The Matt Walsh Show - October 29, 2026


Ep. 1865 - This Video Is Driving The Worst People On The Left Crazy

Ep. 1864 - Governments Are Telling Citizens To Prepare For The Worst... Here's What You Need To Know

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00:01:00.900 puretalkbusiness.com slash Shapiro. After four years of overt persecution by the Biden
00:01:06.220 administration, where elderly pro-lifers were rounded up and thrown in prison for nonviolent
00:01:11.180 protests outside abortion clinics, where the FBI explicitly wrote about a crackdown on radical
00:01:16.260 Catholic violent extremists, and where peaceful demonstrators were hunted down by SWAT teams at
00:01:22.080 their homes at gunpoint in front of their children. It's hard to overstate how much has changed for
00:01:27.780 Christians in this country. The federal government no longer uses the force of law to compel
00:01:32.120 Christians, especially Christian schools, to violate central tenets of their faith, for example, 0.96
00:01:37.680 by facilitating abortion or transgender insanity. People have more options to send their children 1.00
00:01:43.380 to Christian schools. Instead of importing millions of Muslims from failed states like Somalia, who 1.00
00:01:48.720 spent every waking moment finding new ways to defraud us. We're taking in Christian refugees 1.00
00:01:53.100 from places like South Africa, where they've been persecuted because of their faith and their skin
00:01:57.260 color. All this is happening because for the first time in memory, the federal government
00:02:02.840 is willing to affirm in explicit and unambiguous terms that America is a Christian nation with an
00:02:09.880 obligation to spread the faith and advance the interests of Christians. So this is a post
00:02:16.120 featuring Marco Rubio that went up on the State Department's official social media accounts this
00:02:21.260 week. It's a video that has led to predictable meltdowns from every depraved demonic corner of
00:02:27.440 the left. And for that reason, naturally, we're going to play it in full. It's a great video.
00:02:33.340 Watch. Our faith calls us outwards into the limitless darkness of the unknown. It tells us
00:02:42.060 to go forth and preach the gospel to the world as a witness unto all nations, unto the ends
00:02:47.580 of the earth.
00:02:49.780 From that command came America. 0.94
00:02:53.340 Our nation, more than any other in history, was shaped by this Christian idea.
00:02:58.620 This is who we are, and from the beginning, we have carried the belief that our country
00:03:04.200 represents something new in the world.
00:03:06.980 the soul of our nation, has always been rooted in an ancient faith.
00:03:17.380 So all the Pride Month depravity, which the previous State Department tried to explore
00:03:23.120 to every corner of the earth, was really, of course, a direct assault on the Christian
00:03:28.640 history and lineage of this country that Marco Rubio just outlined. As we know, the goal of
00:03:35.000 leftist ideology is not to create anything coherent or functional. They don't want so much
00:03:39.920 to produce a new set of rules for governing an orderly society or ensuring human flourishing,
00:03:44.940 but rather to destroy the rules and sources of human flourishing already established.
00:03:50.040 Their followers, in addition to being profane and nihilistic, are obsessed with grievance and
00:03:54.900 weakness and narcissism and shame. They complain endlessly. They melt down at even the slightest
00:03:59.760 criticism. They try to ruin people's lives when they step out of line. They give themselves the
00:04:05.600 powers of gods, but at some level, they understand it's all fraudulent. It's an act and not a very
00:04:10.720 convincing one. And that's why for all their talk about pride, they're, as we know, clearly
00:04:15.940 miserable people. Now, on the other hand, the message of Christianity is very different. It's 0.64
00:04:21.480 the diametric opposite. In fact, it's a religion that teaches not only about mercy, but justice.
00:04:29.760 virtue and preaches the promise of salvation. At its core, this is obviously inherently a hopeful
00:04:36.240 message. Any sinner can be saved. And every great man of American history, without exception,
00:04:43.000 understood this. Our government leaders should not be shy about saying it either, and historically,
00:04:49.500 they haven't been. Now, the occasion for this video from the State Department is something
00:04:53.360 called International Religious Freedom Day, which was created in 1998 through a law that was passed
00:04:59.740 during the Clinton administration, and although it progressed through Congress because of Christian
00:05:04.980 persecution all over the world, Clinton himself, of course, insisted that the law had nothing to do
00:05:10.240 with Christianity in particular. He stated the goal was, quote, to promote the religious freedom
00:05:15.280 of people of all backgrounds, whether Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, Taoist,
00:05:21.060 or any other faith. So this is the kind of leadership we've been used to for some time.
