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Oct 6, 2026
Kevin McClureNARRATOR
I believe that the state must be Christian to limit its coercive power and to allow the church to be the primary way to advance true religion.
Kevin McClureNARRATOR
Thus, I argue that a truly Christian state will be necessarily small, limited, and will not seek to usurp the job of the church.
David SchrockHOST
Welcome to Christ Overall, a podcast dedicated to helping the church see Christ as Lord and everything else under his feet.
David SchrockHOST
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Kevin McClureNARRATOR
In part, this belief rests on a broad view of the state's power.
Kevin McClureNARRATOR
Conversely, I believe that the state must be Christian to limit its coercive power and to allow the church to be the primary way to advance true religion.
Kevin McClureNARRATOR
Thus, I argue that a truly Christian state will be necessarily small, limited, and will not seek to usurp the job of the church.
Kevin McClureNARRATOR
The inherent problem with civil government is man's sinfulness displayed in a lust for power.
Timothy FlandersHOST
September 30 is a great Greek saint, or on the Greek side, St. Gregory the Illuminator, equal to the apostles.
Timothy FlandersHOST
He's the one who converted Armenia to the faith, making Armenia the first Christian nation.
Timothy FlandersHOST
So a great big saint.
Timothy FlandersHOST
The title equal to the apostles is given to, it's kind of like the Latin title, the great saint.
Zach LeeHOST
54% of those surveyed here said that Christian religious beliefs should not influence their political decisions.
Zach LeeHOST
This means that most Christians in America do not think that America should be a Christian nation.
Zach LeeHOST
In 1782, Congress officially recommended a version of the Bible sponsored officially by Congress.
Zach LeeHOST
So don't get mad when I say America is not a Christian nation officially, constitutionally, formally, legally, which is usually what people mean by that.
Zach LeeHOST
Hello and welcome to another edition of everyone's favorite podcast, Ideological.
Zach LeeHOST
I am your host, Zach Lee, and today we're going to be talking about a contentious question, a question that the interwebs often like to fight each other on in about the webs, internet, AOL, Ask Jeeves, old people things.
Zach LeeHOST
So we're going to talk about is America a Christian nation? What does that even mean? I'm going to give my opinion, which I typically don't do a ton.
Zach LeeHOST
And so, but I think it should be a ton of fun.
Tim WhitakerHOST
Okay, so Andrew Seidel, friend of mine, friend of the New Evangelicals podcast, is a constitutional lawyer.
Tim WhitakerHOST
We're doing history this month, and I thought to myself, I want Andrew to kind of go through his book, The Founding Myth, essentially destroying the propaganda we've heard for so long, right, that we're a Christian nation, etc., So in this episode, I cosplayed as a conservative Christian podcaster bringing on the atheist, the liberal atheist, to challenge him on these claims.
Tim WhitakerHOST
It was a lot of fun.
Tim WhitakerHOST
I think you're going to enjoy this.
Tim WhitakerHOST
And you and I are friends.
Tim WhitakerHOST
We've done a lot of work together.
Tim WhitakerHOST
And I was like, you know, Andrew, you wrote a book, The Founding Myth, that kind of goes through the typical Christian nationalist narrative of how this country was founded on Judeo-Christian principles.
Tim WhitakerHOST
Mm-hmm.
David BartonGUEST
Yeah, that is a historical argument and it's only an argument because Americans don't know their history.
David BartonGUEST
There were over 300 court cases that declared America to be a Christian nation.
David BartonGUEST
The founding fathers repeatedly in their writings declared it a Christian nation.
David BartonGUEST
But it's very different, and using that terminology triggers so many people.
David BartonGUEST
But you have to understand that being a Christian nation and their definition was not the historic Christian nations of Europe, where you had a king, you had a parliament, and we will kill anyone who is not of that flavor.
David BartonGUEST
for the founding fathers.
David BartonGUEST
And as the courts explained in those more than 300 rulings, it is the value system.
David BartonGUEST
It is the scriptural biblical value system.