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00:03:36.000Well, thank you for the great question.
00:03:37.000This is a falsehood that has penetrated much of secular and even Christian education, that somehow the country was founded only on secular enlightenment influences.
00:03:54.000There's one person I think that everyone should be very familiar with.
00:03:59.000And some way to frame him is the father of America.
00:04:04.000He's a founding father before America was even formed.
00:04:08.000He did live through that period of time that is widely misrepresented by the New York Times and by left-wing academics right near 1619 and 1620.
00:04:31.000He helped found what is now known as Connecticut.
00:04:35.000The founder of Connecticut, and Connecticut, of course, is the Constitution state.
00:04:40.000But Thomas Hooker is someone that really helped establish the first words written that was a democratic constitution establishing a representative government, essentially establishing a fundamental order of Connecticut.
00:04:58.000Thomas Hooker was a lecturer and a preacher all throughout America.
00:05:05.000He helped lead the Connecticut colony.
00:05:09.000Now, mind you, Thomas Hooker was inspired by the Code of Patrick, also derived from Alfred the Great, even Magna Carta, and of course the Mayflower Compact.
00:05:20.000All these documents and these beginning rumbles of what would eventually create Western civilization eventually found itself upon the shores of North America.
00:05:31.000Thomas Hooker was part of the pilgrims.
00:05:32.000Why would we call pilgrims pilgrims if they're going to a barren land America and not Israel?
00:05:38.000It's because they found themselves going to try to create the new Israel.
00:05:43.000If you really want to dive deep into why America is an exceptional country, go back into the sermons of the early colonial clergy.
00:05:51.000You will find sermons and pastors wrestling with the ideas of representative government.
00:06:02.000The basis of our country is one that, of course, was derived from England, the Magna Carta, from ancient Rome, where they had 600 senators, even from Athens, where that's where we get the word politics from.
00:06:17.000Politics meaning literally the business of the city.
00:06:21.000But also, we get our way of government from Israel.
00:06:26.000That particular period of time where there are 400 years of self-governance.
00:06:32.000Now, remember, back in the times of Israel, and this is why, for those of us that study the Bible, understand the Bible, we can see how it applies so much to the American system of governance.
00:06:44.000And anyone who denies this fact is trying to impart their own agenda to try to blur the lines and to try to put forward their own false narrative.
00:06:57.000Now, remember, the Republic of Israel stood for 400 years.
00:07:13.000No king, no ruler, no chieftain, no czar, no pharaoh, no dictator.
00:07:19.000Everyone knew the law, everyone followed the law, and everyone became their own form of law enforcement.
00:07:25.000No standing army, no police, yet they were able to flourish for a long period of time.
00:07:30.000You see, when you have a virtuous people, you don't need any form of government.
00:07:35.000Since everyone knew the law and it was passed down from one generation to the other, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not murder, thou shall honor thy mother and father, thou shalt not covet.
00:07:45.000They understood the uploaded moral app that was given to them from Moses.
00:07:51.000There was really no need to have government forces.
00:07:56.000Still stole and they still cheated, they still sinned, they still rebelled from God.
00:08:03.000But the overwhelming majority of the country was studying what it meant to be virtuous, was trying to figure out what God's wish was for them on this planet.
00:08:13.000And because of this, there was really no need for a strong, centralized power.
00:08:20.000So, mind you, when you have no government, the only way civilization can succeed is if everyone is virtuous.
00:08:28.000But as people start to become less virtuous and they get away from this idea of God being accountable for their actions, the fear of God that God might judge you if you step out of line, if you steal something, if you lie, if you steal and you cheat, as people get away from that and start to sin or rebel from God, especially when it comes to civil and civic government, then government needs to get bigger.
00:08:58.000So, the bigger the government, the smaller the individual.
00:09:02.000But also, the more virtuous the people, the smaller government is able to be.
00:09:08.000And we see that a lot today in the lockdown.
00:09:11.000As people are fearful that they are not going to be able to make smart decisions themselves, they want government to go through and lock down businesses for them.
00:09:21.000They want government to go through and be the jury, judge, and pseudo, and metaphorical executioner.
00:09:28.000They want government to go through and enforce mask requirements.
00:09:32.000Instead of trusting a population to be informed, reason-based, logical, looking into every single issue independently and analytically, empirically and rationally, instead, we have a country that resorts to try and have government be the source of virtue.
00:09:52.000Plato used to say that we need to teach children, quote, noble lies.
00:09:59.000Plato used to say that we need to teach children things that might not be true, but if everyone believes them, then you're able to have a civil society and a functioning, quote-unquote, republic.
00:10:15.000Now, Plato is very difficult to unpack in just one podcast.
00:10:19.000Plato, of course, learned from Socrates.
00:11:21.000However, I believe that without Aristotelian logic and the idea of being empirical and actually reasoned-based and testing your premise, something that René Descartes helped pioneer, who really started the Enlightenment, without that type of analysis, then we're nothing more than a bunch of professors tossing around theories that will have no applicability to modern life.
00:11:45.000And so to answer your question, or to get back to your question, I should say, is America really a Christian nation?
00:11:53.000Out of all the people that signed the Declaration of Independence, almost all of them could be identified as being outspoken Christians.
00:11:59.000There were 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence.
00:12:03.000But what's so incredible is that if you actually read the Declaration, it reads almost like a religious and theological document that the laws of nature and nature's God.
00:12:14.000That when in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle them.
00:12:27.000A decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to separation.
00:12:34.000We hold these truths to be self-evident.
00:12:35.000This idea of self-evidentiary truths is a Christian and specifically Protestant Christian idea that all men are created equal, a biblical idea that we're all equal in the eyes of Christ.
00:12:48.000This is something that Paul talked about in Philippians, that they are endowed by their Creator, made in the image of God, imago day, something that's talked about in Jeremiah, I knew you before you're in the womb, with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
00:13:03.000Life, God breathed you into existence.
00:13:05.000Liberty, the capacity to go pursue what is right and what is good, and the pursuit of happiness.
00:13:11.000I wish they would have kept it as private property.
00:13:13.000It would have been more clear about the actual economic system that they would have argued for.
00:13:17.000However, that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
00:13:25.000Well, where do we get this idea of the consent of the governed?
00:13:27.000Remember, 400 years of self-governance in Israel.
00:13:31.000The longest-lasting best example of true, bottom-up, republican form of government, not Republican Party, but a Republican form of government.
00:13:41.000Then it says, prudence indeed will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes.
00:13:48.000And accordingly, all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
00:13:59.000But when a long train of abuses and usurptations, pursuing invariable the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty to throw off such government and to provide new guards for their future security.
00:14:16.000Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies, and such is now the necessity which constrains to them their former systems of government, the history of the present.
00:14:27.000King of Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states.
00:14:37.000To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world that goes through all the facts.
00:14:43.000Now, what drove the founding fathers to speak in such incendiary terms?
00:14:49.000It's because they started to realize that rights came from God, not from King George.
00:14:54.000And this is articulated in the Constitution of the United States, going back to Thomas Hooker, who is really one of the fathers of America or the father of the United States Constitution, who started this idea of articulating self-governance.
00:15:07.000But it's as people started to dive deeper into the first great awakening.
00:15:11.000Jonathan Edwards, Whitfield, sinners in the hands of an angry God.
00:15:18.000We get these rights from God, not from King George.
00:15:22.000And in the United States Constitution, it says that titles of nobility mean nothing.
00:15:30.000That if you're a king, it does not give you anything.
00:15:33.000It's also known as the emoluments clause of the United States Constitution, the titles of nobility.
00:15:40.000And it says clearly in Article 1, Section 9, Clause 8: no title of nobility shall be granted by the United States, and no person holding any other office or profit or trust under them shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept any present, a monument, office, or title, or any kind whatsoever from any king, prince, or foreign state.
