12:11.388
- -L WITH, YOU KNOW HE CUT OUT ALL THE MIRACULOUS,
- 00:12:11.454 --> 00:12:13.290
- ALL STUFF HE DISAGREED WITH.
- 00:12:13.356 --> 00:12:14.457
- HE CUT ALL THAT OUT.
- 00:12:14.524 --> 00:12:15.892
- I SAID, REALLY?
- 00:12:15.959 --> 00:12:17.160
- I SAID, WHICH ONE?
- 00:12:17.227 --> 00:12:18.829
- WHAT DO YOU MEAN WHICH ONE?
- 00:12:18.895 --> 00:12:20.463
- THERE'S ONLY ONE -NO, THERE'S TWO JEFFERSON BIBLE.
- 00:12:20.530 --> 00:12:21.765
- YOU GOT 1804, 1820.
- 00:12:21.832 --> 00:12:23.633
- SO IT ALREADY TELLS ME THEY DON'T HAVE A CLUE
- 00:12:23.700 --> 00:12:25.101
- WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT. THEN I SAY --
- 00:12:25.168 --> 00:12:26.703
- - AT LEAST WHEN THEY COME TO
- 00:12:26.770 --> 00:12:28.004
- KNOWLEDGE OF JEFFERSON.
- 00:12:28.071 --> 00:12:29.406
- - THAT'S RIGHT.
- 00:12:29.472 --> 00:12:30.841
- - THEY THINK THEY KNOW SOMETHING.
- 00:12:30.907 --> 00:12:32.442
- THEY'VE GOT THE SMOKING GUN, AND TURNS OUT OH, WAIT.
- 00:12:32.509 --> 00:12:33.844
- THERE WAS 2 DIFFERENT THINGS HE DID?
- 00:12:33.910 --> 00:12:35.245
- I HAD NO IDEA.
- 00:12:35.312 --> 00:12:36.780
- - AND THAT'S ONE OF THE FUN THINGS.
- 00:12:36.847 --> 00:12:38.248
- YOU JUST START ASKING QUESTIONS, YOU FIND OUT
- 00:12:38.315 --> 00:12:39.850
- THAT THEY THINK THEY KNOW WHAT THEY KNOW,
- 00:12:39.916 --> 00:12:41.151
- BUT THEY DON'T.
- 00:12:41.218 --> 00:12:42.686
- AND SO YOU SAY, WHICH ONE?
- 00:12:42.752 --> 00:12:44.154
- AND THEY DON'T -I SAY WELL, HAVE YOU EVER READ
- 00:12:44.221 --> 00:12:45.856
- THE JEFFERSON BIBLE?
- 00:12:45.922 --> 00:12:47.123
- WELL, NO.
- 00:12:47.190 --> 00:12:48.491
- WELL, HOW DO YOU KNOW HE CUT IT OUT?
- 00:12:48.558 --> 00:12:49.960
- THAT'S WHAT EVERYBODY SAYS.
- 00:12:50.026 --> 00:12:51.528
- - BECAUSE THE 1804 WAS ACTUALLY AN ABRIDGMENT OF
- 00:12:51.595 --> 00:12:53.096
- THE GOSPELS FOR USE IN WITNESSING TO THE INDIANS.
- 00:12:53.163 --> 00:12:54.564
- - IN THE TITLE IT SAYS TAKEN FROM MATTHEW, MARK,
- 00:12:54.631 --> 00:12:56.299
- LUKE, JOHN, AND IT WAS BECAUSE IN 1803 HE HAD
- 00:12:56.366 --> 00:12:57.801
- READ A SERMON BY A GUY FROM SCOTLAND SAID, YOU
- 00:12:57.868 --> 00:12:59.469
- KNOW, IF YOU WANT TO REACH THE AMERICAN
- 00:12:59.536 --> 00:13:00.837
- INDIANS WITH THE GOSPEL DON'T GIVE THEM THE BIBLE.
- 00:13:00.904 --> 00:13:02.239
- I MEAN, THEY MIGHT READ LEVITICUS OR MIGHT READ
- 00:13:02.305 --> 00:13:03.373
- THE GENEALOGIES.
- 00:13:03.440 --> 00:13:05.108
- GIVE THEM THE GOSPELS OF JESUS, AND JEFFERSON
- 00:13:05.175 --> 00:13:06.409
- THOUGHT, GOOD IDEA.
- 00:13:06.476 --> 00:13:07.944
- AND SO HE TOOK TWO BIBLES HE HAD IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
- 00:13:08.011 --> 00:13:09.779
- HE WENT THROUGH AND DID WHAT WE WOULD HAVE CALLED
- 00:13:09.846 --> 00:13:11.147
- A RED LETTER VERSION.
- 00:13:11.214 --> 00:13:12.682
- HE TOOK THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS, CUT THEM ALL OUT,
- 00:13:12.749 --> 00:13:14.117
- HE PASTED THEM IN.
- 00:13:14.184 --> 00:13:15.919
- HE GAVE IT TO AN INDIAN MISSIONARY FRIEND, SAID
- 00:13:15.986 --> 00:13:17.420
- LOOK, HERE'S THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS.
- 00:13:17.487 --> 00:13:19.022
- YOU CAN PRINTED THIS A WHOLE LOT CHEAPER THAN
- 00:13:19.089 --> 00:13:20.423
- YOU CAN PRINT A WHOLE BIBLE.
- 00:13:20.490 --> 00:13:21.858
- AND THIS IS WHERE THE INDIANS NEED TO START.
- 00:13:21.925 --> 00:13:23.226
- IT SAYS AN ABRIDGMENT OF THE GOSPELS FOR THE USE
- 00:13:23.293 --> 00:13:24.561
- OF THE INDIANS.
- 00:13:24.628 --> 00:13:25.929
- - SO WE'VE ALREADY CLARIFIED WHAT IT'S FOR,
- 00:13:25.996 --> 00:13:27.430
- AND HE SAYS ONLY CHOOSING THINGS THAT WOULD BE TO
- 00:13:27.497 --> 00:13:29.633
- THEIR LEVEL OF UNDERSTANDING TO NOT
- 00:13:29.699 --> 00:13:31.568
- CHALLENGE THEM IN A LEVEL OF THEOLOGY WHERE THEY'RE
- 00:13:31.635 --> 00:13:34.337
- GOING WAIT A SECOND, THAT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE.
- 00:13:34.404 --> 00:13:35.906
- SO JUST TO GIVE THEM ENOUGH OH, JESUS, THIS IS
- 00:13:35.972 --> 00:13:37.874
- WHAT THIS IS, AND SO -- - AND BY THE WAY, HE
- 00:13:37.941 --> 00:13:39.643
- COVERS HEAVEN.
- 00:13:39.709 --> 00:13:42.779
- THE TEACHINGS COVER HEAVEN AND HELL, HEALING
- 00:13:42.846 --> 00:13:44.781
- THE SICK, RAISING THE DEAD, CASTING OUT DEMONS.
- 00:13:44.848 --> 00:13:46.883
- YOU KNOW, HE CUT OUT ALL THAT SUPERNATURAL STUFF.
- 00:13:46.950 --> 00:13:49.019
- - SO JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD.
- 00:13:49.085 --> 00:13:50.320
- HE IS THE SUPERNATURAL.
- 00:13:50.387 --> 00:13:51.955
- HE DOES THE MIRACULOUS WHICH IS WHAT WE'RE TOLD
- 00:13:52.022 --> 00:13:53.356
- JEFFERSON CUT OUT.
- 00:13:53.423 --> 00:13:55.058
- WELL, THAT'S THE FIRST ONE.
- 00:13:55.125 --> 00:13:56.559
- THE SECOND ONE IS THE 1820 VERSION.
- 00:13:56.626 --> 00:13:58.628
- - AND THIS IS THAT ONE.
- 00:13:58.695 --> 00:14:00.397
- THIS IS.
- 00:14:00.463 --> 00:14:02.432
- THIS IS 1820 VERSION JEFFERSON ACTUALLY SAID
- 00:14:02.499 --> 00:14:04.834
- IF EVERYBODY WOULD LIVE BY THE TEACHINGS OF
- 00:14:04.901 --> 00:14:06.569
- JESUS, WE'D NEED A WHOLE LOT LESS GOVERNMENT, SO
- 00:14:06.636 --> 00:14:08.471
- HE WENT THROUGH AND FOUND 81 MORAL TEACHINGS OF JESUS.
- 00:14:08.538 --> 00:14:11.107
- HE CUT THOSE TEACHINGS OUT OF THE BIBLE, PASTED
- 00:14:11.174 --> 00:14:14.144
- THEM END TO END SO THAT HE COULD READ THE MORALS
- 00:14:14.210 --> 00:14:17.580
- OF JESUS, AND IT'S ACTUALLY IN HIS HANDWRITING.
- 00:14:17.647 --> 00:14:19.983
- THIS IS A REPRINT THAT WAS DONE OF IT, BUT AS
- 00:14:20.050 --> 00:14:22.185
- YOU GO, YOU CAN SEE HIS HANDWRITING.
- 00:14:22.252 --> 00:14:24.487
- IT'S THE LIFE AND MORALS OF JESUS OF NAZARETH, AND
- 00:14:24.554 --> 00:14:26.923
- CONGRESS PRINTED 9.000 COPIES.
- 00:14:26.990 --> 00:14:30.694
- THIS IS ONE OF THE ORIGINAL 1902 COPIES
- 00:14:30.760 --> 00:14:32.562
- THAT'S PRINTED BY THE U.S.
- 00:14:32.629 --> 00:14:34.631
- GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.
- 00:14:34.698 --> 00:14:36.533
- FOR 50 YEARS THEY GAVE THIS TO EVERY MEMBER OF
- 00:14:36.599 --> 00:14:38.401
- CONGRESS, SAID IF YOU'LL LIVE BIT TEACHINGS OF
- 00:14:38.468 --> 00:14:40.070
- JESUS YOU WON'T GET IN TROUBLE.
- 00:14:40.136 --> 00:14:42.439
- - I LIVE JUST A FEW MILES FROM THE U.S.
- 00:14:42.505 --> 00:14:44.374
- CAPITOL IN WASHINGTON DC.
- 00:14:44.441 --> 00:14:46.509
- AND TODAY OF COURSE IF YOU HAD A CHURCH SERVICE
- 00:14:46.576 --> 00:14:48.511
- IN THE U.S.
- 00:14:48.578 --> 00:14:50.180
- CAPITOL PEOPLE WOULD GO CRAZY AND YOU'RE
- 00:14:50.246 --> 00:14:52.115
- VIOLATING SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE, BUT
- 00:14:52.182 --> 00:14:54.117
- JEFFERSON ACTUALLY MADE IT POSSIBLE TO HAVE A
- 00:14:54.184 --> 00:14:55.785
- WORSHIP SERVICE GOING ON EVERY SUNDAY MORNING IN
- 00:14:55.852 --> 00:14:56.853
- THE U.S. CAPITOL.
- 00:14:56.920 --> 00:14:59.389
- HE ATTENDED THAT WORSHIP SERVICE AND HE ALSO PAID
- 00:14:59.456 --> 00:15:01.358
- OUT OF HIS OWN POCKET FOR THE MARINE BAND TO PLAY
- 00:15:01.424 --> 00:15:02.859
- AT THE CHURCH SERVICE.
- 00:15:02.926 --> 00:15:04.494
- NOW YOU MIGHT NOT WANT THE MARINE BAND PLAYING
- 00:15:04.561 --> 00:15:05.695
- AT YOUR CHURCH SERVICE.
- 00:15:05.762 --> 00:15:07.297
- - MARINE BAND AS YOUR WORSHIP BAND.
- 00:15:07.364 --> 00:15:08.565
- THAT'S COOL.
- 00:15:08.631 --> 00:15:09.899
- - BUT STILL --
- 00:15:09.966 --> 00:15:11.201
- - IT SEEMS LIKE HIS VIOLATED
- 00:15:11.267 --> 00:15:12.769
- THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE THOUGH.
- 00:15:12.836 --> 00:15:14.137
- - WELL, THAT SAYS SOMETHING.
- 00:15:14.204 --> 00:15:15.338
- THAT GUY THAT'S SUPPOSED TO HAVE WRITTEN -DID
- 00:15:15.405 --> 00:15:15.972
- WRITE THE WORDS.
- 00:15:16.039 --> 00:15:17.140
- - RIGHT. DIDN'T HE KNOW WHAT HE WROTE?
- 00:15:17.207 --> 00:15:17.874
- - OF COURSE HE DID.
- 00:15:17.941 --> 00:15:18.508
- HE WASN'T CRAZY.
- 00:15:18.575 --> 00:15:19.476
- - WAS HE CONFUSED ABOUT THIS?
- 00:15:19.542 --> 00:15:20.677
- - HE JUST DIDN'T SEE IT AS A VIOLATION OF THE
- 00:15:20.744 --> 00:15:22.212
- LAW, AND WE HAVE HILARIOUS RECORDS BY THE
- 00:15:22.278 --> 00:15:24.247
- WAY OF HIM HAVING HIS FEET STEPPED ON WHILE
- 00:15:24.314 --> 00:15:25.982
- HE'S IN CHURCH AND HAVING A QUAKER WOMAN GIVING A
- 00:15:26.049 --> 00:15:27.350
- PROPHECY, AND HE'S GOING WHAT'S GOING ON HERE LIKE
- 00:15:27.417 --> 00:15:28.818
- SOME OF US HAVE TO DO IN OUR CHURCHES, BUT MY
- 00:15:28.885 --> 00:15:30.453
- POINT IS THAT HERE'S THOMAS JEFFERSON
- 00:15:30.520 --> 00:15:33.223
- SPONSORING A WORSHIP SERVICE, SPONSORING A
- 00:15:33.289 --> 00:15:35.225
- CHURCH BASICALLY MEETING IN THE U.S. CAPITOL.
- 00:15:35.291 --> 00:15:37.193
- NOW, THAT SAYS EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT
- 00:15:37.260 --> 00:15:38.728
- WHAT HIS INTENTIONS WERE.
- 00:15:38.795 --> 00:15:40.263
- - SURE.
- 00:15:40.330 --> 00:15:41.965
- AND SO TO THE NOTION THAT MANY OF THE FOUNDING
- 00:15:42.032 --> 00:15:43.600
- FATHERS WERE ATHEIST, AGNOSTICS, AND DEISTS
- 00:15:43.666 --> 00:15:45.301
- WHEN YOU STUDY THE ORIGINAL WRITINGS YOU
- 00:15:45.368 --> 00:15:47.170
- JUST DON'T COME TO THAT CONCLUSION.
- 00:15:47.237 --> 00:15:48.271
- - NO. NO.
- 00:15:48.338 --> 00:15:49.773
- - WHICH EVEN GOING BACK -WE TALKED ABOUT THIS 12
- 00:15:49.839 --> 00:15:51.441
- VOLUME SET OF WASHINGTON WRITINGS WITH JARED
- 00:15:51.508 --> 00:15:53.777
- SPARKS BEING THE GUY THAT COLLECTS IT, ONE OF THE
- 00:15:53.843 --> 00:15:56.046
- THINGS THAT JARED SPARKS, THIS HISTORIAN PUTTING IT
- 00:15:56.112 --> 00:15:58.381
- TOGETHER DOES, IS HE ACTUALLY WRITES TO
- 00:15:58.448 --> 00:16:00.583
- WASHINGTON'S GRANDDAUGHTER NELLY WHO
- 00:16:00.650 --> 00:16:03.019
- ENDED UP BEING THE ADOPTED DAUGHTER, RIGHT.
- 00:16:03.086 --> 00:16:04.854
- LIVES WITH WASHINGTON, GROWS UP IN THEIR HOME,
- 00:16:04.921 --> 00:16:06.656
- AND SAYS WELL, WHAT CAN YOU TELL ME ABOUT THE
- 00:16:06.723 --> 00:16:08.224
- FAITH OF WASHINGTON?
- 00:16:08.291 --> 00:16:09.993
- WHAT SHE SAYS IS BECAUSE JARED WAS ASKING ABOUT
- 00:16:10.060 --> 00:16:11.995
- THE CHRISTIAN FAITH.
- 00:16:12.062 --> 00:16:13.963
- AND SHE SAID, YOU SHOULD SOONER QUESTION HIS
- 00:16:14.030 --> 00:16:16.132
- PATRIOTISM THAN HIS CHRISTIANITY.
- 00:16:16.199 --> 00:16:18.401
- NOW, I DON'T KNOW ANY HISTORIAN THAT QUESTIONS
- 00:16:18.468 --> 00:16:21.004
- THE PATRIOTISM OF GEORGE -THE FATHER OF THE
- 00:16:21.071 --> 00:16:23.673
- NATION, THE GUY REALLY LEADING IN
- 00:16:23.740 --> 00:16:25.742
- THE REVOLUTION.
