As he traditionally does at the beginning of every radio program, Bryan Fischer dedicated the opening segment yesterday to a reading and discussion from the Bible. In this case, he was reading from Isaiah 10 in which the prophet explains that God had sent the Assyrians to invade Israel as judgment, which prompted Fischer to declare that the same thing happened to America as “the jihadists on 9/11 were the agents of God’s wrath in order to get our attention as a people.”

And it was a rather effective technique, Fischer explained, because ever since major league baseball games have sung “God Bless America” during the seventh-inning stretch and “one of the reasons we haven’t been hit since 9/11 is that we did learn that lesson, we needs as a people to go before God and ask for his protection”: