i believe america, despite what president obama said, is a judeo christian nation and i believe that because i did a lot of reading about the founding of the nation. go back and read the letters. the people that say the founders were not acting in strong faith are wrong. i believe it is those principles that led us to a penical of the world. >> host: you don't have a lot of fabulous things to say about the republican party and i wonder and have been thinking about your running, would you be more comfortable running under a political party or not? >> guest: if i ran, i would run as a republican. not an independent because all that does is splinter the votes. and i don't think i would be welcomed to the democrat party. so i think -- >> host: you would pick one of the two parties? there is a distrust inside both parties. >> guest: no question. >> host: and part of it is this populus thing of the right thinks i am not getting a fair deal and the left thinks they are not getting a fair feel. and you could argue they are both right and that is why i wonder if this boils over into more of a

now the argument against doing that is this president said we're no longer judeo christian nation, puttingords in his mouth, what's the risk of that? what's the danger of that? what's the danger of getting so secular that we no longer think that's important? >> the risks of denying the faith of our fathers is very, very grave. i remember my dad, he was facing an angry mob, and he was hit in the face with a rock. and i remember as he fell to the ground, and i asked him later, i said, dad, what were you thinking? and he said i was there praying. you know, because i actually had an opportunity to go on marches with my dad. and many times he was not able to call on the god of ibrahim, isaac, jacob, martin, that's what we believed in. and so you know i'm not offended by other people when they talk about their faith. so why are people offended about, in god we trust? why are people offended by one nation under god? that's where authority and power come from. that's the source of our strength. and people who would like to take over america and throw god out, i don't know what they're going to exp

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nation and indeed our world. if we understand that there is a common ancestry to all people -- i am going to describe it in judeo-christian language. i leave it to others from different traditions to describe it in their language, but i basically use a natural law framework, a grammar, if you will, that would express, i think, to any reasonable person why it is that human beings by their nature are rights bearers. and then if we can understand not, then, and only then, can we foundation for an understanding of liberty in our age and our generation. if we get the anthropology wrong , anything we construct on top of it, no matter how elaborate, no matter how seemingly beautiful, will also be faulty. and if you ask me to identify one thing that is at the root of all of the confusion not only in our politics but in our culture today, it is this question. st is the question the psalmist put forward in psalm eight, what mindful oft thou art him and the son of man that thou visit him? if we are the sum total of our physical parts than we are -- then we are a speck of dust floating on specks of dust in a cold, cruel universe. but

charted the decline of the idea that the united states was a christian nation, and the subsequent rise of the notion the country was premised on judeoistianity. professor schultz's current work examines the fascinating intertwined lives of william buckley junior and norman mailer as a way to better understand the pivotal decade of the 1960's. he has had essays in several flagship journals including the journal of american histories, american quarterly, the american academy of religion, and labor histories as well as other distinguished output -- distinguish outlets. his talk is entitled the blessing of american pluralism. >> good day. is the united states a christian country? was it one in the past? will it be in the future? if we look high and low, near and far, we can serve americans asking, answering, and debating these questions. they are disputed online. plastered on billboards. mentioned during news programs. and addressed by leading politicians. the questions and answers rattle with disagreement and tension. barack obama, for instance answers them one way before he was president and differently after. in 2008 he told a group

demand for freedom is in the nation and indeed in the world because if we understand that there is a common ancestry to all people, i am going to describe it in a judeo christian language. i leave it to others from different traditions to describe in their language that i use a grammar of why it is that they are the rights of errors and then if we can understand that then and only then can we build a secure foundation for an understanding of liberty in our age and generation. if we get the anthropology wrong in anything we construct on top of it no matter how elaborate or how seemingly beautiful it would also be faulty. if you ask me to identify one thing that is at the root of all of the confusion but only in our politics but in the culture today is this question put forward so many years ago what is man if those are not mindful of him. if we are simply the sum total of the holiday parks, then we are a speck of dust upon the speck of dust in the cold and cruel universe. we have to respect the dimensions of liberty and that's why we have to respect the institutions of politics and culture but there is something more because we were built for something more. we