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.
- 00:07:39.070 --> 00:07:40.260
- - 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.
- 00:07:45.240 --> 00:07:47.120
- - WELL, THAT'S WHAT PEOPLE ARGUE TODAY.
- 00:07:47.140 --> 00:07:48.260
- IT SEEMS SILLY, RIGHT?
- 00:07:48.280 --> 00:07:50.270
- - DON'T LISTEN TO HIM.
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- NO.
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- - EXCEPT FOR THIS IS A LAND DEED WITH OH, LOOK
- 00:07:54.100 --> 00:07:55.220
- AT THERE.
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- - RIGHT OVER HERE.
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- - ISAAC POTTS.
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- - SO HE'S REAL.
- 00:08:00.060 --> 00:08:01.110
- - HE'S A REAL GUY.
- 00:08:01.130 --> 00:08:02.250
- - APPARENTLY, OR IT'S A REALLY GOOD FORGERY FROM
- 00:08:02.270 --> 00:08:04.230
- A LONG TIME AGO.
- 00:08:04.250 --> 00:08:06.090
- [ LAUGHTER ]
- 00:08:06.110 --> 00:08:08.010
- SO ISAAC POTTS, THE REASON THIS PAINTING WAS DONE,
- 00:08:08.030 --> 00:08:09.140
- AND THERE'S A LOT OF PAINTINGS WITH GEORGE
- 00:08:09.160 --> 00:08:10.280
- WASHINGTON KNEELING DOWN AND PRAYING.
- 00:08:11.000 --> 00:08:12.170
- IT WAS SOMETHING THAT MANY GENERALS THROUGHOUT
- 00:08:12.190 --> 00:08:14.090
- THE REVOLUTION REPORTED SEEING WASHINGTON PRAY,
- 00:08:14.110 --> 00:08:15.110
- THAT WASHINGTON WAS A MAN OF PRAYER.
- 00:08:15.130 --> 00:08:16.230
- SO THAT WAS NOT AN UNUSUAL THING AT ALL.
- 00:08:16.250 --> 00:08:18.090
- PEOPLE KNEW THAT.
- 00:08:18.110 --> 00:08:20.250
- WELL, THIS PAINTING WAS DONE DEPICTING AN ACCOUNT
- 00:08:20.270 --> 00:08:22.170
- THAT WAS TOLD BECAUSE THIS MAN, ISAAC POTTS, HAD
- 00:08:22.190 --> 00:08:25.090
- ALLEGEDLY SEEN WASHINGTON HAVE THIS ENCOUNTER WITH
- 00:08:25.110 --> 00:08:28.080
- HIM, AND ISAAC POTTS WAS A QUAKER, SO THIS QUAKER IS
- 00:08:28.100 --> 00:08:30.190
- WALKING THROUGH THE WOODS, HEARS SOMETHING
- 00:08:30.210 --> 00:08:32.250
- IN THE WOODS.
- 00:08:32.270 --> 00:08:34.170
- HE STOPS AND LISTENS BECAUSE THIS IS TIME OF
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- WAR, AND SO I'M JUST CURIOUS WHAT'S GOING ON.
- 00:08:36.130 --> 00:08:38.170
- WELL, HE STARTS WALKING THROUGH THE WOODS TO
- 00:08:38.190 --> 00:08:40.050
- INVESTIGATE.
- 00:08:40.070 --> 00:08:41.240
- AS HE GETS BACK, HE SEES -HE THOUGHT IT WAS
- 00:08:41.260 --> 00:08:43.200
- MULTIPLE PEOPLE HAVING A CONVERSATION.
- 00:08:43.220 --> 00:08:45.130
- IT WAS ONLY ONE MAN, AND THE ONE MAN WAS ACTUALLY
- 00:08:45.150 --> 00:08:47.280
- KNEELING DOWN PRAYING, AND SO HE STOPPED AND
- 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:50.190
- JUST LISTENED FOR A LITTLE WHILE, LISTENED
- 00:08:50.210 --> 00:08:53.110
- ENOUGH APPARENTLY SO HE TURNS AND LEAVES AND GOES
- 00:08:53.130 --> 00:08:55.040
- HOME, AND WHEN HE GETS HOME APPARENTLY HE GOES
- 00:08:55.060 --> 00:08:57.120
- IN, HE OPENS THE DOOR AND GOES INTO THE
- 00:08:57.140 --> 00:08:58.280
- KITCHEN TABLE.
- 00:08:59.000 --> 00:09:00.280
- HE SITS DOWN, HE PUTS HIS ELBOWS ON THE TABLE.
- 00:09:01.000 --> 00:09:03.160
- HE BURIED HIS HEAD IN HIS HANDS, AND THEN HE
- 00:09:03.180 --> 00:09:05.280
- EXPLAINS, I JUST CAME FROM THE WOODS AND I SAW
- 00:09:06.000 --> 00:09:08.120
- THE COMMANDER OF THE AMERICAN FORCES PRAYING.
- 00:09:08.140 --> 00:09:10.120
- WHEN A MAN PRAYS LIKE THAT, HIS PRAYERS ARE
- 00:09:10.140 --> 00:09:12.030
- GOING TO BE ANSWERED.
- 00:09:12.050 --> 00:09:13.180
- THE WAR IS OVER.
- 00:09:13.200 --> 00:09:15.030
- IT'S OVER.
- 00:09:15.050 --> 00:09:16.080
- THE WAR IS ALL OVER.
- 00:09:16.100 --> 00:09:18.040
- NOW, WHAT'S INTERESTING ABOUT THAT IS YOU HAVE A
- 00:09:18.060 --> 00:09:20.030
- GUY CONVINCED IT HAS ALREADY BEEN DECIDED
- 00:09:20.050 --> 00:09:22.070
- BASED ON THE PRAYER LIFE OF WASHINGTON.
- 00:09:22.090 --> 00:09:24.170
- - THE PRAYER LIFE OF THE DEIST I'LL POINT OUT.
- 00:09:24.190 --> 00:09:26.260
- - WELL, YEAH, SO - [ LAUGHTER ] BUT EVEN TODAY
- 00:09:26.280 --> 00:09:29.060
- SOME HISTORIANS DISPUTE THE IDEA THAT ISAAC POTTS
- 00:09:29.080 --> 00:09:31.140
- WAS A REAL PERSON WHICH CLEARLY HE WAS A REAL
- 00:09:31.160 --> 00:09:33.170
- PERSON OR THE DETAIL OF THE STORY.
- 00:09:33.190 --> 00:09:35.290
- - CAN I POINT OUT THAT IF YOU WANT TO GO TO
- 00:09:36.010 --> 00:09:37.130
- VALLEY FORGE YOU CAN GO VISIT THE ISAAC POTTS HOME
- 00:09:37.150 --> 00:09:39.120
- THAT IS AT VALLEY FORGE, THE STONE HOME THAT STILL
- 00:09:39.140 --> 00:09:41.190
- EXISTS WHERE HE LIVED?
- 00:09:41.210 --> 00:09:44.040
- - WELL, SO EVEN IF THERE WAS SOME DISPUTE OVER THE
- 00:09:44.060 --> 00:09:46.290
- INTEGRITY OF ALL OF THE STORY OF ISAAC POTTS,
- 00:09:47.010 --> 00:09:49.240
- THERE'S NO DISPUTE OVER THE FACT THAT WASHINGTON
- 00:09:49.260 --> 00:09:52.170
- WAS KNOWN FOR BEING A MAN OF PRAYER, AND CERTAINLY
- 00:09:52.190 --> 00:09:55.010
- A DEIST AT LEAST IN TODAY'S INTERPRETATION, A
- 00:09:55.030 --> 00:09:57.100
- DEIST BELIEVES THAT GOD DOESN'T GET INVOLVED IN
- 00:09:57.120 --> 00:09:59.280
- THE WORLD, SO WHY WOULD YOU PRAY TO A GOD WHO
- 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:02.150
- DOESN'T GET INVOLVED.
- 00:10:02.170 --> 00:10:04.170
- THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE WHEN WASHINGTON
- 00:10:04.190 --> 00:10:06.150
- KNOWN AS A MAN OF PRAYER.
- 00:10:06.170 --> 00:10:08.180
- - WELL, AND THIS IS WHAT I WANT OUR YOUNG AUDIENCE
- 00:10:08.200 --> 00:10:11.040
- TO KNOW AND THAT IS THAT MODERN HISTORIANS HAVE NO
- 00:10:11.060 --> 00:10:13.060
- PROBLEM SIMPLY CUTTING THE RELIGIOUS CONTENT OUT
- 00:10:13.080 --> 00:10:15.100
- OF OUR AMERICAN HISTORY.
- 00:10:15.120 --> 00:10:17.070
- FOR EXAMPLE, CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS SAID HE SAILED
- 00:10:17.090 --> 00:10:19.050
- TO THE NEW WORLD BECAUSE THE HOLY SPIRIT GUIDED HIM.
- 00:10:19.070 --> 00:10:21.070
- HE WAS GUIDED BY THE SCRIPTURES VERY CLEARLY,
- 00:10:21.090 --> 00:10:22.260
- AND YET I CAN SHOW YOU FOUR VOLUME HISTORIES AND
- 00:10:22.280 --> 00:10:25.000
- BIOGRAPHIES OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS THAT
- 00:10:25.020 --> 00:10:27.170
- NEVER MENTION HIS FAITH, NEVER EVEN MENTION THAT
- 00:10:27.190 --> 00:10:29.160
- HE WAS A CHRISTIAN.
- 00:10:29.180 --> 00:10:31.160
- SO MAKE SURE THAT YOU GO TO THE ORIGINAL SOURCES.
- 00:10:31.180 --> 00:10:33.170
- MAKE SURE THAT YOU'RE NOT LOOKING AT A MODERN
- 00:10:33.190 --> 00:10:35.160
- VERSION THAT MIGHT EXCLUDE HIS FAITH WHEN
- 00:10:35.180 --> 00:10:37.180
- HIS OLDER VERSION CAPTURES THE TRUTH ABOUT
- 00:10:37.200 --> 00:10:38.290
- GEORGE WASHINGTON.
- 00:10:39.010 --> 00:10:40.200
- YOU GOT TO BE AWARE OF THAT.
- 00:10:40.220 --> 00:10:42.110
- IT'S NOT THAT THEY SET OUT TO DECEIVE YOU.
- 00:10:42.130 --> 00:10:44.040
- THEY EITHER DON'T BELIEVE RELIGION IS IMPORTANT OR
- 00:10:44.060 --> 00:10:46.130
- THEY JUST HAVE A BUY AS AGAINST IT THAT CAUSES
- 00:10:46.150 --> 00:10:48.030
- THEM TO FILTER IT OUT, SO GO TO THE ORIGINAL
- 00:10:48.050 --> 00:10:49.230
- SOURCES BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE YOU FIND THE RICH
- 00:10:49.250 --> 00:10:51.080
- STUFF THESE GUYS ARE TALKING ABOUT.
- 00:10:51.100 --> 00:10:53.000
- - AND WHEN YOU GO TO ORIGINAL SOURCES, YOU
- 00:10:53.020 --> 00:10:54.240
- FIND THINGS LIKE THIS IS THE VERY FIRST EVER
- 00:10:54.260 --> 00:10:56.250
- PRESIDENTIAL PRAYER PROCLAMATION WAS DONE BY
- 00:10:56.270 --> 00:10:59.030
- GEORGE WASHINGTON.
- 00:10:59.050 --> 00:11:01.040
- NOW, AGAIN IF HE'S A DEIST HE'S NOT GOING TO
- 00:11:01.060 --> 00:11:02.270
- BE THIS GUY CALLING THE NATION TO PRAY FOR GOD'S
- 00:11:02.290 --> 00:11:04.230
- INVOLVEMENT OR THANKING GOD FOR HIS INVOLVEMENT,
- 00:11:04.250 --> 00:11:06.220
- BUT THIS IS THE VERY FIRST EVER PRESIDENTIAL
- 00:11:06.240 --> 00:11:08.290
- PRAYER PROCLAMATION DONE BY GEORGE WASHINGTON
- 00:11:09.010 --> 00:11:10.250
- AGAIN INDICATING HE CERTAINLY WAS A MAN OF
- 00:11:10.270 --> 00:11:13.050
- FAITH AS IS SEEN FROM ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS.
- 00:11:13.070 --> 00:11:15.030
- - WELL, OTHER PRESIDENTS DID THE SAME.
- 00:11:15.050 --> 00:11:19.020
- I MEAN, WE HAVE PRESIDENT JOHN ADAMS BACK HERE, AND
- 00:11:19.040 --> 00:11:21.090
- JOHN ADAMS CALLED HIM -- THIS IS WHAT HE
- 00:11:21.110 --> 00:11:23.220
- CALLED HIMSELF.
- 00:11:23.240 --> 00:11:25.060
- HE SAID I AM A CHURCH GOING ANIMAL.
- 00:11:25.080 --> 00:11:27.050
- - AND AS YOU MENTIONED, JOHN ADAMS ALSO HAS
- 00:11:27.070 --> 00:11:29.180
- PRAYER PROCLAMATIONS AS PRESIDENT, AND CERTAINLY,
- 00:11:29.200 --> 00:11:31.170
- YOU KNOW --
- 00:11:31.190 --> 00:11:33.150
- - WHAT YEAR IS THAT ONE?
- 00:11:33.170 --> 00:11:35.030
- - THIS IS DOWN HERE IN 1799.
- 00:11:35.050 --> 00:11:37.090
- - AND THAT'S THE RIDGE THAT. THAT'S THE RIDGE THAT.
- 00:11:37.110 --> 00:11:39.020
- FROM 1799.
- 00:11:39.040 --> 00:11:40.280
- - AND WHEN YOU GO BACK AND MAYBE WATCH-- HBO DID
- 00:11:41.000 --> 00:11:43.060
- A SPECIAL ON JOHN ADAMS WHICH WAS COOL THAT THEY
- 00:11:43.080 --> 00:11:45.170
- ACTUALLY WENT BACK TO HISTORY AND SAID LET'S
- 00:11:45.190 --> 00:11:47.160
- LEARN ABOUT SOMEBODY, BUT IN THE WHOLE SPECIAL THEY
- 00:11:47.180 --> 00:11:49.200
- NEVER REALLY BROUGHT UP HIS FAITH WHICH IT'S HARD
- 00:11:49.220 --> 00:11:52.100
- TO STUDY JOHN ADAMS AND NOT SEE HIS FAITH EVEN IN
- 00:11:52.120 --> 00:11:54.180
- HIS LETTERS TO HIS WIFE MUCH HE TALKED ABOUT
- 00:11:54.200 --> 00:11:56.150
- FAITH QUITE OFTEN, BUT SOMEHOW WE LEFT THAT OUT
- 00:11:56.170 --> 00:11:58.170
- OF THE HBO TV SPECIAL.
- 00:11:58.190 --> 00:12:01.260
- - WHAT THEY ASSUME IS THAT THIS IS JUST
- 00:12:01.280 --> 00:12:03.170
- POLITICIANS TALKING.
- 00:12:03.190 --> 00:12:05.150
- THIS IS JUST POLITICIANS MAKING SPEECHES.
- 00:12:05.170 --> 00:12:07.190
- OH, WE INVOKE THE BLESSINGS OF THE ALMIGHTY
- 00:12:07.210 --> 00:12:09.260
- AND ALL THAT KIND OF THING, BUT THE REALITY IS
- 00:12:09.280 --> 00:12:11.260
- LIKE YOU SAY WHEN YOU GET INTO THEIR PRIVATE
- 00:12:11.280 --> 00:12:13.200
- LETTERS AND THE ADVICE THEY WRITE THEIR CHILDREN
- 00:12:13.220 --> 00:12:15.140
- OR THE CORRESPONDENCE WITH THEIR WIVES YOU FIND
- 00:12:15.160 --> 00:12:16.280
- THAT FAITH IS GENUINE.
- 00:12:17.000 --> 00:12:18.230
- IT'S NOT JUST POLITICAL SPEAK, SO THESE MEN
- 00:12:18.250 --> 00:12:20.130
- REALLY WERE DEVOTED TO GOD AND DEVOTED TO GOD'S
- 00:12:20.150 --> 00:12:22.040
- PURPOSES FOR THIS COUNTRY.
- 00:12:22.060 --> 00:12:23.230
- - WELL, AND ONE THAT TODAY -AS WE TALKED ABOUT
- 00:12:23.250 --> 00:12:25.160
- WE HAVE WASHINGTON, ADAMS, WELL, EVEN
- 00:12:25.180 --> 00:12:26.240
- THOMAS JEFFERSON.
- 00:12:26.260 --> 00:12:28.190
- THOMAS JEFFERSON IS THE GUY THAT PROBABLY GETS
- 00:12:28.210 --> 00:12:30.180
- VILLAINIZED THE MOST TODAY ESPECIALLY IN THE FAITH.
- 00:12:30.200 --> 00:12:32.180
- - IN THE FAITH ASPECTS.
- 00:12:32.200 --> 00:12:34.100
- - THAT'S RIGHT.
