President Donald Trump’s “Rededicate 250” prayer event will feature Bishop Robert Barron, and he has no plans to water down his speech.
At a time when religious discussion is largely being made palatable for the masses, this often includes watering down the original intent to avoid potentially offending people. But speaking to Fox News Digital, Barron made it clear that he will not be doing this at Sunday’s event, which is part of the ongoing festivities to celebrate the 250th birthday of the United States.
In a sneak peek of his planned remarks, the bishop revealed that he will largely focus on a message that warns “if you marginalize and privatize religion, democracy is in danger.”
“God is essential to the very foundations of American democracy. There’s a lot of talk today about the threats to democracy, that is a true threat to democracy, the marginalization of God,” he said, pointing to the current social separation from God to explain the current problems America is facing.
“Take God out of the equation, what are you left with? Radical self-choice. Welcome to wokeism. Welcome to the culture of self-invention. ‘I make myself up, values is up to me, my gender, it’s up to the whole structure of my life, it’s my choice.’ That’s deadly to our democracy,” he noted. “Religion belongs to the very fabric of our democracy, that’s the theme of my talk.”
He also revealed that the beginning of his speech will draw from the Gettysburg Address by President Abraham Lincoln.
“We know from the early written versions [that] Lincoln didn’t have the phrase ‘under God’ when he said that this nation might have a new birth of freedom. But when he delivered the speech, he said this nation ‘Under God might have a new birth of freedom.’ So, what prompted Lincoln, as he was giving the Gettysburg Address, to add that phrase? You could say, ‘Oh, it’s just a little pious declaration.’ No, no, no, I think that’s born of a very, very deep and correct intuition, America is a nation that’s conditioned by these great values, moral values, spiritual values that come finally from God,” the bishop explained.
Even the novel concept of equality adopted by the United States is possible due to Christianity, Barron suggested.
“We’re not equal in any way. Look at the classical political philosophers; they would never affirm the equality of all people. We’re not equal in intelligence or moral virtue or beauty or courage or anything. We’re radically unequal. So where does this come from? Why would you go from we’re not equal at all to it’s ‘self-evident that we’re equal’? And the answer is in that little word, ‘created,’ that ‘all men are created equal.’ So, despite all our differences, we are all equally children of God and then endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights,” he said.
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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