obey what is written in the bible. one of the standards in the bible is found in romans 13:1. it says the following -- "let every person be in subjection to the superior authority, for there is no authority except by god. existing authorities stand place d in their relative positions by god," so you get the point. a general standard followed by jehovah's witnesses is to have god's approval, you should be a loyal, honest citizen. so remember when lillian gobitas was asked at trial, her attorney asked, "do you believe in being loyal to your country?" answer "yes." , "do you obey the rules of minersville in general?" "yes." "is saluting the flag the only regulation you have any difficulty with? "yes." she wanted to be an obedient citizen as far as she could. remember the bible uses the word "relative authority," so there is an exception to this standard, and that is when secular laws interfere with divine mandate. let me share one of these divine mandates with you. this is after resurrection of jesus, and he approaches his

much is eroded, but enough remains to reveal a name: pontius pilate, prefect of judaea in the bible, pilate is infamous as the man who tries jesus. >> pilate is a fascinating character in christian history. he does seem tormented about whether or not jesus is guilty and whether or not he should condemn him. >> the pilate of the gospels is uncertain. he seems deeply concerned with jesus' innocence. >> i have the authority to set you free >> he's not firm and decisive about what he wants to do. >> the discovery of his name in stone was groundbreaking. >> the significance of the pilate stone is that it actually gives us hard evidence of this central figure from the story of the crucifixion of jesus, so pilate really existed. he really lived, and he really was the prefect of judaea. we actually have a literal touchstone, a point of connection, between the story of the crucifixion of jesus from the bible and actual roman history. >> although we know a few things about pilate from the gospels, to fill out his story more, we need to go to the jewish historian, josephus, who tells us quite a

the so-called slave bible. n it but what's not. >> 90% of the old testament's been removed about 50% of the new testament's been removed. to put it another way, a normal king james version hat 1189 chapters in it. the slave bible has only 232. >> reporter: missing are chapters and verses that might have encouraged uprisings. book of exodus redacted. no story of moses demanding pharaoh let my people go. gone is galatians. in the verse there is neither bond nor free, for ye are all one in christ jesus. and, no jeremiah. woe unto him that useth his neighbor's service without wages. >> what they've left in are versus such as ephesians 6:5, slaves be obedient to your master. >> it's hard to tell anything's been taken out. >> that's correct, it looks like a normal book. for many enslaved africans this would have been the first time they were exposed to the bible. >> reporter: a bible selectively edited to instill obedience. >> when people encounter this exhibit what impress do you want them to leave with? >> we want t

the so-called slave bible. remarkable not for what's in it but for what's not. >> so about 90% of the old testament has been removed and about 50% of the new testament has been removed. to put it another way, a normal king james version has 1,189 chapters in it. the slave bible has only 232. >> reporter: missing are chapters and verses that might have encouraged uprisings. book of exodus redacted. no story of moses demanding pharaoh, let my people go. gone is galatians and the verse, there is neither bond nor free, for ye are all one in christ jesus. and no jeremiah. woe unto him that useth his neighbors' service without wages. >> what they've left in are verses such as ephesians 6:5 which is the famous verse, slaves, be obedient to your master. >> reporter: looking at this bible, it's hard to tell anything has been taken out of it. >> that's correct. it looks like a normal book. for many enslaved africans, this would have been the first time they were exposed to the bible. >> reporter: a bible selectively edite

the so-called slave bible. emarkable not for what's in it but for what's not. >> so about 90% of the t has beenm removed and about 50% of the new testament has been removed. to put it another way, a normal king james 232ion has thlale >> reporte tt might have ag people go. gone isre is neither one in and nojemiah. woe unto him that use eths his neighbors service without wages. >> what they've left in are verses such as ephesians 6:5 which isth e famous verse, slav be ob to your master. >> reporter: looking at thisse baible, it's hard to tell anything has been taken out of it. >> for many enslaved africans, this would have been the first time they were exposed to the bible. >> reporr: a bible selectively edited to instill obedience and underpin slavely. >> what lting impression do you want to leave with? >> may this never happen again. the bible itself is a whole book. it's not one that you get to carve up and use this piece or that piece. >> reporter: the slave bie, designed to repress rebellion, but it doesn't

. >>> king herod is one of the most notorious characters in the bible. he is the man that tries to kill the infant jesus. >> kill them all. [ baby crying ] >> he orders all the male children slaughtered. >> but in history he is a powerful and successful ruler. >> history should remember him as a ruthless but very effective king of judea. >> who is the real king herod? the great ruler from history or the monster from the bible? and could this really be his tomb? >>> 2007, the hebrew university of jerusalem. archaeologist cause a sensation when they reveal the discovery of. >> what could be the most important find in the middle east. >> what could be the tomb of an ancient king, herod. >> 8 feet long and made of pink limestone it's beautifully carved and polished so meticulously it resembled marvel. >> finding any king's tomb is big but the tomb of king herod the great, the most famous ruler of judea is winning the sweep stakes or lottery right there. >> it's immensely exciting. it's a connection to a man that was not only a legend of the bible but also a r

the bible is the cornerstone of the western tradition. [applause] i love greek classics and i read greek i love that stuff but it's not the cornerstone of the anglo-american tradition. the cornerstone is the bible and when you create an entire week in which students are inculcated in every subject under the face of the earth, and i'm not talking about just postmodern, i'm talking just the liberal influences, the mainstream thing that you can't like john dewey, all the mainstream stuff that you get when you clean the entire week out of any reference to god in scripture so that they think that a person can live without it, b., that a nation can live without it and that america was formed without it, all three of those things are simply not true but why do people think that? because that is the way that they are educated. the american supreme court as you all know it has made it tough to teach bible in schools but it's never ruled it illegal. teaching bible as philosophy or history or literature that is permissible and still americans do not

. >> you raid to run through the bible? >>> despite the fact that you think i'm a godless marxist heathen, i went to church a lot as a kid. i don't go now, but it's easy to find ways to fill up sunday mornings like protesting the nfl. a lot of folks are looking for the message of jesus. >> that's the god we serve. that's the first miracle. >> those folks are joining mega churches filling up arenas and stadiums where beaver became born again and pastors begged members to tide for their private jets. >> if i wanted to, you cannot stop me. >> joel osteen got so big, he bought the building where the houston rockets played. if you are thinking evaporate i seen this go badly before? remember jim and tammy fay bakker? >> make a pledge of $5-00. >> he was indicted for wire fraud and he changed his ways and can be found selling meal buckets for the rapture. >> we have been doing what god spoke to me in prison would happen. the last days are coming. >> it has been put on steroids and church leaders are rolling in the profits. to be cl

i'm not an expert in the bible like he is but i know that the seventh commandment says adultery is ae has supported donald trump. so i think we have a problem there. but at the end of the day he also agrees with mayor buttigieg that this is not -- christianity is not a political issue. well, if that's the case, then let's take that out of this. let's take this as an opportunity to show that faith and christianity is not transactional, it's transformational. we can take this as an opportunity to expand christianity to all people of all races of all sexual preferences and not be the judge ourselves of other people but let god be the ultimate judge on these things. >> yeah. there's so much that i want to say, hillary, as -- especially considering i just got engaged. we would love to be able to be married in the catholic church, his family are staunch catholics and so is he to profess our love for each other in front of family and friends and can not do that. it's the antithesis of -- >> there are christian churches where you can get married, pete buttigieg got married in an episcopal ch

raiden are able to dismiss that they don't think about it it's the land of israel that's it's in the bible it's unproblematic it's ours we came back you guys. palestinians are intruders you know and you know this whole claim that actually isn't true but the whole claim that those are a gamut between the israel i see in the hebrews of the bible and jews of today you know is what makes that tie so you know this is our land just go back and look at the bible the and that's where israel of course gets a lot of support from christian fundamentalists. not just in the jewish community and abroad who don't use the word palestinian we talk about arabs in a very different is a way we never use the word occupation you don't talk about settlements their community you don't talk about settlers there are jewish residents of communities so the whole language is samatha that really if you talk to people what is the occupation where is the occupation what is the palestinian people with you know what the hell you're talking and that's where israel has really won it's insulated its people so much from the po

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in the bible, lazarus has an exclusive title. >> we are introduced to the character of lazarus in the gospel of john. what we are told about him is unique. he is the one whom jesus loved. >> lazarus, come out! >> and he is famous for his part in the ultimate miracle of jesus' mission. >> the raising of lazarus is one of the most lengthy narratives anywhere in the gospels, yet the person at its center, lazarus, never actually speaks. he is the enigma at the heart of the story. >> in 1972, workers repairing the basilica in larnaca made a startling discovery. >> there's a sarcophagus that contains bones inside. >> written on the side in greek are the words, "friend of jesus." >> they announce to the world that these are the bones of none other than lazarus. >> could this be the final resting place of the man known in the bible as jesus' beloved friend? lazarus may have been silent in the bible, but it tells us where he's from: bethany. >> this place is el azariah. it's here in the west bank just behind the mount of olives, and it's the traditional site of bethany, the place associated wi

you'd read the bible through palestinian eyes and we read it in the context of living under occupation jesus lived under occupation became a refugee under occupation his miracles were what done under occupation the thousands gathered around him and that occupation so we see how the need jesus resisted occupation and we try to walk in the same footsteps. samjhauta is one of the founders of sabean and she is an excellent writer and she has an excellent blog most of the israelis are secular journalists but of course they use this to justify. that this is the city and then you find all these crazy christians i call they call themselves christians than this their fear is is completely untrue because i mean when they say all the jews have to gather here. the tourists this is a happy about this part of the theory but then so that the messiah can come and when the messiah comes they have to become christians and those who don't become christians then they will have to be killed i mean what kind of a religion is this what kind of a god is this god when the messiah comes if they don't believe th

i thought tennessee was a buckle of the bible belt. that would be a really unsafe place for me to travel. i go to johnson city and meet the most amazing people. i don't think i met anyone at johnson city who wasn't bisexual. just like a dozen of them all at once and i had the best time in this quintessentially american town that looks like chicago did in the 20s and the old railroad depots in bars and restaurants and it had an amazing little lgbt nightclub called new beginnings and i had the best time at johnson city, tennessee. you would think i should have learned my lesson about underestimating lgbt life in red states but one big lesson, midway through my graduate program, early on in my gender transition i got accepted to a program in bloomington, indiana hosted by the kinsey institute. author of the kinsey scale, the 0-6 scale where people measure sexual orientation, kinsey came up with that, his library in the middle of south-central indiana. i got invited to do this fellowship there. state had a reputation on lgbt issues and i wa

and when i prayed, i prayed to the god of the bible through his son jesus christ. e god. i believe other faiths ought to be able to pray as well in the house chambers. but what is not right is to have an atheist offer a quote secular prayer. a secular prayer is an oxymoron, kind of like a diet cheeseburger. they don't exist. and the court was right in saying you have to have a divie being to pray to. and this freedom of religion foundation this is a left wing organization that's trying to force this. their specialty is suing towns and school districts for mentioning god in a prayer or singing about god in a christmas car roll. carroll. carol. they're lo life. lou: why are atheists so intent on destroying any reference or practice of faith. if they don't believe in god, why isn't that in itself sufficient for them? >> well, you know, i think deep down they do believe in god. you know, the bible says in the fallments, the fool, literally the moron has said in his heart there is no god. you have t to be a moron to look around and say all of this happened by chance. but