- 00:12:34.120 --> 00:12:36.030
- I MEAN, HE'S THE GUY THAT WROTE THE LETTER OF
- 00:12:36.050 --> 00:12:37.200
- SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE.
- 00:12:37.220 --> 00:12:39.060
- HE'S THE GUY THAT HAD THE JEFFERSON BIBLE.
- 00:12:39.080 --> 00:12:40.270
- THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS WE HEAR ABOUT JEFFERSON
- 00:12:40.290 --> 00:12:42.170
- THAT ARE SEEMING ANTI FAITH UNTIL YOU STUDY
- 00:12:42.190 --> 00:12:44.050
- JEFFERSON AS A WHOLE.
- 00:12:44.070 --> 00:12:46.040
- WHEN YOU GET THE WHOLE PICTURE, YOU GO,
- 00:12:46.060 --> 00:12:48.040
- WAIT A SECOND.
- 00:12:48.060 --> 00:12:49.240
- I DON'T THINK HE'S REALLY ANTI FAITH THE WAY WE
- 00:12:49.260 --> 00:12:51.040
- PRESENT HIM TODAY.
- 00:12:51.060 --> 00:12:52.280
- - YOU'RE RIGHT.
- 00:12:53.000 --> 00:12:55.070
- I MEAN, JEFFERSON GETS PRESENTED AS THE MOST
- 00:12:55.090 --> 00:12:57.110
- ANTI-RELIGIOUS FOUNDING FATHER, HE AND THOMAS PAYNE.
- 00:12:57.130 --> 00:12:59.030
- IT'S AN INTERESTING THING BECAUSE WHAT WE HAVE
- 00:12:59.050 --> 00:13:02.010
- RIGHT HERE, FOR EXAMPLE, THAT'S CALLED THE JOHN
- 00:13:02.030 --> 00:13:04.070
- THOMPSON HOT PRESS BIBLE.
- 00:13:04.090 --> 00:13:06.000
- THAT'S PRINTED IN 1798.
- 00:13:06.020 --> 00:13:08.090
- THOMAS JEFFERSON HELP FUND THE PRINTING OF
- 00:13:08.110 --> 00:13:10.250
- THAT BIBLE.
- 00:13:10.270 --> 00:13:13.000
- NOW, IF THOMAS JEFFERSON IS THE ANTI-RELIGIOUS, I
- 00:13:13.020 --> 00:13:15.050
- HATE THE BIBLE GUY, WHAT'S THAT?
- 00:13:15.070 --> 00:13:17.280
- AND BY THE WAY, THIS BOTTOM STACK OVER HERE,
- 00:13:18.000 --> 00:13:20.190
- THAT'S THE THOMAS SCOTT BIBLE.
- 00:13:20.210 --> 00:13:23.010
- IT'S ACTUALLY AN 8 VOLUME BIBLE.
- 00:13:23.030 --> 00:13:25.070
- WE'VE GOT THREE VOLUMES THERE JUST FOR SPACE, BUT
- 00:13:25.090 --> 00:13:27.120
- IT'S 8 VOLUMES.
- 00:13:27.140 --> 00:13:29.120
- THOMAS JEFFERSON HELP FUND THE THOMAS SCOTT BIBLE.
- 00:13:29.140 --> 00:13:32.110
- - NOW, IF JEFFERSON IS FUNDING BIBLES, I THOUGHT
- 00:13:32.130 --> 00:13:34.130
- JEFFERSON CUT OUT EVERYTHING HE DIDN'T
- 00:13:34.150 --> 00:13:36.060
- BELIEVE IN.
- 00:13:36.080 --> 00:13:37.210
- [ LAUGHTER ]
- 00:13:37.230 --> 00:13:39.140
- - THAT'S WHAT WE HEAR.
- 00:13:39.160 --> 00:13:40.200
- - NOT TRUE.
- 00:13:40.220 --> 00:13:42.140
- - I KNOW I SAY THAT, RIGHT, TONGUE IN CHEEK
- 00:13:42.160 --> 00:13:44.140
- BECAUSE I KNOW HE DIDN'T, BUT THAT'S WHAT WE HEAR
- 00:13:44.160 --> 00:13:46.130
- TODAY IS THAT JEFFERSON DIDN'T BELIEVE IN ALL THE
- 00:13:46.150 --> 00:13:48.030
- BIBLE SO HE MADE HIS OWN BIBLE AND HE CUT OUT
- 00:13:48.050 --> 00:13:50.120
- THINGS THAT HE THOUGHT WEREN'T TRUE.
- 00:13:50.140 --> 00:13:51.280
- SO WHAT'S THE ANSWER BEHIND THAT?
- 00:13:52.000 --> 00:13:53.080
- - HERE'S THE EXPERT.
- 00:13:53.100 --> 00:13:55.010
- - WELL, YOU HAVE TWO ANSWERS.
- 00:13:55.030 --> 00:13:56.190
- ONE IS HE DID TWO JEFFERSON BIBLES.
- 00:13:56.210 --> 00:13:58.090
- PEOPLE THEY TALK ABOUT THE DID HE EVER SON --
- 00:13:58.110 --> 00:13:59.260
- I HAVE FUN WHEN PROFESSORS DO THAT.
- 00:13:59.280 --> 00:14:01.210
- - 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?
- 00:14:06.050 --> 00:14:07.130
- -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 --
- 00:14:21.060 --> 00:14:22.220
- - AT LEAST WHEN THEY COME TO
- 00:14:22.240 --> 00:14:24.010
- KNOWLEDGE OF JEFFERSON.
- 00:14:24.030 --> 00:14:25.130
- - 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?
- 00:14:41.280 --> 00:14:43.040
- 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
- 00:14:52.110 --> 00:14:53.240
- 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
- 00:15:01.070 --> 00:15:02.140
- 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
- 00:15:12.010 --> 00:15:13.140
- 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,
- 00:15:22.010 --> 00:15:23.140
- AND HE SAYS ONLY CHOOSING THINGS THAT WOULD BE TO
- 00:15:23.160 --> 00:15:25.200
- THEIR LEVEL OF UNDERSTANDING TO NOT
- 00:15:25.220 --> 00:15:27.180
- CHALLENGE THEM IN A LEVEL OF THEOLOGY WHERE THEY'RE
- 00:15:27.200 --> 00:15:30.110
- 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.
- 00:15:35.220 --> 00:15:38.240
- THE TEACHINGS COVER HEAVEN AND HELL, HEALING
- 00:15:38.260 --> 00:15:40.240
- THE SICK, RAISING THE DEAD, CASTING OUT DEMONS.
- 00:15:40.260 --> 00:15:42.270
- 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.
- 00:15:46.120 --> 00:15:47.290
- HE DOES THE MIRACULOUS WHICH IS WHAT WE'RE TOLD
- 00:15:48.010 --> 00:15:49.110
- JEFFERSON CUT OUT.
- 00:15:49.130 --> 00:15:51.020
- 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
- 00:16:00.290 --> 00:16:02.190
- JESUS, WE'D NEED A WHOLE LOT LESS GOVERNMENT, SO
- 00:16:02.210 --> 00:16:04.160
- HE WENT THROUGH AND FOUND 81 MORAL TEACHINGS OF JESUS.
- 00:16:04.180 --> 00:16:07.050
- HE CUT THOSE TEACHINGS OUT OF THE BIBLE, PASTED
- 00:16:07.070 --> 00:16:10.060
- THEM END TO END SO THAT HE COULD READ THE MORALS
- 00:16:10.080 --> 00:16:13.190
- 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
- 00:16:16.030 --> 00:16:18.070
- YOU GO, YOU CAN SEE HIS HANDWRITING.
- 00:16:18.090 --> 00:16:20.160
- IT'S THE LIFE AND MORALS OF JESUS OF NAZARETH, AND
- 00:16:20.180 --> 00:16:22.290
- CONGRESS PRINTED 9.000 COPIES.
- 00:16:23.010 --> 00:16:26.220
- THIS IS ONE OF THE ORIGINAL 1902 COPIES
- 00:16:26.240 --> 00:16:28.180
- THAT'S PRINTED BY THE U.S.
- 00:16:28.200 --> 00:16:30.200
- GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.
- 00:16:30.220 --> 00:16:32.170
- FOR 50 YEARS THEY GAVE THIS TO EVERY MEMBER OF
- 00:16:32.190 --> 00:16:34.130
- CONGRESS, SAID IF YOU'LL LIVE BIT TEACHINGS OF
- 00:16:34.150 --> 00:16:36.030
- JESUS YOU WON'T GET IN TROUBLE.
- 00:16:36.050 --> 00:16:38.140
- - I LIVE JUST A FEW MILES FROM THE U.S.
- 00:16:38.160 --> 00:16:40.120
- CAPITOL IN WASHINGTON DC.
- 00:16:40.140 --> 00:16:42.160
- AND TODAY OF COURSE IF YOU HAD A CHURCH SERVICE
- 00:16:42.180 --> 00:16:44.160
- IN THE U.S.
- 00:16:44.180 --> 00:16:46.060
- CAPITOL PEOPLE WOULD GO CRAZY AND YOU'RE
- 00:16:46.080 --> 00:16:48.040
- VIOLATING SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE, BUT
- 00:16:48.060 --> 00:16:50.040
- JEFFERSON ACTUALLY MADE IT POSSIBLE TO HAVE A
- 00:16:50.060 --> 00:16:51.240
- WORSHIP SERVICE GOING ON EVERY SUNDAY MORNING IN
- 00:16:51.260 --> 00:16:52.260
- THE U.S. CAPITOL.
- 00:16:52.280 --> 00:16:55.120
- HE ATTENDED THAT WORSHIP SERVICE AND HE ALSO PAID
- 00:16:55.140 --> 00:16:57.110
- OUT OF HIS OWN POCKET FOR THE MARINE BAND TO PLAY
- 00:16:57.130 --> 00:16:58.260
- AT THE CHURCH SERVICE.
- 00:16:58.280 --> 00:17:00.170
- NOW YOU MIGHT NOT WANT THE MARINE BAND PLAYING
- 00:17:00.190 --> 00:17:01.230
- AT YOUR CHURCH SERVICE.
- 00:17:01.250 --> 00:17:03.110
- - MARINE BAND AS YOUR WORSHIP BAND.
- 00:17:03.130 --> 00:17:04.190
- THAT'S COOL.
- 00:17:04.210 --> 00:17:05.290
- - BUT STILL --
- 00:17:06.010 --> 00:17:07.080
- - IT SEEMS LIKE HIS VIOLATED
- 00:17:07.100 --> 00:17:08.250
- THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE THOUGH.
- 00:17:08.270 --> 00:17:10.060
- - WELL, THAT SAYS SOMETHING.
- 00:17:10.080 --> 00:17:11.120
- THAT GUY THAT'S SUPPOSED TO HAVE WRITTEN -DID
- 00:17:11.140 --> 00:17:12.010
- WRITE THE WORDS.
- 00:17:12.030 --> 00:17:13.060
- - RIGHT. DIDN'T HE KNOW WHAT HE WROTE?
- 00:17:13.080 --> 00:17:13.280
- - OF COURSE HE DID.
- 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:14.170
- HE WASN'T CRAZY.
- 00:17:14.190 --> 00:17:15.160
- - WAS HE CONFUSED ABOUT THIS?
