Should Americans Be Religious? | Melanie Phillips & Victoria Coates

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4.7 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Many Americans sense that the social cohesion of our nation is weakening. The data seems to back this up. A poll conducted by the Associated Press and the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago found that Seventy-one percent say the United States is “losing its national identity—that is the beliefs and values the country represents.”

American trust in its traditional institutions, the media, universities, non-profits, and churches, is historically low. The question for conscientious Americans is, what do we do?

Author Melanie Phillips has an idea. Heritage Vice President Victoria Coates sat down with her to discuss her book: The Builder’s Stone: How Jews and Christians Built the West—and Why Only They Can Save It. In this interview, Victoria and Melanie discuss what ails our culture and why religious principles are instrumental in dealing with these problems.

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Find Melanie Phillips’ book: https://www.amazon.com/Builders-Stone-Christians-Built-West-ebook/dp/B0DW47YL1T?ref_=ast_author_mpb

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0:00.0	Three, two, one, zero, all engine run.
0:06.7	There is no other institution that has the ability uniquely.
0:11.3	Without a heritage, every generation starts over.
0:14.4	Ask not.
0:15.3	To remind the current regime.
0:17.5	We, the people, tell the government what it is allowed to do.
0:22.2	All
0:22.8	all have to
0:24.5	get back in their
0:26.7	box and stay there.
0:28.0	Lift-dive.
0:28.9	We have a left-down.
0:31.8	From the Heritage
0:33.0	Foundation, this
0:34.3	is Heritage Explains.
0:46.0	The This is Heritage Explains. Many Americans sense that the social cohesion that binds our society together is weakening.
0:53.3	The data seems to back this up.
0:55.5	A poll conducted by the Associated Press and the National Opinion Research Center at the University
1:00.6	of Chicago found that 71 percent of Americans say that the United States is, quote, losing
1:08.0	its national identity.
1:10.0	That is, the beliefs and values the country represents.
1:14.4	American trust in its traditional institutions, the media, universities, nonprofits, and churches
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