we pray for them the longer the bible says lay your hands on the sick and they will be healed. and as we say at the very start of the gathering the gospel of our teacher mark has this same chapter sixteen he said unto them along with i will go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation without the well it believes it is baptized will be saved whoever does not believe will be condemned in the most of the ever believes and is baptized will be saved whoever does not believe will be condemned. and these signs with a company those who believe in my name they will drive out demons it is me they will speak in new tongues when they pick up snakes with their hands or drink deadly poison it will not hurt them later when they lay their hands on the sick they will get well that is what the holy bible says we do not heal he heals we only act in accordance with his word was there are. those who believe they are possessed by evil spirits come to the front where the priest performs an exorcism. profanity very last the word will be confirmed through science through miracles i'm no

today a small motor stands at the place where st anthony once prayed when it's on the horror that the bible says i forget what is behind me and to reach toward what is ahead of the iowa. it's been moved by that. this is where i spent my first time in seclusion and where i prayed before deciding to become a one of the. desert monasteries like st anthony's remain one of the most visible symbols of the coptic orthodox church a christian community with a long history and tradition in egypt and northeastern africa. but the coptic tradition is also thriving in cairo a bustling metropolis of some twenty million not far from the musky market district in the middle of old cairo a coptic church is holding easter services security is tight. in recent years islam is the extremists have carried out numerous deadly attacks against the coptic community the egyptian government has put coptic church is under police protection especially during the religious holidays. palm sunday is celebrated with a procession through the church this is also part of the coptic tradition as is the participation of the men of

you've read the bible through palestinian eyes and we read it in the context of living under occupation jesus lived under occupation became a refugee under occupation his miracles were what done under occupation the thousands gathered around him under occupation so we see how the need jesus resisted occupation and we try to walk in the same footsteps. samjhauta is one of the founders of sabean and she is an excellent writer and she has an excellent blog most of the israelis are secular journalists but of course they use this to justify. that this is the city and then you find all these crazy christians i call they call themselves christians on this their fear is completely untrue because i mean when they say all the jews have to gather here. the tourists this is a happy about this part of the here but then so that the messiah can come and when the messiah comes they have to become christians and those who don't become christians then they will have to be killed i mean what kind of a religion is this what kind of a god is this god when the messiah comes if they don't believe then they ha

the comp to community has established a place of worship the cliffs are decorated with scenes from the bible an enormous complex contains several churches and a large assembly hall all adorned with cardinals. they are the work of mario who is originally from poland. just. a little high above the district and with little by way of safety equipment.

. >> are you ready to rock through the bible? ♪ ♪ >>> not despite the fact many of you think i'm a godless hee than. i went to church a lot as a kid. but i don't go now. it's easy to fill up sunday morning. like protest the nfl and repeated viewings of the good place. a lot are looking for the message of jesus. those folks are joining megachurches in record numbers. you know the ones. filling up stadiums with audiences. where bieber was born again and pastors beg members to tithe for the private jets. >> you cannot stop me. >> joel os teen bought the building when the houston rockets play. >> pray with me. >> if you're thinking haven't i seen this go badly before? yep. begging for your tithes between eight and noon. and gym baker had a sex scan cal. indicted for wire fraud and spent eight years in prison. today he's changed his ways and can be found selling meal buckets for the rapture. oh, boy. >> he says the last days are coming. >> the prosperity gospel has been put on steroids. church leaders are rolling in the profit. churche

but if you're talking about the spirit of the bible, then it's clear the spirit of the bible is not inald trump. and so i think that's the thing. we talk about in the episode with pastor michael mcbride, people are creating a jesus in the image they want. they're not saying -- they're doing what would jesus do instead of what did jesus do. so they don't think it's a disconnect because they are using the words to form the version of christianity they want. >> generational change. is that evident in the megachurch world, in the evangelical world, because young people have different views than their parents on these things? >> not every young person. many do. >> the thing i learned, it's not every megachurch is the same. the face of christianity is sort of the joel osteen version of church. he claims to be little bit agnostic, you can tell where he is voting and what he is thinking about. love the sinner but not the sin kind of thing, or however he puts it. then there is the cathedral of hope which is very lgbtq plus, and dr. freddie haynes who is pushing the legacy of martin luther king

