On a recent episode of his “Prophetic Perspective on Current Events” program, Rick Joyner declared that America is now one of the least religiously free nations in the entire world, thanks to President Obama, and that there is now more religious freedom in Russia than in the United States.

“We no longer have freedom of religion in America,” Joyner stated. “We no longer have freedom of speech in America.”

The fact that Joyner was openly hosting a Christian television program while saying this would seem to rather undermine both his claim that there is neither freedom of religion nor freedom of speech in America, but Joyner didn’t see it that way, declaring that “there is much more freedom of religion in Russia than there is in America.”

That must come as news to the people in Russia, since the government enacted a new law back in July that drastically restricts that ability of non-government-approved churches to engage in evangelism and which the the National Religious Broadcasters decried in a press release: