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America's Hidden History | Presidents' Day

February 19, 2018

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America's Hidden History explores the lives of the first U.S. Presidents that aren't typically written about.

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- MALE NARRATOR: MODERN HISTORIANS HAVE REVISED,
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REWRITTEN, AND EVEN DELETED ENTIRE CHAPTERS
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OF AMERICAN HISTORY, SO WHAT ARE WE MISSING?
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WHAT HAPPENED TO THE HISTORY THAT DIDN'T MAKE
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THE BOOKS?
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JOIN HISTORIAN DAVID BARTON, TIM BARTON, AND
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SPECIAL GUESTS AS THEY UNCOVER THE FACTS SOME
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HISTORIANS DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW.
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THIS IS AMERICA'S HIDDEN HISTORY.
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[ MUSIC ]
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- TIM BARTON: HI, I'M TIM BARTON WITH
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WALL BUILDERS.
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WELCOME TO AMERICA'S HIDDEN HISTORY WHERE WE
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UNCOVER EVENTS AND THE PEOPLE WHO SHAPE THEM.
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TODAY'S EPISODE FOCUSES ON AMERICAN PRESIDENTS
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AND PRESIDENTS' DAY.
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WE'LL SPECIFICALLY HIGHLIGHT THE WASHINGTON
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ERA, THE LINCOLN ERA, AND THE PRESIDENT OF
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WORLD WAR II.
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THIS IS AMERICA'S HIDDEN HISTORY.
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[ MUSIC ]
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- DAVID BARTON: WELCOME TO ANOTHER EPISODE OF
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AMERICA'S HIDDEN HISTORY.
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I'M DAVID BARTON, AND WITH ME IS TIM BARTON,
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PRESIDENT OF WALL BUILDERS, AND OUR SPECIAL
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GUEST STEVEN MANSFIELD HISTORIAN, AUTHOR OF
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NUMBER OF BOOKS.
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WE'RE GOING TO BE COVERING
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PRESIDENT'S DAY TODAY.
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WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT PRESIDENTS FROM EARLY
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PRESIDENTS UP THROUGH THE PRESENT, AND ACTUALLY,
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STEVEN, YOU'VE DONE A LOT OF WRITING ON PRESIDENTS.
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YOU'VE DONE A COUPLE DOZEN BOOKS AND A NUMBER
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ON PRESIDENTS AND LINCOLN AND OTHERS AS WELL, SO
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WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A LOT OF FUN WITH YOU TODAY.
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- STEVEN MANSFIELD: I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO IT.
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THANKS FOR HAVING ME.
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- AND LET'S GET STARTED KIND OF WITH WHAT
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WE'VE GOT AROUND.
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YOU SEE A LOT OF STUFF ON THE SET.
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YOU JUST LOOK AROUND THE ASSESSMENT LET'S KIND OF
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TAKE IT THROUGH SOME OF THE STUFF.
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WE'VE GOT, FOR EXAMPLE THERE'S A LOT OF BOOKS
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THAT WE'LL GET TO LATER, BUT DOWN IN FRONT YOU'VE
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GOT GEORGE WASHINGTON WASH HERE, AND BACK HERE
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IS THOMAS JEFFERSON, AND BACK THERE IS JOHN ADAMS,
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AND TIM, YOU GOT SOME STUFF OVER ON YOUR
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SIDE AS WELL.
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- YEAH, SO FROM THE FRONT THERE'S A DRUM THAT
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ACTUALLY CAME FROM MOUNT VERNON FROM GEORGE
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WASHINGTON'S HOME.
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SO IT'S ACTUALLY A REVOLUTIONARY GUN.
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BESIDE IT YOU HAVE A CANNON BALL.
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BESIDE IT ALSO WE HAVE ALL KIND OF DIFFERENT
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ARTIFACTS FROM GEORGE WASHINGTON AND JOHN
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ADAMS AND THOMAS JEFFERSON UP HERE
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ON THE TABLE.
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PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATIONS FROM THESE
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GUYS, DIFFERENT SPEECHES, DIFFERENT LETTERS, SO A
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LOT OF STUFF WE CAN GET INTO AND TALK ABOUT.
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- WELL, LET'S TALK ABOUT -- I MEAN, ALL THESE GUYS
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WERE INVOLVED IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, SO
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LET'S GO BACK TO THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
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FOR A BIT.
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FREEDOM WAS WON BY SOLDIERS ON THE GROUND
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DOING SOME REAL THINGS, SO LET'S GET A VOLUNTEER
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TO COME UP AND LET'S TALK TO SOMEBODY.
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- OKAY. HEY, I'M TIM.
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- I'M SARAH.
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- SARAH, NICE TO MEET YOU. OKAY.
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- HEY, SARAH.
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COME ON OVER.
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- WE'LL START ON THIS SIDE.
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- FIRST OFF, HOW TALL ARE YOU?
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- UM, 5'4.
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- YOU'RE PERFECT.
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THAT'S A SOLDIER IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 5'4.
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NOW, IF YOU'RE IN THE REVOLUTION, YOU'RE
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FIGHTING, YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE A GUN, SO LET'S GET
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YOU A GUN, AND YOU NEED A GUN TO BE ABLE TO FIGHT
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WITH, SO TAKE --YOU KNOW HOW TO SHOOT A GUN?
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- YES, SIR.
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- OKAY.
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LET'S SEE YOU PUT THAT ON YOUR SHOULDER AND WHAT
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YOU CAN DO WITH IT.
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- IT'S KIND OF BIG.
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I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO.
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- SEE IF YOU CAN PUT THAT UP ON YOUR SHOULDER.
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- UP.
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I'LL HOLD IT FOR YOU.
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- IT'S REALLY HEAVY!
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- YEAH.
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- DON'T DROP IT ON THE STUFF.
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NOW, WHAT YOU NEED TO DO YOU GOT TO FIGHT BATTLES
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WITH THAT.
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YOU'RE ONLY GOING TO HAVE TO MARCH 40 OR 50 MILES A
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DAY CARRYING THAT.
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- YOU CAN JUST GIVE IT TO ME.
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- YOU'LL HAVE A WOOL JACKET WHEN YOU DO IT AND
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ALL YOUR CAMP GEAR, SO THAT'S A LITTLE START FOR
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WHAT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN LIKE TO BE IN THE
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AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
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- SO DOES THAT SEEM BIGGER MAYBE THAN ONE OF
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THE GUNS YOU'VE SHOT.
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- UM, A BIT, YEAH.
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[ LAUGHTER ]
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- A LITTLE HEAVIER.
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- YEAH.
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THANK YOU, SARAH, FOR HELPING.
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WE NEED SOMEBODY ELSE, AND ACTUALLY WE HAVE
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SOMETHING ELSE TO LOOK AT.
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IT'S A LITTLE BIGGER, SO WHY DON'T YOU COME UP
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AND HELP US.
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OKAY.
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THIS IS A 43 POUND MORTAR.
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- YOU GOT IT?
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OKAY.
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[ LAUGHTER ]
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NOW, WE DIDN'T GET TO MEET YOU.
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WHAT'S YOUR NAME?
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- JIMMY.
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- JIMMY.
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AND NORMALLY YOU DON'T SOUND STRAINED WHEN YOU
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SAY YOUR NAME.
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[ LAUGHTER ] BUT HOLDING 43 POUNDS IS A LITTLE
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HEAVY, RIGHT?
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- YES, SIR.
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- OKAY.
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CAN YOU ROLL THAT FORWARD SO WE CAN SEE THERE'S A
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HOLE IN THE FRONT OF IT WHERE YOU WOULD FILL THIS
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WITH POWDER.
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YOU WOULD THEN PUT A FUSE IN IT.
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YOU PUT IT IN THE MORTAR, SHOOTS IT OFF AND
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HOPEFULLY IT EXPLODES OVER THE ENEMY AS IT GOES.
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MAYBE YOU COULD JUST THROW THAT FOR US, RIGHT.
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YOU LOOK PRETTY STRONG.
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COULD YOU LAUNCH IT?
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[ LAUGHTER ] IT'S PRETTY HEAVY?
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- YES, SIR.
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- OKAY.
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NOW, JIMMY, THIS ACTUALLY WAS IN THE LAST MAJOR
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BATTLE OF THE REVOLUTION.
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THIS CAME FROM THE BATTLE OF YORKTOWN, SO THIS IS
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A PRETTY NOT JUST HEAVY PIECE OF HISTORY BUT A
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PRETTY SIGNIFICANT PIECE, BUT THANK YOU FOR COMING
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AND LOOKING AT THAT, TAKING A GUESS FOR IT.
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YEAH.
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- THANK YOU.
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- JIMMY, APPRECIATE IT.
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[ APPLAUSE ]
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- ALL RIGHT, AND I NEED ONE MORE GUY.
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SO OVER HERE ON THE SIDE WHAT DO YOU THINK THIS IS?
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- A COMPASS?
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- NOW, WE DIDN'T MEET YOU YET.
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WHAT'S YOUR NAME?
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- PHILLIP.
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- PHILLIP. OKAY.
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WHAT DO YOU THINK THIS IS?
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- A COMPASS.
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- A COMPASS.
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DO YOU KNOW WHAT GEORGE WASHINGTON DID IN
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HIS EARLY LIFE FOR HIS PROFESSION BEFORE HE'S
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REALLY AN OFFICER IN THE MILITARY, DO YOU KNOW
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WHAT HE DID?
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- HE WAS A SURVEYOR.
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- HE WAS A SURVEYOR.
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THIS WAS HIS SURVEYOR'S COMPASS THAT HE USED, AND
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ACTUALLY SO IF YOU HOLD IT UP ON THE SIDE, RIGHT,
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YOU CAN KIND OF LOOK UP AND THAT WAS HIS LINES,
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SO THIS WAS GEORGE WASHINGTON'S
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SURVEYING COMPASS.
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NICE TO MEET YOU.
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THANKS FOR HELPING GUESS WHAT THIS WAS.
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[ APPLAUSE ]
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SO CERTAINLY A LOT OF FUN STUFF FROM HISTORY, A LOT
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OF ARTIFACTS, BUT REALLY IN THE MIDST OF ALL OF
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THIS THERE'S A LOT OF MYTHS THAT ARE PUT OUT
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THERE TODAY ABOUT PRESIDENTS, RIGHT.
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STEVEN, YOU'VE WRITTEN A LOT ABOUT SOME OF THESE
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AND SOME OF YOUR BOOKS WHICH I REALLY ENJOYED
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READING, BUT ONE OF THEM WE HEAR A LOT IS ABOUT
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GEORGE WASHINGTON, AND WE HEAR TODAY THAT
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GEORGE WASHINGTON WASN'T A CHRISTIAN.
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WE HEAR THAT GEORGE WASHINGTON WAS A
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DEIST, THAT GEORGE WASHINGTON DIDN'T REALLY
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BELIEVE IN JESUS OR A GOD THAT WAS INVOLVED.
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- BUT THE FACT IS GEORGE WASHINGTON WAS A MAN
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WHO WAS A VESTRYMAN OR SORT OF AN ELDER OF HIS
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EPISCOPAL CHURCH FOR YEARS.
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HE KEPT A JOURNAL OF PRAYER.
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HE BOUGHT A NEW TESTAMENT EVERY SINGLE YEAR FOR HIS
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WIFE ON HER BIRTHDAY BECAUSE SHE WOULD READ
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THE BIBLE THROUGH IN A YEAR AND WEAR IT OUT.
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SO IT BECAME A THING BETWEEN THE TWO OF THEM.
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I'LL BUY YOU A BIBLE EVERY YEAR ON YOUR BIRTHDAY.
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SO HE WAS ABSOLUTE EA CHRISTIAN, ABSOLUTELY
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DEVOTED TO A CHRISTIAN WORLD VIEW, AND THE
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EVIDENCE IS THERE.
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WE JUST DON'T TEACH IT ANYMORE.
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- THE COOL THING ABOUT THAT ERA IS THAT THEY
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WROTE EVERYTHING DOWN.
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TODAY WE RECORD EVERYTHING, YOU KNOW.
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WE GOT OUR SMART DEVICES AND RECORDING.
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THEY RECORDED IT TOO, BUT THEY DID IT WITH PEN AND
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PAPER, AND BY THE WAY, HERE'S ONE OF GEORGE
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WASHINGTON'S ORIGINAL LETTERS, SO YOU
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TAKE HIS HANDWRITTEN LETTERS AND THERE'S ABOUT
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40.000 LETTERS THAT GEORGE DID.
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SO YOU TAKE HIS HANDWRITTEN LETTERS, AND
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WHAT YOU DO IS YOU COLLECT ALL THESE AND YOU
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COME OUT WITH THIS IN 1832.
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THAT'S THE FIRST SET OF GEORGE WASHINGTON WRITINGS.
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EVERYTHING THEY FOUND, EVERYTHING THEY COULD
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FIND A RECORD OF THEY HAD IT THERE.
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NOW, IT'S GROWN OVER THE YEARS.
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TODAY IT'S NEARLY 100 VOLUMES OF THE PAPERS OF
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GEORGE WASHINGTON WATER, BUT WE START WITH 12
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VOLUMES HERE, AND FROM THOSE 12 VOLUMES YOU THEN
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GET THIS BOOK THAT COMES OUT A COUPLE DECADES LATER.
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THEY'VE GONE THROUGH ALL THE VOLUMES, SAID MAN,
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WASHINGTON HAS SOME SMART STUFF TO SAY, AND SO THIS
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GUY, JOHN FREDERICK SCHROEDER, IT'S CALLED THE
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MAXIMS OF WASHINGTON, HIS POLITICAL, SOCIAL, MORAL,
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AND RELIGIOUS MAXIMS.
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AND HE'S TAKEN ALL THE WISE HE'S GOT AND PUT
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THEM TOGETHER, AND THE BEGINNING OF EACH SECTION
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HE ALWAYS HAS PEOPLE WHO KNOWS GEORGE WASHINGTON
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INTRODUCE WASHINGTON, SO WHEN HE
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GETS BACK TO HIS RELIGIOUS MAXIMS,
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THERE'S A SECTION ON CHRISTIANITY, AND IN THAT
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SECTION IT'S INTRODUCED BY GUYS WHO KNEW WASHINGTON.
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- JEREMIAH SMITH WHO WAS ACTUALLY A
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SOLDIER WITH WASHINGTON IN THE REVOLUTION, HE'S A
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GUY THAT WASHINGTON MADE A FEDERAL JUDGE.
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YOU HAVE CHIEF JUSTICE JOHN MARSHALL WHO WAS
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ACTUALLY AN AID TO WASHINGTON IN
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THE REVOLUTION.
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GOT ALL THESE GUYS THAT KNOW WASHINGTON, AND THEY
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ALL SAY OH, HE WAS A STRONG CHRISTIAN, OH, HE
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WAS REALLY A CHRISTIAN.
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- A SIN VEER BELIEVER IN THE CHRISTIAN FAITH.
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- HE WAS A CHRISTIAN.
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- SO EVEN ON THIS PAINTING UP HERE WITH
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GEORGE WASHINGTON THERE'S ACTUALLY TWO PEOPLE IN
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THE PAINTING, THERE'S GEORGE WASHINGTON, AND
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THEN OVER ON THE SIDE IS A GUY, LITTLE ISAAC POTTS.
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- SEE THAT IS THIS -- - ISAAC POTTS IS A GUY
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ON THE SIDE.
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- HE'S NOT A REAL GUY.
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HE'S A MADE UP GUY.
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HE'S NOT REAL.
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- WELL, THAT'S WHAT PEOPLE ARGUE TODAY.
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IT SEEMS SILLY, RIGHT?
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- DON'T LISTEN TO HIM.
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NO.
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- EXCEPT FOR THIS IS A LAND DEED WITH OH, LOOK
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AT THERE.
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- RIGHT OVER HERE.
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- ISAAC POTTS.
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- SO HE'S REAL.
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- HE'S A REAL GUY.
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- APPARENTLY, OR IT'S A REALLY GOOD FORGERY FROM
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A LONG TIME AGO.
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[ LAUGHTER ]
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SO ISAAC POTTS, THE REASON THIS PAINTING WAS DONE,
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AND THERE'S A LOT OF PAINTINGS WITH GEORGE
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WASHINGTON KNEELING DOWN AND PRAYING.
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IT WAS SOMETHING THAT MANY GENERALS THROUGHOUT
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THE REVOLUTION REPORTED SEEING WASHINGTON PRAY,
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THAT WASHINGTON WAS A MAN OF PRAYER.
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SO THAT WAS NOT AN UNUSUAL THING AT ALL.
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PEOPLE KNEW THAT.
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WELL, THIS PAINTING WAS DONE DEPICTING AN ACCOUNT
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THAT WAS TOLD BECAUSE THIS MAN, ISAAC POTTS, HAD
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ALLEGEDLY SEEN WASHINGTON HAVE THIS ENCOUNTER WITH
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HIM, AND ISAAC POTTS WAS A QUAKER, SO THIS QUAKER IS
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WALKING THROUGH THE WOODS, HEARS SOMETHING
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IN THE WOODS.
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HE STOPS AND LISTENS BECAUSE THIS IS TIME OF
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WAR, AND SO I'M JUST CURIOUS WHAT'S GOING ON.
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WELL, HE STARTS WALKING THROUGH THE WOODS TO
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INVESTIGATE.
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AS HE GETS BACK, HE SEES -HE THOUGHT IT WAS
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MULTIPLE PEOPLE HAVING A CONVERSATION.
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IT WAS ONLY ONE MAN, AND THE ONE MAN WAS ACTUALLY
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KNEELING DOWN PRAYING, AND SO HE STOPPED AND
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JUST LISTENED FOR A LITTLE WHILE, LISTENED
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ENOUGH APPARENTLY SO HE TURNS AND LEAVES AND GOES
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HOME, AND WHEN HE GETS HOME APPARENTLY HE GOES
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IN, HE OPENS THE DOOR AND GOES INTO THE
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KITCHEN TABLE.
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HE SITS DOWN, HE PUTS HIS ELBOWS ON THE TABLE.
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HE BURIED HIS HEAD IN HIS HANDS, AND THEN HE
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EXPLAINS, I JUST CAME FROM THE WOODS AND I SAW
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THE COMMANDER OF THE AMERICAN FORCES PRAYING.
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WHEN A MAN PRAYS LIKE THAT, HIS PRAYERS ARE
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GOING TO BE ANSWERED.
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THE WAR IS OVER.
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IT'S OVER.
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THE WAR IS ALL OVER.
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NOW, WHAT'S INTERESTING ABOUT THAT IS YOU HAVE A
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GUY CONVINCED IT HAS ALREADY BEEN DECIDED
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BASED ON THE PRAYER LIFE OF WASHINGTON.
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- THE PRAYER LIFE OF THE DEIST I'LL POINT OUT.
