Bishop Barron will address what he calls the marginalization of God at Trump's Rededicate 250 prayer event on the National Mall this Sunday.
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prayer event on the National Mall this weekend, Bishop Robert Barron will address the"marginalization of God" and religion in society, which he said he considers a"true threat to democracy.
" Rededicate 250 is a major prayer event set for Sunday as a way of"rededicating" the nation as"One Nation Under God" ahead of America’s 250th anniversary. The event, which is being organized by the Trump-aligned"Freedom 250" nonprofit, is expected to include the president, In an interview with Fox News Digital, Barron, perhaps America’s most well-known and beloved Catholic bishop, revealed that his address at the event will emphasize his belief that"if you marginalize and privatize religion, democracy is in danger.
" "God is essential to the very foundations of American democracy," he asserted. "There's a lot of talk today about the threats to democracy, that is a true threat to democracy, the marginalization of God. "Photo: Bishop Robert Barron , accompanied by U.S. President Donald Trump, and other religious leaders, speaks during a National Day of Prayer event in the Rose Garden at the White House on May 1, 2025, in Washington, D.C.
The National Day of Prayer is a congressionally recognized observance that calls on people of all faiths to participate in a day of prayer and reflection. Barron explained that many of the societal ills seen today are due to this cultural separation from God.
"Take God out of the equation, what are you left with? Radical self-choice. Welcome to wokeism. Welcome to the culture of self-invention.
‘I make myself up, values is up to me, my gender, it's up to the whole structure of my life, it's my choice,’" he said. "That’s deadly to our democracy. "Barron said he will begin his speech by invoking Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. "We know from the early written versions Lincoln didn't have the phrase ‘under God’ when he said that this nation might have a new birth of freedom.
But when he delivered the speech, he said this nation ‘Under God might have a new birth of freedom. ’ So, what prompted Lincoln, as he was giving the Gettysburg Address, to add that phrase?
" he said. "You could say, ‘Oh, it's just a little pious declaration. ’ No, no, no, I think that's born of a very, very deep and correct intuition, America is a nation that's conditioned by these great values, moral values, spiritual values that come finally from God.
" Barron argued that one of America’s most foundational ideas — that all men are created equal — is a novel concept made possible only by Christianity. "We're not equal in any way. Look at the classical political philosophers; they would never affirm the equality of all people. We're not equal in intelligence or moral virtue or beauty or courage or anything.
We're radically unequal. So where does this come from?
" he asked. "Why would you go from we're not equal at all to it’s ‘self-evident that we're equal’? And the answer is in that little word, ‘created,’ that ‘all men are created equal. ’ So, despite all our differences, we are all equally children of God and then endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights.
" BIBLE PODCAST CRACKS APPLE TOP 10 FOR THIRD YEAR AS HOST CELEBRATES: 'PEOPLE ARE HUNGRY FOR GOD'S WORD'"No one in the classical world believed that. Aristotle didn't, Plato didn't. Cicero didn't, none of them," he explained.
"Look in societies more recent that don't believe in God. Go to Soviet Russia, go to communist China, everyone has rights? No way.
" "Where do they come from? " he said. "Well, Jefferson gives away the game. They're endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights.
Take the creator out of the equation, rights will go out in a minute. So, Lincoln's intuition to say that this nation under God would have a new birth of freedom, God is essential to the very foundations of American democracy. If you marginalize and privatize religion, democracy is in danger.
""It’s a very modern sense of freedom that it means spontaneous choice, I'm free if I could just do whatever I want,’" he said. "But see, the founding fathers were trained both biblically and classically; they did not understand freedom that way.
" TRUMP CHAMPIONS JESUS' 'MIRACULOUS RESURRECTION' IN PALM SUNDAY MESSAGE VOWING TO 'DEFEND THE CHRISTIAN FAITH'"Freedom is more like this, it's an ordering of desire toward the good, so as to make the achievement of the good first possible and then effortless. ""Think of the way you become a free speaker of a language, not by talking any old way you want, but rather internalizing the laws of the language. How do you become a free player with the piano?
Not by doing whatever you want, but by internalizing the structure of music.
" "That's the kind of freedom we're talking about," he said. "It’s the moral freedom to become the person you're meant to be, that you can now effortlessly achieve the good, that this nation under God might have a new birth of freedom. ", and agree to receive content and promotional communications from Fox News. You understand that you can opt-out at any time.
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