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this country belongs to God
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Almighty a powerful minority is on the
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rise with a particular vision of America
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you cannot separate God from politics
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you can't take him out of our government
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it's one of the oldest and most
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influential currents in US politics but
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in a country deeply divided the
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Christian right has found a new voice we
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desire to live in a
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judeo-christian nation with judeo
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Christian values it claims Christianity
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is under attack and that God belongs in
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government with pastors preaching its
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message in churches and its beliefs
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guiding ultraconservative candidates in
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the midterm elections I'm a Christian
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and I say it proudly we should be
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Christian nationalist the movement is
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known to many as Christian nationalism
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and the far right is taking it to the
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extreme we are the Christian Taliban
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some are warning that this is
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fundamentally undemocratic it was
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Amplified by Donald Trump we're going to
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protect Christianity and I can say that
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I don't have to be politically correct
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powered by his election loss it broke
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cover at the storming of the capital on
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January 6th last year Christ's holy name
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we
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pray you can't diminish what happened on
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January 6th from what's happening in
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some sanctuaries on Sunday morning their
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Crusade is starting from the ground up
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and education is the front line our
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Schoolboard meetings have police
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officers at at the meetings to escort
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people out who get too out of control to
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understand this moment in US politics
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you have to understand this movement I
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met people across the country who feel
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they're battling for the soul of
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America tarant County known for
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conservative churches wealthy white
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neighborhoods and good
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schools it's America's largest
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Republican urban community and it helped
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elect Donald Trump but in 2020 Joe Biden
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won here by a
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hair this politically crucial corner of
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Texas has become a testing ground for
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how conservatives can maintain their
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grip do either one of you want banana
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bread it's 6:30 in the morning like
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every parent Laney HW is rushing to get
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her children ready for the day but in
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the past few months she spent more and
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more of her time focused on schooling
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fighting back against what she believes
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is growing conservative and Christian
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influence in the classroom when we first
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got here everything was mild school
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board meetings were boring um and then
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everything ramped up to this and this is
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where we are now and it's a fight right
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our Schoolboard meetings have police
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officers at the meetings to escort
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people out who get too out of control
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school boards are Ground Zero of the
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culture wars taking place across the
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country in Taran County they're churning
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with disputes over what children are
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taught about sexuality gender identity
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the history of racism and over what they
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should be allowed to read there's only
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two genders and guess what teachers
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shouldn't be forced to use your freaking
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madeup fantasy pronouns fight like hell
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this a vasive censorship is much more
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than politics this is about lives queer
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youth or dis substantially higher rate
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for suicide compared to the national
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average for adolescence not having
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support from your home your peers and
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your school means adverse mental health
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effects and eventually suicide attempts
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transforming lowprofile elections into
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high stakes political conflicts and
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Central to that is Christianity but not
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through the pews remember when America
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stood for things like honor Freedom
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personal responsibility and Faith enter
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a Texas cell phone company on a mission
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to protect Conservative Christian values
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Patriot mobile spent nearly half a
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million dollars supporting 11 candidates
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in four districts all of them won we
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took over 11 11 11 11 seats on school
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board took over four it's part of a new
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Playbook by Republicans to take over
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politics from the ground up backed by
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political operatives like former Trump
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adviser Steve Bannon one of the keys is
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these school boards right the school
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boards are the key ke that picks the
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lock talk to us about what you did in
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Taran County since then those school
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boards have begun to put new
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restrictions on books and gender
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identity
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issues the owner of patriot mobile Glenn
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story recruited longtime political
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operator Lee wgon to help mobilize the
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company's Christian message as a mother
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and of you know School aged kids it's
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really quite concerning we have never in
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a time in in these cities that we were
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dealing with had Christianity so um so
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attacked um attacked what do you mean oh
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look at some of the public um the public
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comments in school boards and people
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calling Christianity a terrible racist
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bigoted thing and the reason we started
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with school boards is because that is
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the level of government that is in fact