- 00:16:25.809 --> 00:16:27.677
- NOBODY QUESTIONS HIS PATRIOTISM, AND YET FOR
- 00:16:27.744 --> 00:16:29.512
- SOME REASON TODAY WE QUESTION HIS CHRISTIANITY
- 00:16:29.579 --> 00:16:31.514
- WHEN EVERYBODY THAT KNEW HIM SAYS NO, NO, NO.
- 00:16:31.581 --> 00:16:34.050
- HE WAS A CHRISTIAN, BUT AGAIN IT GOES BACK TO
- 00:16:34.117 --> 00:16:36.119
- THIS NOTION WHEN PEOPLE SAY WELL, NO, THE
- 00:16:36.186 --> 00:16:37.821
- FOUNDING FATHERS WEREN'T CHRISTIANS.
- 00:16:37.887 --> 00:16:39.522
- THEY DIDN'T BELIEVE IN GOD.
- 00:16:39.589 --> 00:16:40.790
- WELL, EVERYBODY THAT KNEW THEM SEEMED TO
- 00:16:40.857 --> 00:16:42.659
- THINK THEY DID.
- 00:16:42.725 --> 00:16:45.095
- - WELL, NELLY GAVE A BUNCH EXAMPLES OF WHY YOU
- 00:16:45.161 --> 00:16:46.696
- MIGHT AS WELL QUESTION HIS PATRIOTISM INSTEAD OF
- 00:16:46.763 --> 00:16:48.298
- HIS CHRISTIANITY.
- 00:16:48.364 --> 00:16:50.066
- SHE SAID ON ONE OCCASION THAT HER AUNT DIED, AND
- 00:16:50.133 --> 00:16:50.700
- H AT MOUNT VERNON
- 00:16:50.767 --> 00:16:52.335
- IN FRONT OF THE FIREPLACE, AND WASHINGTON
- 00:16:52.402 --> 00:16:53.803
- SAW HER, AND SHE WAS REALLY SICK.
- 00:16:53.870 --> 00:16:56.339
- WASHINGTON DIDN'T REALIZE SHE HAD DIED, THOUGHT SHE
- 00:16:56.406 --> 00:16:58.408
- WAS JUST RESTING, SLEEPING.
- 00:16:58.475 --> 00:17:00.110
- NELLY SAYS HE WENT OVER AND LAID HANDS ON HER AND
- 00:17:00.176 --> 00:17:02.545
- PRAYED FOR HER NOT REALIZING SHE'D ALREADY
- 00:17:02.612 --> 00:17:05.548
- PASSED BUT PRAYING THAT GOD WOULD HEAL HER, AND
- 00:17:05.615 --> 00:17:07.884
- THAT'S NOT THE KIND OF STUFF YOU GET FROM A DEIST.
- 00:17:07.951 --> 00:17:11.154
- - YEAH, A DEIST WOULDN'T DO THAT. THAT'S JUST --
- 00:17:11.221 --> 00:17:12.755
- - BUT SO AS WE MENTIONED FOR YOUNG
- 00:17:12.822 --> 00:17:14.557
- OUR YOUNGER AUDIENCE WHO IS POSSIBLY HEARING SOME
- 00:17:14.624 --> 00:17:16.659
- OF THIS FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE IMPORTANT THING
- 00:17:16.726 --> 00:17:19.229
- OF GOING BACK TO ORIGINAL SOURCES AND FINDING THE
- 00:17:19.295 --> 00:17:22.298
- TRUTH, NOT JUST SOMEBODY'S IMPRESSION
- 00:17:22.365 --> 00:17:25.001
- BECAUSE EVEN AS WE'RE SAYING THAT WE'D COUNSEL
- 00:17:25.068 --> 00:17:27.237
- THEM -KIND OF LIKE WHEN PAUL IN THE BOOK OF ACTS
- 00:17:27.303 --> 00:17:29.639
- PRAISES THE BOOR REASONS BECAUSE AS HE'S EXPLAIN
- 00:17:29.706 --> 00:17:32.542
- THE GOSPEL TO THEM THEY GO, WAIT A SECOND.
- 00:17:32.609 --> 00:17:34.777
- SOMEBODY GET THE SCROLL OF ISAIAH.
- 00:17:34.844 --> 00:17:36.613
- LET'S MAKE SURE THIS GUY KNOWS WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT.
- 00:17:36.679 --> 00:17:38.681
- WE'D EVEN SAY FOR US DON'T JUST TAKE OUR
- 00:17:38.748 --> 00:17:40.350
- WORD FOR IT.
- 00:17:40.416 --> 00:17:42.118
- GO BACK AND SEE THE ORIGINAL WRITINGS SO THAT
- 00:17:42.185 --> 00:17:45.455
- CLEARLY WE'VE SEEN WITH KIND OF THIS FIRST MYTH
- 00:17:45.522 --> 00:17:47.624
- THAT GEORGE WASHINGTON WAS NOT A CHRISTIAN, WE'D
- 00:17:47.690 --> 00:17:49.792
- SAY THAT WAS WRONG.
- 00:17:49.859 --> 00:17:51.694
- THAT'S KIND OF FAKE HISTORY, RIGHT, BECAUSE
- 00:17:51.761 --> 00:17:54.030
- EVERYBODY AT HIS TIME THAT KNEW HIM SAID NO,
- 00:17:54.097 --> 00:17:56.166
- THIS GUY IS A CHRISTIAN.
- 00:17:56.232 --> 00:17:58.268
- - AS A MATTER OF FACT, TIM, THIS IS A PIECE FROM
- 00:17:58.334 --> 00:18:00.537
- THE REVEREND JOHN LELAND, AND JOHN LELAND KNEW
- 00:18:00.603 --> 00:18:03.306
- WASHINGTON WELL.
- 00:18:03.373 --> 00:18:05.375
- HE'S ONE OF THE PREACHERS BEHIND THE MEMBERS OF
- 00:18:05.441 --> 00:18:07.143
- THE CONSTITUTION.
- 00:18:07.210 --> 00:18:08.978
- AND THIS LITTLE PIECE RIGHT HERE IS SEVERAL
- 00:18:09.045 --> 00:18:10.580
- PAGES IS TITLED WASHINGTON AND CHRIST,
- 00:18:10.647 --> 00:18:13.616
- HIS TWO GOOD FRIENDS, 46 STANZAS ABOUT WASHINGTON
- 00:18:13.683 --> 00:18:16.286
- AND CHRIST FROM A GUY WHO PERSONALLY KNEW
- 00:18:16.352 --> 00:18:19.088
- GEORGE WASHINGTON.
- 00:18:19.155 --> 00:18:22.692
- - SO AGAIN THE CONFIRMATION IS THAT
- 00:18:22.759 --> 00:18:24.427
- PEOPLE WHO KNEW WASHINGTON SAYS THIS GUY
- 00:18:24.494 --> 00:18:26.162
- IS A CHRISTIAN.
- 00:18:26.229 --> 00:18:27.964
- SO WE CAN SAY THAT FIRST MYTH HAS BEEN EXPOSED,
- 00:18:28.031 --> 00:18:30.567
- THAT WASHINGTON WAS IN FACT A CHRISTIAN.
- 00:18:30.633 --> 00:18:33.136
- THE SECOND MYTH INVOLVES AROUND SOMEBODY YOU'VE
- 00:18:33.203 --> 00:18:34.904
- DONE A LOT OF RESEARCH ON, ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND
- 00:18:34.971 --> 00:18:36.272
- THE CIVIL WAR.
- 00:18:36.339 --> 00:18:37.974
- BUT WE NEED TO GO TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STUDIO.
- 00:18:38.041 --> 00:18:39.542
- SO LET'S GET ON ACROSS THE STUDIO.
- 00:18:39.609 --> 00:18:41.010
- - LET'S DO IT.
- 00:18:41.077 --> 00:18:42.378
- [ MUSIC ]
- 00:18:42.445 --> 00:18:46.015
- - OKAY.
- 00:18:46.082 --> 00:18:47.684
- WE'VE DISPATCHED THE MYTH THAT GEORGE WASHINGTON
- 00:18:47.750 --> 00:18:49.085
- WAS A DEIST.
- 00:18:49.152 --> 00:18:50.453
- NOT TRUE.
- 00:18:50.520 --> 00:18:51.955
- HE WAS A CHRISTIAN.
- 00:18:52.021 --> 00:18:53.690
- BUT WE'VE ALSO GOT ANOTHER MYTH THAT'S OUT THERE.
- 00:18:53.756 --> 00:18:55.558
- AS A MATTER OF FACT, IN RECENT YEARS WE'VE SEEN
- 00:18:55.625 --> 00:18:57.493
- EVEN COLLEGE KIDS HAVING PROTESTING TO TAKE DOWN
- 00:18:57.560 --> 00:18:59.262
- THE STATUTES OF ABRAHAM LINK BECAUSE HE'S A SLAVE
- 00:18:59.329 --> 00:19:00.630
- OWNER AND PRO SLAVERY.
- 00:19:00.697 --> 00:19:02.365
- NOT TRUE.
- 00:19:02.432 --> 00:19:03.700
- NOW, WE'VE GOT STEVEN MANSFIELD THE HISTORIAN,
- 00:19:03.766 --> 00:19:05.602
- TIM BARTON, PRESIDENT OF WALL BUILDERS, AND
- 00:19:05.668 --> 00:19:07.370
- STEVEN, YOU'VE GOT A GREAT BOOK ON LINCOLN'S
- 00:19:07.437 --> 00:19:09.038
- BATTLE WITH GOD.
- 00:19:09.105 --> 00:19:10.840
- WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT LINK ON PARTICULARLY.
- 00:19:10.907 --> 00:19:12.442
- BUT KIND OF AROUND USES WE'VE GOT A PICTURE OF
- 00:19:12.508 --> 00:19:14.043
- ABRAHAM LINCOLN BACK HERE.
- 00:19:14.110 --> 00:19:15.778
- THIS IS JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, OUR 6TH PRESIDENT.
- 00:19:15.845 --> 00:19:17.714
- HE REALLY DOESN'T BELONG IN THE CIVIL WAR KIND OF
- 00:19:17.780 --> 00:19:19.749
- AIR A BUT HE HAD A HUGE IMPACT ON THIS ERA.
- 00:19:19.816 --> 00:19:21.517
- THAT'S JAMES A. GARFIELD
- 00:19:21.584 --> 00:19:24.988
- OVER HERE ON THIS SIDE.
- 00:19:25.054 --> 00:19:27.090
- HE WAS IN THE CIVIL WAR.
- 00:19:27.156 --> 00:19:29.459
- KNEW LINCOLN WELL, BECAME THE 20TH PRESIDENT.
- 00:19:29.525 --> 00:19:31.361
- LINCOLN WAS THE 16TH PRESIDENT.
- 00:19:31.427 --> 00:19:33.062
- BUT THAT PICTURE OF LINCOLN IS
- 00:19:33.129 --> 00:19:34.397
- FAIRLY INTERESTING.
- 00:19:34.464 --> 00:19:36.032
- THIS IS THE SAME EXCEPT THIS IS A LOT SMALLER,
- 00:19:36.099 --> 00:19:38.568
- AND THIS PICTURE ACTUALLY BELONGED TO THE GUY WHO
- 00:19:38.635 --> 00:19:43.273
- DID THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL.
- 00:19:43.339 --> 00:19:45.708
- SO WHEN YOU SEE THE PICTURES OF LINCOLN
- 00:19:45.775 --> 00:19:47.543
- MEMORIAL, THIS WAS A PICTURE THAT HE HAD IN
- 00:19:47.610 --> 00:19:49.512
- DOING THAT, BUT WHAT'S EVEN COOLER IS THIS IS
- 00:19:49.579 --> 00:19:51.981
- THE NEGATIVE FROM WHICH IT WAS MADE.
- 00:19:52.048 --> 00:19:55.051
- - WOW.
- 00:19:55.118 --> 00:19:56.819
- - AND SO-- THAT GLASS NEGATIVE -AND IT'S THIS
- 00:19:56.886 --> 00:19:59.055
- KIND OF CAMERA OVER HERE, AND THERE'S SOME JOHN
- 00:19:59.122 --> 00:20:01.324
- QUINCY ADAMS DOCUMENTS RIGHT HERE, FOR EXAMPLE.
- 00:20:01.391 --> 00:20:03.359
- THIS IS THE REVERSES IMAGE OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN.
- 00:20:03.426 --> 00:20:05.595
- OVER THERE IS SOME JAMES A.
- 00:20:05.662 --> 00:20:07.930
- GARFIELD -AND BY THE WAY, JAMES GARFIELD, 20TH
- 00:20:07.997 --> 00:20:10.700
- PRESIDENT, THIS IS THE PAGING SYSTEM THAT SAT ON
- 00:20:10.767 --> 00:20:13.436
- HIS DESK [ RINGS THE DESK BELL ] SO YOU CAN CALL
- 00:20:13.503 --> 00:20:16.072
- SOMEONE FROM THE NEXT ROOM TO COME IN.
- 00:20:16.139 --> 00:20:18.007
- AND JOHN CONVINCE SEE ADAMS, THERE'S SOME MORE
- 00:20:18.074 --> 00:20:20.109
- OFF THE DESK OF GARFIELD AS WELL.
- 00:20:20.176 --> 00:20:21.744
- AND TIM, YOU'VE GOT SOME STUFF OVER THERE.
- 00:20:21.811 --> 00:20:23.646
- - YEAH, SO LETTERS FROM GARFIELD.
- 00:20:23.713 --> 00:20:25.415
- A LOT OF THINGS FROM JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.
- 00:20:25.481 --> 00:20:27.250
- SO UP HERE WE HAVE A LOT OF THINGS FROM PRESIDENTS
- 00:20:27.317 --> 00:20:29.452
- OF THAT ERA, AND ACTUALLY A FEW THINGS PROBABLY
- 00:20:29.519 --> 00:20:31.521
- WORTH TALKING ABOUT, SO OUR FIRST VOLUNTEER WE
- 00:20:31.587 --> 00:20:33.823
- ALREADY ASKED IF YOU WOULD COME UP, WE HAVE
- 00:20:33.890 --> 00:20:35.892
- SOMETHING WE WANT YOU TO CHECK OUT AND SEE IF YOU
- 00:20:35.958 --> 00:20:37.894
- CAN FIGURE OUT, I CAN'T EVER, WHAT IT IS.
- 00:20:37.960 --> 00:20:39.862
- NOW, WHAT'S YOUR NAME?
- 00:20:39.929 --> 00:20:41.764
- - PAUL.
- 00:20:41.831 --> 00:20:43.166
- - PAUL?
- 00:20:43.232 --> 00:20:44.367
- - UH-HUH.
- 00:20:44.434 --> 00:20:45.802
- - OKAY.
- 00:20:45.868 --> 00:20:47.036
- ALL RIGHT, PAUL.
- 00:20:47.103 --> 00:20:48.671
- YOU'RE WEARING GLASSES.
- 00:20:48.738 --> 00:20:50.540
- IF YOU WILL TAKE YOUR GLASSES OFF AND --
- 00:20:50.606 --> 00:20:52.842
- - I CAN HOLD THOSE FOR YOU.
- 00:20:52.909 --> 00:20:54.544
- - VERY CAREFULLY SLIP THOSE GLASSES ON.
- 00:20:54.610 --> 00:20:57.480
- SEE IF IT DOES ANYTHING FOR YOU.
- 00:20:57.547 --> 00:20:59.482
- - MAKES EVERYTHING BLURRIER.
- 00:20:59.549 --> 00:21:01.084
- - PUT THEM BACK ON AGAIN.
- 00:21:01.150 --> 00:21:02.585
- - YOU LOOK GREAT IN THEM THOUGH.
- 00:21:02.652 --> 00:21:03.920
- - THAT'S THE WAY THAT PRESIDENT ZACHARY TAYLOR
- 00:21:03.986 --> 00:21:06.055
- SAW THE WORLD BECAUSE THOSE ARE PRESIDENTIAL
- 00:21:06.122 --> 00:21:07.690
- GLASSES OF ZACHARY TAYLOR.
- 00:21:07.757 --> 00:21:09.559
- NOT GOING TO LET YOU SIT IN IT, BUT THAT'S HIS
- 00:21:09.625 --> 00:21:11.494
- CHAIR OVER THERE FROM THE WHITE HOUSE, PRESIDENT
- 00:21:11.561 --> 00:21:12.628
- ZACHARY TAYLOR.
- 00:21:12.695 --> 00:21:14.030
- - SO YOU'VE NOW WORN PRESIDENTIAL GLASSES.
- 00:21:14.097 --> 00:21:15.998
- I DON'T KNOW IF YOU FELT EXECUTIVE ITCH.
- 00:21:16.065 --> 00:21:17.800
- OKAY. WELL, THANK YOU.
- 00:21:17.867 --> 00:21:19.302
- SO YOU GOT TO CHECK OUT THE GLASSES.
- 00:21:19.369 --> 00:21:21.037
- THERE'S A LOT OF COOL STUFF, AND WE COULD EVEN
- 00:21:21.104 --> 00:21:22.839
- DO SOME MORE LOOKING AND GUESSING ON WHAT STUFF
- 00:21:22.905 --> 00:21:24.474
- IS, BUT THE KIND OF BOTTOM LINE WITH THIS
- 00:21:24.540 --> 00:21:26.209
- SECTION REALLY DOES REVOLVE A LOT AROUND
- 00:21:26.275 --> 00:21:28.277
- ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
- 00:21:28.344 --> 00:21:30.413
- TODAY AS YOU ALREADY MENTIONED WHERE PEOPLE
- 00:21:30.480 --> 00:21:32.615
- THINK HE WASN'T ANTI-SLAVERY AND SO MANY
- 00:21:32.682 --> 00:21:34.684
- THINGS THAT GET SAID EVEN ABOUT HIS FAITH, WHICH
- 00:21:34.751 --> 00:21:36.719
- YOU DID A GREAT JOB UNFOLDING, BUT WITH
- 00:21:36.786 --> 00:21:38.788
- LINCOLN NOW WE'RE BEING TOLD HE WASN'T EVEN
- 00:21:38.855 --> 00:21:40.356
- AGAINST SLAVERY.
- 00:21:40.423 --> 00:21:42.191
- HOW DO WE RESPOND TO THAT?
- 00:21:42.258 --> 00:21:44.093
- HOW DO WE ANSWER THAT QUESTION ABOUT LINCOLN
- 00:21:44.160 --> 00:21:45.661
- WHEN IT COMES TO SLAVERY?
- 00:21:45.728 --> 00:21:47.697
- - WELL, IT'S SAD THAT PEOPLE AREN'T SEEING THIS
- 00:21:47.764 --> 00:21:50.032
- CORRECTLY BECAUSE IN HIS EARLY LIFE, LINCOLN
- 00:21:50.099 --> 00:21:52.568
- DEFINITELY HAD SOME OF THE RACIST ATTITUDES OF
- 00:21:52.635 --> 00:21:54.804
- THE TIMES, AND HE SAID SOME THINGS PEOPLE
- 00:21:54.871 --> 00:21:56.773
- QUOTED, SO PEOPLE ASSUME HE WASN'T ANTI-SLAVERY,
- 00:21:56.839 --> 00:21:59.308
- BUT THAT'S JUST RIDICULOUS.
- 00:21:59.375 --> 00:22:01.010
- THE FACT IS HE HAD ANTI-SLAVERY SENTIMENTS
- 00:22:01.077 --> 00:22:02.879
- FROM A VERY YOUNG AGE.
- 00:22:02.945 --> 00:22:05.481
- HE WAS IN CONGRESS FOR ABOUT 18 MONTHS, AND
- 00:22:05.548 --> 00:22:07.250
- DURING THAT TIME HE PROPOSED LEGISLATION TO
- 00:22:07.316 --> 00:22:10.787
- MAKE WASHINGTON DC ANTI-SLAVERY.
- 00:22:10.853 --> 00:22:13.623
- IT'S THE FIRST TIME HE EVER PROPOSED ANY
- 00:22:13.689 --> 00:22:15.458
- LEGISLATION RELATED TO SLAVERY.
- 00:22:15.525 --> 00:22:17.093
- HE WAS ABSOLUTELY OPPOSED TO SLAVERY.
- 00:22:17.160 --> 00:22:19.529
- - AND CERTAINLY EVEN LOOKING AT BEING A MEMBER
- 00:22:19.595 --> 00:22:21.497
- OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY THAT WAS PART OF THEIR
- 00:22:21.564 --> 00:22:23.199
- PARTY POSITION.
- 00:22:23.266 --> 00:22:25.067
- - THAT WAS THEIR PLATFORM ALL THE TIME.
- 00:22:25.134 --> 00:22:26.969
- - THIS IS THE ACTUAL DRED SCOTT DECISION THAT
- 00:22:27.036 --> 00:22:28.905
- THE SUPREME COURT CAME OUT WITH THAT SAID OH,
- 00:22:28.971 --> 00:22:31.374
- BLACKS -- NO BLACK MAN HAS ANY RIGHTS WHICH WHITE
- 00:22:31.441 --> 00:22:33.843
- MAN IS BOUND TO RESPECT.
- 00:22:33.910 --> 00:22:36.345
- THAT THEN BECAME SOMETHING THAT WAS HANDED
- 00:22:36.412 --> 00:22:38.381
- OUT WITH THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY PLATFORM THE
- 00:22:38.448 --> 00:22:40.283
- NEXT ELECTION.
- 00:22:40.349 --> 00:22:42.452
- THEY SAID SEE, WE WERE RIGHT ABOUT SLAVERY.
- 00:22:42.518 --> 00:22:44.086
- WE TOLD YOU SLAVERY WAS GOOD FOR EVERYBODY.
- 00:22:44.153 --> 00:22:45.855
- AND THE SUPREME COURT ACTUALLY SAID THAT
- 00:22:45.922 --> 00:22:47.423
- SLAVERY IS FOR THE BENEFIT OF BLACKS.
- 00:22:47.490 --> 00:22:49.225
- IT'S FOR THE BENEFIT OF SOCIETY AND IT HELPS BLACKS.
- 00:22:49.292 --> 00:22:51.294
- SO DEMOCRATS WHEN THEIR PLATFORM PUT IT OUT.
- 00:22:51.360 --> 00:22:53.463
- WELL, REPUBLICANS SAID, NOT US.
- 00:22:53.529 --> 00:22:55.565
- AND SO THIS IS THE FIRST REPUBLICAN PLATFORM, 1856.
- 00:22:55.631 --> 00:22:57.867
- IT IS ONLY NINE PLANKS LONG, AND 7 OF THE NINE
- 00:22:57.934 --> 00:23:00.903
- PLANKS ARE WE WANT TO END SLAVERY, GIVE EQUALITY,
- 00:23:00.970 --> 00:23:04.240
- GIVE EQUAL CIVIL RIGHTS.
- 00:23:04.307 --> 00:23:06.442
- THEY DID NOT WIN THAT ELECTION OF 1856.
- 00:23:06.509 --> 00:23:08.377
- THE NEXT REELECTION WAS 1860.
- 00:23:08.444 --> 00:23:10.546
- THEY DID WIN THIS ONE.
- 00:23:10.613 --> 00:23:12.615
- THIS IS THE ONE ON WHICH ABRAHAM LINCOLN RAN AS A
- 00:23:12.682 --> 00:23:15.985
- REPUBLICAN AND A BRAND-NEW PARTY.
- 00:23:16.052 --> 00:23:17.954
- AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WAS STARTED BY 30
- 00:23:18.020 --> 00:23:20.122
- ANTI-SLAVERY DEMOCRATS WHO NO LONGER FELT AT
- 00:23:20.189 --> 00:23:22.425
- HOME IN THEIR OWN PARTY, SO THEY STARTED A NEW
- 00:23:22.492 --> 00:23:24.660
- PARTY, AND ANTI-SLAVERY HE RUNS AS PRESIDENT AND
- 00:23:24.727 --> 00:23:26.529
- GETS ELECTED.
- 00:23:26.596 --> 00:23:28.731
- THIS IS A HUGE -- THERE'S 17 PLANKS HERE, HUGE
- 00:23:28.798 --> 00:23:30.867
- ANTI-SLAVERY PLATFORM.
- 00:23:30.933 --> 00:23:32.969
- AND THEN FOUR YEARS LATER THIS IS THE 1864
- 00:23:33.035 --> 00:23:37.006
- PHRALTS FORM OF THE REPUBLICANS AND THE
- 00:23:37.073 --> 00:23:39.509
- DEMOCRATS SO VOTERS WOULD NOWHERE THE PARTIES ARE
- 00:23:39.575 --> 00:23:42.378
- ON ALL THE ISSUES, AND RIGHT HERE THE REPUBLICAN
- 00:23:42.445 --> 00:23:44.780
- PARTY CALLS FOR A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
- 00:23:44.847 --> 00:23:47.116
- TO PERMANENT BAN SLAVERY.
- 00:23:47.183 --> 00:23:49.352
- WE'RE NOT GOING TO DO ABOLITION STUFF ANYMORE.
- 00:23:49.418 --> 00:23:51.220
- WE'RE NOT GOING TO GRADUALLY -- WE JUST WANT
- 00:23:51.287 --> 00:23:52.889
- IT GONE.
- 00:23:52.955 --> 00:23:54.957
- AND THAT'S WHAT LINCOLN RUNS ON.
- 00:23:55.024 --> 00:23:57.059
- THAT'S WHAT HE GETS REELECTED ON.
- 00:23:57.126 --> 00:23:58.961
- THIS IS THE 13TH AMENDMENT, AND THIS IS
- 00:23:59.028 --> 00:24:01.264
- THE AMENDMENT THAT ABOLISHES SLAVERY
- 00:24:01.330 --> 00:24:03.132
- AFTER 240 YEARS.
- 00:24:03.199 --> 00:24:06.302
- ACCORDING TO THE CONSTITUTION, IN ANY
- 00:24:06.369 --> 00:24:08.871
- CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT YOU GET TWO-THIRDS OF THE
- 00:24:08.938 --> 00:24:10.806
- HOUSE AND SENATE TO PASS IT AND THREE-FOURTHS OF
- 00:24:10.873 --> 00:24:12.508
- THE STATES AND THAT'S IT.
- 00:24:12.575 --> 00:24:14.377
- THE PRESIDENT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ANY
- 00:24:14.443 --> 00:24:16.279
- CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT EXCEPT ON THE 13TH
- 00:24:16.345 --> 00:24:18.114
- AMENDMENT, ACHE HAM LINK ON PUT HIS SIGNATURE ON
- 00:24:18.180 --> 00:24:20.383
- IT BECAUSE HE WANTED THE WORLD TO KNOW, I AM ANTI--
- 00:24:20.449 --> 00:24:22.151
- HE DIDN'T NEED TO, DIDN'T HAVE TO.
- 00:24:22.218 --> 00:24:24.253
- THERE'S NO OTHER PRESIDENT -THERE'S NO
- 00:24:24.320 --> 00:24:26.389
- OTHER AMENDMENT SIGNED BY ANY PRESIDENT.
- 00:24:26.455 --> 00:24:28.524
- HE PUT IT ON THE 13TH AMENDMENT TO SAY LOOK,
- 00:24:28.591 --> 00:24:30.593
- THIS IS NOT PART OF MY CONSTITUTIONAL DUTY.
- 00:24:30.660 --> 00:24:33.429
- I AM TELLING YOU I HATE SLAVERY.
- 00:24:33.496 --> 00:24:35.865
- I WANT IT ENDED.
- 00:24:35.932 --> 00:24:37.767
- SO HE SIGNS THE 13TH AMENDMENT.
- 00:24:37.833 --> 00:24:39.001
- - WELL, IT'S JUST IGNORANCE, THE IDEA THAT
- 00:24:39.068 --> 00:24:43.673
- ABRAHAM LINCOLN WASN'T ANTI-SLAVERY.
- 00:24:43.739 --> 00:24:45.508
- THE CIVIL WAR BASICALLY BEGINS FROM ABRAHAM
- 00:24:45.575 --> 00:24:47.310
- LINCOLN GETS ELECTED, AND THE SOUTHERN SLAVE STATES
- 00:24:47.376 --> 00:24:49.545
- THEN LEAVE THE UNION, AND THEY DO THAT, WHY?
- 00:24:49.612 --> 00:24:51.113
- BECAUSE ABRAHAM LINCOLN IS OPPOSED TO SLAVERY,
- 00:24:51.180 --> 00:24:52.448
- AND THEREFORE THEY DON'T WANT TO BE IN A UNION
- 00:24:52.515 --> 00:24:53.883
- THAT'S OPPOSES SLAVERY.
- 00:24:53.950 --> 00:24:55.418
- SO HE WAS THE SYMBOL AT THAT TIME POLITICALLY OF
- 00:24:55.484 --> 00:24:56.852
- ANTI- SLAVERY SENTIMENT.
- 00:24:56.919 --> 00:24:58.754
- THAT'S WHY THE NATION DIVIDED.
- 00:24:58.821 --> 00:25:00.356
- THAT'S WHY WE HAD TO FIGHT A WAR, SO YOU HAVE
- 00:25:00.423 --> 00:25:01.757
- TO BE PRETTY IGNORANT TO THINK THAT HE'S NOT
- 00:25:01.824 --> 00:25:03.025
- ANTI-SLAVERY.
- 00:25:03.092 --> 00:25:05.194
- IT'S JUST OBVIOUS.
- 00:25:05.261 --> 00:25:06.696
- - HOW MUCH OF THAT WAS RELATED TO FAITH?
- 00:25:06.762 --> 00:25:08.264
- BECAUSE HIS FAITH JOURNEY WAS PRETTY WILD.
- 00:25:08.331 --> 00:25:10.166
- - ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S FAITH JOURNEY WAS
- 00:25:10.232 --> 00:25:11.567
- SO FASCINATING.
- 00:25:11.634 --> 00:25:13.369
- WHEN PEOPLE SAY HE'S NOT A CHRISTIAN, WASN'T A
- 00:25:13.436 --> 00:25:15.171
- BELIEVER IT'S SAD BECAUSE IT WAS SUCH A SLOW
- 00:25:15.237 --> 00:25:16.572
- PAINFUL JOURNEY FOR HIM.
- 00:25:16.639 --> 00:25:18.808
- LET ME TELL THE STORY VERY QUICKLY.
- 00:25:18.874 --> 00:25:20.443
- ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS BORN TO A CHRISTIAN FAMILY,
- 00:25:20.509 --> 00:25:22.712
- BUT HIS FATHER WAS THE KIND OF MAN, AND THIS WAS
- 00:25:22.778 --> 00:25:25.381
- DURING THE GREAT REVIVAL CALLED THE SECOND GREAT
- 00:25:25.448 --> 00:25:27.650
- AWAKENING, HIS FATHER WAS THE KIND OF MAN WHO WOULD
- 00:25:27.717 --> 00:25:29.685
- GET WEEPY ABOUT JESUS ABOUT DINNER BUT THEN
- 00:25:29.752 --> 00:25:31.687
- BEAT HIS CHILDREN THE NEXT DAY.
- 00:25:31.754 --> 00:25:33.389
- THAT'S THE SAD ORIGINS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
- 00:25:33.456 --> 00:25:35.625
- SO ABRAHAM LINCOLN DISTANCED HIMSELF FROM
- 00:25:35.691 --> 00:25:37.393
- CHRISTIANITY, AND IN THE EARLY PHASE OF HIS ADULT
- 00:25:37.460 --> 00:25:39.729
- LIFE AROUND THE AGE OF 21, HE BECAME-- IN NEW
- 00:25:39.795 --> 00:25:42.565
- SALEM, A PLACE CALLED NEW SALEM, HE BECAME THE
- 00:25:42.632 --> 00:25:44.400
- VILLAGE ATHEIST.
- 00:25:44.467 --> 00:25:46.135
- HE ARGUED AGAINST RELIGION.
- 00:25:46.202 --> 00:25:47.903
- HE HAD READ PAYNE AND VOLNE AND GIBBON AND A
- 00:25:47.970 --> 00:25:49.972
- LOT OF THE MAIN SKEPTICS AT THAT TIME, SO HE WAS
- 00:25:50.039 --> 00:25:51.874
- KNOWN AS THE VILLAGE ATHEIST.
- 00:25:51.941 --> 00:25:54.210
- HE'S WALK AROUND WITH A BIBLE UNDER HIS ARM JUST
- 00:25:54.276 --> 00:25:56.545
- TO PICK FIGHTS ABOUT IT AND ARGUE WITH PEOPLE
- 00:25:56.612 --> 00:25:58.948
- ABOUT IT ON THE STREETS, NO QUESTION.
- 00:25:59.015 --> 00:26:00.783
- BUT EVENTUALLY HE WENT INTO THE
- 00:26:00.850 --> 00:26:02.652
- ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE.
