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    Darkness is not an affirmative force. It simply reoccupies the space vacated by the light. This is the Hamilton Quarter on American Family Radio. It should be uncomfortable for a believer to live as a hypocrite. Delivery people out of the bondage of mainstream media. And the philosophies of this world. God has called you and me to be his ambassador. Even in this dark moment. Let's not miss our moment. And now, the Hamilton Corner. You know, a quote that I've read, and it really stirs my heart, and I believe it's attributed to Benjamin Franklin. He said that everybody loves the fruits of freedom, but if you are willing to tend the tree that bears the fruits. Hi, Alex McFarland here so honored that you're listening. This is the Hamilton Corner on the American Family Radio Network, and we have a great show, especially a great show if you, like myself, care about the future of this country. You understand like so many have even historians and sociologists and political science theorists have understood that really kind of the X factor, the secret sauce, if you will, woven into the fabric of America has been Christianity. It's very often referred to as our Judeo-Christian foundation. Then our judiciary, our government, our politics, the way we adjudicate trials, what we call due process. And certainly the constitutionally protected freedoms, life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, even JFK, Democrat JFK in January of 1961. As President Kennedy was being inaugurated, he gave a speech and he said, the rights of man come not from government but from God. The role of government is not to give you rights far from it," said JFK. The role of government is to guard the rights you've already been given by Almighty God your Creator. Well, to talk about this, and maybe later on we will take some calls, and the number if you want to weigh in on the conversation is 888-888-4888-4888.

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    that's 888-589-8840. But we've got a guest, a gentleman with whom I spoke several weeks ago, J.A. Houser. And he's an author. I just was very impressed with John Anthony Houser. He's written a book called The Destruction of Liberty, Creating the American Socialist Aristocracy. Now, there's a lot in that title that we can unpack. But first of all, I want to thank him for making time and welcome him now to the American Family Radio Network author, speaker John Anthony Houser. Thanks for being with us, sir. I'm very glad to be here and I very much appreciate the invitation. Indeed, indeed. So before we get into your book and just the subject about our liberties very often taken for granted that i believe we need to fight and protect gives a little background on yourself mister houser uh... i grew up on a dairy farm in northern wisconsin uh... and uh... sorry was very close to nature and and very close to hard work as well starting at the very early age uh... went away to college and got degrees in political science and history and embarked on a career in politics almost immediately i announced i was gonna run for the wisconsin legislature about a month after a graduated college uh... had not yet turned twenty two years old uh... i lost that campaign but it was very close i went up i wound up going to work for uh... the governor of wisconsin and some of the uh... legislators in the state of wisconsin for about ten years uh... but became very disillusioned by what i saw and uh... eventually joined the private sector and I've been a part of the private sector ever since. But I have never lost the desire to see this nation live up to its ideals in its politics.

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    And I just wrote this book because as I've watched in the last, especially decade or so, We have dug ourselves into a whole deeper and deeper and deeper into just a very cynical sort of frame of mind and a very, I think, destructive ideology that's called secular humanism or, you know, it's really what it is, it's socialism and it's draining the moral fiber and spiritual fiber of our country uh... in d uh... you know uh... is well speaking of uh... with Wisconsin do you plan to be in milwaukee during their the rnc convention this summer i probably will not i reside in the state of indiana now and uh... i have not taken an active role in in politics or political campaigns in the last 20 years because I haven't wanted to wait back into that mess. There may be a time when I do, but I don't see it this summer. When you hear people like President Trump say, you know, drain the swamp, what does that What does that statement mean? You having had firsthand exposure to where our government is at the present moment, what does drain the swamp mean? To me it goes right back to the subtitle of this book which is Creating the American Socialist Air Stocracy. And you know I've posted some things on social media recently where I got some blowback on that, where people say, well, those two things don't have anything to do with one another.

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    They're in fact opposites. I said, well, the introduction to my book, I say that very same thing, that on the surface it would seem that's true. But if you look at how history has played out and how socialism has developed over history, they are exactly compatible. Every socialist nation, every socialist regime that's ever taken power has done so, saying we are the party of equality, we are the party of fairness, we are the party of the new word as equity and inclusion. And yet, when the socialists come to power, what is it that they have always done? They have simply disposed of the old power structure, the old aristocracy, if you will, replaced it with themselves at the top. And we're watching that happen in real time in this country right now with a two-tiered system of justice and economics where if you agree with the party in power, you're protected, you get a sweetheart deal, legally and economically. And if you are a political opponent, you are fair game to be persecuted. And in the news recently prosecuted. So that's what I mean by, and Donald Trump, when he said he was going to drain the swamp, what he meant was draining out the sort of status quo, the power structure that's there, the ruling class. And that doesn't just mean politicians, it means the bureaucracy, it means the media, it It means the lobbyist class. It means in a newly developing power in this country, the big tech. It just means all these people that have assumed to themselves this sort of aristocratic status, where we are on to ourselves and we're allowed to do basically whatever we want, we're going to clean that out.

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    That is not the American ethos. That is not the American dream. the american dream is that you can come from any background and if you work hard and if you're talented and you know you can make it we're like we're seeing that play out in our study less and less yeah the the swamp has given up without a fight has it no and and and no no here's that she ever does i mean that these people this is the real hatred for donald trump i mean i know he he's brash and he's sometimes he's not the the most uh... gracefully mannered person but that is not the source of their real hatred the real that he is a threat to this people that they've built for themselves because he really means it when it says i want to try to drink a swamp well and and let me just say this to it what you're saying is uh... exactly what i've heard from bill feterer and david barton adena this to gentlemen Mr. Houser, do you know Bill Fetter? Yeah, great guys and folks if you're just tuning in, Alex McFarland here, this is the American Family Radio Network, our guest that we're learning from tonight is John Anthony Houser. He is the author of the book, The Destruction of Liberty, the creation of the American Socialist aristocracy by the way uh... where were made people by this book mister houser you can find it on amazon uh... you can find it at julon press that x u l o n press they have it on their online bookstore uh... you can go on to my website and and and hit a button and it's available taking straight to a page where you can and look at what's offered whether it be a paper back or hard back or even a e-book uh... in that website is w w dot j a how's their h a u f e r dot com uh... you know both uh... my my friends bill federer and david barton both incredibly respected historians experts on the constitution and the development of america i'd bill federer on on a program a few days ago and he said that like he said several dynamics are play like when you know, Zarist Russia fell to the Bolshevik, you know, communist. You know, Russia had had a rich Christian history, but it was kind of at a low eub and there was all this promise of equality and, you know, masses of the, you know, underclasses believed the communists.

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    believed the Communists. Oh, you know, give more and more power to us because we got your back. And of course, that's not true. And there's always this aristocracy. There's the, you know, the elites and the proletariats. You know, there's the upper class. You know, I think about like this, you know, the very same people that say open the border and defund the police. They live in gated communities, Nancy Pelosi and AOC and Chuck Schumer. They travel. They themselves with the security detail. And I think about like as Bill Federer said, one rule for me and a different set of rules for the and the social justice woke left today. It's the same way. That's why if you would speak to this, the people that just think we're headed for some Marxist socialist utopia, it's not going to be that way. Like you say, a two-tiered justice system, a multi-tiered economic system. The socialists sell their worldview on promises of equality, but I think very quickly people find out it's not the promise that they were told. Well, yeah, and that I mean we're watching the classic socialist playbook Unfold in front of our very eyes again every socialist regime that has ever come to power whether it be the Bolsheviks in Russia Well, you know eventually became the Soviet Union or the Nazis in Germany or Castro and Cuba or Venezuela today they all came to power in the wake of of chaos and economic disaster. And we see, I mean, they deliberately sow chaos. They deliberately encourage rioting and all the other kinds of things that we've seen in the last four years.

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    We've seen it now on college campuses regarding free Palestine, which is no longer about free Palestine. It's about anti-Semitism and ultimately anti-USA. But the reason they do that is because they drive society to the brink of dissolution with chaos and intimidation and fear. And then when society doesn't feel like it can take it anymore, they step forward with their solution. They say, you know what? We will assert control. We'll look out for you. We will guarantee your security. And at that point, there's enough of the population. We want to say, okay, I just want somebody to clamp down on the chaos here. And so they do that with perfection. When socialists come to bar, they clamped out. So the question is, forgive me, we'll have to come back after this break. Do you have hope that America can the United States be the exception in spite of the chaos, in spite of the disorder into which they want to insert new order? Do you have hope that America can withstand and remain a constitutional republic? We're going to come back folks. John Anthony Houser, author, historian, the destruction of liberty. Let's hope it will be the preservation of liberty. But stay tuned. We're going to take calls to, by the way, the number 888-589-8840. This June marks two years since the overturn of Roe vs. Wade. But did you know that the number of abortions actually increased the following year? In 2023, the amount of abortions reached its highest level since 2012. Preborn continues to stand strong for women in crisis. Preborn is a ministry of compassion that showers women and babies with God's love, providing free ultrasound some mothers to introduce them to the precious life growing inside them. When a mother meets her baby on ultrasound and hears their heartbeat, she is twice as likely to choose life. $28 sponsors one ultrasound and $140 helps rescue five babies.

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    Your generous tax deductible donation will also help to provide women who choose life with assistance for up to two years. So please, give your best gift to donate dial pound 250 and say the keyword baby. That's pound 250 baby or visit preborn.com slash a fr that's preborn.com slash a fr. Shiting light into the darkness. This is the Hamilton quarter on American family radio. Welcome back to the program. Alex McFarlane here, we're talking with John Houser. You know, in a way it's ironic that we're having this conversation, the destruction of American liberty. Folks, guess what happened on this date, June 13, 1963, a day, to paraphrase FDR, a date that will live in infamy, on this day. And it really is an antecedent factor as to why we are, where we are. On this date, in 1963, June 13, public school prayer and Bible reading was outlawed by the U.S. Supreme Court. Now, you could think about that in Russia or China, but in America, unbelievable. And our children, generations of American children spend more hours under the influence of the public school classroom, a very ideological-driven public school classroom, more than with their parents more than with certainly Sunday school teachers or the pastor. So, June 13, 1963, the day that Bible reading and prayer was outlawed in public schools contributing factors to where we are. But we are talking about, I ultimately believe, folks, this is a message of hope because you can make a difference. You can pray, you can vote, you can be informed, you can influence others. And so we're talking with John Houser, who's giving us, in my opinion, a much needed wake-up call. If you want to join in the conversation, the number is 888-589-8840. Mr. Houser, again, thank you for being with us, and thank you for the book you've written about the warning of the encroachment of socialism. Appreciate you.

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    Again, I'm very, very privileged to be here and blessed to be here. So thank you as well. Yeah. So, I was thinking about something during the break. You know, when other countries have fallen to socialism and then communism, were there any John Halzer's that wrote books? Do you know of any historically, like in, you know, pre-communist Russia, were there any voices crying in the wilderness, hey wait, we don't want to go this way. Just like, I mean there's you, there's David Barton, there's Bill Federer, there has been Tony Perkins, there's been Chuck Colson in the countries that fell to Marxism. Were there any warning shots by people saying, hey, let's turn the car around? Yeah, there were. I mean, in Russia you had the Kerensky government, which eventually was crushed by the Bolsheviks. And in Germany you had the Weimar Republic, which was eventually crushed by the Nazis. But I think the reason I'm hopeful for the United States that this will not happen to us is because I truly believe we have a unique and special history and a a unique and special founding and which is led us to be a a very first time ever and maybe and maybe the only time ever in history uh... a nation which has an ethos which is counter to the the forces which allowed authoritarian eventually it's authoritarianism to eventually triumph united states have a as a uh... founding which is to me it was pure genius the founding fathers were the only i think creators of a nation who effectively took into account human nature and what i mean by the way men preach it though their basic philosophy was that we are we as fallen beings in and whatever the left wants to tell you, the founding fathers were God-fearing, God-believing people.