- 00:17:15.180 --> 00:17:16.220
- - HE JUST DIDN'T SEE IT AS A VIOLATION OF THE
- 00:17:16.240 --> 00:17:18.080
- LAW, AND WE HAVE HILARIOUS RECORDS BY THE
- 00:17:18.100 --> 00:17:20.090
- WAY OF HIM HAVING HIS FEET STEPPED ON WHILE
- 00:17:20.110 --> 00:17:22.010
- HE'S IN CHURCH AND HAVING A QUAKER WOMAN GIVING A
- 00:17:22.030 --> 00:17:23.120
- PROPHECY, AND HE'S GOING WHAT'S GOING ON HERE LIKE
- 00:17:23.140 --> 00:17:24.260
- SOME OF US HAVE TO DO IN OUR CHURCHES, BUT MY
- 00:17:24.280 --> 00:17:26.150
- POINT IS THAT HERE'S THOMAS JEFFERSON
- 00:17:26.170 --> 00:17:29.080
- SPONSORING A WORSHIP SERVICE, SPONSORING A
- 00:17:29.100 --> 00:17:31.080
- CHURCH BASICALLY MEETING IN THE U.S. CAPITOL.
- 00:17:31.100 --> 00:17:33.070
- NOW, THAT SAYS EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT
- 00:17:33.090 --> 00:17:34.230
- WHAT HIS INTENTIONS WERE.
- 00:17:34.250 --> 00:17:36.090
- - SURE.
- 00:17:36.110 --> 00:17:38.000
- AND SO TO THE NOTION THAT MANY OF THE FOUNDING
- 00:17:38.020 --> 00:17:39.190
- FATHERS WERE ATHEIST, AGNOSTICS, AND DEISTS
- 00:17:39.210 --> 00:17:41.100
- WHEN YOU STUDY THE ORIGINAL WRITINGS YOU
- 00:17:41.120 --> 00:17:43.060
- JUST DON'T COME TO THAT CONCLUSION.
- 00:17:43.080 --> 00:17:44.090
- - NO. NO.
- 00:17:44.110 --> 00:17:45.240
- - WHICH EVEN GOING BACK -WE TALKED ABOUT THIS 12
- 00:17:45.260 --> 00:17:47.140
- VOLUME SET OF WASHINGTON WRITINGS WITH JARED
- 00:17:47.160 --> 00:17:49.240
- SPARKS BEING THE GUY THAT COLLECTS IT, ONE OF THE
- 00:17:49.260 --> 00:17:52.020
- THINGS THAT JARED SPARKS, THIS HISTORIAN PUTTING IT
- 00:17:52.040 --> 00:17:54.120
- TOGETHER DOES, IS HE ACTUALLY WRITES TO
- 00:17:54.140 --> 00:17:56.180
- WASHINGTON'S GRANDDAUGHTER NELLY WHO
- 00:17:56.200 --> 00:17:59.010
- ENDED UP BEING THE ADOPTED DAUGHTER, RIGHT.
- 00:17:59.030 --> 00:18:00.280
- LIVES WITH WASHINGTON, GROWS UP IN THEIR HOME,
- 00:18:01.000 --> 00:18:02.220
- AND SAYS WELL, WHAT CAN YOU TELL ME ABOUT THE
- 00:18:02.240 --> 00:18:04.090
- FAITH OF WASHINGTON?
- 00:18:04.110 --> 00:18:06.020
- WHAT SHE SAYS IS BECAUSE JARED WAS ASKING ABOUT
- 00:18:06.040 --> 00:18:08.020
- THE CHRISTIAN FAITH.
- 00:18:08.040 --> 00:18:10.010
- AND SHE SAID, YOU SHOULD SOONER QUESTION HIS
- 00:18:10.030 --> 00:18:12.060
- PATRIOTISM THAN HIS CHRISTIANITY.
- 00:18:12.080 --> 00:18:14.140
- 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
- 00:18:17.040 --> 00:18:19.220
- NATION, THE GUY REALLY LEADING IN
- 00:18:19.240 --> 00:18:21.240
- THE REVOLUTION.
- 00:18:21.260 --> 00:18:23.220
- NOBODY QUESTIONS HIS PATRIOTISM, AND YET FOR
- 00:18:23.240 --> 00:18:25.170
- 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
- 00:18:30.050 --> 00:18:32.050
- THIS NOTION WHEN PEOPLE SAY WELL, NO, THE
- 00:18:32.070 --> 00:18:33.260
- FOUNDING FATHERS WEREN'T CHRISTIANS.
- 00:18:33.280 --> 00:18:35.170
- THEY DIDN'T BELIEVE IN GOD.
- 00:18:35.190 --> 00:18:36.250
- WELL, EVERYBODY THAT KNEW THEM SEEMED TO
- 00:18:36.270 --> 00:18:38.210
- THINK THEY DID.
- 00:18:38.230 --> 00:18:41.040
- - 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
- 00:18:42.240 --> 00:18:44.100
- HIS CHRISTIANITY.
- 00:18:44.120 --> 00:18:46.030
- SHE SAID ON ONE OCCASION THAT HER AUNT DIED, AND
- 00:18:46.050 --> 00:18:48.040
- SHE WAS LYING THERE AT THE COUCH AT MOUNT VERNON
- 00:18:48.060 --> 00:18:49.230
- IN FRONT OF THE FIREPLACE, AND WASHINGTON
- 00:18:49.250 --> 00:18:51.070
- SAW HER, AND SHE WAS REALLY SICK.
- 00:18:51.090 --> 00:18:53.230
- WASHINGTON DIDN'T REALIZE SHE HAD DIED, THOUGHT SHE
- 00:18:53.250 --> 00:18:55.250
- WAS JUST RESTING, SLEEPING.
- 00:18:55.270 --> 00:18:57.160
- NELLY SAYS HE WENT OVER AND LAID HANDS ON HER AND
- 00:18:57.180 --> 00:18:59.290
- 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
- 00:19:03.030 --> 00:19:05.110
- 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.
