Faith and Freedom: Reclaiming America's Christian Roots | 4.20.25
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🗓️ 20 April 2025
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| 0:00.0 | The prominence of faith in public life in the U.S., particularly the Christian faith, is coming under renewed focus. |
| 0:09.1 | This comes as the new administration makes moves to roll back what conservatives say has been an attack on Christianity, |
| 0:15.4 | and an abuse of the notion of the separation of church and state. |
| 0:19.4 | In this Easter Sunday episode, we talk with Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts about the role of the separation of church and state. In this Easter Sunday episode, we talk with Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts about |
| 0:24.2 | the role of the church and faith in public life and why he believes it's time to reembrace the |
| 0:29.4 | nation's Christian values. I'm Daily Wire, editor-in-chief John Bickley, with Georgia Howe. |
| 0:34.5 | It's Sunday, April 20th, and this is an Easter edition of Morning Wire. |
| 0:41.0 | Joining us to discuss the role faith and particularly Christianity plays in public life here in the U.S. |
| 0:46.1 | is Kevin Roberts, President of the Heritage Foundation. First of all, thank you so much for joining us. |
| 0:51.4 | Yeah, my pleasure. Thanks for having me. So it's Easter weekend. |
| 0:59.2 | You recently published an op-ed arguing that the U.S. is a Christian nation at its core and that we should embrace this fact. |
| 1:01.0 | I want to talk to you about that premise. |
| 1:03.8 | First, how important is it that our founding was based on Christian values? |
| 1:08.6 | Well, 100%. |
| 1:09.3 | We wouldn't have the United States without Christianity, |
| 1:12.3 | which is not to say that we ought to be dismissive toward the wonderful and unique religious |
| 1:17.3 | pluralism we have in the United States to put a fine point on that. Obviously, people of other |
| 1:23.0 | faiths, particularly those who are Jewish, were also vital to the American founding, and they're vital to |
| 1:28.4 | United States today. But the worldview that created the ideology, the philosophy, which undergirded |
| 1:35.8 | the founding of the United States, was explicitly Christian. And I think revitalizing that in the 21st |
| 1:40.7 | century is essential as we revitalize most of the institutions in the United States. |
| 1:46.3 | And what are some of those values that you believe are core that maybe have deteriorated or need to be |
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