Jim Bakker Show - Ex Radical Liberal Confirms What We All Knew - David Horowitz on The Jim Bakker Show
Aired: 2019-05-22
Duration: 04:48


=== The Protestant Reformation Created America (04:21) ===

[00:00:00]  Thank you so much for really making the time to be here with us, and you got a lot to say.
[00:00:07]  Yeah, the central idea of this book is that America is a Christian country.
[00:00:13]  I say this as a Jew and an agnostic.
[00:00:18]  I'm a kind of witness from outside.
[00:00:21]  98% of the people who settled this continent and created America were Protestant Christians.
[00:00:32]  Every freedom that we cherish, every principle that we hold dear, originated as an idea of Christians who were Protestants.
[00:00:45]  The Protestant Reformation is the creator, really, of America.
[00:00:52]  For example, one of the central principles of the Reformation was the idea of the priesthood of all believers.
[00:01:03]  Before the Reformation, you could only get to heaven if you went through the Catholic Church and its priesthood as the true church.
[00:01:12]  Wow.
[00:01:13]  And then there were established churches, as in England, the Anglican Church, which persecuted Protestant denominations that weren't Anglican.
[00:01:25]  This is a revolutionary idea, the priesthood of all believers.
[00:01:29]  What it means is that each child of God faces his or her maker one-on-one without the intermediary of a church or of a priesthood.
[00:01:44]  This is a radical idea.
[00:01:47]  The priesthood of all believers makes everybody equal and includes, for example, black slaves.
[00:01:56]  And that's how America, led by Christians, freed the slaves and abolished slavery.
[00:02:04]  Americans should not be ashamed of their slave past.
[00:02:11]  We inherited slavery from the British.
[00:02:16]  And of course, slavery was a normal institution for 3,000 years.
[00:02:21]  But when America was created, Jefferson put into the birth certificate, all men are created equal, because that's the priesthood of all believers right there.
[00:02:32]  And had a right, an inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
[00:02:39]  And I, as an agnostic, ex-leftist, when I looked at the, you know, because we as leftists, we wanted inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
[00:02:54]  But inalienable means they can't be taken away.
[00:02:58]  If government gives you the rights, government can take them away.
[00:03:03]  So the only way you can have an inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is if there's a God.
[00:03:11]  Of course, that was an obvious idea, but a difficult one for an agnostic to embrace.
[00:03:20]  The conclusion I came to is that you have to have respect for the belief in God and most importantly, for those who believe in God.
[00:03:33]  If you want your freedoms, that's the basis of all of our freedoms.
[00:03:38]  And it's the reason that the religious liberty or the freedom of conscience is the First Amendment, the most important freedom we have.
[00:03:50]  Because if you can't have freedom of conscience and you can't articulate and express those views, you can't defend any of your freedoms.
[00:04:02]  Absolutely.
[00:04:03]  And we see now, for example, the attack on Chick-fil-A, banning them from airports.

=== Pence Attacked By Buttigieg (00:41) ===

[00:04:10]  That's not because they make bad chicken.
[00:04:13]  That's because their charitable arms funds an organization that promotes Christian ideas.
[00:04:21]  And we saw Vice President Mike Pence, who is probably the most decent man in politics, attacked by a vindictive bigot named Pete Buttigieg, who's number three in line for the Democratic nomination.
[00:04:37]  Pence was a true Christian when he was governor, and Buttigig came out as it revealed that he was gay.