Stakelbeck Tonight

Erick Stakelbeck: March 24, 2026 | Stakelbeck Tonight

March 24, 2026 | 23:29

From wars and rumors of war abroad, to the rise of anti-Christian, "woke" ideology here at home, it's clear that Americans are living in perilous and unprecedented times. Some would even say that we're witnessing biblical prophecy unfold in real time. Stakelbeck Tonight will make sense of these stunning developments through a bold and biblical lens.

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Stakelbeck Tonight | Erick Stakelbeck: March 24, 2026 | Stakelbeck Tonight | March 24, 2026

Welcome to stakelbeck tonight i'm erick stakelbeck
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And islam's rise in the west didn't happen overnight.
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It's been a gradual process over decades
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That has brought us to where we are right now.
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I bring you ramadan 2026.
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The islamic holy month just wrapped up,
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And it gave a very revealing glimpse of where
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We're heading here in america if we do not change course.
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Let's start with new york city.
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Since january, america's largest city
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And financial capital has been run by an islamo
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Communist named zoran mamdani.
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He's an anti-israel ideologue who's long
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Had ties to notorious radical islamists.
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And as mayor, he's wasting no time in showing who he is
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And what he represents. watch.
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Many asked me what it means to be
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The first muslim mayor of our city.
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And in that question, there is an assumption that i am.
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Introducing.
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Our faith to the city as a whole, when in reality,
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Our faith has been a part of this city for generations.
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The question of whether it's been seen
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Is another matter entirely.
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But muslims and new york city.
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They are intertwined.
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Islam and nyc intertwined.
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They sure are.
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Including in the memories of 9/11 survivors
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Or those who lost loved ones in the twin towers that day.
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But if you mention that to mom, donnie,
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He'll probably just smile and talk about tolerance.
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Ramadan was his coming out party.
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In early march, mom donnie responded to an attempted isis
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Terror attack against protesters in front of his residence.
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By first condemning the protesters and decrying
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White supremacy
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Before then adding that
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Of course, there's no place for violence in new york city.
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Never once mentioning islam or isis.
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It only got worse from there.
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A few days later, mom donnie hosted a taxpayer funded
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Ramadan iftar dinner at city hall,
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Where one of the attendees, a guest of the mayor,
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Held up the isis one finger salute.
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But i'm sure he was just being playful, by the way.
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Imagine if a devoutly christian mayor held
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A christmas or easter service at new york city hall.
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The left in their mainstream media minions would be howling
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About separation of church and state.
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But when it comes to mosque
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And state, it's apparently a different story.
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Here was mamdani last week leading a large crowd
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In ramadan prayers in brooklyn's prospect park.
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April biotics. everyone here said, i'm.
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Not here all year long.
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I don't know if
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Love your more freedom.
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I'm more of.
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Folks, again.
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Did you ever imagine 25 years ago, as the remains of the twin
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Towers were still smoldering after islamic jihadists
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Carry out the worst terror attack in american history,
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That you would see
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A mayor of new york city showing what we just showed you.
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Or how about lighting eid mubarak lights for ramadan?
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Take a look. hey.
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Six five.
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Four. three.
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Two. one.
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Now, mamdani wasn't
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The only democrat politician to publicly observe ramadan.
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Here was new jersey governor mikie sherrill
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Donning a muslim hijab as she visited a mosque.
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And here were the democrat mayors of salt lake city
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And miami-dade county, proudly wearing the same islamic head
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Covering as they met with local muslim leaders.
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Make no mistake about it, the left is all in on islam,
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And they're going to continue to push it
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Because it's not biblical and it's not western.
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The left in europe has used the same model.
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Mass muslim migration, both legal and illegal,
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Followed by rapid mosque building and enclaves
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Where non-muslims are rarely seen again.
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It was a gradual process in europe,
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And now we're at the point
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Where we have london's muslim mayor sadiq khan,
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Leading ramadan prayers in historic trafalgar square.
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Watch.
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The. oh
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Lord in.
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Oh! of
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A long line cable.
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So, new york city and london, the world's
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Two financial capitals
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And arguably the two greatest cities of western civilization,
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Are now governed by muslims who promote socialist
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Economic policies.
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And we're supposed to believe
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That this is all just a coincidence,
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And that there's not a larger strategy here to undermine
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The judeo-christian west and our way of life.