00:05:26.720 our politicians balk at the idea of promoting Christianity in any way.
00:05:31.900 So it's just another faith along with all the others, they say.
00:05:35.900 You know, sending the message, of course, that Christianity has
00:05:38.160 no particular relevance to America. 0.57
00:05:41.120 We're supposed to take seriously the idea, the fantasy that Taoism and like Sikhism 0.69
00:05:47.540 are somehow just as crucial to the American identity as the religion, Christianity,
00:05:51.920 that quite literally built the country.
00:05:54.180 And so it's just totally false, as we'll discuss in a moment.
00:05:58.460 But it's also ironic in this case, given that the whole idea of International Religious Freedom Day is to celebrate religious freedom, as the name suggests, which exists because of Christianity.
00:06:11.020 In fact, the first person in Western history to use the words freedom of religion, as far as we know, was a Christian apologist in North Africa named Tertullian.
00:06:20.560 This is circa 197 AD.
00:06:23.320 This is from the Russell Kirk Center in Michigan.
00:06:25.300 Quote, Tertullian, the 2nd century North African convert, is most famous today for his observation about the blood of the martyrs being the seed of the church.
00:06:35.400 At a time of harsh, if sporadic, persecution, Tertullian argued that Rome should allow Christians to exercise their faith because religious freedom was an essential component of human nature.
00:06:45.920 It is only just and a privilege inherent in human nature, he wrote in his Apology,
00:06:50.600 that every person should be able to worship according to his own convictions.
00:06:54.380 For one person's religion neither harms nor hurts another.
00:06:58.660 Sixteen centuries later, Jefferson would write something remarkably similar in notes on the state of Virginia.
00:07:04.120 It does me no injury for my neighbor to say that there are 20 gods or no god.
00:07:08.160 Historian Robert Louis Wilkin notes that Jefferson had a copy of the Apology in his personal library
00:07:13.060 and marked the passage about religious freedom.
00:07:17.240 So for many reasons, it was appropriate for Rubio State Department
00:07:20.320 to release this video for International Religious Freedom Day.
00:07:24.000 Even if you're a godless communist, 1.00
00:07:26.580 you should be able to admit that Christians deserve credit
00:07:29.340 as pioneers in the field of religious freedom
00:07:31.600 and every other kind of freedom.
00:07:33.920 By the way, our entire conception of human rights
00:07:36.500 as we understand it today is inexorably tied to Christian teaching.
00:07:41.560 Human rights are certainly, without question, a religious doctrine.
00:07:45.300 The idea of inalienable rights somehow spiritually endowed in us from the moment of our creation
00:07:50.660 cannot even be understood or made sense of at all except through a religious framework.
00:07:58.200 The idea of human rights are actually incoherent without the religious framework.
00:08:04.100 And the religious framework that makes the most sense of them and that formed human rights as we
00:08:08.720 know them today as a doctrine is Christianity. And that's just a truth of history. There's no
00:08:14.560 way around it. And yet one after another, all of the most perverse and unhinged leftists in the 0.98
00:08:20.120 country came out to condemn this video right on cue. And leading the charge was Scott Wiener,
00:08:26.500 who's about to take Nancy Pelosi's seat in Congress. And apologies to anyone watching
00:08:31.940 the video podcast, but it looks like we just put a picture up on the screen of this guy.
00:08:36.780 this is the model of the Democrat Party. This is the model Democrat Party politician at the
00:08:44.060 moment. It's everything they stand for. I guess Hakeem Jeffries might be in contention too,
00:08:49.820 as he's the illiterate black Obama impersonator who's been promoted far beyond his level of 1.00
00:08:54.860 competence. But I don't know, Scott Wiener is up there. If these people had been in power when 0.96
00:09:00.160 Mount Rushmore was built, it would have looked like this. It would have looked like that SNL
00:09:04.380 Chippendale sketch. The one with Chris Farley is basically what the, and there it is right there.