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- WELL, YEAH, SO - [ LAUGHTER ] BUT EVEN TODAY
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SOME HISTORIANS DISPUTE THE IDEA THAT ISAAC POTTS
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WAS A REAL PERSON WHICH CLEARLY HE WAS A REAL
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PERSON OR THE DETAIL OF THE STORY.
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- CAN I POINT OUT THAT IF YOU WANT TO GO TO
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VALLEY FORGE YOU CAN GO VISIT THE ISAAC POTTS HOME
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THAT IS AT VALLEY FORGE, THE STONE HOME THAT STILL
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EXISTS WHERE HE LIVED?
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- WELL, SO EVEN IF THERE WAS SOME DISPUTE OVER THE
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INTEGRITY OF ALL OF THE STORY OF ISAAC POTTS,
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THERE'S NO DISPUTE OVER THE FACT THAT WASHINGTON
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WAS KNOWN FOR BEING A MAN OF PRAYER, AND CERTAINLY
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A DEIST AT LEAST IN TODAY'S INTERPRETATION, A
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DEIST BELIEVES THAT GOD DOESN'T GET INVOLVED IN
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THE WORLD, SO WHY WOULD YOU PRAY TO A GOD WHO
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DOESN'T GET INVOLVED.
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THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE WHEN WASHINGTON
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KNOWN AS A MAN OF PRAYER.
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- WELL, AND THIS IS WHAT I WANT OUR YOUNG AUDIENCE
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TO KNOW AND THAT IS THAT MODERN HISTORIANS HAVE NO
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PROBLEM SIMPLY CUTTING THE RELIGIOUS CONTENT OUT
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OF OUR AMERICAN HISTORY.
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FOR EXAMPLE, CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS SAID HE SAILED
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TO THE NEW WORLD BECAUSE THE HOLY SPIRIT GUIDED HIM.
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HE WAS GUIDED BY THE SCRIPTURES VERY CLEARLY,
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AND YET I CAN SHOW YOU FOUR VOLUME HISTORIES AND
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BIOGRAPHIES OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS THAT
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NEVER MENTION HIS FAITH, NEVER EVEN MENTION THAT
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HE WAS A CHRISTIAN.
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SO MAKE SURE THAT YOU GO TO THE ORIGINAL SOURCES.
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MAKE SURE THAT YOU'RE NOT LOOKING AT A MODERN
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VERSION THAT MIGHT EXCLUDE HIS FAITH WHEN
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HIS OLDER VERSION CAPTURES THE TRUTH ABOUT
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GEORGE WASHINGTON.
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YOU GOT TO BE AWARE OF THAT.
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IT'S NOT THAT THEY SET OUT TO DECEIVE YOU.
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THEY EITHER DON'T BELIEVE RELIGION IS IMPORTANT OR
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THEY JUST HAVE A BUY AS AGAINST IT THAT CAUSES
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THEM TO FILTER IT OUT, SO GO TO THE ORIGINAL
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SOURCES BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE YOU FIND THE RICH
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STUFF THESE GUYS ARE TALKING ABOUT.
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- AND WHEN YOU GO TO ORIGINAL SOURCES, YOU
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FIND THINGS LIKE THIS IS THE VERY FIRST EVER
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PRESIDENTIAL PRAYER PROCLAMATION WAS DONE BY
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GEORGE WASHINGTON.
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NOW, AGAIN IF HE'S A DEIST HE'S NOT GOING TO
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BE THIS GUY CALLING THE NATION TO PRAY FOR GOD'S
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INVOLVEMENT OR THANKING GOD FOR HIS INVOLVEMENT,
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BUT THIS IS THE VERY FIRST EVER PRESIDENTIAL
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PRAYER PROCLAMATION DONE BY GEORGE WASHINGTON
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AGAIN INDICATING HE CERTAINLY WAS A MAN OF
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FAITH AS IS SEEN FROM ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS.
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- WELL, OTHER PRESIDENTS DID THE SAME.
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I MEAN, WE HAVE PRESIDENT JOHN ADAMS BACK HERE, AND
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JOHN ADAMS CALLED HIM -- THIS IS WHAT HE
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CALLED HIMSELF.
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HE SAID I AM A CHURCH GOING ANIMAL.
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- AND AS YOU MENTIONED, JOHN ADAMS ALSO HAS
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PRAYER PROCLAMATIONS AS PRESIDENT, AND CERTAINLY,
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YOU KNOW --
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- WHAT YEAR IS THAT ONE?
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- THIS IS DOWN HERE IN 1799.
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- AND THAT'S THE RIDGE THAT. THAT'S THE RIDGE THAT.
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FROM 1799.
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- AND WHEN YOU GO BACK AND MAYBE WATCH-- HBO DID
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A SPECIAL ON JOHN ADAMS WHICH WAS COOL THAT THEY
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ACTUALLY WENT BACK TO HISTORY AND SAID LET'S
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LEARN ABOUT SOMEBODY, BUT IN THE WHOLE SPECIAL THEY
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NEVER REALLY BROUGHT UP HIS FAITH WHICH IT'S HARD
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TO STUDY JOHN ADAMS AND NOT SEE HIS FAITH EVEN IN
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HIS LETTERS TO HIS WIFE MUCH HE TALKED ABOUT
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FAITH QUITE OFTEN, BUT SOMEHOW WE LEFT THAT OUT
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OF THE HBO TV SPECIAL.
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- WHAT THEY ASSUME IS THAT THIS IS JUST
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POLITICIANS TALKING.
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THIS IS JUST POLITICIANS MAKING SPEECHES.
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OH, WE INVOKE THE BLESSINGS OF THE ALMIGHTY
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AND ALL THAT KIND OF THING, BUT THE REALITY IS
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LIKE YOU SAY WHEN YOU GET INTO THEIR PRIVATE
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LETTERS AND THE ADVICE THEY WRITE THEIR CHILDREN
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OR THE CORRESPONDENCE WITH THEIR WIVES YOU FIND
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THAT FAITH IS GENUINE.
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IT'S NOT JUST POLITICAL SPEAK, SO THESE MEN
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REALLY WERE DEVOTED TO GOD AND DEVOTED TO GOD'S
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PURPOSES FOR THIS COUNTRY.
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- WELL, AND ONE THAT TODAY -AS WE TALKED ABOUT
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WE HAVE WASHINGTON, ADAMS, WELL, EVEN
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THOMAS JEFFERSON.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON IS THE GUY THAT PROBABLY GETS
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VILLAINIZED THE MOST TODAY ESPECIALLY IN THE FAITH.
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- IN THE FAITH ASPECTS.
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- THAT'S RIGHT.
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I MEAN, HE'S THE GUY THAT WROTE THE LETTER OF
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SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE.
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HE'S THE GUY THAT HAD THE JEFFERSON BIBLE.
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THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS WE HEAR ABOUT JEFFERSON
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THAT ARE SEEMING ANTI FAITH UNTIL YOU STUDY
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JEFFERSON AS A WHOLE.
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WHEN YOU GET THE WHOLE PICTURE, YOU GO,
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WAIT A SECOND.
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I DON'T THINK HE'S REALLY ANTI FAITH THE WAY WE
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PRESENT HIM TODAY.
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- YOU'RE RIGHT.
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I MEAN, JEFFERSON GETS PRESENTED AS THE MOST
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ANTI-RELIGIOUS FOUNDING FATHER, HE AND THOMAS PAYNE.
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IT'S AN INTERESTING THING BECAUSE WHAT WE HAVE
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RIGHT HERE, FOR EXAMPLE, THAT'S CALLED THE JOHN
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THOMPSON HOT PRESS BIBLE.
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THAT'S PRINTED IN 1798.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON HELP FUND THE PRINTING OF
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THAT BIBLE.
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NOW, IF THOMAS JEFFERSON IS THE ANTI-RELIGIOUS, I
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HATE THE BIBLE GUY, WHAT'S THAT?
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AND BY THE WAY, THIS BOTTOM STACK OVER HERE,
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THAT'S THE THOMAS SCOTT BIBLE.
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IT'S ACTUALLY AN 8 VOLUME BIBLE.
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WE'VE GOT THREE VOLUMES THERE JUST FOR SPACE, BUT
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IT'S 8 VOLUMES.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON HELP FUND THE THOMAS SCOTT BIBLE.
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- NOW, IF JEFFERSON IS FUNDING BIBLES, I THOUGHT
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JEFFERSON CUT OUT EVERYTHING HE DIDN'T
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BELIEVE IN.
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[ LAUGHTER ]
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- THAT'S WHAT WE HEAR.
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- NOT TRUE.
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- I KNOW I SAY THAT, RIGHT, TONGUE IN CHEEK
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BECAUSE I KNOW HE DIDN'T, BUT THAT'S WHAT WE HEAR
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TODAY IS THAT JEFFERSON DIDN'T BELIEVE IN ALL THE
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BIBLE SO HE MADE HIS OWN BIBLE AND HE CUT OUT
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THINGS THAT HE THOUGHT WEREN'T TRUE.
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SO WHAT'S THE ANSWER BEHIND THAT?
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- HERE'S THE EXPERT.
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- WELL, YOU HAVE TWO ANSWERS.
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ONE IS HE DID TWO JEFFERSON BIBLES.
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PEOPLE THEY TALK ABOUT THE DID HE EVER SON --
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I HAVE FUN WHEN PROFESSORS DO THAT.
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- IS THAT LIKE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT?
00:14:01.230 --> 00:14:02.280
- EXACTLY.
00:14:03.000 --> 00:14:04.120
[ LAUGHTER ] THEY SAY OH, THE JEFFERSON BIBLE SAID
00:14:04.140 --> 00:14:06.030
-WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?
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-L WITH, YOU KNOW HE CUT OUT ALL THE MIRACULOUS,
00:14:07.150 --> 00:14:09.100
ALL STUFF HE DISAGREED WITH.
00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:10.150
HE CUT ALL THAT OUT.
00:14:10.170 --> 00:14:11.280
I SAID, REALLY?
00:14:12.000 --> 00:14:13.060
I SAID, WHICH ONE?
00:14:13.080 --> 00:14:14.260
WHAT DO YOU MEAN WHICH ONE?
00:14:14.280 --> 00:14:16.150
THERE'S ONLY ONE -NO, THERE'S TWO JEFFERSON BIBLE.
00:14:16.170 --> 00:14:17.240
YOU GOT 1804, 1820.
00:14:17.260 --> 00:14:19.200
SO IT ALREADY TELLS ME THEY DON'T HAVE A CLUE
00:14:19.220 --> 00:14:21.040
WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT. THEN I SAY --
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- AT LEAST WHEN THEY COME TO
00:14:22.240 --> 00:14:24.010
KNOWLEDGE OF JEFFERSON.
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- THAT'S RIGHT.
00:14:25.150 --> 00:14:26.260
- THEY THINK THEY KNOW SOMETHING.
00:14:26.280 --> 00:14:28.140
THEY'VE GOT THE SMOKING GUN, AND TURNS OUT OH, WAIT.
00:14:28.160 --> 00:14:29.260
THERE WAS 2 DIFFERENT THINGS HE DID?
00:14:29.280 --> 00:14:31.080
I HAD NO IDEA.
00:14:31.100 --> 00:14:32.240
- AND THAT'S ONE OF THE FUN THINGS.
00:14:32.260 --> 00:14:34.080
YOU JUST START ASKING QUESTIONS, YOU FIND OUT
00:14:34.100 --> 00:14:35.260
THAT THEY THINK THEY KNOW WHAT THEY KNOW,
00:14:35.280 --> 00:14:37.050
BUT THEY DON'T.
00:14:37.070 --> 00:14:38.210
AND SO YOU SAY, WHICH ONE?
00:14:38.230 --> 00:14:40.050
AND THEY DON'T -I SAY WELL, HAVE YOU EVER READ
00:14:40.070 --> 00:14:41.260
THE JEFFERSON BIBLE?
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WELL, NO.
00:14:43.060 --> 00:14:44.150
WELL, HOW DO YOU KNOW HE CUT IT OUT?
00:14:44.170 --> 00:14:45.290
THAT'S WHAT EVERYBODY SAYS.
00:14:46.010 --> 00:14:47.160
- BECAUSE THE 1804 WAS ACTUALLY AN ABRIDGMENT OF
00:14:47.180 --> 00:14:49.030
THE GOSPELS FOR USE IN WITNESSING TO THE INDIANS.
00:14:49.050 --> 00:14:50.170
- IN THE TITLE IT SAYS TAKEN FROM MATTHEW, MARK,
00:14:50.190 --> 00:14:52.090
LUKE, JOHN, AND IT WAS BECAUSE IN 1803 HE HAD
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READ A SERMON BY A GUY FROM SCOTLAND SAID, YOU
00:14:53.260 --> 00:14:55.140
KNOW, IF YOU WANT TO REACH THE AMERICAN
00:14:55.160 --> 00:14:56.250
INDIANS WITH THE GOSPEL DON'T GIVE THEM THE BIBLE.
00:14:56.270 --> 00:14:58.070
I MEAN, THEY MIGHT READ LEVITICUS OR MIGHT READ
00:14:58.090 --> 00:14:59.110
THE GENEALOGIES.
00:14:59.130 --> 00:15:01.050
GIVE THEM THE GOSPELS OF JESUS, AND JEFFERSON
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THOUGHT, GOOD IDEA.
00:15:02.160 --> 00:15:04.000
AND SO HE TOOK TWO BIBLES HE HAD IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
00:15:04.020 --> 00:15:05.250
HE WENT THROUGH AND DID WHAT WE WOULD HAVE CALLED
00:15:05.270 --> 00:15:07.060
A RED LETTER VERSION.
00:15:07.080 --> 00:15:08.220
HE TOOK THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS, CUT THEM ALL OUT,
00:15:08.240 --> 00:15:10.050
HE PASTED THEM IN.
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HE GAVE IT TO AN INDIAN MISSIONARY FRIEND, SAID
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LOOK, HERE'S THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS.
00:15:13.160 --> 00:15:15.020
YOU CAN PRINTED THIS A WHOLE LOT CHEAPER THAN
00:15:15.040 --> 00:15:16.140
YOU CAN PRINT A WHOLE BIBLE.
00:15:16.160 --> 00:15:17.270
AND THIS IS WHERE THE INDIANS NEED TO START.
00:15:17.290 --> 00:15:19.080
IT SAYS AN ABRIDGMENT OF THE GOSPELS FOR THE USE
00:15:19.100 --> 00:15:20.180
OF THE INDIANS.
00:15:20.200 --> 00:15:21.290
- SO WE'VE ALREADY CLARIFIED WHAT IT'S FOR,
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AND HE SAYS ONLY CHOOSING THINGS THAT WOULD BE TO
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THEIR LEVEL OF UNDERSTANDING TO NOT
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CHALLENGE THEM IN A LEVEL OF THEOLOGY WHERE THEY'RE
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GOING WAIT A SECOND, THAT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE.
00:15:30.130 --> 00:15:31.280
SO JUST TO GIVE THEM ENOUGH OH, JESUS, THIS IS
00:15:32.000 --> 00:15:33.270
WHAT THIS IS, AND SO -- - AND BY THE WAY, HE
00:15:33.290 --> 00:15:35.200
COVERS HEAVEN.
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THE TEACHINGS COVER HEAVEN AND HELL, HEALING
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THE SICK, RAISING THE DEAD, CASTING OUT DEMONS.
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YOU KNOW, HE CUT OUT ALL THAT SUPERNATURAL STUFF.
00:15:42.290 --> 00:15:45.010
- SO JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD.
00:15:45.030 --> 00:15:46.100
HE IS THE SUPERNATURAL.
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HE DOES THE MIRACULOUS WHICH IS WHAT WE'RE TOLD
00:15:48.010 --> 00:15:49.110
JEFFERSON CUT OUT.
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WELL, THAT'S THE FIRST ONE.
00:15:51.040 --> 00:15:52.170
THE SECOND ONE IS THE 1820 VERSION.
00:15:52.190 --> 00:15:54.190
- AND THIS IS THAT ONE.
00:15:54.210 --> 00:15:56.120
THIS IS.
00:15:56.140 --> 00:15:58.130
THIS IS 1820 VERSION JEFFERSON ACTUALLY SAID
00:15:58.150 --> 00:16:00.270
IF EVERYBODY WOULD LIVE BY THE TEACHINGS OF
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JESUS, WE'D NEED A WHOLE LOT LESS GOVERNMENT, SO
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HE WENT THROUGH AND FOUND 81 MORAL TEACHINGS OF JESUS.
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HE CUT THOSE TEACHINGS OUT OF THE BIBLE, PASTED
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THEM END TO END SO THAT HE COULD READ THE MORALS
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OF JESUS, AND IT'S ACTUALLY IN HIS HANDWRITING.
00:16:13.210 --> 00:16:16.010
THIS IS A REPRINT THAT WAS DONE OF IT, BUT AS
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YOU GO, YOU CAN SEE HIS HANDWRITING.
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IT'S THE LIFE AND MORALS OF JESUS OF NAZARETH, AND
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CONGRESS PRINTED 9.000 COPIES.
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THIS IS ONE OF THE ORIGINAL 1902 COPIES
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THAT'S PRINTED BY THE U.S.
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GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.
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FOR 50 YEARS THEY GAVE THIS TO EVERY MEMBER OF
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CONGRESS, SAID IF YOU'LL LIVE BIT TEACHINGS OF
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JESUS YOU WON'T GET IN TROUBLE.
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- I LIVE JUST A FEW MILES FROM THE U.S.
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CAPITOL IN WASHINGTON DC.
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AND TODAY OF COURSE IF YOU HAD A CHURCH SERVICE
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IN THE U.S.
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CAPITOL PEOPLE WOULD GO CRAZY AND YOU'RE
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VIOLATING SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE, BUT
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JEFFERSON ACTUALLY MADE IT POSSIBLE TO HAVE A
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WORSHIP SERVICE GOING ON EVERY SUNDAY MORNING IN
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THE U.S. CAPITOL.
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HE ATTENDED THAT WORSHIP SERVICE AND HE ALSO PAID
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OUT OF HIS OWN POCKET FOR THE MARINE BAND TO PLAY
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AT THE CHURCH SERVICE.
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NOW YOU MIGHT NOT WANT THE MARINE BAND PLAYING
00:17:00.190 --> 00:17:01.230
AT YOUR CHURCH SERVICE.
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- MARINE BAND AS YOUR WORSHIP BAND.
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THAT'S COOL.
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- BUT STILL --
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- IT SEEMS LIKE HIS VIOLATED
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THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE THOUGH.
00:17:08.270 --> 00:17:10.060
- WELL, THAT SAYS SOMETHING.
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THAT GUY THAT'S SUPPOSED TO HAVE WRITTEN -DID
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WRITE THE WORDS.
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- RIGHT. DIDN'T HE KNOW WHAT HE WROTE?
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- OF COURSE HE DID.
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HE WASN'T CRAZY.
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- WAS HE CONFUSED ABOUT THIS?
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- HE JUST DIDN'T SEE IT AS A VIOLATION OF THE
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LAW, AND WE HAVE HILARIOUS RECORDS BY THE
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WAY OF HIM HAVING HIS FEET STEPPED ON WHILE
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HE'S IN CHURCH AND HAVING A QUAKER WOMAN GIVING A
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PROPHECY, AND HE'S GOING WHAT'S GOING ON HERE LIKE
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SOME OF US HAVE TO DO IN OUR CHURCHES, BUT MY
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POINT IS THAT HERE'S THOMAS JEFFERSON
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SPONSORING A WORSHIP SERVICE, SPONSORING A
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CHURCH BASICALLY MEETING IN THE U.S. CAPITOL.
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NOW, THAT SAYS EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT
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WHAT HIS INTENTIONS WERE.
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- SURE.
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AND SO TO THE NOTION THAT MANY OF THE FOUNDING
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FATHERS WERE ATHEIST, AGNOSTICS, AND DEISTS
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WHEN YOU STUDY THE ORIGINAL WRITINGS YOU
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JUST DON'T COME TO THAT CONCLUSION.
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- NO. NO.
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- WHICH EVEN GOING BACK -WE TALKED ABOUT THIS 12
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VOLUME SET OF WASHINGTON WRITINGS WITH JARED
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SPARKS BEING THE GUY THAT COLLECTS IT, ONE OF THE
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THINGS THAT JARED SPARKS, THIS HISTORIAN PUTTING IT
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TOGETHER DOES, IS HE ACTUALLY WRITES TO
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WASHINGTON'S GRANDDAUGHTER NELLY WHO
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ENDED UP BEING THE ADOPTED DAUGHTER, RIGHT.
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LIVES WITH WASHINGTON, GROWS UP IN THEIR HOME,
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AND SAYS WELL, WHAT CAN YOU TELL ME ABOUT THE
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FAITH OF WASHINGTON?
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WHAT SHE SAYS IS BECAUSE JARED WAS ASKING ABOUT
00:18:06.040 --> 00:18:08.020
THE CHRISTIAN FAITH.
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AND SHE SAID, YOU SHOULD SOONER QUESTION HIS
00:18:10.030 --> 00:18:12.060
PATRIOTISM THAN HIS CHRISTIANITY.
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NOW, I DON'T KNOW ANY HISTORIAN THAT QUESTIONS
00:18:14.160 --> 00:18:17.020
THE PATRIOTISM OF GEORGE -THE FATHER OF THE
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NATION, THE GUY REALLY LEADING IN
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THE REVOLUTION.
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NOBODY QUESTIONS HIS PATRIOTISM, AND YET FOR
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SOME REASON TODAY WE QUESTION HIS CHRISTIANITY
00:18:25.190 --> 00:18:27.170
WHEN EVERYBODY THAT KNEW HIM SAYS NO, NO, NO.
00:18:27.190 --> 00:18:30.030
HE WAS A CHRISTIAN, BUT AGAIN IT GOES BACK TO
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THIS NOTION WHEN PEOPLE SAY WELL, NO, THE
00:18:32.070 --> 00:18:33.260
FOUNDING FATHERS WEREN'T CHRISTIANS.
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THEY DIDN'T BELIEVE IN GOD.
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WELL, EVERYBODY THAT KNEW THEM SEEMED TO
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THINK THEY DID.
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- WELL, NELLY GAVE A BUNCH EXAMPLES OF WHY YOU
00:18:41.060 --> 00:18:42.220
MIGHT AS WELL QUESTION HIS PATRIOTISM INSTEAD OF
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HIS CHRISTIANITY.
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SHE SAID ON ONE OCCASION THAT HER AUNT DIED, AND
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SHE WAS LYING THERE AT THE COUCH AT MOUNT VERNON
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IN FRONT OF THE FIREPLACE, AND WASHINGTON
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SAW HER, AND SHE WAS REALLY SICK.
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WASHINGTON DIDN'T REALIZE SHE HAD DIED, THOUGHT SHE
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WAS JUST RESTING, SLEEPING.
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NELLY SAYS HE WENT OVER AND LAID HANDS ON HER AND
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PRAYED FOR HER NOT REALIZING SHE'D ALREADY
00:19:00.030 --> 00:19:03.010
PASSED BUT PRAYING THAT GOD WOULD HEAL HER, AND
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THAT'S NOT THE KIND OF STUFF YOU GET FROM A DEIST.
00:19:05.130 --> 00:19:08.190
- YEAH, A DEIST WOULDN'T DO THAT. THAT'S JUST --
00:19:08.210 --> 00:19:10.070
- BUT SO AS WE MENTIONED FOR YOUNG
00:19:10.090 --> 00:19:12.010
OUR YOUNGER AUDIENCE WHO IS POSSIBLY HEARING SOME
00:19:12.030 --> 00:19:14.040
OF THIS FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE IMPORTANT THING
00:19:14.060 --> 00:19:16.210
OF GOING BACK TO ORIGINAL SOURCES AND FINDING THE
00:19:16.230 --> 00:19:19.230
TRUTH, NOT JUST SOMEBODY'S IMPRESSION
00:19:19.250 --> 00:19:22.140
BECAUSE EVEN AS WE'RE SAYING THAT WE'D COUNSEL
00:19:22.160 --> 00:19:24.210
THEM -KIND OF LIKE WHEN PAUL IN THE BOOK OF ACTS
00:19:24.230 --> 00:19:27.030
PRAISES THE BOOR REASONS BECAUSE AS HE'S EXPLAIN
00:19:27.050 --> 00:19:30.000
THE GOSPEL TO THEM THEY GO, WAIT A SECOND.
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SOMEBODY GET THE SCROLL OF ISAIAH.
00:19:32.090 --> 00:19:34.020
LET'S MAKE SURE THIS GUY KNOWS WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT.
00:19:34.040 --> 00:19:36.040
WE'D EVEN SAY FOR US DON'T JUST TAKE OUR
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WORD FOR IT.
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GO BACK AND SEE THE ORIGINAL WRITINGS SO THAT
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CLEARLY WE'VE SEEN WITH KIND OF THIS FIRST MYTH
00:19:42.290 --> 00:19:45.020
THAT GEORGE WASHINGTON WAS NOT A CHRISTIAN, WE'D
00:19:45.040 --> 00:19:47.070
SAY THAT WAS WRONG.
00:19:47.090 --> 00:19:49.040
THAT'S KIND OF FAKE HISTORY, RIGHT, BECAUSE
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EVERYBODY AT HIS TIME THAT KNEW HIM SAID NO,
00:19:51.160 --> 00:19:53.180
THIS GUY IS A CHRISTIAN.
00:19:53.200 --> 00:19:55.210
- AS A MATTER OF FACT, TIM, THIS IS A PIECE FROM
00:19:55.230 --> 00:19:57.290
THE REVEREND JOHN LELAND, AND JOHN LELAND KNEW
00:19:58.010 --> 00:20:00.220
WASHINGTON WELL.
00:20:00.240 --> 00:20:02.240
HE'S ONE OF THE PREACHERS BEHIND THE MEMBERS OF
00:20:02.260 --> 00:20:04.170
THE CONSTITUTION.
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AND THIS LITTLE PIECE RIGHT HERE IS SEVERAL
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PAGES IS TITLED WASHINGTON AND CHRIST,
00:20:08.020 --> 00:20:11.010
HIS TWO GOOD FRIENDS, 46 STANZAS ABOUT WASHINGTON
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AND CHRIST FROM A GUY WHO PERSONALLY KNEW
00:20:13.230 --> 00:20:16.150
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
00:20:16.170 --> 00:20:20.030
- SO AGAIN THE CONFIRMATION IS THAT
00:20:20.050 --> 00:20:21.250
PEOPLE WHO KNEW WASHINGTON SAYS THIS GUY
00:20:21.270 --> 00:20:23.170
IS A CHRISTIAN.
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SO WE CAN SAY THAT FIRST MYTH HAS BEEN EXPOSED,
00:20:25.130 --> 00:20:27.290
THAT WASHINGTON WAS IN FACT A CHRISTIAN.
00:20:28.010 --> 00:20:30.160
THE SECOND MYTH INVOLVES AROUND SOMEBODY YOU'VE
00:20:30.180 --> 00:20:32.090
DONE A LOT OF RESEARCH ON, ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND
00:20:32.110 --> 00:20:33.200
THE CIVIL WAR.
00:20:33.220 --> 00:20:35.110
BUT WE NEED TO GO TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STUDIO.
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SO LET'S GET ON ACROSS THE STUDIO.
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- LET'S DO IT.
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[ MUSIC ]
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- OKAY.
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WE'VE DISPATCHED THE MYTH THAT GEORGE WASHINGTON
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WAS A DEIST.
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NOT TRUE.
00:20:47.270 --> 00:20:49.100
HE WAS A CHRISTIAN.
00:20:49.120 --> 00:20:51.020
BUT WE'VE ALSO GOT ANOTHER MYTH THAT'S OUT THERE.
00:20:51.040 --> 00:20:52.280
AS A MATTER OF FACT, IN RECENT YEARS WE'VE SEEN
00:20:53.000 --> 00:20:54.260
EVEN COLLEGE KIDS HAVING PROTESTING TO TAKE DOWN
00:20:54.280 --> 00:20:56.190
THE STATUTES OF ABRAHAM LINK BECAUSE HE'S A SLAVE
00:20:56.210 --> 00:20:58.000
OWNER AND PRO SLAVERY.
00:20:58.020 --> 00:20:59.220
NOT TRUE.
00:20:59.240 --> 00:21:01.040
NOW, WE'VE GOT STEVEN MANSFIELD THE HISTORIAN,
00:21:01.060 --> 00:21:03.010
TIM BARTON, PRESIDENT OF WALL BUILDERS, AND
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STEVEN, YOU'VE GOT A GREAT BOOK ON LINCOLN'S
00:21:04.260 --> 00:21:06.140
BATTLE WITH GOD.
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WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT LINK ON PARTICULARLY.
00:21:08.100 --> 00:21:09.260
BUT KIND OF AROUND USES WE'VE GOT A PICTURE OF
00:21:09.280 --> 00:21:11.140
ABRAHAM LINCOLN BACK HERE.
00:21:11.160 --> 00:21:13.060
THIS IS JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, OUR 6TH PRESIDENT.
00:21:13.080 --> 00:21:15.040
HE REALLY DOESN'T BELONG IN THE CIVIL WAR KIND OF
00:21:15.060 --> 00:21:17.050
AIR A BUT HE HAD A HUGE IMPACT ON THIS ERA.
00:21:17.070 --> 00:21:18.280
THAT'S JAMES A. GARFIELD
00:21:19.000 --> 00:21:22.120
OVER HERE ON THIS SIDE.
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HE WAS IN THE CIVIL WAR.
00:21:24.170 --> 00:21:26.260
KNEW LINCOLN WELL, BECAME THE 20TH PRESIDENT.
00:21:26.280 --> 00:21:28.230
LINCOLN WAS THE 16TH PRESIDENT.
00:21:28.250 --> 00:21:30.140
BUT THAT PICTURE OF LINCOLN IS
00:21:30.160 --> 00:21:31.240
FAIRLY INTERESTING.
00:21:31.260 --> 00:21:33.130
THIS IS THE SAME EXCEPT THIS IS A LOT SMALLER,
00:21:33.150 --> 00:21:35.290
AND THIS PICTURE ACTUALLY BELONGED TO THE GUY WHO
00:21:36.010 --> 00:21:40.200
DID THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL.
00:21:40.220 --> 00:21:43.030
SO WHEN YOU SEE THE PICTURES OF LINCOLN
00:21:43.050 --> 00:21:44.280
MEMORIAL, THIS WAS A PICTURE THAT HE HAD IN
00:21:45.000 --> 00:21:46.270
DOING THAT, BUT WHAT'S EVEN COOLER IS THIS IS
00:21:46.290 --> 00:21:49.110
THE NEGATIVE FROM WHICH IT WAS MADE.
00:21:49.130 --> 00:21:52.130
- WOW.
00:21:52.150 --> 00:21:54.060
- AND SO-- THAT GLASS NEGATIVE -AND IT'S THIS
00:21:54.080 --> 00:21:56.130
KIND OF CAMERA OVER HERE, AND THERE'S SOME JOHN
00:21:56.150 --> 00:21:58.210
QUINCY ADAMS DOCUMENTS RIGHT HERE, FOR EXAMPLE.
00:21:58.230 --> 00:22:00.240
THIS IS THE REVERSES IMAGE OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN.
00:22:00.260 --> 00:22:03.010
OVER THERE IS SOME JAMES A.
00:22:03.030 --> 00:22:05.110
GARFIELD -AND BY THE WAY, JAMES GARFIELD, 20TH
00:22:05.130 --> 00:22:08.040
PRESIDENT, THIS IS THE PAGING SYSTEM THAT SAT ON
00:22:08.060 --> 00:22:10.260
HIS DESK [ RINGS THE DESK BELL ] SO YOU CAN CALL
00:22:10.280 --> 00:22:13.150
SOMEONE FROM THE NEXT ROOM TO COME IN.
00:22:13.170 --> 00:22:15.130
AND JOHN CONVINCE SEE ADAMS, THERE'S SOME MORE
00:22:15.150 --> 00:22:17.160
OFF THE DESK OF GARFIELD AS WELL.
00:22:17.180 --> 00:22:19.050
AND TIM, YOU'VE GOT SOME STUFF OVER THERE.
00:22:19.070 --> 00:22:21.020
- YEAH, SO LETTERS FROM GARFIELD.
00:22:21.040 --> 00:22:22.250
A LOT OF THINGS FROM JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.
00:22:22.270 --> 00:22:24.200
SO UP HERE WE HAVE A LOT OF THINGS FROM PRESIDENTS
00:22:24.220 --> 00:22:26.260
OF THAT ERA, AND ACTUALLY A FEW THINGS PROBABLY
00:22:26.280 --> 00:22:28.280
WORTH TALKING ABOUT, SO OUR FIRST VOLUNTEER WE
00:22:29.000 --> 00:22:31.070
ALREADY ASKED IF YOU WOULD COME UP, WE HAVE
00:22:31.090 --> 00:22:33.090
SOMETHING WE WANT YOU TO CHECK OUT AND SEE IF YOU
00:22:33.110 --> 00:22:35.090
CAN FIGURE OUT, I CAN'T EVER, WHAT IT IS.
00:22:35.110 --> 00:22:37.080
NOW, WHAT'S YOUR NAME?
00:22:37.100 --> 00:22:39.050
- PAUL.
00:22:39.070 --> 00:22:40.170
- PAUL?
00:22:40.190 --> 00:22:41.230
- UH-HUH.
00:22:41.250 --> 00:22:43.060
- OKAY.
00:22:43.080 --> 00:22:44.130
ALL RIGHT, PAUL.
00:22:44.150 --> 00:22:46.020
YOU'RE WEARING GLASSES.
00:22:46.040 --> 00:22:47.280
IF YOU WILL TAKE YOUR GLASSES OFF AND --
00:22:48.000 --> 00:22:50.070
- I CAN HOLD THOSE FOR YOU.
00:22:50.090 --> 00:22:51.280
- VERY CAREFULLY SLIP THOSE GLASSES ON.
00:22:52.000 --> 00:22:54.260
SEE IF IT DOES ANYTHING FOR YOU.
00:22:54.280 --> 00:22:56.260
- MAKES EVERYTHING BLURRIER.
00:22:56.280 --> 00:22:58.140
- PUT THEM BACK ON AGAIN.
00:22:58.160 --> 00:22:59.290
- YOU LOOK GREAT IN THEM THOUGH.
00:23:00.030 --> 00:23:01.110
- THAT'S THE WAY THAT PRESIDENT ZACHARY TAYLOR
00:23:01.130 --> 00:23:03.150
SAW THE WORLD BECAUSE THOSE ARE PRESIDENTIAL
00:23:03.170 --> 00:23:05.040
GLASSES OF ZACHARY TAYLOR.
00:23:05.060 --> 00:23:07.000
NOT GOING TO LET YOU SIT IN IT, BUT THAT'S HIS
00:23:07.020 --> 00:23:08.280
CHAIR OVER THERE FROM THE WHITE HOUSE, PRESIDENT
00:23:09.000 --> 00:23:10.020
ZACHARY TAYLOR.
00:23:10.040 --> 00:23:11.140
- SO YOU'VE NOW WORN PRESIDENTIAL GLASSES.
00:23:11.160 --> 00:23:13.130
I DON'T KNOW IF YOU FELT EXECUTIVE ITCH.
00:23:13.150 --> 00:23:15.070
OKAY. WELL, THANK YOU.
00:23:15.090 --> 00:23:16.220
SO YOU GOT TO CHECK OUT THE GLASSES.
00:23:16.240 --> 00:23:18.140
THERE'S A LOT OF COOL STUFF, AND WE COULD EVEN
00:23:18.160 --> 00:23:20.080
DO SOME MORE LOOKING AND GUESSING ON WHAT STUFF
00:23:20.100 --> 00:23:21.270
IS, BUT THE KIND OF BOTTOM LINE WITH THIS
00:23:21.290 --> 00:23:23.190
SECTION REALLY DOES REVOLVE A LOT AROUND
00:23:23.210 --> 00:23:25.210
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
00:23:25.230 --> 00:23:27.250
TODAY AS YOU ALREADY MENTIONED WHERE PEOPLE
00:23:27.270 --> 00:23:30.010
THINK HE WASN'T ANTI-SLAVERY AND SO MANY
00:23:30.030 --> 00:23:32.030
THINGS THAT GET SAID EVEN ABOUT HIS FAITH, WHICH
00:23:32.050 --> 00:23:34.040
YOU DID A GREAT JOB UNFOLDING, BUT WITH
00:23:34.060 --> 00:23:36.060
LINCOLN NOW WE'RE BEING TOLD HE WASN'T EVEN
00:23:36.080 --> 00:23:37.230
AGAINST SLAVERY.
00:23:37.250 --> 00:23:39.180
HOW DO WE RESPOND TO THAT?
00:23:39.200 --> 00:23:41.150
HOW DO WE ANSWER THAT QUESTION ABOUT LINCOLN
00:23:41.170 --> 00:23:43.020
WHEN IT COMES TO SLAVERY?
00:23:43.040 --> 00:23:45.030
- WELL, IT'S SAD THAT PEOPLE AREN'T SEEING THIS
00:23:45.050 --> 00:23:47.130
CORRECTLY BECAUSE IN HIS EARLY LIFE, LINCOLN
00:23:47.150 --> 00:23:49.290
DEFINITELY HAD SOME OF THE RACIST ATTITUDES OF
00:23:50.010 --> 00:23:52.060
THE TIMES, AND HE SAID SOME THINGS PEOPLE
00:23:52.080 --> 00:23:54.050
QUOTED, SO PEOPLE ASSUME HE WASN'T ANTI-SLAVERY,
00:23:54.070 --> 00:23:56.210
BUT THAT'S JUST RIDICULOUS.
00:23:56.230 --> 00:23:58.120
THE FACT IS HE HAD ANTI-SLAVERY SENTIMENTS
00:23:58.140 --> 00:24:00.100
FROM A VERY YOUNG AGE.
00:24:00.120 --> 00:24:02.280
HE WAS IN CONGRESS FOR ABOUT 18 MONTHS, AND
00:24:03.000 --> 00:24:04.210
DURING THAT TIME HE PROPOSED LEGISLATION TO
00:24:04.230 --> 00:24:08.070
MAKE WASHINGTON DC ANTI-SLAVERY.
00:24:08.090 --> 00:24:11.020
IT'S THE FIRST TIME HE EVER PROPOSED ANY
00:24:11.040 --> 00:24:12.270
LEGISLATION RELATED TO SLAVERY.
00:24:12.290 --> 00:24:14.160
HE WAS ABSOLUTELY OPPOSED TO SLAVERY.
00:24:14.180 --> 00:24:16.290
- AND CERTAINLY EVEN LOOKING AT BEING A MEMBER
00:24:17.010 --> 00:24:18.280
OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY THAT WAS PART OF THEIR
00:24:19.000 --> 00:24:20.190
PARTY POSITION.
00:24:20.210 --> 00:24:22.150
- THAT WAS THEIR PLATFORM ALL THE TIME.
00:24:22.170 --> 00:24:24.120
- THIS IS THE ACTUAL DRED SCOTT DECISION THAT
00:24:24.140 --> 00:24:26.100
THE SUPREME COURT CAME OUT WITH THAT SAID OH,
00:24:26.120 --> 00:24:28.240
BLACKS -- NO BLACK MAN HAS ANY RIGHTS WHICH WHITE
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MAN IS BOUND TO RESPECT.
00:24:31.100 --> 00:24:33.230
THAT THEN BECAME SOMETHING THAT WAS HANDED
00:24:33.250 --> 00:24:35.240
OUT WITH THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY PLATFORM THE
00:24:35.260 --> 00:24:37.210
NEXT ELECTION.
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THEY SAID SEE, WE WERE RIGHT ABOUT SLAVERY.
00:24:39.280 --> 00:24:41.150
WE TOLD YOU SLAVERY WAS GOOD FOR EVERYBODY.
00:24:41.170 --> 00:24:43.080
AND THE SUPREME COURT ACTUALLY SAID THAT
00:24:43.100 --> 00:24:44.250
SLAVERY IS FOR THE BENEFIT OF BLACKS.
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IT'S FOR THE BENEFIT OF SOCIETY AND IT HELPS BLACKS.
00:24:46.210 --> 00:24:48.210
SO DEMOCRATS WHEN THEIR PLATFORM PUT IT OUT.
00:24:48.230 --> 00:24:50.260
WELL, REPUBLICANS SAID, NOT US.
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AND SO THIS IS THE FIRST REPUBLICAN PLATFORM, 1856.
00:24:53.010 --> 00:24:55.080
IT IS ONLY NINE PLANKS LONG, AND 7 OF THE NINE
00:24:55.100 --> 00:24:58.090
PLANKS ARE WE WANT TO END SLAVERY, GIVE EQUALITY,
00:24:58.110 --> 00:25:01.210
GIVE EQUAL CIVIL RIGHTS.
00:25:01.230 --> 00:25:03.270
THEY DID NOT WIN THAT ELECTION OF 1856.
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THE NEXT REELECTION WAS 1860.
00:25:05.270 --> 00:25:08.000
THEY DID WIN THIS ONE.
00:25:08.020 --> 00:25:10.020
THIS IS THE ONE ON WHICH ABRAHAM LINCOLN RAN AS A
00:25:10.040 --> 00:25:13.130
REPUBLICAN AND A BRAND-NEW PARTY.
00:25:13.150 --> 00:25:15.120
AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WAS STARTED BY 30
00:25:15.140 --> 00:25:17.170
ANTI-SLAVERY DEMOCRATS WHO NO LONGER FELT AT
00:25:17.190 --> 00:25:19.260
HOME IN THEIR OWN PARTY, SO THEY STARTED A NEW
00:25:19.280 --> 00:25:22.030
PARTY, AND ANTI-SLAVERY HE RUNS AS PRESIDENT AND
00:25:22.050 --> 00:25:23.290
GETS ELECTED.
00:25:24.010 --> 00:25:26.050
THIS IS A HUGE -- THERE'S 17 PLANKS HERE, HUGE
00:25:26.070 --> 00:25:28.090
ANTI-SLAVERY PLATFORM.
00:25:28.110 --> 00:25:30.120
AND THEN FOUR YEARS LATER THIS IS THE 1864
00:25:30.140 --> 00:25:34.130
PHRALTS FORM OF THE REPUBLICANS AND THE
00:25:34.150 --> 00:25:36.280
DEMOCRATS SO VOTERS WOULD NOWHERE THE PARTIES ARE
00:25:37.000 --> 00:25:39.240
ON ALL THE ISSUES, AND RIGHT HERE THE REPUBLICAN
00:25:39.260 --> 00:25:42.060
PARTY CALLS FOR A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
00:25:42.080 --> 00:25:44.160
TO PERMANENT BAN SLAVERY.
00:25:44.180 --> 00:25:46.230
WE'RE NOT GOING TO DO ABOLITION STUFF ANYMORE.
00:25:46.250 --> 00:25:48.190
WE'RE NOT GOING TO GRADUALLY -- WE JUST WANT
00:25:48.210 --> 00:25:50.090
IT GONE.
00:25:50.110 --> 00:25:52.110
AND THAT'S WHAT LINCOLN RUNS ON.
00:25:52.130 --> 00:25:54.140
THAT'S WHAT HE GETS REELECTED ON.
00:25:54.160 --> 00:25:56.110
THIS IS THE 13TH AMENDMENT, AND THIS IS
00:25:56.130 --> 00:25:58.200
THE AMENDMENT THAT ABOLISHES SLAVERY
00:25:58.220 --> 00:26:00.180
AFTER 240 YEARS.
00:26:00.200 --> 00:26:03.230
ACCORDING TO THE CONSTITUTION, IN ANY
00:26:03.250 --> 00:26:06.100
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT YOU GET TWO-THIRDS OF THE
00:26:06.120 --> 00:26:08.080
HOUSE AND SENATE TO PASS IT AND THREE-FOURTHS OF
00:26:08.100 --> 00:26:09.290
THE STATES AND THAT'S IT.
00:26:10.010 --> 00:26:11.250
THE PRESIDENT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ANY
00:26:11.270 --> 00:26:13.220
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT EXCEPT ON THE 13TH
00:26:13.240 --> 00:26:15.170
AMENDMENT, ACHE HAM LINK ON PUT HIS SIGNATURE ON
00:26:15.190 --> 00:26:17.250
IT BECAUSE HE WANTED THE WORLD TO KNOW, I AM ANTI--
00:26:17.270 --> 00:26:19.180
HE DIDN'T NEED TO, DIDN'T HAVE TO.
00:26:19.200 --> 00:26:21.210
THERE'S NO OTHER PRESIDENT -THERE'S NO
00:26:21.230 --> 00:26:23.250
OTHER AMENDMENT SIGNED BY ANY PRESIDENT.
00:26:23.270 --> 00:26:25.290
HE PUT IT ON THE 13TH AMENDMENT TO SAY LOOK,
00:26:26.010 --> 00:26:28.010
THIS IS NOT PART OF MY CONSTITUTIONAL DUTY.
00:26:28.030 --> 00:26:30.260
I AM TELLING YOU I HATE SLAVERY.
00:26:30.280 --> 00:26:33.090
I WANT IT ENDED.
00:26:33.110 --> 00:26:35.060
SO HE SIGNS THE 13TH AMENDMENT.
00:26:35.080 --> 00:26:36.130
- WELL, IT'S JUST IGNORANCE, THE IDEA THAT
00:26:36.150 --> 00:26:41.030
ABRAHAM LINCOLN WASN'T ANTI-SLAVERY.
00:26:41.050 --> 00:26:42.280
THE CIVIL WAR BASICALLY BEGINS FROM ABRAHAM
00:26:43.000 --> 00:26:44.220
LINCOLN GETS ELECTED, AND THE SOUTHERN SLAVE STATES
00:26:44.240 --> 00:26:46.290
THEN LEAVE THE UNION, AND THEY DO THAT, WHY?
00:26:47.010 --> 00:26:48.160
BECAUSE ABRAHAM LINCOLN IS OPPOSED TO SLAVERY,
00:26:48.180 --> 00:26:49.260
AND THEREFORE THEY DON'T WANT TO BE IN A UNION
00:26:49.280 --> 00:26:51.090
THAT'S OPPOSES SLAVERY.
00:26:51.110 --> 00:26:52.250
SO HE WAS THE SYMBOL AT THAT TIME POLITICALLY OF
00:26:52.270 --> 00:26:54.080
ANTI- SLAVERY SENTIMENT.
00:26:54.100 --> 00:26:56.050
THAT'S WHY THE NATION DIVIDED.
00:26:56.070 --> 00:26:57.230
THAT'S WHY WE HAD TO FIGHT A WAR, SO YOU HAVE
00:26:57.250 --> 00:26:59.050
TO BE PRETTY IGNORANT TO THINK THAT HE'S NOT
00:26:59.070 --> 00:27:00.150
ANTI-SLAVERY.
00:27:00.170 --> 00:27:02.200
IT'S JUST OBVIOUS.
00:27:02.220 --> 00:27:04.050
- HOW MUCH OF THAT WAS RELATED TO FAITH?
00:27:04.070 --> 00:27:05.220
BECAUSE HIS FAITH JOURNEY WAS PRETTY WILD.
00:27:05.240 --> 00:27:07.190
- ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S FAITH JOURNEY WAS
00:27:07.210 --> 00:27:09.010
SO FASCINATING.
00:27:09.030 --> 00:27:10.250
WHEN PEOPLE SAY HE'S NOT A CHRISTIAN, WASN'T A
00:27:10.270 --> 00:27:12.190
BELIEVER IT'S SAD BECAUSE IT WAS SUCH A SLOW
00:27:12.210 --> 00:27:14.010
PAINFUL JOURNEY FOR HIM.
00:27:14.030 --> 00:27:16.080
LET ME TELL THE STORY VERY QUICKLY.
00:27:16.100 --> 00:27:17.270
ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS BORN TO A CHRISTIAN FAMILY,
00:27:17.290 --> 00:27:20.050
BUT HIS FATHER WAS THE KIND OF MAN, AND THIS WAS
00:27:20.070 --> 00:27:22.250
DURING THE GREAT REVIVAL CALLED THE SECOND GREAT
00:27:22.270 --> 00:27:25.030
AWAKENING, HIS FATHER WAS THE KIND OF MAN WHO WOULD
00:27:25.050 --> 00:27:27.040
GET WEEPY ABOUT JESUS ABOUT DINNER BUT THEN
00:27:27.060 --> 00:27:29.040
BEAT HIS CHILDREN THE NEXT DAY.
00:27:29.060 --> 00:27:30.250
THAT'S THE SAD ORIGINS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
00:27:30.270 --> 00:27:33.020
SO ABRAHAM LINCOLN DISTANCED HIMSELF FROM
00:27:33.040 --> 00:27:34.250
CHRISTIANITY, AND IN THE EARLY PHASE OF HIS ADULT
00:27:34.270 --> 00:27:37.050
LIFE AROUND THE AGE OF 21, HE BECAME-- IN NEW
00:27:37.070 --> 00:27:40.000
SALEM, A PLACE CALLED NEW SALEM, HE BECAME THE
00:27:40.020 --> 00:27:41.250
VILLAGE ATHEIST.
00:27:41.270 --> 00:27:43.170
HE ARGUED AGAINST RELIGION.
00:27:43.190 --> 00:27:45.100
HE HAD READ PAYNE AND VOLNE AND GIBBON AND A
00:27:45.120 --> 00:27:47.120
LOT OF THE MAIN SKEPTICS AT THAT TIME, SO HE WAS
00:27:47.140 --> 00:27:49.090
KNOWN AS THE VILLAGE ATHEIST.
00:27:49.110 --> 00:27:51.190
HE'S WALK AROUND WITH A BIBLE UNDER HIS ARM JUST
00:27:51.210 --> 00:27:53.290
TO PICK FIGHTS ABOUT IT AND ARGUE WITH PEOPLE
00:27:54.010 --> 00:27:56.110
ABOUT IT ON THE STREETS, NO QUESTION.
00:27:56.130 --> 00:27:58.060
BUT EVENTUALLY HE WENT INTO THE
00:27:58.080 --> 00:28:00.040
ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE.
00:28:00.060 --> 00:28:01.240
HE MOVED TO SPRINGFIELD, AND HE BEGAN TO MEET
00:28:01.260 --> 00:28:03.220
CHRISTIANS WHO COULD GIVE A REASON FOR THE HOPE
00:28:03.240 --> 00:28:05.100
THAT WAS WITHIN THEM, WHO COULD ARTICULATE
00:28:05.120 --> 00:28:06.290
CHRISTIANITY, WHO COULD EXPLAIN IT IN RATIONAL
00:28:07.010 --> 00:28:09.000
TERMS, NOT JUST IN KIND OF EMOTIONAL,
00:28:09.020 --> 00:28:10.160
REVIVALISTIC TERMS.
00:28:10.180 --> 00:28:12.060
SO HE BEGAN TO CHANGE.
00:28:12.080 --> 00:28:13.250
UNFORTUNATELY WHAT REALLY TURNED ABRAHAM LINCOLN
00:28:13.270 --> 00:28:15.290
WERE THE DEATHS HE SUFFERED IN HIS LIFE.
00:28:16.010 --> 00:28:18.120
ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS A MANIC DEPRESSIVE.
00:28:18.140 --> 00:28:20.270
THAT'S THE PHRASE WE'D USE TODAY.
00:28:20.290 --> 00:28:22.250
HE ALMOST KILLED HIMSELF SEVERAL TIMES.
00:28:22.270 --> 00:28:24.270
HIS FRIENDS HAD TO STAND SUICIDE WATCH.
00:28:24.290 --> 00:28:27.260
AND SO IT WAS WHILE LINCOLN BATTLED HIS WAY
00:28:27.280 --> 00:28:30.210
OUT OF GRIEF THAT HE CAME BACK TO HIS FAITH.
00:28:30.230 --> 00:28:34.180
I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CAN REMEMBER THAT HIS MOTHER
00:28:34.200 --> 00:28:36.160
DIED WHEN ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS ONLY NINE YEARS OLD.
00:28:36.180 --> 00:28:39.070
HIS SISTER DIED WHEN HE WAS 16.
00:28:39.090 --> 00:28:41.040
THE FIRST LOVE OF HIS LIFE DIED WHEN HE WAS
00:28:41.060 --> 00:28:42.180
IN HIS EARLY 20'S.
00:28:42.200 --> 00:28:44.070
THEN THERE WERE OTHER DEATHS IN HIS LIFE.
00:28:44.090 --> 00:28:46.270
OF COURSE HE GOT MARRIED TO MARY TODD LINCOLN,
00:28:46.290 --> 00:28:48.270
AS WE'VE DISCUSSED, AND HE LOST CHILDREN.
00:28:48.290 --> 00:28:51.100
HE HAD SEVERAL SONS DIE.
00:28:51.120 --> 00:28:53.140
AND THE GRIEF THAT HE SUFFERED OVER THAT
00:28:53.160 --> 00:28:55.010
WAS JUST HORRIBLE.
00:28:55.030 --> 00:28:56.110
THE MAN WHO MADE THE DIFFERENCE WAS A MAN
00:28:56.130 --> 00:28:58.040
NAMED REVEREND SMITH.
00:28:58.060 --> 00:29:00.060
AND REVEREND SMITH MINISTERED TO LINCOLN IN
00:29:00.080 --> 00:29:02.160
THE MIDST OF HIS GRIEF, AND THAT'S REALLY WHAT
00:29:02.180 --> 00:29:04.260
GIVES US THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN THAT WE HAVE WHEN
00:29:04.280 --> 00:29:07.170
ABRAHAM LINCOLN ARRIVES AT THE OVAL OFFICE.
00:29:07.190 --> 00:29:09.200
SO WE ACTUALLY HAVE A DOCUMENT.
00:29:09.220 --> 00:29:11.180
GO AHEAD AND TELL THEM ABOUT IT.
00:29:11.200 --> 00:29:12.290
- THIS IS FROM REVEREND SMITH TALKING ABOUT
00:29:13.010 --> 00:29:14.280
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
00:29:15.000 --> 00:29:16.250
AND REVEREND SMITH RELATES THAT AS THE BIBLE
00:29:16.270 --> 00:29:19.200
SOCIETY MEETING ANNUAL MEETING WAS IN TOWN, HE
00:29:19.220 --> 00:29:22.010
WANTED ABRAHAM TO SPEAK TO THE BIBLE SOCIETY
00:29:22.030 --> 00:29:25.060
MEETING, AND ABRAHAM SAID NO, I DON'T KNOW.
00:29:25.080 --> 00:29:27.030
YEAH, YEAH, YOU'RE GREAT!
00:29:27.050 --> 00:29:29.010
NO, I DON'T WANT-- YEAH, YOU'RE GREAT!
00:29:29.030 --> 00:29:30.130
SO HE RECORDS THAT ABRAHAM LINCOLN GAVE THIS KILLER
00:29:30.150 --> 00:29:33.050
SPEECH ON THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, AND HOW
00:29:33.070 --> 00:29:34.240
RELEVANT THEY ARE TODAY, AND HOW TO LIVE BY
00:29:34.260 --> 00:29:36.140
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
00:29:36.160 --> 00:29:38.100
SO THIS IS THE PASTOR YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT.
00:29:38.120 --> 00:29:40.190
THIS IS THE PASTOR THAT REALLY TOOK HIM IN A
00:29:40.210 --> 00:29:43.060
DIFFERENT DIRECTION.
00:29:43.080 --> 00:29:45.140
- WHEN YOU HAVE ABRAHAM LINCOLN IN THE WHITE
00:29:45.160 --> 00:29:47.150
HOUSE, BY THAT TIME HE HAS BECOME THE VERY
00:29:47.170 --> 00:29:50.180
RELIGIOUS, THE VERY SPIRITUAL MAN THAT WE NOW
00:29:50.200 --> 00:29:52.290
KNOW. I WANT YOU TO ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT ABRAHAM
00:29:53.010 --> 00:29:55.190
LINCOLN WENT THROUGH ALMOST A DECADE WHERE HE
00:29:55.210 --> 00:29:57.090
WAS A CONFESSED ATHEIST.
00:29:57.110 --> 00:29:59.130
THE THING THAT YOU HAVE TO LEAN TO IS THAT WHEN
00:29:59.150 --> 00:30:03.080
YOU READ, AGAIN, AS WE WERE SPEAKING OF EARLIER,
00:30:03.100 --> 00:30:05.180
ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS, WHEN YOU READ THE MAGNIFICENT
00:30:05.200 --> 00:30:09.180
SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS, WHICH WAS GIVEN JUST A
00:30:09.200 --> 00:30:12.110
FEW MONTHS, FEW WEEKS IN FACT BEFORE ABRAHAM
00:30:12.130 --> 00:30:14.290
LINCOLN WAS SHOT AT FORD'S THEATER, IT'S ONE
00:30:15.010 --> 00:30:18.190
OF THE GREAT AMERICAN POLITICAL SERMONS.
00:30:18.210 --> 00:30:20.280
IT QUOTES SCRIPTURE.
00:30:21.000 --> 00:30:22.130
IT REFRAMES THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR IN DIVINE
00:30:22.150 --> 00:30:25.160
TERMS, WHAT IS GOD DOING?
00:30:25.180 --> 00:30:27.090
LINCOLN'S COME TO THE CONCLUSION BY THE END OF
00:30:27.110 --> 00:30:29.070
THE WAR THAT GOD HAD VISITED THE CIVIL WAR ON
00:30:29.090 --> 00:30:31.140
THE NATION IN PUNISHMENT FOR SLAVERY AND HER OTHER
00:30:31.160 --> 00:30:33.220
SINS. AND SO WHATEVER YOU DO WITH ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S
00:30:33.240 --> 00:30:37.090
LIFE, AND I'M SPEAKING OF SECULAR SCHOLARS HERE,
00:30:37.110 --> 00:30:39.100
YOU HAVE TO HONOR THE FACT THAT THIS
00:30:39.120 --> 00:30:41.100
MAGNIFICENT SERMON QUOTING SCRIPTURE AND
00:30:41.120 --> 00:30:44.080
INVOKING GOD'S WILL IN THE EARTH IS AT THE
00:30:44.100 --> 00:30:46.070
END OF HIS LIFE. SO YOU HAVE TO HAVE A PROGRESSION
00:30:46.090 --> 00:30:48.140
GETTING HIM FROM HIS ATHEISTIC PERIOD TO THIS
00:30:48.160 --> 00:30:50.290
MAGNIFICENT TIME WHEN HE'S THIS STRONG BELIEVER
00:30:51.010 --> 00:30:53.110
IN GOD'S PROVIDENCE.
00:30:53.130 --> 00:30:54.240
I GET A LITTLE TICKED OFF WHEN PEOPLE GO AROUND
00:30:54.260 --> 00:30:56.270
TALKING ABOUT HIM NOT BEING A BELIEVER, BECAUSE
00:30:56.290 --> 00:30:58.280
IF HE WAS SITTING BACK HERE IN THIS CHAIR, HE'D
00:30:59.000 --> 00:31:00.230
SAY, YOU KNOW, FINDING MY FAITH AGAIN TOOK A LOT OF
00:31:00.250 --> 00:31:03.130
DARK NIGHTS OF THE SOUL, AND A LOT OF PRAYER, AND
00:31:03.150 --> 00:31:06.070
A LOT OF FIGHTING THROUGH, AND A LOT OF
00:31:06.090 --> 00:31:07.220
BATTLING MY OWN DARKNESS, SO DON'T TALK LIKE I
00:31:07.240 --> 00:31:10.090
WASN'T, LIKE I HADN'T WON THAT BATTLE BECAUSE HE HAD.
00:31:10.110 --> 00:31:13.050
- YOU CAN TAKE A QUOTE FROM EARLY ON WHEN HIS
00:31:13.070 --> 00:31:14.250
FATHER WAS BEATING HIM AND SAY LOOK WHAT LINCOLN
00:31:14.270 --> 00:31:16.240
SAID, OR YOU CAN TAKE A QUOTE RIGHT AT THE START
00:31:16.260 --> 00:31:18.290
OF THE CIVIL WAR, OR YOU CAN LOOK AT ALL THE
00:31:19.010 --> 00:31:21.150
QUOTES, IS THAT THE ONLY THING HE SAID ABOUT--
00:31:21.170 --> 00:31:23.240
AND WHEN YOU LOOK AT EVERYTHING, AND THAT'S A
00:31:23.260 --> 00:31:26.020
PROBLEM WE HAVE TODAY IN ACADEMIA IS WE'LL PICK
00:31:26.040 --> 00:31:28.290
ONE QUOTE OUT OF AND SAY THAT'S THE GUY, OR WE'LL
00:31:29.010 --> 00:31:31.170
TAKE ONE SOURCE AND SAY THAT'S-- NO.
00:31:31.190 --> 00:31:34.060
YOU LOOK AT ALL THE SOURCES AND YOU
00:31:34.080 --> 00:31:35.110
BALANCE IT TOGETHER.
00:31:35.130 --> 00:31:36.270
- RIGHT. LET ME TELL YOU A STORY THAT YOU'VE PROBABLY
00:31:36.290 --> 00:31:39.020
NEVER HEARD BEFORE ABOUT ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
00:31:39.040 --> 00:31:40.190
I CAN DO IT VERY QUICKLY.
00:31:40.210 --> 00:31:41.290
ON THE DAY THAT LINCOLN WAS SHOT, HE AND HIS WIFE
00:31:42.010 --> 00:31:43.180
WENT FOR A CARRIAGE RIDE, AND THEY TALKED ABOUT
00:31:43.200 --> 00:31:45.210
WHAT THEY WOULD DO AFTER THE WAR.
00:31:45.230 --> 00:31:47.140
WELL, THAT NIGHT THEY'RE SITTING IN FORD'S
00:31:47.160 --> 00:31:49.070
THEATER, AND THEY'RE STILL HAVING KIND OF A
00:31:49.090 --> 00:31:51.030
FLIRTY LOVING CONNECTION WITH EACH OTHER.
00:31:51.050 --> 00:31:53.160
THEY HAD BEEN ESTRANGED A LITTLE BIT DURING THE WAR
00:31:53.180 --> 00:31:55.130
JUST BECAUSE OF PRESSURE.
00:31:55.150 --> 00:31:57.040
AND LINCOLN TURNS TO HER AND CONTINUES THE
00:31:57.060 --> 00:31:59.100
CONVERSATION HE HAD HAD IN THE CARRIAGE
00:31:59.120 --> 00:32:01.020
EARLIER THAT DAY. AND HE SAYS TO HER,
00:32:01.040 --> 00:32:03.140
AFTER THE WAR, WE WILL NOT GO BACK TO SPRINGFIELD.
00:32:03.160 --> 00:32:06.010
WE WILL TRAVEL ABROAD SO I CAN REST.
00:32:06.030 --> 00:32:09.020
AND HE SAYS THESE WORDS.
00:32:09.040 --> 00:32:10.260
HE SAYS, I SHOULD SO MUCH LIKE TO GO TO THE HOLY LAND.
00:32:10.280 --> 00:32:15.070
I SHOULD SO MUCH LIKE TO WALK IN THE
00:32:15.090 --> 00:32:17.210
FOOTSTEPS OF THE MASTER.
00:32:17.230 --> 00:32:20.090
AFTER THE WAR, WE SHALL GO TO JERUSALEM.
00:32:20.110 --> 00:32:24.000
THOSE ARE THE LAST WORDS HE EVER SPEAKS IN THIS LIFE.
00:32:24.020 --> 00:32:27.070
JOHN WILKES BOOTH'S DERINGER FIRES INTO THE BACK OF HIS
00:32:27.090 --> 00:32:30.060
BRAIN. ABRAHAM LINCOLN NEVER SPEAKS AGAIN.
00:32:30.080 --> 00:32:32.040
SO NOT ONLY DO YOU HAVE THE SECOND INAUGURAL
00:32:32.060 --> 00:32:34.160
ADDRESS, THIS POWERFUL POLITICAL SERMON WEEKS
00:32:34.180 --> 00:32:37.120
BEFORE HE DIES, BUT THE NIGHT HE DIED, AS HE
00:32:37.140 --> 00:32:39.210
DIED, HE WAS SAYING, ESSENTIALLY, I WANT TO
00:32:39.230 --> 00:32:42.120
WALK IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HIS MASTER.
00:32:42.140 --> 00:32:44.070
AND WE GET THAT STORY-- I DIDN'T MAKE THAT UP.
00:32:44.090 --> 00:32:46.090
THAT CAME FROM MARY TODD LINCOLN, THE ONLY PERSON
00:32:46.110 --> 00:32:48.280
SITTING CLOSE ENOUGH TO HIM TO KNOW.
00:32:49.000 --> 00:32:50.240
SO AGAIN, THESE ARE STORIES THAT AREN'T TOLD.
00:32:50.260 --> 00:32:53.110
AGAIN, THESE COME FROM THE ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS.
00:32:53.130 --> 00:32:55.110
AND I THINK THAT REMOVES PRETTY MUCH ANY DOUBT OF
00:32:55.130 --> 00:32:57.120
WHERE ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS WHEN HE DIED.
00:32:57.140 --> 00:32:59.020
- HIS JOURNEY IS SO INTERESTING.
00:32:59.040 --> 00:33:00.190
AND ONE OF THE THINGS YOU DOCUMENT SO WELL
00:33:00.210 --> 00:33:02.140
IN YOUR BOOK IS HIS JOURNEY OF FAITH.
00:33:02.160 --> 00:33:04.130
BUT IN THE MIDST OF THIS JOURNEY, IT'S ALSO
00:33:04.150 --> 00:33:06.000
AMAZING THE PEOPLE THAT IT SEEMS LIKE DIVINE
00:33:06.020 --> 00:33:08.130
PROVIDENCE, RIGHT, THAT GOD BRINGS ALONG THE WAY,
00:33:08.150 --> 00:33:10.090
BECAUSE ONE OF THE GUYS WE HAVE A PICTURE OF
00:33:10.110 --> 00:33:11.250
IS JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. AND ABRAHAM LINCOLN SERVED
00:33:11.270 --> 00:33:15.130
AS CONGRESSMAN FOR ONE TERM.
00:33:15.150 --> 00:33:17.060
- YES.
00:33:17.080 --> 00:33:18.180
- AND DURING HIS ONE TERM, IT'S WHILE JOHN
00:33:18.200 --> 00:33:20.260
QUINCY ADAMS IS SERVING HIS LAST TERM.
00:33:20.280 --> 00:33:23.090
AND JOHN QUINCY ADAMS IS THE LEADER OF THE
00:33:23.110 --> 00:33:25.140
ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT.
00:33:25.160 --> 00:33:26.280
AND LINCOLN AT THIS POINT HAS ALREADY SAID SOME
00:33:27.000 --> 00:33:28.190
THINGS THAT WOULD SEEMINGLY BE
00:33:28.210 --> 00:33:30.030
ANTI-SLAVERY, BUT IT'S CERTAINLY NOT AS STRONG
00:33:30.050 --> 00:33:32.100
AS HE WOULD BE LATER IN LIFE.
00:33:32.120 --> 00:33:34.010
BUT WHILE HE'S IN CONGRESS, HE LISTENS TO
00:33:34.030 --> 00:33:37.200
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS GETTING UP AND GIVING THESE
00:33:37.220 --> 00:33:39.130
IMPASSIONED SPEECHES ABOUT THE EVILS OF
00:33:39.150 --> 00:33:41.170
SLAVERY, AND WHAT WE SHOULD DO, AND HOW WE
00:33:41.190 --> 00:33:42.280
SHOULD END IT. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, NO DOUBT,
00:33:43.000 --> 00:33:45.130
HAS AN INFLUENCE ON ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
00:33:45.150 --> 00:33:47.140
- ABRAHAM LINCOLN BECAME A PALLBEARER FOR
00:33:47.160 --> 00:33:49.280
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS WHEN JOHN-- I MEAN OF ALL THE
00:33:50.000 --> 00:33:52.060
FAMOUS-- HE'S A PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES;
00:33:52.080 --> 00:33:55.120
BEFORE THIS, HE'S A U.S. SENATOR,
00:33:55.140 --> 00:33:57.010
HE'S A FOREIGN DIPLOMAT TO FIVE DIFFERENT NATIONS,
00:33:57.030 --> 00:33:58.230
SECRETARY OF STATE, HE'S ENDED WARS.
00:33:58.250 --> 00:34:01.150
HE CAN GET ANYBODY IN THE WORLD TO BE HIS
00:34:01.170 --> 00:34:03.050
PALLBEARER, AND THIS YOUNG FRESHMAN KID,
00:34:03.070 --> 00:34:05.190
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, THAT NOBODY EVEN KNOWS ABOUT
00:34:05.210 --> 00:34:07.290
IS THE PALLBEARER BECAUSE THE CONNECTION THAT'S
00:34:08.010 --> 00:34:10.120
ALREADY BEEN FORMED THERE.
00:34:10.140 --> 00:34:11.280
- OVER ANTI-SLAVERY SENTIMENT.
00:34:12.000 --> 00:34:13.250
- BUT AGAIN, IT'S THE FAITH OF THESE GUYS
00:34:13.270 --> 00:34:15.200
MOTIVATED THEM TO DO WHAT THEY DO.
00:34:15.220 --> 00:34:18.000
YOU SEE, THEN ABRAHAM LINCOLN IS INFLUENCED BY
00:34:18.020 --> 00:34:20.210
THESE GUYS OF FAITH TO DO WHAT HE DOES.
00:34:20.230 --> 00:34:23.110
IT'S AMAZING WHEN YOU SEE THE BIG PICTURE
00:34:23.130 --> 00:34:25.120
FULL STORY HOW GOD REALLY KIND OF
00:34:25.140 --> 00:34:27.240
WEAVED THINGS TOGETHER.
00:34:27.260 --> 00:34:29.130
- LET'S TAKE ANOTHER ONE BECAUSE LINCOLN, IN THE
00:34:29.150 --> 00:34:31.130
MIDDLE OF THE CIVIL WAR, I MEAN HE'S GOT MILITARY
00:34:31.150 --> 00:34:34.050
PROBLEMS. MC CLELLAN'S A BIG PAIN. HE HAS TO GET
00:34:34.070 --> 00:34:36.110
RID OF MC CLELLAN AND GET U.S. GRANT IN THERE.
00:34:36.130 --> 00:34:38.150
HE'S ALSO GOT A LOT OF POLITICAL
00:34:38.170 --> 00:34:40.000
PROBLEMS IN CONGRESS.
00:34:40.020 --> 00:34:41.130
SO HE REACHES IN TO ONE OF HIS MAJOR GENERALS,
00:34:41.150 --> 00:34:44.050
WHICH IS THAT GUY RIGHT THERE.
00:34:44.070 --> 00:34:45.270
JAMES A. GARFIELD WAS A HERO, A WAR HERO.
00:34:45.290 --> 00:34:49.210
AND LINCOLN, IN THE MIDDLE OF CIVIL WAR,
00:34:49.230 --> 00:34:52.050
SAYS HELP BACK HERE IN CONGRESS.
00:34:52.070 --> 00:34:53.270
SO THIS MAN COMES BACK TO CONGRESS, HELPS.
00:34:53.290 --> 00:34:56.140
HE THEN IS KEY IN PASSING THE FIRST 23 CIVIL RIGHTS
00:34:56.160 --> 00:35:00.110
LAWS IN AMERICA BECAUSE WE DO END UP ABOLISHING
00:35:00.130 --> 00:35:02.230
SLAVERY, LINCOLN, THE 13TH AMENDMENT, THEN 23 LAWS
00:35:02.250 --> 00:35:05.140
GET PASSED, ALL SORTS OF EQUALITY, SO HE'S A KEY
00:35:05.160 --> 00:35:09.160
GUY. AND HE ACTUALLY HELPS FOUND ONE OF THE FIRST
00:35:09.180 --> 00:35:11.100
BLACK UNIVERSITIES IN AMERICA.
00:35:11.120 --> 00:35:13.000
BUT IT'S INTERESTING THAT THIS GUY, BEFORE HE WAS A
00:35:13.020 --> 00:35:16.080
MILITARY OFFICER, WAS A PREACHER OF THE GOSPEL.
00:35:16.100 --> 00:35:19.120
YOU'VE GOT AN INTERESTING LETTER THERE, TIM.
00:35:19.140 --> 00:35:21.130
- YEAH, SO THIS IS A LETTER FROM GARFIELD, AND
00:35:21.150 --> 00:35:23.220
IN THIS LETTER, HE'S RECOUNTING THAT HE HAD
00:35:23.240 --> 00:35:25.110
JUST FINISHED PREACHING AT A REVIVAL SERVICE.
00:35:25.130 --> 00:35:27.150
AND WHAT HE SAYS IN THIS LETTER IS THAT HE HAD
00:35:27.170 --> 00:35:29.260
PREACHED 19 DISCOURSES.
00:35:29.280 --> 00:35:31.290
- SO 19 SERMONS. - SO 19 SERMONS.
00:35:32.010 --> 00:35:34.000
HE SAYS THERE WERE 34 ADDITIONS, MEANING
00:35:34.020 --> 00:35:36.080
34 PEOPLE GOT SAVED.
00:35:36.100 --> 00:35:38.000
HE SAYS, AND I BAPTIZED 31 OF THEM BY EMERSION.
00:35:38.020 --> 00:35:41.070
SO YOU HAVE A GUY WHO, MILITARY OFFICER, RIGHT,
00:35:41.090 --> 00:35:45.060
GONNA GO ON AND BE A PRESIDENT, WHO IS ALSO A
00:35:45.080 --> 00:35:47.140
PREACHER, WHO'S LEADING PEOPLE TO CHRIST,
00:35:47.160 --> 00:35:49.140
BAPTIZING THEM.
00:35:49.160 --> 00:35:51.150
I DON'T KNOW MANY PRESIDENTS THAT HAVE DONE
00:35:51.170 --> 00:35:53.240
BAPTISMAL SERVICES, BUT CERTAINLY AGAIN, AS WE'RE
00:35:53.260 --> 00:35:56.150
TALKING ABOUT THE FAITH OF OUR NATION, RIGHT, OUR
00:35:56.170 --> 00:35:58.140
HERITAGE, OUR HIDDEN HISTORY, IT REALLY IS
00:35:58.160 --> 00:36:00.210
AMAZING THE CHRISTIAN HERITAGE IS THERE.
00:36:00.230 --> 00:36:02.170
- SO YOU LOOK ACROSS THIS ERA, THE SECOND MYTH
00:36:02.190 --> 00:36:05.200
IS THAT ABRAHAM LINCOLN IS PRO-SLAVERY, THEREFORE
00:36:05.220 --> 00:36:08.080
LET'S PROTEST AND TEAR DOWN STATUTE EVERYWHERE.
00:36:08.100 --> 00:36:10.100
WRONG. DEAD WRONG.
00:36:10.120 --> 00:36:12.010
NOT ONLY IS HE ANTI-SLAVERY, HE'S A BIG
00:36:12.030 --> 00:36:14.150
GOD GUY AS HE GROWS THROUGH LIFE, AS WAS
00:36:14.170 --> 00:36:17.060
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS AND WAS JAMES A. GARFIELD.
