May give you an example. Within 15 minutes of what that tour guide

May give you an example. Within 15 minutes of what that tour
guide told us, we walked in to the University of Virginia
library. My friends, there is a neural 30 foot high. And at the
apex of that Nero in what used to be the law school and now the
library. There is the biggest depiction of the Ten
Commandments and Moses you've ever seen. And I said to the
tour guide now, you told us just a few minutes ago, this
university was specifically founded on the idea that, that, that
education and religion did not go together. I said, How do you
explain that? And his answer was, I don't know. And I said, Let
me share with you what I think Moses is the great lawgiver. He
didn't write these laws. He was given these laws as a gift to all
mankind for all time sake. And the United States of America is
an upholder of law, law above opinion. He said, I never thought
about it that way. And I said, baby, You should. We then
walked about ten feet from there onto, into one of the most
beautiful chapels I've ever been in. And in the Windows is
depicted a huge cross. Multiple depictions of Jesus Christ and
his parents, multiple depictions of the disciples. And I said to
this young man, Do you know who those people are? And he
said, I think I do. And I said, Well, why do you think they're at
the University of Virginia and a chapel on the grounds of the
University of Virginia. If religion is unimportant. And you
know what he said? I don't know. I think that we're living in a
time. And this is very important and this is the point of
everything I've been saying. We are living in a time in your
generation. And by the way, if you forget everything I've said.
And if you're looking into a small technical device at this
moment, I'm asking you to please put it down and to just hear
me one-on-one. Because if you forget everything I've ever said,
I'm begging you to hear this. This is why come to your
classroom today. And it's a great honor to be here, you're ready
for this. The United States of America has never been in greater
peril than we are in now. We've been through great depressions,

civil wars, two world wars and a Cold War. If you add all those
wars together, we've had about four World Wars. Were in one
now against radical Islam, and they mean business. But you
know what, a very famous historian said, the following. Great
societies do not perish by murder. They perish by suicide. And I
want to share with you what I believed to be the suicide threat
to this country. It is the overwhelming sense among Hollywood.
The major media, education, the federal government and its
bureaucracy, the major foundations to secularize our country.
To erase God from government, to erase him from the media, to
erase him from film, to erase him from the military, to erase
him from higher education, to erase him from the public schools
and the private schools. And here's why I've asked you to just
give me your undivided attention for this one minute. Because
here's a promise to you. This is a promise. Your generation will
decide whether we are too, maintai n our leadership for freedom
in the world. That's not rhetoric, that's not hyperbole. If your
parents were here, if your aunts and uncles, grandparents, right?
I would say the same thing. But your generation is going to
decide this. Because I want to assure you that a few miles from
here at the University of Virginia and a lot of miles away at
many other universities. And I speak on a different college
campus about once every three weeks. I want to reassure you all
that by enlarge with important exceptions, there professors are
working overtime. To revise the history of the United States of
America. They are working overtime to push God out of the
public square, to push him out of the military, to push him out
of the major institutions and foundations. And you know what?
It is your birthright. It is not a matter in your young lives. It's
not a matter of, if, of, if you will face this kind of potential
discrimination against Christians. It is a matter of when. And
I'm asking from one brother in Christ to other Christians. Are
we ready? Do we know our history? Can we confidently? And I
do mean confidently, defend ourselves. I want to give you three
examples, if I may. There is a major attack going on today
against the institution of marriage. Let me tell you what