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Coming up,
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We're joined by two of america's greatest historians,
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Tim and david barton,
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To break down why the stakes have never been higher.
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As the united states marks its 250th birthday,
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That's next.
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That's next.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight.
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We're watching major shifts unfold, from europe's cultural
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Decline to rising tensions right here at home,
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And even questions
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About faith, freedom and the future of western civilization.
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So what are the real threats and how should we understand them
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Through a historical and biblical lens?
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I sat down with our good friends, tim
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And david barton of wallbuilders to learn more.
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We talked about the threat of socialism,
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The radical left, islam on the rise,
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And i see president trump guys as kind of a standard bearer,
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Not just for america,
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But for all of judeo-christian western civilization right now.
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Europe seems intent on cultural suicide.
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Sadly, mass muslim migration.
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David, historically, when islam comes into a society
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In great numbers leads to a lot of problems.
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It seems that
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We're seeing that manifest right now here in america even.
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Yeah.
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And, you know, it's interesting, america has had trouble
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With islam for a long time. yeah.
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The first koran ever published in
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America was 1805 under president thomas jefferson.
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Now, why don't we print a koran in america?
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Because we had just finished a long war with these guys
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And people say, what do these guys believe?
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The barbary pirates. exactly.
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And we'll read their koran and you'll see that
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This is not a religion for peace.
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This is a religion of conquering.
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It's not a religion of equality.
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And it was back then we said, read their book today.
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We got all the soundbites.
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We're just we're soundbite culture.
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I don't know, equality and freedom of religion
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And yeah, well freedom, religion they had back then too.
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But i love the way that president
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Eisenhower said this back in his day after world war ii.
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He said the bill of rights
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Does not give you a guaranteed to destroy the bill of rights.
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Yeah.
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And so freedom of religion does not mean
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You can invite a religion in that wants to wipe out
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Your culture, wipe out your constitution.
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And this is what was, and i will say very bluntly,
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Texas and california are the two states
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That are currently getting ahead of this.
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We've seen with what they call
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Epic city in texas and other things,
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Because we've already seen what happens in places
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Like minneapolis, saint paul
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Or dearborn, michigan, other places.
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And that's not freedom of religion.
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The citizens up there have lost control of so much
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Because of that,
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And they're trying to do that state by state.
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And now states are starting to put their foot down.
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So historically,
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We got some good information
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On that from a christian standpoint.
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But people they have not been trained in that.
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As we've talked about so many things.
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They haven't been discipled in. yeah.
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And if i can add to that.
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So when you're saying it's not the freedom of religion.
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Well, more specifically
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When you're looking at some of these now
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Majority muslim areas,
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They're actually excluding christians
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From being able to pray in areas.
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So saying it's not freedom of religion, well,
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That's what islamist producing in america
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Is the removal of the freedom of religion.
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And this is something that you don't have to be
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The most intelligent person to figure this out.
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Yeah, just look at any major muslim nation
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In the middle of east and ask some basic questions.
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If we went over there as christians, right?
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Could we openly express our christian faith?
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No. right.
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I mean, go down the list
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Of all the bad things that are possible.
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It could happen. those are all real.
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If we want to take our family over to one of these nations,
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Our daughters.
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Right.
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Couldn't enjoy the same freedoms of dress code or other things
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In those nations.
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Or all kinds of evil might happen.
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So this idea
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That it's all equal, or that the freedom of religion,
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Even inside of islam, it doesn't exist.
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The bill of rights does not exist inside of islam.
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So when people say
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Islam is not compatible with america, it's
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Because islam is also a political ideology
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That says, here is how you have to govern in islam.
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And it actually contradicts
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Nearly every one of the bill of rights.
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And so literally, it's not compatible with america.
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And it doesn't mean that individual muslims
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Can't live in america, but it recognizes
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Islam is not compatible inside of america
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Because it actively seeks to overthrow the constitution
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And the bill of rights.
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And it seems that israel
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And this is becoming a dividing line as well.
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We see anti-semitism on the rise in isis real quick.
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It's an issue here at am first.
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I mean, we see kind of two sides of the issue.
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What historically happens to a nation when anti-semitism
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Rises never seems to end well.
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Well, i would say it's interesting.
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There's a couple of things you can look at that are maybe,
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Like the canary in the coal mine kind of example.
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Right.
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Interestingly enough, one of the very prime examples
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Of how a nation dies, as far as like, biblically understanding
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Stood is, first of all, how they treat women.
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Yeah, right.
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Because the humanity is a pinnacle of god's creation.
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But woman was the pinnacle of humanity.
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And so the way we treat women is very indicative
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Of the direction of culture headed.
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Well, one of the other things you can point to is
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Something i'll say are very simply freedom of religion.
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Yeah.
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When a nation starts saying that we're against the jews.
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One of the things that that
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Very famous quote from world war two. right.
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They came for the jew first. yeah.
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I didn't speak up because i wasn't a jew.
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You can go down that long line.
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But ultimately, as christians,
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If we are living in a nation that is singling out
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And targeting and saying certain people are bad because
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Not of behavior, not of action,
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Because of ethnicity, because of belief, religion,
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They're bad because of this at that point.
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And again, the jews are
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The number one indicator that we've seen historically,
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Because when a nation
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Turns on the jews,
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It's not long after until they turn on the christians.
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Exactly right. and we.
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See that now
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Where certain people are attacking
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Christian supporters of israel, not only israeli. jews.
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I mean, yeah, you can talk to a bonhoeffer, right?
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You can talk to martin mueller. right.
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Who they were defending
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Christianity, but it started with the jews.
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And then it came for the christians. yeah.
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And and so this is something that
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And this is not saying that we couldn't be
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Maybe critical of netanyahu does sound
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There were like, i think he's totally wrong,
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But people are having a strawman argument now saying, well,
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You can't criticize the government.
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You're anti-semitic.
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Nobody said, no one's saying that.
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Nobody's saying that.
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But when we are saying that jews are the cause of evil,
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That right jews are behind x, y or z, whatever.
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At this point,
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You are now starting to drink some of the crazy kool-aid.
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Yeah, and we got to be careful
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When we are judging people based on the group they're in,
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And not based on individual behavior in action.
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Yeah.
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At that point, you're becoming very unbiblical,
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And it's actually something that's far more marxist
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To put people in groups and judge them according to groups.
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Yeah.
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The bible says in jesus there's no male or female,
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No jewish, greek, no scythian, slave free.
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We're all one in christ.
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And we have to be careful that we're not looking exclusively.
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Now, this is different than an ideology like islam,
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Because i know people might be like,
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Wait a second, you said islam, a political ideology.
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We can say communism, all communism is bad, right?
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Because there's a political ideology.
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You can track what it produces.
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All islam is bad because you can try to produce
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It doesn't mean every muslim is a terrible,
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Awful person, but the ideology and worldview of islam is.
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But then to say every jew is a terrible, evil person.
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Okay, now again, now you're being crazy.
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And this is where there is a defining line between it.
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And when a country
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Turns on the jews, it's not long until they turn on christians.
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Coming up,
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America is turning 250 years old, and yet
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A whole generation is being told we're a nation built on evil.
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So what's really going on?
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More with tim and david barton after the break.
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Stick around.
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Stick around.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight.
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America is 250 years strong,
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But a rising generation is being told that this nation
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Is defined by its worst moments and not its greatest wants.
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So what's the truth?
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Here's more with tim and david barton.
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Yeah, i would say a couple of big things
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That young people have to know
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Is that america has done more good
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Than any country in the world the last 250 years.
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Right.
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We're celebrating 250
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As we're coming into this summer's 4th of july.
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And no country has there been more stability, freedom,
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Prosperity anywhere in the world for 250 years.
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And so kids have to know this is a special nation.
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It's not that there weren't obviously
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Sinful moments in this nation, but also like some context.
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Every nation is full of people.
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And so every nation has a sinful moment.
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Yeah,
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But this nation has been very unique in that
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We have been the greatest force for good.
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The world has seen the last 250 years.
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On top of the fact,
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The reason we were the greatest force for good
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Is the influence of christianity and the bible.
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And america.
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And on top of it, the majority of the founding
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Fathers were actually open advocates against slavery.
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The majority of the ones that actually owned slaves,
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Not only did
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They speak against it, they actually worked to end
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Slavery in their states, freed their own slaves.
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We can go down a very long line.
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The problem is, today kids are told the opposite.
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And all the issues that america's bad.
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The founding fathers were evil.
