The American Family Association’s Tim Wildmon appeared on the “Point of View” radio program yesterday to make the case that conservative Christians cannot give up fighting for their values because the culture war is really the manifestation of a spiritual battle between God and Satan for the soul of America.

“God made a special carve-out, if you will, in the late 1700s to create this new country called the United States of America,” he explained. “It was all birthed out of biblical values or, as my dad calls it, the mind of Christ [for the purpose of spreading] the Christian Gospel all over North America and then we spread the Christian Gospel all over the world. And by ‘we,’ I mean American Christians.”

“This is a spiritual war for America and I think Satan hates America because America has spread the Gospel around the world and we still have a majority Christian nation,” Wildmon continued. “That’s my view. I can’t prove it but I think that’s why we’re so engaged and we see so much going on for our country’s future.”