- 00:26:02.718 --> 00:26:04.320
- HE MOVED TO SPRINGFIELD, AND HE BEGAN TO MEET
- 00:26:04.387 --> 00:26:06.255
- CHRISTIANS WHO COULD GIVE A REASON FOR THE HOPE
- 00:26:06.322 --> 00:26:07.857
- THAT WAS WITHIN THEM, WHO COULD ARTICULATE
- 00:26:07.923 --> 00:26:09.492
- CHRISTIANITY, WHO COULD EXPLAIN IT IN RATIONAL
- 00:26:09.558 --> 00:26:11.527
- TERMS, NOT JUST IN KIND OF EMOTIONAL,
- 00:26:11.594 --> 00:26:13.062
- REVIVALISTIC TERMS.
- 00:26:13.129 --> 00:26:14.730
- SO HE BEGAN TO CHANGE.
- 00:26:14.797 --> 00:26:16.365
- UNFORTUNATELY WHAT REALLY TURNED ABRAHAM LINCOLN
- 00:26:16.432 --> 00:26:18.501
- WERE THE DEATHS HE SUFFERED IN HIS LIFE.
- 00:26:18.567 --> 00:26:20.936
- ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS A MANIC DEPRESSIVE.
- 00:26:21.003 --> 00:26:23.439
- THAT'S THE PHRASE WE'D USE TODAY.
- 00:26:23.506 --> 00:26:25.374
- HE ALMOST KILLED HIMSELF SEVERAL TIMES.
- 00:26:25.441 --> 00:26:27.443
- HIS FRIENDS HAD TO STAND SUICIDE WATCH.
- 00:26:27.510 --> 00:26:30.413
- AND SO IT WAS WHILE LINCOLN BATTLED HIS WAY
- 00:26:30.479 --> 00:26:33.249
- OUT OF GRIEF THAT HE CAME BACK TO HIS FAITH.
- 00:26:33.315 --> 00:26:37.153
- I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CAN REMEMBER THAT HIS MOTHER
- 00:26:37.219 --> 00:26:39.088
- DIED WHEN ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS ONLY NINE YEARS OLD.
- 00:26:39.155 --> 00:26:41.791
- HIS SISTER DIED WHEN HE WAS 16.
- 00:26:41.857 --> 00:26:43.693
- THE FIRST LOVE OF HIS LIFE DIED WHEN HE WAS
- 00:26:43.759 --> 00:26:45.161
- IN HIS EARLY 20'S.
- 00:26:45.227 --> 00:26:46.796
- THEN THERE WERE OTHER DEATHS IN HIS LIFE.
- 00:26:46.862 --> 00:26:49.465
- OF COURSE HE GOT MARRIED TO MARY TODD LINCOLN,
- 00:26:49.532 --> 00:26:51.467
- AS WE'VE DISCUSSED, AND HE LOST CHILDREN.
- 00:26:51.534 --> 00:26:53.903
- HE HAD SEVERAL SONS DIE.
- 00:26:53.969 --> 00:26:56.038
- AND THE GRIEF THAT HE SUFFERED OVER THAT
- 00:26:56.105 --> 00:26:57.606
- WAS JUST HORRIBLE.
- 00:26:57.673 --> 00:26:58.941
- THE MAN WHO MADE THE DIFFERENCE WAS A MAN
- 00:26:59.008 --> 00:27:00.710
- NAMED REVEREND SMITH.
- 00:27:00.776 --> 00:27:02.712
- AND REVEREND SMITH MINISTERED TO LINCOLN IN
- 00:27:02.778 --> 00:27:05.047
- THE MIDST OF HIS GRIEF, AND THAT'S REALLY WHAT
- 00:27:05.114 --> 00:27:07.383
- GIVES US THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN THAT WE HAVE WHEN
- 00:27:07.450 --> 00:27:10.086
- ABRAHAM LINCOLN ARRIVES AT THE OVAL OFFICE.
- 00:27:10.152 --> 00:27:12.188
- SO WE ACTUALLY HAVE A DOCUMENT.
- 00:27:12.254 --> 00:27:14.123
- GO AHEAD AND TELL THEM ABOUT IT.
- 00:27:14.190 --> 00:27:15.491
- - THIS IS FROM REVEREND SMITH TALKING ABOUT
- 00:27:15.558 --> 00:27:17.460
- ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
- 00:27:17.526 --> 00:27:19.361
- AND REVEREND SMITH RELATES THAT AS THE BIBLE
- 00:27:19.428 --> 00:27:22.198
- SOCIETY MEETING ANNUAL MEETING WAS IN TOWN, HE
- 00:27:22.264 --> 00:27:24.567
- WANTED ABRAHAM TO SPEAK TO THE BIBLE SOCIETY
- 00:27:24.633 --> 00:27:27.737
- MEETING, AND ABRAHAM SAID NO, I DON'T KNOW.
- 00:27:27.803 --> 00:27:29.638
- YEAH, YEAH, YOU'RE GREAT!
- 00:27:29.705 --> 00:27:31.574
- NO, I DON'T WANT-- YEAH, YOU'RE GREAT!
- 00:27:31.640 --> 00:27:32.975
- SO HE RECORDS THAT ABRAHAM LINCOLN GAVE THIS KILLER
- 00:27:33.042 --> 00:27:35.711
- SPEECH ON THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, AND HOW
- 00:27:35.778 --> 00:27:37.346
- RELEVANT THEY ARE TODAY, AND HOW TO LIVE BY
- 00:27:37.413 --> 00:27:39.014
- THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
- 00:27:39.081 --> 00:27:40.883
- SO THIS IS THE PASTOR YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT.
- 00:27:40.950 --> 00:27:43.185
- THIS IS THE PASTOR THAT REALLY TOOK HIM IN A
- 00:27:43.252 --> 00:27:45.755
- DIFFERENT DIRECTION.
- 00:27:45.821 --> 00:27:48.023
- - WHEN YOU HAVE ABRAHAM LINCOLN IN THE WHITE
- 00:27:48.090 --> 00:27:50.059
- HOUSE, BY THAT TIME HE HAS BECOME THE VERY
- 00:27:50.126 --> 00:27:53.162
- RELIGIOUS, THE VERY SPIRITUAL MAN THAT WE NOW
- 00:27:53.229 --> 00:27:55.531
- KNOW. I WANT YOU TO ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT ABRAHAM
- 00:27:55.598 --> 00:27:58.200
- LINCOLN WENT THROUGH ALMOST A DECADE WHERE HE
- 00:27:58.267 --> 00:27:59.869
- WAS A CONFESSED ATHEIST.
- 00:27:59.935 --> 00:28:02.004
- THE THING THAT YOU HAVE TO LEAN TO IS THAT WHEN
- 00:28:02.071 --> 00:28:05.841
- YOU READ, AGAIN, AS WE WERE SPEAKING OF EARLIER,
- 00:28:05.908 --> 00:28:08.177
- ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS, WHEN YOU READ THE MAGNIFICENT
- 00:28:08.244 --> 00:28:12.181
- SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS, WHICH WAS GIVEN JUST A
- 00:28:12.248 --> 00:28:14.950
- FEW MONTHS, FEW WEEKS IN FACT BEFORE ABRAHAM
- 00:28:15.017 --> 00:28:17.553
- LINCOLN WAS SHOT AT FORD'S THEATER, IT'S ONE
- 00:28:17.620 --> 00:28:21.223
- OF THE GREAT AMERICAN POLITICAL SERMONS.
- 00:28:21.290 --> 00:28:23.526
- IT QUOTES SCRIPTURE.
- 00:28:23.592 --> 00:28:25.027
- IT REFRAMES THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR IN DIVINE
- 00:28:25.094 --> 00:28:28.130
- TERMS, WHAT IS GOD DOING?
- 00:28:28.197 --> 00:28:29.899
- LINCOLN'S COME TO THE CONCLUSION BY THE END OF
- 00:28:29.965 --> 00:28:31.834
- THE WAR THAT GOD HAD VISITED THE CIVIL WAR ON
- 00:28:31.901 --> 00:28:34.069
- THE NATION IN PUNISHMENT FOR SLAVERY AND HER OTHER
- 00:28:34.136 --> 00:28:36.338
- SINS. AND SO WHATEVER YOU DO WITH ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S
- 00:28:36.405 --> 00:28:39.909
- LIFE, AND I'M SPEAKING OF SECULAR SCHOLARS HERE,
- 00:28:39.975 --> 00:28:41.944
- YOU HAVE TO HONOR THE FACT THAT THIS
- 00:28:42.011 --> 00:28:43.946
- MAGNIFICENT SERMON QUOTING SCRIPTURE AND
- 00:28:44.013 --> 00:28:46.882
- INVOKING GOD'S WILL IN THE EARTH IS AT THE
- 00:28:46.949 --> 00:28:48.851
- END OF HIS LIFE. SO YOU HAVE TO HAVE A PROGRESSION
- 00:28:48.918 --> 00:28:51.086
- GETTING HIM FROM HIS ATHEISTIC PERIOD TO THIS
- 00:28:51.153 --> 00:28:53.589
- MAGNIFICENT TIME WHEN HE'S THIS STRONG BELIEVER
- 00:28:53.656 --> 00:28:55.991
- IN GOD'S PROVIDENCE.
- 00:28:56.058 --> 00:28:57.426
- I GET A LITTLE TICKED OFF WHEN PEOPLE GO AROUND
- 00:28:57.493 --> 00:28:59.528
- TALKING ABOUT HIM NOT BEING A BELIEVER, BECAUSE
- 00:28:59.595 --> 00:29:01.564
- IF HE WAS SITTING BACK HERE IN THIS CHAIR, HE'D
- 00:29:01.630 --> 00:29:03.332
- SAY, YOU KNOW, FINDING MY FAITH AGAIN TOOK A LOT OF
- 00:29:03.399 --> 00:29:06.001
- DARK NIGHTS OF THE SOUL, AND A LOT OF PRAYER, AND
- 00:29:06.068 --> 00:29:08.804
- A LOT OF FIGHTING THROUGH, AND A LOT OF
- 00:29:08.871 --> 00:29:10.306
- BATTLING MY OWN DARKNESS, SO DON'T TALK LIKE I
- 00:29:10.372 --> 00:29:12.875
- WASN'T, LIKE I HADN'T WON THAT BATTLE BECAUSE HE HAD.
- 00:29:12.942 --> 00:29:15.744
- - YOU CAN TAKE A QUOTE FROM EARLY ON WHEN HIS
- 00:29:15.811 --> 00:29:17.413
- FATHER WAS BEATING HIM AND SAY LOOK WHAT LINCOLN
- 00:29:17.479 --> 00:29:19.381
- SAID, OR YOU CAN TAKE A QUOTE RIGHT AT THE START
- 00:29:19.448 --> 00:29:21.550
- OF THE CIVIL WAR, OR YOU CAN LOOK AT ALL THE
- 00:29:21.617 --> 00:29:24.086
- QUOTES, IS THAT THE ONLY THING HE SAID ABOUT--
- 00:29:24.153 --> 00:29:26.388
- AND WHEN YOU LOOK AT EVERYTHING, AND THAT'S A
- 00:29:26.455 --> 00:29:28.657
- PROBLEM WE HAVE TODAY IN ACADEMIA IS WE'LL PICK
- 00:29:28.724 --> 00:29:31.560
- ONE QUOTE OUT OF AND SAY THAT'S THE GUY, OR WE'LL
- 00:29:31.627 --> 00:29:34.163
- TAKE ONE SOURCE AND SAY THAT'S-- NO.
- 00:29:34.230 --> 00:29:36.799
- YOU LOOK AT ALL THE SOURCES AND YOU
- 00:29:36.866 --> 00:29:37.967
- BALANCE IT TOGETHER.
- 00:29:38.033 --> 00:29:39.501
- - RIGHT. LET ME TELL YOU A STORY THAT YOU'VE PROBABLY
- 00:29:39.568 --> 00:29:41.670
- NEVER HEARD BEFORE ABOUT ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
- 00:29:41.737 --> 00:29:43.239
- I CAN DO IT VERY QUICKLY.
- 00:29:43.305 --> 00:29:44.573
- ON THE DAY THAT LINCOLN WAS SHOT, HE AND HIS WIFE
- 00:29:44.640 --> 00:29:46.208
- WENT FOR A CARRIAGE RIDE, AND THEY TALKED ABOUT
- 00:29:46.275 --> 00:29:48.310
- WHAT THEY WOULD DO AFTER THE WAR.
- 00:29:48.377 --> 00:29:50.079
- WELL, THAT NIGHT THEY'RE SITTING IN FORD'S
- 00:29:50.145 --> 00:29:51.847
- THEATER, AND THEY'RE STILL HAVING KIND OF A
- 00:29:51.914 --> 00:29:53.716
- FLIRTY LOVING CONNECTION WITH EACH OTHER.
- 00:29:53.782 --> 00:29:56.151
- THEY HAD BEEN ESTRANGED A LITTLE BIT DURING THE WAR
- 00:29:56.218 --> 00:29:58.053
- JUST BECAUSE OF PRESSURE.
- 00:29:58.120 --> 00:29:59.755
- AND LINCOLN TURNS TO HER AND CONTINUES THE
- 00:29:59.822 --> 00:30:01.957
- CONVERSATION HE HAD HAD IN THE CARRIAGE
- 00:30:02.024 --> 00:30:03.626
- EARLIER THAT DAY. AND HE SAYS TO HER,
- 00:30:03.692 --> 00:30:06.028
- AFTER THE WAR, WE WILL NOT GO BACK TO SPRINGFIELD.
- 00:30:06.095 --> 00:30:08.597
- WE WILL TRAVEL ABROAD SO I CAN REST.
- 00:30:08.664 --> 00:30:11.634
- AND HE SAYS THESE WORDS.
- 00:30:11.700 --> 00:30:13.435
- HE SAYS, I SHOULD SO MUCH LIKE TO GO TO THE HOLY LAND.
- 00:30:13.502 --> 00:30:17.806
- I SHOULD SO MUCH LIKE TO WALK IN THE
- 00:30:17.873 --> 00:30:20.276
- FOOTSTEPS OF THE MASTER.
- 00:30:20.342 --> 00:30:22.878
- AFTER THE WAR, WE SHALL GO TO JERUSALEM.
- 00:30:22.945 --> 00:30:26.582
- THOSE ARE THE LAST WORDS HE EVER SPEAKS IN THIS LIFE.
- 00:30:26.649 --> 00:30:29.818
- JOHN WILKES BOOTH'S DERINGER FIRES INTO THE BACK OF HIS
- 00:30:29.885 --> 00:30:32.788
- BRAIN. ABRAHAM LINCOLN NEVER SPEAKS AGAIN.
- 00:30:32.855 --> 00:30:34.723
- SO NOT ONLY DO YOU HAVE THE SECOND INAUGURAL
- 00:30:34.790 --> 00:30:37.126
- ADDRESS, THIS POWERFUL POLITICAL SERMON WEEKS
- 00:30:37.192 --> 00:30:39.995
- BEFORE HE DIES, BUT THE NIGHT HE DIED, AS HE
- 00:30:40.062 --> 00:30:42.298
- DIED, HE WAS SAYING, ESSENTIALLY, I WANT TO
- 00:30:42.364 --> 00:30:45.000
- WALK IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HIS MASTER.
- 00:30:45.067 --> 00:30:46.835
- AND WE GET THAT STORY-- I DIDN'T MAKE THAT UP.
- 00:30:46.902 --> 00:30:48.904
- THAT CAME FROM MARY TODD LINCOLN, THE ONLY PERSON
- 00:30:48.971 --> 00:30:51.540
- SITTING CLOSE ENOUGH TO HIM TO KNOW.
- 00:30:51.607 --> 00:30:53.409
- SO AGAIN, THESE ARE STORIES THAT AREN'T TOLD.
- 00:30:53.475 --> 00:30:55.978
- AGAIN, THESE COME FROM THE ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS.
- 00:30:56.045 --> 00:30:57.980
- AND I THINK THAT REMOVES PRETTY MUCH ANY DOUBT OF
- 00:30:58.047 --> 00:31:00.015
- WHERE ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS WHEN HE DIED.
- 00:31:00.082 --> 00:31:01.684
- - HIS JOURNEY IS SO INTERESTING.
- 00:31:01.750 --> 00:31:03.185
- AND ONE OF THE THINGS YOU DOCUMENT SO WELL
- 00:31:03.252 --> 00:31:05.020
- IN YOUR BOOK IS HIS JOURNEY OF FAITH.