00:09:08.940 We need to show you that too. So just picture their faces on mountains in South Dakota and
00:09:13.040 you get the idea. This is what tourists would be subjected to if the demented gay perverts had been 1.00
00:09:17.900 running things back in the early 20th century, or at least if they had been out of the closet. 1.00
00:09:22.480 But in any event, Wiener is perhaps most famous for leading the campaign to decriminalize the
00:09:27.860 intentional spreading of HIV, which is the thing that he did. He's also known for making it more
00:09:33.760 difficult for prosecutors to incarcerate gay men who prey on children. You know, quite a resume. 0.95
00:09:40.180 And as you'd expect, given that he's a genuinely repulsive individual who shouldn't be allowed
00:09:44.740 anywhere near a school zone, much less should he be allowed to hold public office, Wiener was shocked,
00:09:51.380 appalled by Rubio's video, positively aghast by the whole thing. So he wrote this with maximum
00:09:59.000 indignation. He wrote simply, quote, this is an official United States government account
00:10:04.660 promoting the Christian gospel. Now, when I saw this, I hadn't actually seen Rubio's video yet.
00:10:11.680 So I was genuinely thankful that Wiener pointed it out. He performed an actual public service for
00:10:17.520 once in his life by helping to spread this fantastic video around the internet. And you
00:10:22.960 know, if I didn't know any better, based on the caption, if I didn't know who this guy was,
00:10:27.940 I would think that he was celebrating the video.
00:10:31.940 Indeed, the official U.S. government account is promoting the Christian gospel,
00:10:35.960 and that's a wonderful thing.
00:10:39.480 It's impossible for the promotion of the Christian gospel to be anything but a wonderful thing.
00:10:46.800 Promoting a false gospel is bad, but if you are promoting the actual Christian gospel, 0.90
00:10:52.940 then it's a good thing, always and everywhere.
00:10:57.940 And this goes to show how the two sides of the ideological divide live, not just in different countries, but different universes.
00:11:03.780 If you needed yet more evidence of that, you know, to Weird Wiener and his weird followers, a phrase like promoting the Christian gospel has, you know, the exact opposite connotation.
00:11:16.880 It's not something that automatically is good to them.
00:11:19.060 They see it as inherently bad in all contexts.
00:11:21.640 and so much so that he doesn't even need to explain why it's bad or include any other commentary about
00:11:29.640 it. He could just say they're promoting the Christian gospel. And to his followers, they
00:11:34.940 immediately see that as obviously bad. To him, saying they're promoting the Christian gospel
00:11:40.500 is akin to saying they're drowning puppies in the river. You don't feel the need to explain
00:11:47.860 why you oppose it. It's just obviously terrible. That's how they see it.
00:11:51.640 Christianity to Scott Wiener is like garlic to a vampire.
00:11:55.980 But you have to wonder if this guy knows anything about American history,
00:11:59.800 which he doesn't, or if he cares, which he also doesn't,
00:12:03.500 because he seemed shocked by the idea that the government would ever promote Christianity in any way.
00:12:08.460 Meanwhile, for most of American history, especially at the founding,
00:12:13.220 and for a long time thereafter,
00:12:15.260 the government was expressly in the business of promoting, defending, and promulgating Christianity.
00:12:21.640 that's not up for debate. Again, it's an historical fact. No matter how you feel about it,
00:12:28.780 that's what happened. For example, in April 1776, just a few months before the Declaration of
00:12:34.800 Independence was signed, the Continental Congress hired a Christian missionary for the express
00:12:39.480 purpose of converting the Indians. Quote, resolved that the commissioners for Indian
00:12:45.820 affairs in the Middle Department employ a minister of the gospel to reside among the Delaware Indians
00:12:51.180 and instruct them in the Christian religion, a schoolmaster to teach their youth reading,
00:12:55.180 writing, and arithmetic, and also a blacksmith to do the work of the Indians in the Middle
00:12:59.380 Department. So, that's an interesting little detail. And then just a few years later, as the
00:13:05.620 war for independence raged on, Congress went out of its way to explicitly endorse the Bible. This
00:13:10.520 is from the Daily Signal, quote, on September 12th, 1782, Congress, under the Articles of
00:13:15.040 Confederation, officially endorsed the Aitken Bible, or the Bible of the Revolution, as the
00:13:21.120 first complete English language Bible in America. The Bible was named after its printer, Robert
00:13:26.140 Aitken. The endorsement was supported by the chaplains of Congress at the time.
