The American Soul
The American Soul
The Bible Was Never Meant to Be Separated from American Public Life
What if everything you've been taught about America's founding was incomplete? What if our monuments, buildings, and founding documents contain evidence of a deeply Christian heritage that has been systematically erased from public education?
This episode takes listeners on a fascinating journey through America's architectural treasures – from the biblical inscriptions inside the Washington Monument to the Ten Commandments engraved above the Supreme Court chamber, from paintings of prayer and Bible reading in the Capitol Rotunda to the towering Forefathers Monument in Plymouth that few Americans even know exists.
The evidence is literally carved in stone: America was founded as a Christian nation. Fisher Ames, who worded the First Amendment's Establishment Clause, believed the Bible should be the primary textbook in schools. John Jay, our first Supreme Court Chief Justice, stated that Christians have both the privilege and duty to elect Christian leaders. These weren't religious extremists but the very architects of American liberty.
As we explore these forgotten monuments, we also examine how Bible illiteracy has allowed revisionist history to flourish. Without knowledge of Scripture, we miss countless biblical references in our founding documents, presidential addresses, and national symbols. This knowledge gap has enabled the false narrative of America as a secular nation from its inception.
The episode weaves together this historical exploration with timeless spiritual wisdom from the book of Philemon about free will, love, and our relationship with Christ. Jesse emphasizes that just as Paul wouldn't force Philemon to free his slave but appealed to his heart, God doesn't force our love either – He offers it freely, waiting for our response.
Whether you're a history enthusiast, a person of faith concerned about America's direction, or simply someone who wants to understand the complete story of our national heritage, this episode will challenge assumptions and inspire a deeper appreciation for the biblical principles woven throughout American history. Listen, learn, and consider how reconnecting with these roots might help secure liberty for future generations.
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Hey folks, this is Jesse Cope, back with another episode of the American Soul Podcast. Hope y'all are doing well, wherever y'all are, whatever part of the day you're in. I do appreciate y'all joining me, giving me a little bit of your time and effort, energy. I will try and use it wisely. Hopefully I will give us all some extra tools for our toolbox and hopefully draw us all a little bit closer to God and Jesus Christ and our nation a little bit closer to God and Jesus Christ. For those of y'all who continue to share the podcast with others and tell others about it, thank you so much. For those of y'all who continue to pray for me and for the podcast, thank you so much. Desperately, desperately, need those prayers and appreciate them. So thank you very much. And for those of y'all that are new to the podcast, I'm glad you're here. I hope you enjoy it. I hope you get something out of it. I hope you come back. Father, thank you for today. Thank you for you, father, and your Son, jesus Christ, and your Holy Spirit. Thank you for the hope that we have, through your Son, jesus Christ, of eternal life With you, father, in heaven, where there's no more tears, no more sorrow, no more sadness, no more pain, no more brokenness. Thank you for that hope to cling to. Thank you for the people that listen to the podcast, the time to record it. Please be with them and their families, father, mine as well. Guide us, give us wisdom and courage, a strong faith, surround us with your angels, protect us from evil of any kind, give us perseverance, help us to help those that have less than we do, father, help us to help the widow and the orphan, the poor and the needy with actions, to be doers of your word, not merely hearers. Be with those who protect us military, law enforcement, firefighters, ems. Protect them, keep them safe, bring them home safe to your family, to their families, father, to your family too. Be with those, in particular, who are a long way from home, who are overseas, in places that we don't even know, names that we can't pronounce, that we'll never know. Please bring them home safe. Watch over them. Be with their families while they're away. Be with their wives and their children. Watch over them. Be with their families while they're away. Be with their wives and their children, comfort them. Help us, father, to elect men who rule in fear of you, and for those men to appoint men who rule in fear of you and God. My words here. Father, please, in your son's name we pray Amen.
Speaker 1:Have you made time for God and Jesus Christ today? Have you made time to read his word? Right? Oh, I wish I had this. Where did it go? Maybe, if I'm really lucky, ah, washington Monument. We talked about this on the last podcast, right, two things Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he's old, he will not depart from it. That's Proverbs 22.6. And search the scriptures from John 5. 39, acts 17, 11, right, those are carved on tribute blocks inside the Washington Monument.
Speaker 1:Again, in many different times when I've had the privilege and the pleasure of working with younger people, one of the things that I would tell them that was always kind of a shock is somebody's always watching. I think it kind of made them a little nervous. In fact, I had more than one on different occasions tell me that that was kind of freaky, mr Cope. Somebody's always watching, and I don't know I don't just mean God, obviously God's always watching. But somebody's always watching when we're picking our nose and we think nobody's looking. Somebody's looking when we're out in town and we throw a piece of trash on the ground, somebody's watching. When we're out in town and we pick somebody else's trash up that we didn't drop, somebody's watching and your kids, your spouse, your friends, your family, they're watching. Spouse, your friends, your family, they're watching.
Speaker 1:If you want others to read the Bible each day, are you reading the Bible each day? If you want others to pray, right, maybe, to pray for you. Maybe it's totally self-centered, which still, if you want others to pray, are you praying? You know God tells us to go in a closet and shut the door and pray, and God who sees in secret will reward in public, paraphrasing there. But there's still the example to be set. Jesus Christ prayed. He left that example for us. There's a part to play in praying so that others see that we're a praying person. Do you read the Bible each day? Do you pray? If somebody accused you of being a Christian, would there be enough to convict you? Do your kids see you do that? Does your spouse see you do that? Does your spouse see you do that? Are you truly searching scriptures, folks?
Speaker 1:One of the biggest problems that we have today, one of the reasons that we have allowed ourselves to buy into this lie of separation of God and state is because we have become a Bible illiterate society. We don't even know all the references to the Bible that are in our monuments and founding documents and texts and speeches and addresses given by our leaders. Because we don't know the Bible anymore, because we've allowed it to be taken away from the education of our children. Folks, if somebody let me just I used to say this more often on the podcast In a Christian nation, there's not only nothing wrong with it, there's a responsibility to educate children in the Bible, ability to educate children in the Bible.
Speaker 1:There's not only nothing wrong with it. In a Christian nation, which we were founded as we talk about that constantly, there's so many different references to that Justice Josiah Brewer pops into mind right now. He wrote a Supreme Court opinion back in the late 1800s and just went through bullet by bullet for quite a while about the evidences of the fact that we were a Christian nation there's nothing wrong and there's a responsibility to raise children in publicly funded schools with an in-depth knowledge of the Bible. History, not revisionist history, real history, history of our founding that ought to be taught every single year. That ought to be required from kindergarten all the way up to 12th grade, the relationship between God and Jesus, the stuff we talk on the podcast, the information that's in America's God and Country Encyclopedia of Quotations, the American Patriots Bible, the Founders Bible. That ought to be taught every single year from kindergarten all the way up through 12th grade. The Bible ought to be taught in depth every single year, kindergarten all the way up through 12th grade.
Speaker 1:And no, we don't also need the Koran and the text from Buddha and Hindu. No, no, because we're not a Muslim nation, we are not a secular, deist nation. We are not an atheist nation. We're not a socialist communist nation. We're not a Hindu nation or a Buddhist nation. We're not a Jewish nation. We're definitely not a Satanist nation. We are a Christian nation. No other book would get that kind of relevance in our public schools.
Speaker 1:Fisher Ames, the guy that literally worded the Establishment Clause Freedom of Religion said that the Bible should be the primary text in our schools. Right, so just forget what the talking heads are saying today and realize how far off track we've gone and start to talk about it with other people. The Bible should be the primary text, but are we reading it as individuals Each day? Are we reading it as individuals Each day. Are we studying it? And then, if you're married I go back to this quote from Reagan so often the family is the cornerstone of the nation. Well, if that's true which it is the marriage is the cornerstone of the family.
Speaker 1:Do you act like it? Do you treat your spouse as a treasure in one in seven billion? Are they getting everything you got every day before anybody else even gets a whiff? Are you thinking about them constantly throughout the day? And how do you do that? How do you practically? How do you do that right? The Bible tells us to pray constantly. If you're praying constantly, it makes it a lot easier to act the way God wants you to act, because you're thinking about it all the time. If you're never thinking about it, it's easy to act. However you want to act Right. Well, if part of those prayers each day involve your spouse, it makes it a lot easier to think about what you need to be doing for your spouse each day.
Speaker 1:Come on, folks, when you get to the end of your life, you're not going to meet people that say man, I really wish I had worked a little more overtime. I really wish that I'd focused on my job more. You're not even going to find very many people that are going to say I wish I would have focused on me more. You're going to find a multitude of people that say I wish I would have focused on my spouse more. I wish I would have loved them better, right, yeah, and the kids too, but the kids are second and it's a distant second. They're really like third right it's. And the kids too, but the kids are second and it's a distant second. They're really like third right it's God, and then your spouse, and then quite a bit of distance, and then kids and then everything else after that.
Speaker 1:That spouse relationship is supposed to illustrate the relationship between Christ and the church. There is no other relationship like that. There will never be another relationship like that. Even if you lose your spouse, if you're widowed and you get remarried, that relationship still is unique between you and your spouse. Whether it's your first or your second, it's wholly unique. There is no other like it. Do you act like that day in and day out? So yeah, I don't think we're there yet. We're going to. So we finished up Titus.
Speaker 1:I think we're going to read a little bit more in the New Testament toward the end, but at some point this year we're going to go back and start to read through the Gospels. I heard this recently, maybe past year, past few months maybe, and it was just a guy's opinion, but I buy into it, so I'm going to enact it here on the podcast the Gospels. We need to be really familiar with them overly familiar with the Gospels and so at some point this year we're going to go back into them, kind of like we do Proverbs every once in a while. But we'll go to Philemon, right, philemon only has one chapter and we'll read through it.
Speaker 1:Salutation Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy, our brother, to Philemon, our beloved brother and fellow worker, and to Apphia, our sister, and to Archippus, our fellow soldier, and to the church in your house. Grace to you and peace from God, our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Philemon's Love and Faith. I thank my God always making mention of you in my prayers, because I hear of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and toward all the saints, and I pray that the fellowship of your faith may become effective through the knowledge of every good thing which is in you. For Christ's sake, for I have come to have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother. Therefore, though, I have enough confidence in Christ to order you to do what is proper. Yet, for love's sake, I rather appeal to you, since I am such a person as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus.
Speaker 1:Plea for Onesimus, a free man. I appeal to you for my child, onesimus, whom I have begotten in my imprisonment, who formerly was useless to you but now is useful both to you and to me. I have sent him back to you in person, that is, sending my very heart, whom I wish to keep with me so that, on your behalf, he might minister to me in my imprisonment for the gospel, but without your consent. I did not want to do anything so that your goodness would not be in effect by compulsion, but of your own free will, for perhaps he was for this reason separated from you for a little while, for a while that you would have him back forever, no longer a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord. If, then, you regard me as a partner. Accept him, as you would me, but if he has wronged you in any way or owes you anything, charge that to my account.
Speaker 1:I, paul, am writing this with my own hand. I will repay it, not to mention to you that you owe to me even your own self as well. Yes, brother, let me benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ, having confidence in your obedience. I write to you since I know that you will do even more than what I say. At the same time, also prepare me a lodging, for I hope that through your prayers I will be given to you.
Speaker 1:Epaphras, my fellow prisoner, in Christ Jesus, greet you, as do Mark, aristarchus, nemus, luke, my fellow workers. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you. I joke, I laugh often, but that's why that's one of the reasons I don't read that much from the Old Testament is because I'm all over the name, so much so I apologize. I appreciate the grace.
Speaker 1:A couple of things here. Verse three grace to you and peace from God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. How many when we pray for others, how many of us speak peace for them? And there's nothing wrong folks Like if you've got, especially if you've got a specific prayer request from somebody, there's nothing wrong at all with praying for that. You know, healing for somebody that's sick, job success for somebody that's looking for a job, marriage success for somebody that's looking for a spouse or somebody that's in a marriage that's struggling Not at all saying any of that stuff is wrong to pray for, but how many of us pray for peace when we pray for friends or family or acquaintances or even enemies? Peace from God.
Speaker 1:I was talking to my father recently. They had a Bible study they were doing for Lent and the topic got to be the difference between happiness and joy. And I'm sure a lot of y'all are familiar with that conversation. I hope so anyway. Joy, and I'm sure a lot of y'all are familiar with that conversation. I hope so anyway.
Speaker 1:But there's happiness right in this life because we get something we want or something worked out well, and it involves almost universally a positive, a net positive, almost universally a positive, a net positive. But then there's joy in God and Jesus Christ which, even when something negative happens, there's still that joy of knowing that you belong to God, that your name is written in the book of life because of Jesus Christ and because of him alone, not because of anything you've done, and that you're going to get to go to heaven for eternity, which is just mind-boggling, right. No more tears, no more sadness, no more sorrow. There's joy that comes with that, even in the face of trials and peace. And some of y'all know what I'm talking about. Some of y'all have gone through those trials and you've gotten to the point where that, that hope, is the only thing you had to cling to. And all of a sudden you looked up and you said man, you know what? That's a good deal. Even though this really is not fun, even though this, as some of our younger generation says even though this sucks, so to speak, I still have that joy, and that joy brings peace.