- 00:19:30.020 --> 00:19:32.070
- 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
- 00:19:36.060 --> 00:19:37.240
- WORD FOR IT.
- 00:19:37.260 --> 00:19:39.170
- GO BACK AND SEE THE ORIGINAL WRITINGS SO THAT
- 00:19:39.190 --> 00:19:42.270
- 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
- 00:19:49.060 --> 00:19:51.140
- 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.
- 00:20:04.190 --> 00:20:06.120
- AND THIS LITTLE PIECE RIGHT HERE IS SEVERAL
- 00:20:06.140 --> 00:20:08.000
- PAGES IS TITLED WASHINGTON AND CHRIST,
- 00:20:08.020 --> 00:20:11.010
- HIS TWO GOOD FRIENDS, 46 STANZAS ABOUT WASHINGTON
- 00:20:11.030 --> 00:20:13.210
- 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.
- 00:20:23.190 --> 00:20:25.110
- 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.
- 00:20:35.130 --> 00:20:36.280
- SO LET'S GET ON ACROSS THE STUDIO.
- 00:20:37.000 --> 00:20:38.120
- - LET'S DO IT.
- 00:20:38.140 --> 00:20:39.230
- [ MUSIC ]
- 00:20:39.250 --> 00:20:43.120
- - OKAY.
- 00:20:43.140 --> 00:20:45.020
- WE'VE DISPATCHED THE MYTH THAT GEORGE WASHINGTON
- 00:20:45.040 --> 00:20:46.140
- WAS A DEIST.
- 00:20:46.160 --> 00:20:47.250
- 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
- 00:21:03.030 --> 00:21:04.240
- STEVEN, YOU'VE GOT A GREAT BOOK ON LINCOLN'S
- 00:21:04.260 --> 00:21:06.140
- BATTLE WITH GOD.
- 00:21:06.160 --> 00:21:08.080
- 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.
- 00:21:22.140 --> 00:21:24.150
- 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.
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- 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
- 00:24:28.260 --> 00:24:31.080
- 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.
- 00:24:37.230 --> 00:24:39.260
- 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.
- 00:24:44.270 --> 00:24:46.190
- 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.
- 00:24:50.280 --> 00:24:52.290
- 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.
- 00:25:03.290 --> 00:25:05.250
- 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
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- 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
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- PRAYER RIGHT HERE.
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- SO THIS IS HIS ACTUAL HANDWRITTEN PRAYER THAT
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- AS WE JUST LISTENED, HE'S READING THIS
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- 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
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- 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
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- IS WHAT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO HAVE IN AMERICA.
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- IT'S WHAT THE FOUNDERS INTENDED, IT WORKS BEST,
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- WE SHOULD BE SECULAR.
- 00:50:52.180 --> 00:50:54.070
- WELL, THEY FOUGHT A WAR TO MAKE SURE WE WEREN'T
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- GONNA BE SECULAR, RIGHT?
- 00:50:57.220 --> 00:50:59.010
- TO MAKE SURE WE WEREN'T-- NOW THAT DOESN'T MEAN
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- THAT THESE GUYS WERE PERFECT IN WHAT THEY DID,
- 00:51:00.260 --> 00:51:02.120
- BUT THEY CERTAINLY WEREN'T SCARED OF
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- RELIGION AND ACTUALLY WORKED TO INCLUDE IT IN A
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- 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
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- 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
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- BREAKFAST CALLED THE NATIONAL PRAYER BREAKFAST.
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- THERE'S NOW ABOUT SIX TO EIGHT THOUSAND PEOPLE A
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- 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
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- 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
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- BECAUSE WE GOT THEIR LEADERS TO COME TO WASHINGTON
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- AND PRAY TOGETHER. SO EISENHOWER STARTED THAT.
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- EISENHOWER IS THE GUY WHO GOT "UNDER GOD" PUT IN
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- THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE BECAUSE WE DIDN'T
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- 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
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- PAPER. LET'S PUT IT ON THE PAPER.
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
- 00:53:26.140 --> 00:53:28.190
- PUBLIC POLICY, THEY DID SEE THEIR NATION IN THOSE
- 00:53:28.210 --> 00:53:30.230
- TERMS. THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.
- 00:53:30.250 --> 00:53:32.260
- - RIGHT. I MEAN APART FROM JESUS, YOU'RE NOT GONNA
- 00:53:32.280 --> 00:53:34.220
- FIND SOMEONE WHO DOESN'T HAVE MORAL FAILING,
- 00:53:34.240 --> 00:53:37.090
- SO IT WOULD BE FOOLISH FOR US TO BE IN THAT
- 00:53:37.110 --> 00:53:39.190
- HYPOCRITICAL SENSE GOING, NOW WAIT A SECOND, THEY
- 00:53:39.210 --> 00:53:41.290
- HAVE FLAWS, THEREFORE-- WELL, WAIT A SECOND.
- 00:53:42.010 --> 00:53:44.130
- - SOME OF THEM WERE VERY FIERCE IN COURAGE IN
- 00:53:44.150 --> 00:53:48.090
- STANDING FOR THEIR FAITH.
- 00:53:48.110 --> 00:53:49.240
- FOR EXAMPLE, HARRY TRUMAN WAS A BAPTIST.
- 00:53:49.260 --> 00:53:51.270
- WHEN JOHN F. KENNEDY RAN FOR OFFICE,
- 00:53:51.290 --> 00:53:54.000
- A LOT OF BAPTISTS WERE UPSET THAT JOHN F. KENNEDY
- 00:53:54.020 --> 00:53:55.230
- WAS ROMAN CATHOLIC SO THEY ATTACKED HIM.
