The Roots of America’s Civil Religion

Conversations That Matter

Jon Harris

Society & Culture

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Leftists often accuse Pro Life Christians or Christian Nationalists of being involved in a “civil religion” in which they fuse religion and politics in a way that compromises the church. The truth is, there is a civil religion but the Left is not only complicit in it, in some ways they’ve created it. Dr. Richard Gamble from Hillsdale College explains what American Civil Religion is and where it comes from.

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0:00.0	Welcome once again to the conversations that matter podcast. I'm your host John
0:11.9	Harris as always and excited today because we have a special
0:15.5	guest with us we have Dr Richard Gamble who is a history professor at Hillsdale College.
0:21.8	He's also an elder in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.
0:24.6	He has a website Richard M Gamble.com where you can find all his books. In fact I have two of
0:30.1	them sitting right here I have a fiery gospel and this is a book that I picked up a year ago and
0:34.4	started reading and I thought, oh my goodness, oh my goodness, the social justice issue that we talk about today
0:40.9	is very similar to the reform movements that happened in the 19th century.
0:46.7	It's a very similar battle that's going on in the church.
0:49.6	And so I started reading this last week, another book by Richard Gamble, called in search of a city on a hill and I thought I have to
0:56.1	have this guy on because he's way smarter than me on these topics and this is an area
1:02.3	that I think we have touched on we've teased we haven't
1:05.9	really gone fully into and and that is a civil religion on the right on the left
1:12.1	we talk about it on the left a lot on this podcast, but we're
1:15.0	going to talk about it some more.
1:16.7	Does America have a civil religion?
1:18.8	If so, is that a good thing?
1:20.2	Is that a bad thing?
1:21.7	What should we as Christians, Bible believing Christians,
1:24.3	Orthodox Christians, how should we navigate this? And so thank you so much Dr Richard
1:30.1	Gamble for joining me. I appreciate it. Thank you, John. It's a privilege to be with you, get to know you, and certainly a privilege to be able to talk to an interested audience who understands maybe what's at stake in these conversations.
1:44.0	Oh, there's so much at stake and I just feel actually like like I wish I had 10 hours with you
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