Sen. Raphael Warnock

I'm a Christian.

And my faith is what drove me into this work.

And the issues that you hear me talking about, health care, dealing with poverty, these are things that I talked about from my pulpit long before I entered a race for the Senate.

I would ask those voters, you know, the scripture says everyone who cries, Lord, Lord, doesn't mean that they're going to enter in.

And Donald Trump is many things.

A man of faith, he certainly is not.

I think he mocks God.

I think Donald Trump in the secret moments when behind closed doors laughs at religious people.

He's deeply cynical.

He doesn't believe in anything.

other than himself and his own self-aggrandizement and his self-enrichment.

And if religion gets in the way of that, he and J.D.

Vance, the newly converted Catholic who recently said that the Pope ought to be careful about how he's talking about theology, they'll throw the Pope, the faith and everything else under the bus if it gets in the way of their politics.

I think Democrats should not be shy in owning their faith.

There's a way to live in your faith and talk about it that does not force that upon others in the public square.

So part of what it means for me to be a person of faith

is to recognize that I live in my faith and under the law.

And that this grand experiment we have, again, as we approach the 250th anniversary, is that we are a diverse, multifaceted, democratic republic that creates space for people to live in their faith, various faith traditions.

I think I owe it to the covenant we have with one another

to speak up every time Islam was condemned and Muslims are condemned just for being Muslims, and to stand up for my Jewish sisters and brothers, and for those who claim no faith tradition at all.