marriage is. Marriage is a gift of God himself, between one man
and one woman for a lifetime periods. That's a marriage.
Marriage is not two men or two women. Marriages not to man to
man married to one woman, which by the way is coming. Or two
women and one man, or any other combination. Marriages
between a man and a woman, period. That's the definition of
marriage. I'm looking at a computer screen. I can tell you all
that this is a couch. Words matter, definitions matter. This is
not a couch. This is a computer screen. Objective reality and
objective truth. The attack that you are living on, the living in,
that we are all living in. This culture is an attempt to redefine
marriage. May tell you the euphemism that's used. Marriage,
equality. You're going, if you all have heard it, you're going to
hear it a lot more. Marriage equality suggests that we have to
expand. The definition. May tell you, my friends, it's not an
attempt to expand the definition. It's to constrict and to destroy
marriage in the Christological concept between one man and
one woman. Do you know that there are so many lawsuits today
seeking to redefine marriage that we can't keep them all
straight. And as you know, notoriously this summer, our own
Supreme Court said that there is no federal definition of
marriage. Did you know that by one vote, they said that federal
benefits, any kind of federal benefits that currently go to a
married man or married woman must be extended to couples of
the same sex. That's very frightening. Let me give you another
example beyond marriage, human life. You know, you are not a
body. Cs Lewis famously said, you are a soul and your soul has
a body. Every person who was ever born or pre born matters.
Why? Because we are made in the imago Dei. We're made in the
image of God Himself. There was never, ever, ever a person
who did not matter. Ever. Since 1973. In the most notorious
Supreme Court case ever, Roe against Wade, the Supreme Court
redefine human life. And it made abortion legal up to and
including all nine months of pregnancy. Anybody in here would
like to guess how many abortions we have had in the United
States of America just since 1973. 55 million. That's called a

Holocaust. 55 million, about one every 24 seconds. That brings
great shame on our land. The other very shameful, notorious
ruling and dress in the Dred Scott case, which confirms slavery.
This was a, this was a terrible mark on our nation's history. We
lost 750 thousand Americans in the Civil War. Because we did
not codified in law that black and white people are one. A 100
percent equal without exception forever. Because we are all
made in God's image, all of us. But what have we done in the
United States of America since 1973, we have zeroed out of the
human family, 55 million humans. What does your generation
going to do about it? I have to tell you, I'm extremely hopeful.
Your generation is more pro-life than your parents and
grandparents. With two clicks of a mouse, you can look and see.
It's not an elephant or a mouse. It's a human being, it's not a
choice. The pro-choice rhetoric is all wrong. Choice means that
the two people get to decide, but only one person gets to decide.
In the, in the current rubric, this is unjust. Marriage and life are
very big. I would say, the biggest public policy matters of your
generation. What is your generation going to do about these
matters? We have never, ever needed Christians more than we
need you now in public life. We need you in the media. We
need your writing screenplays, you writing the music. We need
you in the military, we need you in banking, in the law, in
medicine, in real estate. Now, more than ever. Never to be
apologetic for what it is you believe and why you believe it.
And the third biggest public policy issue of your lifetime, along
with the redefinition of marriage, along with the question of
life, is the overriding monumental issue of religious liberty and
the rights of conscience. If I had nine hours, could not cover all
of the major attacks that are going on in the courts today to
crack down on your religious liberty and rights of conscience.
Let me ask the most basic question. I can't. This is the easiest.
Whenever. Where do your rights come from? Sorry, from God.
They don't come from government. They don't come from the
Constitution. They don't come from the Declaration of
Independence. They don't come from the maniere Carta. They

don't come from anybody in Washington DC. They don't come
from the media. They come from God. Now let me ask you
another question. Whose country is this? That's correct. Why in
this idea of religious liberty, is there this sense that it's, that it's
the Democrats country or the Republicans country, or the
media's country, or the Supreme Court's country, or the
militaries country. No, it's your country. And your God given
rights can never be taken away. And the first one, the top one,
is your religious liberty and your rights of conscience. And I
want to tell you something. Here's my right hand in the air. I
promise. I promise. There are hundreds of thousands of people
who get up every day in our bless it, remarkable, exemplary
country working overtime to take away your religious liberty. It
may tell you what they're counting on. Their counting on
Christians. To give up, to become discouraged, to not engage, to
lay down like lambs? I can't tell you. I wish I could tell you. I
can't tell you how many Christians I have met. Thousands of
Christians, thousands who are in despair about the course of our
country. When I tell them I'm from Washington, I oh, oh, I don't
know how you do it. I would never want to go there. What a
mess. No. That's just the opposite. Just the opposite. Every
single one of the new tab of the Old Testament books is written
to a political leader. 1 third of the New Testament books written
to political leaders, why? We're not to retreat. We are to
engage. As Christians. We are not slouching toward Gomorrah.
We are marching toward Zion. Were not crusading toward some
victory. We are marching from the Victory. Our job is not to
Christianize Washington or to Christianize the social order, or
to Christianize the media. It's to be of service. We've already
one is christians. We are Christians, we are citizens of two
places. This is our earthly home, but we're going someplace
else. That is our ultimate home. And while we are here, we are
to engage at every level with confidence, with peace and
serenity. To know that the victory is already been won. And
now it's our turn to step up to the plate and to do what we're
supposed to do.