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that is most impacting the future of our
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country what we were seeing is the
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leftist indoctrination instead of
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Education you feel you have a
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responsibility to bring God back into
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the schools in some way no question
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that's what you're doing no question we
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need to have a little bit more of faith
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in schools in the sense of we have to
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remove what I feel is ungodly stuff out
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of the school or put what he feels is
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Godly into the school recently Texas
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passed a law saying schools had to
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display posters of the national motto if
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they were donated Patriot mobile
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delivered hundreds
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hello Laney and other parents saw an
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opportunity to take a stand I'll this
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one I'm going Shan Krishna has two
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children in school he asked students to
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design signs that would include them
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these were the voices he felt were
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unheard Arabic speakers transgender and
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gay kids the school board initially
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rejected the signs the issue has gone to
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court schools shouldn't be a place where
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you have people competing with which God
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is the best car right but that's where
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we are right so it should never be that
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you know keep keep your religion to
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yourself your religious institutions
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churches temples right houses or accept
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all gods yeah or or make it a place
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where everything absolutely yes for Lany
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and shren the signs may have been a
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political stunt but they see something
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much more Sinister at work we see the
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Republican Party who has decided one of
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their goals is to bring God into schools
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and that is the plan long term is to
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bring God also into the government so to
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me it's anti-American to try and bring
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Christian ideology into our schools or
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into our government our country is based
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on allowing people to make that choice
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for themselves I raised the sign
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controversy with Patriot mobile it's
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created a great uproar because folks
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just hate the concept of in God we trust
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and so and my response is look it's the
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national motto we're not doing anything
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other and if you don't like it take
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every bill out of your pocket and throw
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it away because it says it on every bill
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every coin you don't think it was an
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issue of who's
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God and whose God do we trust no cuz the
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Alternatives brought forward were an
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Arabic and you know LGBT has it was more
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political than just the word God right
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all right you guys ready for all parents
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here this boils down to the future of
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their children and who gets to shape
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what that will become
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the concerns I found in Texas echo
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resoundingly through the Conservative
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Christian establishment this fear of a
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cultural takeover by what they label the
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radical left the Southern Baptist
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Theological Seminary in Louisville
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Kentucky is one of the largest in the
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world wow training leaders who are
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shaping the future of the Evangelical
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Church have you and other Christian
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leaders taken on a more overtly
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political role well inevitably because
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you know Christian preachers didn't have
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to preach about lgbtq issues in any
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sense we as we do now because those
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weren't issues in the culture no one was
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talking about them for mhler this shift
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has been a fundamental change for both
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the country and the church I think for
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conservative Christians there has been a
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Dawning awareness of the fact that
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whereas the society basically agreed
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with us on almost every important issue
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I mean the the overlap if you take a VIN
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diagram was so overwhelming that
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Outsiders would call the United States a
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Christian Nation so something's clearly
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changed and conservative Christians in
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this country are now in a paradox or a
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predicament I think that's why you see
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such a uh well you know it be called by
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those who don't like it the rise of the
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new Christian right or uh the uh The
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Awakening of uh the Christian vote in
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the United States well there's a reason
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for
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that the rise of the new Christian right
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is called Christian nationalism by some
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the belief that America was founded as a
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Christian Nation and that the government
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should keep it that way blurring the
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line between church and state so
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Christian nationalism is a new term for
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a very old phenomenon so it privileges
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uh a religious identity uh with
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citizenship in its most virulent form it
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turns out to also have an ethnic or
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racial uh component to it uh in the US
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that component has been around European
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descent or whiteness um as it has
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developed in the country so uh when I
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talk about Christian nationalism in the
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US I usually talk about white Christian
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nationalism Donald Trump was seen as
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defending their cause when he entered
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the white house we're going to protect
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Christianity and I can say that I don't
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have to be politically correct or and it
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was the storming of the capital that
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showed just how much religious and
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political identities had begun to merge
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on the right bonded by a belief that the
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election had been stolen Jesus Christ we
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invoke your name amen
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amen many reject the Christian
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nationalist label as a leftist smear but
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a few right-wing politicians are
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embracing its holy rhetoric we need to
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be the party of nationalism and I'm a
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Christian and I say it proudly we should
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be Christian nationalists the church is
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supposed to um direct government not the
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opposite way the church is supposed to
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influence government and and and we need
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to be so involved in what is going on in
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our government online extremists have
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taken it even further we are the
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Christian Taliban this is this is the
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era of Christian nationalism what's
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different now uh is that the country is
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no longer majority white and Christian
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is recently as 2008 when Barack Obama
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was first running for president our
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first African-American president uh the
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country was actually 54% white and
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Christian so comfortably majority white
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and Christian uh that number today is 44
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percent and I think that threat right of
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white Christians no longer knowing
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they're in control demographically
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culturally politically um is why we're
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seeing it kind of come to the four in
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the current context prominent voices in
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the black church are also sounding the
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alarm about the racial implications of
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the movement and warned that the spirit
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of the January 6th attack was not
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contained in the capital you can't
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diminish what happened on January 6th
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from what's happening in some
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sanctuaries on Sunday morning morning
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you can't separate this passion to
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overthrow the nation's capital with
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violence on January 6 from the rhetoric
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that you hear on Christian radio you
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can't separate this desire to pull down
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elected officials and maybe even call
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for their murder versus what we hear
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frankly from people all across the
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nation even elected officials who are
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praying for the death of the president
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many pastors were at the capital that
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day oh there he is I traveled to
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Tennessee deep in the Bible Belt where
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one of them continues to preach so
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Pastor Ken has asked me to meet him here
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on this overpass to watch him waving
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flags seems a bit of a patriotic stunt I
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think he does it a lot hello Pastor Ken
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hey hi how are you good how are you
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doing good thank you God bless you thank
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you very and God bless America and God
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bless Donald Trump
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Ken Peters has denounced the violence of
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the capital Riot but still defends what
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he sees as a patriotic Mission come on
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we do feel like God has a special plan
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for this country and he still has a plan
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for this country and on January 6th you
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felt that was under threat oh absolutely
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absolutely we felt like the the enemy
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meaning leftists uh who don't like
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Christians um had stolen our nation
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Peter's Patriot church is one of a
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growing number of non-denominational
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startup congregations that say they want
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to take back the country for God I was a
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little unsure of what to
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expect as someone who grew up in the
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church what I heard here was not the
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gospel I knew political activism as an
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act of worship the lgbtq and the left is
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saying oh you're a church separation of
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church and state get in the stands you
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can't fight the fight you can't play in
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the game
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Church preachers you stand up in the
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stand separation of church an aggressive
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response to a sense of being under siege
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Christians are going to have to get
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feisty they're going to have to get in
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the fight a little bit and quit sticking
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their head in the sand and being
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completely pacifist when it comes to
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politics for him that means a crusade
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against abortion hey if God can overturn
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roie Wade he can do anything amen and
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ending same-sex marriage
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yeah I want to exclude certain types of
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relationships sexual relationships from
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the term marriage it's special to us
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it's in the Bible it's something we
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really care about and you want a
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government that would impose that I want
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a government that keeps marriage what
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it's always
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been what he preaches from the pulpit is
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meant to be taken to the polls we
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endorse Monty Fritz we endorse him and
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his message seems to be resonating
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Patriot churches have expanded to
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several locations Peters says they're
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attracting followers from more liberal
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states to me this isn't anything new
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it's just how I even grew up God family
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country that it's it there's nothing
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wrong with that and um some try to you
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know shame us for loving our country
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this is where God placed us we wanted to
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come and find a place that wasn't afraid
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to take a stand that wasn't afraid to
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speak out if there were issues that they
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thought um needed to be spoken about we
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are definitely a Christian Nation and
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should be a Christian Nation so to try
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to separate politics from the church is
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asinine it cannot be done um and if
