Earlier this month, the flu-stopping, casserole-multiplying Rick Joyner hosted a “Freedom Congress” conference that featured speakers like Oliver North and Jerry Boykin, as well as Republican South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint.

DeMint used his address to urge the audience to get involved in politics because, at the moment, Washington reflects the fact that our culture has become increasingly secular, and so if parents want to teach their children right and wrong they “are likely to be persecuted in some way by the government” for doing so.

And the reason society and government is becoming so secular, DeMint said, is because parents have been sending their children to public schools where they are no longer taught that “God created this earth” even though “we know He did” because science is proving more and more that “it could not have happened by accident.” As such, Christians must stand up because God “has put us in charge of this vineyard we call America”: