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Tulsi Gabbard addresses the strained and often antagonistic relationship between people on the political left, God, and faith in contemporary discourse. She notes a significant historical shift within the Democratic Party, which she originally joined as an inclusive institution welcoming individuals from all religious backgrounds. Over time, however, this dynamic has changed drastically; while former President Jimmy Carter was an Evangelical Christian who faced some internal skepticism upon his election, recent trends have moved toward actively excluding God from public life. Gabbard points to the 2020 Democratic National Convention held virtually during the pandemic as a prime example of this shift, where organizers made a show of eliminating "Under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance despite it being recited over Zoom. The transcript highlights specific instances where the party appears to target Catholics and Christians primarily in an effort to remove any mention or influence of religion from public life. Gabbard cites Kamala Harris's tenure as a Senator, specifically her actions on the Judiciary Committee where she opposed a nominee for a judgeship because he was an observant Catholic and a member of the Knights of Columbus. Similarly, she references warnings issued by Senator Diane Feinstein regarding Amy Coney Barrett before her Supreme Court confirmation, noting concerns about religious dogma conflicting with constitutional provisions that forbid religious tests for public office. Gabbard argues these actions violate the fundamental concept of freedom of religion, which should allow individuals to practice their beliefs—whether Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, or atheist—in both private and public spheres without penalty. Gabbard posits that this hostility stems from a lack of belief in objective truth among party elites who seek to position themselves as the sole authority on what is true, acceptable information, and free speech versus misinformation or hate speech. She suggests that those who believe in a higher power are viewed with suspicion because they do not bend the knee to Democratic elite power structures. To illustrate how centralized religious control can be dangerous, she references William Tyndale, the scholar who first translated the Bible into common English from Hebrew and Greek. By making scripture accessible directly to common people rather than mediating it through priests or an educated clergy, Tyndale decentralized spiritual authority; Gabbard draws a parallel between this historical persecution of decentralization and modern efforts to suppress direct personal relationships with God in favor of government control over truth. Ultimately, the speaker expresses deep concern that these policies are not only illogical but also counterproductive, effectively shooting themselves in the foot given the high percentage of religious Americans who remain Christian. She criticizes the leadership at the forefront of culture and economics for being unsophisticated and failing to understand second- or third-order consequences. For Gabbard, the most disheartening aspect is not just that these leaders make mistakes, but that they do not care enough to try to figure out solutions or respect human error. She concludes by emphasizing that a party controlled by those who reject objective truth cannot coexist with citizens following their own spiritual paths, creating an environment where faith is treated as incompatible with patriotism and public service rather than being seen as a valid foundation for community engagement.
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certainly an interesting angle I think
to the political discourse at the moment
is the strained relationship that people
on the left have with God and faith and
this almost antagonistic relationship uh
with religion and belief but certain
religions certain um what do you make of
that how do you sort of see I have a
whole chapter in my book uh on this
exactly
um and and in in that you know I talk
about how and refer to once again the
the history of the democratic party and
how uh it it really has grown as of late
where it was once a party that that
there was no aversion to mention of God
there was it was a it was and this was
the party that I joined it was a more
inclusive party I welcome people from
all different religious backgrounds and
faiths and different
beliefs um to now fast forward to and
and it was something that happened over
time I mean Jimmy Carter was an
Evangelical Christian and even when he
was elected president there were some
people around him who are just like oh I
don't know if this is like too much and
this this is something that has
increased over time to
where in the last Democratic Convention
that was held obviously was held
virtually uh during the whole covid
thing uh but even um saying the Pledge
of Allegiance they made a big show of
eliminating
saying one nation awkward silence refuse
to say under God I didn't know that even
as they said the Pledge of Allegiance
interesting over Zoom um
so you know seeing seeing uh how today's
Democratic party uh is you know they
they are targeting Catholics and
Christians
primarily
um trying to eliminate like God God
really any ition of God from from every
facet of public life you had kamla
Harris when she was a Senator on the
Judiciary Committee uh going after an
attacking and ultimately opposing a
nominee for a judgeship specifically
because he was an observant and devout
Catholic and a member of the Knights of
Columbus uh you [ __ ] is that the Knights
of Columbus yeah it is um it is an all
male organization
uh I don't think it's like it's not go I
don't know if it's governed by the
Catholic church but it is a Catholic
organization Knights of Columbus sounds
cool it does sound cool way cooler than
me and my friends but it's it's a
community it's a community like service
oriented organization they you know they
go and do good things in in the
community essentially but but it is
centered around a very um a Catholic
system give it a less intimidating name
it sounds Masonic and dangerous and you
know spooky
um they did the same thing with Amy Cony
Barrett who's now in the Supreme Court
uh with uh now um since passed away but
Senator Diane
Feinstein warned against her when she
went for confirmation before the same
Judiciary Committee saying you know I'm
concerned the Dogma lives loudly within
you all of these things going against
our constitution which says there shall
be no religious test to serve in any
public office
period um
and uh it's just it just it it
unfortunately um it it goes against kind
of the whole concept of freedom of
religion where you can have your beliefs
you can be atheist agnostic Christian
Buddhist Hindu whatever uh whatever you
know your your your choice is that is
literally the concept of freedom is not
that you're not allowed to practice your
religion in public and it's got to be
just a private thing you can do what you
want where's this come from is this a uh
contamination Zone from trying to maybe
upend some of the uh History of the
United States is it that you know the uh
sort of love of country and patriotism
is Right coded and so is maybe religious
participation right coded and if we're
not that then it means that we're the
like I I don't understand given that
there's so many Americans who are
religious Christian it just seems like
you're shooting yourself in the foot and
the face why why would you do a lot a
lot of the things that they're pushing
fall into that category because because
they don't make sense and and they're so
insanely radical that
um that there are very negative
consequences to those policies just at a
basic human level we talked about some
of them already um you know ultimately
at its heart and again I I don't find
any logic or rationale to the actual
reason that they're giving but at its
heart when you have a party um that is
controlled by people who don't believe
in objective truth that there for
example that there are biological
differences between men and women that
they want to be the authority that tells
us what is true and what is not true
they want to be the authority that tells
us uh what is acceptable information
what is not you know misinformation
disinform
hate speech violent speech acceptable
speech whatever the case may be uh they
they see themselves as that Authority
and they recognize that those who
believe in a higher power whatever that
may be um are not going to buy
into them being that higher power or
that Authority and and the ultimate you
know influencer that people should be
concerned with and so at its core that's
that is where this is coming from it
comes back to Power and them seeing
those who believe in God or who are
following their particular spiritual
path or faith as not being willing to
bend the knee to the power of the
Democrat Elite uh and the the positions
that they hold in our government so
there's a story about William tyale who
was a scholar and linguist he was the
first person to translate the Bible into
common English from the original Hebrew
and Greek and what you had when you went
to mass was a conduit between you and
the priest so if you as a common me and
you are common peasants and we go on
Sunday to church service our
relationship with God is mediated
through the priest and because the Bible
is not written in the common language we
have to go so they've kind of
centralized power in this one forcing
point in the middle which is the one
person that can actually read it and
that William tale was persecuted for
doing that because the then the
relationship had become completely
decentralized it was totally accessible
to everybody and um it doesn't feel too
if what you're saying's right it doesn't
feel like that's too dissimilar that you
know if you are able to get your meaning
and your trust from somebody a direct
personal relationship with God is not
Daddy government yeah then maybe you
don't need us so much and it's so
like if this stuff's true and I'm too
green behind the ears in this country to
actually be able to sort of
contextualize much of it it's so
unsophisticated and infantile yeah like
it's
so like unimpressive that you know the
people that run the Forefront of culture
the country that's behind the economic
engine and all the rest of the stuff
they America coughs everyone else
catches a cold all of this that these
people are like actually really
unsophisticated yeah and stupid and uh
they don't understand second or third
order consequences they don't do they
they're not even
trying how which makes it even worse in
my view you know if you've got someone
us the respect toly to like eat like
just try do the work try to figure this
out and look you're we're all human you
might make a mistake you might make a
wrong decision got it but these are
people who aren't even they don't care
enough
and this is this is the most
disheartening and the most dangerous
part they don't even care enough to make
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