On his TV show “Life Today” this morning, James Robison interviewed Ben Carson about his current book and what Robison sees as America’s rapid decline.
During the course of the conversation, after Carson cited a fake quote from Thomas Jefferson declaring that “when governments fear the people, there is liberty; when the people fear the government, there is tyranny,” Robison warned that the religious leaders must begin preaching on political issues from their pulpits because “there are principalities and powers in the realm of darkness, deception and destruction” that are seeking to destroy this nation.
As such, Christians must know who to vote for, Robison said, because candidate who believe in abortion rights or marriage equality are “incapable of hearing the wisdom that comes from above and being directed by divine providence,” which makes them likewise incapable “of leading a nation out of the depravity and the death and the defeat that we’re experiencing”:
