Judeo-Christian Values & Our Way of Life - General Flynn

General Flynn:

So this country was founded upon a set of Judeo-Christian principles and values and it goes back even further than this, but I'll take it back to the 1500s and the 1600s, particularly in Europe, where there was a lot of persecution of Christianity back then.

And there was a breakup of various functions and various components of the Christian community going on across Europe. So, I'd bring everybody's attention that watches this, to a speech given by a pastor by the name of Winthrop in 1630, when he talked about going over to the New World. So, there were a group of ships. He's giving a sermon on the dock before they boarded the ships to take off for this voyage across the dangerous Atlantic to go to the New World. And he has a sermon. And during the sermon, he talks about the city on the hill. And it got me thinking about the city on the hill. Where does that come from? And it actually comes from the Bible and it's a verse in Matthew.

And so, when we talk about the city on the hill and Judeo-Christian principles and values, what we're looking at is this nation, the United States of America, was founded upon really religious ideals and the flight from religious persecution to go find a New World where people could practice their religion freely and fairly.
And the state that I primarily grew up in, the state of Rhode Island, and actually there's a small town that's next to the town that I grew up in, and it's called Portsmouth, Rhode Island, is one of the seats, the very seat, of religious freedom and founding of religious freedom here in the United States of America.

So, when we talk about faith, the one thing that I tell people that is more important than all the freedoms that we're given, because you can have all your freedoms taken away, they can be removed immediately from you by a tyrannical form of government and it's done around the world in many places I've been and many countries I've actually fought in, but the one thing that's more important than freedom is faith, your faith in our creator or your faith in God. And so just to use the word creator, the word creator I think is mentioned in our Constitution, I believe, four times.

So, our entire system of government is built on Judeo-Christian principles and values. When we talk about the Bill of Rights and the 10 Commandments, like we talk about the, the US Constitution and the Bible, the Bill of Rights and the 10 Commandments are promises that we make to each other, thou shall not X or you have the freedom to speak freely, in the Bill of Rights, those are promises that we make to each other. The fulfillment of those promises comes from the United States Constitution, from the Declaration of independence, and definitely comes from the Bible.

That's how the foundation of our country was created. And then you fast forward to today where we have elements of our government that are taking God out of the fabric of every aspect of society and removing it, removing it to the point where they almost want to eliminate the idea that this is a faith-based country, to more of a secular sort of ideology, meaning that God isn't part of our nation. God shouldn't be part of anything that we do. And that's just totally wrong. That actually is, to me, that is a ploy to get people to move away from what we are as an experiment in democracy, or a constitutional republic and more towards a socialism or communist form of ideology. Because God does not exist in communism, doesn't exist. That's a very monotheistic type of ideology, meaning that they have a certain way, it's controlled by the few of the many, versus control by the many of the few.

And that's what we are. And we're able to do that because we have fought for and sacrificed for, in terms of lives and also our treasure, to keep God and keep faith as a principle bedrock of our society here in the United States of America.

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