Well, without boring you with biographical detail, It's 27 years
later. And I've been in Washington all those years as a
Christian, as a conservative, as a Republican in that order. And
I've come to see that I am surrounded. And I do mean
surrounded not by people of no faith, but by people of faith who
believe that America's best days are behind us. People have
come to two of lost hope and lost a sense of optimism in the
United States of America. Now, I grew up in the shadow of the
disaster that we otherwise called the Vietnam War. By the way,
probably in those days, I would have been for the war. And I
also grew up in the shadow of Watergate, which was another, as
you all know, extraordinarily difficult time for the United States
of America. Following Vietnam Watergate, which you all know
resulted in the first resignation of a US president ever
President, Richard Nixon came the administration of Jimmy
Carter. And by 1979, which was the last year of the Carter
administration, America, as a sum total, had been through
perhaps among the 25 most difficult ears in contemporary
American history. And out of nowhere, literally out of nowhere
came a former actor called Ronald Reagan. Now, round Reagan
had made over 50 movies by, by any measure, and Hollywood,
that means you're a success. But his career had faded by the late
1950s. And he had become the president of the Screen Actors
Guild. And for the first time ever, he learned about the raw
nature of how ideas clash. Because in one of the most
significant moves ever in the history of that guild, communists
working to infiltrate Hollywood. And they were working to
change the worldview of the United States of America in a
direction that was more open and hospitable, not hostile to a
Marxist worldview. Ronald Reagan became the governor of
California in the 1960s. People couldn't believe it. This former
actor, a conservative Republican, had become the governor. One
of the most otherwise thought to be liberal states in the United
States of America. And he was a product of Hollywood. But you
know what, they didn't know about Ronald Reagan. They did

not know that this affable when some funny man was deadly
serious about the greatness of the United States of America.
And in fact, the single phrase that Ronald Reagan used more
often than any phrase in all of his speeches, was a phrase that
was first used by one of the pilgrim fathers before the founding
of the United States. This pilgrim father was John Winthrop.
And evoking the Bible, he said of America, that this country
was as a city shining on a hill. Now for those of us who are
Christians, that is a powerful image, a very powerful image.
And you all know that the nature of our faith is that we do not
cover it up, but that we let its light shines for all to see. And
Ronald Reagan, I was drawing a direct comparison between the
power and luminosity of the Christian faith and the direction of
the United States of America. Now for a lot of people in the
1960s who had not been paying attention, those were fighting
words. That somehow religion and government went together.
Wasn't that a joke? Hadn't Ronald Reagan been paying
attention? Wasn't he aware of Vietnam? Watergate was still in
the future, but a person who thought that America was
exceptional, person who believed that America had been called
out of all of human history to be a leader for freedom in the
world. Who was this man? I have to tell you that I began paying
attention to politics in the early 1970s. And I was enamored of
Ronald Reagan. California was a long way from Indiana. But I
remember watching this remarkable politicians say all the
things that I believed in as a Christian. I became a young
aragonite. And add exactly the same time that round Reagan
was coming to power. Another person came on my radar scope.
Ever heard of Jerry Falwell? Now let me just tell you something
about Jerry Falwell. I was raised as a Lutheran and in the 1970s,
by enlarge Lutherans did not listen to Southern Baptists on the
radio. But I had an uncle called uncle Ted. Uncle Ted was not a
Baptist either. But let me tell you something he was he was a
person who believed with Ronald Reagan that this was an
exceptional country. And he told me, he said, You know, Tim.
He said I'm hearing this. Some radio broadcasts called the, the