Speaker 1:Right, how many of us pray for peace when we pray for others? Verse 13 and 14, whom I wish to keep with me so that, on your behalf, he might minister to me in my imprisonment for the gospel. There's a gentleman that I follow online that goes into prisons I've talked about him before, I think briefly Goes in and prays with prisoners, and this is at least some of the prisons he goes to. They're nasty places, folks. They are the deprived of the deprived or depraved of the depraved, maybe both. And he goes to visit these men in prison. Dark, dark places, solitary confinement, really nasty stuff. Maybe that's not something you have the ability or the confidence to do right now. Fine, even on a lesser scale, you know, like a county jail or something where the crimes are not so violent. But you can pray for those that do Right. You read this again.
Speaker 1:This slave was ministering. He says Paul right says I wish to keep him with me so that, on your behalf, he might minister to me in my imprisonment for the gospel. We can pray for those who go in folks. For those who go in folks, verse 14, but without your consent, I didn't want to do anything so that your goodness would not be in effect by compulsion but of your own free will. I don't think we make enough of this free will in a lot of circles inside the church, and at least for me, I think it's good for me to think about when I'm not down in the trenches, so that when I am down in the trenches I've already thought about it.
Speaker 1:It's hard to explain a lot of the things that happen in this world sometimes and we, I think one of the things often that we fall into is well, why doesn't God just make me love him? Why doesn't he just make me so that I automatically follow his commands? If he's the God of the universe and he can do whatever he wants, why doesn't he just make me that way? Well, that's not love folks. Well, that's not love folks.
Speaker 1:Most of y'all know that either by being a child to a parent or a husband and wife, you can't force somebody to love you. It's not love. You have to give them the choice of whether they're going to or not and the pain when they choose not to right. Let me see if I can quickly find this quote from my pastor. This is by a man named Barclay. Nothing hurts so much as to go to someone and offer love and have that offer spurned. It is life's bitterest tragedy to give one's heart to someone only to have it broken. That is what happened to Jesus in Jerusalem. And still he comes to men and still men reject him. But the fact remains that to reject God's love is, in the end end to be in peril of his wrath. Free will you have to have, like Paul's talking about here in Philemon in verse 14, you have to have this free will. He didn't want to force this man to give his slave freedom. He wanted him to do it of his own free will. You can't force somebody to give you love. You look at that quote by Barclay folks, and some of y'all know it.
Speaker 1:Some of y'all are in a marriage where you have given everything you know to give to your spouse and they've spurned you. They've treated you with contempt, indifferently, with a lukewarm attitude. They treat you like an appendage or an accessory, not like something they really truly desperately need. We've all done that to Jesus Christ to one extent or another. Right, some of you as kids, you know that feeling. You're just desperate for your parents' love, done everything you know to do as a kid to earn that love. And they don't care. They show no, no remorse about it. Right, they show no indication of caring.
Speaker 1:And man that's Barclay says that is absolutely the bitterest tragedy. Nothing hurts that bad as to give your heart. There's no physical pain that compares to giving your heart to someone and having them reject you, just like so many of us have done so often to Jesus Christ. You've got to have free will. We have to choose to turn to God and Jesus Christ. You got to have free will. We have to choose to turn to God and Jesus Christ. And the encouraging thing, the great thing there is is, regardless of your human relationships here on earth, right, regardless of that heartache, you can be guaranteed 100% that when you give your heart to Jesus Christ, when you turn to him, when you choose to have faith in him as the Son of God, you will be received. There is no rejection there. When you choose to turn to Jesus Christ, none, and that lasts for eternity. That's pretty encouraging, right? All right. So we're going to go back to these monuments briefly. We've got two more to talk about and then we'll see where we go from there.
Speaker 1:United States Supreme Court 1789, was ordained and established by the Judiciary Act of Congress. The building in Washington DC was designed by Cass Gilbert. Engraved in stone above the head of the Chief Justice are the Ten Commandments with the Great American Eagle protecting them. Moses also is included among the great lawgivers, and Herman A McNeil's marble sculpture group on the East Front. At the beginning of each session of the court, as the justices stand before their desks, the crier opens with the invocation God, save the United States in this honorable court.