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but we think the bible speaks to every aspect of life. and there are actually very clear principles laid out in scripture, in both the old testament, mosaic law, and in the new testament, about how immigrants, aliens -- in the bible, you would hear them referred to as sojourners or strangers -- in a foreign land should be treated. in a nutshell, they should be treated with respect and dignity. they should uphold the rule of law. that's why we support border security and we support interior enforcement, and we support the rule of law, because we don't think the first step that someone takes on the journey to becoming an american should be by violating its laws. in the old testament, aliens were to be treated with dignity and respect, but they were also to respect the laws of israel, here they resided. we feel very strongly like that. we don't want to see families separated. but we have called upon congress to act and to provide the additional immigration courts and judges, and provide the funding for the additional housing so that they don'

then we get together at the bible study and watch a video that corresponds with what we learned. anding at the pulpit talking to group a women talks about how she loves girls and women and have a heart for all of us and were all precious in mind and she feels like god has asked her to talk to women and so she is an amazing bible teacher. learning about the bible and there for your fans if you have a problem you can ask us to pray for you and we have a text and we text each other constantly please pray for me this today or are walking into this meeting and say a prayer or if we read a great devotion, jesus calling, we share with each other. a network of friends learning about the bible and we've become such good friends it's about fellowship and socializing. abby: i was lucky enough to be invited by you so thank you i'll be there for all the sandwiches for sure. [laughter] what can people expect? people were getting vulnerable and some incredible women. >> we've all been through hard times and we are open about it and share that with one another and whatever sediment bible study st

he said hatred doesn't cease to hit on the bible isn't democratic leadership. in this was shaped personalities for clearly just. and it's also as you find in the tour billy dee all human model to be a hostile area. you should love that tell a man like yourself the german teachers of the bible they interpreted it means only jews but different got it in the same chapter not chapter nineteen leviticus they said a little later if a stranger belief among you it should be to you like a citizen and you should love him like yourself because you were strangers and if. so i don't mean only jews and so on do you think this is going to have to fight the arabs again. and if so can we win not what i did say they did maybe. in several countries but instead it is most likely to take the personal use are going to go ahead i believe in the summer they should lowden more intimate they should spend their money and get the good people they don't want for painful but if a country has to defend itself and work and defend it in this is the new case in history the world certainly not ty

the bible was found in the netherlands.mer archivist at the library and rare book dealer are accused of the thefts. pittsburgh paid about $12,000 for the bible's return. authorities say it's similar to the one brought over by pilgrims on the "mayflower." >> investigators say the bible is more than a piece of evidence in a case. it's an important artifact of religious significance. you wonder who would take the bible? but again, because it dates back so many years, you would see why someone would really want that. >>> when we come back, it's finally here. >> see what people are telling our will ganss about "avengers: end game." no spoilers but we've got something special for you. you don't want to miss it. "the skinny" is next. . o miss it. "the skinny" is next. remember the way we used to do things? hey man... like connect with friends? dig it! or get in shape? or sell a house and pay a real estate agent a big commission. [crash] at redfin, we charge you a 1% listing fee. and because redfin.com is america's #1 brokerage sit

it is about the relegation's of the holy bible. then in-depth report cover story of the new york times. a photograph of the plant in south carolina with the headline -- safety concerns plague the boeing dreamliner plant. a new york times review of hundreds of pages of internal emails, corporate documents and federal records, as well as interviews with more than a dozen current and former employees shows a culture that valued speed over quality. facing long manufacturing delays, boeing pushing its workforce to quickly turn out the dreamliner's, at times ignore issues raised by employees. in an industry where safety is paramount, the collective concerns involving two crucial andng planes, the 737 max 8 the 787 dreamliner ran into a potentially systemic problem. the story from the new york times shows claims of sloppy work from a popular jet. a whistleblower citing retribution. back to phone calls. james is joining us from white plains, new york. good morning. caller: good morning. host: good morning. caller: good morning. i question

he looked to the bible. he argued that both the old testament and the new testament sanctioned slavery as part of god's will. all told, thomas dew concluded that africans were well suited for slavery, that slavery made for a good society, and that the south was the legitimate heir to both classical tradition and judeo-christian tradition. and so many people built on these kinds of arguments that by the 1850s, you could just get them in big, fat reference books, right? you need an argument for slavery? just pull one off the shelf, and you could find one. now, it's impossible and really not worth our time to try to capture all of the nuances of the pro-slavery argument. but generally authors focused on three major areas. they focused on religion. they focused on history. and they focused on what we might call sociology, right? what made a good society? so when it came to religion to start, as anti-slavery evangelicals, as they either got stifled or left the south, the ministers who remained play central roles i

but we think the bible speaks to every aspect of life. we believe foreigners should be treated with respect and dignity. we should uphold the rule of law. stepn't think the first that someone takes on the journey to be coming and american should be by violating a flaw. aliens were supposed to be treated with dignity and respect but they were also supposed to respect the laws where they resided. we feel very strongly like that. we don't want to see family separated. but we have called upon congress to act and to provide the courtsnal immigration and judges and provide the funding for the additional they don't have to be separated. sadly, because of partisan politics, the congress has not acted on those things on the level they should have. the other point i want to make is, as tragic as the separation of the families that are currently arriving at the southern borderthe other point e is, as we have pointed out, the even larger tragedy is the millions right now, right now over one million, immediate family members, either a spouse or a minor

would have said that in the middle ages it would have been considered blasphemous people refer to the bible and call themselves god's creations god made us in his image were almost gods in miniature god came closer to people in the renaissance than he ever was in the middle ages. but it wasn't books that made up the bulk of the printing shops business. and pamphlets. they were affordable and. three hours. now even ordinary people could print. their opinions and drawings. three subjects sensations and. religious instruction and political and military propaganda. they could be an invitation and opinion. just like today's social media networks they served as a vehicle for the dissemination of opinion. through . the renaissance had fly sheets it had literature that was printed and spread very quickly they could be printed in tomorrow and in two days time would be. information disseminated more quickly and was much harder to control too. and the censorship of the church that dictated what was right didn't work anymore once the fly sheets again circulating. as a man for. you can only understand t

the books incredibly valuable. but that was about to change and. to obtain a lovely kodak such as a bible for example you would have to slaughter an entire flock of sheep and that was expensive. but suddenly books could be had for a little money and reading became democratic the knowledge became accessible to larger numbers of people. more and more people were able to participate in scholarly discussions about new ideas. that's the only way we can explain how europe became the continent of innovation more so than any other. it was on the effects of. the scribes of the church hadn't just copied works they had also changed them and falsified sources claiming their interview taishan as the word of god. that gave them great power. but the renaissance broke them an awfully our knowledge one of the most important bastions of the church. is in truth and for high and awareness of sources. and the truth grew not least because these sources were now accessible and people started analyzing them using classical techniques techniques used in antiquity. the traditional myths propagated by the church si

to me the miracle is the bible. somebody, some group of people thousands of years ago could come up with genesis or exodus or matthew is a miracle. parting the red sea is nothing compared to the depth and complexity of these books. matthew, specifically, is sublimely beautiful. just the idea and the revolutionary idea is expressed in the attitudes to a certain amount, that to me is just a beautiful miracle that is -- it's a revolution. as someone -- i quote in the book -- the celestial grandeur shines through in those words. brian: you came from canada and graduated from the university of chicago in history. david: yes. brian: the reason i mentioned it, you say at the time you were in college, you despised edmund burke. but you no longer despise him. who was he? i see this all the time, edmund burke is my guy. why? what did he write that matters? david: i was a college freshman and the good thing in chicago they assign you books you don't want to read and they make you take these courses, you have no choice. and so

