A member of President Trump Donald John TrumpBubba Wallace to be driver of Michael Jordan, Denny Hamlin NASCAR team Graham: GOP will confirm Trump's Supreme Court nominee before the election Southwest Airlines, unions call for six-month extension of government aid MORE's evangelical advisory board is proposing teaching students the Ten Commandments to help stop gun violence.

Pastor Robert Jeffress — the head of megachurch First Baptist Dallas — during an interview on Fox News criticized a "crusade by secularists to remove any acknowledgment" of God from the public square and the country's schools.

He said people have put forth the idea "that we can be good without God."

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"Well, that's been a dismal failure," Jeffress added.

"I'd remind our viewers that for the first 150 years of our nation's history, our schoolchildren prayed, they read Scripture in school, they even memorized the Ten Commandments, including the commandment 'Thou shall not kill.'"

"Teaching people, starting with our children, that there is a God to whom they're accountable is not the only thing we need to do to end gun violence, but it's the first thing we need to do," he said.