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They were all these racist, bigoted slave holders.
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And even though america did evil things at times,
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And some of the founding fathers
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Actually were racist, the majority of them were not.
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But what we've done
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Because there's a marxist bent to modern academia.
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Yeah, as we say.
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Well, there's only two options here,
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Either the oppressed and the oppressor.
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And clearly these guys were the oppressor.
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Clearly america evil.
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But people fail to recognize that marxism is is a system
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Built intent on destroying the current system.
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That's the whole premise is we want to tear it down.
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That's why we're teaching this way.
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It's why we're teaching
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Not the true story of the founding fathers.
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Not that there's good, bad, and ugly.
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Not that there's guys like, for example, franklin,
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Who actually did own slaves, but then he freed slaves.
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He actually found the first abolition society.
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He then became the president of that society.
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We don't tell the whole story.
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We just say, no, all these guys own slaves
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Because the goal is to tear down and destroy america,
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The constitution, etc..
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We're seeing this unfold before us,
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And so we would want kids to know big picture.
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America is the greatest force for good.
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The reason we were different, the reason we accomplished
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So much, was the foundation of christianity.
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The bible
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And christianity in the bible
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Is actually
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What led to the end of these evils
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That were largely talked about like slavery.
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Why did slavery end?
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It was because of christians and churches and pastors.
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So understand that america is different.
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We have been good.
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And what made us good was the influence of christianity.
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Yeah.
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Tim. look, we see large numbers of young people now gen z.
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On one hand, we have revival.
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On the other hand that we do have the woke madness.
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Still and still,
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Large numbers of young people
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Now have a favorable view of socialism.
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Yeah.
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You talk about the road that leads to.
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We have mamdani.
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Obviously, we had a socialist when in seattle recently.
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Perilous time.
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Socialism was incredibly anti biblical.
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And there might be people that would advocate, say, wait
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A second, read the early church in the book of acts.
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They took stuff and they brought it together.
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They all share.
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Yes. voluntarily they did.
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The government didn't come and take away and mandate.
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Yeah.
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It's interesting
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That so much of the way that we think economically today
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Is contrary to what the bible teaches,
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Where you have two great parables jesus taught
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One in matthew 25, the parable of the talents,
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One in luke 19, the parable of the minus.
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In both of those, right, there's a master
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Who gives a stewardship responsibility.
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He goes on a journey.
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He comes back, calls him to account.
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It's interesting, the ones who are the most productive.
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Not only did he make rulers over cities, right. he.
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Then the one that was scared, right, master?
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I knew your hard man. you.
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You reap what? you haven't scattered.
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You haven't sown. i buried it, but here i brought it back.
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He says, you wicked, lazy servant.
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Yeah.
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Take from this one and give to the one
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Who was the most productive. and they said.
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But, master, he already has it in.
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No, he said yes, but to everyone who has more we given to him
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And does not have any more, he has it taken away.
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I mean, literally
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We can go do parable
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After parable and even though people
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Might want to say, hey, but those are spiritual,
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There's no doubt jesus was teaching a spiritual truth,
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But he was using a practical, earthly reality like, this is
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This is the way businesses work, right?
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We've both been at businesses and leaders
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And we've had to hire and fire people.
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Yeah, well,
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If we needed a job done and we had one person
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Who's really successful, one person who's terrible, well,
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The person who's terrible is not going to stay.
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But if i need this job done, like tomorrow, who do i go to?
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The person who's the most productive
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Because they're going to be able to accomplish it
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The best you reward, the most productive.
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Well, this is very different. the socialism.
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And again like this is a tip of the iceberg.
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We can go down a very long list.
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Jesus taught more parables
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Dealing with economics and any other topic,
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And all of them have practical life application.
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And i say this
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Pointing to the church, talking about revivals
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And awakenings again,
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Because we see the rising generation
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Having a favorable view of socialism.
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Well, first of all, it's because what they're being sold
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Is it's a word that's being redefined
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And they're supporting something
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That isn't what they actually think it is.
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And they think, no, well, socialism is just equality.
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It's when everybody's taking care of affordability.
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Right? it's it's the feel good thought.
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They don't understand the ramification
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That you're never going to own property.
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Right. you never own a business.
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You want to be an entrepreneur.
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You don't get to have an idea, right?
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The government, they don't understand that.