- 00:31:05.087 --> 00:31:06.989
- BUT IN THE MIDST OF THIS JOURNEY, IT'S ALSO
- 00:31:07.056 --> 00:31:08.557
- AMAZING THE PEOPLE THAT IT SEEMS LIKE DIVINE
- 00:31:08.624 --> 00:31:10.993
- PROVIDENCE, RIGHT, THAT GOD BRINGS ALONG THE WAY,
- 00:31:11.060 --> 00:31:12.861
- BECAUSE ONE OF THE GUYS WE HAVE A PICTURE OF
- 00:31:12.928 --> 00:31:14.396
- IS JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. AND ABRAHAM LINCOLN SERVED
- 00:31:14.463 --> 00:31:18.000
- AS CONGRESSMAN FOR ONE TERM.
- 00:31:18.067 --> 00:31:19.768
- - YES.
- 00:31:19.835 --> 00:31:21.170
- - AND DURING HIS ONE TERM, IT'S WHILE JOHN
- 00:31:21.236 --> 00:31:23.439
- QUINCY ADAMS IS SERVING HIS LAST TERM.
- 00:31:23.505 --> 00:31:25.874
- AND JOHN QUINCY ADAMS IS THE LEADER OF THE
- 00:31:25.941 --> 00:31:28.043
- ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT.
- 00:31:28.110 --> 00:31:29.511
- AND LINCOLN AT THIS POINT HAS ALREADY SAID SOME
- 00:31:29.578 --> 00:31:31.213
- THINGS THAT WOULD SEEMINGLY BE
- 00:31:31.280 --> 00:31:32.681
- ANTI-SLAVERY, BUT IT'S CERTAINLY NOT AS STRONG
- 00:31:32.748 --> 00:31:34.917
- AS HE WOULD BE LATER IN LIFE.
- 00:31:34.984 --> 00:31:36.618
- BUT WHILE HE'S IN CONGRESS, HE LISTENS TO
- 00:31:36.685 --> 00:31:40.255
- JOHN QUINCY ADAMS GETTING UP AND GIVING THESE
- 00:31:40.322 --> 00:31:42.024
- IMPASSIONED SPEECHES ABOUT THE EVILS OF
- 00:31:42.091 --> 00:31:44.159
- SLAVERY, AND WHAT WE SHOULD DO, AND HOW WE
- 00:31:44.226 --> 00:31:45.527
- SHOULD END IT. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, NO DOUBT,
- 00:31:45.594 --> 00:31:48.030
- HAS AN INFLUENCE ON ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
- 00:31:48.097 --> 00:31:50.065
- - ABRAHAM LINCOLN BECAME A PALLBEARER FOR
- 00:31:50.132 --> 00:31:52.534
- JOHN QUINCY ADAMS WHEN JOHN-- I MEAN OF ALL THE
- 00:31:52.601 --> 00:31:54.803
- FAMOUS-- HE'S A PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES;
- 00:31:54.870 --> 00:31:58.007
- BEFORE THIS, HE'S A U.S. SENATOR,
- 00:31:58.073 --> 00:31:59.641
- HE'S A FOREIGN DIPLOMAT TO FIVE DIFFERENT NATIONS,
- 00:31:59.708 --> 00:32:01.377
- SECRETARY OF STATE, HE'S ENDED WARS.
- 00:32:01.443 --> 00:32:04.046
- HE CAN GET ANYBODY IN THE WORLD TO BE HIS
- 00:32:04.113 --> 00:32:05.714
- PALLBEARER, AND THIS YOUNG FRESHMAN KID,
- 00:32:05.781 --> 00:32:08.183
- ABRAHAM LINCOLN, THAT NOBODY EVEN KNOWS ABOUT
- 00:32:08.250 --> 00:32:10.519
- IS THE PALLBEARER BECAUSE THE CONNECTION THAT'S
- 00:32:10.586 --> 00:32:12.955
- ALREADY BEEN FORMED THERE.
- 00:32:13.022 --> 00:32:14.490
- - OVER ANTI-SLAVERY SENTIMENT.
- 00:32:14.556 --> 00:32:16.392
- - BUT AGAIN, IT'S THE FAITH OF THESE GUYS
- 00:32:16.458 --> 00:32:18.227
- MOTIVATED THEM TO DO WHAT THEY DO.
- 00:32:18.293 --> 00:32:20.562
- YOU SEE, THEN ABRAHAM LINCOLN IS INFLUENCED BY
- 00:32:20.629 --> 00:32:23.265
- THESE GUYS OF FAITH TO DO WHAT HE DOES.
- 00:32:23.332 --> 00:32:25.934
- IT'S AMAZING WHEN YOU SEE THE BIG PICTURE
- 00:32:26.001 --> 00:32:27.970
- FULL STORY HOW GOD REALLY KIND OF
- 00:32:28.037 --> 00:32:30.372
- WEAVED THINGS TOGETHER.
- 00:32:30.439 --> 00:32:32.007
- - LET'S TAKE ANOTHER ONE BECAUSE LINCOLN, IN THE
- 00:32:32.074 --> 00:32:34.009
- MIDDLE OF THE CIVIL WAR, I MEAN HE'S GOT MILITARY
- 00:32:34.076 --> 00:32:36.745
- PROBLEMS. MC CLELLAN'S A BIG PAIN. HE HAS TO GET
- 00:32:36.812 --> 00:32:38.947
- RID OF MC CLELLAN AND GET U.S. GRANT IN THERE.
- 00:32:39.014 --> 00:32:41.083
- HE'S ALSO GOT A LOT OF POLITICAL
- 00:32:41.150 --> 00:32:42.584
- PROBLEMS IN CONGRESS.
- 00:32:42.651 --> 00:32:44.019
- SO HE REACHES IN TO ONE OF HIS MAJOR GENERALS,
- 00:32:44.086 --> 00:32:46.755
- WHICH IS THAT GUY RIGHT THERE.
- 00:32:46.822 --> 00:32:48.490
- JAMES A. GARFIELD WAS A HERO, A WAR HERO.
- 00:32:48.557 --> 00:32:52.294
- AND LINCOLN, IN THE MIDDLE OF CIVIL WAR,
- 00:32:52.361 --> 00:32:54.763
- SAYS HELP BACK HERE IN CONGRESS.
- 00:32:54.830 --> 00:32:56.498
- SO THIS MAN COMES BACK TO CONGRESS, HELPS.
- 00:32:56.565 --> 00:32:59.068
- HE THEN IS KEY IN PASSING THE FIRST 23 CIVIL RIGHTS
- 00:32:59.134 --> 00:33:02.905
- LAWS IN AMERICA BECAUSE WE DO END UP ABOLISHING
- 00:33:02.971 --> 00:33:05.307
- SLAVERY, LINCOLN, THE 13TH AMENDMENT, THEN 23 LAWS
- 00:33:05.374 --> 00:33:08.010
- GET PASSED, ALL SORTS OF EQUALITY, SO HE'S A KEY
- 00:33:08.077 --> 00:33:12.081
- GUY. AND HE ACTUALLY HELPS FOUND ONE OF THE FIRST
- 00:33:12.147 --> 00:33:13.882
- BLACK UNIVERSITIES IN AMERICA.
- 00:33:13.949 --> 00:33:15.551
- BUT IT'S INTERESTING THAT THIS GUY, BEFORE HE WAS A
- 00:33:15.617 --> 00:33:18.821
- MILITARY OFFICER, WAS A PREACHER OF THE GOSPEL.
- 00:33:18.887 --> 00:33:21.957
- YOU'VE GOT AN INTERESTING LETTER THERE, TIM.
- 00:33:22.024 --> 00:33:23.992
- - YEAH, SO THIS IS A LETTER FROM GARFIELD, AND
- 00:33:24.059 --> 00:33:26.295
- IN THIS LETTER, HE'S RECOUNTING THAT HE HAD
- 00:33:26.361 --> 00:33:27.930
- JUST FINISHED PREACHING AT A REVIVAL SERVICE.
- 00:33:27.996 --> 00:33:30.065
- AND WHAT HE SAYS IN THIS LETTER IS THAT HE HAD
- 00:33:30.132 --> 00:33:32.434
- PREACHED 19 DISCOURSES.
- 00:33:32.501 --> 00:33:34.536
- - SO 19 SERMONS. - SO 19 SERMONS.
- 00:33:34.603 --> 00:33:36.572
- HE SAYS THERE WERE 34 ADDITIONS, MEANING
- 00:33:36.638 --> 00:33:38.841
- 34 PEOPLE GOT SAVED.
- 00:33:38.907 --> 00:33:40.576
- HE SAYS, AND I BAPTIZED 31 OF THEM BY EMERSION.
- 00:33:40.642 --> 00:33:43.812
- SO YOU HAVE A GUY WHO, MILITARY OFFICER, RIGHT,
- 00:33:43.879 --> 00:33:47.783
- GONNA GO ON AND BE A PRESIDENT, WHO IS ALSO A
- 00:33:47.850 --> 00:33:50.052
- PREACHER, WHO'S LEADING PEOPLE TO CHRIST,
- 00:33:50.119 --> 00:33:52.054
- BAPTIZING THEM.
- 00:33:52.121 --> 00:33:54.089
- I DON'T KNOW MANY PRESIDENTS THAT HAVE DONE
- 00:33:54.156 --> 00:33:56.391
- BAPTISMAL SERVICES, BUT CERTAINLY AGAIN, AS WE'RE
- 00:33:56.458 --> 00:33:59.094
- TALKING ABOUT THE FAITH OF OUR NATION, RIGHT, OUR
- 00:33:59.161 --> 00:34:01.063
- HERITAGE, OUR HIDDEN HISTORY, IT REALLY IS
- 00:34:01.130 --> 00:34:03.232
- AMAZING THE CHRISTIAN HERITAGE IS THERE.
- 00:34:03.298 --> 00:34:05.100
- - SO YOU LOOK ACROSS THIS ERA, THE SECOND MYTH
- 00:34:05.167 --> 00:34:08.203
- IS THAT ABRAHAM LINCOLN IS PRO-SLAVERY, THEREFORE
- 00:34:08.270 --> 00:34:10.806
- LET'S PROTEST AND TEAR DOWN STATUTE EVERYWHERE.
- 00:34:10.873 --> 00:34:12.875
- WRONG. DEAD WRONG.
- 00:34:12.941 --> 00:34:14.576
- NOT ONLY IS HE ANTI-SLAVERY, HE'S A BIG
- 00:34:14.643 --> 00:34:17.045
- GOD GUY AS HE GROWS THROUGH LIFE, AS WAS
- 00:34:17.112 --> 00:34:19.748
- JOHN QUINCY ADAMS AND WAS JAMES A. GARFIELD.
- 00:34:19.815 --> 00:34:22.417
- - SURE. THERE'S ANOTHER ASPECT WE DON'T GET EITHER,
- 00:34:22.484 --> 00:34:24.386
- AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT I MENTION THIS TO YOU
- 00:34:24.453 --> 00:34:25.854
- GUYS TO INSPIRE YOU, AND THAT IS HOW BRILLIANT
- 00:34:25.921 --> 00:34:27.356
- THESE PEOPLE WERE.
- 00:34:27.422 --> 00:34:28.624
- THIS GENTLEMAN, JAMES GARFIELD, HE ACTUALLY
- 00:34:28.690 --> 00:34:30.559
- DEVELOPED, IN ADDITION TO BEING A GENERAL, AND A
- 00:34:30.626 --> 00:34:32.528
- PREACHER, AND A PRESIDENT, AND SO ON,
- 00:34:32.594 --> 00:34:34.329
- HE ACTUALLY DEVELOPED A PROOF FOR THE
- 00:34:34.396 --> 00:34:36.698
- PYTHAGOREAN THEOREM.
- 00:34:36.765 --> 00:34:39.034
- NOW THAT'S ONE OF THE GREAT MATHEMATICAL
- 00:34:39.101 --> 00:34:41.003
- QUESTIONS THAT YOU HAVE SINCE THE ANCIENT GREEK
- 00:34:41.069 --> 00:34:42.771
- WORLD. HE DEVELOPED AN ADDITIONAL PROOF FOR IT
- 00:34:42.838 --> 00:34:45.607
- TO WHAT WE ALREADY HAVE.
- 00:34:45.674 --> 00:34:48.177
- THAT WAS IN HIS SPARE TIME.
- 00:34:48.243 --> 00:34:49.678
- BY THE WAY, HE WAS COMPLETELY SELF-EDUCATED.
- 00:34:49.745 --> 00:34:51.346
- THIS WAS NOT A MAN WHO WENT TO HARVARD.
- 00:34:51.413 --> 00:34:52.948
- - HE GREW UP IN A LOG CABIN. HE'S THE LAST
- 00:34:53.015 --> 00:34:54.983
- AMERICAN PRESIDENT BORN IN A LOG CABIN.
- 00:34:55.050 --> 00:34:56.752
- - EXACTLY. BUT HE'S STUDYING SO AGGRESSIVELY BECAUSE
- 00:34:56.818 --> 00:34:58.620
- HE WANTS TO SERVE GOD WITH HIS INTELLECT THAT HE'S
- 00:34:58.687 --> 00:35:00.756
- ACTUALLY CONFIRMING GREEK THEORIES OF MATHEMATICS.
- 00:35:00.822 --> 00:35:03.992
- SO I WANT YOU TO BE AWARE THAT IF YOU HEAR THESE
- 00:35:04.059 --> 00:35:05.761
- GUYS WERE BORN IN LOG CABINS, OR YOU HEAR THAT
- 00:35:05.827 --> 00:35:07.763
- THEY WERE SELF-EDUCATED, DON'T PUT THAT DOWN.
- 00:35:07.829 --> 00:35:10.332
- THEY WERE BRILLIANT PEOPLE. LINCOLN INCLUDED.
- 00:35:10.399 --> 00:35:12.434
- AND THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THESE TWO
- 00:35:12.501 --> 00:35:14.136
- ARE PRETTY STUNNING.
- 00:35:14.203 --> 00:35:15.637
- - SO WE'VE GONE THROUGH AND SEEN THAT THAT SECOND
- 00:35:15.704 --> 00:35:17.940
- PREMISE OUT THERE THAT LINCOLN IS PRO-SLAVERY
- 00:35:18.006 --> 00:35:20.275
- IS NOT ACCURATE. HE WAS ANTI-SLAVERY.
- 00:35:20.342 --> 00:35:22.644
- AND ANY NOTION THAT, LIKE THE FOUNDING
- 00:35:22.711 --> 00:35:25.080
- FATHERS, THESE GUYS WERE ATHEISTS, AGNOSTICS, NOT
- 00:35:25.147 --> 00:35:27.282
- RELIGIOUS, "THEY'RE PRESIDENTS; THEY'VE
- 00:35:27.349 --> 00:35:29.117
- GOT TO BE SECULAR." NO. NOT SO. THESE GUYS
- 00:35:29.184 --> 00:35:31.787
- SERVED GOD WITH THEIR HEART AND THEIR MIND.
- 00:35:31.853 --> 00:35:33.989
- THEY WERE BRILLIANT GUYS.
- 00:35:34.056 --> 00:35:35.524
- SO LET'S KIND OF MOVE OUT OF THIS, AND LET'S MOVE
- 00:35:35.591 --> 00:35:37.693
- INTO ANOTHER BIG ERA OF AMERICAN HISTORY.
- 00:35:37.759 --> 00:35:40.229
- THAT'S THE WORLD WAR II ERA, BECAUSE NOW WE'RE
- 00:35:40.295 --> 00:35:42.998
- INTO MODERN ERA WHERE WE REALLY THINK GOVERNMENT
- 00:35:43.065 --> 00:35:44.833
- IS SUPPOSED TO BE SECULAR.
- 00:35:44.900 --> 00:35:46.034
- THAT'S CERTAINLY WHAT WE HEAR TODAY.
- 00:35:46.101 --> 00:35:47.569
- AND WE LOOK BACK TO WORLD WAR II AND THAT'S KIND OF
- 00:35:47.636 --> 00:35:49.471
- SECULAR AS WE LOOK AT IT.
- 00:35:49.538 --> 00:35:51.640
- BUT THAT'S NOT REALLY THE WAY AMERICAN HISTORY
- 00:35:51.707 --> 00:35:53.308
- WORKS. SO LET'S GO TO A DIFFERENT PART OF THE STUDIO.
- 00:35:53.375 --> 00:35:55.010
- - LET'S DO IT.