00:36:17.080 --> 00:36:19.260
- SURE. THERE'S ANOTHER ASPECT WE DON'T GET EITHER,
00:36:19.280 --> 00:36:21.250
AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT I MENTION THIS TO YOU
00:36:21.270 --> 00:36:23.090
GUYS TO INSPIRE YOU, AND THAT IS HOW BRILLIANT
00:36:23.110 --> 00:36:24.240
THESE PEOPLE WERE.
00:36:24.260 --> 00:36:26.020
THIS GENTLEMAN, JAMES GARFIELD, HE ACTUALLY
00:36:26.040 --> 00:36:28.000
DEVELOPED, IN ADDITION TO BEING A GENERAL, AND A
00:36:28.020 --> 00:36:29.290
PREACHER, AND A PRESIDENT, AND SO ON,
00:36:30.010 --> 00:36:31.230
HE ACTUALLY DEVELOPED A PROOF FOR THE
00:36:31.250 --> 00:36:34.040
PYTHAGOREAN THEOREM.
00:36:34.060 --> 00:36:36.140
NOW THAT'S ONE OF THE GREAT MATHEMATICAL
00:36:36.160 --> 00:36:38.130
QUESTIONS THAT YOU HAVE SINCE THE ANCIENT GREEK
00:36:38.150 --> 00:36:40.060
WORLD. HE DEVELOPED AN ADDITIONAL PROOF FOR IT
00:36:40.080 --> 00:36:43.010
TO WHAT WE ALREADY HAVE.
00:36:43.030 --> 00:36:45.180
THAT WAS IN HIS SPARE TIME.
00:36:45.200 --> 00:36:47.030
BY THE WAY, HE WAS COMPLETELY SELF-EDUCATED.
00:36:47.050 --> 00:36:48.230
THIS WAS NOT A MAN WHO WENT TO HARVARD.
00:36:48.250 --> 00:36:50.110
- HE GREW UP IN A LOG CABIN. HE'S THE LAST
00:36:50.130 --> 00:36:52.120
AMERICAN PRESIDENT BORN IN A LOG CABIN.
00:36:52.140 --> 00:36:54.050
- EXACTLY. BUT HE'S STUDYING SO AGGRESSIVELY BECAUSE
00:36:54.070 --> 00:36:56.010
HE WANTS TO SERVE GOD WITH HIS INTELLECT THAT HE'S
00:36:56.030 --> 00:36:58.050
ACTUALLY CONFIRMING GREEK THEORIES OF MATHEMATICS.
00:36:58.070 --> 00:37:01.140
SO I WANT YOU TO BE AWARE THAT IF YOU HEAR THESE
00:37:01.160 --> 00:37:03.070
GUYS WERE BORN IN LOG CABINS, OR YOU HEAR THAT
00:37:03.090 --> 00:37:05.070
THEY WERE SELF-EDUCATED, DON'T PUT THAT DOWN.
00:37:05.090 --> 00:37:07.240
THEY WERE BRILLIANT PEOPLE. LINCOLN INCLUDED.
00:37:07.260 --> 00:37:09.270
AND THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THESE TWO
00:37:09.290 --> 00:37:11.180
ARE PRETTY STUNNING.
00:37:11.200 --> 00:37:13.030
- SO WE'VE GONE THROUGH AND SEEN THAT THAT SECOND
00:37:13.050 --> 00:37:15.120
PREMISE OUT THERE THAT LINCOLN IS PRO-SLAVERY
00:37:15.140 --> 00:37:17.220
IS NOT ACCURATE. HE WAS ANTI-SLAVERY.
00:37:17.240 --> 00:37:20.030
AND ANY NOTION THAT, LIKE THE FOUNDING
00:37:20.050 --> 00:37:22.160
FATHERS, THESE GUYS WERE ATHEISTS, AGNOSTICS, NOT
00:37:22.180 --> 00:37:24.220
RELIGIOUS, "THEY'RE PRESIDENTS; THEY'VE
00:37:24.240 --> 00:37:26.170
GOT TO BE SECULAR." NO. NOT SO. THESE GUYS
00:37:26.190 --> 00:37:29.070
SERVED GOD WITH THEIR HEART AND THEIR MIND.
00:37:29.090 --> 00:37:31.130
THEY WERE BRILLIANT GUYS.
00:37:31.150 --> 00:37:32.290
SO LET'S KIND OF MOVE OUT OF THIS, AND LET'S MOVE
00:37:33.010 --> 00:37:35.040
INTO ANOTHER BIG ERA OF AMERICAN HISTORY.
00:37:35.060 --> 00:37:37.200
THAT'S THE WORLD WAR II ERA, BECAUSE NOW WE'RE
00:37:37.220 --> 00:37:40.130
INTO MODERN ERA WHERE WE REALLY THINK GOVERNMENT
00:37:40.150 --> 00:37:42.080
IS SUPPOSED TO BE SECULAR.
00:37:42.100 --> 00:37:43.140
THAT'S CERTAINLY WHAT WE HEAR TODAY.
00:37:43.160 --> 00:37:45.000
AND WE LOOK BACK TO WORLD WAR II AND THAT'S KIND OF
00:37:45.020 --> 00:37:46.270
SECULAR AS WE LOOK AT IT.
00:37:46.290 --> 00:37:49.020
BUT THAT'S NOT REALLY THE WAY AMERICAN HISTORY
00:37:49.040 --> 00:37:50.220
WORKS. SO LET'S GO TO A DIFFERENT PART OF THE STUDIO.
00:37:50.240 --> 00:37:52.130
- LET'S DO IT.
00:37:52.150 --> 00:37:53.240
[MUSIC]
00:37:53.260 --> 00:37:59.060
- OKAY, WE'VE COVERED SOME IN THE AMERICAN
00:37:59.080 --> 00:38:01.080
FOUNDING, THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, WE WENT OVER
00:38:01.100 --> 00:38:02.230
TO THE CIVIL WAR AND LOOKED AT A LOT OF THAT
00:38:02.250 --> 00:38:04.220
ERA. WE COME MORE TO CONTEMPORARY AMERICA, AND
00:38:04.240 --> 00:38:07.270
BASED ON THE EXPERIENCES WE HAVE, BASED ON SO MUCH
00:38:07.290 --> 00:38:10.170
OF WHAT WE SEE IN EDUCATION, WE TEACH NOT
00:38:10.190 --> 00:38:12.020
THE FAITH OF THESE GUYS.
00:38:12.040 --> 00:38:14.120
WE'VE COME TO BELIEVE THAT GOVERNMENT REALLY IS
00:38:14.140 --> 00:38:16.120
SUPPOSED TO BE A SECULAR KIND OF A PLACE.
00:38:16.140 --> 00:38:18.220
YOU DON'T WANT KIDS SAYING GOD AT GRADUATION
00:38:18.240 --> 00:38:20.110
OR TO BE SEEN IN PUBLIC, SO WE SQUELCH FAITH
00:38:20.130 --> 00:38:23.050
EVERYWHERE, AND WE ASSUME THAT GOVERNMENT IS
00:38:23.070 --> 00:38:26.000
TO BE SOMETHING SECULAR.
00:38:26.020 --> 00:38:27.180
BUT LET ME TAKE US BACK A LITTLE BIT.
00:38:27.200 --> 00:38:29.120
WE HAVE THESE PRESIDENTS BEHIND US.
00:38:29.140 --> 00:38:31.200
YOU HAVE FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT, YOU HAVE
00:38:31.220 --> 00:38:33.200
HARRY TRUMAN, YOU HAVE EISENHOWER,
00:38:33.220 --> 00:38:35.140
DWIGHT EISENHOWER.
00:38:35.160 --> 00:38:37.120
THESE THREE WERE ALL INVOLVED IN REALLY
00:38:37.140 --> 00:38:40.190
KIND OF A SAVED THE WORLD, WORLD WAR II.
00:38:40.210 --> 00:38:43.160
AND AS YOU LOOK AT THESE GUYS, I WANT TO TAKE YOU
00:38:43.180 --> 00:38:45.020
THROUGH A FEW THINGS OF WORLD WAR II BECAUSE YOU
00:38:45.040 --> 00:38:47.180
START WITH PEARL HARBOR.
00:38:47.200 --> 00:38:49.220
DECEMBER THE 7TH 1941.
00:38:49.240 --> 00:38:52.240
NOBODY EXPECTS IT, AND WE GET WHACKED WITH A
00:38:52.260 --> 00:38:55.210
SURPRISE ATTACK, KILLS 3.000 AMERICANS.
00:38:55.230 --> 00:38:57.250
EVERYONE IS SHOCKED.
00:38:57.270 --> 00:38:59.230
THERE WAS NO WARNINGS.
00:38:59.250 --> 00:39:01.190
MATTER OF FACT, THE DIPLOMATS, JAPANESE
00:39:01.210 --> 00:39:03.110
DIPLOMATS IN DC WERE SUPPOSED TO BE ANNOUNCING
00:39:03.130 --> 00:39:05.060
THIS BEFORE THE ATTACK HAPPENED; IT DIDN'T
00:39:05.080 --> 00:39:06.290
HAPPEN, SO IT WAS A TREACHEROUS ATTACK, AS
00:39:07.010 --> 00:39:09.090
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT CALLED IT "A DAY THAT
00:39:09.110 --> 00:39:11.180
WILL LIVE IN INFAMY."
00:39:11.200 --> 00:39:13.120
WELL, FROM THAT POINT, YOU GO OVER THE NEXT FOUR
00:39:13.140 --> 00:39:17.040
DAYS, THERE ARE SIX DECLARATIONS OF WAR
00:39:17.060 --> 00:39:19.210
BECAUSE WE DECLARE WAR ON JAPAN; JAPAN DECLARES WAR
00:39:19.230 --> 00:39:22.040
ON US; AND HITLER SAYS, WELL, IF YOU'RE GOING
00:39:22.060 --> 00:39:24.030
AFTER MY FRIEND TOJO, I'M GOING AFTER YOU GUYS.
00:39:24.050 --> 00:39:26.090
AND WE SAY, ALL RIGHT, WE'RE GOING AFTER HITLER.
00:39:26.110 --> 00:39:27.240
AND THEN MUSSOLINI SAYS IF YOU'RE GOING AFTER MY
00:39:27.260 --> 00:39:29.280
FRIENDS TOJO AND HITLER, I'M GOING AFTER YOU.
00:39:30.000 --> 00:39:32.060
ALL RIGHT, WE'LL GO AFTER YOU.
00:39:32.080 --> 00:39:33.200
SO IN FOUR DAYS, SIX DECLARATIONS OF WAR.
00:39:33.220 --> 00:39:35.200
AND THEN THREE WEEKS LATER, PRESIDENT
00:39:35.220 --> 00:39:38.050
ROOSEVELT HAS TO GIVE THE STATE OF THE UNION
00:39:38.070 --> 00:39:40.170
ADDRESS. AND SO AMERICA IS NOW AT A TIME OF WAR,
00:39:40.190 --> 00:39:44.020
STILL A LOT OF SHOCK WITH WHAT'S HAPPENED.
00:39:44.040 --> 00:39:46.000
WE'VE NOT RECOVERED ANYWHERE CLOSE AT PEARL
00:39:46.020 --> 00:39:47.150
HARBOR ALL THE DEATHS.
00:39:47.170 --> 00:39:49.120
AND I WANT YOU TO HEAR WHAT THE PRESIDENT TELLS
00:39:49.140 --> 00:39:51.270
THE NATION ON HIS TELEVISED STATE OF THE
00:39:51.290 --> 00:39:54.280
UNION ADDRESS. LISTEN TO THIS.
00:39:55.000 --> 00:39:57.140
- PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT: THE WORLD IS TOO SMALL
00:39:58.040 --> 00:40:00.140
TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE LIVING ROOM FOR BOTH
00:40:00.160 --> 00:40:04.050
HITLER AND GOD.
00:40:04.070 --> 00:40:07.100
IN PROOF OF THAT, THE NAZIS HAVE NOW ANNOUNCED THEIR PLAN
00:40:07.120 --> 00:40:11.270
FOR ENFORCING THEIR NEW GERMAN PAGAN RELIGION ALL
00:40:11.290 --> 00:40:17.020
OVER THE WORLD, THE PLAN BY WHICH THE HOLY BIBLE
00:40:17.040 --> 00:40:21.120
AND THE CROSS OF MERCY WOULD BE DISPLACED BY
00:40:21.140 --> 00:40:25.170
MEIN KAMPF AND THE SWASTIKA AND THE NAKED SWORD.
00:40:25.190 --> 00:40:29.290
- CATCH THAT CONTRAST.
00:40:30.010 --> 00:40:31.290
HITLER VERSUS GOD, AND HITLER HAS A PAGAN
00:40:32.010 --> 00:40:36.000
RELIGION, AND HE WANTS MEIN KAMPF TO REPLACE THE
00:40:36.020 --> 00:40:39.120
BIBLE, AND HE WANTS THE SWASTIKA AND THE NAKED
00:40:39.140 --> 00:40:42.230
SWORD TO REPLACE THE CROSS OF MERCY.
00:40:42.250 --> 00:40:45.120
NOW, INTERESTINGLY, THIS IS AN ORIGINAL FIRST EDITION
00:40:45.140 --> 00:40:49.040
OF MEIN KAMPF SIGNED BY HITLER.
00:40:49.060 --> 00:40:51.170
SO THIS IS ESSENTIALLY HIS BIBLE FOR HIS PAGAN
00:40:51.190 --> 00:40:54.110
RELIGION, AND HERE PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT-- AND
00:40:54.130 --> 00:40:57.190
NO ONE THINKS OF HIM AS A CHRISTIAN TODAY.
00:40:57.210 --> 00:40:59.130
OF COURSE, HE WAS.
00:40:59.150 --> 00:41:01.010
BUT NO ONE THINKS THAT WAY.
00:41:01.030 --> 00:41:02.160
AND HE'S TALKING TO THE NATION, MAKING THIS A
00:41:02.180 --> 00:41:04.190
CLEAR SPIRITUAL CONFLICT, AND AS A RESULT OF WHAT
00:41:04.210 --> 00:41:08.070
HE SAID IN THAT SPEECH, WE CAME OUT WITH A
00:41:08.090 --> 00:41:10.120
GOVERNMENT PRINTING THIS POSTER RIGHT HERE.
00:41:10.140 --> 00:41:12.130
THIS IS PRINTED BY THE GOVERNMENT.
00:41:12.150 --> 00:41:14.010
IT SAYS "THIS IS THE ENEMY", AND YOU SEE THE
00:41:14.030 --> 00:41:17.230
NAZI SWASTIKA, THE NAKED SWORD STABBING THE BIBLE.
00:41:17.250 --> 00:41:22.000
IT SAYS AT THE BOTTOM, PRINTED U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING
00:41:22.020 --> 00:41:25.020
OFFICE. LOOK AT THE CONTRAST. WE'RE SAYING, THE U.S.
00:41:25.040 --> 00:41:27.070
GOVERNMENT IS PRINTING POSTERS THAT SAY GUYS,
00:41:27.090 --> 00:41:29.210
ANYTHING THAT ATTACKS THE BIBLE IS THE ENEMY.
00:41:29.230 --> 00:41:32.250
- YOU HAVE A LOT OF THESE RELIGIOUS POSTERS THAT
00:41:32.270 --> 00:41:35.200
ALL CAME FROM THE GOVERNMENT PRINTING
00:41:35.220 --> 00:41:38.020
OFFICE, SO WE WEREN'T AFRAID TO INDICATE THAT
00:41:38.040 --> 00:41:40.250
WE BELIEVED IN FAITH AND RELIGION.
00:41:40.270 --> 00:41:42.240
- WELL, THIS IS A VERY VERY IMPORTANT POINT.
00:41:42.260 --> 00:41:44.160
IN THE SAME WAY THAT WE HAVE TO GO BACK AND
00:41:44.180 --> 00:41:46.050
REALIZE THAT OUR AMERICAN REVOLUTION WAS VIEWED BY
00:41:46.070 --> 00:41:48.140
THE MINUTE MEN AND BY THE PATRIOTS AS BEING A
00:41:48.160 --> 00:41:51.130
SPIRITUAL WAR, A WAR ABOUT RELIGIOUS ISSUES,
00:41:51.150 --> 00:41:53.180
AND WE CAN TALK ABOUT THAT ANOTHER TIME.
00:41:53.200 --> 00:41:55.070
WORLD WAR II IS WITHOUT QUESTION VIEWED BY THE
00:41:55.090 --> 00:41:57.100
LEADERS AND BY THE PEOPLE AS A CONFLICT OF
00:41:57.120 --> 00:41:59.240
RELIGIONS. NOT ONLY DID FDR SAY LOOK, THIS IS PAGANISM.
00:41:59.260 --> 00:42:03.270
THE WORLD'S NOT BIG ENOUGH FOR BOTH A
00:42:03.290 --> 00:42:05.250
CHRISTIAN VISION AND PAGANISM AS HITLER
00:42:05.270 --> 00:42:07.190
EXEMPLIFIES IT.
00:42:07.210 --> 00:42:09.080
WINSTON CHURCHILL PICKED UP THIS LANGUAGE.
00:42:09.100 --> 00:42:11.040
HE TALKED ABOUT NAZISM BEING DARK AS PAGANISM, AND
00:42:11.060 --> 00:42:14.190
HE WOULD TALK ABOUT HOW THE CHRISTIAN NATIONS
00:42:14.210 --> 00:42:17.130
NEED TO RALLY TO DEFEAT THIS PAGANISM.
00:42:17.150 --> 00:42:19.220
THIS WASN'T BACK 500 YEARS AGO.
00:42:19.240 --> 00:42:21.230
THIS WAS 1939, 1940, 1941, SO THAT'S HOW THEY
00:42:21.250 --> 00:42:26.090
THOUGHT. YOU DON'T HEAR THAT VERY MUCH.
00:42:26.110 --> 00:42:27.210
YOU DON'T SEE IT IN THE TEXT BOOKS, BUT THE FACT
00:42:27.230 --> 00:42:29.160
IS THEY SAW THIS AS A WAR BETWEEN RANK, RACIST
00:42:29.180 --> 00:42:33.020
PAGANISM AND THE CHRISTIAN NATIONS.
00:42:33.040 --> 00:42:35.250
IT CHANGES OUR UNDERSTANDING OF WORLD WAR II.
00:42:35.270 --> 00:42:37.210
- AND IT'S INTERESTING THAT WHAT HAPPENED WAS
00:42:37.230 --> 00:42:39.230
THEY WOULD-- IF YOU WENT IN THE ARMY, THEY GAVE
00:42:39.250 --> 00:42:41.240
YOU A LITTLE BOOK SAYING THIS IS THE ARMY, AND IT
00:42:41.260 --> 00:42:43.200
WENT THROUGH ALL THE GUIDELINES.
00:42:43.220 --> 00:42:44.290
HERE'S HOW YOU GET YOUR CHECKS SENT HOME, HERE'S
00:42:45.010 --> 00:42:46.210
WHAT YOU EXPECT. YOU HAVE TO GO THROUGH BOOT
00:42:46.230 --> 00:42:48.190
CAMP AND LEARN STUFF.
00:42:48.210 --> 00:42:50.080
BUT THEY ALSO GAVE EVERY AMERICAN RECRUIT ONE OF
00:42:50.100 --> 00:42:53.230
THESE. NOW THESE ARE ALL BIBLES, AND THEY'RE
00:42:53.250 --> 00:42:55.250
A LITTLE DIFFERENT.
00:42:55.270 --> 00:42:57.040
THIS ONE IS CALLED THE HEART SHIELD BIBLE.
00:42:57.060 --> 00:43:00.270
IF YOU CAN HEAR THE SOUND OF THAT, IT'S A STEEL
00:43:00.290 --> 00:43:03.050
PLATE ON THE FRONT OF IT.
00:43:03.070 --> 00:43:04.150
IT SAYS MAY THIS KEEP YOU FROM HARM.
00:43:04.170 --> 00:43:06.110
IT'S A BIBLE. RECRUITS GOT THAT.
00:43:06.130 --> 00:43:07.290
THEY KEPT IT IN THEIR BREAST POCKET RIGHT HERE
00:43:08.010 --> 00:43:09.140
OVER THEIR HEART.
00:43:09.160 --> 00:43:11.040
I HAVE TALKED TO GUYS IN WORLD WAR II THAT
00:43:11.060 --> 00:43:13.200
BULLETS HIT THAT, DID NOT PENETRATE THE STEEL,
00:43:13.220 --> 00:43:15.250
SAVED THEIR LIFE.
00:43:15.270 --> 00:43:17.050
ONE GUY TOLD ME ACTUALLY THE BULLET CAME PARTWAY
00:43:17.070 --> 00:43:19.040
OUT THE BACK, SO IT HIT HIS CHEST AND BRUISED
00:43:19.060 --> 00:43:21.030
HIM, BUT IT DIDN'T GO THROUGH THE BIBLE.
00:43:21.050 --> 00:43:23.030
SO IT LITERALLY SAVED THE LIVES.
00:43:23.050 --> 00:43:24.200
AND IT'S INTERESTING IN THE INSIDE OF THESE
00:43:24.220 --> 00:43:26.080
BIBLES, LIKE HERE'S ONE, YOU OPEN IT UP, AND ON
00:43:26.100 --> 00:43:29.100
THE INSIDE IT HAS THE AMERICAN FLAG, AND IT HAS
00:43:29.120 --> 00:43:33.150
A LETTER FROM FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT SAYING GUYS,
00:43:33.170 --> 00:43:36.070
READ THE BIBLE. WE'RE AT WAR.
00:43:36.090 --> 00:43:39.060
GET INTO GOD'S WORD.
00:43:39.080 --> 00:43:41.070
THIS IS WHAT THEY GAVE AT THE ARMY.
00:43:41.090 --> 00:43:42.270
AND HERE IS WHAT THEY GAVE TO THE NAVY.
00:43:42.290 --> 00:43:45.110
AND THE NAVY, YOU OPEN IT UP, AND IT'S GOT FDR'S
00:43:45.130 --> 00:43:47.150
LETTER IN THERE, BUT THE DIFFERENCE IS IT HAS A
00:43:47.170 --> 00:43:50.160
CHRISTIAN FLAG FLYING HIGHER THAN
00:43:50.180 --> 00:43:52.230
THE AMERICAN FLAG.
00:43:52.250 --> 00:43:55.020
NOW, IF YOU SHOWED THAT TO AMERICA, THEY'D SAY
00:43:55.040 --> 00:43:57.180
WHOA, YOU CAN'T DO THAT!
00:43:57.200 --> 00:43:59.030
- IT SEEMS TO VIOLATE FLAG CODE, RIGHT?
00:43:59.050 --> 00:44:00.180
NOTHING FLIES HIGHER THAN THE AMERICAN FLAG.
00:44:00.200 --> 00:44:03.020
- WELL, INTERESTINGLY, LOOK AT THIS FOOTAGE
00:44:03.040 --> 00:44:05.040
FROM WORLD WAR II. OH, LOOK THERE.
00:44:05.060 --> 00:44:07.170
THE CHRISTIAN FLAG IS FLYING HIGHER THAN THE
00:44:07.190 --> 00:44:09.040
AMERICAN FLAG. IN THE FLAG CODE, U.S. NAVY,
00:44:09.060 --> 00:44:12.060
WHEN YOU HAVE THE CALL FOR DIVINE SERVICE,
00:44:12.080 --> 00:44:14.270
GOD GOES ABOVE COUNTRY, AND THAT'S STILL IN THE
00:44:14.290 --> 00:44:17.250
FLAG CODE TO THIS DAY.
00:44:17.270 --> 00:44:20.200
SO WE DON'T RECOGNIZE THAT, BUT WE STILL
00:44:20.220 --> 00:44:23.080
ACKNOWLEDGE THAT GOD GOES ABOVE COUNTRY, AND WE
00:44:23.100 --> 00:44:25.200
THINK WELL GOVERNMENT'S SUPPOSED TO BE SECULAR.
00:44:25.220 --> 00:44:27.180
WELL, AS WE GET ALL THESE RECRUITS COMING IN AND
00:44:27.200 --> 00:44:29.280
OUT, WE'RE GEARING UP FOR WAR, AND WE'RE TURNING
00:44:30.000 --> 00:44:32.170
OUT BOMBERS, WE'RE TURNING OUT LIBERTY
00:44:32.190 --> 00:44:34.050
SHIPS, AND WE'RE REALLY GETTING THINGS GOING.
00:44:34.070 --> 00:44:37.030
NOW WE RECOGNIZE AT SOME POINT WE'VE GOT TO
00:44:37.050 --> 00:44:39.000
INVADE EUROPE, AND WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO PUSH HITLER
00:44:39.020 --> 00:44:42.020
BACK INTO GERMANY.
00:44:42.040 --> 00:44:44.100
NOW, THE ONLY LOGICAL INVASION POINT IS TO GO
00:44:44.120 --> 00:44:47.120
THOSE 23 MILES ACROSS THE ENGLISH CHANNEL,
00:44:47.140 --> 00:44:49.080
LAUNCH THE SHIPS.
00:44:49.110 --> 00:44:50.260
SO THE GERMANS KNOW THAT THAT'S WHERE WE'RE
00:44:50.280 --> 00:44:52.240
COMING, WHAT WE CALL D-DAY.
00:44:52.260 --> 00:44:55.010
SO WHEN D-DAY IS LAUNCHED, AND WE'RE NOW
00:44:55.030 --> 00:44:57.210
PUTTING THIS MASSIVE EFFORT OF THOUSANDS OF
00:44:57.230 --> 00:45:01.030
SHIPS AND PLANES INTO GOING AFTER HITLER, WE'RE
00:45:01.050 --> 00:45:03.120
COMING ASHORE IN EUROPE, HE ANNOUNCES IT
00:45:03.140 --> 00:45:06.060
TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. AND I WANT YOU TO HEAR
00:45:06.080 --> 00:45:08.110
WHAT HE SAYS WHEN HE ANNOUNCES THIS.
00:45:08.130 --> 00:45:10.260
- PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT: MY FELLOW AMERICANS, LAST
00:45:10.280 --> 00:45:13.290
NIGHT, WHEN I SPOKE WITH YOU ABOUT THE FALL OF
00:45:14.010 --> 00:45:17.270
ROME, I KNEW AT THAT MOMENT THAT TROOPS OF THE
00:45:17.290 --> 00:45:23.120
UNITED STATES AND OUR ALLIES WERE CROSSING THE
00:45:23.140 --> 00:45:26.100
CHANNEL IN ANOTHER AND GREATER OPERATION.
00:45:26.120 --> 00:45:30.210
IT HAS COME TO PASS WITH SUCCESS THUS FAR.
00:45:30.230 --> 00:45:36.090
AND SO IN THIS POIGNANT HOUR, I ASK YOU TO JOIN
00:45:36.110 --> 00:45:42.210
WITH ME IN PRAYER.
00:45:42.230 --> 00:45:47.000
ALMIGHTY GOD, OUR SONS, PRIDE OF OUR NATION, THIS
00:45:48.230 --> 00:45:55.020
DAY HAVE SET UPON THE MIGHTY ENDEAVOR, A
00:45:55.040 --> 00:45:58.280
STRUGGLE TO PRESERVE OUR REPUBLIC, OUR RELIGION,
00:45:59.000 --> 00:46:03.260
AND OUR CIVILIZATION, AND TO SET FREE A SUFFERING
00:46:03.280 --> 00:46:08.210
HUMANITY. LEAD THEM STRAIGHT THROUGH.
00:46:08.230 --> 00:46:14.210
GIVE STRENGTH TO THEIR ARMS.
00:46:14.230 --> 00:46:18.100
STEADFASTNESS IN THEIR FAITH.
00:46:18.120 --> 00:46:22.190
- THE PRESIDENT LEADS THE NATION IN PRAYER FOR
00:46:22.210 --> 00:46:25.280
SIX AND A HALF MINUTES FOR A LIVE MILITARY
00:46:26.000 --> 00:46:28.170
ACTION THAT'S GOING AT THAT VERY MOMENT.
00:46:28.190 --> 00:46:31.160
SO AS THEY'RE INVADING, THE WHOLE NATION IS
00:46:31.180 --> 00:46:33.040
PRAYING, AND THE PRESIDENT IS THE
00:46:33.060 --> 00:46:34.230
CHIEF PRAYER LEADER?
00:46:34.250 --> 00:46:36.100
I THOUGHT GOVERNMENT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE SECULAR?
00:46:36.120 --> 00:46:39.130
WELL, OUT OF THAT, IT'S INTERESTING THAT BY
00:46:39.150 --> 00:46:42.080
CHRISTMASTIME, THAT'S WHERE WE GET INTO THE
00:46:42.100 --> 00:46:43.230
BATTLE OF THE BULGE, THE PRESIDENTIAL CHRISTMAS
00:46:43.250 --> 00:46:45.290
CARD FROM FDR IN 1944 IS RIGHT THERE BEHIND YOU.
00:46:46.010 --> 00:46:51.060
YOU SEE THE PRESIDENTIAL SEAL UP TOP.
00:46:51.080 --> 00:46:53.240
THE CHRISTMAS CARD IS THE D-DAY PRAYER.
00:46:53.260 --> 00:46:56.150
THAT WAS THE WHITE HOUSE CHRISTMAS CARD IN 1944
00:46:56.170 --> 00:47:00.040
WAS THE D-DAY PRAYER.
00:47:00.060 --> 00:47:02.230
WELL, AS WE FINALLY GET KIND OF GERMANY BACK,
00:47:02.250 --> 00:47:06.190
PUSHED BACK INTO THEIR OWN DOMAINS AND HITLER
00:47:06.210 --> 00:47:08.180
IS THERE, FDR DIES.
00:47:08.200 --> 00:47:11.200
HE'S NOT THERE FOR THE END OF THE WAR,
00:47:11.220 --> 00:47:13.050
BUT HARRY TRUMAN IS.
00:47:13.070 --> 00:47:15.040
AND SO HARRY TRUMAN IS ABLE TO OVERSEE THE END
00:47:15.060 --> 00:47:18.000
OF THE WAR IN EUROPE AND FINALLY GET AN END IN JAPAN.
00:47:18.020 --> 00:47:20.190
AND WHEN WE GOT THE WAR ENDED, LIKE IN EUROPE,
00:47:20.210 --> 00:47:23.190
HARRY TRUMAN, WHAT'S THE RESPONSE?
00:47:23.210 --> 00:47:26.190
IT'S RIGHT THERE.
00:47:26.210 --> 00:47:28.060
A PROCLAMATION TO THANK GOD, SIGNED AT THE BOTTOM
00:47:28.080 --> 00:47:30.120
BY HARRY TRUMAN.
00:47:30.140 --> 00:47:32.020
AND SO WHEN THIS WAR CAME TO AN END IN GERMANY,
00:47:32.040 --> 00:47:35.070
40 MILLION LIVES LATER, IT CAME TO AN END.
00:47:35.090 --> 00:47:38.210
WHAT'S THE RESPONSE?
00:47:38.230 --> 00:47:40.040
TIME TO THANK GOD THAT THIS HAS COME TO AN END.
00:47:40.060 --> 00:47:42.290
ONE OF THE THINGS FDR DID, NOW HE WAS
00:47:43.010 --> 00:47:44.170
PRESIDENT FOR FOUR TERMS.
00:47:44.190 --> 00:47:46.030
NOBODY'S EVER DONE THAT WHICH IS WHY THEY AMENDED
00:47:46.050 --> 00:47:47.250
THE CONSTITUTION FOR ONLY TWO TERMS.
00:47:47.270 --> 00:47:49.220
HE HAD FOUR TERMS, AND EVERY YEAR ON THE
00:47:49.240 --> 00:47:52.060
ANNIVERSARY OF HIS INAUGURATION, HE WENT
00:47:52.080 --> 00:47:54.270
BACK TO CHURCH AND HAD A RECOMMITMENT SERVICE TO
00:47:54.290 --> 00:47:57.280
THE LORD. ONE OF THOSE LETTERS IS INVITING SOME
00:47:58.000 --> 00:48:00.280
OF HIS GENERALS TO COME TO CHURCH WITH HIM
00:48:01.000 --> 00:48:02.240
ON HIS RECOMMITMENT.
00:48:02.260 --> 00:48:04.070
- IS THAT ONE INVITING THEM TO GO TO SERVICE WITH HIM?
00:48:04.090 --> 00:48:06.190
- THAT'S RIGHT. SO WHAT THEY DID IN JANUARY EVERY YEAR
00:48:06.210 --> 00:48:09.000
ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE INAUGURATION, THEY WENT
00:48:09.020 --> 00:48:10.180
BACK TO CHURCH AND SAID REDEDICATING TO GOD
00:48:10.200 --> 00:48:12.130
AGAIN, AND FOUR TERMS OF THAT.
00:48:12.150 --> 00:48:14.220
AND THAT'S FROM HIM.
00:48:14.240 --> 00:48:16.040
SO AS YOU GO THROUGH THOSE PRESIDENTS,
00:48:16.060 --> 00:48:17.250
AND YOU FINALLY GET DOWN TO EISENHOWER,
00:48:17.270 --> 00:48:20.020
EISENHOWER WAS THE GUY RUNNING D-DAY.
00:48:20.040 --> 00:48:22.140
HE WAS THE COMMANDER IN EUROPE.
00:48:22.160 --> 00:48:24.150
SO AS HE BECOMES PRESIDENT, AND NOW WE'RE
00:48:24.170 --> 00:48:27.050
OUT OF WAR, IT'S A TIME OF PEACE, AND SO AS YOU
00:48:27.070 --> 00:48:30.270
GET THROUGH WAR, YOU KIND OF MAYBE FORGET GOD A
00:48:30.290 --> 00:48:33.030
LITTLE BIT. AND EISENHOWER SPECIFICALLY SAID THAT HE
00:48:33.050 --> 00:48:37.070
WAS ON HIS WAY TO THE INAUGURATION, AND HE SAID
00:48:37.090 --> 00:48:41.150
THAT HE'D BEEN TO COMMUNION THAT MORNING,
00:48:41.170 --> 00:48:43.110
AND HE THOUGHT YOU KNOW, THE NATION'S BECOMING TOO
00:48:43.130 --> 00:48:45.280
SECULAR. WHAT CAN I DO TO SOLVE THAT?
00:48:46.000 --> 00:48:49.020
I'M NOT A PREACHER.
00:48:49.040 --> 00:48:50.110
I CAN'T PREACH A SERMON.
00:48:50.130 --> 00:48:51.270
LOOK WHAT HE DID TO SOLVE THE CONCEPT OF A SECULAR
00:48:51.290 --> 00:48:55.040
NATION ON HIS INAUGURATION. WATCH THIS.
00:48:55.060 --> 00:48:58.120
- PRESIDENT TRUMAN: MY FRIENDS, BEFORE I BEGIN
00:48:58.140 --> 00:49:02.010
THE EXPRESSION OF THOSE THOUGHTS THAT I DEEM
00:49:02.030 --> 00:49:05.290
APPROPRIATE TO THIS MOMENT, WOULD YOU PERMIT
00:49:06.010 --> 00:49:10.220
ME THE PRIVILEGE OF UTTERING A LITTLE PRIVATE
00:49:10.240 --> 00:49:14.290
PRAYER OF MY OWN.
00:49:15.010 --> 00:49:17.070
AND I ASK THAT YOU BOW YOUR HEADS.
00:49:17.090 --> 00:49:20.280
ALMIGHTY GOD, AS WE STAND HERE AT THIS MOMENT,
00:49:21.000 --> 00:49:26.040
MY ASSOCIATES AND MY FUTURE ASSOCIATES IN THE
00:49:26.060 --> 00:49:28.280
EXECUTIVE BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT JOIN ME IN
00:49:29.000 --> 00:49:31.210
BESEECHING THAT THOU WILL MAKE FULL AND COMPLETE
00:49:31.230 --> 00:49:35.220
OUR DEDICATION TO THE SERVICE OF THE PEOPLE
00:49:35.240 --> 00:49:38.130
IN THIS THRONG
00:49:38.150 --> 00:49:40.140
AND THEIR FELLOW CITIZENS EVERYWHERE.
00:49:40.160 --> 00:49:43.170
GIVE US, WE PRAY, THE POWER TO DISCERN CLEARLY
00:49:43.190 --> 00:49:47.160
RIGHT FROM WRONG, AND ALLOW ALL OUR WORDS AND
00:49:47.180 --> 00:49:51.180
ACTIONS TO BE GOVERNED THEREBY AND BY THE LAWS
00:49:51.200 --> 00:49:55.130
OF THIS LAND.
00:49:55.150 --> 00:49:57.290
ESPECIALLY WE PRAY THAT OUR CONCERN SHALL BE
00:49:58.010 --> 00:50:00.090
FOR ALL THE PEOPLE REGARDLESS OF STATION,
00:50:00.110 --> 00:50:03.030
RACE OR CALLING.
00:50:03.050 --> 00:50:05.280
MAY COOPERATION BE PERMITTED AND BE THE
00:50:06.000 --> 00:50:08.100
MUTUAL AIM OF THOSE WHO UNDER THE CONCEPTS OF OUR
00:50:08.120 --> 00:50:13.080
CONSTITUTION HOLD TO DIFFERING POLITICAL
00:50:13.100 --> 00:50:16.210
FAITHS SO THAT ALL MAY WORK FOR THE GOOD OF OUR
00:50:16.230 --> 00:50:19.250
BELOVED COUNTRY AND THY GLORY. AMEN.
00:50:19.270 --> 00:50:25.190
- THAT PRAYER HE PRAYED IS ACTUALLY THIS
00:50:27.050 --> 00:50:29.170
PRAYER RIGHT HERE.
00:50:29.190 --> 00:50:31.020
SO THIS IS HIS ACTUAL HANDWRITTEN PRAYER THAT
00:50:31.040 --> 00:50:32.260
AS WE JUST LISTENED, HE'S READING THIS
00:50:32.280 --> 00:50:34.160
AT HIS INAUGURATION.
00:50:34.180 --> 00:50:36.210
- THAT'S WHAT HE WAS HOLDING THAT DAY.
00:50:36.230 --> 00:50:39.130
- THIS IS THE ACTUAL HANDWRITTEN PRAYER THAT
00:50:39.150 --> 00:50:41.070
HE USED AT HIS INAUGURATION.
00:50:41.090 --> 00:50:43.030
AGAIN, AS WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THIS, KIND OF THE
00:50:43.050 --> 00:50:46.080
MYTH IN THIS SECTION IS THAT A SECULAR GOVERNMENT
00:50:46.100 --> 00:50:48.130
IS WHAT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO HAVE IN AMERICA.
00:50:48.150 --> 00:50:50.260
IT'S WHAT THE FOUNDERS INTENDED, IT WORKS BEST,
00:50:50.280 --> 00:50:52.160
WE SHOULD BE SECULAR.
00:50:52.180 --> 00:50:54.070
WELL, THEY FOUGHT A WAR TO MAKE SURE WE WEREN'T
00:50:54.090 --> 00:50:57.200
GONNA BE SECULAR, RIGHT?
00:50:57.220 --> 00:50:59.010
TO MAKE SURE WE WEREN'T-- NOW THAT DOESN'T MEAN
00:50:59.030 --> 00:51:00.240
THAT THESE GUYS WERE PERFECT IN WHAT THEY DID,
00:51:00.260 --> 00:51:02.120
BUT THEY CERTAINLY WEREN'T SCARED OF
00:51:02.140 --> 00:51:03.250
RELIGION AND ACTUALLY WORKED TO INCLUDE IT IN A
00:51:03.270 --> 00:51:05.280
LOT OF WHAT THEY DID.
00:51:06.000 --> 00:51:07.130
- WELL, YOU KNOW, WITH WHAT HE DID, HE SAID I
00:51:07.150 --> 00:51:09.010
WAS CONCERNED THE NATION WAS BECOMING TOO SECULAR,
00:51:09.030 --> 00:51:11.010
SO NOT ONLY DOES HE LEAD HIS OWN PRAYER, WHICH TRY
00:51:11.030 --> 00:51:14.230
TO FIND A PRESIDENT DOING THAT, HE LEADS HIS OWN
00:51:14.250 --> 00:51:17.050
PRAYER, HE SAYS YOU KNOW WHAT, I THINK WHAT WE
00:51:17.070 --> 00:51:19.170
OUGHT TO DO ON THE FIRST THURSDAY OF EVERY
00:51:19.190 --> 00:51:21.060
FEBRUARY IS START THE CONGRESSIONAL PRAYER
00:51:21.080 --> 00:51:23.110
BREAKFAST CALLED THE NATIONAL PRAYER BREAKFAST.
00:51:23.130 --> 00:51:25.140
THERE'S NOW ABOUT SIX TO EIGHT THOUSAND PEOPLE A
00:51:25.160 --> 00:51:28.040
YEAR GATHER IN WASHINGTON DC ON THAT DAY.
00:51:28.060 --> 00:51:30.080
140 NATIONS GATHER TOGETHER TO PRAY TOGETHER.
00:51:30.100 --> 00:51:34.020
I CANNOT TELL YOU LITERALLY HOW MANY
00:51:34.040 --> 00:51:35.290
SENATORS THAT HAVE BEEN PART OF THAT WHO HAVE
00:51:36.010 --> 00:51:38.140
SAID THE CIVIL WAR IN THIS COUNTRY WAS STOPPED
00:51:38.160 --> 00:51:40.230
BECAUSE WE GOT THEIR LEADERS TO COME TO WASHINGTON
00:51:40.250 --> 00:51:42.220
AND PRAY TOGETHER. SO EISENHOWER STARTED THAT.
00:51:42.240 --> 00:51:46.020
EISENHOWER IS THE GUY WHO GOT "UNDER GOD" PUT IN
00:51:46.040 --> 00:51:48.160
THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE BECAUSE WE DIDN'T
00:51:48.180 --> 00:51:49.260
HAVE IT BEFORE THAT.
00:51:49.280 --> 00:51:51.110
HE'S THE GUY WHO SAID WHY DON'T WE CODIFY THAT
00:51:51.130 --> 00:51:54.280
"IN GOD WE TRUST" IS OUR NATIONAL MOTTO.
00:51:55.000 --> 00:51:57.000
AND THEN ON TOP OF THAT HE SAID WE'VE GOTTEN
00:51:57.020 --> 00:51:59.060
"IN GOD WE TRUST" ON THE COINS BUT NOT ON THE
00:51:59.080 --> 00:52:01.200
PAPER. LET'S PUT IT ON THE PAPER.
00:52:01.220 --> 00:52:03.120
EVERY PIECE OF MONEY COINED IN TREASURY, LET'S
00:52:03.140 --> 00:52:06.160
MAKE SURE IT HAS IT.
00:52:06.190 --> 00:52:08.030
THIS IS EISENHOWER, AND HE GOES THROUGH HIS
00:52:08.050 --> 00:52:10.040
ADMINISTRATION DOING ALL THESE GOD THINGS TO MAKE
00:52:10.060 --> 00:52:12.100
SURE THAT AMERICA DOESN'T BECOME SECULAR.
00:52:12.120 --> 00:52:15.030
AND TODAY THAT'S JUST NOT THE CONCEPT WE HAVE OF
00:52:15.050 --> 00:52:17.090
PRESIDENTS OR WHAT THEY DO.
00:52:17.110 --> 00:52:18.230
- I WANT TO MAKE A POINT TOO BECAUSE WE'RE TALKING
00:52:18.250 --> 00:52:20.280
ABOUT THESE MEN, THESE GREAT MEN, THEIR FAITH,
00:52:21.000 --> 00:52:24.130
AND HOW IT SUSTAINED THEM.
00:52:24.150 --> 00:52:25.280
AND ONE OF THE TRICKS, ONE OF THE LITTLE TRICKS
00:52:26.000 --> 00:52:27.270
THAT ARE USED THAT'S USED WHEN IT COMES TO SORT OF
00:52:27.290 --> 00:52:31.120
STICKING OUR FINGER IN THE EYE OF THE FAITH OF
00:52:31.140 --> 00:52:34.050
THESE MEN, WHEN THE CRITICS WANT TO SAY THESE
00:52:34.070 --> 00:52:36.200
GUYS WEREN'T REALLY CHRISTIANS, THEY WEREN'T
00:52:36.220 --> 00:52:38.100
REALLY MEN OF FAITH, AND ALL THROUGHOUT HISTORY,
00:52:38.120 --> 00:52:40.010
WHAT THEY DO IS THEY LOOK AT THE INCONSISTENCIES
00:52:40.030 --> 00:52:42.130
THAT MIGHT BE IN THEIR PERSONAL CHARACTER.
00:52:42.150 --> 00:52:45.000
YOU CAN ALWAYS POINT AT SOME PRESIDENT AND SAY
00:52:45.020 --> 00:52:47.170
WELL, HE MAY HAVE SAID HE WAS A CHRISTIAN, BUT HE
00:52:47.190 --> 00:52:49.050
DID THIS, HE DID THAT.
00:52:49.070 --> 00:52:51.010
AND I CAN RECITE ALL OF THAT FOR YOU AND SAVE YOU
00:52:51.030 --> 00:52:53.050
TIME. I MEAN THERE'S NO QUESTION THAT FDR HAD AN
00:52:53.070 --> 00:52:55.100
AFFAIR WHILE IN OFFICE.
00:52:55.120 --> 00:52:56.200
THAT'S VERY WELL DOCUMENTED.
00:52:56.220 --> 00:52:58.050
HARRY TRUMAN USED TO CUSS LIKE A SAILOR
00:52:58.070 --> 00:52:59.210
AND DRINK WHISKEY.
00:52:59.230 --> 00:53:01.040
IF THAT DIMINISHES HIM AS A CHRISTIAN, THEN YOU
00:53:01.060 --> 00:53:02.250
NEED TO CONSIDER THAT.
00:53:02.270 --> 00:53:04.260
PRESIDENT EISENHOWER HUMOROUSLY ONCE DECLARED
00:53:04.280 --> 00:53:09.290
A NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER AND FASTING AND WENT OUT
00:53:10.010 --> 00:53:11.230
AND PLAYED GOLF. HE FORGOT WHAT THE DAY WAS.
00:53:11.250 --> 00:53:13.180
HIS OWN DAY. SO THESE ARE FLAWS.
00:53:13.200 --> 00:53:15.120
WE'RE ALL SINNERS. WE'RE ALL FLAWED.
00:53:15.140 --> 00:53:17.290
DON'T ALLOW A CRITICISM OR AN EXPOSURE OF SOME
00:53:18.010 --> 00:53:22.000
ISSUE OF INDIVIDUAL CHARACTER TO KEEP YOU
00:53:22.020 --> 00:53:24.120
FROM RECOGNIZING WHAT THESE PEOPLE BELIEVED.
00:53:24.140 --> 00:53:26.120
BECAUSE THEY DID BELIEVE IT, THEY DID APPLY IT TO
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PUBLIC POLICY, THEY DID SEE THEIR NATION IN THOSE
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TERMS. THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.
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- RIGHT. I MEAN APART FROM JESUS, YOU'RE NOT GONNA
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FIND SOMEONE WHO DOESN'T HAVE MORAL FAILING,
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SO IT WOULD BE FOOLISH FOR US TO BE IN THAT
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HYPOCRITICAL SENSE GOING, NOW WAIT A SECOND, THEY
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HAVE FLAWS, THEREFORE-- WELL, WAIT A SECOND.
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- SOME OF THEM WERE VERY FIERCE IN COURAGE IN
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STANDING FOR THEIR FAITH.
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FOR EXAMPLE, HARRY TRUMAN WAS A BAPTIST.
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WHEN JOHN F. KENNEDY RAN FOR OFFICE,
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A LOT OF BAPTISTS WERE UPSET THAT JOHN F. KENNEDY
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WAS ROMAN CATHOLIC SO THEY ATTACKED HIM.
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HARRY TRUMAN STOOD UP, WROTE HIS ENTIRE BAPTIST
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DENOMINATION, SAID PUBLICLY THIS IS WRONG,
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WE SHOULD NOT BE ATTACKING THIS MAN
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BECAUSE OF HIS FAITH, EVEN THOUGH I DON'T AGREE
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WITH HIM RELIGIOUSLY, I SEE HIS VIRTUE AS A MAN
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RUNNING FOR OFFICE.
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SO HERE'S HARRY TRUMAN TAKING A VERY UNPOPULAR
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STAND WITHIN HIS OWN DENOMINATION BECAUSE HE
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BELIEVES THAT HIS OWN FAITH DEMANDS IT.
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- BUT CERTAINLY, EVEN IN THE MIDST OF LEARNING
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HISTORY, WE'RE ABLE TO DISPEL SOME OF THESE
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MODERN MYTHS THAT "NO, OUR NATION WAS SUPPOSED TO
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HAVE A SECULAR GOVERNMENT. SECULAR GOVERNMENTS WORK
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BEST." CLEARLY, THAT'S NOT WHAT THE GUYS WHO WERE
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FIGHTING SECULARISM THOUGHT.
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- WE CAN APPLY THOSE PRINCIPLES TODAY, YOU KNOW
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WHAT, IT SHOULDN'T BE SECULAR TODAY EITHER.
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IT HAS WORKED WELL FOR TWO CENTURIES.
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WE'RE LEADING AMONG THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD MORE
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STABILITY, AND IT'S BECAUSE WE HAD
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LEADERS WHO WERE NOT SECULAR MINDED,
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AND WE NEED THAT TODAY.
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- THAT'S PROBABLY WORTH ASKING THE QUESTION THEN
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WHAT DO WE DO TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DON'T BECOME
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SECULAR, TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE LEADERS WHO ALTHOUGH
00:54:48.090 --> 00:54:50.260
ARE IMPERFECT ARE VERY GOD CONSCIOUS OR PRO-FAITH
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IN THE MIDST OF OFFICE. SO HOW DO WE MAINTAIN THAT?
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- WELL TWO THINGS.
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FIRST OF ALL, KNOW THE STORY, TELL THE STORY.
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ALL THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, ALL OF THIS, WE'RE
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JUST EVEN THOUGH WE'VE DONE A NUMBER OF SEGMENTS
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HERE WE'RE JUST SCRATCHING THE SURFACE
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OF THE GREAT HERITAGE OF OUR NATION.
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SO KNOW THE STORY, TELL THE STORY.
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REPEAT IT IN YOUR HOME. TELL IT AT THANKSGIVING.
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TELL IT TO YOUR FRIENDS.
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BUT THE OTHER THING IS BEGIN TO LOOK AT OUR
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CURRENT POLITICS AND LEADERS AND CANDIDATES
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YOU MIGHT BE CONSIDERING THROUGH THE LENS OF FAITH.
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THE REALITY IS THAT IF A CANDIDATE OR POLITICIAN'S
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FAITH IS SINCERE, IT WILL SHAPE WHAT THEY DO IN THE
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OVAL OFFICE. AND SO ASK THOSE QUESTIONS.
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WHAT DO THEY BELIEVE?
00:55:27.200 --> 00:55:29.010
WHAT IS THEIR FAITH?
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AND OF COURSE PEOPLE ARE GONNA ACT MORE LIKE
00:55:30.240 --> 00:55:33.060
THEY'RE MORE FAITH ORIENTED WHEN THEY'RE
00:55:33.080 --> 00:55:35.060
RUNNING FOR OFFICE PERHAPS THAN THEY HAVE OTHERWISE.
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SO DON'T JUST LOOK AT THEIR STATEMENTS.
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LOOK AT THEIR LIFE. LOOK AT THEIR HISTORY.
00:55:38.210 --> 00:55:40.110
HOW HAVE THEY LIVED?
00:55:40.130 --> 00:55:41.190
WHAT'S BEEN THE FRUIT OF THEIR LIFE?
00:55:41.210 --> 00:55:43.010
WE NEED TO BE MORE FAITH AWARE WHEN IT COMES TO
00:55:43.030 --> 00:55:46.030
OUR POLITICS AND NOT ALLOW, IT'S KIND OF A
00:55:46.050 --> 00:55:49.050
SECULAR VENEER TO SORT OF ROB US OF
00:55:49.070 --> 00:55:52.260
THAT GREAT FAITH.
00:55:52.280 --> 00:55:54.040
HERITAGE NUMBER ONE, BUT SECOND OF ALL, KIND OF A
00:55:54.060 --> 00:55:57.000
FAITH AWARENESS IN OUR CURRENT POLITICS.
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- SO WITH ALL WE'VE COVERED, I MEAN WE'VE
00:55:59.130 --> 00:56:00.240
GONE THROUGH THREE SECTIONS NOW.
00:56:00.260 --> 00:56:02.140
WE'VE GONE THROUGH THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION,
00:56:02.160 --> 00:56:04.120
WE'VE GONE THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR PERIOD, WE'VE
00:56:04.140 --> 00:56:06.020
GONE THROUGH WORLD WAR II, 20TH CENTURY, ONE
00:56:06.040 --> 00:56:07.240
OF THE THINGS THAT STANDS OUT IS WE HAVEN'T BEEN
00:56:07.260 --> 00:56:11.050
GREAT BECAUSE WE'VE BEEN SECULAR.
00:56:11.070 --> 00:56:13.030
IT'S THESE GUYS AND THEIR FAITH THAT HAS DRIVEN THEM.
00:56:13.050 --> 00:56:15.140
SOME OF OUR BEST LEADERS, WE CAN DISAGREE WITH THEM
00:56:15.160 --> 00:56:17.220
POLITICALLY ON THINGS, BUT THE TONE THEY HAVE
00:56:17.240 --> 00:56:20.100
KEPT OF KEEPING GOD IN AMERICA AND KEEPING
00:56:20.120 --> 00:56:22.240
PUBLIC POLICY REFLECTING THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE
00:56:22.260 --> 00:56:25.210
CAN TAKE AWAY FROM PRESIDENTS DAY IS THAT WE
00:56:25.230 --> 00:56:28.160
HAVE A TREMENDOUS LEGACY OF PRESIDENTS WHO REALLY
00:56:28.180 --> 00:56:31.050
HAVE MADE SURE THAT WE ARE ONE NATION UNDER GOD.
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[MUSIC]
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SO WE'VE TALKED ABOUT MANY AMERICAN PRESIDENTS
00:56:40.120 --> 00:56:42.140
TODAY, AND AMONG OTHER THINGS WE'VE LEARNED THAT
00:56:42.160 --> 00:56:44.090
GEORGE WASHINGTON ACTUALLY WAS A DEVOUT
00:56:44.110 --> 00:56:46.030
CHRISTIAN, THAT ABRAHAM LINCOLN NEVER OWNED SLAVES,
00:56:46.050 --> 00:56:48.270
HE INDEED WAS ANTI-SLAVERY, AND THAT
00:56:48.290 --> 00:56:51.120
GOVERNMENT WAS NOT DESIGNED TO BE SECULAR,
00:56:51.140 --> 00:56:53.030
AND IT DOESN'T WORK WELL WHEN IT IS.
00:56:53.050 --> 00:56:55.000
SO WHAT WE'VE SEEN AND HEARD TODAY ONLY
00:56:55.020 --> 00:56:56.210
SCRATCHES THE SURFACE.
00:56:56.230 --> 00:56:58.010
AND IF YOU WANT MORE INFORMATION ABOUT ANY OF
00:56:58.030 --> 00:56:59.240
TODAY'S TOPICS, I INVITE YOU TO DISCOVER MORE
00:56:59.260 --> 00:57:02.080
HIDDEN HISTORY AT OUR WEBSITE,
00:57:02.100 --> 00:57:04.040
WALLBUILDERS.COM, OR YOU CAN GO TO THE APP STORE
00:57:04.060 --> 00:57:06.180
ON YOUR SMART DEVICE AND DOWNLOAD THE WALL
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BUILDERS APP, FUN AMERICAN FACTS ABOUT
00:57:08.130 --> 00:57:10.160
PRESIDENTS, OR YOU CAN VISIT OUR WALL BUILDERS
00:57:10.180 --> 00:57:12.190
FACEBOOK PAGE AND LIKE US THERE.
00:57:12.210 --> 00:57:14.070
SO BE SURE TO STAY TUNED TO TBN FOR MORE EXCITING
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CHAPTERS IN AMERICA'S HIDDEN HISTORY.
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