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

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

Tammy saves money and time by shopping at BJ's Wholesale Club, highlighting its value for families, especially those with college students. This commercial segment is interwoven with a broader argument about American identity rooted in Christianity. The speaker asserts that America was shaped by Christian principles, pointing to historical evidence such as early government support for missionary work, religious education, and the promotion of Christianity by founders like Jefferson and Grant. The term “separation of church and state” is dismissed as a 20th-century invention, with no constitutional basis, and instead, the narrative emphasizes that religious freedom and civic life were historically intertwined. A key point is the criticism of left-wing figures like Scott Weiner, who react with hostility to the State Department’s promotion of Christianity, despite historical reality. The video by Marco Rubio, released on International Religious Freedom Day, is defended as a sincere affirmation of America’s Christian heritage, contrasting sharply with the left’s claims of secularism. Historical references—including Tertullian, Jefferson, and Grant—show that religious belief deeply influenced the nation’s founding and development. The argument concludes that the U.S. is a Christian nation, and promoting that identity is not only permissible but historically grounded and morally sound. The piece also critiques modern left-wing attempts to rewrite history, calling their denial of Christian influence both ignorant and ideologically driven.

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Tammy regularly hauls stuff to her kids at college. That's why she shops at BJ's Wholesale Club, saving up to 25% off grocery store prices. Beef jerky, microwave meals, laundry pods, even they can't screw up. Have you met my kids? And with BJ's gas, she gets there for less. They call me the road warrior. This is your home, road warrior mom. Home of the Save. Join for just $20 at bjs.com slash mesquite and save 10 cents per gallon for six months. Open soon. Limited time offer, new members only. BJ's. Home of the Save. After four years of overt persecution by the Biden administration, where elderly pro-lifers were rounded up and thrown in prison for nonviolent protests outside abortion clinics, where the FBI explicitly wrote about a crackdown on radical Catholic violent extremists, and where peaceful demonstrators were hunted down by SWAT teams at their homes at gunpoint in front of their children, it's hard to overstate how much has changed for Christians in this country. The federal government no longer uses the force of law to compel Christians. Especially Christian schools to violate central tenets of their faith, for example, by facilitating abortion or transgender insanity. People have more options to send their children to Christian schools. Instead of importing millions of Muslims from failed states like Somalia, who spend every waking moment finding new ways to defraud us, we're taking in Christian refugees from places like South Africa, where they've been persecuted because of their faith and their skin color. All this is happening because for the first time in memory, the federal government has not been able to find a way to defraud us. The federal government is willing to affirm in explicit and unambiguous terms that America is a Christian nation with an obligation to spread the faith and advance the interests of Christians. So this is a post featuring Marco Rubio that went up on the State Department's official social media accounts this week. It's a video that has led to predictable meltdowns from every depraved, demonic corner of the left. And for that reason, naturally, we're going to play it in full. It's a great video. Watch. Our faith calls us outwards into the limitless darkness of the unknown. It tells us to go forth and preach the gospel to the world as a witness unto all nations, unto the ends of the earth. From that command came America. Our nation, more than any other in history, was shaped by this Christian idea. This is who we are. And from the beginning, we have carried the belief that our country represents something new in the world. But the soul of our nation has always been rooted in an ancient faith. So all the Pride Month depravity, which the previous State Department tried to export to every corner of the earth, was really, of course, a direct assault on the Christian history and lineage of this country that Marco Rubio, Rubio just outlined. As we know, the goal of leftist ideology is not to create anything coherent or functional. They don't want so much to produce a new set of rules for governing an orderly society or ensuring human flourishing, but rather to destroy the rules and sources of human flourishing already established. Their followers, in addition to being profane and nihilistic, are obsessed with grievance and weakness and narcissism and shame. They complain endlessly. They melt down at even the slightest criticism. They try to, to ruin people's lives when they step out of line. They give themselves the powers of gods, but at some level, they understand it's all fraudulent. It's an act and not a very convincing one. And that's why for all their talk about pride, they're, as we know, clearly miserable people. Now, on the other hand, the message of Christianity is very different. It's the diametric opposite. In fact, it's a religion that teaches, you know, not only about mercy, but justice and virtue and preaches the, the promise of salvation at its core. This is obviously inherently a hopeful message. Any sinner can be saved. And every great man of American history, without exception, understood this. Our government leaders should not be shy about saying it either. And historically, they haven't been. Now, the occasion for this video from the State Department is something called International Religious Freedom Day, which was created in 1998 through a law that was passed during the Clinton administration. And although it, you know, progressed through Congress because of Christian persecution all over the world, Clinton himself, of course, insisted that the law had nothing to do with Christianity in particular. He stated the goal was, quote, "to promote the religious freedom of people of all backgrounds, whether Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, Taoist, or any other faith." So this is the kind of leadership we've been used to for some time. Our politicians balk at the idea of promoting Christianity in any way. So it's just another faith along with all the others, they say. You know, sending the message, of course, that Christianity has no particular relevance to America. We're supposed to take seriously the idea, the fantasy, that Taoism and, like, Sikhism are somehow just as crucial to the American identity as the religion, Christianity, that quite literally built the country. And so it's just totally false, as we'll discuss in a moment. 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. 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. This is circa 197 AD. This is from the Russell Kirk Center in Michigan, quote, "Tertullian, the second century North African convert, is most famous today for his observation about the blood of the martyrs being the seed of the church. 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. "It is only just and a privilege inherent in human nature," he wrote in his apology, "that every person should be able to worship according to his own convictions. For one person's religion neither harms nor hurts another." Sixteen centuries later, Jefferson would write something remarkably similar in notes on the state of Virginia. "It does me no injury for my neighbor to say that there are 20 gods or no god." Historian Robert Lewis Wilkin notes that Jefferson had a copy of the Apology in his personal library and marked the passage about religious freedom. So for many reasons, it was appropriate for Rubio State Department to release this video for International Religious Freedom Day. Even if you're a godless communist, you should be able to admit that Christians deserve credit as pioneers in the field of religious freedom and every other kind of freedom. By the way, our entire conception of human rights, as we understand it today, is inexorably tied to Christian teaching. Human rights are certainly, without question, a religious doctrine. The idea of inalienable rights somehow spiritually endowed in us from the moment of our creation cannot even be understood or made sense of at all, except through a religious framework. The idea of human rights are essentially incoherent without the religious framework. And the religious framework that makes the most sense of them and that formed human rights as we know them today as a doctrine is Christianity. And that's just a truth of history. There's no way around it. And yet one after another, all of the most perverse and unhinged leftists in the country came out to condemn this video right on cue. And leading the charge was Scott Weiner, who's about to take Nancy Pelosi's seat in Congress. And apologies to anyone watching the video podcast. But it looks like we just put a picture up on the screen of this guy. This is the model of the Democrat Party. This is the model. This is the model Democrat Party politician at the moment. It's everything they stand for. I guess Hakeem Jeffries might be in contention, too, as he's the illiterate black Obama impersonator who's been promoted far beyond his level of competence. But I don't know, Scott Weiner is up there. If these people had been in power when Mount Rushmore was was built, it would have looked like this. It would look like that SNL Chippendale sketch, the one with Chris Farley is basically what the. And there it is right there. We need to show you that, too. So just picture their faces on mountains in South Dakota and you get the idea. This is what tourists would be subjected to if the demented gay perverts had been running things back in the early 20th century, or at least if they had been out of the closet. But in any event. Weiner is perhaps most famous for leading the campaign to decriminalize the intentional spreading of HIV. Which is the thing that he did. He's also known for making it more difficult for prosecutors to incarcerate gay men who prey on children, you know, quite a resume. And as you'd expect, given that he's a genuinely repulsive individual who shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a school zone, much less should he be allowed to hold public office. Weiner was shocked, appalled by Rubio's video, positively aghast by the whole thing. So he wrote he wrote this with with maximum indignation. He wrote simply, quote, "This is an official United States government account promoting the Christian gospel." Now, when I saw this, I hadn't actually seen Rubio's video yet. So I was genuinely thankful that Weiner pointed it out. He performed an actual public service for once in his life by helping to spread this fantastic video around the Internet. And, you know, if I didn't know any better based on the caption, if I didn't know who this guy was, I would think that he was celebrating the video. Indeed, the U.S. government account is promoting the Christian gospel, and that's a wonderful thing. It's impossible for the promotion of the Christian gospel to be anything but a wonderful thing. Promoting a false