It's Friday, February 7, 2025.

I'm Albert Mueller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Yesterday, President Donald Trump spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast.

He made remarks later in the day he issued an executive order entitled

Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias. Now, immediately many in the mainstream media and others began

to say, well, what kind of Christian bias, anti-Christian bias are we talking about here?

Christianity, they say, enjoys freedom of religion. Christians are protected by religious liberty protection,

so what could be the problem? Well, the fact is that in an increasingly secularized society,

and with various agendas, including moral agendas, such as the LGBTQ agenda out in the culture,

the religious liberty of Christians is very much a threat.

And I can give you some concrete examples, and the President actually gave,

the White House gave some concrete examples in the executive order.

So just consider this.

Quote, in 2003, a Federal Bureau of Investigation Memorandum asserted that radical traditionalist Catholics

were domestic terrorism threats and suggested infiltrating Catholic churches as, quote, threat mitigation.

This later retracted FBI memorandum cited to support evidence propaganda from highly partisan sources, end quote.

And indeed, I've seen some of that

so-called evidence. Highly partisan is a very apt descriptor of what's going on here. There are those

who are simply saying anyone who comes with strong conviction against what the cultural elites want

in terms of a moral revolution, they are extremists, and they are a threat to civil society.

But let's just note, here you are talking about an official FBI memorandum.

That's so important here. This is an official FBI memorandum. It may have been retracted, but the point is, it was written, and it did did call for at least the suggestion of infiltrating

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