- 00:53:55.250 --> 00:53:57.250
- HARRY TRUMAN STOOD UP, WROTE HIS ENTIRE BAPTIST
- 00:53:57.270 --> 00:54:00.260
- DENOMINATION, SAID PUBLICLY THIS IS WRONG,
- 00:54:00.280 --> 00:54:03.120
- WE SHOULD NOT BE ATTACKING THIS MAN
- 00:54:03.140 --> 00:54:05.140
- BECAUSE OF HIS FAITH, EVEN THOUGH I DON'T AGREE
- 00:54:05.160 --> 00:54:07.120
- WITH HIM RELIGIOUSLY, I SEE HIS VIRTUE AS A MAN
- 00:54:07.140 --> 00:54:09.250
- RUNNING FOR OFFICE.
- 00:54:09.270 --> 00:54:11.210
- SO HERE'S HARRY TRUMAN TAKING A VERY UNPOPULAR
- 00:54:11.230 --> 00:54:13.190
- STAND WITHIN HIS OWN DENOMINATION BECAUSE HE
- 00:54:13.210 --> 00:54:16.040
- BELIEVES THAT HIS OWN FAITH DEMANDS IT.
- 00:54:16.060 --> 00:54:18.140
- - BUT CERTAINLY, EVEN IN THE MIDST OF LEARNING
- 00:54:18.160 --> 00:54:20.030
- HISTORY, WE'RE ABLE TO DISPEL SOME OF THESE
- 00:54:20.050 --> 00:54:22.060
- MODERN MYTHS THAT "NO, OUR NATION WAS SUPPOSED TO
- 00:54:22.080 --> 00:54:24.250
- HAVE A SECULAR GOVERNMENT. SECULAR GOVERNMENTS WORK
- 00:54:24.270 --> 00:54:27.030
- BEST." CLEARLY, THAT'S NOT WHAT THE GUYS WHO WERE
- 00:54:27.050 --> 00:54:29.060
- FIGHTING SECULARISM THOUGHT.
- 00:54:29.080 --> 00:54:30.210
- - WE CAN APPLY THOSE PRINCIPLES TODAY, YOU KNOW
- 00:54:30.230 --> 00:54:32.280
- WHAT, IT SHOULDN'T BE SECULAR TODAY EITHER.
- 00:54:33.000 --> 00:54:34.190
- IT HAS WORKED WELL FOR TWO CENTURIES.
- 00:54:34.210 --> 00:54:36.160
- WE'RE LEADING AMONG THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD MORE
- 00:54:36.180 --> 00:54:38.180
- STABILITY, AND IT'S BECAUSE WE HAD
- 00:54:38.200 --> 00:54:40.200
- LEADERS WHO WERE NOT SECULAR MINDED,
- 00:54:40.220 --> 00:54:42.240
- AND WE NEED THAT TODAY.
- 00:54:42.260 --> 00:54:44.090
- - THAT'S PROBABLY WORTH ASKING THE QUESTION THEN
- 00:54:44.110 --> 00:54:45.270
- WHAT DO WE DO TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DON'T BECOME
- 00:54:45.290 --> 00:54:48.070
- 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
- 00:54:50.280 --> 00:54:55.100
- IN THE MIDST OF OFFICE. SO HOW DO WE MAINTAIN THAT?
- 00:54:55.120 --> 00:54:57.230
- - WELL TWO THINGS.
- 00:54:57.250 --> 00:54:59.100
- FIRST OF ALL, KNOW THE STORY, TELL THE STORY.
- 00:54:59.120 --> 00:55:01.160
- ALL THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, ALL OF THIS, WE'RE
- 00:55:01.180 --> 00:55:03.070
- JUST EVEN THOUGH WE'VE DONE A NUMBER OF SEGMENTS
- 00:55:03.090 --> 00:55:05.120
- HERE WE'RE JUST SCRATCHING THE SURFACE
- 00:55:05.140 --> 00:55:07.010
- OF THE GREAT HERITAGE OF OUR NATION.
- 00:55:07.030 --> 00:55:08.190
- SO KNOW THE STORY, TELL THE STORY.
- 00:55:08.210 --> 00:55:10.050
- REPEAT IT IN YOUR HOME. TELL IT AT THANKSGIVING.
- 00:55:10.070 --> 00:55:11.170
- TELL IT TO YOUR FRIENDS.
- 00:55:11.190 --> 00:55:13.050
- BUT THE OTHER THING IS BEGIN TO LOOK AT OUR
- 00:55:13.070 --> 00:55:15.110
- CURRENT POLITICS AND LEADERS AND CANDIDATES
- 00:55:15.130 --> 00:55:17.160
- YOU MIGHT BE CONSIDERING THROUGH THE LENS OF FAITH.
- 00:55:17.180 --> 00:55:19.250
- THE REALITY IS THAT IF A CANDIDATE OR POLITICIAN'S
- 00:55:19.270 --> 00:55:22.060
- FAITH IS SINCERE, IT WILL SHAPE WHAT THEY DO IN THE
- 00:55:22.080 --> 00:55:25.030
- OVAL OFFICE. AND SO ASK THOSE QUESTIONS.
- 00:55:25.050 --> 00:55:27.180
- WHAT DO THEY BELIEVE?
- 00:55:27.200 --> 00:55:29.010
- WHAT IS THEIR FAITH?
- 00:55:29.030 --> 00:55:30.220
- 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.
- 00:55:35.080 --> 00:55:37.100
- SO DON'T JUST LOOK AT THEIR STATEMENTS.
- 00:55:37.120 --> 00:55:38.190
- 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.
- 00:55:57.020 --> 00:55:59.110
- - 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.
- 00:56:31.070 --> 00:56:35.070
- [MUSIC]
- 00:56:35.090 --> 00:56:40.100
- 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,
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- WALLBUILDERS.COM, OR YOU CAN GO TO THE APP STORE
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- ON YOUR SMART DEVICE AND DOWNLOAD THE WALL
- 00:57:06.200 --> 00:57:08.110
- 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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