Right-wing megachurch pastor Robert Jeffress spoke at Liberty University’s convocation this morning, where he told the student audience that America’s complete collapse was unavoidable, thanks to Supreme Court rulings banning organized prayer and Bible study in public schools, legalizing abortion, and striking down bans of gay sex.

These rulings, Jeffress declared, have “so weakened the moral and spiritual infrastructure of our nation that our collapse is inevitable,” explaining that the 9/11 terrorist attack was God’s judgment upon America for the sin of abortion.

“All you have to do is look in history to see what God does with a nation that sanctions the killing of its own children,” he said. “Just look at the nation of Israel … Because they got involved in the worship of Moloch, the pagan god, and they sacrificed their children on the altar, what did God do? He raised up the godless Babylonians and Assyrians to bring judgement on his own people.”

“People ask me all the time,” Jeffress continued, “‘Well, I just don’t understand why God wouldn’t protect our nation and he would allow these radical Muslims in 2001 to kill 3,000 of our citizens and why God doesn’t protect us. Surely, God doesn’t use pagans to bring judgment upon his own people, does he?'”

“Just read the Bible,” he said. “God will not allow sin to go unpunished and he certainly won’t allow the sacrifice of children to go unpunished”: