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0:00.0 | This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Wednesday, October 23rd, 2004. |
0:09.0 | I'm Caleb Brown. |
0:10.0 | When you go on TV to sell a Bible, featuring the founding documents of the American Republic, |
0:14.8 | it gets a little harder to argue that you're not advancing a version of Christian nationalism. |
0:20.0 | There is a strain of Christianity in the U.S. that views their faith tradition as the one that |
0:24.4 | ought to hold decisive sway within government. |
0:27.9 | So how much sway do those groups hold in politics right now? |
0:31.6 | Paul Matzko is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute we spoke last week. |
0:36.5 | I've sort of given up on seeing Donald Trump monetizing his fan base and saying well surely no one's going to fall for |
0:48.1 | this. Are you telling me you don't have a $200 pair of Trump sneakers, Caleb. |
0:53.8 | Or NFTs or the trading cards. |
0:58.0 | There's a Trump endorsed or owned decentralized finance platform. |
1:07.0 | But the reason you and I are talking |
1:09.0 | is because of what's called the Trump Bible, |
1:12.1 | but it is a Lee Greenwood edition of some Bible, which is the King James version. |
1:18.8 | It has the Constitution in it. |
1:22.3 | It has the Bill of Rights in it, and I'm fine with the |
1:27.4 | Constitution, the Bill of Rights in the back of my dictionary, but it is troubling to a lot of Christians like myself to see governing documents of the American Republic being so seamlessly integrated |
1:50.1 | into a book of scripture and being thought of in the same breath as that, that these things are somehow |
2:00.3 | strongly connected. We can argue about inspiration. We can talk about whether or not, you know, these things are |
2:08.4 | ultimately good or bad or what they give us in terms of our ability to pursue higher purposes. |
2:17.0 | I don't know. |
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