old time Gospel our silently erred on a radio station in Indiana.
I want you to listen to this man. I said, Is he a politician? No,
he's not a politician. In fact, he's a pastor. But he seems to be
saying the same things that Ronald Reagan as saying. He seems
to be saying that religion and public policy go together. He
seems to be saying that God has his arm on the United States of
America. I was really intrigued by this. And the more I listen to
the old time gospel hour, and the more that I read about Jerry
Falwell, and the more that I read about Ronald Reagan, I
realized something. I realized that in the Christian life, thinking
that you can step on this side of a bright line and be a Christian.
And step on this side of the bright line and say, Well now I'm in
the workplace. I gotta take off my Christian hat or credentials
and put them on a shelf. Or that on this side of the line. If I'm in
politics or public policy, if I'm in the military or banking, or
law or medicine, that I can do what I do really well, as long as I
never talk about my faith. But when I step over here into the
private confines of my house, then I can be a Christian. Know
both these men, both these men seem to be saying just the
opposite. That in the American experience, religion and public
life went together. So I began to do some research. And I began
to find that in fact, from the very beginning of the United States
of America, politics and public life and Christianity were of a
single piece. Let me say it another way. George Washington,
John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Abigail Adams, Abraham
Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, john Kennedy. They all
believed as different as they were, that Americans had one thing
in common. And when it came to thinking about the nature of
the preservation of liberty, here's what they believed. They
believe that you could not have liberty and freedom over time.
It, unless you had virtue. First. They believed that virtue was
the other side of freedom. You all know what I mean when I say
virtue, moral excellence. I want to say this very clearly. The
major political figures of American life all believed as different
as they were on big things. That you could not have liberty and
freedom without virtue. And they said that in the American

experience, moral excellence came from where? The Bible.
Now, I want to give you a couple of very quick examples. Oh,
it's trendy. In the town where I live, Washington DC. To
suggest that George Washington was really not a Christian.
Now, I'm not overstating this are understating this. I live seven
miles from Mount Vernon and I go to Mount Vernon at least
twice a year. I go all the way through the bookshop at Mount
Vernon. And I cannot find a single book that talks about the
most important thing in George Washington's life. He was on
the vestry, which is the Anglican way of saying the church
leadership of the PO HQ parish, a very famous Anglican parish.
He was on the vestry for over 30 years. And in the Anglican
tradition, almost every Sunday, you say either the nice seen
Creed or the Apostles Creed or the Athanasius Creed. Now all
these creeds have one giant thing in common. You confess that
Jesus Christ is the only Lord and Savior. That he had a virgin
birth. They had an earthly ministry. Betty died and rose from
the dead. Now, if George Washington were alive today, he
would be one of a tiny little group of men called five-star
generals. You all know about George Washington. George
Washington was the greatest American. Without any peer. There
would be no United States of America if there had been no
George Washington. One man ready for this first president of
the Constitutional Convention. Unanimous consent. Twice
elected President of the United States of America by unanimous
consent. And our founding lead, General Adams, Jefferson
Hamilton Dickinson. The greatest founders. Different men,
often sparring politically, you know what they all said, all of
them independently that George Washington was the greatest
man who ever lived. Wow, pretty extraordinary. Do five-star
generals, who are all those things? Do they go to church for 30
and 40 and 50 years and say creeds that they didn't believe.
George Washington was a serious Christian. He is the man who
said that we would have chaplains in the US military. Because
he wrote very famously that the spiritual life of his soldiers was
as important as anything else. He famously said that religion

and morality worthy. I'm using his words now you're ready. The
indispensable supports of liberties. There are also the
indispensable supports of Liberty University. I think this is the
greatest university in the United States of America without
peer. Franklin Roosevelt. Roosevelt, what a big name, elected
four times to the presidency. The only man ever elected four
times to the presidency. Went to Groton, went to Harvard. A
spoiled child. Somebody once said of FDR that he had a second
class temperament, pardon me, a second class intellect, but a
first-class temperament. He was a real charmer. On one of the
most brilliant, extraordinary, remarkable days in all of
American history. You all know what day that is, D-Day. Hope
you've all been to the D-Day Memorial less than 25 miles from
where you're sitting. You all know about bed for Virginia,
right? 30 men go over to D Day. 19 of them lose their lives. The
greatest by percentage losses of any community in the United
States of America. Maybe other than the French Revolution, the
biggest event in the history of Europe. The United States of
America liberated. We're up against tyranny. D-day is a big day.
D-day is part of what makes this country truly exceptional. Do
not how Franklin Delano Roosevelt chose to speak to the United
States of America on the eve of D-Day. I kid you not, you
cannot make this up. He did a lengthy, monumental radio speech
in the form of a long prayer. How many of you in here have
memorized or read at least once the Gettysburg Address. Easily
in the top five most important speeches ever delivered on these
shores. The Gettysburg Address is a sermon. Everybody in the
United States had given up on Abraham Lincoln. Do you know
the prospects for his re-election were so bad that Lincoln
expected to lose. And when he went to Gettysburg that day,
there was only one group of Americans who were still
supporting Abraham Lincoln. Let me say it this way. If we had
the Gallup political polls that year, Lincoln support probably
would've been about 25 percent. He went there and spoke after a
man who spoke for nearly two hours. The Gettysburg Address
is, you know, is a very, very short speech. But you know what

that speech assumes. It assumes that everybody listening to him
in that monumental extraordinary speech. That they were
Evangelical Christians that's who lived in and around
Gettysburg then and now. It was one of the pockets of Angelica
Christianity. And in the beautiful prose cadence in that speech,
Lincoln evokes the King James version of the Bible over and
over and over again. This is your history. We just celebrated the
50th anniversary of one of the greatest speeches ever. The I
Have a Dream speech. It is impossible to hear that speech. And
not understand the deep, the deep power of Christianity and how
it is a foundational part of everything that defines us as
Americans. So let me say this all another way. In America. God
and government go together. I was at the University of Virginia
last week with my oldest son. And we took a tour of the
university. And when we got there, I don't know how many of
you've been to Charlottesville or to the University of Virginia.
We had a tour guide who the first thing that he told us ready for
this. The first thing he told us was that Thomas Jefferson was a
secularist, had designed the first university purposely to
separate GOD from education. And that government was pushed
purposely to the sidelines. The State University in this great
Commonwealth. Now, I have to tell you, I've been a student of
Thomas Jefferson's my entire life. And I, I'm, I'm sorry to say to
you that I think the best historical evidence is that Jefferson
was probably not a Christian. But that's something quite
different from saying that he did not except and confirm and
promote the validity and power and importance of religion.
GOVT 220
Presentation Assessment: Attacks on Christianity Assignment
Instructions
Overview
Prior to beginning this assignment, read Tim Goeglein – Part 1
and Tim Goeglein – Part 2. Goeglien discusses the attacks on

Christianity during a live presentation at Liberty in 2013. The
threats he addresses have not only become a reality but
intensified. Goeglein highlights several constitutional
principles which have been violated and have led to a decline in
moral and virtuous behavior. As noted in Module 1 Week 1, for
liberty to survive, we need virtuous leaders. You may also find
it beneficial to review The Constitutional Christian.
Instructions
Using the information in the presentations, and current issues in
America today, you will write a 3 – 5 page essay in current
APA format. Your essay will have an introduction, conclusion,
and level headings. It will include a title page, a reference
page, at least three additional sources not more than six months
old, and at least three biblical references with their complete
text. The additional sources may be a news article, a journal
article, a recent court case, or similar current event. Note the
author and date of publication. Be sure to include the video
presentations and Bible in your reference page. These do not
count as “additional sources”. Wikipedia and similar sources
are not acceptable. Do not simply write parts of Goeglein’s
presentation verbatim.
As a reminder, collaborating with other students on this
assignment or borrowing answers from other students’ work is
considered plagiarism and will be treated as such.
1. According to Tim Goeglein, what was President Reagan’s
outlook on America? How would you compare Reagan’s
outlook with that of the current president? Compare or contrast
three specific areas of governance.
2. Tim Goeglein discusses three major attacks on the Christian
foundations of America. What are these major attacks? Provide
at least one biblical reference, with the complete text of the
verse, applicable to each attack. Name a Supreme Court
decision which legitimized the attack and when it was rendered.
3. Select one of the attacks on the Christian foundations of our
nation discussed in Question 2 and go into further detail:
discuss which commandment or constitutional principle the

attack violates, and the basis for the case. The attacks on
Christianity in America continue to this day. Discuss three
court cases, not more than five years old, that either reinforce
the attack or demonstrate a fight to change direction.
4. At the conclusion of his presentation, Tim Goeglein discusses
the job of the Christian in light of these attacks. Discuss
whether or not you believe the country is moving in the right
direction and how you as a Christian can help others understand
how to change our culture to glorify God?
Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the
TurnItIn plagiarism tool.

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