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Rick Green introduces Part 2 of Rebuilding Liberty for the 250th anniversary of the country
I'm Rick Green, America's constitution coach. Thanks for joining me. Today we're going to pick up where we left off on Tuesday with Rebuilding Liberty. Tuesday I introduced you to this new course. It's a four week course, Rebuilding Liberty. And specifically for the 250th anniversary of the country. So we've got a little over 300 days between now and the 250th, the 250th birthday of the nation on July 4th, 2026. about, you know, 310, 11 days for us to educate Americans on what we're going to be celebrating with regard to the 250th. So we don't want them just, you know, firing off fireworks and eating a lot of hot dogs. We're going to do all that, but we want them to understand when they weigh the flag, why that flag is worthy of being waved. And so this course will do that. And Tuesday of this week here on at the core I shared with you, week one of the Rebuilding Liberty course kind of squeezed it in to Tuesday's program. I'm going to do the same thing today with week two of Rebuilding Liberty. So I'm trying to give a crash course on this. My goal is that as you listen to this, you'll get excited and you'll sign up for the free coaching and hosting program that we have at Patriot Academy. And that'll give you free access to the entire course, the videos, the training, all of it. And you'll be able to do host this class in your home or at your church or wherever you'd like to do that.
This is week two of Rebuilding Liberty. The entire globe is moving towards the right
So let's jump in. This is week two of Rebuilding Liberty. The purpose of this course is to make sure that they know why that flag is worthy of being waved wherever. You are watching from. We're not rebuilding a structure without giving the right foundation. And our burden should be to transform. A moment into a movement. The entire globe is moving towards the right. Recommend this edition of the Bible to the inhabitants of the United States. I thought our Founding Fathers bunch of atheists, agnostics, and deists who wanted a secular public square. Who didn't want the Bible in schools. Fight like it's your last breath. But know this. The truth is over the facts. That God's not giving you a spirit of fear, but a power loving us out of mind. What do I want my legacy to be on the way out? That I was safe or that I was dangerous? No, this nation is not perfect. I'll, take America for any other.
>> Rick Green: Country or nation on the face of this planet. How about you?
Welcome back to week two of Rebuilding Liberty. We said last week from the Declaration of Independence
>> Rick Green: Welcome back to week two of Rebuilding Liberty. Last week, we began to just kind of get the big picture of what we're doing. The Declaration of Independence that we'll be celebrating in just over a year. We talked about those principles in the Declaration. But tonight we're really going to dive in to those foundations. We said last week from the Declaration of Independence that we should lay our government and its foundation on the principles and organize its powers in such forms as we think would most affect our safety and happiness. So tonight we're going to talk about those principles that we're laying that foundation on. And our master bricklayer tonight that is going to be teaching is one of my mentors, I think the greatest historian alive in America today. He is America's premier historian. Read more of the Founding Fathers than anyone alive today. I would even argue he probably has retained more than the next 10 historians combined. It's absolutely Incredible what David Barton has done for our country. He's literally the George Whitefield of our day. He's our Nehemiah, and I'm proud to call him a mentor. I first found David Barton when somebody handed me one of those old cassette tapes. Anybody remember those? Yeah.
>> Rick Green: They handed me this cassette tape, and I hated history up to that point. So boring. I just, you know, all you did was memorize dates and names and places. And I popped in that cassette and history came to life. I could see what was happening. I was literally watching history happen through the eyes of the people that experienced it. David's an absolute master at bringing that to life. So I fell in love with it. I started gobbling up everything he put out. I had this box in my truck. I called it my university on wheels. And I had all of his cassette tapes. I was memorizing everything he had. Then I started using it as I go out there and speak. And then one day I'm giving this speech, and I had no idea his parents were in the audience. I'm using all of his material. And, they didn' used to tell it this way, and he would probably deny it, but, I'm pretty sure his mom went to him and said, hey, this kid has stolen all your material, so you might as well hire him. So that's how I got connected to David and Cheryl, and they've been wonderful mentors to carry me both. And we're thrilled to be a part of Wall Builders. I can genuinely say it's professional honor of my life to have learned at this man's feet for the last two decades and to be able to march into battle after battle with him. And we are blessed to have him tonight to help us rebuild liberty. Y' all welcome your master bricklayer for the night, David Barton. Appreciate you, brother.
>> David Barton: Thanks, man. Hey, guys. Good to be with you.
U.S. supreme Court in 1962 said prayer in school is unconstitutional
Now, I want to take you into history that's probably a little more recent. People actually in this room, some would have been alive at the time of this history. And it goes back to actually what happened in 1962. It's part of legal history. The U.S. supreme Court in 1962, they came down with a decision that was called Engel versus Vital. In that decision, they said, you know, we've had prayer in public for a long time. We've had prayer in schools for a long time, but we're not going to do that. And so what they did at that point in time, they said, no, prayer in school is no longer constitutional. Now at this point in Time. We're coming up on two centuries under the Constitution. We've done this for two centuries, but it's not going to be constitutional anymore. Within 12 months and two more decisions, Abbott and Shemp and Murray Collette, they said, and by the way, this thing about using the Bible in schools, we're not doing that anymore either. Now this is something that has been part of education all the way back prior to the Constitution. But they said, we're not doing this anymore. And so in a 12 month period of time and three decisions, they've completely changed the culture of America as far religious expression goes. And so this is what happened. This is where progressivism m really became standardized in the court. They just kind of made up stuff because time to make progress. So what you find is this approach that they took, it had no historical legal precedent. And they acknowledged that in their decisions. They said, what we're doing here has no historical, no legal precedent, just time to do something new in America. What happened was so many cases came to the court that you start saying, wait a minute, does the First Amendment, what does it mean now? And the court said, well, we'll tell you what it means. The First Amendment is essentially what we will tell you.
>> Rick Green: You.
>> David Barton: The court started getting so many challenges to public religious expression that they said, look, we can't take all these. We're going to have to come up with a standard whereby you can know what is and isn't constitutional. And that case was in 1971. It's called Lemon versus Kirchman. And what they came up with was a three pronged test. It's now called the Lemon Test because it came out of the Lemon v. Kirschman test case. And they said, okay, if you want to know if something is constitutional, the number one thing to tell you if a religious activity is constitutional, if its primary purpose is secular. There's a case called Lemon. It is aptly named. It is a limit of a case. And really it goes back. It's our establishment clause. The very first thing when you get into the First Amendment is not establishing religion. And that's because, of course, our founders came from, like, the Church of England. And we didn't want there to be a nationally established church. But in Lemon in the early 1970s, they said, well, we think it means more than that. We think it means that anywhere government is, religion can't be. And so our whole lives, I mean, it's been for 50 years, Nativity scenes are banned on the lawn of a county or city. A menorah For Hanukkah?
>> Rick Green: well, how many cases have you tried over a cross in a cemetery?
All over the place. And even the stuff we see in schools with religion happens at school, and it's like there's a fire. Why? Because any of that is in the Constitution? No, because, of the Lemon case. It was cited over 7,000 times in 50 years to attack religious freedom.
>> David Barton: The number one thing to tell you if a religious activity is constitutional, if its primary purpose is secular. Now, can you name a religious activity whose primary purpose is secular? Since that time in 1971, the court has cited the lemon test over 7,000 times. Every conceivable aspect of faith in public life has come before the court. And the court said, no, no, no, we gave you the Lemon test. If it's not primarily secular, it's unconstit. And this is where we become a very secularist society. I don't say secular secularist. It's committed to secularism. It's intolerant of religion. So the whole thing turned in the culture. Now, fortunately, it didn't stay that way. We've had a change, and that change is really in more recent years. That change occurred when we had a Supreme Court that actually started reading the Constitution in the United States. That's a novel idea. You take a note to uphold it. Why don't you read it? They did, and they said, we can't come to the same conclusion that previous courts have come to. 2019, there was a case that reached the court. This is called the Bladensburg Cross. This is a war memorial cross. At the end of World War I, there were about 25 moms in Maryland whose sons had been killed in World War I. And they erected this cross on city land to say, we want to honor the memory not only of our sons, but of all those that were lost in World War I.
We started really going after this four years ago when we had the Bladensburg Cross case, which is a veterans memorial that was put up by mothers who lost their sons in World War I. And it sat there for almost 100 years until the American Humanist association said, hey, you can't have this cross. You know, at the Court of Appeals, they said, yeah, you know, why don't you just cut the arms off the cross, and that way nobody will be offended and we won't have to tear it down. And we were like, wow, that's the craziest thing. That was a federal court of appeals judge, and they ruled 2 to 1. After almost 100 years, it was unconstitutional. So when we went to the Supreme Court, we just thought, you know, I just cannot imagine this Supreme Court tearing down a hundred year old veterans memorial. So maybe this is the time to go after Lemon. I mean, it's, it's 50 years, it's 7,000 citations. It really is an uphill battle.
>> David Barton: And so what happened was that same year when the Coach Kennedy case came to the court, you remember it was Kennedy versus Bremerton. Bremerton school district, west coast would not let him pray after a football game. Football coach, after the game's over, he goes out, he kneels down by himself, he prays by himself, silent prayer. You can't do that. That's unconstitutional. People might see you doing something religious, and you can't do that.
And so when we got to the Coach Kennedy case, we were like, you know, there's never been a case at the Supreme Court on the rights of teachers or coaches with regard to their faith. So if we push for this sort of grand slam, get rid of Lemon, we might blow the case up. Let's win a really big case. And so we'll have the Lemon argument in here, but that won't be our main argument. Midway through the oral argument, just out of nowhere, Kavanaugh and Gorsuch, you know, Justice Kavanaugh, Justice Gorsuch, start talking about, you know, I think it's time we might need to get rid of Lemon. And we're just like, are you there?
Rick Green: Supreme Court reverses longstanding Lemon test for establishment clause
Oh, we're in shock. Our eyes are as big as silver dollars because we can't believe they're saying this. And we thought, but do they have the votes? And then the decision comes down and they reverse Lemon.
>> Rick Green: Wow.
And I mean, the dissent is going crazy. I mean, 50 years, 7,000 citations over. Everywhere a cross went down, it comes back up. Everywhere Ten commandments was put in the closet, it comes back out.
>> David Barton: And so the court at that time made this statement. They said, long standing, religiously expressive monuments, symbols and practices require a strong presumption of constitutionality. If you can show us that this has been in the culture for a long period of time, we're going to presume that it's constitutional.
And the Lemon test was, you know, it's gone, right? So what's the new test for the establishment clause? What they said is, if something is a part of our history and tradition, some religious practice that we've done, then it is presumptively protected. We're not going to say you can't do that. So, like, you know, prayer before the legislature well, the founders had a chaplain. So this idea that, oh, you can't pray, this takes care of a lot of the ridiculous attacks in God We Trust on the coin, all these attacks that we've had to deal with, the Pledge of Allegiance, we had to defend the Pledge of Allegiance in federal courts. I mean, this takes care of all that and takes us back to really who we are as a country when we founded and the principles that we were trying to protect.
>> David Barton: So nearly everything that's been used to force secularization on America is now out the door. Now this is not what most people know about today. They haven't heard about this strange thing. The media doesn't cover this kind of stuff. When you have a pro faith and pro constitution kind of victory don't cover that. So let's go back to what they said in 2019. Long standing, religiously expressive practices require strong presumption of constitutionality. This is now what's called the history and tradition test. If you can show that something has a history and tradition in America, going to assume, presume that it's constitutional. Now how about the Bible in schools? Is there a history and tradition of Bible in schools? Let me take you back and take you back to the beginning because this is a lot more than constitutional. We're going to go all the way back to the year 1643. That's the year the first public school law was passed in America. The second public school law passed in America, 1647. But all these early colonists that came over, they brought their kids with them and they're landing in places where there are no schools. And we need schools because we want our kids to be educated. And so they start these schools. Now as a result of that, this is the first law book in America. It goes back to 1650. This book is called the Code of 1650. You can see right there, the Code of 1650. This contains the first public school law. Now that first public school law, what's the title of that public school law? Interestingly, it's called the old Deluder Satan Act. Now that's a fairly interesting title for public school law. And it says this, it says it being the one chief project of that old deluder Satan, to keep men from the knowledge of the scriptures as he had. Satan's number one purpose is to keep us from knowing the scriptures. That's how we had all the darkness in Europe. Every time we went to the scriptures, that's where light came and we made advances. And we're not going to have that darkness here. In America, we're going to make sure everybody can read the scriptures. So said, when you get 50 people into a community, you, you get a teacher. And when you get 100 people in the community, you build them a school. So this is the first public school law in America, the older Luther Satan act, and that's 1690. And it's interesting that by the time you get even just several generations later, strikingly, because we educated both boys and girls, this backwood colony of Massachusetts had the highest literacy rate for women of anywhere in the world. Higher than France, Spain and England. Because you see, we thought everybody needs to know how to read so that you can read the scriptures. And so our literacy rate was through the roof.
>> Rick Green: Alright, quick break everybody. We'll be right back. You're listening to Rebuilding Liberty on At the Core with Waka Waba and Rick Green.
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Rick Greene: 1690 was the year that our first school textbook came out
>> Rick Green: Back to at the Core on American Family Radio. We're back here on at the Core with Walker Wildmon and Rick Green I'm Rick Green, America's Constitution coach. Today we are listening to Rebuilding Liberty. And it's the new course that Patriot Academy has put out that is teaching all about the Declaration of Independence and how to rebuild the walls, how to lay the right bricks, use the right mortar, the right mindset and build a strong foundation for future generations. Let's jump right back in. This is Rebuilding Liberty Week 2.
>> David Barton: So even in this backwoods wilderness colony, higher literacy rate than across the rest of the world. Now if you go to another year, let's 1690. 1690 is the year that our very first school textbook came out that was printed in America. Prior to that, we used textbooks that came from the continent, England or wherever else. This is that very first public school textbook. This right here, it is called the New England Primer. This little bitty book right there called the New England Primer. And we used that New England primer from 1690 all the way into the 20th century. This was still used as a first grade textbook. Now when you go into it, they go through the ABC show you how to read and then after they do that, they start associating certain concepts with ABCs. This is called, the rhyming Alphabet. You see up there. A, In Adam's fall we send all B Heaven defined the Bible mind C Christ crucified for sinners died. And by the way, their S's don't look the same as our S's today. Like the word sinner and sin. That's because they had two S's back then, a hard S and a soft S. That was much of a German influence. We got away from that in about 1812. But prior to that, as you read old books, there's that F that often appears as an S, but nonetheless it continues. G is runs the glass. Our life does pass. H. My book and heart must never part. Now, this is what we're learning in first grade. This is how we're learning the ABCs in first grade. And then you learn the ABCs by memorization of a passage associated with it. You see here. And by the way, you see the picture of the heart of the Bible inside the heart. My book, Heart must never part. And it's what we're imparting from the very beginning. And you see here a Alphabet of lessons for youth. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. That's a Bible verse B. Better is a little of the fear of the Lord than great treasure and trouble therewith. Another Bible verse C. Come unto Christ all ye that labor are heavy laden. He will give you rest. Another Bible. We're memorizing Bible verses in the very first public school textbook ever done in America. That's the way every student learned the ABCs because that's just what we did in education. That's a history and tradition of education. If you go to 1781, in 1781 this is the end of the American War for Independence. We have just defeated the British at the Battle of Yorktown. And as a result of that, the British have laid down their arms. And for the first time since we back in 1607, we're no longer under British domain. They do not rule us anymore. And so as a result of that, the King, it doesn't matter what he says. Well, one of the things the King said was that if you live in any English speaking country, you cannot print a Bible in English. You will use the one that we tell you to use. And so there were several Bibles that were fairly critical of the King, like the Geneva Bible the Pilgrims and Puritans brought with them. It was very critical of many bad practices that were not biblical in Europe. And it said so. And kings didn't like that. So they said, no, no, we'll tell you what Bible to use. Well, now that we've beat the British, we're not under that law anymore. So we beat them in 1781. And the first English language Bible ever printed in America came out in 1782, it's one of the rarest books in the world. They printed 10,000 of them. There's two or three dozen left today. And that particular book is exceptionally rare. And it's striking that in this book, as you look inside it, there are several things that kind of stand out at you. Number one, it's printed by Robert Akin. Why is that important? Because he's the official printer of the US Congress. He does all the printing for Congress. And you continue to look inside that and oh my goodness, there's a congressional committee talking about this Bible. And you continue to look past that and you see down here that it says United States and Congress assembled recommend this edition of the Bible to the inhabitants of the United States. I thought our founding fathers were a bunch of atheists, agnostics and deists who wanted a secular public square, who didn't want the Bible in schools. And by the way, Robert Akin, as he's going through explaining this to Congress, Robert Akin told him very clearly, he said, this is a neat addition of the Holy Scriptures for the use of our schools. What a perfect Bible for every school to be able to use. And here's actually his handwritten document saying that to Congress. So you look back to 1780, that's a fairly significant time when it comes to the Bible in schools, when you have a history and tradition test. So this is the first Bible print in America called the Bible of the Revolution. First English language Bible printed in America. The Bible of the Revolution. Then let's go to 1789. George Washington is now president. And we have a lot of territory in the United States that is not yet part of the United States. It's called the Northwest Territory. There's also the Southern Territory and Central Territories. But they said, you know, We've got the 13 colonies over here now, 13 states. What are we going to do with all this? Other territories, territory? How did they become states in the United States? And so they went through and laid out the provisions, said if you want to become a state, number one, number two. And they went through all the stuff they did. And so it's called originally the Northwest Ordinance because it was passed for the northwest territory. Now 32 states after that came in under those provisions. But it's interesting. Article 3 says, Religion, morality and knowledge be necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind. Schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged. So signed by George Washington to federal law.
If your schools are encouraging religion, morality and knowledge, that's the way
This is the provision whereby states can come in the United States. If your schools are encouraging religion, morality and knowledge, that's the way you become a state in the United States. Now, it's interesting, we're told today, oh, no, education's got to be secular. Just go back and check, a number of the state constitutions, number of the state constitutions say, forever in the schools of this state, religion and morality will be taught as well as knowledge. Why did they say that? Because that's the requirement become part of the United States given us by the Founding Fathers, signed by George Washington. Secular education was not part of their concept. But then again, the court never claimed that it was. It just said, we're going to do something different. And now all the legal experts in the last 50 years said, oh, no, that's what the Founding Fathers wanted. No, no, no, go back to the original stuff. It's quite different. 1790 involves a founding father named Benjamin Rush. Now, Benjamin Rush signed her the Declaration. John Adams said, he's one of our three most notable founders. So out of 250 founders, John Adams says Benjamin Rush is one of the three most notable. So when you look at Benjamin Rush, one of the things that makes him significant, there's a whole lot of stuff. By the way, he is, he is an awesome guy, but one of the things is he's called the father of public schools under the Constitution. And that's because in 1790, he did this piece, he said, you know, we used to be 13 nations, now we're one nation. What do we need to be teaching in our schools for us all to remain one nation? What do we have to teach to keep us unified rather than having 13 different nations? And so he goes through and lays out in this, and he says in this, he says the only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. Without this, there can be no virtue. And without virtue, there can be no liberty. And liberty is the object in life of all republican governments. So here are some of his educational essays. This is where he says, religion has got to be central to education if we want a useful. And that's what he says, the only foundation for a useful education. Now, you got all sorts of other educations, but if you want a useful education, you got to lay it in religion. So the next year, he came out with this piece, the Bible and Schools. This little piece right here. He gave a dozen reasons why we would never take the Bible out of schools in America. Now, this father public schools under the Constitution. He started five universities. Three still go today. He did so much awesome work in education. And by the way, in this piece he explains, the Bible contains more knowledge to man in his present state than any other book in the world. This is why we teach it in schools. It's the most useful book out there, and it has all the stuff you need to know about medicine, about science, about ethics, about law, about business, whatever. And that's what we believed about the Bible. That's why we taught it for so long. Go to 1816. And in 1816, what you have is the report from New Jersey. Now, all the schools have reports every year, just like we still do today. You can go online and see the reports annually if you want to see the report for New Jersey in 1816. They're talking about how the kids have done in the first and second classes, or what we would call the first and second grades. And so have the kids done. According to the superintendent of Public Education New Jersey. He says very simply, all the scholars of the first and second classes commit to memory. Portions of the New Testament are psalms, a lesson in the catechism, several hymns, and the text of the preceding Sabbath. So all the kids in first and second grade, that's what they're memorizing in New Jersey public schools in 1816. We're now a generation after the Founding fathers. It's not the founding Fathers anymore. We're much later. And he continues, he says, one of the scholars, first and second grade, one of the scholars has committed to memory of the Book of John and the first 30 Psalms together with the 119th Psalm. Anybody here memorize the Gospel of John and 30 Psalms and Psalms 119? Nah, you're not as smart as second graders back then. Amazing. And by the way, we all know there's some kids that are smarter than other kids in class. That's right. He's one of those kids, obviously. How about the rest of the kids? The majority have committed memory. The Gospel by John. All the first and second graders memorized the Gospel of John. But we had one kid who also memorized 30 chapters, Psalms and psalms. All the kids memorized the Gospel of John in first and second grade in New Jersey public schools in 1816. Let's move to 1828. 1828 involves Noah Webster. This is when Noah Webster came out with his original dictionary, the Noah Webster Dictionary. Now, Noah Webster did so many works that educational works. He's called the father. He's called the schoolmaster to America. He's so much of the father of the English language as far as, what happens with the structure of it. And so in that Dictionary, he defines 70,000 words, 40,000, never before been defined. He learned 28 languages so that he could tell you the root of every word that he takes in that dictionary. Awesome what the guy did. So when you take words and look in Webster's dictionary, for example, take his dictionary. Let's take a word like you see up top, Chief. See, he gives you definitions. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 definitions there. And look what he does right up there. You see that one? It says chief. He's quoting from 1st Chronicles chapter 11. So if you want to know how this word is used in context, go look at 1 Chronicles 11. And here's another example here. You see there? Go look at numbers 3 and job 29 and Matthew 20. If you want to see how this word is used in context. And if you want another definition here, look at 1 Kings 9 and down here at the bottom, you need to go to Psalm. that would be Psalm. What's that? 58. He takes you back to the Bible.
Noah Webster's 1828 dictionary was very biblical centric
27% of the definitions he used, he took to the Bible. So this is our dictionary in the day. It's not the secular thing that we have today. Webster's dictionary today only has its name in common with what it used to be back then. It was a very biblical centric dictionary that he had. So Noah Webster, that 1828 dictionary, and by the way, with all the other textbooks he did, he was very clear his philosophy, his view of America's view of education. He says all the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, they all proceed from despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible. So again, going back here, 1849 is a significant year in the sense of President Zachary Taylor. He's known as old, rough and ready. He's a war hero. He's become President of the United States. Look at the declaration from President. He says, the Bible is the best of books. I wish it were in the hands of everyone. 1. It's indispensable to the safety and permanence of our faith. Oh, no, he didn't say faith. He said of our institutions. The Bible has secular application. It's the basis of our institutions. He continued, he says, especially should the Bible be placed in the hands of the young, it is the best schoolbook in the world. I would that all of our people were brought up under the influence of that holy book. Zachary Taylor will never be accused of being part of the religious rite as a president. President. That was not who he was he was old, rough and ready. He was a tough old codger, and nobody thought of him as a religious person. Yet look at the rhetoric that we have from the president of the United States back then. And, by the way, best schoolbook in the world. Apparently the supreme court didn't consult history. We know they didn't. That's why they arrived at the conclusion they did so. 1876. The President now is Ulysses S. Grant, another very tough president, very adequate guy, very able guy. As a military commander, he headed the union for forces in the civil War. But he's the president for the centennial of the United States, 1876, he's president. We were founded in 1776. He comes out with this card. You see this little card right here? This is a centennial card. It's the message of president Grant. This message of president Grant. See there? Centennial, 1876, 1776, 100 years. It's to the children and youth of America. What does president Grant want to tell all the students of America? He says, hold fast to the Bible that she didn't liberties. Write his precepts in your hearts and practice them in your lives. To the influence of this book, we're indebted for all the progress made in true civilization. And to this we must look as our guide in the future. Righteousness exalts a nation, but sins a reproach to any people. By the way, that's a bible verse, Proverbs 14:34. There's your president of the United States saying, kids on the sentinel of America, get back to the Bible. This is what's made us who we are as a people. So there's a lot I can show you here. I'm going to close with one more. In 1947, these two textbooks right here, these two textbooks were being used. You can see on the COVID here. This is the Bible study course for the Old Testament. Dallas Public Schools, 1947. And the one behind it is the one for the New Testament in 1947. Dallas Public Schools. Now, these are not just Dallas textbooks. They were used in Cincinnati and St. Louis. They were used in Indianapolis. They used major cities across the nation. And as you go. And these are courses for credit in the public schools as you go through. You see here. Memorize. There's a memorization section for each lesson. Memorize, the pre existence of Christ. In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God. And the word was God. All things were made. This is what we're memorizing in public schools as a course in Dallas And Cincinnati and all these big cities. And then it has questions at the end of every lesson you study some of the Bible and you have questions. Questions on lesson number one on the pre existence of Christ, John 1, 1:14, where was Christ before he was born on earth? What titles does John apply to Christ in this chapter? For what purpose was John by God? And on and on it goes. I'm going to get myself in trouble here. I'm going to bet most ministers couldn't answer the questions that were answered by Dallas public school, high school kids. This is what we had until 1947 all over the United States. And we think that the way it is now is the way it's always been and that people who want religion back in public life are crazies. No, it's because we don't know history. And so as you look at the Bible in schools and look at where we are at this, we're at this point where the long standing religiously expressive practices require strong presumption of constitutional. If you can show that it's been part of the American fabric for a period of time, we're going to presume that it's constitutional. And this comes, we're talking religious practices here. So that is the history and tradition test. And why does that matter? Because when you look right now, did you know that based on the 19, on the 2019-2022 Supreme Court decision, you can be teaching the Bible in schools right now? Your public schools can teach that with no trouble. As a matter of fact, one of the groups that does this, Bible Schools.net, they are currently teaching at 4,000 public schools and they have 600,000 students going through and the only textbook they use in the course is the Bible. You just teach the Bible. Bible speaks for itself.
This can be done in public schools. You got a public school near you
This can be done. Nobody hears about this. We didn't know this was going on. You got a public school near you, go talk to the superintendent, talk to the school board. You're going to have trouble with school board attorney. School board attorney knows only the modern stuff, not the historical stuff. And they usually don't have keep up with recent Supreme Court decisions. They may be good on personnel or administration or insurance. They're not good on constitutional issues. So you may have to teach them some of this, but this is something you can do in schools.
>> Rick Green: Our friends last break for the day will interrupt Rebuilding Liberty Week 2 to take a quick break. We'll be right back. You're listening to at the Core with Mark o' Wavin and Rick Green.
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Rick Green: What with prayer in schools, it's constitutional
>> Rick Green: Back to at the Corps on American Family Radio. We're back on at the Corps with Walker Waldman and Rick Green. I'm Rick Green, America's constitution coach. Final segment of today, we're gonna pick right up and finish out week two of Rebuilding Liberty. Now remember, I got a new book coming out that's called A Blueprint for Rebuilding Liberty. Just in time for America's 250th that'll lay out all the different things that you can do. But the video course is what I'm sharing with you right now. This course that's available to you for free. If you sign [email protected] as a Constitution host or coach. Let's jump back in to Rebuilding Liberty.
>> David Barton: Same way. Nativity scenes that used to be part of schools. And then we said oh no, no, no. Christmas, that's too religious. Christmas is a federal holiday to celebrate the birth of Christ. It's not a federal holiday to celebrate the birth of Rudolph and Santa. It's not what it is. So we can go back to singing Christmas carols and choirs can do that and they can have Christmas programs and all this stuff they haven't been able to do in decades. Talk to your choir teachers, talk to your school teachers, talk to your principal about this same. What with prayer in schools, as long as students are praying, it's fine. Student led prayer, it's constitutional. Now they can't pop up and start praying in math class if nobody else is doing anything in math class except the teacher. But you can't have prayer at school again. You can have prayer at graduations again. You can have baccalaureate. All the things we used to not be able to do. We have a long standing tradition of history and law on this. And another example is balanced science. You know, creation evolution debates don't go to Darwin 1859. They go all the way back 500 BC BC to Aristotle. Everything Darwin set forth had been set forth hundreds of years before that. There's nothing new about what Darwin did. He just synthesized 2000 years of teaching and made it really simple. Brought it down to something really easy. It's not that there's new teachings. As a matter of fact, if you'll check the 1801 senior paper for Daniel Webster as a 17 year old senior at Dartmouth, his senior paper is over the evolution creation debate. In that day, nothing new about it. Founding fathers speak very openly of evolution creation, something they address. This is not a new issued comes from Darwin, we can go back to teaching creation science if we want to because that's history and tradition. That's something that scientists have taught for thousands of years. It goes back a long time. This is not just religious teaching. So all these things are available. Long standing, religiously expressive m practices require strong presumption of constitutionality. I encourage you to be forward thinking, be aggressive, realize you've got a lot of tools at your disposal. Maybe we haven't used in recent years, but I just want you to know what the Supreme Court said and in this area, what the history and traditional, so that we can move forward and move these things back into helping America be a wholesome nation. God bless you guys. Rick.
Many Americans unaware of extent to which Bible and ancient Jewish world wisdom shaped founders
>> Kelly Shackelford: It is astounding to me how many people in America have been indoctrinated into a condition of complete ignorance, completely unaware of the extent to which the Bible and ancient Jewish world wisdom shaped the founders. it's not an accident that the, crests of these old schools like Yale and Harvard contain Hebrew words. because to these people who came here and set things up, the people we think of as the founders, Hebrew, was something they knew. The second governor of the Plymouth Colony was Sir William Bradford. And, the first 19 pages of his manuscripts, his history book, the history of the Plymouth Plantation, is actually in his own handwriting in Hebrew.
>> David Barton: Oh, you're going to learn all,
>> Rick Green: Types of wonderful things, as you've already learned in this class, about our founding fathers, about the freedoms of liberties, about what people paid for. What does it mean to be a Constitution? What does it mean to have a Bill of Rights? What does it mean to have a Declaration of Independence? Independence. What does it mean to have a free nation? What does it mean to fight for your freedoms? What does all that mean? That's what you're learning so that you can take it out into the streets. But I say none of this matters if it's not Jesus first. That's where the miracle takes place.
On average, there's about 8,000 requests a year for the Supreme Court to take your case. And the last few years they've taken 50, 57 and 67. The idea that they would take one of your cases is. Your odds are not good. Well, these took four, and we won them all, right?
>> Rick Green: Only m. God.
That's only God. And so what? You know what I like is wherever God is moving, I'm just going to jump in the middle of that, right? And he, there's a lot of bad things going on in our country, right? Now, but something's changing here. I mean, why is God doing this in the religious liberty arena? Why is he opening up all these protections? It's not so people won't step in that protection and act. But he's got a plan. There's something going on. And so I just encourage people to be encouraged. the war is not over. Almost the image I have is it's like all of our children and our grandchildren are in a castle. they've been stolen away and we've been blocked from getting in. And God just blew holes in the wall of the castle. So it's not over. We still have to. We can't stand at the opening and go, wow, that's a really neat hole. I mean, God is really providing this new opportunity for us to change our country and to restore religious freedom in a way we haven't seen in our lives. Really at this point.
>> Rick Green: You know, you're hearing it everywhere. It's around us at a depth and velocity like we've never seen in our lifetime. It's literally taking people down a spiral of destruction. And it's what we call deception. Just take a look around, look at the young people in your life, look at the people all around you where deception is after them with a vengeance. You know, we have a responsibility as parents, grandparents, pastors, educators, mentors and coaches. We can feel the urgency now more than ever. It's an urgency to inoculate this next generation against those same old ideas that have led to bondage throughout the course of history, every time they've been tried, and we gotta ask ourselves, do our sons and daughters know how to detect the lies in the culture? Do they know how to apply timeless life giving standards of truth rooted in the gospel, to the problems of today? Are they ready to step out encouraged when it's their turn? Their chance to influence and lead a generation away from bad ideas with dangerous consequences. The real question is, has their education prepared them for this reality? Look, if you're between the ages, of 16 and 25, and, and you're within the sound of my voice, this message is for you. No matter your personality, what your passions are, or the station of life or career you find yourselves in, the fight has come to you. The preparation you need does not happen by accident. It takes purposeful, sharpening, role play and intentionality to train for battle. And that's where Patriot Academy comes comes in. It's not a summer camp. It's a boot camp. Patriot Academies take place in state capitals across the nation throughout the Summer and we teach you essential communication skills and how to assess the ideas around you but through a lens. We call the LIFT principles. That's limited government individual liberties, the free enterprise market system that rejects dangerous ideas like socialism and communism. And then lastly, it's timeless principles of truth. Our three day boot camp is just the beginning of a lifelong journey of learning on how to influence and take action to advance freedom. No matter where God leads you, because of the connections you'll make, you're going to have full access to a network of leaders who stand ready to engage the culture and stand with courage with you. Make the decision today. Be the influencer that God has destined, destined you to be. Be that one person who's equipped, strategically placed and takes action.
>> David Barton: So welcome to the fire. So welcome to the fire. Welcome to the fire.
