Benny Johnson says if you don't believe in God, then “you're not an American, actually”
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From the November 7, 2025, edition of The Benny Show, posted to YouTube
BENNY JOHNSON (HOST): And she goes, what the hell is wrong with our movement right now? Says, what the hell is going on with the Republican Party and with the influencers in the Republican Party? Why can't they just focus on something, which is defeating communism? My kids loved Charlie Kirk because he was, like, because he was not engaging in drama mongering or infighting, backbiting. He's focused on the actual true enemy.
And the true enemy of our movement, the true enemy of America is and always has been the Godless Marxists that wants to shred this flag right behind me here and wants to undergird all that it means to be an American. Because without the belief in God, which is, of course, the beginning of communism, is the destruction of the church. The government isn't the — God isn't — the government is God. That is communism distilled. You know, without that, you can't have an America. If you believe in that, then you're then I would argue you're not an American, actually. Not based on our founding, not based on the founding of this nation that says we are all endowed by our creator, that all men are created equal.
If you don't believe in a God, then how can you believe in even the founding documents, how can you believe in the founding sentences of our nation? How could you believe in freeing the slaves? In fact, most religions don't believe in human equality, in fact. That is a fundamentally and uniquely Christian doctrinal belief, and it has led to incredible flourishing. It's led to the the end of child sacrifice, the end of slavery in Christian kingdoms. There's still child sacrifice today, and there's still slavery today. There's still seven million people enslaved in Muslim countries today in Africa. You never hear about that, do you? You never hear about that. You only hear about slavery two hundred years ago in our country. Why is that exactly? It's because they want us divided. And when I'm talking with Linda, mother of 12 children, the flight attendant on my flight this morning, she says my kids love America. They love this movement. They love Charlie Kirk. But what they're saying is just a bunch of infighting and not a focus on something that is critically important, affordability for young people, housing. And without housing, you have no buy in to the American dream. You have no ability to raise a family. Without housing, you have no capacity to expand your ownership in this country. You're not really a stakeholder in anything, and we've lost that.