What America Could Be...
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🗓️ 23 January 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You don't need me to tell you what America's problems are. |
| 0:02.9 | Plenty of people can do that. |
| 0:04.9 | Instead, let me tell you about America's future, what it can be. |
| 0:09.5 | I'm not making it prediction, but there's a new golden age waiting for us if we do just five things. |
| 0:16.6 | One, reconnect with our Judeo-Christian roots. |
| 0:20.4 | In this vision of the future, a majority of Americans realize we have to return to the basics. |
| 0:26.6 | A new appreciation of traditional Judeo-Christian values takes place. |
| 0:31.4 | Call it a new awakening. |
| 0:33.9 | We became an exceptional nation because we were largely a self-governing nation. |
| 0:39.6 | The first in human history. |
| 0:41.6 | The US Constitution begins with the phrase, we the people. |
| 0:45.9 | But self-government only works if we are a moral country. |
| 0:50.1 | And to be that, we need to appreciate the source of our values. |
| 0:54.2 | The Bible. |
| 0:55.5 | Our second president, John Adams, understood this right from the beginning. |
| 0:59.6 | Our Constitution, he wrote, was made only for a moral and religious people. |
| 1:05.0 | It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. |
| 1:09.7 | Of course, this doesn't mean that you have to follow a specific religion or any religion at all. |
| 1:15.5 | That's your constitutional right. |
| 1:17.4 | But it does mean that as a society, we recognize Judeo-Christian values as our moral compass. |
| 1:25.3 | Point it in the right direction. |
| 1:27.2 | A new sense of civility returns. |
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