I believe that as the States embrace Biblical truth,
as it pertains to life, that I believe God's gonna bless those States,
as those States come in alignment with God.
I believe it's gonna be a testimony to the rest of the nation.
Again, another sign of God's mercy,
that he will pour out his blessing on those that choose to walk in his way.
>> Yeah, I agree.
And that's some radical principle just for people to be faithful and for
God to bless them.
I mean, it's just the most basic principle of all.
>> That was Family Research Council leader Tony Perkins and
Oklahoma senator James Lankford pushing
the idea of Christian nationalism in the United States.
Now, if you've ever bothered to read our constitution, you would know that
the federal government is not supposed to promote any particular religion or
forced religion upon all of us.
But that rhetoric is something that we're hearing from more and
more from Republican voters.
And now we actually have a poll from politico and the University of Maryland,
which finds that the majority of Republican voters do in fact want
the United States to be declared a Christian nation.
So let's talk about the results here and
the differences between voters from both parties.
So when asked whether they favor or oppose declaring the United States a Christian
nation, a majority of Republicans to the tune of 61% supported doing so.
I'm gonna stop right here.
I'm sure Cenk has very strong thoughts on the results of this study.
>> Strong thoughts with Cenk Uygur.
Well, look, I read the constitution, it says we shall not establish a religion.
What part of that was unclear?
So there's only a couple of things in the constitution,
right-wingers actually agree with.
Me like guns, I hear guns in constitution.
Okay, there are other things like we shall not establish a religion.
There should be no religious test for holding office.
Me no, like that part of constitution.
Okay, yeah, well then leave you're un-American.
You don't believe in the founding principle of this country.
It's in the First Amendment.
I know that comes as a shock to you.
You thought the First Amendment was just so you could say racist things.
No, there's other things in there.
And so 61% it's not a minority.
Biden and other establishment Democrats are constantly tiny
minority of Republicans.
Tiny minority are ultra-mega, but the rest of them are lovely, and we wanna hug them.
No, 61% the overwhelming majority of Republicans say I don't want a secular,
I don't want the US Constitution.
I don't want American democracy.
I wanna be led by a religious leader, like Iran or Saudi Arabia.
That's a fact we just showed it to you.
>> So obviously, the United States is an incredibly diverse country that has
individuals who believe different faiths.
And we're hearing from Republican voters who believe in small government, that
the government should force a particular religious doctrine on all of us.
And to be sure because of the organizing among the religious right, it's been going
on for decades because of the leverage they've had over the Republican Party.
Unfortunately, their religious views has crept into certain policies
including stripping women of their reproductive rights and bodily autonomy.
And it's amazing because they speak from both sides of their mouths.
They talk about the need for small government.
Don't tread on me.
They believe in freedom, except if you have a faith that they don't agree with,
they wanna force their faith upon you through the use,
through the power of the federal government.
It's insane.
And yes, it's un-American.
It goes against what our constitution entails.
And by the way, a clear majority of the Republicans in this survey know that
a clear majority of Republicans 57%, said they don't believe declaring the US
a Christian nation would be constitutional, but they don't care.
>> But they say.
But remember, look, some of them are in the 39% that said, no,
we shouldn't do that, all right?
But by definition, a lot of them are in the 61% that said, yeah,
we should do that.
It's not un-American at all.
It would totally violate the constitution, but we don't care or even like America,
we just want a religious state, I think the Saudis and the Iranians nailed it.
We just, if we had a Christian Mullah to rule us, and
then he would force the government, he would have the government force everyone
to believe only one religion and that way we control their lives completely.
You see how we're against big government and against government tyranny, and
we love America.
No, I don't see it at all.
You guys are not.
You're the least patriotic, least American people I have ever met.
>> Well, what about the rest of America?
How did they respond to the survey?
Fewer than one in five Democratic voters supported declaring Christianity
the official religion of the United States.
And overall 62% of Americans opposed doing so.
So thank God we're still in good shape in terms of everyone.
Like, if you pull everyone together, including Republican voters,
you still have a majority of Americans who don't think it's a good idea for
the United States to declare itself a Christian nation.
Now, the response has also exposed deep generational divides.
So a majority of Americans born before 1964, who responded to
the poll said they support declaring the US a Christian nation while just
a quarter of millennials and 34% of Gen Z respondents said the same.
That last part is actually super fascinating because there's a higher
percentage of Gen Z, meaning younger than millennials who think it's
a good idea to turn this into a Christian nation.
>> Yeah, for a second, let's talk about the other groups, all right?
So let's be fair Democrats, 20% of them say, yeah, screw the constitution,
let's just turn it into a Christian nation.
That's also nuts.
I don't care that you're a Democrat, it's just that's not America,
you want a different country, you should leave and try to find it.
But it isn't here.
With the Vatican, that might be an idea for you, if you're Catholic,
go live there, but we're not gonna live under religious tyranny,
we're just not and that's not in our constitution.
And then idiots online will say O.
J. I don't want to go to a different country.
No, why don't you go to a different country?
I can came here for a secular country because we came here because we love
the United States constitution.
We chose America because it has that in the constitution, Whereas you just
were a schmuck that was born here, never bothered to read the constitution,
don't know what this country's about when you say, I love America,
What you're really saying is I love white right wingers like me,
I don't like anyone else, I don't like anyone in other religions and in fact,
I want to dominate them and oppress them.
You're jewish, who cares, you're gonna believe in Christianity now, and
the government's gonna make you that's not America, you hate this place.
Just figure out what your real problem.
How about just if you're a person of faith, great, that should be protected.
You should have the right to believe in whatever religious doc you believe in.
I'm totally fine with that.
The issue here is using government to force a particular
religious doctrine on everyone else and that's not right.
That's not freedom.
And in fact they would agree to that.
If all you did was just switch the religions.
If you said, Hey, do you believe that America should be guided via religion?
Yeah, definitely.
So great.
We're now going to be guided by islam.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
I mean islam, Islam is bad, Bad, bad.
No, we should not be ruled by a religion.
How about Christianity?
Yes, but that doesn't make any sense why we, well, I don't care.
I don't want it to make sense.
I'm christian, I'm white, I'm right wing and I like oppressing other people.
I don't need it to make sense.
That's what we don't understand about the right wing.
They don't think logically like we do,
they have a completely different way of thinking meat, good, everybody else bad.
That's it.
That's the right wing mind.
Just lock it in.
So and by the way guys, this is why the republicans are in a panic and
trying to do real literal violent revolutions.
Like on january 6th because look at the old versus the young now there's
categories that there's different people in each of those categories don't
make assumptions but when you look at it in mass a huge percentage of the old go
I don't care about the costumes, I just want to make everybody christian right?
And the younger like no no 75% of us say no.
So they see that coming the republicans do and they're like damn it, we're never
gonna win in a democracy, let's just get rid of democracy, let's get rid of the U.
S. Constitution.
And now that's why they're pining for a monarch,
you know what the different word for monarch is a dictator because that's
the only way you could be a christian nation or any kind of religious
nation with a religious dictator, you know, dictator gets to make
decisions about businesses to they have to make decisions about anything.
They like okay these idiots don't understand dictator actually means
dictator.
He it's not that he's just gonna lock up the left actually, he would lock up a lot
of people on the right wing who would be a chap challenge to his power right?
But like but they can't help themselves, they're looking for
a daddy, that's a lot of the right wingers, especially the men,
they just wanted daddy to make them feel safe and
he takes away my rights to it's okay, it's okay, I just need an alpha to protect me.
The right wing mind is filled with fear