News: Oklahoma's Ryan Walters and prayer in public schools
The hosts react to an Associated Press article (transcript: 'Associated Repress') about Oklahoma education superintendent Ryan Walters requiring schools to show a video of him praying for Trump and the country, plus Walters' push for Trump-endorsed $59.99 Bibles in classrooms. The room is unsympathetic to state-mandated prayer: mandated religion becomes nominalism, and the church gains nothing from government coercion — 'the worst thing that happened to the church was Constantine.' The gospel spreads through relationships, not legislation; the hosts argue Christians should pay their taxes, be good citizens, and win people through love rather than seeking political power. Includes the fish-with-the-coin temple-tax bit from Matthew 17.
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