The Auron MacIntyre Show - July 02, 2026


America’s Traditions Must Be Lived Out or They Will Die ｜ 7⧸2⧸26


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6 minutes

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164.16

Word count

1,057

Sentence count

54

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1

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This weekend, America will celebrate its 250th anniversary, but it s not enough to simply remember our nation s past. We must live up to the values and traditions that have defined our nation for 250 years, and live them out in every aspect of our lives.

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00:00:00.000 Modern people tend to see knowledge as something humanity collectively achieves.
00:00:05.100 Once a scientific advancement or moral truth is uncovered,
00:00:08.300 it's now part of the collective achievement of our species and remains known in perpetuity.
00:00:13.620 In truth, these advancements aren't eternal and can be easily lost if a civilization doesn't practice them day to day.
00:00:21.060 As America celebrates its 250th anniversary, we must realize that remembering our traditions and values is not enough.
00:00:28.920 To keep them alive, we must embody them in everything we do.
00:00:33.100 The truth may be eternal, but our knowledge of it isn't.
00:00:36.540 Ancient Rome is remembered as one of the most powerful and expansive civilizations of all time,
00:00:41.740 but it was also one of the most technologically advanced.
00:00:44.660 The Romans developed a special form of concrete and other advancements in engineering
00:00:49.020 that allowed for the creation of incredible buildings and civic infrastructure.
00:00:53.840 When Rome fell, those techniques were still discovered in one sense,
00:00:57.780 but they were lost to time. The people who held the knowledge were no longer able to practice it
00:01:02.800 or pass it on. The science still remained objectively true, but without the civilization
00:01:08.080 which discovered it to maintain the practice of the science, that truth faded from memory as if
00:01:14.100 it had never existed. People lived in the ruins of these ancient wonders, but they were taking
00:01:19.500 shelter in buildings that they themselves could not build or maintain. Without the continuity of
00:01:24.340 tradition, the science had no practical meaning. Moral truth is no less subject to this problem
00:01:30.880 than scientific truth. The Old Testament is a repeating cycle of the Israelites receiving 0.74
00:01:36.480 divine revelation and then forgetting the truth that had been handed to them by God himself.
00:01:42.060 How many times does the nation fall away from the commandments of the Lord only to have a prophet
00:01:47.160 pull an old scroll from Iraq and remind them what they once knew? The Israelites would cry out and
00:01:53.300 wring their garments in repentance for their foolishness. 0.77
00:01:56.180 They would practice the truth for a time.
00:01:58.400 But the minute the practice faded, so did the knowledge.
00:02:02.500 Despite having direct divine revelation of God's truth, 0.58
00:02:06.400 the Israelites, and all of humanity, of course, could not maintain its practice. 0.92
00:02:11.480 That's why the Lord sent his Son as a perfect example and living sacrifice,
00:02:15.940 an eternal embodiment for all nations to see what the righteous life looks like in practice.
00:02:22.760 This weekend, America will celebrate its 250th anniversary, but it's not enough to simply say that we're honoring our traditions and culture.
00:02:31.300 Most Americans have spent little to no time reading what the Founding Fathers actually wrote,
00:02:36.860 so their understanding of our nation's traditions comes from a heavily curated history that they learned in school.
00:02:43.480 There will be plenty of talk about celebrating the country's past,
00:02:46.800 but what we need is a full-on revival focused on living that tradition out in the modern day.
00:02:53.380 Sentimentality is nice, but the country's anniversary must become something more if the nation is to survive.
00:03:00.120 Today, you'll hear most Americans, even conservatives,
00:03:04.060 say that religious liberty guaranteed in the First Amendment
00:03:06.940 means that Muslims can't be prevented from moving here and building entire cities dedicated to their way of life.
00:03:13.800 The average American believes that Hindus have the First Amendment right to immigrate and build giant statues to their demonic gods in Texas. 0.96
00:03:21.980 That's absurd.
00:03:23.480 The truth is that many states required public officials to be professing Protestant Christians all the way through the 1840s,
00:03:31.260 many decades after the Bill of Rights was adopted.
00:03:34.320 Even Catholics were considered too foreign to hold office.
00:03:38.280 None of this was seen as a violation of religious liberty at the time,
00:03:41.780 and the idea that this protection was intended to allow Muslims or Hindus to control the public
00:03:47.460 square is a lie. The entire tradition of religious liberty many people think we're honoring
00:03:52.840 is a lie. The Supreme Court recently provided a perfect demonstration of this phenomenon by
00:03:59.580 ruling that the 14th Amendment guarantees birthright citizenship for the children of 0.63
00:04:04.080 illegal aliens. The 14th Amendment was one of three that were added to the Constitution
00:04:08.960 at the end of the Civil War to address the legal framework for freed slaves.
00:04:13.360 The only intention of the 14th Amendment was to clarify
00:04:16.600 that people who had been born slaves became citizens once they were free.
00:04:21.280 This intent was made clear at the time by the people who authored the amendment.
00:04:26.380 And there are plenty of examples to demonstrate this fact.
00:04:30.160 The amendment didn't create citizenship for American Indians,
00:04:33.340 even though they had obviously been here longer than black Americans,
00:04:36.280 because they were understood to be under the jurisdiction of their native tribes.
00:04:40.520 It didn't create citizenship for the children of foreign diplomats
00:04:44.000 because even though they were on American soil when they were born,
00:04:47.720 their parents were subject to a different jurisdiction, and so were the children.
00:04:51.860 The idea that birthright citizenship is some grand American tradition is entirely false,
00:04:57.140 but a conservative Supreme Court just enshrined it into the Constitution.
00:05:01.940 As we gather with family and friends this weekend,
00:05:05.100 and we should enjoy all the patriotic festivities.
00:05:08.160 Fireworks, barbecue, loud renditions of Take Me Home Country Roads
00:05:12.220 are all fantastic, and we should embrace them fully.
00:05:15.720 But we should also commit to learning the true history and traditions of our nation
00:05:20.160 and to living them out in our daily lives.
00:05:22.920 Read the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution with your children.
00:05:26.440 Read the Federalist Papers and the Anti-Federalist Papers,
00:05:29.020 George Washington's Farewell Address, and the letters of our founders.
00:05:32.420 Most importantly, live these traditions by being the virtuous people that those great men thought our country could not survive without.
00:05:41.140 The 250th must be more than a nostalgic celebration.
00:05:45.040 It must become a renewal of our covenant as Americans.
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00:06:19.820 Thanks for watching, guys.
00:06:20.780 I hope you have a fantastic, fantastic 4th of July.
00:06:24.100 And as always, I'll talk to you next time.