Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump underscored the importance of religion in the United States during an interview Monday while reflecting on his church-going childhood and the influence of ministers like Norman Vincent Peale and Billy Graham. The interview by Paula White at the National Faith Summit in Powder Springs, Ga., covered multiple issues, including Trump’s own faith and his goals for president if elected. It was sponsored by the National Faith Advisory Board.
Many of the nation’s problems, Trump said, stem from a diminished emphasis on faith.
“We’re going through a lot of problems in our country. If you take a look at the anger, the problems that we have — and a lot of it is that it’s less based on religion now than it was 25 years ago and 50 years ago,” he said. “We were a really, people would say, a Christian and really religious, even other faiths’ country. And that seems to be heading in the wrong direction. I think as that goes down, I think that our country goes down. I really do. I think this is a country that needs religion. It’s like the glue that holds it together, and we don’t have that.”
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