Dr. Robert Jeffress

Robert Jeffress - America Is A Christian Nation (Part 2)

July 4, 2025 | S25 E319 | 29:0

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - America Is A Christian Nation (Part 2) | July 4, 2025

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[announcer] from the pulpit of the first baptist church
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Of dallas, texas,
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This is "pathway to victory"
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With dr. robert jeffers.
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Hi, i'm robert jeffers
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And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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Today's america is but a faint shadow
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Of what our founding fathers fought to establish.
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Every day in our nation's capital,
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Rogue lawmakers are twisting biblical standards,
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While liberal politicians are working
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To muzzle christians
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From expressing their views in the media.
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Today, i'm eager to equip you with the factual history
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About america's christian heritage.
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My message is titled,
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"america is a christian nation,"
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On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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♪ music ♪
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♪ mine eyes have seen the glory ♪
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♪ of the coming of the lord ♪
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♪ he is trampling out the vintage ♪
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♪ where the grapes of wrath are stored ♪
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♪ he hath loosed the fateful lightning ♪
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♪ of his terrible swift sword ♪
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♪ his truth is marching on ♪
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♪ glory, glory ♪
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♪ glory, glory, hallelujah ♪
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♪ his truth is marching on ♪
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♪ in the beauty of the lilies ♪
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♪ christ was born across the sea ♪
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♪ with a glory in his bosom ♪
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♪ that transfigures you and me ♪
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♪ as he died to make men holy ♪
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♪ let us die to make men free ♪
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♪ while god is marching on ♪
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♪ glory, glory, hallelujah ♪
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♪ his truth is marching on ♪
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♪ amen ♪
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Jesus declared, "you are the salt of the earth
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And the light of the world."
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With so much darkness
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Creeping into our schools and communities,
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Now is the time to answer that calling.
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Become the salt and light the world desperately needs
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Joseph's story was appointed
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To the supreme court in 1811 by james madison.
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Now, if you know anything about american history,
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You know james madison
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Is said to have been the architect
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Of our constitution.
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So james madison is the one
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Who appointed joseph's story,
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Who said, "this is a christian nation,"
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And talked about impostor religions.
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Now, do you think james madison,
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Who knew the constitution (laughing)
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Backwards and forwards,
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Was its architect,
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Would he appoint some imbecile to the supreme court
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Who didn't understand the purpose of the constitution?
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Of course not.
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He appointed joseph's story
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Because he knew story understood the constitution.
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Later on in his career,
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Joseph's story went on to write
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A commentary on the entire united states constitution,
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That was for years used in law schools around the country.
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And in his notes on the first amendment
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About the establishment clause,
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He said it is absolutely without debate
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That the founders' intention
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In that establishment clause
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Was to keep from elevating one christian denomination
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Over another christian denomination.
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But never in the founders imagination
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Did they think that would be used
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To make christianity subservient
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To other non-christian religions.
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Consider also the christian influence in our country
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For the first 150 years of our nation.
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Did you know that for the first 150 years of our country,
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A 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
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And even with scripture verses
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That the students had to memorize.
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In fact, if you were going to graduate
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From the third grade,
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Every student had to learn this acrostic
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From "the new england primer."
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Every letter of the alphabet
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Represented a verse that the students had to memorize.
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For example, "a, a wise son maketh a glad father,
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But a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
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B, better is a little with the fear of the lord
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Than great treasure and trouble.
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C, come unto christ all ye that labor
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And are heavy laden
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And he will give you rest.
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D, 'do not do the abominable thing which i hate,'
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Sayeth the lord.
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E, except a man be born again,
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He cannot see the kingdom of god."
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That's what our students had to memorize in school.
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(scoffing) can you imagine what would happen
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With such a textbook today?
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We're not even allowed to acknowledge
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That there might be a creator up there somewhere,
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That there's some intelligent designer up there
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Who made us.
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Do you think that has any relationship
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With the increasing violence
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We're seeing in our schools.
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When you teach children that they're nothing but animals,
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Don't be surprised when they act like animals.
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The bible says, "the fear of the lord
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Is the beginning of wisdom."
