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A Spiritual War
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| But I want everybody to understand that we are no longer in a politics as usual. | |
| And I think that you understand that. | |
| I really believe that you understand that. | |
| As I have studied you and I've studied really the Christian community and the sort of the prophetic community, we are in a definitely a spiritual war because I know that there are elements in our country right now that are in very, very key critical positions that want to rip God out of every aspect of everything that we do. | |
| And that's really a dangerous thing for our country because our country was really founded upon Judeo-Christian principles and we should be fearless about that. | |
| And the other aspect of this is we really are facing a shift where people in our country have taken for granted for far too long the freedoms that we hold dear. | |
| And, you know, as you said, I served over 33 years in our military, and I was really from the time I was a kid. | |
| I mean, heck, I was born on a military base. | |
| My father's retired sergeant from the army. | |
| He was a World War II Korea vet. | |
| My grandfather served in World War I and World War II. | |
| I have brothers and nieces and nephews that continue to serve in the military. | |
| So my family and myself is really defined by service to nation in different capacities, different aspects. | |
| And I believe in this country and I believe in the imperfections of this country. | |
| But one thing I do believe in when it comes to the United States of America is that our country was founded based upon faith. | |
| Faith in God, faith in the values that we have as Americans, faith in each other, faith in our families, faith in life, and really faith in freedom. | |
| And I think that Americans, and I will speak specifically to the Christian community because, you know, I have taken on the, I'm a Roman Catholic. | |
| I'm raised as an Irish kid in a nine, I have nine brothers and sisters in a small family from upstate or up in Rhode Island, up in the New England area. | |
| And so I've taken on the Catholic faith. | |
| I actually took on the Catholic faith partially in the book I wrote, A Field of Fight. | |
| But really, this is about the greater Christian community. | |
| And I think that for your audience and for the greater audience that then is shared in various conversations in the pews or in restaurants and outings and other networks that people have that listen to you, we have a problem in the greater Christian ecumenical community and in all of the faiths, all of the faiths across the board in our country, all of the Christian faiths particularly. | |
| One of the things that I firmly believe that we have done and we have not recognized, and maybe now we are because we are going to have to have an awakening in this country like we've never had before in the faith-based communities. | |
| We have built walls around our own traditions, the traditions of Catholicism or the Lutherans or the Episcopalians or the Protestants or you name the Christian faith. | |
| And we have built these walls around the traditions that exist, yet we all really have one doctrine, and that doctrine is the Bible. | |
| You know, there's different versions, obviously, but the Bible is our doctrine. | |
| And if you look at the Bible as the fulfillment of the promise of Christ, then our Constitution is the fulfillment of the promises that were made principally in the Bill of Rights, just like the promises that are made in the Ten Commandments. | |
| And when I look at our world and when I look at the United States, I am a student of history. | |
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Go Back to 2016
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| I have studied our Constitution. | |
| I have studied our founding fathers. | |
| I have read their diaries and, in some cases, many of the books that they've written, and certainly the various papers that were written at the time. | |
| You know, the Federalist Papers is an example of one set of documents. | |
| But when we talk about who we are as an imperfect nation from the beginning, we are made more perfect in our faith, in our faith in each other, in our faith in God. | |
| It doesn't mean that we're ever going to be perfect, but it means that our nation is free because we have this faith in something that's much higher than we really truly understand. | |
| And I will tell you that in the last four years of my life, really five years, if you go back to even before The election in 2016, you go back to the early parts of 2015 into 2016, | |