00:13:32.920 Shockingly enough, at the time, you know, there were no gay shirtless men wearing leather pants
00:13:37.840 and black ties for some reason who objected to this resolution. It's almost as if like the scrawny 1.00
00:13:44.160 gay HIV fanatic is not in fact representative of America or its traditions or its history. 0.97
00:13:51.120 And he likes to pretend that Rubio's State Department just violated some kind of ancient norm. 0.90
00:13:56.900 But in reality, it is Scott Wiener who has made a career of mocking this country and its Christian traditions and its norms.
00:14:06.460 And if you're ignorant of our history, then you might be inclined to believe what he's saying.
00:14:10.140 You might buy into the idea that this country's government somehow never endorsed Christianity.
00:14:14.960 You might buy into the lie about the separation of church and state, which is a mostly fabricated concept.
00:14:21.120 that only became fashionable in the 1960s. Never mind the fact that in the early 19th century,
00:14:29.420 the federal government financed a Catholic church under Jefferson's administration, no less,
00:14:33.280 even though Jefferson is closely associated with the idea of separating church and state.
00:14:37.440 Also forget about how in 1819, Congress, through the Civilization Fund Act, provided a significant
00:14:43.480 amount of money for schools that converted Indians to Christianity. Pay no attention to the fact
00:14:48.600 that in 1869, the president, Ulysses S. Grant, spent a paragraph of his inaugural address
00:14:54.000 promoting the idea that the so-called Native Americans should be Christian. Now, if you pull
00:15:00.080 up some transcripts of Grant's speech, you'll find that many of them actually omit this line or edit
00:15:04.940 it out, believe it or not, but here's what he said in full. Quote, the proper treatment of the
00:15:12.240 original occupants of this land, the Indians, is one deserving of careful study. I will favor
00:15:16.300 any course toward them which tends to their civilization, Christianization, and ultimate
00:15:22.060 citizenship. Now, notice how for Grant, a necessary precursor of citizenship was Christianization.
00:15:30.880 And basically every prominent leader of this country for its first century and beyond felt
00:15:36.860 exactly the same way. But what's remarkable is that if you look up this speech on most websites,
00:15:42.060 including Yale universities, the quote will say this, the proper treatment of the original
00:15:46.400 occupants of this land, the Indians, is one deserving of careful study. I will favor any
00:15:50.140 course toward them which tends to their civilization and ultimate citizenship.
00:15:57.480 So they just took out the middle part there about Christianization. They just flat out censor it.
00:16:03.360 They're relying on a compilation of grant speeches that was created decades later,
00:16:07.500 which itself omits the word Christianization.
00:16:10.860 Meanwhile, the contemporary versions of the speech,
00:16:13.140 the ones where stenographers wrote down
00:16:15.720 what Grant was saying while he was saying it,
00:16:18.300 include the word Christianization.
00:16:21.100 So there's no reasonable question about what Grant said,
00:16:24.260 but various historians would like to pretend
00:16:26.200 he didn't say that,
00:16:27.760 even though in his State of the Union address
00:16:29.600 one year later, he doubled down on exactly this sentiment.
00:16:33.680 Specifically, Grant said, quote,
00:16:35.000 Indian agencies being civil offices,
00:16:36.980 I determined to give all the agencies to such religious denominations as had heretofore established
00:16:42.060 missionaries among the Indians, and perhaps to some other denominations who would undertake the
00:16:46.940 work on the same terms, i.e. as a missionary work. The societies selected are allowed to name their
00:16:52.340 own agents, subjected to the approval of the executive, and are expected to watch over them
00:16:56.100 and aid them as missionaries to Christianize and civilize the Indian and to train him in the arts
00:17:00.980 of peace. The government watches over the official acts of these agents and requires of them as
00:17:05.860 strict an accountability as if they were appointed in any other manner. So basically, Grant gave
00:17:11.920 control of around 70 federal Indian agencies, agencies headquartered on Native American
00:17:18.240 reservations, over to Christian missionaries and church leaders. This was his so-called peace
00:17:23.880 policy. And amazingly enough, there was no outrage whatsoever that Grant was violating the separation
00:17:29.180 of church and state. No one claimed that Grant had violated the First Amendment or done something
00:17:34.760 shockingly unconstitutional. The thought never crossed anyone's mind, actually. That's because
00:17:40.000 at the time, and for most of this country's history, right up until the civil rights era,
00:17:44.300 no one thought that the church should be separate from the state. Instead,
00:17:48.720 we understood that the First Amendment prohibited the government from establishing a national
00:17:52.600 religion or barring the practice of other religions. That's it. So if Grant had given
00:17:58.860 control over these agencies to one particular Protestant denomination as part of a plan to
00:18:03.200 make that one denomination into a national religion, then people would have been upset.