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you're doing it you're Pro if you are
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doing that you're probably doing
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something
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wrong I wanted to know if most churches
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in Tennessee felt the same way so I
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continued my journey to the city of
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Franklin south of Nashville in a county
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that's been called the New Frontier for
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American Evangelical Christianity
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father we thank you for this day and we
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thank you for another week I joined an
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early morning meeting of community
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activists who work with the homeless led
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by Pastor Kevin rigs he grew up as a
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conservative Evangelical and had dreams
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of becoming a mega church pastor but a
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close reading of the Bible convinced him
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God cared more about social justice
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there's division within the church like
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I've I haven't seen it I've had friends
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who were pastors of churches and because
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they spoke out um uh against um the
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religious right or against President
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Trump then they're asked to leave their
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Church what's the threat do you think
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what's the danger you hear the term a
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lot in in Evangelical circles that we're
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fighting a cultural war and I think you
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could very easily replace the word
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culture with civil and that's kind of
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where we are and it's been a a code
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Civil War where it's all been about
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ideology and fighting for these things
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but that could very quickly become
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violent um it could become you know the
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the um the the right will have a
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tendency to take up arms um to protect
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their their
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right there are pastors who seem to
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court controversy even Thrive off it
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Greg lock burned Catholic rosaries and
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Harry Potter books on Halloween night
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objects of sorcery and Witchcraft he
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called them we don't have to be so
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careful with what we say or I met him in
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his Studio near Nashville where he films
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his popular cast about faith in politics
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the social media that's the biggest part
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of it I think it's about 4.6 million
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people across all the you know Facebook
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and all the platforms of course no more
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Twitter I was suspended for life from
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Twitter but uh at the end of the day we
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literally have millions of people that
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watch and then that brings a lot of
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people to the church good evening global
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vision family give the Lord some praise
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in his house Lo made a name for himself
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as a trump pastor but he really took off
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by challenging the co shutdown and yes
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he was also at the capital Rock rot you
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ain't seen the Insurrection yet he
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preaches politics to his following that
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can sound like extremist rants you
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god-hating communist America you'll find
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out what an Insurrection is cuz we ain't
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playing your garbage we ain't playing
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your mess my Bible says that the Church
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of the Living God so you also said in
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your church that Democrats are demons do
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you really believe that absolutely I
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believe the Democratic party is
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demonically energized and so I told him
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look if you believe in butchering babies
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and you celebrate stolen elections and
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you don't want freedom and you're
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against the Second Amendment or even the
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First Amendment then leave you can leave
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anytime you want to it's one thing to be
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tired of a party it's another thing to
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say they are evil they are demonic right
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but I don't mind saying that couldn't
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this be a way of inciting to violence
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those people who listen to you either in
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your church or online because they might
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take it a step further if this is evil I
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should go after it you know every bucket
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sits on its own bottom people have been
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saying that for years oh if you follow
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Jesus then that means you're going to
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make a whip and going into a church and
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run people out it's not quite the same
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thing it's exactly the same thing you're
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calling fellow Americans evil and
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putting it in the context of an
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apocalyptic battle between good and evil
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there is an apocalyptic battle between
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good so that is the kind of language
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that could be used to incite violence
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against such people could be an is or
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two very different things that's not my
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responsibility I have responsibility you
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don't see that as a responsibility to
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stay away from possibly inciting
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violence no I'm not inciting violence
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I'm preaching the Bible of pastors
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getting is now preaching the Bible with
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a growing emphasis on deliverance from
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demons there's none of the political
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rhetoric
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tonight you can see that Greg L really
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knows how to draw a crowd this is
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emotional it's powerful it's dramatic he
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knows how to develop a
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following some you feel like throwing up
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you feel something com after the service
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people gathered at the front seeking
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prayer to be freed from their
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demons get parano out in Jesus name in
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this kind of mass Deliverance service is
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tapping into a very old tradition of
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Pentecostal Revival in the United States
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it breaks through in new ways when
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people are hungry for the experience of
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a living and mighty God for those here