don't just come from the bible as much as we cherish and depend upon those two sources.tural law. that kind of hardwired in human psyche, is a basic sense of right and wrong. gerry: i want to comment, i think many people in the country feel the way in which a country is on these issues like gay marriage and abortion and in some ways they feel comfortable with it and in some ways i think it is part of the reason why the conservative movements have done very well politically. is there an opportunity or if you like, a risk for the church and that the church gets conservative christians get seen as being part of that movement, if you like, that is against the liberalization, against the modern movements for the more liberal. >> if we do analysis of people who leave the catholic church and there sure are a good number, we find out that more often than not, they do not leave to join a more liberal church. more often than not, they leave to join more conservative church because they are somewhat critical of the faith of their fathers, the catholic church. being sometimes a tad

after the invention of printing the publication of four hundred different binocular editions of the bible . at the same time the number of people who could read and write grew. more and more people now have direct and immediate access to biblical texts to the word of god. the people of the renaissance felt close to god they felt they were becoming god like themselves and they would have said that in the middle ages it would have been considered blasphemous people refer to the bible and call themselves god's creations god made us in his image were almost gods in miniature god came closer to people in the renaissance than he ever was in the middle ages. but it wasn't that made up the bulk of the printing business. and. now even ordinary people could print a pamphlet. sensations of. religious instruction and political and military propaganda. they could be an invitation and opinion. just like today's social media networks they served as a vehicle for the. opinion. through . the renaissance had fly sheets it had literature that was printed and spread very quickly it could be printed in tomorr

, if everyone reads the bible they imagine themselves the chosen people. key aspects of american national identity that this is the promised land and that we have a covenant that also has a secular form and that we are a chosen people. where does that come from? do we just come up with that in philadelphia? no. that is the nation of israel and it is not true that we have ideals and just happened to be a nation or happen to have nationalism. our ideals and depended on our nationalism. think about it we could have been a nation within the british empire very easily, most liberal empire in the world there were already three, no we chose national independence because collection of states of the articles of confederation, no they chose to have a national government because on our own way in the 1860s it showed enormous. we could have just huddled on the eastern seaboard, we chose constitutional continental expansion. all of these things made is a powerful and a coherent country that could defend ideals and make them matter in the world. it is not that nationali

familiar scene of the last supper to paint a very different picture of judas and jesus from that in the bible new testament, jesus is a mentor. he's gentle to his disciples, shall we say. >> the jesus that we meet in the gospel of judas is a little different from the jesus that we know from the pages of the new testament. he's a much more mysterious character who speaks in riddles that are so difficult to understand that a lot of the time, we're left scratching our heads when we read it. >> let the strong one among you bring forth the perfect human. >> but the character of judas is also completely different. >> the other disciples fail to understand jesus and -- and only judas has the courage to stand up and speak to him. >> i know who you are and whence you have come, and i am not worthy to utter the name of the one who has sent you. >> judas is singled out as the one disciple with whom jesus feels he can speak openly. judas understands. >> he'll take judas aside and explain to him cosmology, his own fate and the role that judas is going to play in human history. >> this lost gospel appears

the bible is key to absorbing the plan for america, john adams thought but it's not the only book with a closer read. understanding how about foreign cultures created with the centers and other land is landst kind of became his intellectual finality and overall we see that it confirms between liberal congregationalism and unitarian jasons. it shares some of his en anticso one image aligned to conduct a ritual he scribbled is this religion. adams who tallied the treaty of peace and friendship among his diplomatic wins was more respectful towards islam and owned in 1806 edition of the koran glad to be in conversation with jefferson he worked on his religious motto and after a lifetime of seeking, john adams felt ready to contest his credo and this time h detected unusuay concise, be just and good. growing up nearby, abigail smith bothered her own fair share of local controversy through deep breathing and daily experience, she designed her own version and a key factor she sketches in the early religion education was quite simply her life as the middle daughter of a country pastor and this