00:18:08.580 That would have been unconstitutional. But because he gave control to many different Christian groups,
00:18:13.520 no one had a problem with it. There was no expectation that the government, because of
00:18:17.880 the First Amendment, could not promote Christianity. I mean, that idea would have been
00:18:23.300 absurd to the typical American. When it comes to the separation of church and state, the only thing
00:18:27.620 the First Amendment was meant to prohibit was the government was exactly what it says, which is the
00:18:32.820 government mandating that its citizens follow one particular faith. But as for promoting,
00:18:40.040 preaching, passing laws based on its teachings and precepts, there was no such prohibition.
00:18:46.760 And nobody ever thought there was any such prohibition until modern times.
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00:21:40.720 To the extent that anyone opposed Grant's peace policy,
00:21:43.680 it was coming from the corrupt senators who wanted to retain their control over these agencies.
00:21:48.080 It was also coming from people who wanted to eliminate the Indians entirely instead of negotiating with them and managing them.
00:21:54.060 But it was not a First Amendment issue.
00:21:56.840 Now, admittedly, it's true that thanks to unrestricted mass migration, we now have far fewer Christians in this country than ever before as a total, as a percentage of the population.
00:22:06.600 The overwhelming majority of people living in the United States are Christian, but the percentage has been declining. 0.96
00:22:11.900 That's accurate. 1.00
00:22:13.040 Major cities like New York and Los Angeles and Minneapolis are now unrecognizable as a result. 1.00
00:22:18.080 Since 9-11, Muslims in particular have conquered large portions of the United States. 0.80
00:22:22.640 But that doesn't mean that we are no longer a Christian nation.
00:22:28.280 That'd be like saying Iraq became a Christian nation after we invaded it.
00:22:32.940 The presence of hostile foreign hordes does not somehow negate this country's Christian heritage.
00:22:41.060 Christianity is embedded in our traditions and our laws and our constitution.
00:22:48.020 And for anyone who likes to say America is an idea, which it isn't, it's much more than
00:22:51.840 that, America is a nation.
00:22:53.900 But if you think America is an idea, well, guess what? 1.00
00:22:55.840 It's a Christian idea. 0.97
00:22:58.960 And all the ideas that lay at the foundation of our actual nation, which is a nation, not
00:23:04.020 just an idea, are Christian ideas.
00:23:06.400 There's even something called the Sundays Accepted Clause in the Constitution, which
00:23:10.420 states that the president has 10 days to veto a bill accepting Sundays because Sunday is
00:23:16.440 the Christian said. And these are things that you're never told in school, and therefore leftists
00:23:21.460 don't know any of this, or if they do know it, they deny it. Along those lines, here's how a guy
00:23:25.880 named Jacob, who apparently has a hockey podcast or something, responded to Rubio's video. He
00:23:32.760 specifically is referring to the idea that America was shaped by the Christian tradition.
00:23:37.960 And he writes, quote, no, the actual F it wasn't. Holy. In fact, the exact opposite is true. 0.80
00:23:46.100 It should be terrifying to everyone that a nation founded on religious freedom and the separation of church and state is touting this ideology.
00:23:54.580 Now, first of all, as we've discussed before, the term separation of church and state is nowhere in the Constitution.
00:23:59.640 It comes from an 1802 letter that Thomas Jefferson privately wrote to some Baptists in Connecticut.
00:24:05.520 He was trying to convey the idea that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, which is not remotely controversial.
00:24:12.440 He wasn't establishing any kind of, you know, bar on the government promoting religion.
00:24:18.780 And he was far more concerned about the government's toxic effect on religion than on religion's effect on the government.
00:24:26.060 So his point in many ways was the opposite of what, you know, midwits like Jacob here will say.
00:24:31.580 As much as I'm hesitant to bust out Google's Ngram viewer again, this is actually a useful tool.
00:24:36.700 They scan books and historical texts going back centuries, and they look for key terms and how they became popular or less popular with time.
00:24:46.100 And as you might remember from our Real History episode on the Indians, the Ngram viewer showed that the term Trail of Tears only became popular in the 1960s, long after the Trail of Tears supposedly occurred.
00:24:59.420 It was largely an invention of activists in the civil rights era who wanted to use the alleged plight of Indians to demand concessions from the Nixon administration.
00:25:07.540 So in the same vein, here is the Ngram viewers accounting of the use of the term separation of church and state over the years.
00:25:17.960 And as you can see, it was basically non-existent.
00:25:21.340 There's one little spike there in the 1830s, but basically non-existent until about the late 1950s and 1960s.
00:25:28.180 1960s. And now it's everywhere. People became convinced that separation of church and state
00:25:33.320 was a real idea that our founders came up with and based our system of government on, 0.93
00:25:39.380 largely because of a series of very dumb left-wing Supreme Court decisions.
00:25:44.800 But there was never any historical basis for believing this. It's yet another modern fiction 0.96
00:25:48.400 invented during the hysteria of the 1960s, back at a time when a lot of historical fictions were
00:25:54.680 being invented. Now, we'll read one more reaction to Rubio's video, just to illustrate how desperately
00:26:00.360 unhinged and wrong these people are. This one comes from a non-profit called the Freedom
00:26:04.380 from Religion Foundation. It says, quote, Christianity's global spread was marked by
00:26:11.060 colonialism, forced conversions, destruction of indigenous cultures, and religious persecution.
00:26:16.180 International Religious Freedom Day should celebrate the freedom to believe or not believe,
00:26:20.060 not the spread of Christianity. Now, putting aside the fact that the spread of pretty much 0.96
00:26:25.900 every major religion has been marked by colonialism and the destruction of cultures, 0.97
00:26:31.140 Islam in particular, that would be true of. And also putting aside the fact that Christians were 1.00
00:26:36.620 the first people to advocate for religious freedom in the West. Putting all that aside,
00:26:41.420 it's necessary to respond head on to this objection by affirming that colonialism and
00:26:46.740 the destruction of indigenous cultures was good, actually. And if you don't understand why, we have
00:26:52.520 several real history episodes that go into great detail on this topic. These so-called cultures
00:26:59.020 were barbaric. They were unsustainable. They were violent and savage. They led in every single case 0.97
00:27:05.620 to widespread death and horrors beyond human comprehension. To the extent that Christians 1.00
00:27:11.220 intervened forcefully to put an end to this misery, they created the conditions necessary 0.99
00:27:15.560 for civilization to flourish today. They created conditions that allow religious freedom
00:27:22.000 in the modern era. Without colonization, these primitive people would either be dead or they'd 0.99
00:27:28.960 still be ripping each other's hearts out to appease the sun god. As the saying goes, the Aztecs were 1.00
00:27:34.580 famously good at open heart surgery. They just couldn't figure out how to put the heart back in,
00:27:38.800 was the idea. And every single person who complains today about the Christian colonialists
00:27:44.220 is much, much happier and much freer and more comfortable than they would be had the Christian 0.97
00:27:50.760 colonialists never existed. That again is inarguable. Without Christianity and without 0.97
00:27:56.940 Christian colonialism and imperialism in particular, your life would be significantly worse 0.98
00:28:02.740 if you existed at all, which you probably wouldn't. And again, that's just a fact. 0.99
00:28:09.180 Really though, the idea of Religious Freedom Day is not the main issue here. This is a fake holiday
00:28:13.560 that was created by Clinton in 1998, so who really cares? The main issue is that more Americans need
00:28:19.960 to understand that we, in fact, are a Christian nation, and we should devote more government
00:28:25.360 resources towards spreading Christianity and benefiting Christians in particular.
