Search Results


To Listen to Audio click the Play Button [beneath each segment] which varies based on the browser you are using.


January 7, 2021


Title: Amen and Awomen
Topic: Religious Left Deceived and Deceiving
Discussed by Mark Tooley
with Institute on Religion and Democracy www.theIRD.org


Part 1 of 2

By now, you have probably heard about the progressive Left Methodist Minister who opened the 2021 US Legislative Session before the House of Representatives with a prayer that ended with “amen and awomen”.

Mark Tooley, the President of the Institute on Religion and Democracy, discusses the faux inclusivity of this prayer. For more on this topic from Mark Tooley, click here.

Questions/Issues Discussed:

Why are some calling CongressMAN Reverend Emmanuel Cleaver’s prayer “the awomen prayer”?

How do other religions end their prayers?

In Christian teaching, are the male and female sexes intrinsic in creation?

In Christ, is there neither male nor female?

In Scripture, are all equal before God?



More from this Guest      More on this Topic      More from this Organization

Title: Part 2 of 2 - Amen and Awomen
Topic: Religious Left Deceived and Deceiving
Discussed by Mark Tooley
with Institute on Religion and Democracy www.theIRD.org

Questions/Issues Discussed:

What is “civil religion”?

When we are participating in a ceremony, should we consider other religions when we pray? Or should we stay true to our Christian belief?

What were some of key phrases of Representative Reverend Cleaver’s prayer?

Did Representative Reverend Cleaver end the prayer in support of Nancy Pelosi’s proposed bill that would eliminate male/female pronouns?




More from this Guest      More on this Topic      More from this Organization

January 24, 2020


Title: NEED TO KNOW: Dangers of the Religious Left
Topic: Religious Left Deceived and Deceiving
Discussed by Mark Tooley
with Institute on Religion and Democracy www.theIRD.org


Part 1 of 2

The Institute on Religion and Democracy is devoted to fighting the Religious Left, exposing its extremism and false theology. Mark Tooley, President of the IRD, discusses Gay Democrat Presidential Candidate Pete Buttigieg’s visit last week to a liberal activist church in North Carolina, a church that embodies everything the IRD fights.

Questions/Issues Discussed:

Is the “Religious Left” organized and fighting against Christian values, morals, and beliefs?

Mark Tooley recently made this statement: “The Religious Left makes government its messiah.” What does he mean by this?

Does traditional Christianity say “government is ordained by God chiefly to provide security and public order”? Mark Tooley references Romans 13…

Is one of the Religious Left’s goals to make government our therapist and nanny?

Back to Gay Democrat Presidential Candidate Pete Buttigieg… Why is this “church” so bad? Who is the pastor, William Barber?



More from this Guest      More on this Topic      More from this Organization

Title: Part 2 of 2 - NEED TO KNOW: Dangers of the Religious Left
Topic: Religious Left Deceived and Deceiving
Discussed by Mark Tooley
with Institute on Religion and Democracy www.theIRD.org

Questions/Issues Discussed:

What is the main focus of many Religious Left activists? Do the pastors/leaders preach the Truth of the Gospel?

Is the ideology of the Religious Left spreading to traditional Conservative churches, Evangelical colleges, and even seminaries?

Is the Religious Left view of Christianity the opposite of traditional Christianity?

Click here to help the IRD fight the Religious Left.



More from this Guest      More on this Topic      More from this Organization

December 27, 2019


Title: NEED TO KNOW: Dangers of the Religious Left
Topic: Religious Left Deceived and Deceiving
Discussed by Mark Tooley
with Institute on Religion and Democracy www.theIRD.org


Part 1 of 2

The Institute on Religion and Democracy is devoted to fighting the Religious Left, exposing its extremism and false theology. Mark Tooley, President of the IRD, discusses Gay Democrat Presidential Candidate Pete Buttigieg’s visit last week to a liberal activist church in North Carolina, a church that embodies everything the IRD fights.

Questions/Issues Discussed:

Is the “Religious Left” organized and fighting against Christian values, morals, and beliefs?

Mark Tooley recently made this statement: “The Religious Left makes government its messiah.” What does he mean by this?

Does traditional Christianity say “government is ordained by God chiefly to provide security and public order”? Mark Tooley references Romans 13…

Is one of the Religious Left’s goals to make government our therapist and nanny?

Back to Gay Democrat Presidential Candidate Pete Buttigieg… Why is this “church” so bad? Who is the pastor, William Barber?



More from this Guest      More on this Topic      More from this Organization

Title: Part 2 of 2 - NEED TO KNOW: Dangers of the Religious Left
Topic: Religious Left Deceived and Deceiving
Discussed by Mark Tooley
with Institute on Religion and Democracy www.theIRD.org

Questions/Issues Discussed:

What is the main focus of many Religious Left activists? Do the pastors/leaders preach the Truth of the Gospel?

Is the ideology of the Religious Left spreading to traditional Conservative churches, Evangelical colleges, and even seminaries?

Is the Religious Left view of Christianity the opposite of traditional Christianity?

Click here to help the IRD fight the Religious Left.



More from this Guest      More on this Topic      More from this Organization