What did Jefferson say would happen to the nation if it did not operate under the Word of God, and what does Les see happening now?

Les teaches that Jefferson, though not what Les would call a born-again believer, still came back and said that unless this nation stands and operates under the Word of God, it is doomed to fall. Les then says, “And we’re seeing it happen right before our eyes.” He sees the nation’s doom or fall unfolding now. In the surrounding context, Les also says he has no time for the word religion, calling it the most awful term in the human language; religion prompts hatred, precipitates war, takes people down the dark path of legalism, and is always man’s attempt to please God. Christianity, by contrast, is never a religion but God reaching down in mercy and grace to a lost human race.