00:17:04.000The idea of a bottom-up government, it was tried in Rome, it was tried in Athens, it was tried a little bit in the Mayflower Compact, but it was really mixing the best of the Enlightenment with the best of the Bible.
00:17:20.000Fusing together the discoveries of Newtonian physics, of Sir Francis Bacon, of Immanuel Kant, of John Locke, of Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, even though they disagreed on quite a lot.
00:17:38.000Fusing all of those together, almost in a best hits buffet of thinkers, philosophers, ideas, and systems of government.
00:17:48.000But the thing that made America different and has made America different than any other country that has been founded since.
00:17:55.000The reason why we are the wealthiest, most generous, benevolent, fair, equitable, open-minded country ever to exist in the history of the world is that preamble to the United States Constitution is derived straight from Christian biblical principles.
00:18:15.000That's what makes our country different.
00:18:17.000And so, to your question, Hank from Rhode Island, I hope that gives you a little bit of ammunition.
00:18:22.000There's some other great resources I'd be happy to provide you with.
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00:20:08.000They don't want to interfere in an election.
00:20:10.000And I do want to give Texas and Ken Paxton, the Attorney General of Texas, credit for launching a best effort in more ways than one to try and at least give voice to the fraud that happened in this election.
00:20:27.000But if you dive deeper into actually what the lawsuit said and the complaint going to the U.S. Supreme Court, it wasn't even about election fraud.
00:20:36.000It was just the fact that this election was a fraud.
00:20:43.000This was a multi-level conspiracy against the American people through voter registration, ballot fraud, ballot laundering, signature verification, Center for Technology and Civic Life,
00:20:59.000media blackouts, Hunter Biden investigations that go unreported, all of it together, combined, created the greatest scam and scandal of an election that we have seen probably in American history, at least since 1876, definitely more so than in 2000.
00:21:20.000But the lawsuit wasn't about ballots or signatures.
00:21:25.000It was about how Raffensperger, the alleged Republican Secretary of State of Georgia, changed election law in a lawsuit settling civilly with Stacey Abrams, who came marching in with $40 million into Georgia, thanks to Hollywood elites and weak Republicans that didn't fight their entrance into Georgia.
00:21:51.000They came marching in together and Raffensperger changed the laws, the rules, and the regulations around voting without the consent of the state legislature.
00:22:35.000They do not want their entire judicial portfolio to be marred by a highly contentious election.
00:22:45.000Judges like to think of themselves above politics.
00:22:49.000However, if it was a Democrat-controlled Supreme Court, they would have heard this case in a heartbeat.
00:22:56.000If this was a Democrat-controlled Supreme Court, if it was a Warren Court or a burger court, and it was Massachusetts or Oregon that was suing another state because of being disenfranchised because Democrats lost an election and Republicans changed a law that benefited Republicans, then the Supreme Court would have heard it.
00:23:18.000It's just that Republicans and conservatives, we do not fight as hard as Democrats do.
00:23:43.000Democrats want nothing to do with reconciliation, with trying to find common ground.
00:23:49.000Instead, Democrats will do whatever they possibly can at their disposal to assume the most amount of earthly power possible as quickly as possible.
00:23:58.000For them, the way they judge success is how much power can I get at one period of time for myself and for my political movement.
00:24:08.000They view everything in postmodern power struggle terms, oppressor and oppressed.
00:24:13.000The only currency that matters to the left is not persuasion.
00:24:32.000It is a long, drawn-out power struggle.
00:24:36.000It is a wrestling match for who controls the civilization.
00:24:39.000And the problem with this, the issue that all of us that understand what the country stands for and how you can lose a civilization so quickly, the reason that we are very worried about this is that if you only care about power, then you immediately descend into a Machiavellian paradigm, which is then the ends justify the means.
00:25:01.000And you are willing to do whatever it takes then to assume total and complete political power.
00:25:09.000If you're willing to do whatever it takes to assume total and complete political power, then all of a sudden any sort of moral guardrails that you might have disappear and evaporate.