gospel is bad, but if you are promoting the actual Christian gospel, then it's a good thing, always and everywhere. And this goes to show how the two sides of the ideological divide live, not just in different countries, but different universes, 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. It's not something that automatically is good to them. They see it as inherently bad in all contexts, and so much so that he doesn't even need to explain why it's bad or include any other commentary about it. He could just say, they're promoting the Christian gospel. And to his followers, they immediately see that as obviously bad. To him, you know, saying they're promoting the Christian gospel is akin to saying they're drowning puppies in the river. Like, you don't feel the need to explain why you oppose it. It's just obviously terrible. That's how they see it. Christianity to Scott Wiener is like garlic to a vampire. But you have to wonder if this guy knows anything about American history. Which he doesn't. Or if he cares, which he also doesn't. Because he seems shocked by the idea that the government would ever promote Christianity in any way. Meanwhile, for most of American history, especially at the founding, and for a long time thereafter, the government was expressly in the business of promoting, defending, and promulgating Christianity. That's not up for debate. Again, it's an historical fact. No matter how you feel about it, that's what happened. For example, in April 1776, just a few months before the Declaration of Independence was signed, the Continental Congress hired a Christian missionary for the express purpose of converting the Indians. Quote, resolved that the commissioners for Indian affairs in the middle department employ a minister of the gospel to reside among the Delaware Indians and instruct them in the Christian religion, a schoolmaster to teach their youth reading, writing, and arithmetic, and also a blacksmith to do the work of the Indians in the middle department. So, that's an interesting little detail. And then just a few years later, as the war for independence raged on, Congress went out of its way to explicitly endorse the Bible. This is from the Daily Signal. Quote, on September 12th, 1782, Congress, under the Articles of Confederation, officially endorsed the Aitken Bible, or the Bible of the Revolution, as the first complete English-language Bible in America. The Bible was named after its printer, Robert Aitken. The endorsement was supported by the chaplains of Congress at the time. Shockingly enough, at the time, you know, there were no gay shirtless men wearing leather pants and black ties for some reason who objected to this resolution. It's almost as if, like, the scrawny gay HIV fanatic is not, in fact, representative of America or its traditions or its history. He likes to pretend that Rubio's State Department just violated some kind of ancient norm, but in reality, it is Scott Weiner who has made a career of mocking this country and its Christian traditions and its norms. And if you're ignorant of our history, then you might be inclined to believe what he's saying. You might buy into the idea that, you know, this country's government somehow never endorsed Christianity. You might buy into the lie about the separation of church and state, which is a mostly fabricated concept that only became fashionable in the 1960s. Never mind the fact that in the early 19th century, the federal government, financed a Catholic church under Jefferson's administration, no less, even though Jefferson is closely associated with the idea of separating church and state. Also forget about how in 1819, Congress, through the Civilization Fund Act, provided a significant amount of money for schools that converted Indians to Christianity. Pay no attention to the fact that in 1869, the president, Ulysses S. Grant, spent a paragraph of his inaugural address promoting the idea that the so-called Native Americans should be Christian. Now, if you pull up some of the transcripts of Grant's speech, you'll find that many of them actually omit this line or edit it out, believe it or not. But here's what he said in full. Quote, Now, notice how for Grant, a necessary precursor of citizenship was Christianization. And basically, every prominent leader of this country for its first century and beyond felt exactly the same way. But what's remarkable is that if you look up this speech on most websites, including Yale University's, the quote will say this. The proper treatment of the original occupants of this land, the Indians, is one deserving of careful study. I will favor any course toward them which tends to their civilization and ultimate citizenship. So they just, they took out the middle part there about Christianism. They just flat out censor it. They're relying on a compilation of Grant's speeches that was created decades later, which itself omits the word Christianization. Meanwhile, the contemporary versions of the speech, the ones where stenographers wrote down what Grant was saying while he was saying it, include the word Christianization. So there's no reasonable question about what Grant said. But various historians would like to pretend he didn't say that, even though in his State of the Union address one year later, he said, he doubled down on exactly this sentiment. Specifically, Grant said, quote, So basically, Grant gave control of around 70 federal Indian agencies, agencies headquartered on Native American reservations, over to Christian missionaries and church leaders. This was his so-called peace policy. And amazingly enough, there was no outrage whatsoever that Grant was violating the separation of church and state. No one claimed that Grant had violated the First Amendment or done