00:28:30.680 We're allowed to do that. We have an upcoming Real History episode on colonization that goes
00:28:35.060 into great detail on this point, and one of the main sources we use is Samuel Huntington's book
00:28:40.820 called Who Are We? It's one of the strongest arguments you'll find in support of the idea
00:28:45.480 that America is a Christian nation. There's plenty of amazing details in there, which you don't often
00:28:51.720 hear in schools, which we'll cover in the documentary. One of his more interesting insights
00:28:55.380 is that the founders were interested in prohibiting state religions, not because they wanted to live
00:29:01.300 in a Reddit-style atheist dystopia, but because they wanted to create the conditions for religion
00:29:07.380 to grow, expand, and ultimately dominate American culture and political life. So this is from the
00:29:14.280 book, page 85 or so. And here's what it says, quote, a republic can only be supported by pure
00:29:22.220 religion or austere morals. John Adams said the Bible offers the only system that ever did or
00:29:27.880 ever will preserve a republic in the world. Our constitution was made only for a moral and
00:29:32.900 religious people. Washington agreed. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national 0.98
00:29:39.480 morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles. Fifty years after the Constitution
00:29:44.420 was adopted, Tocqueville reported that all Americans held religion to be indispensable
00:29:49.100 to the maintenance of Republican institutions. This opinion is not peculiar to a class of
00:29:54.220 citizens or to a party, but it belongs to the whole nation and to every rank of society.
00:29:58.940 The words separation of church and state do not appear in the Constitution, and as Sidney Mead pointed out, Madison spoke not of church and state, European concepts with little relevance to America, but of sex and civil authority, and the line, not the wall between them.
00:30:13.380 The prohibition of an established national religion and the gradual disestablishment of state religions promoted the growth of religion in society.
00:30:21.080 As the state's authority and religion faded, John Butler notes, denominational authority expanded,
00:30:26.000 leading to the single most important institutional development of post-revolutionary Christianity,
00:30:30.540 the shift of religious authority away from the state toward the voluntary institutional bodies.
00:30:35.600 Out of this shift came an extraordinary expansion of denominational institutions.
00:30:40.420 This is a thesis that's the exact opposite of what everyone is taught in school.
00:30:44.680 You know, you're told that the founders were skeptical of religious influence in government.
00:30:49.440 The truth is that they wanted more religious influence in every aspect of American society.
00:30:54.300 Now, Huntsman continues by pointing out that to European observers, America was unquestionably a religious state.
00:31:00.780 Far more so than any country on the planet.
00:31:04.960 Quote, at the end of the 18th century, religious establishments existed throughout European countries.
00:31:09.640 and in several American states.
00:31:11.780 State control of the church was a key element
00:31:13.760 of state power, and the established church in turn
00:31:17.020 provided legitimacy to the state.
00:31:19.060 The framers of the American Constitution
00:31:20.620 prohibited an established national church
00:31:22.920 in order to limit the power of government
00:31:24.960 and protect and strengthen religion.
00:31:26.860 In the absence of a state religion,
00:31:28.900 Americans were free to create whatever religious communities
00:31:31.400 and organizations they wished.
00:31:33.220 When substantial numbers of Catholic immigrants arrived,
00:31:35.500 it was eventually possible to accept Catholicism
00:31:37.740 one more denomination within the broad framework of Christianity. A portion of the population who
00:31:42.800 were religious adherents, that is, church members, increased fairly steadily throughout most of
00:31:47.340 European, or rather, American history. European observers repeatedly commented on the high levels
00:31:52.440 of religious commitment of Americans compared to that of their own people. Tocqueville said,
00:31:57.100 quote, on my arrival in the United States, the religious aspect of the country was the first
00:32:00.720 thing that struck my attention, and France, religion, and liberty opposed each other.
00:32:05.120 The Americans, in contrast, have succeeded, combining admirably the spirit of religion and the spirit of liberty.
00:32:11.320 Religion in America must be regarded as the first of their political institutions.
00:32:16.560 This is why at every opportunity, our government must not simply tolerate Christianity, but promote it.
00:32:21.520 It doesn't mean establishing a national church, which would be counterproductive, as the founders recognized,
00:32:26.120 but it does mean that we should identify new ways to enable Christianity to flourish.
00:32:31.380 And for starters, we should do exactly what the Trump administration is doing, which is to work to end the persecution of Christians, both in the U.S. and places like Africa.
00:32:39.360 And also to affirm, as Marco Rubio just did, that we are a Christian nation.
00:32:45.180 And always will be.
00:32:47.500 Contrast Huntington's thesis with this report from the left-wing outlet The Intercept, which was published just a few months ago.
