i think we need to be authentic and observe the tradition that so consistently is communicated faith over the centuries. i think if we do this reverently and constantly, that it will appeal, as it has appealed to millennia of generations. most people when they ask do you think you ll get to heaven. most people think they will. are they naive, optimistic, clueless, what? well they re certainly optimistic. i mean i try to hedge my bets in that regard. you know, i know that i m i mean, i know me. and if i know me, god knows me a lot better than i know me, and this is going to be a traumatic moment when i m turned to look at myself as st. augustine once said. that s what the encounter with god is, the look at the truth of who we are. my worst nightmare, father is that god is a cnn viewer. but that s another issue. that would be mine, too. thank you very much.
children s behavior. it ain t even about race. raise that bar. raise your agenda of what you want. it is time for you to change it. because we re going to a whole other year, 2015. god is not foolishness of what s in store for humanity. let s bring down our murder rates in our communities first. i m starting with us first. even the bible tells you in peter judgment must first start in the house of god. he s starting with you first. you want me to judge darren wilson? you want me to judge him? you do that? you want me to do this? okay i m going to do that by however i m going to do you first. starts with you. change starts with you. that s all the pushing, i m moving under god s authority, his wisdom, his power, his might, his anointing in the holy spirit plain and simple. minister, i want to thank you very much. thank you for indulging us. neil, thank you for having me. new york city police who
cruel as to fight over immigrants and things like that. you know, if we become a charitable nation again, we can offer people solace and compassion, but we can do it from a position of compassionate and loving authority. yeah. you also need money to do that but that s a separate issue. it s always been framed it s good versus evil. these isis guys they re evil, they re pretty bad, they behead journalists, do untold horrors to women and christians. do you see them in that way, and do you see, as the pope has recently said, that it is it is justified to go after them? i believe that when necessary with compassionate authority, you have to strike out. i really believe that. there was some young people who had t-shirts, in ferguson that said i d rather be pulled over by isis than a cop. i m like, oh, my god, do you
respect that. now the argument against doing that is this president said we re no longer judeo christian nation, putting words in his mouth, what s the risk of that? what s the danger of that? what s the danger of getting so secular that we no longer think that s important? the risks of denying the faith of our fathers is very, very grave. i remember my dad, he was facing an angry mob, and he was hit in the face with a rock. and i remember as he fell to the ground, and i asked him later, i said, dad, what were you thinking? and he said i was there praying. you know, because i actually had an opportunity to go on marches with my dad. and many times he was not able to call on the god of ibrahim, isaac, jacob, martin, that s what we believed in. and so you know i m not offended by other people when they talk about their faith. so why are people offended
understand what you re saying? here we have such anger, such vitriolic anger that the only message there is destruction. and it will not distinguish between one person or the other. and we saw that with the beheading of our journalists. i thought that was very sad. i wept for their parents, just like i wept for the parents of michael brown, and others. so when our young people are under attack, we re going to have to have a very high authority. i do believe that with wisdom we can end this, and i do not believe it will take three years. i think we can do it in short service. would you say that we have planned a lot of these seeds that are facing us because we ve forgotten about that? america has not called on god as much as we should. i will put myself in that category, as well. i do pray. i do call on the lord. i m not ashamed of my faith.