our concern is for the soul of the nation. no one had the guts to back him up. hitler smiled and said you can leave the soul of germany to me. from that sunday on, gestapo agents sat in the pew and wrote down everything he said. he was imprisoned in a concentration camp where he narrowly escaped execution. eventually through deception and intimidation, church and state merged. to the point where the pitcher of hitler wested on the altar of germany. they took down crosses and put him up. the state infiltrated and infected the church. not the other way around. i want to make it very, very clear. when i say you have to find god, i m not saying we find a state religion and i m not saying that that you mix the state with religion. i m saying you find your
so what did he mean by that? does it mean that the state needs to be protected from the awe-inspiring power of the force? or it is possible the army of maurding pastors and nuns if you see the nuns coming after the state, look out. could it be the nuns and the bishops suddenly without warning will seize control of the government in some sort of creepy christian coup? no, i don t think so. for the record it s called establishment clause. why is it called the establishment clause? it s in the first amendment. the establishment clause. this is what it says. congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. that s it. congress shall make no law.
george washington talked about self-regulation. the best way to regulate the self, the best way to be able to have freedom is to be able to have a system that allows people to self-regulate. i happen to be a deep believer in god and a recovering alcoholic. there is no way if it wasn t for my wife and god sorry, honey, not in that order i wouldn t be alive today. the founders fought for right for people to worship god and the way of their understanding. it s important to reorder things and get them back. what are we missing? what happened to us? god was the first principle that put him back in the proper place. coopting of religion by government is extraordinarily dangerous. kitty worthman is here. she grew up in australia under hitler.
to do because you re serving god. so the government doesn t have to do it. when you have a progressive pushing this, it gets a little spooky. i want to bring in our guest. kitty worthman who knows all about the coopting of religion under government because she lived it under hitler. she was 12 years old when nazis took over her country and oh the tales she can tell. pastor lawrence white joined us from texas. he is the senior pastor of the savior lutheran church in houston. he delivers sermons regularly on this topic. the author of a new book, no, he s not the author of a new book. my next guest is. he is in the audience, ralph reid. he is the chairman of the faith and freedom coalition. he is the author of a great new book called the confirmation. we will talk to him. i asked him to come because he s the boogie man. the left goes ralph reed
not you shall not pray in public, or the people shall never refer to god in 700 feet of government property. or you ll never ever, we promise, you ll never be to offended by a manger scene. no. no. what it says is congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. what does that even mean? you have to go back to the time period. england. what had happened in england? why was the black robe regimen so important in the revolutionary war? because people were going to church. but whitefield make impression on people because he reject ed the church of the government. the church of england. he said this. this isn t about god. god needs to be between you two. god and you.