Dr. Robert Jeffress

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July 2, 2026 | 27:29

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | NH 7/1/26 | July 2, 2026

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Male announcer: from the pulpit of the first baptist church
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Of dallas, texas, this is "pathway to victory"
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With dr. robert jeffress.
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Dr. robert jeffress: hi, i'm robert jeffress
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And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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In recent decades, our government has taken
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Drastic measures to ensure that church
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And state remain completely separate.
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And while many have applauded these efforts for upholding
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American values, our modern-day interpretation of the separation
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Of church and state actually goes against the vision
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Cast by our founding fathers.
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I'll explain why america is and always has been
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A christian nation on today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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Announcer: as our nation marks 250 years, america
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Stands at a crossroads.
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Path that leads to ruin?
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Jeffress: listen long enough to the arguments of the american
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Civil liberties union or the freedom from religion foundation
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Or other left-wing groups, and you will come to believe this
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Version of america, america's history, you'll come to believe
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That america was founded by a wide diversity of people
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From many different faiths: some deists, some atheists,
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And yes, a few christians.
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But the founders had one goal and that was to build a
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Completely secular nation that was devoid of any religious,
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Especially christian, influence whatsoever.
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You'll be told that our founders wanted to erect this unscalable
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Wall around our country that would keep any
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Spiritual influence from seeping into public life.
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That version of american history belongs in the same category
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As the story of george washington
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And the cherry tree.
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It is an absolute myth.
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As we're going to discover today, the truth is america was
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Founded primarily, not exclusively, but primarily
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By orthodox christians and they founded this country upon
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The unchanging foundation of god's eternal truth.
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And furthermore, our founders believed that our success
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As a nation depended upon our faithfulness
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To god's eternal word.
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And though it is completely politically incorrect to say,
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The truth is this: america was founded as a christian nation
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And our success as a nation depends upon our fidelity
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To god's word.
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Now today, we are going to look at the historical evidence by
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Which we can say that america was truly founded
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As a christian nation.
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You won't hear this in the secular media, you won't
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Hear this in the classroom, but you will come to understand
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The historical truth when i'm finished today.
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First of all, let's look at the spiritual beliefs
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Of our founders.
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Were they neutral toward christianity?
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Hardly.
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Fifty-two of the fifty-five men who attended the constitutional
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Convention were orthodox conservative christians.
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In fact, two of those founders who attended the constitutional
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Convention, elias boudinot and john jay, the first chief
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Justice of our supreme court, later went on to be the head of
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The american bible society.
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And the purpose of the american bible society was to distribute
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The bible to as many people as possible, believing that the
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Message of the bible would transform lives and set the
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Nation on a proper moral course.
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Yes, two of our founders were deists.
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And make no mistake about it, deists are not christians.
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Two of our founders,
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Thomas jefferson and benjamin franklin were deists,
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But even these men understood the importance of a spiritual
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Foundation for our country.
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It's interesting that thomas jefferson and benjamin franklin
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Worked together to create, to propose,
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A national seal for our country.
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Do you know what that national seal was?
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It was a depiction of moses leading the children of israel
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Out of egypt, following god, the pillar of cloud.
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Benjamin franklin believed that the continental congress should
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Begin the session seeking the favor of god through prayer.
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Franklin said, quote, "i have lived, sir, a long time and
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The longer i live, the more convincing proofs i see of this
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Truth--that god governs the affairs of men.
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And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice,
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Is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?
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We have been assured, sir, in the sacred writings that
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'except the lord build they labor in vain that build it.'"
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That was benjamin franklin.
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Consider also the state constitutions.
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Every state had their own constitution and almost all of
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The 13 colonies prior to the constitutional convention had
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A state-sponsored religion.
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And you see this in the qualifications that every state
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Had to go to the constitutional convention.
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For example, if you were from delaware and you wanted to hold
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Public office in the state of delaware, if you wanted to go to
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The constitutional convention, listen to one of the things you
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Had to subscribe to.