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(attendees clapping)
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But what i'm sharing with you is,
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This was the spiritual foundation
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On which our nation was built.
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So the natural question is,
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What happened?
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What happened?
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How do you explain the seismic shift
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In the attitude toward faith in the public square
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That we've witnessed in these last decades?
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Well, first of all,
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The first stone that was laid
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In the erection of the wall of separation
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Between church and state
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Actually happened in 1947.
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This was a supreme court case,
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Everson vs. the board of education.
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This is the first time
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The words, "separation of church and state,"
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Were ever mentioned in a supreme court decision.
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Isn't this interesting?
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For the first 150 years of our nation's history,
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Not one supreme court decision
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Ever talked about the separation of church and state.
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The first time it was mentioned was in 1947.
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You have to ask if this is such a principled
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And foundational doctrine of our country,
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Why didn't the supreme court refer to it for 150 years?
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The first time it was mentioned
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Was in the case of everson and the board of education.
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This case dealt with the state of new jersey
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Using tax dollars to support religious schools.
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Now, remember, back then,
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Most all religious schools were catholic schools.
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Remember that.
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The justice of the supreme court
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Who delivered that decision
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In the everson case was justice hugo black.
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And hugo black in that decision
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Talked about his desire to build
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A high and impregnable wall of separation
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Between the church and the state.
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Now, what you need to know about hugo black is this,
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He had been a member of the ku klux klan.
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And the only people the ku klux klan
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Hated more than black people
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Were catholic people.
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And many people now believe,
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Including two recent judges on our supreme court,
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The late antonin scalia and clarence thomas,
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They believed that hugo black's wall of separation
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Was really an expression
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Of his anti-catholic bigotry.
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He wanted to keep the catholic church
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From receiving any support whatsoever.
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In fact, justice clarence thomas said this,
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Quote, "this doctrine,"
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Of the separation of church and state he's talking about,
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"this doctrine, born in bigotry,
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Should be buried."
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But there you have the first stone in 1947.
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Then built upon that was the second stone in 1962,
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Engel vs. vitale,
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In this case, this court ruled
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That students in new york city
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Could no longer recite this simple 22-word voluntary prayer,
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Quote, "almighty god,
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We acknowledge our dependence upon thee
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And we beg thy blessings upon us,
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Our parents, our teachers and our country."
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Can you imagine saying that's unconstitutional?
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But the court said even though
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It was a to-whomever-it-may-concern prayer,
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Not addressed to any particular god,
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It was still breaching the, quote,
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"constitutional wall of separation
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Between the church and state."
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In fact, the court went on to opine,
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Quote, "a union of government and religion
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Tends to destroy government
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And degrade religion."
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That sounds so enlightened to us today.
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Oh, it destroys government and it degrades religion
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To have the two join together.
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But remember what john quincy adams said,
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The highest glory of the american revolution is this,
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That it connected in one insoluble bond,
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The principles of civil government
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And the precepts of christianity.
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Ironically, even though this court case
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Said you cannot pray in the public school,
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It's interesting that even today
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The united states congress begins every session in prayer.
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I was privileged a couple of years ago
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To lead one of those prayers
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To be begin the congressional session.
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Those prayers are recorded every day
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In the congressional record.
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You can find a copy of the prayer there
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In the congressional record.
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But in 1970, the supreme court
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Said that it is unconstitutional
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For students to voluntarily read aloud
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The prayers recorded in the congressional record.
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That is absolute lunacy,
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But that's where we're going.
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The third stone was laid in 1963,
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Abington school district vs. schempp.
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This is a case that said
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No longer could students
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Voluntarily read 10 verses of the bible
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At the beginning of each school day.
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The prosecution brought in so-called expert testimony
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That said that if portions of the new testament
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Were read without exclamation,
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They could be psychologically harmful (scoffing)
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To the students.
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And therefore you can't do it.
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And yet compare that to what the supreme court
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Had said decades earlier in 1844
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In the gerard case.
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Why may not the bible, especially the new testament,
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Be read and taught as divine revelation in the schools?