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the spirit of God was
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moving but how is this mix of
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charismatic evangelism right-wing
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politics and trumpism playing out in the
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midterm elections I do think we're
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seeing kind of a test run of some of
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this rhetoric um in the midterms and I I
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think it is
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kind of dip the toe in the water see how
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this plays on The Campaign trail with a
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rev up to
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2024 one of the best examples of a
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candidate backed by this new religious
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right is the Republican Contender for
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Pennsylvania Governor Doug
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mastriano he's a former military man
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campaigning as a Christian Warrior
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framing this election as spiritual
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warfare don't be held in bondage by
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those lies and tricks of the enemy
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because Satan sees a potential you have
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in Jesus Christ here to change the
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course of history we stand at a
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crossroad right now in Pennsylvania and
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this is our time we're taking our
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country back and it starts right
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here I went to Pennsylvania to find out
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what voters were thinking traveling deep
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into Amish
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Country I'd met Jeff and Janice Gavin at
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a campaign event their friends Chris and
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Bobby Foley were visiting from out of
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state I'm going to be voting
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conservative not necessarily Republican
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because I look at both sides but most of
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what I hear from the Democratic side is
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anti-me I don't align with that message
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and uh what about mastriano mastriano
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I'm well well behind I I he has to win
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for to the state to recover do you
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believe that Marano has been called by
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God yes absolutely oh absolutely what do
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you think that God has called them to do
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to get involved politically well if you
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read the Bible and all the stories in
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the Bible he uses people people to move
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and to do things in God's Will and God
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has called upon many people to take back
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this world from this who is God calling
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to take back America
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now well I think he appointed he did
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appoint Trump this is going to be a long
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turn too it's not going to be something
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that's going to happen with this
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election I mean it's going to take a
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while to get this country back the way
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it was because it took 30 40 years to to
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to turn it around
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but but I think it may take a couple may
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take 2024 now 2022 is going to be a
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really big real effective effective
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it'll definitely set the the pace on
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what's going to happen from there on out
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but I think God's going to come down and
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he's going to make things change and
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when you've taken the country back what
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is that going to look
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like um I think it's going to look good
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because you have the you'll have God
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back in the in the government you get
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God back in the schools you get God back
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you got the Ten Commandments think about
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living by The Ten Commandments none of
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our kids even know the Ten
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Commandments after we spoke they headed
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to an event where the Christian right is
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finding a new
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voice where are my Christian
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nationalists at in this room thank you
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if you're a this is the reawaken tour a
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traveling Road Show attracting tens of
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thousands of people as it crisscrosses
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the nation you cannot separate God from
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politics you can't take him out of our
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government
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its attendees are antiva anti-mask and
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they're invoking God to stop the
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steal on the sidelines hundreds of
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people cued to be baptized by water and
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by the spirit this really feels like a
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church
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service and it's felt like a church
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service several times today but then
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again it felt also like a political
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rally so it's both I mean I've never
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really seen such a mixture of religion
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and politics top billing was shared by a
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handful of trump loyalists the general
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who served two presidents then convicted
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of lying to the FBI BBC wants to know if
00:24:07
you want to
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no the political operative convicted of
00:24:12
lying to Congress collecting money for
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his legal fees Eric
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TR and the man himself dialed in while
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his son was on stage we're going to
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bring this country back because our
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country's never been in such bad shape
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it's a Carnival of chaos those who are
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preaching election fraud and Co
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conspiracies and Christ and that's the
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power of the message the midterm
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election will be the first test of how
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this plays out at the polls this new
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Christian right is out of step with the
00:24:43
direction of the country fighting
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against changing moral values framing
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that as a battle against evil take
00:24:49
control of our nation what it ends up
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doing is turning political opponents
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into enemies right and that's a kind of
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threat uh to the whole Democratic
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project I hope it ends up in US finding
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a way to have our own maybe regions of
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the nation and living peacefully
00:25:08
together get demons it's a minority but
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backed by powerful politics and if
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Republicans win big it could become an
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outsized influence pushing the party and
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the church further to the right
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