- 00:35:55.077 --> 00:35:56.378
- [MUSIC]
- 00:35:56.445 --> 00:36:01.783
- - OKAY, WE'VE COVERED SOME IN THE AMERICAN
- 00:36:01.850 --> 00:36:03.785
- FOUNDING, THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, WE WENT OVER
- 00:36:03.852 --> 00:36:05.287
- TO THE CIVIL WAR AND LOOKED AT A LOT OF THAT
- 00:36:05.354 --> 00:36:07.256
- ERA. WE COME MORE TO CONTEMPORARY AMERICA, AND
- 00:36:07.322 --> 00:36:10.425
- BASED ON THE EXPERIENCES WE HAVE, BASED ON SO MUCH
- 00:36:10.492 --> 00:36:13.095
- OF WHAT WE SEE IN EDUCATION, WE TEACH NOT
- 00:36:13.161 --> 00:36:14.596
- THE FAITH OF THESE GUYS.
- 00:36:14.663 --> 00:36:16.932
- WE'VE COME TO BELIEVE THAT GOVERNMENT REALLY IS
- 00:36:16.999 --> 00:36:18.934
- SUPPOSED TO BE A SECULAR KIND OF A PLACE.
- 00:36:19.001 --> 00:36:21.270
- YOU DON'T WANT KIDS SAYING GOD AT GRADUATION
- 00:36:21.336 --> 00:36:22.904
- OR TO BE SEEN IN PUBLIC, SO WE SQUELCH FAITH
- 00:36:22.971 --> 00:36:25.707
- EVERYWHERE, AND WE ASSUME THAT GOVERNMENT IS
- 00:36:25.774 --> 00:36:28.543
- TO BE SOMETHING SECULAR.
- 00:36:28.610 --> 00:36:30.145
- BUT LET ME TAKE US BACK A LITTLE BIT.
- 00:36:30.212 --> 00:36:31.947
- WE HAVE THESE PRESIDENTS BEHIND US.
- 00:36:32.014 --> 00:36:34.216
- YOU HAVE FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT, YOU HAVE
- 00:36:34.283 --> 00:36:36.218
- HARRY TRUMAN, YOU HAVE EISENHOWER,
- 00:36:36.285 --> 00:36:38.020
- DWIGHT EISENHOWER.
- 00:36:38.086 --> 00:36:39.955
- THESE THREE WERE ALL INVOLVED IN REALLY
- 00:36:40.022 --> 00:36:43.191
- KIND OF A SAVED THE WORLD, WORLD WAR II.
- 00:36:43.258 --> 00:36:46.094
- AND AS YOU LOOK AT THESE GUYS, I WANT TO TAKE YOU
- 00:36:46.161 --> 00:36:47.629
- THROUGH A FEW THINGS OF WORLD WAR II BECAUSE YOU
- 00:36:47.696 --> 00:36:50.165
- START WITH PEARL HARBOR.
- 00:36:50.232 --> 00:36:52.301
- DECEMBER THE 7TH 1941.
- 00:36:52.367 --> 00:36:55.370
- NOBODY EXPECTS IT, AND WE GET WHACKED WITH A
- 00:36:55.437 --> 00:36:58.273
- SURPRISE ATTACK, KILLS 3.000 AMERICANS.
- 00:36:58.340 --> 00:37:00.409
- EVERYONE IS SHOCKED.
- 00:37:00.475 --> 00:37:02.344
- THERE WAS NO WARNINGS.
- 00:37:02.411 --> 00:37:04.146
- MATTER OF FACT, THE DIPLOMATS, JAPANESE
- 00:37:04.212 --> 00:37:05.881
- DIPLOMATS IN DC WERE SUPPOSED TO BE ANNOUNCING
- 00:37:05.947 --> 00:37:07.716
- THIS BEFORE THE ATTACK HAPPENED; IT DIDN'T
- 00:37:07.783 --> 00:37:09.484
- HAPPEN, SO IT WAS A TREACHEROUS ATTACK, AS
- 00:37:09.551 --> 00:37:11.820
- PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT CALLED IT "A DAY THAT
- 00:37:11.887 --> 00:37:14.122
- WILL LIVE IN INFAMY."
- 00:37:14.189 --> 00:37:15.924
- WELL, FROM THAT POINT, YOU GO OVER THE NEXT FOUR
- 00:37:15.991 --> 00:37:19.661
- DAYS, THERE ARE SIX DECLARATIONS OF WAR
- 00:37:19.728 --> 00:37:22.230
- BECAUSE WE DECLARE WAR ON JAPAN; JAPAN DECLARES WAR
- 00:37:22.297 --> 00:37:24.666
- ON US; AND HITLER SAYS, WELL, IF YOU'RE GOING
- 00:37:24.733 --> 00:37:26.635
- AFTER MY FRIEND TOJO, I'M GOING AFTER YOU GUYS.
- 00:37:26.702 --> 00:37:28.837
- AND WE SAY, ALL RIGHT, WE'RE GOING AFTER HITLER.
- 00:37:28.904 --> 00:37:30.339
- AND THEN MUSSOLINI SAYS IF YOU'RE GOING AFTER MY
- 00:37:30.405 --> 00:37:32.474
- FRIENDS TOJO AND HITLER, I'M GOING AFTER YOU.
- 00:37:32.541 --> 00:37:34.743
- ALL RIGHT, WE'LL GO AFTER YOU.
- 00:37:34.810 --> 00:37:36.211
- SO IN FOUR DAYS, SIX DECLARATIONS OF WAR.
- 00:37:36.278 --> 00:37:38.213
- AND THEN THREE WEEKS LATER, PRESIDENT
- 00:37:38.280 --> 00:37:40.716
- ROOSEVELT HAS TO GIVE THE STATE OF THE UNION
- 00:37:40.782 --> 00:37:43.118
- ADDRESS. AND SO AMERICA IS NOW AT A TIME OF WAR,
- 00:37:43.185 --> 00:37:46.621
- STILL A LOT OF SHOCK WITH WHAT'S HAPPENED.
- 00:37:46.688 --> 00:37:48.557
- WE'VE NOT RECOVERED ANYWHERE CLOSE AT PEARL
- 00:37:48.623 --> 00:37:50.058
- HARBOR ALL THE DEATHS.
- 00:37:50.125 --> 00:37:51.960
- AND I WANT YOU TO HEAR WHAT THE PRESIDENT TELLS
- 00:37:52.027 --> 00:37:54.463
- THE NATION ON HIS TELEVISED STATE OF THE
- 00:37:54.529 --> 00:37:57.499
- UNION ADDRESS. LISTEN TO THIS.
- 00:37:57.566 --> 00:38:00.035
- - PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT: THE WORLD IS TOO SMALL
- 00:38:00.702 --> 00:38:03.038
- TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE LIVING ROOM FOR BOTH
- 00:38:03.105 --> 00:38:06.742
- HITLER AND GOD.
- 00:38:06.808 --> 00:38:09.911
- IN PROOF OF THAT, THE NAZIS HAVE NOW ANNOUNCED THEIR PLAN
- 00:38:09.978 --> 00:38:14.483
- FOR ENFORCING THEIR NEW GERMAN PAGAN RELIGION ALL
- 00:38:14.549 --> 00:38:19.654
- OVER THE WORLD, THE PLAN BY WHICH THE HOLY BIBLE
- 00:38:19.721 --> 00:38:23.992
- AND THE CROSS OF MERCY WOULD BE DISPLACED BY
- 00:38:24.059 --> 00:38:28.163
- MEIN KAMPF AND THE SWASTIKA AND THE NAKED SWORD.
- 00:38:28.230 --> 00:38:32.567
- - CATCH THAT CONTRAST.
- 00:38:32.634 --> 00:38:34.569
- HITLER VERSUS GOD, AND HITLER HAS A PAGAN
- 00:38:34.636 --> 00:38:38.607
- RELIGION, AND HE WANTS MEIN KAMPF TO REPLACE THE
- 00:38:38.673 --> 00:38:42.010
- BIBLE, AND HE WANTS THE SWASTIKA AND THE NAKED
- 00:38:42.077 --> 00:38:45.380
- SWORD TO REPLACE THE CROSS OF MERCY.
- 00:38:45.447 --> 00:38:48.016
- NOW, INTERESTINGLY, THIS IS AN ORIGINAL FIRST EDITION
- 00:38:48.083 --> 00:38:51.753
- OF MEIN KAMPF SIGNED BY HITLER.
- 00:38:51.820 --> 00:38:54.189
- SO THIS IS ESSENTIALLY HIS BIBLE FOR HIS PAGAN
- 00:38:54.256 --> 00:38:56.992
- RELIGION, AND HERE PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT-- AND
- 00:38:57.058 --> 00:39:00.262
- NO ONE THINKS OF HIM AS A CHRISTIAN TODAY.
- 00:39:00.328 --> 00:39:02.063
- OF COURSE, HE WAS.
- 00:39:02.130 --> 00:39:03.598
- BUT NO ONE THINKS THAT WAY.
- 00:39:03.665 --> 00:39:05.100
- AND HE'S TALKING TO THE NATION, MAKING THIS A
- 00:39:05.167 --> 00:39:07.202
- CLEAR SPIRITUAL CONFLICT, AND AS A RESULT OF WHAT
- 00:39:07.269 --> 00:39:10.806
- HE SAID IN THAT SPEECH, WE CAME OUT WITH A
- 00:39:10.872 --> 00:39:12.974
- GOVERNMENT PRINTING THIS POSTER RIGHT HERE.
- 00:39:13.041 --> 00:39:15.010
- THIS IS PRINTED BY THE GOVERNMENT.
- 00:39:15.076 --> 00:39:16.611
- IT SAYS "THIS IS THE ENEMY", AND YOU SEE THE
- 00:39:16.678 --> 00:39:20.348
- NAZI SWASTIKA, THE NAKED SWORD STABBING THE BIBLE.
- 00:39:20.415 --> 00:39:24.586
- IT SAYS AT THE BOTTOM, PRINTED U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING
- 00:39:24.653 --> 00:39:27.656
- OFFICE. LOOK AT THE CONTRAST. WE'RE SAYING, THE U.S.
- 00:39:27.722 --> 00:39:29.825
- GOVERNMENT IS PRINTING POSTERS THAT SAY GUYS,
- 00:39:29.891 --> 00:39:32.294
- ANYTHING THAT ATTACKS THE BIBLE IS THE ENEMY.
- 00:39:32.360 --> 00:39:35.430
- - YOU HAVE A LOT OF THESE RELIGIOUS POSTERS THAT
- 00:39:35.497 --> 00:39:38.266
- ALL CAME FROM THE GOVERNMENT PRINTING
- 00:39:38.333 --> 00:39:40.669
- OFFICE, SO WE WEREN'T AFRAID TO INDICATE THAT
- 00:39:40.735 --> 00:39:43.438
- WE BELIEVED IN FAITH AND RELIGION.
- 00:39:43.505 --> 00:39:45.407
- - WELL, THIS IS A VERY VERY IMPORTANT POINT.
- 00:39:45.474 --> 00:39:47.142
- IN THE SAME WAY THAT WE HAVE TO GO BACK AND
- 00:39:47.209 --> 00:39:48.777
- REALIZE THAT OUR AMERICAN REVOLUTION WAS VIEWED BY
- 00:39:48.844 --> 00:39:51.079
- THE MINUTE MEN AND BY THE PATRIOTS AS BEING A
- 00:39:51.146 --> 00:39:54.049
- SPIRITUAL WAR, A WAR ABOUT RELIGIOUS ISSUES,
- 00:39:54.115 --> 00:39:56.218
- AND WE CAN TALK ABOUT THAT ANOTHER TIME.
- 00:39:56.284 --> 00:39:57.853
- WORLD WAR II IS WITHOUT QUESTION VIEWED BY THE
- 00:39:57.919 --> 00:39:59.955
- LEADERS AND BY THE PEOPLE AS A CONFLICT OF
- 00:40:00.021 --> 00:40:02.424
- RELIGIONS. NOT ONLY DID FDR SAY LOOK, THIS IS PAGANISM.
- 00:40:02.491 --> 00:40:06.461
- THE WORLD'S NOT BIG ENOUGH FOR BOTH A
- 00:40:06.528 --> 00:40:08.396
- CHRISTIAN VISION AND PAGANISM AS HITLER
- 00:40:08.463 --> 00:40:10.198
- EXEMPLIFIES IT.
- 00:40:10.265 --> 00:40:11.833
- WINSTON CHURCHILL PICKED UP THIS LANGUAGE.
- 00:40:11.900 --> 00:40:13.702
- HE TALKED ABOUT NAZISM BEING DARK AS PAGANISM, AND
- 00:40:13.768 --> 00:40:17.205
- HE WOULD TALK ABOUT HOW THE CHRISTIAN NATIONS
- 00:40:17.272 --> 00:40:20.008
- NEED TO RALLY TO DEFEAT THIS PAGANISM.
- 00:40:20.075 --> 00:40:22.310
- THIS WASN'T BACK 500 YEARS AGO.
- 00:40:22.377 --> 00:40:24.346
- THIS WAS 1939, 1940, 1941, SO THAT'S HOW THEY
- 00:40:24.412 --> 00:40:28.884
- THOUGHT. YOU DON'T HEAR THAT VERY MUCH.
- 00:40:28.950 --> 00:40:30.285
- YOU DON'T SEE IT IN THE TEXT BOOKS, BUT THE FACT
- 00:40:30.352 --> 00:40:32.120
- IS THEY SAW THIS AS A WAR BETWEEN RANK, RACIST
- 00:40:32.187 --> 00:40:35.657
- PAGANISM AND THE CHRISTIAN NATIONS.
- 00:40:35.724 --> 00:40:38.426
- IT CHANGES OUR UNDERSTANDING OF WORLD WAR II.
- 00:40:38.493 --> 00:40:40.295
- - AND IT'S INTERESTING THAT WHAT HAPPENED WAS
- 00:40:40.362 --> 00:40:42.364
- THEY WOULD-- IF YOU WENT IN THE ARMY, THEY GAVE
- 00:40:42.430 --> 00:40:44.399
- YOU A LITTLE BOOK SAYING THIS IS THE ARMY, AND IT
- 00:40:44.466 --> 00:40:46.268
- WENT THROUGH ALL THE GUIDELINES.
- 00:40:46.334 --> 00:40:47.569
- HERE'S HOW YOU GET YOUR CHECKS SENT HOME, HERE'S
- 00:40:47.636 --> 00:40:49.304
- WHAT YOU EXPECT. YOU HAVE TO GO THROUGH BOOT
- 00:40:49.371 --> 00:40:51.239
- CAMP AND LEARN STUFF.
- 00:40:51.306 --> 00:40:52.874
- BUT THEY ALSO GAVE EVERY AMERICAN RECRUIT ONE OF
- 00:40:52.941 --> 00:40:56.378
- THESE. NOW THESE ARE ALL BIBLES, AND THEY'RE
- 00:40:56.444 --> 00:40:58.446
- A LITTLE DIFFERENT.
- 00:40:58.513 --> 00:40:59.748
- THIS ONE IS CALLED THE HEART SHIELD BIBLE.
- 00:40:59.814 --> 00:41:03.451
- IF YOU CAN HEAR THE SOUND OF THAT, IT'S A STEEL
- 00:41:03.518 --> 00:41:05.720
- PLATE ON THE FRONT OF IT.
- 00:41:05.787 --> 00:41:07.055
- IT SAYS MAY THIS KEEP YOU FROM HARM.
- 00:41:07.122 --> 00:41:08.924
- IT'S A BIBLE. RECRUITS GOT THAT.
- 00:41:08.990 --> 00:41:10.525
- THEY KEPT IT IN THEIR BREAST POCKET RIGHT HERE
- 00:41:10.592 --> 00:41:12.027
- OVER THEIR HEART.
- 00:41:12.093 --> 00:41:13.695
- I HAVE TALKED TO GUYS IN WORLD WAR II THAT
- 00:41:13.762 --> 00:41:16.231
- BULLETS HIT THAT, DID NOT PENETRATE THE STEEL,
- 00:41:16.298 --> 00:41:18.400
- SAVED THEIR LIFE.
- 00:41:18.466 --> 00:41:19.734
- ONE GUY TOLD ME ACTUALLY THE BULLET CAME PARTWAY
- 00:41:19.801 --> 00:41:21.703
- OUT THE BACK, SO IT HIT HIS CHEST AND BRUISED
- 00:41:21.770 --> 00:41:23.672
- HIM, BUT IT DIDN'T GO THROUGH THE BIBLE.
- 00:41:23.738 --> 00:41:25.674
- SO IT LITERALLY SAVED THE LIVES.
- 00:41:25.740 --> 00:41:27.242
- AND IT'S INTERESTING IN THE INSIDE OF THESE
- 00:41:27.309 --> 00:41:28.843
- BIBLES, LIKE HERE'S ONE, YOU OPEN IT UP, AND ON
- 00:41:28.910 --> 00:41:31.913
- THE INSIDE IT HAS THE AMERICAN FLAG, AND IT HAS
- 00:41:31.980 --> 00:41:36.084
- A LETTER FROM FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT SAYING GUYS,
- 00:41:36.151 --> 00:41:38.820
- READ THE BIBLE. WE'RE AT WAR.
- 00:41:38.887 --> 00:41:41.790
- GET INTO GOD'S WORD.
- 00:41:41.856 --> 00:41:43.825
- THIS IS WHAT THEY GAVE AT THE ARMY.
- 00:41:43.892 --> 00:41:45.493
- AND HERE IS WHAT THEY GAVE TO THE NAVY.
- 00:41:45.560 --> 00:41:47.963
- AND THE NAVY, YOU OPEN IT UP, AND IT'S GOT FDR'S
- 00:41:48.029 --> 00:41:50.098
- LETTER IN THERE, BUT THE DIFFERENCE IS IT HAS A
- 00:41:50.165 --> 00:41:53.134
- CHRISTIAN FLAG FLYING HIGHER THAN
- 00:41:53.201 --> 00:41:55.370
- THE AMERICAN FLAG.
- 00:41:55.437 --> 00:41:57.672
- NOW, IF YOU SHOWED THAT TO AMERICA, THEY'D SAY
- 00:41:57.739 --> 00:42:00.208
- WHOA, YOU CAN'T DO THAT!
- 00:42:00.275 --> 00:42:01.710
- - IT SEEMS TO VIOLATE FLAG CODE, RIGHT?
- 00:42:01.776 --> 00:42:03.144
- NOTHING FLIES HIGHER THAN THE AMERICAN FLAG.
- 00:42:03.211 --> 00:42:05.614
- - WELL, INTERESTINGLY, LOOK AT THIS FOOTAGE
- 00:42:05.680 --> 00:42:07.682
- FROM WORLD WAR II. OH, LOOK THERE.
- 00:42:07.749 --> 00:42:10.118
- THE CHRISTIAN FLAG IS FLYING HIGHER THAN THE
- 00:42:10.185 --> 00:42:11.686
- AMERICAN FLAG. IN THE FLAG CODE, U.S. NAVY,
- 00:42:11.753 --> 00:42:14.756
- WHEN YOU HAVE THE CALL FOR DIVINE SERVICE,
- 00:42:14.823 --> 00:42:17.459
- GOD GOES ABOVE COUNTRY, AND THAT'S STILL IN THE
- 00:42:17.525 --> 00:42:20.395
- FLAG CODE TO THIS DAY.
- 00:42:20.462 --> 00:42:23.231
- SO WE DON'T RECOGNIZE THAT, BUT WE STILL
- 00:42:23.298 --> 00:42:25.834
- ACKNOWLEDGE THAT GOD GOES ABOVE COUNTRY, AND WE
- 00:42:25.900 --> 00:42:28.236
- THINK WELL GOVERNMENT'S SUPPOSED TO BE SECULAR.
- 00:42:28.303 --> 00:42:30.171
- WELL, AS WE GET ALL THESE RECRUITS COMING IN AND
- 00:42:30.238 --> 00:42:32.507
- OUT, WE'RE GEARING UP FOR WAR, AND WE'RE TURNING
- 00:42:32.574 --> 00:42:35.143
- OUT BOMBERS, WE'RE TURNING OUT LIBERTY
- 00:42:35.210 --> 00:42:36.745
- SHIPS, AND WE'RE REALLY GETTING THINGS GOING.
- 00:42:36.811 --> 00:42:39.681
- NOW WE RECOGNIZE AT SOME POINT WE'VE GOT TO
- 00:42:39.748 --> 00:42:41.583
- INVADE EUROPE, AND WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO PUSH HITLER
- 00:42:41.650 --> 00:42:44.653
- BACK INTO GERMANY.
- 00:42:44.719 --> 00:42:46.921
- NOW, THE ONLY LOGICAL INVASION POINT IS TO GO
- 00:42:46.988 --> 00:42:49.991
- THOSE 23 MILES ACROSS THE ENGLISH CHANNEL,
- 00:42:50.058 --> 00:42:51.860
- LAUNCH THE SHIPS.
- 00:42:51.960 --> 00:42:53.461
- SO THE GERMANS KNOW THAT THAT'S WHERE WE'RE
- 00:42:53.528 --> 00:42:55.397
- COMING, WHAT WE CALL D-DAY.
- 00:42:55.463 --> 00:42:57.632
- SO WHEN D-DAY IS LAUNCHED, AND WE'RE NOW
- 00:42:57.699 --> 00:43:00.301
- PUTTING THIS MASSIVE EFFORT OF THOUSANDS OF
- 00:43:00.368 --> 00:43:03.638
- SHIPS AND PLANES INTO GOING AFTER HITLER, WE'RE
- 00:43:03.705 --> 00:43:05.940
- COMING ASHORE IN EUROPE, HE ANNOUNCES IT
- 00:43:06.007 --> 00:43:08.743
- TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. AND I WANT YOU TO HEAR
- 00:43:08.810 --> 00:43:10.912
- WHAT HE SAYS WHEN HE ANNOUNCES THIS.
- 00:43:10.979 --> 00:43:13.415
- - PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT: MY FELLOW AMERICANS, LAST
- 00:43:13.481 --> 00:43:16.518
- NIGHT, WHEN I SPOKE WITH YOU ABOUT THE FALL OF
- 00:43:16.584 --> 00:43:20.455
- ROME, I KNEW AT THAT MOMENT THAT TROOPS OF THE
- 00:43:20.522 --> 00:43:25.960
- UNITED STATES AND OUR ALLIES WERE CROSSING THE
- 00:43:26.027 --> 00:43:28.897
- CHANNEL IN ANOTHER AND GREATER OPERATION.
- 00:43:28.963 --> 00:43:33.268
- IT HAS COME TO PASS WITH SUCCESS THUS FAR.
- 00:43:33.334 --> 00:43:38.873
- AND SO IN THIS POIGNANT HOUR, I ASK YOU TO JOIN
- 00:43:38.940 --> 00:43:45.280
- WITH ME IN PRAYER.
- 00:43:45.346 --> 00:43:49.584
- ALMIGHTY GOD, OUR SONS, PRIDE OF OUR NATION, THIS
- 00:43:51.352 --> 00:43:57.659
- DAY HAVE SET UPON THE MIGHTY ENDEAVOR, A
- 00:43:57.726 --> 00:44:01.529
- STRUGGLE TO PRESERVE OUR REPUBLIC, OUR RELIGION,
- 00:44:01.596 --> 00:44:06.401
- AND OUR CIVILIZATION, AND TO SET FREE A SUFFERING
- 00:44:06.468 --> 00:44:11.239
- HUMANITY. LEAD THEM STRAIGHT THROUGH.
- 00:44:11.306 --> 00:44:17.245
- GIVE STRENGTH TO THEIR ARMS.
- 00:44:17.312 --> 00:44:20.882
- STEADFASTNESS IN THEIR FAITH.
- 00:44:20.949 --> 00:44:25.186
- - THE PRESIDENT LEADS THE NATION IN PRAYER FOR
- 00:44:25.253 --> 00:44:28.490
- SIX AND A HALF MINUTES FOR A LIVE MILITARY
- 00:44:28.556 --> 00:44:31.126
- ACTION THAT'S GOING AT THAT VERY MOMENT.
- 00:44:31.192 --> 00:44:34.095
- SO AS THEY'RE INVADING, THE WHOLE NATION IS
- 00:44:34.162 --> 00:44:35.697
- PRAYING, AND THE PRESIDENT IS THE
- 00:44:35.764 --> 00:44:37.332
- CHIEF PRAYER LEADER?
- 00:44:37.398 --> 00:44:38.900
- I THOUGHT GOVERNMENT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE SECULAR?
- 00:44:38.967 --> 00:44:42.003
- WELL, OUT OF THAT, IT'S INTERESTING THAT BY
- 00:44:42.070 --> 00:44:44.839
- CHRISTMASTIME, THAT'S WHERE WE GET INTO THE
- 00:44:44.906 --> 00:44:46.341
- BATTLE OF THE BULGE, THE PRESIDENTIAL CHRISTMAS
- 00:44:46.407 --> 00:44:48.543
- CARD FROM FDR IN 1944 IS RIGHT THERE BEHIND YOU.
- 00:44:48.610 --> 00:44:53.782
- YOU SEE THE PRESIDENTIAL SEAL UP TOP.
- 00:44:53.848 --> 00:44:56.384
- THE CHRISTMAS CARD IS THE D-DAY PRAYER.
- 00:44:56.451 --> 00:44:59.087
- THAT WAS THE WHITE HOUSE CHRISTMAS CARD IN 1944
- 00:44:59.154 --> 00:45:02.657
- WAS THE D-DAY PRAYER.
- 00:45:02.724 --> 00:45:05.293
- WELL, AS WE FINALLY GET KIND OF GERMANY BACK,
- 00:45:05.360 --> 00:45:09.164
- PUSHED BACK INTO THEIR OWN DOMAINS AND HITLER
- 00:45:09.230 --> 00:45:11.132
- IS THERE, FDR DIES.
- 00:45:11.199 --> 00:45:14.202
- HE'S NOT THERE FOR THE END OF THE WAR,
- 00:45:14.269 --> 00:45:15.703
- BUT HARRY TRUMAN IS.
- 00:45:15.770 --> 00:45:17.672
- AND SO HARRY TRUMAN IS ABLE TO OVERSEE THE END
- 00:45:17.739 --> 00:45:20.542
- OF THE WAR IN EUROPE AND FINALLY GET AN END IN JAPAN.
- 00:45:20.608 --> 00:45:23.178
- AND WHEN WE GOT THE WAR ENDED, LIKE IN EUROPE,
- 00:45:23.244 --> 00:45:26.181
- HARRY TRUMAN, WHAT'S THE RESPONSE?
- 00:45:26.247 --> 00:45:29.184
- IT'S RIGHT THERE.
- 00:45:29.250 --> 00:45:30.752
- A PROCLAMATION TO THANK GOD, SIGNED AT THE BOTTOM
- 00:45:30.819 --> 00:45:32.954
- BY HARRY TRUMAN.
- 00:45:33.021 --> 00:45:34.622
- AND SO WHEN THIS WAR CAME TO AN END IN GERMANY,
- 00:45:34.689 --> 00:45:37.792
- 40 MILLION LIVES LATER, IT CAME TO AN END.
- 00:45:37.859 --> 00:45:41.262
- WHAT'S THE RESPONSE?
- 00:45:41.329 --> 00:45:42.697
- TIME TO THANK GOD THAT THIS HAS COME TO AN END.
- 00:45:42.764 --> 00:45:45.533
- ONE OF THE THINGS FDR DID, NOW HE WAS
- 00:45:45.600 --> 00:45:47.135
- PRESIDENT FOR FOUR TERMS.
- 00:45:47.202 --> 00:45:48.670
- NOBODY'S EVER DONE THAT WHICH IS WHY THEY AMENDED
- 00:45:48.736 --> 00:45:50.405
- THE CONSTITUTION FOR ONLY TWO TERMS.
- 00:45:50.471 --> 00:45:52.307
- HE HAD FOUR TERMS, AND EVERY YEAR ON THE
- 00:45:52.373 --> 00:45:54.776
- ANNIVERSARY OF HIS INAUGURATION, HE WENT
- 00:45:54.843 --> 00:45:57.478
- BACK TO CHURCH AND HAD A RECOMMITMENT SERVICE TO
- 00:45:57.545 --> 00:46:00.515
- THE LORD. ONE OF THOSE LETTERS IS INVITING SOME
- 00:46:00.582 --> 00:46:03.451
- OF HIS GENERALS TO COME TO CHURCH WITH HIM
- 00:46:03.518 --> 00:46:05.320
- ON HIS RECOMMITMENT.
- 00:46:05.386 --> 00:46:06.754
- - IS THAT ONE INVITING THEM TO GO TO SERVICE WITH HIM?
- 00:46:06.821 --> 00:46:09.157
- - THAT'S RIGHT. SO WHAT THEY DID IN JANUARY EVERY YEAR
- 00:46:09.224 --> 00:46:11.526
- ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE INAUGURATION, THEY WENT
- 00:46:11.593 --> 00:46:13.127
- BACK TO CHURCH AND SAID REDEDICATING TO GOD
- 00:46:13.194 --> 00:46:14.963
- AGAIN, AND FOUR TERMS OF THAT.
- 00:46:15.029 --> 00:46:17.265
- AND THAT'S FROM HIM.
- 00:46:17.332 --> 00:46:18.666
- SO AS YOU GO THROUGH THOSE PRESIDENTS,
- 00:46:18.733 --> 00:46:20.368
- AND YOU FINALLY GET DOWN TO EISENHOWER,
- 00:46:20.435 --> 00:46:22.604
- EISENHOWER WAS THE GUY RUNNING D-DAY.
- 00:46:22.670 --> 00:46:25.006
- HE WAS THE COMMANDER IN EUROPE.
- 00:46:25.073 --> 00:46:27.041
- SO AS HE BECOMES PRESIDENT, AND NOW WE'RE
- 00:46:27.108 --> 00:46:29.711
- OUT OF WAR, IT'S A TIME OF PEACE, AND SO AS YOU
- 00:46:29.777 --> 00:46:33.448
- GET THROUGH WAR, YOU KIND OF MAYBE FORGET GOD A
- 00:46:33.514 --> 00:46:35.650
- LITTLE BIT. AND EISENHOWER SPECIFICALLY SAID THAT HE
- 00:46:35.717 --> 00:46:39.787
- WAS ON HIS WAY TO THE INAUGURATION, AND HE SAID
- 00:46:39.854 --> 00:46:44.058
- THAT HE'D BEEN TO COMMUNION THAT MORNING,
- 00:46:44.125 --> 00:46:45.927
- AND HE THOUGHT YOU KNOW, THE NATION'S BECOMING TOO
- 00:46:45.994 --> 00:46:48.496
- SECULAR. WHAT CAN I DO TO SOLVE THAT?
- 00:46:48.563 --> 00:46:51.633
- I'M NOT A PREACHER.
- 00:46:51.699 --> 00:46:52.934
- I CAN'T PREACH A SERMON.
- 00:46:53.001 --> 00:46:54.469
- LOOK WHAT HE DID TO SOLVE THE CONCEPT OF A SECULAR
- 00:46:54.535 --> 00:46:57.705
- NATION ON HIS INAUGURATION. WATCH THIS.
- 00:46:57.772 --> 00:47:00.975
- - PRESIDENT TRUMAN: MY FRIENDS, BEFORE I BEGIN
- 00:47:01.042 --> 00:47:04.545
- THE EXPRESSION OF THOSE THOUGHTS THAT I DEEM
- 00:47:04.612 --> 00:47:08.483
- APPROPRIATE TO THIS MOMENT, WOULD YOU PERMIT
- 00:47:08.549 --> 00:47:13.254
- ME THE PRIVILEGE OF UTTERING A LITTLE PRIVATE
- 00:47:13.321 --> 00:47:17.492
- PRAYER OF MY OWN.
- 00:47:17.558 --> 00:47:19.761
- AND I ASK THAT YOU BOW YOUR HEADS.
- 00:47:19.827 --> 00:47:23.464
- ALMIGHTY GOD, AS WE STAND HERE AT THIS MOMENT,
- 00:47:23.531 --> 00:47:28.670
- MY ASSOCIATES AND MY FUTURE ASSOCIATES IN THE
- 00:47:28.736 --> 00:47:31.472
- EXECUTIVE BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT JOIN ME IN
- 00:47:31.539 --> 00:47:34.242
- BESEECHING THAT THOU WILL MAKE FULL AND COMPLETE
- 00:47:34.309 --> 00:47:38.279
- OUR DEDICATION TO THE SERVICE OF THE PEOPLE
- 00:47:38.346 --> 00:47:40.982
- IN THIS THRONG
- 00:47:41.049 --> 00:47:43.017
- AND THEIR FELLOW CITIZENS EVERYWHERE.
- 00:47:43.084 --> 00:47:46.120
- GIVE US, WE PRAY, THE POWER TO DISCERN CLEARLY
- 00:47:46.187 --> 00:47:50.091
- RIGHT FROM WRONG, AND ALLOW ALL OUR WORDS AND
- 00:47:50.158 --> 00:47:54.162
- ACTIONS TO BE GOVERNED THEREBY AND BY THE LAWS
- 00:47:54.228 --> 00:47:57.999
- OF THIS LAND.
- 00:47:58.066 --> 00:48:00.535
- ESPECIALLY WE PRAY THAT OUR CONCERN SHALL BE
- 00:48:00.601 --> 00:48:02.870
- FOR ALL THE PEOPLE REGARDLESS OF STATION,
- 00:48:02.937 --> 00:48:05.673
- RACE OR CALLING.
- 00:48:05.740 --> 00:48:08.509
- MAY COOPERATION BE PERMITTED AND BE THE
- 00:48:08.576 --> 00:48:10.912
- MUTUAL AIM OF THOSE WHO UNDER THE CONCEPTS OF OUR
- 00:48:10.979 --> 00:48:15.850
- CONSTITUTION HOLD TO DIFFERING POLITICAL
- 00:48:15.917 --> 00:48:19.287
- FAITHS SO THAT ALL MAY WORK FOR THE GOOD OF OUR
- 00:48:19.354 --> 00:48:22.423
- BELOVED COUNTRY AND THY GLORY. AMEN.
- 00:48:22.490 --> 00:48:28.229
- - THAT PRAYER HE PRAYED IS ACTUALLY THIS
- 00:48:29.764 --> 00:48:32.166
- PRAYER RIGHT HERE.
- 00:48:32.233 --> 00:48:33.668
- SO THIS IS HIS ACTUAL HANDWRITTEN PRAYER THAT
- 00:48:33.735 --> 00:48:35.470
- AS WE JUST LISTENED, HE'S READING THIS
- 00:48:35.536 --> 00:48:37.138
- AT HIS INAUGURATION.
- 00:48:37.205 --> 00:48:39.307
- - THAT'S WHAT HE WAS HOLDING THAT DAY.
- 00:48:39.374 --> 00:48:42.043
- - THIS IS THE ACTUAL HANDWRITTEN PRAYER THAT
- 00:48:42.110 --> 00:48:43.845
- HE USED AT HIS INAUGURATION.
- 00:48:43.911 --> 00:48:45.713
- AGAIN, AS WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THIS, KIND OF THE
- 00:48:45.780 --> 00:48:48.883
- MYTH IN THIS SECTION IS THAT A SECULAR GOVERNMENT
- 00:48:48.950 --> 00:48:51.052
- IS WHAT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO HAVE IN AMERICA.
- 00:48:51.119 --> 00:48:53.488
- IT'S WHAT THE FOUNDERS INTENDED, IT WORKS BEST,
- 00:48:53.554 --> 00:48:55.156
- WE SHOULD BE SECULAR.
- 00:48:55.223 --> 00:48:56.858
- WELL, THEY FOUGHT A WAR TO MAKE SURE WE WEREN'T
- 00:48:56.924 --> 00:49:00.294
- GONNA BE SECULAR, RIGHT?
- 00:49:00.361 --> 00:49:01.662
- TO MAKE SURE WE WEREN'T-- NOW THAT DOESN'T MEAN
- 00:49:01.729 --> 00:49:03.364
- THAT THESE GUYS WERE PERFECT IN WHAT THEY DID,
- 00:49:03.431 --> 00:49:04.966
- BUT THEY CERTAINLY WEREN'T SCARED OF
- 00:49:05.033 --> 00:49:06.401
- RELIGION AND ACTUALLY WORKED TO INCLUDE IT IN A
- 00:49:06.467 --> 00:49:08.503
- LOT OF WHAT THEY DID.
- 00:49:08.569 --> 00:49:10.004
- - WELL, YOU KNOW, WITH WHAT HE DID, HE SAID I
- 00:49:10.071 --> 00:49:11.606
- WAS CONCERNED THE NATION WAS BECOMING TOO SECULAR,
- 00:49:11.672 --> 00:49:13.608
- SO NOT ONLY DOES HE LEAD HIS OWN PRAYER, WHICH TRY
- 00:49:13.674 --> 00:49:17.345
- TO FIND A PRESIDENT DOING THAT, HE LEADS HIS OWN
- 00:49:17.412 --> 00:49:19.747
- PRAYER, HE SAYS YOU KNOW WHAT, I THINK WHAT WE
- 00:49:19.814 --> 00:49:22.150
- OUGHT TO DO ON THE FIRST THURSDAY OF EVERY
- 00:49:22.216 --> 00:49:23.785
- FEBRUARY IS START THE CONGRESSIONAL PRAYER
- 00:49:23.851 --> 00:49:25.953
- BREAKFAST CALLED THE NATIONAL PRAYER BREAKFAST.
- 00:49:26.020 --> 00:49:28.056
- THERE'S NOW ABOUT SIX TO EIGHT THOUSAND PEOPLE A
- 00:49:28.122 --> 00:49:30.725
- YEAR GATHER IN WASHINGTON DC ON THAT DAY.
- 00:49:30.792 --> 00:49:32.860
- 140 NATIONS GATHER TOGETHER TO PRAY TOGETHER.
- 00:49:32.927 --> 00:49:36.664
- I CANNOT TELL YOU LITERALLY HOW MANY
- 00:49:36.731 --> 00:49:38.566
- SENATORS THAT HAVE BEEN PART OF THAT WHO HAVE
- 00:49:38.633 --> 00:49:41.069
- SAID THE CIVIL WAR IN THIS COUNTRY WAS STOPPED
- 00:49:41.135 --> 00:49:43.371
- BECAUSE WE GOT THEIR LEADERS TO COME TO WASHINGTON
- 00:49:43.438 --> 00:49:45.339
- AND PRAY TOGETHER. SO EISENHOWER STARTED THAT.
- 00:49:45.406 --> 00:49:48.676
- EISENHOWER IS THE GUY WHO GOT "UNDER GOD" PUT IN
- 00:49:48.743 --> 00:49:51.145
- THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE BECAUSE WE DIDN'T
- 00:49:51.212 --> 00:49:52.480
- HAVE IT BEFORE THAT.
- 00:49:52.547 --> 00:49:53.981
- HE'S THE GUY WHO SAID WHY DON'T WE CODIFY THAT
- 00:49:54.048 --> 00:49:57.552
- "IN GOD WE TRUST" IS OUR NATIONAL MOTTO.
- 00:49:57.618 --> 00:49:59.620
- AND THEN ON TOP OF THAT HE SAID WE'VE GOTTEN
- 00:49:59.687 --> 00:50:01.823
- "IN GOD WE TRUST" ON THE COINS BUT NOT ON THE
- 00:50:01.889 --> 00:50:04.225
- PAPER. LET'S PUT IT ON THE PAPER.
- 00:50:04.292 --> 00:50:05.960
- EVERY PIECE OF MONEY COINED IN TREASURY, LET'S
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- MAKE SURE IT HAS IT.
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- THIS IS EISENHOWER, AND HE GOES THROUGH HIS
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- ADMINISTRATION DOING ALL THESE GOD THINGS TO MAKE
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- SURE THAT AMERICA DOESN'T BECOME SECULAR.
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- AND TODAY THAT'S JUST NOT THE CONCEPT WE HAVE OF
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- PRESIDENTS OR WHAT THEY DO.
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- - I WANT TO MAKE A POINT TOO BECAUSE WE'RE TALKING
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- ABOUT THESE MEN, THESE GREAT MEN, THEIR FAITH,
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- AND HOW IT SUSTAINED THEM.
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- AND ONE OF THE TRICKS, ONE OF THE LITTLE TRICKS
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- THAT ARE USED THAT'S USED WHEN IT COMES TO SORT OF
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- STICKING OUR FINGER IN THE EYE OF THE FAITH OF
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- THESE MEN, WHEN THE CRITICS WANT TO SAY THESE
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- GUYS WEREN'T REALLY CHRISTIANS, THEY WEREN'T
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- REALLY MEN OF FAITH, AND ALL THROUGHOUT HISTORY,
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- WHAT THEY DO IS THEY LOOK AT THE INCONSISTENCIES
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- THAT MIGHT BE IN THEIR PERSONAL CHARACTER.
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- YOU CAN ALWAYS POINT AT SOME PRESIDENT AND SAY
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- WELL, HE MAY HAVE SAID HE WAS A CHRISTIAN, BUT HE
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- DID THIS, HE DID THAT.
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- AND I CAN RECITE ALL OF THAT FOR YOU AND SAVE YOU
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- TIME. I MEAN THERE'S NO QUESTION THAT FDR HAD AN
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- AFFAIR WHILE IN OFFICE.
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- THAT'S VERY WELL DOCUMENTED.
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- HARRY TRUMAN USED TO CUSS LIKE A SAILOR
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- AND DRINK WHISKEY.
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- IF THAT DIMINISHES HIM AS A CHRISTIAN, THEN YOU
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- NEED TO CONSIDER THAT.
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- PRESIDENT EISENHOWER HUMOROUSLY ONCE DECLARED
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- A NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER AND FASTING AND WENT OUT
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- AND PLAYED GOLF. HE FORGOT WHAT THE DAY WAS.
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- HIS OWN DAY. SO THESE ARE FLAWS.
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- WE'RE ALL SINNERS. WE'RE ALL FLAWED.
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- DON'T ALLOW A CRITICISM OR AN EXPOSURE OF SOME
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- ISSUE OF INDIVIDUAL CHARACTER TO KEEP YOU
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- FROM RECOGNIZING WHAT THESE PEOPLE BELIEVED.
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- BECAUSE THEY DID BELIEVE IT, THEY DID APPLY IT TO
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- PUBLIC POLICY, THEY DID SEE THEIR NATION IN THOSE
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- TERMS. THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.
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- - RIGHT. I MEAN APART FROM JESUS, YOU'RE NOT GONNA
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- FIND SOMEONE WHO DOESN'T HAVE MORAL FAILING,
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- SO IT WOULD BE FOOLISH FOR US TO BE IN THAT
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- HYPOCRITICAL SENSE GOING, NOW WAIT A SECOND, THEY
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- HAVE FLAWS, THEREFORE-- WELL, WAIT A SECOND.
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- - SOME OF THEM WERE VERY FIERCE IN COURAGE IN
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- STANDING FOR THEIR FAITH.
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- FOR EXAMPLE, HARRY TRUMAN WAS A BAPTIST.
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- WHEN JOHN F. KENNEDY RAN FOR OFFICE,
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- A LOT OF BAPTISTS WERE UPSET THAT JOHN F. KENNEDY
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- WAS ROMAN CATHOLIC SO THEY ATTACKED HIM.
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- HARRY TRUMAN STOOD UP, WROTE HIS ENTIRE BAPTIST
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- DENOMINATION, SAID PUBLICLY THIS IS WRONG,
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- WE SHOULD NOT BE ATTACKING THIS MAN
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- BECAUSE OF HIS FAITH, EVEN THOUGH I DON'T AGREE
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- WITH HIM RELIGIOUSLY, I SEE HIS VIRTUE AS A MAN
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- RUNNING FOR OFFICE.
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- SO HERE'S HARRY TRUMAN TAKING A VERY UNPOPULAR
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- STAND WITHIN HIS OWN DENOMINATION BECAUSE HE
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- BELIEVES THAT HIS OWN FAITH DEMANDS IT.
- 00:52:18.759 --> 00:52:21.028
- - BUT CERTAINLY, EVEN IN THE MIDST OF LEARNING
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- HISTORY, WE'RE ABLE TO DISPEL SOME OF THESE
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- MODERN MYTHS THAT "NO, OUR NATION WAS SUPPOSED TO
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- HAVE A SECULAR GOVERNMENT. SECULAR GOVERNMENTS WORK
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- BEST." CLEARLY, THAT'S NOT WHAT THE GUYS WHO WERE
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- FIGHTING SECULARISM THOUGHT.
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- - WE CAN APPLY THOSE PRINCIPLES TODAY, YOU KNOW
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- WHAT, IT SHOULDN'T BE SECULAR TODAY EITHER.
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- IT HAS WORKED WELL FOR TWO CENTURIES.
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- WE'RE LEADING AMONG THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD MORE
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- STABILITY, AND IT'S BECAUSE WE HAD
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- LEADERS WHO WERE NOT SECULAR MINDED,
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- AND WE NEED THAT TODAY.
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- - THAT'S PROBABLY WORTH ASKING THE QUESTION THEN
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- WHAT DO WE DO TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DON'T BECOME
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- SECULAR, TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE LEADERS WHO ALTHOUGH
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- ARE IMPERFECT ARE VERY GOD CONSCIOUS OR PRO-FAITH
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- IN THE MIDST OF OFFICE. SO HOW DO WE MAINTAIN THAT?
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- - WELL TWO THINGS.
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- FIRST OF ALL, KNOW THE STORY, TELL THE STORY.
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- ALL THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, ALL OF THIS, WE'RE
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- JUST EVEN THOUGH WE'VE DONE A NUMBER OF SEGMENTS
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- HERE WE'RE JUST SCRATCHING THE SURFACE
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- OF THE GREAT HERITAGE OF OUR NATION.
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- SO KNOW THE STORY, TELL THE STORY.
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- REPEAT IT IN YOUR HOME. TELL IT AT THANKSGIVING.
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- TELL IT TO YOUR FRIENDS.
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- BUT THE OTHER THING IS BEGIN TO LOOK AT OUR
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- CURRENT POLITICS AND LEADERS AND CANDIDATES
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- YOU MIGHT BE CONSIDERING THROUGH THE LENS OF FAITH.
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- THE REALITY IS THAT IF A CANDIDATE OR POLITICIAN'S
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- FAITH IS SINCERE, IT WILL SHAPE WHAT THEY DO IN THE
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- OVAL OFFICE. AND SO ASK THOSE QUESTIONS.
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- WHAT DO THEY BELIEVE?
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- WHAT IS THEIR FAITH?
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- AND OF COURSE PEOPLE ARE GONNA ACT MORE LIKE
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- THEY'RE MORE FAITH ORIENTED WHEN THEY'RE
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- RUNNING FOR OFFICE PERHAPS THAN THEY HAVE OTHERWISE.
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- SO DON'T JUST LOOK AT THEIR STATEMENTS.
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- LOOK AT THEIR LIFE. LOOK AT THEIR HISTORY.
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- HOW HAVE THEY LIVED?
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- WHAT'S BEEN THE FRUIT OF THEIR LIFE?
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- WE NEED TO BE MORE FAITH AWARE WHEN IT COMES TO
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- OUR POLITICS AND NOT ALLOW, IT'S KIND OF A
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- SECULAR VENEER TO SORT OF ROB US OF
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- THAT GREAT FAITH.
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- HERITAGE NUMBER ONE, BUT SECOND OF ALL, KIND OF A
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- FAITH AWARENESS IN OUR CURRENT POLITICS.
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- - SO WITH ALL WE'VE COVERED, I MEAN WE'VE
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- GONE THROUGH THREE SECTIONS NOW.
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- WE'VE GONE THROUGH THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION,
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- WE'VE GONE THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR PERIOD, WE'VE
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- GONE THROUGH WORLD WAR II, 20TH CENTURY, ONE
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- OF THE THINGS THAT STANDS OUT IS WE HAVEN'T BEEN
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- GREAT BECAUSE WE'VE BEEN SECULAR.
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- IT'S THESE GUYS AND THEIR FAITH THAT HAS DRIVEN THEM.
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- SOME OF OUR BEST LEADERS, WE CAN DISAGREE WITH THEM
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- POLITICALLY ON THINGS, BUT THE TONE THEY HAVE
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- KEPT OF KEEPING GOD IN AMERICA AND KEEPING
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- PUBLIC POLICY REFLECTING THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE
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- CAN TAKE AWAY FROM PRESIDENTS DAY IS THAT WE
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- HAVE A TREMENDOUS LEGACY OF PRESIDENTS WHO REALLY
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- HAVE MADE SURE THAT WE ARE ONE NATION UNDER GOD.
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- [MUSIC]
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- SO WE'VE TALKED ABOUT MANY AMERICAN PRESIDENTS
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- TODAY, AND AMONG OTHER THINGS WE'VE LEARNED THAT
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- GEORGE WASHINGTON ACTUALLY WAS A DEVOUT
- 00:54:46.941 --> 00:54:48.676
- CHRISTIAN, THAT ABRAHAM LINCOLN NEVER OWNED SLAVES,
- 00:54:48.743 --> 00:54:51.479
- HE INDEED WAS ANTI-SLAVERY, AND THAT
- 00:54:51.545 --> 00:54:53.981
- GOVERNMENT WAS NOT DESIGNED TO BE SECULAR,
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- AND IT DOESN'T WORK WELL WHEN IT IS.
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- SO WHAT WE'VE SEEN AND HEARD TODAY ONLY
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- SCRATCHES THE SURFACE.
- 00:54:59.353 --> 00:55:00.621
- AND IF YOU WANT MORE INFORMATION ABOUT ANY OF
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- TODAY'S TOPICS, I INVITE YOU TO DISCOVER MORE
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