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Why can't its general precepts be expounded,
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Its evidences explained
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And its glorious principles of morality inculcated?
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Do you see the shift there?
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Two more.
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Despain vs. dekalb county in 1967.
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This is a court case
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That let stand a lower court ruling in 1966
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That said a kindergarten teacher
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Could not any longer allow her students
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To recite this simple poem,
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"we thank you for the flowers so sweet.
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We thank you for the food we eat.
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We thank you for the birds that sing.
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We thank you for everything."
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The court said, "you can't say that anymore in a school."
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Why?
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Because even though this poem does not mention god,
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It might cause the children
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To think about god,
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And that is unconstitutional.
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The culminating ruling 1980 stone vs. graham,
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This is a case involving the display
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Of the 10 commandments in the halls of kentucky schools.
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Private donors had allowed the 10 commandments
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Without any explanation at all,
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Just the 10 commandments,
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To be posted in the hallways
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Of the public schools.
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And yet the supreme court said,
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"no longer can you do that.
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No longer can you post these copies
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Of the 10 commandments.
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Thou shalt not steal.
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Thou shalt not lie.
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Thou shalt not murder."
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Why did they say that was no longer constitutional?
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(scoffing) listen to what the supreme court said,
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1980 stone vs. graham.
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"if the posted copies of the 10 commandments
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Are to have any effect at all,
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It will induce the school children to read,
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Meditate upon,
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Perhaps venerate and obey the commandments.
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However desirable this might be
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As a matter of private devotion,
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It is not a permissible state objective
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Under the establishment clause
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Of the first amendment."
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Again, how do you reconcile that
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With what the court had said 150 years earlier?
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Why may not the new testament be read
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And taught as divine revelation,
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And its principles of morality inculcated?
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How do you reconcile that with the words of john adams
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Who said, "our constitution
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Is made for a moral and religious people.
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It is totally inadequate
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To govern any other people?"
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And yet now the supreme court
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Says you can't even tell students
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They're not to lie, steal and kill.
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How do you explain this shift?
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What has happened in the last 60 or 70 years?
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Has the constitution changed
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And somebody didn't tell us?
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(laughing) no, what happened is this,
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We've allowed the atheists,
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The secularists, the infidels
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To pervert our constitution
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Into something our founders never intended.
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And we cannot allow that to happen any longer.
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It is time for us to stand up
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And say without apology,
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America was founded as a christian nation.
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Now, i have to tell you,
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This morning i read an interesting commentary about me.
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-(audience laughing) -and a liberal writer
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Was talking about this controversy in our church,
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And he made an amazing concession.
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He said, "you know, jeffers probably has a point.
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As you look back at the evidence,
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There is evidence that our nation,
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From the writings of the founders,
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From the early court opinions,
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Was the decidedly biased toward the christian faith,"
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He conceded that, he said,
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"but our nation was also biased and prejudiced,
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And there are court rulings that supported slavery.
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And we don't think that is right,
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And we needed to change from that.
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We needed to change
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And move away from our christian foundation as well.
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Well, isn't that interesting
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That somebody would equate slavery
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With following god in obedience to god as a nation?
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But let's just test his argument.
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Has it been a positive thing
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For us as a nation to unhitch ourself
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From our christian forefathers,
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To move into a secular direction?
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Is our society better today
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Or worse off today
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Than when this assault on christianity began
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60 or 70 years ago?
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Well, let's look at the statistics.
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William bennett, the former secretary of education
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Under ronald reagan,
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Back in the '90s,
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Released what he called
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The index of leading cultural indicators
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To show what happened in our nation
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Between 1960 and 1990
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When this all-out assault was beginning
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Upon our christian nation,
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When you saw all of these antagonistic court rulings
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And the abdication of prayer and bible reading
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And the 10 commandments from the schools,
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What happened during that 30-year period?
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During that period of time, quote,
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"there was a 419% increase in illegitimate births,
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A quadrupling in divorce rates,
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A more than 200% increase in teenage suicide,
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A drop of almost 80 points in the sat scores,
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And a 560% increase in violent crime."
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And today, today, that pattern still continues.
