'Without the Bible, There is No America': Josh Hawley's Unhinged NatCon Speech

[Nevilledog]

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U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) gave a speech that was "more like a sermon" at the National Conservatism Conference on Monday, claiming that, "without the Bible, there is no modernity. Without the Bible, there is no America," according to Salon.

The three-year-old conference, often called NatCon, is about the future of the conservative movement and nationalism.

According to Salon, organizer Yoram Hazony — chair of the Edmund Burke Foundation, which sponsors the conference — encouraged speakers to talk more about Christianity at the gathering on Monday. "When politicians come and stand on this stage," he asked, "do they mention the Bible? No, never."

Hazony, who lives in Israel and is the author ofThe Virtue of Nationalism and Conservatism: A Rediscovery, is Jewish, but believes a return to Christian values is the only way to fight against "woke neo-Marxism" Salon writes.

Hawley took the stage an hour after Hazony's remarks and spoke extensively about the Bible. The topic of his speech was the left's efforts to "unmake history."

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[gratuitous]

1. Christian values, Horam?

Values like feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, housing the homeless, and caring for the sick and injured? Would that look more like the Democrats' Affordable Care Act or the Republicans' "Don't Get Sick and if you do Die Quickly" platform plank?

[dchill]

2. That asshole makes me VERY uncomfortable.

Why isn't HE subpoenaed by the Jan 6th Committee? His role was right there in front of God and everybody.

[roamer65]

3. ...

[rsdsharp]

4. That's why, even though the Constitution already contained the Article VI, Cl. 3

prohibition against any religious test as a qualification to hold office or public trust in the United States, the First Amendment (and the other 9 of the Bill of Rights) was still required to satisfy the anti-federalists.

[Norbert]

5. I can see the scenario of the settlers coming over, according to Josh Hawley

"Well, we finally made it; away from oppression and to a new land where we build a new life for ourselves, not to mention developing the greatest nation on Earth."

"Did you bring the Bible?"

"No. I thought you brought the Bible."

"No. Not me."

"I thought she was supposed to bring the Bible."

"Don't look at me. You are in charge of everything."

"So nobody bright the Bible. Get back on the ship! We have to go back."

[Xolodno]

6. Dumb Ass.

One of the reasons the founding fathers excluded religion from the government is because they saw how it corrupted it. Tax payers should not subsidize a religion so it can persecute you. That kind of thinking brought the French and Russian revolutions...and I think there were a few more.

[sakabatou]

7. And yet he cheered on an insurrection.

[Sky Jewels]

8. That's like saying, "without Harry Potter, there's no America.

Actually, Harry Potter is more realistic than the Bible.

[Volaris]

9. Pffft...I stopped reading at the words Edmund Burke.

I live in st louis, and WE KNOW, that even the pope knows that guys an asshole.

[Solly Mack]

10. By "unmake history" he means facts that put the lie to the white supremacist based

history that dominated the country for far too long and still insist on being the only history that should be taught.

I have a set of history books published in the 1800s to the mid-1900s and those books go so far as to claim that everything good about Africa was brought about by "white" Africans.

The books purport to be "world" history with emphasis on America, its founding, and how just wonderful white Christian men have been for the world.

They get worse from there. Denying America's actual history in favor of the great white father take on America.

No women, no people of color honored as they should be. Slavery treated as not-so-bad.

Just white Christian men doing everything good and nothing bad.

Hawley wants to stop the truth from being told in favor of all vanilla and goodness all the time.

[DFW]

11. He is directly contradicting Thomas Jefferson

I’ll take Jefferson any day.

[sanatanadharma]

12. "Without the Bible, There is No America": But there is a United Stares of America

I'd rather have a secular-constitutional USA than a ignorant-religious America.
Keep in mind, American extends from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, encompasses three-main languages and many others.
America is not religiously homogeneous, and includes more than three main scriptural traditions (Bible, Koran, Vedas, Torah, Sutras).