Speaker 1:Why in the world would a deist secular nation care about whether God was interested in their court or not? It just especially the highest court in the land. Folks, it's along the same lines as each president taking the oath of office with their hand on the Bible. It just makes no sense logically for a nation that supposedly prides itself and supposedly has since the Constitution. Right? That's what the 47 decision basically said. Is that all the way back to the very beginning of our nation, the original intent of our founders was to separate God from the state. Unbelievable. Engraved on oak doors at the entrance of the court chamber are the Roman numerals 1 through 10. Above the heads of the justices that are for marble relief, a large stone tablet containing one through ten is between two figures that represent the power of government and the majesty of law. And that represent the power of government and the majesty of law. You know we go back so often to John Jay, who told us that as Christians we not only had the privilege but the duty to elect Christians as our leaders in this Christian nation. That sounds like a really odd thing to say for the very first Supreme Court, chief Justice of the land. To say if our founders wanted to separate God away from the state Capital building is interesting. There's a little section in God we Trust by Stephen McDowell in the founders Bible. That's where I'm pulling this particular bit, although you can find some of this stuff, as I said, in the Patriots Bible and the America's God and country encyclopedia of quotations. You can find it all over the place online. These resources I just always recommend Because they kind of put it all in one place.
Speaker 1:Eight large paintings in the Rotunda, the landing of Columbus. We do a section on Columbus on the podcast each year. Because the left has done such a good job of revising history, you need to, you've got to try and recover it from them, them, and you see that one of the main driving factors, not only for Columbus personally, but when you look at the commands he was given from the king and queen, you look at those early charters after Columbus, was to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ. Another of those paintings the Baptism of Pocahontas, one of the first converts in the Virginia colony. Another is the departure of the pilgrims from Holland.
Speaker 1:That particular painting shows the pilgrims observing a day of prayer and fasting. How many of us do that as Christians? How many of us pray continuously? How many of us fast on occasion, turn to God, seek his guidance. We have examples of it throughout the Bible. As our pastor says God seek his guidance. We have examples of it throughout the Bible. As our pastor says, it's not a matter. God doesn't say if you fast. He says when you fast. That one always kind of hurts a little bit when he says that one on Sunday in church.
Speaker 1:In that painting of the departure of the pilgrims from Holland, william Brewster is seen holding a Bible, the Bible. On it is written the New Testament of our Lord and Savior, jesus Christ, and on the cell is written God with us. Each of these little things, folks, is just one more brick in the wall, one more piece of a mountain, mountains of evidence that our nation was born a Christian republic from the very beginning, from before we were a nation. Do we teach this? Do you suppose how many of our graduating high school seniors across the country have been taught about the paintings and the rotunda on the Capitol building? You know you talk about Fisher Ames, right?
Speaker 1:The guy that worded the Establishment Clause and he said the Bible ought to be the primary textbook and I think there's a large number of people out there that would honestly, probably out of ignorance, pretty much universally. But they would say well, how can you use the Bible as a primary textbook across the board in all the different subjects? Right, history in English is pretty easy. The Bible has a ton of history in it and it's involved in so much, both world and US, particularly US which we ought to be teaching every year from kindergarten all the way up. English, right, that's one of the quotes, I think also by Fisher Ame, english, right, that's one of the quotes I think also by Fisher Ame, maybe Talking about the fact that if we taught all of our children from the Bible, there's no place where they have such good English, such prose, etc. I need to go find that quote again. I can't remember who that's by. Don't hold me to that. With Fisher-Hipes Foreign language, that would be pretty easy. You could teach the Bible in a different language. Be a great learning tool, actually.
Speaker 1:But even in art, right, music you look at these paintings, for example. You could spend a long time learning about the paintings throughout history in general, throughout the United States in particular, that represent that relationship that our country has had with God. In the rotunda there's a relief, a carved relief, one in particular William Penn Landing of the Pilgrims. Pretty good little section. If you have the Bible, this particular Bible, founder's Bible, highly recommend it. In God we Trust by Stephen McDowell.
Speaker 1:There's some more commentary here on the Library of Congress National Archives. It also covers the Washington Monument, which we've talked about before. Lincoln Memorial, jefferson Memorial, white House. You didn't know there's an inscription cut into the marble facing of the state dining room fireplace by John Adams I pray heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and on all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof. So much, folks.