00:25:20.000Think about what the Democrats were willing to do to Donald Trump.
00:25:24.000Spy on him, launch a coup, plant evidence, lie about it, launch an entire congressional deluge crusade against President Trump all around this idea of Russian interference.
00:25:39.000Look, I think Vladimir Putin is a thug.
00:25:41.000I think Russia is a soft enemy of the United States.
00:25:45.000I say soft enemy because they're not a clear and present danger to the United States.
00:25:52.000They get all of their wealth from the petrodollar.
00:25:55.000The real threat to our country is China.
00:25:58.000The real threat to our country is the Chinese Communist Party.
00:26:01.000It actually would have done us some good, just as we did in World War II, to have a soft alliance with Russia like we did with the Soviet Union to crush China.
00:26:10.000Instead, the fearmongers that were compromised by Fang Fang, by secret drivers in the Bay Area, or Chinese Communist Party spies like Suawell, Harris, Pelosi, and Feinstein, all from the Bay Area of our country, compromised by the highest levels of the CCP.
00:27:02.000Almost none of the groups that call Donald Trump the worst things you can call them, 1930s warmonger, 1930s style Benito Mussolini, none of them comment on the fact that China has one million Muslims in concentration camps.
00:27:20.000Meanwhile, the Chinese embassy puts on Twitter, quote, in Xinjiang, all citizens enjoy the same rights.
00:27:26.000It is completely independent choice of each citizen to believe in or not believe in any religion.
00:27:31.000That's from the Chinese embassy in the United States.
00:27:33.000That's such a pathological lie that should get them kicked off of social media.
00:27:37.000But again, the Chinese Communist Party has purchased our social media tech companies and data companies.
00:27:44.000This happened large in part because Republicans in particular did a dirty deal with the devil.
00:27:52.000They opened up the market of China to an extent that deindustrialized our economy, our labor force, where we worked with our hands.
00:28:00.000It got re-domiciled to Wuhan, to Shanghai, to Zhejiang, to Chongqing, to Kuming, to Taiwan, to Daatong, to Chongchun, to Harbin, to Shengyong, just to name some of the cities, to Fuzhou, all across China.
00:28:21.000Because our CEOs, who didn't have really any sort of patriotic loyalty to our country, they wanted to save 10 or 15 bucks on a t-shirt, and they went to China.
00:28:33.000Now, mind you, they could have gone to Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico, or Panama.
00:28:38.000If they really needed cheap labor, the reason they went to China is that, yes, it was cheaper, but the Chinese Communist Party treated these CEOs very, very well.
00:28:47.000They went into forced technology partnerships, and the only competitive advantage that China has is people.
00:29:14.000Anything that they have built has been engineered in the West and then retrofitted by someone in America or Europe or in Central or South America to satisfy the needs, wants, and interests of the Chinese Communist Party.
00:29:31.000And yet still to this day, we continue to trade with China.
00:29:34.000The longer that we trade with China unrestricted and they dump products into our country, the longer we tolerate this, the quicker and sooner China will take over the entire world and will break the back of America.
00:29:51.000China attacked us with an epidemiological Pearl Harbor from Wuhan.
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00:32:45.000I'm actually watching a show, not on my Netflix account, I refuse to have a Netflix account, but on my fiancé's Netflix account.
00:32:53.000We have been watching The Last Kingdom, which is a really interesting show that takes place many hundreds of years ago in England.
00:33:01.000It's true, and it's also acted very, very well about the Anglo-Saxon influence in Europe and in England in particular, and the Danish invasions.
00:33:13.000I like it because it's very historical.
00:33:15.000It's not just kind of meaningless television watching.
00:33:20.000I'm actually learning a lot about different areas, how they developed, different parts of England that used to be called different things, and how over the years they've really and how things have changed and not changed, quite honestly.
00:33:35.000And the Danish influence in England is very interesting to see.
00:33:39.000So, please continue to email us your questions, everybody.