Jason DeRose
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first heard Nov 2024
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does a lot of biblical proof texting to say, well, here are the good biblical reasons that the government should have strong borders and should enforce immigration policies.
And then the other instance, I would say that the person within the Trump administration who speaks most frequently using the Bible is probably Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense.
And I'm very interested in a speech he gave at the National Prayer Breakfast a few months ago.
And he uses that to describe why people should go into military action and should fight for their country.
Sort of equating the idea that, you know, if you lay down your life for your neighbors, which is what Jesus is saying to do in to arch their back against the empire that was oppressing them, Hagseth is more or less saying, well, if you lay down your life for your country, you will get into heaven.
Well, it's pretty unusual for, you know, in a pluralistic society for people to say, like, the Bible says this.
Here is the legislative agenda laid out by the Bible.
I think that, you know, many biblical scholars and historians of Christianity would argue that the Bible does not offer a legislative agenda.
There isn't a one-to-one, you know, correlation.
Like, you can't look at ancient Israel or ancient Greece and say, this is how...
legislation should happen here.
However, I would say that during the last year or so in the Trump administration, we are seeing more and more of that.
Again, not necessarily from President Trump himself, but from those in his circle, like the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, like Pete Hegseth.
I think just recently to the birthright citizenship case that was argued in the Supreme Court, there were a number of religious groups who filed front of the court briefs.
And one in particular was a very broad ranging one that included Catholics and Protestants and Jews and Muslims and Hindus and Buddhists that made broad appeal to many world religions understanding of the value of welcoming the stranger.
Yeah.
to say, this is why the Supreme Court should find this way.
That's very different from saying, this one religious tradition says this one thing, therefore we should do it in the United States.
The Bible says this, therefore we should pass this law or that law.
You said that this is a secular nation.
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