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    They did not create a secular nation. They created a nation based on Christian values, culture, and principles. They saw the fallenness of human nature, which is why they knew that the creation of the Constitution had to be for it to be a restricting document that counters human nature. The only way socialism can work is if all human beings in authority act in an altruistic manner and that is simply not a reliable way to govern people. I mean it's not realistic. Human beings are fallen creatures and in those who are in authority of fallen creatures. So the Constitution is a document designed to curb the ability of government and those in government to abuse power. And socialism is the exact opposite. It is an ideology based on the unfettered ability of those in power to exercise that power. So there's the dichotomy. In the United States, in America, we have a tradition of sort of rebelliousness. And yeah, it gets us into a little bit of trouble here and there. We had the Wild West and all that. But there's still that grain of, hey, you can't always tell me what to do kind of thing that we've got going on. And I think it leads us to at times at least, and hopefully, and especially at a time like this enough of us anyways to say you know what we were not willing to give our freedoms over to you you can promise the world to us but we have seen it too often now that you cannot deliver and I am not willing to put my future in the future of my children and my family in your hands in the United States in America. Go ahead.

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    Yeah, yeah, I was going to say I mean this is huge. You nailed something that doesn't get talked about enough in my opinion, that the founders understood human nature and they took that into account when they were crafting our government. And I think about the fact that, you know, that very famous quote by John Adams. John Adams said that our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people, but But I want to give the larger context of that quote. John Adams said, we have no government armed with the power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. And he went on and he said, look, basically sin, avarice, ambition, revenge, all these things would break the strongest chords of our Constitution like a whale going through and net, except human passions are bridled by morality and religion. And that's why it's been so insidious, folks. The banning of the display of the Ten Commandments, kids being taught just secular worldview and that, you know, I'll put it this way, Mr. Houser. You know, I'm on the road traveling speaking. Ten years ago I used to say the core value of this generation was sexual license. And today I say the core value is just license. Just hey I'll do whatever, whenever. So much to say folks this is Alex McFarland you're listening to the American Family Radio Network our guest John Houser author of the book the destruction of liberty. I want to take a couple of calls. We're going to go to Texas. Kenneth in Texas. Thank you for holding, thank you for listening, and welcome to our conversation with author John Houser. Yes, good afternoon. I found it interesting that I'm confused.

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    I find it interesting that I'm confused. Why is it that we know from history that Stalin was brought to power by a communist? communist ideals taught to the people by teachers and professors and who was the first who were the first people that Stalin killed teachers and professors the same thing happened with Che and Castro who were the first people that that were either disappeared or put into prison. Teachers and professors. And they brought Marxism to colleges in the United States in the 20s. And they've been teaching it every since. And they don't, these same people that are standing up here preaching socialism today our kids and our key for kids when and if God forbid there was ever a Bolshevik type revolution and somebody stepped up who would be the first people executed? Do they not learn from history? do they not even no history didn't the uh... didn't the uh... pilgrims try uh... communal living socialism oh they did and people went hungry and it failed i'm gonna get off of here and uh... and and let me know what you think hey uh... keneth you make some great points and it yet and it's like professors today look look folks and i love education I love America, but I've spoken or debated on 200 American university campuses, about 50 percent of which were Christian schools, sometimes infected with wokeness.

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    But the secular schools where I've spoken, Mr. Houser, to the caller's point, so many professors are basically the propaganda ministers for Marxism. And you know, God forbid, but if we became some communist police state, look, any voices of dissent would swiftly be dispensed with as we've seen historically many times. Would you agree? Yeah, I would. The problem is that the socialists have taken a somewhat different tack in the United States than they did in other countries. Whereas in other countries, they killed the professors and teachers, rounded them up and send them off to the the gulag archipelago or whatever you in this country they simply co-opted them they I would say brainwashed them I mean it is very difficult I was on a college campus 35 years ago and I saw the bias then I saw the liberal left meaning but at least conservative and Christian values were tolerated Now it is absolutely where you know there it's almost 33% of the college students now think it is it is legitimate to do violence against those you disagree with and yeah, I mean Christian values have been then demonized to the point where It's almost a non-existent voice on some campuses so rather than then And, you know, exterminating what used to be called the Intelligentsia, they have co-opted them. They brought them over to their side and we conservatives watched it happen and did very little to stop it. Now I don't think that's necessarily the case anymore and I don't think it's too late, but we have a pretty big hold of dig out of it.

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    And I would say, you know, to Kenneth and Texas, it is true that if you deprive a people of its history, they're lost. And the left, in this country, does everything it can to erase our legitimate history and replace it with their own rewritten history. That's what the 1619 Project is all about. That's why you see them ever eager to tear down statues, not just the Confederate generals anymore but anybody they want to tell them that you've got the same and i'll be a lot you're washington though uh... hold up thought out i want to try to get a call in before next break i want to get a west virginia uh... ed in west virginia thanks for holding well-known expert michael i i i i i i've talked to a lot of uh... i mean i'm approaching seventy let's talk a lot of uh... people my age and i think there's a lot of apathy for people my age in not making the situation that we're facing right now more realistic and taking seriously to the next generation. And I hear some of the people, and I have a lot of younger family members and friends who just are, they don't care. care and i think it's my opinion is that my generation that my age is not communicating well with the younger generation to understand what we're facing and that's that's my statement uh... i i i agree you know twenty years ago uh... it i went to work for james dobson at focus on the family It was one of the great honors of my life. I loved Dr. Dobson and really the years I worked at FOGUS on the family shaped me.

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    But the pastor that I was under at that point really kind of almost reprimanded me. He said, Alex, James Dobson, he's an alarmist. He said, all that stuff. You have to understand, gay marriage will never happen in America, he told me. He said, I'm just worried. Dobson is just one of these, you know, all America's in trouble. America's going to be socialist. Homosexuality is a threat to our religious liberty and freedom of speech. Why are you going to go to work for that great alarmist? And do you know what? And John, you can weigh in too. But Chuck Colson, Jerry Falwell, James Dobson, the founder of the American Family Association, John Weilman, I had the privilege of meeting him quite a number of times. D. James Kennedy, I met many times Adrian Rogers, Phyllis Schlaffley. A lot of these people that were the great conservative voices beginning in the late 70s, they in one way or another, they all said, look, we tried to issue the cry of warning, But Chuck Colson said to me, if anything, we understated the big threat to American Judeo-Christian constitutional liberties. Hey, hold this thought. John Hauser, J.A. Hauser, the destruction of liberty, the creation of the American socialist aristocracy. We'll talk about this book and what this means, but what we can all do about it for God and country. We've got a brief break. This is the American Family Radio Network, Alex McFarland saying stay tuned. Hamilton Quarter Podcast and One-Minute Common Terrets are available at EFR.net.

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    Back to the Hamilton Quarter on American Family Radio. Welcome back to the program Alex McFarland here, a passionate Christian and a patriotic America. And I hope you are too. Hey, by the way, we're going to resume our conversation with author John Houser. Let me make a little announcement here. Some of you may know that over the last 20 years, I've been privileged to lead a lot of worldview conferences. We call those conferences truth for a new generation. Abe Hamilton has been one of my speakers. Chuck Colson, James Dobson, Eric Metaxas, Dinesh Desuzah, Tim Wildman, I mean, you name it, we've brought together great speakers. Well, we're working on a major national worldview conference, fall of 2025 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. So next week I'm going to be in Myrtle Beach and next Thursday, I'm going to have an organizational meeting with any interested persons. So next Thursday, June 20th, if you happen to, if you want to come to Myrtle Beach 10 a.m. I'm going to be at a wonderful venue called Ground Zero. It's a Christian Youth Center in a restored theater. I've spoken there many times. Next Thursday, June 20th, 10 a.m. Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. I'm going to have my first organizational meeting for the 2025 TNG conference. And then that weekend I'll be preaching at a wonderful church called Saka Stebaptist Church on Sunday, June 23rd. And then I'm going to our second of seven summer youth camps. Anyway, all of that, if you go to my website, which is AlexMcFarlane.com, just I've got a form on their info at AlexMcFarlane.com, I-N-F-O. If you want to stay in touch, because what we do, we pray, we educate, we inspire, we mobilize, we equip people, and this will be a big conference.

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    I know it's many months from now, but anyway, come out to our organizational meeting Thursday, June 20th, 10 a.m. at ground zero in Myrtle Beach. And let's encourage each other in this wonderful, as the founders would say, the spirited contest of liberty. Well, we're going to continue with collars and our guest, Frank in Kentucky. Frank, thank you for holding and welcome to our conversation with author John Houser. Hi brother. Hi brother Alex. Yes hello. I don't know if this is on Tony Perkins or Murphy County radio. I was hearing this and this lady she was talking about getting the school parents back in I think Louis, Louis down at school. You didn't hear anything about that? I did here in Louisiana that they were posting the Ten Commandments in all public schools. Now, prayer, I don't know, actually, you know, students do have the right to voluntary prayer. Can't be, you know, led or coerced. But do you know anything, Mr. Houser? I believe there was a bill that has passed in Louisiana about the Ten Commandments being posted in all public schools. But either prayer or the Ten Commandments, do you know anything about that, Mr. Houser? I believe it was the Ten Commandments that's allowed to be posted. And of course, there's a huge uproar about that. But I would say just generally across our nation, we need to introduce new things like that or reintroduce things like that into the public schools. But I'm very pessimistic about the public schools being able to change course from what they've become, which is why I'm a huge proponent of school choice.

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    i do not believe that we can force changing and our public school system from within at any point at their so controlled by the union teachers union which is dead on removing uh... our children not just from the the orbit of their nuclear family but from any higher authority other than the state that is their goal yet yet and by the way tomorrow night folks forgive me uh... john for interrupting but tomorrow night on the Hamilton corner 6 p.m. Eastern time I'll have on Colonel Ray Moore of the Exodus mandate and that is our subject the state of the public schools and that's on the Hamilton corner tomorrow night by by the way mr. Houser now now listen to this and you're right the teachers unions they're inherently in the hip pocket of socialist, globalist, Marxist, in Raleigh, North Carolina, listen to this. This was, I'm going to say eight years ago, there was a big gathering of the North Carolina public school teachers, administrators, and it was a very hush hush meeting. The media was not allowed in. and nobody was supposedly allowed to take any photos or anything like that, but somebody shared a photo with me, the theme. Now all the teachers in North Carolina, the public school, what would you think the theme would be? Educating our students, right? No. The theme was, let's spread the gay. And I've got a photograph of this big banner, spread the gay, and somebody was giving this seminar insert LGBTQ trans content everywhere possible. And there were even seminars how to put more gay content in history, mathematics. I mean, you know, you would think math deals with numbers, right? No. That basically they were trying to imbue all of the academic courses with more pro-gay content. A theme of the teachers, spread the gay. That's why I've challenged parents, get your kids out of the public school classroom. But anyway, Frank, thank you. In Louisiana, HB 71, and of course, opponents are, you know, having an uproar, but that was a bill in Louisiana that the Ten Commandments had to be posted interestingly and folks, I talk about this a lot when I teach or debate on political science. To mention the Ten Commandments or morality, now to even assert that gender is binary, to say that there are males and females. See the left will say, ah, you're imposing your religion and the First Amendment prohibits that. Well, I've asked this on 200 American university campuses I've never gotten an answer. I'll say, who wrote the first amendment? Even the professors don't know. Well, the man that wrote the first amendment was named Fisher Ames, A-M-E-S. And Fisher Ames said, quote, I would that the Bible be taught in all public schools for it is the best vehicle for teaching morality to young people. And here's my question. I always ask, how is it that twenty-first century secularists think they know more about the application of the First Amendment than the man who wrote the First Amendment.

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    Fisher Ames, who wrote the First Amendment, didn't think that teaching the Ten Commandments would violate the non-establishment clause of his First Amendment, but I digress. John, before we take the next call, do you have any comments that have sort of run away with the conversation here? you want to add in for me go to another call i would say that the ignorance of the history of the first amendment and the person who wrote it is intentional and the reason why contemporary left this don't know it is because they've intentionally erased history um... they don't want anyone to know that and they've attempted to shape it to their own narrative which means rewriting it, deconstructing it and rewriting it as they have rewritten the entire history of our country. That's how you bring down a country. If you de-wagitimize its founding and its history. Yeah, true. And deconstruction, folks, that's a word you need to know because in many ways we're in a philosophical battle and the Marxist and the atheist, they were very much influenced by it. First of all, there was a guy named Ludwig Wittgenstein and he taught that words don't have meaning. And then there was another guy that, Martin Heidegger and in economics and certainly in education, Heidegger was very, I mean, he is so influential that, you know, they feel like it's their duty to deconstruct and reconstruct. In other words, insert disorder to create new order. And John, that's not just in the classroom.

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    That's on Main Street, isn't it? Yes, again, classic socialists or in what they call themselves now progressives. That's the playbook. Deconstruct, destroy, cause, chaos, and intimidation and violence, and then step in. When everything's on the brink of collapse, you step in, assert, control, which is what they've always wanted. I mean, socialists hate free elections, they hate free debate, they hate a free press, they're all about control. And we watched that, you watch it on college campuses today, these kids have no concept of what a college is supposed to be about, which is the free exchange of ideas. No. If you disagree agree with someone to shout them down, cause violence, cause a riot. I mean it's uh, yeah, we're watching the feeds of it right now. And you know folks, this is going to blow your mind. I mean think about this and then I'm going to go to Kay in Kansas. But um, so there was this German philosopher, he was a pagan, his name was Martin Heidegger, he died in 1976, but he encouraged, and this is part of the philosophy of wokeness and critical theory, But Martin Heidegger encouraged individuals and societies to deconstruct, tear down, question everything, believe nothing, deconstruct truth, and then build back better. Now where I ask you, have you heard the phrase build back better? I mean, it made my skin cry. Well, look, I did a master's degree in philosophy and I studied all these pagans that gave us the, I mean, they destroyed the Western world and they're trying to destroy America.

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    When the Biden administration, over and over there would say, built back better, that is straight from the lexicon of atheistic communist German philosopher Martin Heidegger. But Kay in Kansas, I wanted to get your question before time fleets away. Kay in Kansas, thanks for holding in. Welcome to our program. Yes, thank you for taking my call. You know, I think the bottom line is that as Hosea, for six says, my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. And Satan understands very well how to bring God's wrath on this land, his desolation. And that is the, there's many, many roads to that point, but the primary heat of the battle is the shedding of innocent blood. And God only gets one solution for that. And that's by the blood of them who shed it. And we need to keep our eyes on that. And that is where, you know, God sent Jeremiah. He was amazed. He couldn't find a man. Well, I had Jeremiah, who was the man he was looking for, a man to rally other men for justice. And that's, you know, God's just amazed that they chose death. His people as men chose death. And God, you know, God's looking for men. I know he's calling men and will they answer? Thank you. Mm. Bless you. Bless you. Well, and Mr. Halser, I want to give you a lengthy time to respond, but I was looking, the caller mentioned Hosea 4-6. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge because you have rejected knowledge. I will also reject the, that thou shall be no priest to me.

  22. 47:13

    Now here, this sounds like America. Seeing thou hast forgotten the law of God, give us some hope about the pathway back. John Houser, author of the Destruction of Liberty, what is some hope for a pathway back? I think the hope for the pathway back is the the newest generation now of uh... of young people who by all account seem to be rejecting uh... this dot medic call to the left to basically don't trust the media anymore and they by the way they don't visit most of them don't deserve to be trusted they don't trust authority figures because we we've for the longest time in this country were led to believe that you know If you saw it on the news it was true if the government told you it was true well we found out I think that the greatest eye-opening event in the last half century Was the COVID yeah, oh my goodness, and we found and we're almost out of time forgive me Where can people find your book? John house out of time. I'm so sorry The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American Family Association or American Family Radio.

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