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Today, over 10 million teenagers in the us
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Drink alcohol regularly,
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And 20% of those engage in binge drinking.
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Nearly 2,800 children die each year
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As a result of gun violence,
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And another 14,300 are injured.
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Nearly one million babies
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Were murdered in the womb last year,
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And one in four women in the us
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Will have aborted at least one of their children
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By the age of 45.
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In 2011, over 1/2 a million teenagers became pregnant,
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With about 30% of those pregnancies
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Ending in an abortion.
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Are those statistics just a coincidence?
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Not at all.
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Not when you consider god's warning to his own people,
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The nation of israel,
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A warning that is just as applicable to us today
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As it was 3,000 years ago.
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In hosea 4:6, god says,
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"my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
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Because you have rejected knowledge,
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I will also reject you from being my priest.
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Since you have forgotten the law of your god,
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I will also forget your children."
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God is no respecter of people or nations.
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The nation that reverences god
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Will be blessed by god.
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The nation that rejects god
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Will be rejected by god.
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Blessed is the nation whose god is the lord.
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As i close today,
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I decided not to close this message with a bible verse
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Or even a quote from a rabid conservative fundamentalist.
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Instead, i want to close this quote
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From a very unlikely source,
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A man named earl warren.
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In the 1950s and 1960s,
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Earl warren was the chief justice
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Of the united states supreme court.
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Growing up in the south,
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I was led to believe that earl warren
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Was a villain (laughing) of the american people.
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"he was a liberal, he was a communist pinko,"
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That's how people in the south
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Referred to earl warren.
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As i look back, the reason they hated him
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Was because he believed in racial equality,
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That had as much to do with it as anything.
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But earl warren, an avowed liberal in many ways,
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Gave this assessment in 1954
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Of our nation's christian heritage.
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Listen to what he said,
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"i believe no one can read the history of our country
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Without realizing the good book
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And the spirit of the savior
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Have from the beginning
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Been our guiding geniuses.
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Whether we look to the first charter of virginia,
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Or the charter of new england,
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Or the charter of massachusetts bay,
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Or the fundamental orders of connecticut,
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The same object is present,
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A christian land
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Governed by christian principles.
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I believe the entire bill of rights came into being
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Because of the knowledge our forefathers had of the bible
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And their belief in it.
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Freedom of belief, of expression,
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Of assembly, of petition,
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The dignity of the individual,
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The sanctity of the home,
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Equal justice under the law,
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And the reservation of powers to the people.
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I like to believe that we are living today
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In the spirit of the christian religion.
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I like also to believe that as long as we do so,
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No great harm can come to our country."
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♪ music ♪
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The nation that reverences god
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Will be blessed by god.
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The nation that rejects god
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Will be rejected by god.
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The choice is ours.
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May god be honored,
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And may our country prosper
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As we declare our allegiance
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To god and god alone.
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Blessed is the nation whose god is the lord.
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Well, in closing today,
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I need to give you an urgent reminder
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That midnight on july 6th
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Is the deadline for counting your generous gift
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As we celebrate our nation's independence today
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On this 4th of july,
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We're reminded that america
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♪ music ♪
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Today's liberal elite
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Have twisted and distorted american history,
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Attempting to disguise or conceal
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Our nation's obvious christian foundation.
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But there's no mistake,
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America was indeed founded as a christian nation,
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And that's a heritage we can all be proud of.
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Well, most of us have experienced times
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When unexpected obstacles
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Thwarted our hopes and dreams.
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Next time, i'm beginning a series called "invincible,"
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Showing you god's plan
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For conquering the mountains in your life.
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Stay tuned for a preview
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Of what's coming up next
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On "pathway to victory."
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When we doubt, running to god,
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Asking for answers in and of itself
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Is an act of faith.
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The fact that we would go to god
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When we have doubts
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Shows that we believe.
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What i'm saying to you is doubt and faith
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Can actually coexist with one another.
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Faith and unbelief cannot coexist.
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Robert Jeffress - America Is A Christian Nation (Part 2)

July 4, 2025 | S25 E319 | 29:0

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