Last week we talked about restoring those Declaration principles, rebuilding civic literacy
>> Rick Green: Hey, welcome back to the tavern portion of our Rebuilding Liberty course. I hope you got you a hot cup of Patriot brew coffee and you're ready to discuss those revolutionary strat strategies and tactics to implement the things that we learned tonight in our class. Now don't forget last week we talked about restoring those Declaration principles, rebuilding civic literacy in our country by hosting a Rebuilding Liberty course. I hope you've already started thinking about friends and family to invite to your first class, by actually being a part of the 250th next year and being a part of, creating a celebration, whether it's at your home or your church, your county courthouse, but hosting a 250th celebration celebration July 4, 2026 and then third, getting the Constitution back into our schools. Whether you do that for Constitution Day or you get to celebrate Freedom Week passed in your state. Learn more about all of that in our blueprint book or in your workbook. Those are the things we talked about here in the tavern last week. This week we want to capitalize on this opportunity that David was talking about. The Coach Kennedy case changed everything. We have the opportunity to get a God consciousness back into our culture. I'm going to give you three action items tonight. Number one, I want you to be a part of getting in God We Trust, the national motto in every government building you possibly can. On the dais of the, of the school board where they meet or the city council or the, or the county commissioners at your state capitol. We have that in Texas, in God We Trust above the dais there in the house chamber, everywhere you can get in God We Trust displacement so that people will think about that national motto and restore that God consciousness. If you look in Your workbook or the blueprint. We're going to connect you with the organizations that will send you a kit on how to do this. It's easy to do. You can get this one done, I promise you. So pick out a couple of places in your community where you can make this happen. Maybe that's the action item for you. As I said last week, 12 step recovery program. You don't have to do all 12. You just got to pick, pick one or two. So this week I'm giving you three more in addition to the three I gave you last week. In God We Trust model, the Ten Commandments. We have a lot of states now that are doing Ten Commandments legislation to make it very clear, you absolutely can display the Ten Commandments in the local schools. The Stone v. Graham case has been overturned. The Kennedy case has changed everything. Do your part to get the Ten Commandments displayed in schools, county courthouses, other government agencies, entities, and even in your own home. And then the third step tonight that I want to encourage you to do is help bring godly wisdom back into the schools. This one's got some subparts. You got to go to the workbook or the blueprint book, to look to get the contacts of some of these organizations. But getting, for instance, chaplains in our local public schools. I encourage you to work with them to get a chaplain in your local public schools and local public school. And maybe you're the one that should be that chapter chaplain. Maybe you're looking for that next adventure or that next assignment from the Lord. Maybe that's one of the things that you can do. Maybe you want to work with some of the time release programs out there and be one of the ones that host a program next door to the local public school where the kids can come to your place. Maybe it's a church, maybe it's right down the road. Lots of ways to do this, but it's absolutely constitutional and a powerful way to bring that God consciousness and that godly wisdom wisdom back to your local school. And then, of course, Bible curriculum itself. This is absolutely constitutional. Most of your schools don't know that it's constitutional. We want to help you get Bible curriculum into your local schools. In fact, Patriot Academy is providing a specific Bible curriculum that we're going to have available in the next few weeks. I hope you'll check that [email protected] lots of other great sources out there as well. But if that's that one that likes you up, then that's the one step out of the 12 steps to recovery for our country that you should get excited about.
There are lots of options for you this week to restore religious liberty
So lots of great options for you this week to restore religious liberty. We've got to do these things where we get this God consciousness back into our culture and we actually live out our faith. Think about it. What good is the freedom of religion if we're not living out our faith? So don't forget the three steps that we've added tonight. You can get in God We Trust, the national motto, hanging it up in your schools, getting it at your government, you know, on the dais or behind the leaders there. Get the ten Commandments into your local schools and your local government buildings. Get a God godly wisdom back into your schools with chaplains at the schools, Bible curriculum, time release programs, all those options. Everything's in your workbook and in the blueprint. Look for a way to implement one of those steps. And don't forget the steps that we talked about last week already. Get signed up to host this class in your home or church, wherever you like. Make sure you're planning your 250th celebration. Great opportunity to restore civic literacy by bringing back those Declaration principles. And then get involved with getting the Constitution and the Declaration back into your schools. There's already a lot to do, folks, but get started. Alright? I'll see you back here in the tavern next week for our action steps in week three. That should give you a lot of hope and a lot of solid ground to build on. So there's a lot we can do in our community. So this whole course is going to be about action, action, action. The things David's talking about, it's not just head knowledge. He's given us things we can actually go back and do in our communities. This has been week two and we've got two more weeks to go in this amazing course next week. Tim Barton is our master bricklayer that's going to be with us. Don't miss it. Have a great week and thanks for helping us rebuild Liberty.
Rebuilding Liberty is a four week course from Patriot Academy designed for future generations
All right, friends, that was Rebuilding Liberty Week 2. Okay? It's a four week course, brand new from Patriot Academy, designed for the 250th birthday of the nation coming up in just over 300 days. Every single person in the sound of my voice right now, you can be a part of rebuilding Liberty. You can lay the bricks, put in the right mortar right there in your community to rebuild the walls. Rebuild liberty in our country for future generations. We want to help you do that. That and this course is designed to come alongside you so it's free, totally free. Go to our website right now. Patriotacademy.com Sign up to be a host or a coach. And in your dashboard will be the four week program, Rebuilding Liberty. Workbooks and all that are in the works right now. They won't be ready till constitution, day, September 17th. But we'll have, we'll also have the blueprint book. It's called A Blueprint for Rebuilding Liberty. Just in time for America's 250th. Have that out later in September as well. And all of it is designed so that you can rebuild Liberty in your community, in your family, in your community, your church, right there where you live. That's where this is really going to work in the long run. President Trump's doing a great job with all the things he's doing in Washington, D.C. but it's temporary. We have to rebuild Liberty at the local level and you can be a part of that. So check it out today at Patriot County. That was week two of Rebuilding Liberty. I don't know, next week I need to catch up on headlines and stuff, so I may not share week three and week four for a while, but at some point I'll get those on the air, for you as well. But go get the whole course right now. Patriotacademy.com thanks for listening to at the Core with Walker Wahman or Rick Green.
>> Jeff Chamblee: The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American Family association or American Family Radio.