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Article 22 of the delaware convention said, quote,
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"every person who shall be chosen a member of either house,
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Or appointed to any office or place of trust, shall make and
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Subscribe to the following declaration: 'i do profess faith
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In god the father, and in jesus christ his only son, and in the
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Holy ghost, one god, blessed for evermore; and i do acknowledge
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The holy scriptures to the old and new testament
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To be given by divine inspiration.'"
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Today we don't even require some seminary professors
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To believe that.
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Just listen, for example, to george washington in his first
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Inaugural speech.
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He said, "it would be improper to omit in this first official
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Act, my fervent supplications to that almighty being.
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No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the
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Invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the
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People of the united states."
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Or consider the words of the second president
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Of united states, john adams.
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He said, "the general principles,
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On which the fathers achieved independence,
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Were the general principles of christianity.
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I will avow, that i then believed, and now
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Believe, that those general principles of christianity
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Are as eternal and immutable,
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As the existence and the attributes of god; and that
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Those principles of liberty, are as unalterable as human nature."
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Or consider this amazing observation by adams.
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He said, "our constitution was made only for a moral
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And religious people.
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It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
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John jay, as i said, was the first chief justice of
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The united states supreme court.
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He was the co-author of the federalist papers.
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He said, "providence--" they referred to god as "providence,"
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"has given our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the
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Duty, as well as the privilege and interest, of our christian
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Nation to select and to prefer christians for their rulers."
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Boy, today he would be hauled into court and sued down
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To his socks for making a statement like that.
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But this is the first chief justice of our supreme court.
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John quincy adams, the son of john adams, was the sixth
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President of the united states.
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You won't believe what he said about the christian foundation
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Of our nation.
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He asked, "why is it that, next to the birthday of
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The savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated
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Festival returns this day, july 4?
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Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of
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The nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday
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Of the savior?
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Is it not that the declaration of independence first organized
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The social compact on the foundation of the redeemer's
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Mission upon earth?
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That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first
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Precepts of christianity?"
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That was john quincy adams.
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Perhaps the most amazing quote by john quincy adams is one that
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Has been disputed by some, so we went back to find the source of
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This, and we found this quote appeared in a publication of
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Harvard university in 1860, so if i'm wrong, harvard university
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Is wrong too.
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But we're not wrong.
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This is what john quincy adams said, quote, "the highest,
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The transcendent glory of the american revolution was this
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That it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles
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Of civil government and the precepts of christianity.
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If it has never been considered in that light it is because its
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Compass has not been perceived."
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Do you hear that?
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There is an indissoluble bond between the founding of our
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Country and christianity.
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That was john quincy adams.
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You say, "well, pastor, what about the wall of separation
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Between the church and the state?
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I thought that was the founding principle of our nation?"
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I was talking to a reporter this week and he asked
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The very same thing.
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He said, "pastor, what about the constitution and the separation
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Of church and state?"
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I said, "that's not found anywhere in the constitution."
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He said, "what?"
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I said, "look at the constitution.
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Never once do you find the words 'the separation of church and
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State,' and yet today 69% of americans still believe that
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That phrase is found somewhere in the constitution."
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It's not in the constitution, and we'll see in just a moment
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Where that phrase originated.
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In fact, the first mention of that phrase, "the wall of
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Separation between church and state," doesn't appear
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In a government document.
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It appears in a private letter from newly elected president
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Thomas jefferson and a group of baptists
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In danbury, connecticut.
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In 1801, almost every state,
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As i said, had a state-sponsored religion.
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Even after the 1st amendment was ratified in 1792, "congress
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Shall make no law respecting the establishment of a religion,"
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Even 7 years after that, most every state had
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A state-sponsored religion.
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They were christian denominations, they were
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Christian religions, but they were different denominations
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According to the state in which you lived.
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It so happened in connecticut that the congregational church
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Was the state-sponsored denomination
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In the state of connecticut.
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And so, part of people's tax dollars in connecticut
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Went to support the congregational church.
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Well, the baptists didn't like that very much, and so they
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Would petition the government every year for the tax dollars
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That had gone to the congregational church to be
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Redirected toward their church.
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And they were tired at having to go through that hassle.
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So when thomas jefferson became president on
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January the 1st, 1802
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Thomas jefferson wrote this letter in response to their
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Earlier letter, and listen to what he said: "i contemplate
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With sovereign reverence that act of the whole american people
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Which declare that their legislature should,
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'make no law respecting an establishment of religion
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Or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.'"
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He's quoting the 1st amendment.
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"thus, building a wall of separation
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Between church and state."
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Now, i want you to notice the context.
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The context had to do with the establishing of one christian
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Denomination as the state religion which people were
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Coerced to support financially.
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And it was in that context that thomas jefferson said,
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"no, we are not to establish a state church
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That coerces people to worship.
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We're not to elevate one christian denomination
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Over another."
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That is clearly the context.
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Look at the early court rulings in addition to the utterances of
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Our founding fathers.
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I mention just several of these cases that show that not only
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Did our judiciary affirm our christian foundation, but they
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Also encouraged government support of the christian faith.
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First of all, the case of runkel versus winemiller in 1799.
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In that case, the supreme court of maryland said in its
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Decision, quote, "by our form of government,
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The christian religion is the established religion."
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Now stop there and think about that.
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This is 7 years, just 7 years, after the 1st amendment
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That says: "congress shall make no law regarding
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The establishment of religion."
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And now, 7 years later, the united--
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Or the maryland supreme court says, "we have an established
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Religion in this country.
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It is the christian religion."
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Were these judges ignorant of the 1st amendment?
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Of course they weren't.
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They understood the 1st amendment better than you do,
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Better than i do, and certainly better than some liberal judge
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Does today.
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The founders were still alive, the framers of the constitution.
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If there was any question, maryland's supreme court could
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Have gone and asked the founders what they mean.
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No, they said, "we have an established religion," but look
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At the second phrase: "and all sects and denominations of
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Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are
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Equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty."
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What they were saying was: yes, we have an established faith,
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The christian faith, but no christian denomination is to be
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Elevated over another christian denomination.
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And that, again, was the intent of the 1st amendment.
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The second case, a court case, the church of the holy trinity
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Versus the united states, 1892.
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This was a case that went before the united states supreme court.
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The case dealt with a church that was being sued by the
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Government for employing a pastor from england which
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Supposedly violated federal immigration law.
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Even a hot topic back then.
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Isn't that amazing?
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Some things never change.
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But anyway, they were going to sue this church for hiring a
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Preacher from england.
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The united states supreme court rejected that application of law
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To the church, and listen to what the supreme court said.
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They said: "no purpose or action against religion can be imputed
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To any legislation, state or national, because this is
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A religious people."
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This is historically true.
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From the discovery of this continent to the present hour,
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There is one single voice making this affirmation.
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And then the court recited a plethora of evidence that this
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Nation was founded on christian principles and then the court
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Said this, quote: "these, and many other matters which might
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Be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the
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Mass of organic utterances that this is a christian nation."
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The united states supreme court,
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In fact, notice what else they said.
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They quoted, thirdly, a case from the new york state
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Supreme court, the people versus ruggles.
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The supreme court in 1892 reached back to a prior court
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Ruling in new york to substantiate their view and
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Listen to what they quoted and affirmed
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In this supreme court decision.
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They said, quote, "nor are we bound by any expressions in the
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Constitution, as some have strangely supposed, either not
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To punish at all, or to punish indiscriminately the like
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Attacks upon the religion of mahomet, that is, islam, or of
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The grand lama, that is, buddhism, and for this plain
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Reason, that the case assumes that we are a christian people,
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And the morality of the country is deeply engrafted upon
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Christianity, and not upon the doctrines of worship
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Of those imposters."
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Now isn't that an amazing ruling affirmed
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By the united states supreme court?
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Not only to say that this nation is engrafted upon the principles
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Of christianity, but other non-christian religions: islam,
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Buddhism, are imposter religions.
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Again, the argument i'm making today is that our nation was
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Founded upon christianity and our forefathers had a bias in a
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Positive sense toward keeping this nation founded upon its
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Christian principles.
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One more i wanna share with you:
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Vidal versus girard's executors, 1844.
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This was a very complicated case, but the gist of it is
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This: a man, very wealthy man, in philadelphia died and in his
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Will he stipulated that the proceeds of his estate would be
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Used to support a school for orphans.