Speaker 1:You go back to that quote by the US House of Representatives in 1854 the great, vital element in our system is the belief of our people in pure doctrines and divine truths, the gospel of Jesus Christ. You combine that with Calvin Coolidge's quote. Right, you go back. I don't have it in front of me, the exact quote. But basically, if we don't as a people, pretty much universally, adhere to those principles of God and Jesus Christ, we won't maintain our republic. Of God and Jesus Christ, we won't maintain our republic, all of these things that you see in the news, and this has been true since the creation of our country. It's been true for decades. This doesn't just have to elect Trump or Biden or anybody else. It doesn't matter if there's a Department of Government Efficiency and we actually pay attention to what each of those government offices actually does or not with our money. At the end of the day, if we as a people don't turn back our belief in those pure doctrines and divine truths of the gospel of Jesus Christ, every gain that we make is temporary, because the next one can just come along and erase all the good that's been done. If you don't have that abiding faith, generation after generation right, reagan, I think, one of the ones at least that said that freedom's always. It's never more than one generation away from us losing our freedom, our liberty. How do you maintain that liberty? You maintain a people who have faith in Jesus Christ. How do you maintain that? Well, in yourself, obviously, but as parents teaching your children, demanding that those standards are upheld publicly across the country.
Speaker 1:There's one more I wanted to cover, and we're not going to talk about it for a super long time. It's called the Forefathers Monument. How many of y'all have heard of the Forefathers Monument? It's a 81 foot tall granite structure and it's located in Plymouth, massachusetts. That it's the largest granite structure in the nation. But again, I didn't. I wasn't really looking for that, I just kind of stumbled across it. So the original idea was from early 1800s, I think 1820. Cornerstone was laid in 1859 and the dedication was in 1889.
Speaker 1:The statue of faith is standing on top, pointing toward heaven and holding a Bible Underneath faith. Four seated statues morality, law, education and liberty. And then there's smaller engravings next to each seated statue. One of the engravings is a quote by governor william bradford. Thus, out of small beginnings, greater things have been produced. By his hand, god that made all things of nothing and gives being to all things that are. And as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone into many Yea in some sort to our whole nation. Let the glorious name of Jehovah have all praise.
Speaker 1:How many of us know about this? I didn't. Maybe some of y'all do. I hope you do. I don't think.
Speaker 1:Until I started doing this podcast I was aware of this forefather's monument right, and it was in the process of being built for most of the 1800s, from concept all the way to dedication. You go through and you look at these different statues. I think there's a great section here in this Founder's Bible on this forefather's monument. There's two quotes I wanted to share with you before we wrap up for today. One is just a comment about the authors, the editors that actually put this section in and it said the four seated statues below faith represent morality, law, education and liberty. But more specifically, they represent biblical morality, biblical law, biblical education and biblical liberty.
Speaker 1:Our founders I've said this on the podcast a number of times they understood that you couldn't force anyone to faith or away from faith. But they also understood that without those principles of Christ in our people, both in their private lives and in a nation, as part of our public life, that we wouldn't survive. And you have to have that biblical morality because if you don't, then you just have changing political whims of men right, and that's what makes really Christless conservatives so dangerous. Conservatism so dangerous is that if you want to pretend that you're conservative, that you have these virtues and morals, what are they based on? That you have these virtues and morals, what are they based on? If you say that they're based on the original foundation of the country, then you have to say they're based on the Bible, because that's where the foundation of our republic is, on God's word, on the principles of Jesus Christ. But if you say, well, they're just based on my morality, well, where did it come from? What's it based on? Did you write it down? Is there a list of your morality that you're going to keep the same Monday through Friday, january through December? Or if I ask you, on a Tuesday in January, is it going to be different than on a Friday in September, different than on a Friday in September? That's why it's not just a matter of morality, law, education and liberty, but biblical morality, law, education and liberty.
Speaker 1:And then the other quote is one that they put in here by Benjamin Rush Christianity is the only true and perfect religion and that, in proportion, as mankind adopt its principles and obey its precepts, they will be wise and happy. And that is familiar with a Patrick Henry quote that we have used often on the podcast, which is referencing a Bible verse. Right, talking about whether this will prove a blessing or a curse. Will depend upon the use our people make of the blessings which a gracious God hath bestowed on us. If they are wise, they will be great and happy. If they are of a contrary character, they will be miserable. Righteousness alone can exalt them as a nation. Reader, whoever thou art, remember this and in thy sphere, practice virtue thyself and encourage it in others. God bless y'all folks. God bless your marriages If you're married. God bless y'all folks. God bless your marriages if you're married. God bless your family. God bless America. God bless your nation. Wherever you are around the world. Listen, we'll talk to y'all again real soon, looking forward to it.