Ben Carson Says If President, He'll Stand Up to 'P.C. Police'

2016 presidential hopeful Ben Carson said at a recent megachurch event that he is ready to battle the "politically correct police" if he were to become president.

Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, made his comments in a recent speaking engagement with Free Chapel megachurch in Gainesville, Georgia over the weekend.

"The pledge of allegiance to our flag says we are one nation under God. Many courtrooms in the land, on the wall it says 'In God We Trust.' Every coin in our pocket, every bill in our wallet says 'In God We Trust,'" Carson said at the this past Sunday's megachurch event.

"So if it's in our founding documents, it's in our pledges, in our courts and it's on our money, but we're not supposed to talk about it, what in the world is that? In medicine it's called schizophrenia. And I, for one, am simply not willing to kick God to the curb," the retired neurosurgeon continued.

"Well, I'll tell you why: it's because America is worth saving. If that means getting into a war with the PC police, I'm ready to fight that war. And I hope you will join me," the GOP candidate said.

Carson has recently received criticism for comments he's made regarding gun control.

A survivor of the recent Oregon community college shooting said he was "fairly upset" after Carson suggested that if he were involved in a mass shooting, he would have attacked the shooter.

Carson has also received criticism for recently suggesting that if the Jewish population had had guns, the severe death toll of the Holocaust in Hitler-controlled Germany may have not been that high.