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So they're being sold an idea.
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But the fact that the church
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Is not discipling on what the bible says on issues, again,
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Why did jesus teach more on economics?
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Another topic, well,
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He said, if you are not faithful with unrighteous mammon,
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Who can entrust you the true riches?
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Yeah.
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Now what he's saying is, if you can't do good with money,
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Then how can god give you something of true value?
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Well, as christians, i'm like, man, i want the real value.
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Like money is fine. i appreciate it here on earth.
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But no, i want spiritual treasure.
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Well, if one of the metrics for spiritual treasure
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Is how you handle money, well, that makes me think, man.
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Pastors, we ought to be covering this all the time.
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But what we see
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Is that so few churches are emphasizing discipleship
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And therefore rising generations are believing things
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That are not confusing in the bible,
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The fact that the rising generation
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Is confused on gender issues.
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This is not confusing in the bible.
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And so if we're confused on issues
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That are not confusing in the bible,
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It tells me the church has been negligent
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And teaching what the bible says.
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And it's the only reason we're here.
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But back to revival. awakening.
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This is where we have a stewardship opportunity.
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God is pouring and god is moving in this nation.
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And amazing. like there's no doubt.
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Yeah, we can walk through and document.
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God is on the move.
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But how we stewardship
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This moment might be the difference of
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If this is a revival which is going to be great,
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Or if it becomes an awakening which can actually transform
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The culture depends on how
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We steward the moment and on how pastors steward
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This moment their churches.
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Tim, you're exactly right.
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America's 250th birthday coming up.
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Big year for you guys and the great work
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You do at wallbuilders.
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David, i'll start with you.
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And tim will wrap up with you just thoughts as we head
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Into this monumental year for the united states.
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I think the first thought is people don't understand
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What this is.
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Yeah, the average length of a nation
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And the history of the world is 17 to 19 years
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Worse than in 250
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And the same period of time, we've had one constitution.
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France has had 15, and that's a stable nation.
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Yeah.
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And so we're looking at this to say, oh, it's 250.
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No, no, no, this is a 200.
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Nobody's ever done this. wow.
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So that's a. at least not in a long. time.
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That's right. that's it. did israel all right.
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We go back to israel. sure.
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So, you know,
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In the last couple of millennia just had been done.
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And and this is something that if you enjoy freedom,
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If you enjoy prosperity, you defend it.
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Don't just enjoy it.
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Find out what god us here and defend what got us here.
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So this is, i think, a call for personal responsibility.
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Let's make it 251 252 253 254 yeah.
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Let's understand what got us here and keep preserving that.
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Faith, family and freedom. tim, how about you?
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And it seems that
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The revival, god willing, it turns into an awakening.
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But seems god is at the center of your destiny for sure.
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And i think the thing
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That we ought to emphasize a lot in the two 50th,
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The thing that birthed
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Our nation, was a belief that there was a god,
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That our rights came from him.
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And government's primary role
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Is to protect our god given rights.
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If we could remember, re-emphasize and restore that
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America not only would be a lot better,
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We could have a lot longer future
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Just by restoring the very basic ideas.
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There's a god.
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Our rights come from him, and government's
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Primary role is to protect our god given right.
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So, as i just.
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Outlined in the declaration of that,
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That's your hundred and 50th birthday.
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Thanks again to
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Our good friends, tim and david barton of wallbuilders folks.
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Check them out on x across social media.
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They do great work.
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And coming up, my final thoughts on preserving our way of life.
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That's next.
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Stick around.
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Stick around.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight, folks.
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When we talk about preserving our way of life.
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Look, judeo christian western civilization
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Is the greatest civilization the world has ever known.
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And yet
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We are obviously far from perfect in our civilization.
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We've been blessed so much,
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But by and large has turned away from god.
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If you want to preserve your way of life,
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Remember the words of isaiah 46 nine.
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Remember the former things those of long ago.
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I am god, and there is no other.
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I am god, and there is none like me.
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A reminder to the west.
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Put god first and everything else will fall in place.
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Shannon bream does exactly that. by the way.
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Fox news host here tomorrow with her incredible testimony.
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You will not want to miss that.
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Until then.
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God bless you and we'll see you soon.
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Erick Stakelbeck: March 24, 2026 | Stakelbeck Tonight

March 24, 2026 | 23:29

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