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They would call that a college back then.
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But it was a school for orphans.
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But he had one stipulation, and that is no christian clergymen
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Could be allowed to teach in his school.
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Well, the people of pennsylvania were upset by that.
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They were upset that you would have a school in which
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Christianity couldn't be taught.
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But the supreme court of the united states upheld that man's
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Will, using this logic: they said the fact that you don't
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Have a christian minister teaching doesn't mean the
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Principles of christianity can't be taught or should be taught.
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And this is what the supreme court said, quote, "why may not
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The bible, and especially the new testament, without note or
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Comment, be read and taught as a divine revelation in the
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College, its general precepts expounded, its evidences
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Explained, and its glorious principles
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Of morality inculcated?"
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There is no reason not to teach the bible in this school, and to
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Treat it as the word of god,
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And to teach its morality to students.
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Likewise, the court said in the same ruling that we don't have
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To worry about parity, what effect such a ruling would have
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On non-christian rulings.
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Listen to this. again, amazing.
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"it is unnecessary for us, however, to consider what
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The legal effect of a device in pennsylvania for the
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Establishment of a school or college, for the propagation of
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Judaism, or deism, or any other form of infidelity.
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Such a case is not
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To be presumed in a christian country."
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Now that is how the early court felt about the christian faith.
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It's interesting to note that the man who delivered
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That opinion, the majority opinion in the gerard case,
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Was justice joseph story.
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I remember a few years ago, going through the capital at
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Night and seeing a bust of joseph story and the old chamber
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Where the senate used to meet.
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Joseph story was appointed to the supreme court in 1811
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By james madison.
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Now, if you know anything about american history, you know james
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Madison is said to have been the architect of our constitution.
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So, james madison is the one who appointed joseph story who said,
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"this is a christian nation,"
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And talked about imposter religions.
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Now, do you think james madison, who knew the constitution
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Backwards and forwards, was its architect, would he appoint some
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Imbecile to the supreme court who didn't understand the
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Purpose of the constitution?
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Of course not.
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He appointed joseph story because he knew story
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Understood the constitution.
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Later on in his career, joseph story went on to write a
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Commentary on the entire united states constitution that was
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For years used in law schools around the country.
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And in his notes on the 1st amendment, about the
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Establishment clause, he said, "it is absolutely without debate
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That the founders' intention in that establishment clause was to
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Keep from elevating one christian denomination over
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Another christian denomination, but never in the founders'
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Imagination did they think that would be used to make
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Christianity subservient to other non-christian religions."
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Consider also the christian influence in our
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Country for the first 150 years of our nation.
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Did you know that for the first 150 years of our country a
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School book called "the new england primer"
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Was used in schools across our country?
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The primer was filled with creeds and with prayers and even
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With scripture verses that the students had to memorize.
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In fact, if you were going to graduate from
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The third grade, every student had to learn this
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Acrostic from "the new england primer."
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Every letter of the alphabet represented a
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Verse that the students had to memorize.
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♪♪♪
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Jeffress: there's much more evidence i wanna share with you.
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All of it confirms that america was founded
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Truly as a christian nation.
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So, make it a point to join us again next time
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For "pathway to victory."
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But right now i need to remind you that the in god we trust
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Matching challenge ends july 5.
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Announcer: as our nation celebrates 250 years, do we
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Jeffress: america was founded on the principles of the
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Judeo-christian faith as revealed in the bible, and our
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Future depends on returning to that biblical foundation.
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Jeffress: you can try to twist the facts any way you want,
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But the truth is still the same.
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America was founded as a christian nation.
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So where did it all start to go wrong?
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Well, next time, i'm going to identify the historic events
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That derailed our nation from following god's word.
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And finally, we're going to look at the consequences
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Of renouncing our christian heritage.
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Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next
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In our series, "america and the bible."
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Jeffress: what has happened in the last 60 or 70 years?
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Has the constitution changed, and somebody didn't tell us?
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No. what happened is this.
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We've allowed the atheists, the secularists, the infidels
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To pervert our constitution into
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Something our founders never intended,
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