00:32:53.520 The Intercept was panicking over Instagram posts on the State Department's official account.
00:32:58.140 And here's what they wrote.
00:32:59.640 The State Department has shifted its public image in favor of explicit Christian messaging
00:33:03.160 and iconography and away from secular and multicultural causes, an analysis by the
00:33:08.460 Intercept of the Department's Instagram post has found. Posts marking Passover, Good Friday,
00:33:12.240 and Easter in 2026 included explicitly religious messaging, including imagery of Christian crosses
00:33:17.640 and references to Christ's sacrifice and the resurrection. The Intercept's analysis,
00:33:21.400 which cataloged the Department's Instagram post from 2020 through early 2026,
00:33:25.100 found these posts show a clear change in messaging, not only from the Biden's years,
00:33:30.020 but also from President Donald Trump's first term.
00:33:33.760 So they're really proud of their deep dive investigative reporting here.
00:33:37.020 They relentlessly catalog Instagram posts on the State Department website.
00:33:41.620 And they found that to their shock and horror, the State Department is talking less about gay deviance and more about Christianity.
00:33:48.240 Cutting edge journalism, to say the least.
00:33:49.860 And the best part is that at the top of the page, they have a gigantic banner where they beg for donations.
00:33:53.960 So, you know, you can fund even more articles about the State Department's Instagram account.
00:33:59.460 But the point is, look at the contrast between the wailing of modern day leftists as compared to what the Europeans and Americans were saying about the U.S. in its earliest days, continuing through the 19th century.
00:34:10.060 They're talking about constitutional principles and history that they don't remotely understand.
00:34:15.240 And that's because their goal is always is to rewrite history.
00:34:17.860 They want to dismantle and undermine Christianity, not because they want a wall between church
00:34:23.120 and state, but because they want total control over it.
00:34:27.780 Now, as the election nears, we are reminded of the constant fight against communist ideas.
00:34:33.200 The Daily Wire likes to be at the forefront of that fight, which is why we have a new
00:34:37.160 movie coming out on November 11th about just that, and it's called Confession.
00:34:43.060 And here it is.
00:34:44.260 Here's the trailer.
00:34:47.860 Father, I used to feel Christ.
00:34:52.300 I cannot feel anything here.
00:35:05.140 They take me out of my bed,
00:35:07.280 and they brought me here, and they tell me nothing.
00:35:09.780 What have I done?
00:35:10.720 Article 58, counter-revolutionary activity.
00:35:14.360 That is all I know.
00:35:15.920 They have to deal with so many enemies of the state,
00:35:19.800 all of whom claim their innocence,
00:35:21.920 who protest, who cry.
00:35:30.740 There are no answers here,
00:35:34.480 other than the ones they put in your mouth.
00:35:36.360 You'll break.
00:35:39.280 Today is your opportunity
00:35:41.800 to demonstrate your loyalty to the people.
00:35:45.920 I'd like to know why I'm here.
00:35:48.100 Of course.
00:35:51.560 But you're already now, don't you?
00:35:53.600 You must believe in something greater than the party.
00:35:58.120 You will remember your duty.
00:35:59.660 I've told you I know nothing.
00:36:01.460 Lay ground like a feral animal. 1.00
00:36:05.160 You stink of failure. 1.00
00:36:07.020 You want me to lie. 1.00
00:36:08.300 Still a drunk. 1.00
00:36:09.400 Damn you! 1.00
00:36:12.140 They all break. 1.00
00:36:16.540 Baby.
00:36:30.520 So that comes out on November 11th.
00:36:31.880 You're not going to want to miss that.
00:36:32.840 That'll do it for the show today.
00:36:34.600 Next week, I'll be joining other hosts
00:36:37.040 from The Daily Wire for our election coverage
00:36:39.000 as the results in the all-important midterm elections
00:36:41.880 start coming in.
00:36:42.880 The Daily Wire has a new midterm hub
00:36:44.420 for polls, forecast predictions, and so on,
00:36:47.080 which you're going to want to check.
00:36:48.340 Our live election coverage starts next Tuesday
00:36:50.500 at 7 p.m. Central.
00:36:52.560 Hope to see you there.
00:36:53.980 Have a great weekend.
00:36:55.080 Godspeed.
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