something shockingly unconstitutional. The thought never crossed anyone's mind, actually. That's because at the time, and for most of this country's history, right up until the Civil Rights era, no one thought that the church should be separate from the state. Instead, we understood the First Amendment prohibited the government from establishing a national religion or barring the practice of other religions. That's it. So if Grant had given control over these agencies, to one particular Protestant denomination as part of a plan to make that one denomination into a national religion, then people would have been upset. That would have been unconstitutional. But because he gave control to many different Christian groups, no one had a problem with it. There was no expectation that the government, because of the First Amendment, could not promote Christianity. I mean, that idea would have been absurd to the typical American. When it comes to the separation of church and state, the only thing the First Amendment was meant to prohibit was the government, was exactly what it says, which is the government mandating that its citizens follow one particular faith. But as for promoting, preaching, passing laws based on its teachings and precepts, there was no such prohibition. And nobody ever thought there was any such prohibition until modern times. 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Call 1-800-246-8751. That's 1-800-246-8751. To the extent that anyone opposed Grant's peace policy, it was coming from the corrupt senators who wanted to retain their control over these agencies. It was also coming from people who wanted to eliminate the Indians entirely instead of negotiating with them and managing them. But it was not a First Amendment issue. Admittedly, it's true that thanks to unrestricted mass migration, we now have far fewer Christians in this country than ever before as a percentage of the population. The overwhelming majority of people living in the United States are Christian, but the percentage has been declining. That's accurate. Major cities like New York and Los Angeles and Minneapolis are now unrecognizable as a result. Since 9-11, Muslims in particular have conquered large portions of the United States. But that doesn't mean that we're not going to be able to do that. We're going to that we are no longer a Christian nation. That'd be like saying Iraq became a Christian nation after we invaded it. The presence of hostile foreign hordes does not somehow negate this country's Christian heritage. Christianity is embedded in our traditions and our laws and our constitution. For anyone who likes to say America is an idea, which it isn't, it's much more than that. America is a nation. But if you think America's an idea, well, guess what? It's a Christian idea. And all the ideas that lay at the foundation of our actual nation, which is a nation, not just an idea, are Christian ideas. There's even something called the Sundays Accepted Clause in the Constitution, which states that the president has 10 days to veto a bill, accepting Sundays, because Sunday is the Christian Sabbath. And these are things that you're never told in school, and therefore leftists don't know any of this, or if they do know it, they deny it. Along those lines, we're going to have a lot of people who are going to be here's how a guy named Jacob, who apparently has a hockey podcast or something, responded to Rubio's video. He specifically is referring to the idea that America was shaped by the Christian tradition. And he writes, quote, no, the actual F it wasn't. Holy. In fact, the exact opposite is true. It should be terrifying to everyone that a nation founded on religious freedom and the separation of church and state is touting this ideology. Now, first of all, as we've discussed before, the term separation of church and state is nowhere in the Constitution. It comes from an 1802 letter that Thomas Jefferson privately wrote to some Baptists in Connecticut. 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. He wasn't establishing any kind of, you know, bar on the government promoting religion. And he was far more concerned about the government's toxic effect on religion than on religion's effect on the government. So his point in many ways was the opposite of what, you know, midwits like Jacob here will say. As much as I'm hesitant to bust out Google's Ngram viewer again, this is actually a useful tool. 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. 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. 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. So in the same vein, here is the Ngram viewer's accounting of the use of the term separation of church and state over the years. And as you can see, it was basically non-existent. There's one little spike there in the 1830s, but basically not non-existent until about the late 1950s and 1960s. And now it's everywhere. People became convinced that separation of church and state was a real idea that our founders came up with and based our system of government on, largely because of a series of very dumb left-wing Supreme Court decisions. But there was never any historical basis for believing this. It's yet another modern fiction invented during the hysteria of the 1960s, back at a time when a lot of historical fictions were being made. And so, as you can see, the Ngram viewer's accounting of church and state being invented. Now we'll read one more reaction to Rubio's video, just to illustrate how desperately unhinged and wrong these people are. This one comes from a non-profit called the Freedom from Religion Foundation. It says, quote, Christianity's global spread was marked by colonialism, forced conversions, destruction of indigenous cultures, and religious persecution. International Religious Freedom Day should celebrate the freedom to believe or not believe, not the spread of Christianity. Now, putting aside the fact that the spread of pretty much every major religion has been marked by colonialism and the destruction of cultures, Islam in particular, that would be true of, and also putting aside the fact that Christians were the first people to advocate for religious freedom in the West, putting all that aside, it's necessary to respond head-on to this objection by affirming that colonialism and the destruction of indigenous cultures was good, actually. And if you don't understand why, we have several real history episodes that go into that. So, let's get started. to great detail on this topic. These so-called cultures were barbaric. They were unsustainable. They were violent and savage. They led in every single case to widespread death and horrors beyond human comprehension. The extent that Christians intervened forcefully to put an end to this misery, they created the conditions necessary for civilization to flourish today. They created conditions that allow religious freedom in the modern era. With that in mind, I'm going to give you a little bit more detail on that. But first, let's get started. Without colonization, these primitive people would either be dead or they'd still be ripping each other's hearts out to appease the sun god. As the saying goes, the Aztecs were famously good at open heart surgery. They just couldn't figure out how to put the heart back in, was the idea. And every single person who complains today about the Christian colonialists is much, much happier and much freer and more comfortable than they would be had the Christian colonialists never existed. That, again, is inarguable. Without Christianity, and without Christian colonialism and imperialism in particular, your life would be significantly worse if you existed at all, which you probably wouldn't. And again, that's just a fact. Really, though, the idea of Religious Freedom Day is not the main issue here. This is a fake holiday that was created by Clinton in 1998, so who really cares? The main issue is that more Americans need to understand that we, in fact, are a Christian nation. And we should devote more government resources towards spreading Christianity and benefiting Christians in particular. We're allowed to do that. We have an upcoming Real History episode on colonization that goes into great detail on this point. And one of the main sources we use is Samuel Huntington's book called Who Are We? It's one of the strongest arguments you'll find in support of the idea that America is a Christian nation. There's plenty of amazing details in there, which you don't often hear in schools, which we'll cover in the documentary. One of his more interesting insights is that the founders were interested in prohibiting state religions, not because they wanted to live in a Reddit-style atheist dystopia, but because they wanted to create the conditions for religion to grow, expand, and ultimately dominate American culture and political life. So this is from the book, page 85 or so. And here's what it says, quote, uh, a republic can only be supported by pure religion or austere morals, John, Adam said the Bible offers the only system that ever did or ever will preserve a republic in the world. Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. Washington agreed. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles. 50 years after the constitution was adopted, uh, Tocqueville reported that all Americans held religion to be indispensable to the maintenance of Republican institutions. This opinion is not peculiar to a class of citizens, or to a party, but it belongs to the whole nation and to every rank of society. 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. The prohibition of an established national religion and the gradual disestablishment of state religions promoted the growth of religion in society as the state's authority and religion faded. John Butler notes that "the religious authority expanded, leading to the single most important institutional development of post-revolutionary Christianity, the shift of religious authority away from the state toward the voluntary institutional bodies. Out of this shift came an extraordinary expansion of denominational institutions. This is a thesis that's the exact opposite of what everyone has taught in school. You know, you're told that the founders were skeptical of religious influence in government. And the truth is that they wanted more religious influence in every aspect of American society. Now, Huntsman continues by pointing out that to European observers, America was unquestionably a religious state, far more so than any country on the planet. Quote, at the end of the 18th century, religious establishments existed throughout European countries and in several American states. State control of the church was a key element of state power, and the established church in turn provided legitimacy to the state. The framers of the American Constitution prohibited an established national church in order to limit the power of government and protect and strengthen religion. In the absence of a state, the state was a state religion. Americans were free to create whatever religious communities and organizations they wished. When substantial numbers of Catholic immigrants arrived, it was eventually possible to accept Catholicism as one more denomination within the broad framework of Christianity. The portion of the population who were religious adherents, that is, church members, increased fairly steadily throughout most of European, or rather, American history. European observers repeatedly commented on the high levels of religious commitment of Americans compared to that of their own people. Tocqueville said, quote, On my arrival in the United States, the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention. In France, religion and liberty opposed each other. The Americans, in contrast, have succeeded, combining admirably the spirit of religion and the spirit of liberty. Religion in America must be regarded as the first of their political institutions. This is why at every opportunity, our government must not simply tolerate Christianity, but promote it. That doesn't mean establishing a national church, which would be counterproductive, as the founders recognized, but it does mean that we should, uh, identify new ways to enable Christianity to flourish. 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, and also to affirm, as Marco Rubio just did, that we are a Christian nation, and always will be. Contrast Huntington's thesis with this report from the left-wing outlet The Intercept, which was published just a few months ago. The Intercept was panicking over Instagram posts on the State Department's official account, and here's what they wrote: "The State Department has shifted its public image in favor of explicit Christian messaging and iconography and away from secular and multicultural causes, an analysis by The Intercept of the department's Instagram posts has found. Posts marking Passover, Good Friday, and Easter in 2026 included explicitly religious messaging, including imagery of Christian crosses and references to Christ's sacrifice and the resurrection. The Intercept's analysis, which cataloged the department's Instagram posts from 2020 through early 2026, found these posts show a clear, powerful change in messaging, not only from the Biden's years, but also from President Donald Trump's first term." So they're really proud of their deep-dive investigative reporting here. They relentlessly catalog Instagram posts on the State Department website, and they found that, to their shock and horror, the State Department is talking less about gay deviance and more about Christianity. Cutting-edge journalism, to say the least, and the best part is that at the top of the page they have a gigantic banner where they beg for donations. So, you know, you can fund even more articles about the State Department's Instagram account. 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. They're talking about constitutional principles and history that they don't remotely understand. And that's because their goal, as always, is to rewrite history. They want to dismantle and undermine Christianity, not because they want a wall between church and state, but because they want total control over it. Now, as the election nears, we are reminded of the constant fight against communist ideas. The Daily Wire likes to be at the forefront of that fight, which is why we have a new movie coming out on November 11th about just that, and it's called Confession. And here it is. Here's the trailer. Father, I used to feel Christ. I cannot feel anything here. They take me out of my bed, and they brought me here, and they tell me nothing. What have I done? Article 58, counter-revolutionary activity. That is all I know. They have to deal with so many enemies of the state, all of whom claim their innocence, who protest, who cry. There are no answers here, other than the ones they put in your mouth. Your break. Today is your opportunity to demonstrate your loyalty to the people. We'd like to know why I'm here. Of course. But you already know, don't you? You must believe in something greater than the party. You will remember your duty. I've told you I know nothing. The ground like a feral animal. You stink of failure. You want me to lie. Still a drunk. Damn you. They all break. Maybe. We'll see you next time on The Daily Wire. So that comes out on November 11th. You're not going to want to miss that. That'll do it for the show today. Next week, I'll be joining other hosts from The Daily Wire for our election coverage as the results and the all-important midterm elections start coming in. The Daily Wire has a new midterm hub for polls, forecast predictions, and so on, which you're going to want to check. Our live election coverage starts next Tuesday at 7:00 p.m. Central. Hope to see you there. Have a great weekend. Godspeed. ♪♪ Tammy regularly hauls stuff to her kids at college. Home of the save. Join for just $20 at BJ's Wholesale Club. BJs.com/Mosquite and save 10 cents per gallon for six months. 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Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. Tammy saves money by shopping at BJ's Wholesale Club, where she gets up to 25% off and uses gas deals to reduce travel costs.
  2. The U.S. government, particularly through Marco Rubio’s State Department video, is promoting a message that America is a Christian nation rooted in faith and tradition.
  3. Historical evidence shows that early American leaders actively supported and promoted Christianity, including through missionary work and religious education.
  4. The "separation of church and state" is a modern invention of the 1960s, not a founding principle, and was absent from the Constitution.
  5. Critics like Scott Weiner and the Freedom from Religion Foundation react with outrage to the promotion of Christianity, despite historical and cultural evidence to the contrary.
  6. The promotion of Christian values is seen as essential to American identity, with religious freedom originating from Christian thought and history.
  7. The State Department’s use of religious messaging during International Religious Freedom Day contradicts left-wing claims that America is secular.
  8. The video and its reception highlight a deep ideological divide

Summary:

Tammy saves money and time by shopping at BJ's Wholesale Club, highlighting its value for families, especially those with college students. This commercial segment is interwoven with a broader argument about American identity rooted in Christianity. The speaker asserts that America was shaped by Christian principles, pointing to historical evidence such as early government support for missionary work, religious education, and the promotion of Christianity by founders like Jefferson and Grant.

The term “separation of church and state” is dismissed as a 20th-century invention, with no constitutional basis, and instead, the narrative emphasizes that religious freedom and civic life were historically intertwined. A key point is the criticism of left-wing figures like Scott Weiner, who react with hostility to the State Department’s promotion of Christianity, despite historical reality. The video by Marco Rubio, released on International Religious Freedom Day, is defended as a sincere affirmation of America’s Christian heritage, contrasting sharply with the left’s claims of secularism.

Historical references—including Tertullian, Jefferson, and Grant—show that religious belief deeply influenced the nation’s founding and development. S. is a Christian nation, and promoting that identity is not only permissible but historically grounded and morally sound.

The piece also critiques modern left-wing attempts to rewrite history, calling their denial of Christian influence both ignorant and ideologically driven.

FAQs

BJ's Wholesale Club offers up to 25% off grocery store prices and saves customers 10 cents per gallon on gas for six months.

People can join BJ's Wholesale Club for $20 by visiting bjs.com/mesquite, with a limited-time offer available for new members.

Tammy purchases items like beef jerky, microwave meals, and laundry pods, which she finds reliable and cost-effective.

She calls herself the 'road warrior mom' because she regularly drives long distances to haul supplies to her children attending college.

The term is not in the Constitution and was first used in the 1800s; historically, it was a modern invention from the 1960s, not a founding principle.

Founding leaders believed religion was essential to a stable republic and wanted religious influence to grow, not be restricted, in society.

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