“Violence in the streets, ladies and gentlemen. Why is it happening?” Robertson asked rhetorically.
“You know what I’d like to give you is,” he explained, “the fact that we have disrespect for authority. There is profound disrespect of our president, all across this nation they say terrible things about him. It’s in the news, it’s in other places.
“There is disrespect now for our national anthem,” he continued, “disrespect for our veterans, disrespect for the institutions of our government, disrespect for the court system. All the way up and down the line, disrespect.
“And when you lose that kind of respect, you lose authority,” he added. “But more than anything, until there is biblical authority, there has to be some controlling authority in our society, and there is none.
“And when there is no vision of God, the people say, there’s no vision of God,” he concluded, “the people run amok.”