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Welcome to the Stone Choir podcast. I am Corey J. Mahler.
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And I'm still woe.
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On this episode of Stone Choir, we're going to be doing something that we have not done
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previously. We were asked by the folks at Anelope Hill if they would discuss one of their
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publications with us, a book that they've published. And we're happy to do that. It's
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not something anyone's ever asked us to do before. I'm excited about it. It was a very
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interesting book to read. I was happy to read it. It's kind of funny looking at the table
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of contents and then reading through it. It's in a lot of ways, it's kind of an overview
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of much of the content that Stone Choir has covered in our first year of producing this
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podcast. So I think that the specific subject of today's book, which is titled The Sword
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of Christ by Giles Corey, very much dovetails with kind of the home turf for Stone Choir.
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Today with us also for the first time, we have a guest from the editorial team at Anelope
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Hill. So if you just introduce yourself and your company, I'm curious, how did you come
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to reach out to us and how did you come to publish this book in particular and why do
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you think it would be a good fit? Certainly. So my name is Taylor. I'm part of the editorial
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team at Anelope Hill. That's kind of a long question. But we publish the book because
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we find that it fits our mission. And we started about three years ago. Now we just recently
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celebrated our third birthday with the intention of making available books that are difficult
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to obtain or censored or ones that just aren't available in English and specifically in the
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rightist political tradition and that have to do with the philosophy and history of Europe
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and its diaspora. So that's where it started. And since then we've really in our based on
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our expectations, we've been amazingly successful in the kinds of works that we've been able
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to translate as well as the kinds of authors that we've been able to inspire to come publish
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with us. So I personally don't remember exactly how this one ended up with us. But as soon
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as we got it, we I was actually one of the people who reviewed it initially and I was
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very, very interested. So, you know, within kind of our mission statement, we'll publish
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different authors. We've published Protestant authors, Catholic authors, secular authors
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as well. But, you know, as long as it contributes toward that goal of making available books
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that have important ideas and important facts, and that can make a contribution to understanding
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the history and contributing to the current struggle of our people, then it's something
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we're interested in. So me personally, I'm a Protestant in the Calvinist tradition.
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So for that, I actually don't remember, maybe I shouldn't admit this, but I don't remember
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off the top of my head if Giles Corey necessarily approaches this book from a specific Christian
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tradition and what it is. But I mean, I think that's that recommends it in some ways, because
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the topics he deals with are relevant to all of Christendom and all of Christian history,
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especially European and white Christian history. So in a lot of ways, it is exactly the
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kind of book that I've always thought should exist, one that deals very specifically with
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issues like Christian Zionism and addresses the interaction between ethno-nationalism and
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Christianity and kind of is intended as a weapon to help us come to grips with the extreme
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liberalization that's taken place in the church. And as to why I'm here, well, I mean, I was
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I've been aware of you guys and your podcast for a while now back when I had a Twitter
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account before Elon banned me again. I followed you guys. I checked out a couple of the podcasts
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and I just thought that honestly, it would be something that I think like you said, it
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would be interesting to you and your audience just based off of how similar it is to what
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you guys talk about. So very happy and very grateful to have the opportunity to come on
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here and share it with you guys.
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We appreciate your time. And I've I was taking a look through the catalog for Manila O'Pillow. Your
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name has come up for, I think, pretty much since you came on the scene. And it's very an
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interesting collection. Obviously, as you said, you know, most the vast majority of the books, I
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think, are focused specifically on politics. And there tends to be at least, in cursorly, it looks
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like there was a lot of focus around kind of the history of fascism and in things around that in
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the 20th century, which is valuable, because that's one of those things that such a dirty word,
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you know, people use it as an epithet, but no one can define it. And so I'm very grateful that
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you've produced and published and reprinted a number of works that, you know, are just in many
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cases from the men who were on the ground in those days. So I would, I would commend folks who
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are listening will obviously put a link in the show notes to this book. And I should say up front,
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we're not getting paid anything for this, we want nothing for it. They asked, and so we're happy
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to do it. I think that's probably the approach we'll always take. I mean, this is a fringe
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podcast that has no monetary value, really. And so I honestly would not want to be in a situation
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where I wanted someone's commercial success to be hinged to what people thought of our podcast. So
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in the future, you know, with this or anything else we ever do or refer, if we're going to get
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anything from it, we'll tell you we'll be transparent. But this is just entirely because
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it's such a great, there's so much synergy between, again, the topic of this book and
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what Ann Lowe Pill is trying to do. I want to just briefly read the introduction to the book,
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because it is really in a lot of ways almost kind of one of the underlying mission statements of
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Stone Choir as well. This is from The Preface by Giles Corey.
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The hatred for Christianity on the right truly pains me. This is the reason that I wrote this
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book. I fully understand the hatred. For as I argue in my introductory essay, there's very little
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to praise about organized Christianity today. If anything, organized Christianity, including
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the Catholic Church, in each of the Protestant denominations, has indeed become yet another
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instrument of white genocide. Organized Christianity has capitulated and bent the need of Satan's
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coalition of the damned, thereby turning its back on our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
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I despise the organized Christianity, too, for this reason. But usurp, though the mantle of the
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Church may be, that is no reason to simply abandon the faith. So many of us who observe the collapse
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of the Church into anti-white leftism have been led to the facile conclusion that Christianity
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itself is irredeemable. It isn't. Christianity does not even need redemption, for our faith
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remains what it has always been. The fairsacal teachers of false doctrine, whom we witness on
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parade today, simply are not Christians, no matter what they may say. Remember Paul's warning,
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for such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of
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Christ. And no marvel, for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore,
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it is no great thing if the ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness,
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whose end shall be according to their works, from Southern Corinthians 11.
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And he continues on the next page. The same sense of illiteracy lies behind the more absurd
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contention that Christianity is some far-off, life-denying, suicidal Jewish sigh-up. First,
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if this was true, why after nearly 2,000 years did organized Christianity only betray its race
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and civilization in the 20th century, after the Jewish coup that was accomplished in no small part
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by the creation and promotion of the heresy of Christian Zionism?
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So that's really kind of the thesis of the book itself. I do take issue with the phrase
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organized religion, organized Christianity. That's a modern term that emerged in the 20th century,
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really as things were starting to go to pot. But I think he's absolutely correct when he recognizes
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that when those on the right who are not Christian critique Christianity, they're only looking at
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what it is now and not what has been for 1,900 years. And so I'm in complete degree with the
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author that, and that's the thesis of Stone Choir as well, Christianity doesn't change. So if we
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have problems today caused by doctrine changing, that's what we need to fix. And personally, I
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think that it's one of the weaknesses that a lot of modern discourse has. From the pagan right,
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you have folks saying, oh, Christianity did this. And then there are folks who agree with the author
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and say, well, that's only the organized portion. That's just like denominations or whatever. I
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don't take that view. And to be clear, when we go through this and we level criticisms and
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critiques to some of the things, it's in no way saying it's a bad book. It's a really good book.
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And in particular, I just wanted to highlight this upfront, because it doesn't really color
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his actual conclusions or his arguments. But it's a term that he uses that we hear a lot. And
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you had mentioned earlier, you weren't sure if he came from a particular denominational background.
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He never says this at any point in the book. He does speak favorably of Eastern Orthodoxy,
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but I didn't get the sense that he was Eastern Orthodox. But again, it's immaterial to the book.
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So this is why we're all here. I want the future of our people to be a Christian future.
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And I want to be one where our people are intact, where our race is intact. And I'm very thankful
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that Ann Lopil has published this book, because not many of the books are even if some are by
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Christian authors, they're not overly about Christian subjects, which is fine. But part of
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the reason that Corey and I started Stone Choir was to inject Christian discussions from informed
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Christian men into a space where it's largely absent. And most of what we do see from Christian
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men is completely disastrous. So that's just the introduction of the book. And I think it's a very
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good introduction to what it is we're going to be talking about here today.
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From reading through the book and really looking at the citations or the references and also the
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ones that were not included notably, I get the general sense that he is reformed of some variety.
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Although I couldn't necessarily say that I know which particular one, but that would be
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my take away as to which tradition to which he belongs. However, that's not really what comes
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through in the book. He's not making a specific argument for any particular Christian tradition,
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which is why when I hear a critique of organized religion or organized Christianity,
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I really hear echoes of 0.24 of the 25 point program of the National Socialists, the notorious
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one as it were about positive Christianity, because it's the same general sense. It's
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opposition to the corrupted and subverted churches of the day as organizations. So
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organizational in that sense, I wouldn't take it to mean necessarily that organized Christianity
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is a problem. I don't think that he's advocating that. I know that there are those who do advocate
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that, and that's wrong. The church is an organization. The church has always been an
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organization. The church will always be an organization. The fact that the modern organizational
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church, the various corporate entities have been subverted, does not mean that the organization
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of the church is the problem. And I'm not saying that he's arguing that. I don't believe that he is.
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It's the same sort of problem that was faced in the previous century, where the church had also
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been subverted not to the same degree as today. Certainly, the churches today have been more
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subverted. Satan has had more time to perfect the same sort of subversion, really. It's not even
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of a different kind. It's just taken to a different degree. It's taken to a different level,
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because again, he's had more time to perfect it, and he has more men working for him now,
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unfortunately. But as for the book itself, I also would recommend it. It is a good book. It is
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worth reading. I will note, we did get our copies for free. So that is, in so far as there's any
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sort of incentive we had, we got a copy for free. But that's, for us, that's not an incentive.
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I would have bought the book anyway. And quite frankly, if we got a book for free and didn't
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like it, we would tell you that. Because, well, that's just the sort of people we are. I think
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everyone listening to this podcast knows by now that we're quite comfortable saying that a book
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is not good if it's not good. In this case, of course, we're not famous for mincing words.
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No, I don't think anyone tunes in to hear us add nuance. When it comes to this
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book, there are obviously, there are some things with which we are going to disagree,
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particularly as, it's not even necessarily particularly as Lutherans, but maybe as
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megastirial Protestants. There will be a handful of things, but he doesn't really get into specifics
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of denominational distinctive say or any of that. That's not the point of the book.
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The general points, the general chapter and section headings are things with which any
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Christian should be able to agree. And the same holds for almost all of his concluding points
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in the last bit. He has eight points that he goes through. The main parts of the book are
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the Christian questions. So Christianity as it relates to the, to the West, as it relates to
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the white race, is Christianity a positive? Is Christianity a negative? That's relevant for
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all Christians as relevant for anyone living in the West. It's relevant for anyone who is white.
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And then there's, of course, the heresy of Christian Zionism. We would agree. That's
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how we would phrase that. Incidentally, that's one of the things where we have not yet done an
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episode. We've discussed it. It's come up tangentially, but we will do an episode on that.
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We will try to do it in the near future because obviously, for various reasons, it is quite relevant
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today. And as we go down the list, there, all of these things are salient issues in the church
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today with which any Christian, any, I'm just going to say any Christian, I'd say any Christian on
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our side, but there are no Christians on the other side. So any Christian should be able to agree with
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these things. And yes, we're going to have some minor differences and perhaps, dare I use the word
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nuance, but by and large, this is a good book for an overview of many of the things we have been
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discussing on various episodes during the course of the past year. And just in general, things that
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are relevant to the political right, specifically with regard to Christianity. His mission statement
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talks about how those who carry the false doctrines that he talks about simply are not
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Christians. And when I was reading the book, that really stood out to me because it echoed something
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that I had experienced a lot. I've been a Christian my whole life. I used to be a lot more a Pentecostal
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kind of came from that branch, I guess you would say. And obviously, there's, you know, we can all
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understand, there's a lot of kind of temperamentally conservative or politically conservative Christians
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who, you know, they'll see things like some denomination or like some church
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out there will, you know, accept homosexuality or they'll accept having gay clergy or they'll
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promote Black Lives Matter or something like that. And they'll reject it, of course, they'll
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say that that's wrong. And they'll say, well, those people just aren't Christians. And in my
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experience, what they mean when they say that is it's a dismissal of the fact that there's
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any battle to be fought at all, basically, it's just saying, well, I'm saying in my mind to myself
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that like this person just doesn't count as a Christian. And therefore, I don't have to worry
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about it. And it's not my problem. And it's probably also just comes from a feeling of
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powerlessness, because both politically and probably theologically that they don't feel like
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they have a theological justification for fighting it. So in my mind, I think it is
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important for ordinary Christians like that to understand that while I obviously agree that,
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you know, when you identify false doctrines, it's appropriate to say that at some point,
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those people simply are not Christians, because they are not living out Christianity at the same
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time as I think the author recognizes, there is such a thing as just Christianity as a whole,
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as a phenomenon that's present in the culture and society. And if it was pretty much what he
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discusses, at least in the first part of the book, the way that it is increasingly manifesting as an
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anti white force. I think it's just important to understand that that, you know, that that is the
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perception that a lot of people have of Christianity, when they when they think of Christianity,
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that that's the only reference point for it that they have. And this really does call us to fight
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against that and to reform it or, you know, destroy it or whatever, however you may want to put it.
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But I think that in my own experience, this is a question that I think is very difficult for a
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lot of Christians to think about and grapple with. And I think, again, one thing that I like about
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the book is how direct it is at addressing this and saying, Well, you know, we're not rejecting
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the faith, we are in fact embracing and putting forth the true faith. And it is important to do
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this because that which calls itself Christianity, that cultural manifestation, that cultural phenomenon
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that calls itself Christianity is increasingly just has has absolutely nothing to do with what
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Christianity really is. Yeah, I agree completely. It's necessary for faithful men to stand and fight
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where we are, whatever denomination that is, and as these things come among us, we have to do something
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about it. We can't just, you're right, we can't just say, Well, that guy's irrelevant because he has
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bad doctrine. Well, if they're in positions of power, then they're going to do unspeakable harm
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with their power. The first chapter, Christianity today begins by discussing the complicity of
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all the major denominations in the so called refugee crisis, which is it is a crisis, it's a
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civilizational crisis, but these are not refugees, these are for the churches, they're money makers,
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these are industrial operations where they are getting paid by states and by other NGOs,
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including Lutherans, Lutherans, Catholics, Methodists. Pretty much everybody is in on the
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grift and they're doing it in the name of God. They're using false scriptural arguments to say,
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Yes, we must overrun Europe and we must overrun America and anywhere that any white homelands
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on the planet must necessarily be overrun by the third world because Jesus, because Jesus went to
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Egypt, therefore you need infinity Africans in your country and whatever happens to your community
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and your family, well, you should just love them and that's not a gospel matter. That's a huge
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problem. It is a seminal problem. It's one of the, as he says in the preface, as we've said
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elsewhere, it's one of the principal reasons that a lot of guys on the right who are, maybe they've
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left the church or were never in the church, actively hate Christianity because that's all
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that they see. I absolutely agree. It's necessary to document this is evil and it's coming from
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inside our own houses, Christians, but it is not Christian. In the first chapter, he does a good
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job laying out some of the history and the basic details of those things happening. The other part
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of that, that's a key part of the whole argument that runs throughout much of the book, is that
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anti-racism is a core of the religion that these people espouse as they import the third world
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rapists and murderers into our neighborhoods. He holds up as an example the Southern Baptist
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Convention, which is similarly conservative to the LCMS and has been going down very much the same
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path as our denomination has in the last few years. I was fascinated. I never really paid
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attention to other denominations too much and so I was ignorant of some of these things, but
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there were a few Russell Moore quotes that he introduced beginning about 2015 through 2017
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and I think a bit newer than that. I'm going to read these, but the reason they smacked me in the
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face was some of them are virtually verbatim the attacks from within the LCMS leadership
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against Korea and me forced on choir. So these are from Russell Moore in the Southern Baptist
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Convention. He writes, many of those who have criticized Mr. Trump's vision for America have
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faced threats and intimidation from the quote alt-right of white supremacists and nativists
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who hide behind avatars on social media. Another quote, at his 2017 meeting the Southern Baptist
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adopted another noxious resolution quote on the anti-gospel of alt-right white supremacy.
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That's pretty much verbatim from the street that Matt Harrison released in February attacking us.
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And the last quote I wanted to mention, the church should call white supremacy what it is,
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terrorism. But more than terrorism, white supremacy is satanism, even worse than satanism.
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White supremacy is a devil worship that often pretends that it is speaking for God
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with false sobriety more closed to his editorial by stating, quote,
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white supremacy angers Jesus of Nazareth. The question is, does it anger his church?
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And this is again, these were charges leveled against Korea and me by the leadership of the
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Missouri Senate. They called the FBI and accused us of terrorism for talking about this stuff.
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So I was fascinated to see Russell Moore saying the same thing about Baptist. It's the same playbook.
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It's exactly the same slander, the same lies. Interestingly, as the
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Stone Choir Telegram chat has grown, a number of people who have joined, have told me both
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there and privately and elsewhere that one of the episodes of Stone Choir, they introduced
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them to us and kind of got them hooked in some cases, was the four hour death march that we did,
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describing the events that the Missouri Senate had taken against the four men
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who initially exposed some of the most current evil going on within our denomination.
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And they resonated with them from other denominations because they've seen the same
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thing. So I very much appreciated Giles' mention of a lot of these things just because to me,
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they were, it was the first time I was seeing them. It was no surprise because of course,
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we all know that these guys are running a playbook and it's not, it's a supernatural playbook,
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which is why I doubt that Russell Moore hangs out with Matt Harrison. Yet when it comes to
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spiritually, they are bosom buddies. They have the same God and they're preaching the same religion,
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but it's not a Christian religion. So there's a great deal of research that he has done in
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this book that I find very valuable because it's filling in a lot of blanks that personally I
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didn't, I wasn't aware of. And I think for readers who pick up the book, I think that it will do a
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really good job of fleshing out exactly what's going on with the so-called refugee crisis.
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You see these things on TV and you see them showing up and how are there Somalis in Minnesota?
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Well, it's because the Catholics and the Lutherans in Minnesota that explicitly imported them.
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Yes, the government helped and the government was doing some of it, but it was church bodies that
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were doing the rest. And they're doing that not only in our name, but they're doing it with our
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money. And so I think that as readers read through this book, which again, we commend, I hope that
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I'd love to see Stone Choir listeners sell this thing out just because it's an important asset
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for folks to have to have some of the material just lay out, here's exactly what's been going on.
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And it's a great resource because it's a book that's in one thing that you could hand to someone
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else in many ways, a synopsis of a lot of things that we cover on Stone Choir. So as we've said
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before, the nice thing about having a podcast or a book or an article is you can hand it to a friend,
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kind of noncommittally. You don't have to say, this is the most important thing in the world,
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you have to agree with every word of this. You can just say, hey, check this out. There's some
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amazing stuff in here. I'm not even sure what to think. That's a nice passive way of broaching a
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subject that can be very upsetting and just say, look, these seem like facts to me when I look
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stuff up and checks out. I'm glad you mentioned the longest episode we've done and quite frankly,
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probably the longest episode we will do because we'll do what we've done with other topics,
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split them into multiple episodes into a series. If we're going to go that long on a particular
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subject, that one, it made sense to simply sit down and get it done, to do it in one go. But
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we really went through and aired the dirty laundry of our Synod, our church, because it's important.
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These are things that are being done in our name and as Woe said with our money,
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but they're also being done in public to a certain degree. Yes, they'd like to keep some
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of this underhanded. They don't want you to know exactly what they're doing. But these are public
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sins and public sins have to be rebuked publicly. You do not go to a man privately, you can do this
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as well, but you do not exclusively go to a man privately to rebuke him for his public sins.
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For his public sins, you rebuke him publicly. And the reason we see this agreement across
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denominations, across traditions, across churches with men who do not talk to one another, who
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probably in some cases don't even know the existence of one another, unless perhaps Russell Moore
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happened to see the fact that Matt Harrison spoke before Congress at one point. These are not men
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who attend the same country clubs. They obviously don't attend the same churches. The reason they
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have this same script is as we have said in a number of episodes, I'm not going to go and search,
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so I know how many times we've used the phrase, but there is an animating intelligence behind all
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of this evil. Satan is running a playbook and he has developed it over a course of millennia.
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He is perfected at this point. Satan, at the very least, seems to believe that he is in the end game.
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Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. We are not going to speculate on whether or not that's the case.
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Woe is going to lean more toward it being the end game. I'm going to lean more in the other
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direction. One of the few places where we disagree a little bit. But no man knows the day or the hour.
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Satan seems to be acting as if he's playing for all the marbles right now. And so he has
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all of his pieces in play. He has all of his units on the board. That's why we see the full
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court press. That's why we see this happening in every single denomination and tradition.
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And that's an important point. The churches have been the very last thing to be subverted.
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Oftentimes, if you're speaking to a neopagan or someone who has a particular animus toward the
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church, perhaps with warrant, I won't say it's unwarranted, but has this particular hatred of
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the church, will point out that the modern churches have been subverted. That's true. But show me
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something in our society that has not been subverted. The churches held out the longest. They
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were subverted last. All of the things we've gone over in previous episodes, when it comes to
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subversion of the culture and corruption of all of our institutions, happened before the church
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was corrupted. The church stood against this for a very long time. Satan has been trying all these
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attacks for centuries. The church has rebuffed them all until today. He finally figured out
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the best way to subvert the church, and he is actively working to do so, to bring that to
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completion. And that is the war that we're actually fighting. Because if he wins over the churches
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in sort of a full sense, if he wins that particular engagement, if he wins that battle
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of the larger war, then he's won. Because the church is in point of fact the last bastion,
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the last thing standing against his complete victory. And Taylor, you mentioned the issue where
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what is a Christian, basically, is the question. What does it mean for someone to be a true Christian
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or a false Christian? Is there such a thing as a false Christian? Are these people who hold these
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false beliefs Christians or not? And we went over this in the episode on the Jews, the first
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in the series specifically dealing with the Jews, episode 34, and that is the No Scotsman fallacy.
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We went over it there, but I'll go over it again briefly here. There is such a thing as a Christian.
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Just as there is such a thing as a Scotsman, the reason that you have the fallacy is because there
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is such a thing as the thing to which you are applying the fallacy. To make that clear, a Scotsman
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is a member of the nation, of the race, of the Scottish. If you find a Scottish man who does
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something you don't like and say, oh, well, he's no true Scotsman, no, he's still a Scotsman.
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You just don't like what he's doing. But that doesn't change the fact there is such a thing
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as a Scotsman. If there is an Indian in Scotland, he's not a Scotsman. No matter if he's doing
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things you like or don't, he's probably doing things you don't like. But he's not a Scotsman.
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There is such a thing, though. The same thing applies to Christianity. In the case of the
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Scotsman, it is a matter of blood. In the case of Christianity, it is a matter of tenets,
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because Christianity is a religion, it is an ideology, in the broader sense of that term.
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It has a number of tenets, core ones, to which you must assent, to which you must agree, or you
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are not a Christian, because that is the definition of what it means to be a Christian. Conveniently,
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the Church historically has reduced this to the confessions, to the creeds.
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We are able to point to something and say, this is what it means to be a Christian.
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And to a man, every single one of our enemies cannot actually recite the creeds and believe
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what he's saying, because he fundamentally rejects things in the creeds. Now, of course,
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as we have brought up a number of times in the past on this show,
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Satan has figured out that it is more effective for him to attack the Church from the side.
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Basically, he's flanking the Church. As Will pointed out in a previous episode,
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you have the Magi Note Line. Satan is going around it. He's not going to smash his face
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into the wall. He's not going to attack us on, for instance, the deity of Christ.
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He's tried that in the past, centuries past. The creeds have made very clear
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what we believe with regard to that. Read the Athanasian Creed.
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However, that is not where Satan is attacking us today,
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because that's where we have our defenses. We have very good defenses
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for those big heresies of the past, the things where you had someone who denied that Christ
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is God or said Christ was created or said that there are three essences or any of a number of
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things. We have all of the responses to these reduced to formulae that we can recite, that we
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do recite in church. And that's good, because we are rejecting the false teachings of the past.
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As Will has mentioned before, the reason we have the creeds
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is because the heresies arose. We would not have needed the creeds if the heresies had not arisen.
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And so when someone says that all while the creeds aren't in Scripture,
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every single part of the creeds is in Scripture. And we've passed around documents before detailing
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which verses correspond with which parts of the Creed.
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No, the creeds themselves, word for word, are not in Scripture, and the reason for that is, again,
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the heresy had not arisen yet. You don't need to address the heresy until the heresy is a live
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issue, usually a widespread issue in the case of some of these. And so Satan is attacking us
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where we don't have a Creed. We have responses in Scripture,
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but you actually have to be familiar with Scripture in order to formulate these,
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in order to respond to what he is doing. And most men are not equipped to do that,
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and particularly not so when the supposed leaders of the Church are deliberately misleading the
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flock. And so Satan is attacking us on issues like race and nation, and what is an enemy?
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What is a friend? What does it mean to love our enemies? Because these are issues we don't have
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in a Creed. We have answers in Scripture, we have answers in many of the Church Fathers,
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incidentally, but most men are not going to be able, in the first case, to formulate the response,
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or in the second, simply to have read, well, it's quite a lot of information actually,
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it's many thousands of pages, to read the Church Fathers. And so Satan is attacking us
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where he believes us to be weak. And he's right. The institutional Church is very weak on these
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issues. And so part of what we need to do, and part of why it's important to have books like this,
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is we need to respond to these issues where the Church doesn't just have a one-page answer,
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the Church doesn't have, here's the Apostles Creed, that's my response, here's the Athanasian
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Creed, that's my response. We need something like that. It has not been developed yet,
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it has not been put forth. And unfortunately, we're a little short on truly competent theologians
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these days. However, that doesn't mean that we can't have an answer to these questions.
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It just means we don't have something that rises to the level of a Creed. But we do have things
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like this book that will go over Christian Zionism, that will go over somewhat briefly, but still in
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a useful and important way, what it means to be a racialist, why that's compatible with Christianity.
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These are the things we need to know, because this is the field on which Satan is currently
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fighting. And if you're a faithful soldier, you have to be on the field where the battle is actually
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joined. This is something that is reflected in chapter two of the book, Christianity Yesterday
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and Tomorrow. He has a couple quotes from Victor Craig that I want to read here, because I think
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they make an important point that goes along with some of what you just said, kind of from a different
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direction. But again, much of his audience is perhaps unbelievers who don't know some of these
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things about the church or about church history. But I also hope that a lot of believers will pick
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up the book, because as we get into some of the later chapters, there's a great deal of information.
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Some of which is so horrifying that I don't think we'll even go into much detail about it. I should
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mention, I forgot to mention up front, family's fathers, if you're listening with kids, be sure
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to check the show notes before you get into the later part of this episode, just to see the details
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on what we get into. We didn't discuss yet how much we'll go into, but there's definitely stuff that
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is not child-friendly if we talk about it. Anyway, Victor Craig writes,
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the same revolutionary forces that undermine Europe's civilizational and racial identity
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have only recently succeeded in undermining its religious identity. Therefore, to condemn the
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church for what amounts to an 11th hour conversion to a movement that has adamantly opposed for
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generations is shortsighted and unfair. No student of history can argue that Christianity is somehow
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inherently defective in ways that weaken the race. Craig later continues,
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how can whites claim to be defenders of a people and of a race and yet scoff at the deepest convictions
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of their ancestors? How can they speak of preservation when they oppose the faith that has
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for so long defined and guided our race? Today's whites are the final link in the chain of faith
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that reaches more than a thousand years into the past. If they can throw off their ancient
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religion so easily, what else might they cast aside? Their language, their culture, their race?
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Should we not be suspicious of men who invoke the wisdom of their ancestors,
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views on blacks or immigrants, but who reject the spiritual foundation on which their ancestors
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built their lives? Who reject what their ancestors would have said was the source and strength of
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all wisdom? Again, I think that's consistent query with the way you just said, and this is an argument
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that we often make. It's important for us when we're sitting here in current year looking at the
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hellscape of the world, in our neighborhoods, in our communities globally, whatever scope you're
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looking at, if you think that you can just roll back to some earlier date without all of the
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preconditions of that date, you're kind of just doing a sci-fi exercise. And there's nothing wrong
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with that. But in particular, when we're talking about Christians in the West, when we're talking
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about whites, there's no way to roll back to any period of European history that we consider glorious
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today without rolling back to a point where Christians were in charge, and it was actually a
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Christian nation with Christian rulers. And we've discussed in the past the glory of Rome and the
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glory of Greece and how to some extent those things were true, but they also had many of the
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exact horrors that we see today. They had abortion and infanticide and euthanasia of the old and
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all sorts of horrible things that today we would reject and say, well, that has no place in the
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West. And that's true. But that's only because the West was redefined by Christianity to the
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point that we consider them synonymous. So in the second chapter, he lays out a good argument that
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we can't get back the things that all of us, as white people, regardless of our religion,
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seek to preserve without simultaneously either preserving or returning to the faith of our
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fathers, because that was the genesis of the things that made Europe great. All the greatness that we
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had went along with us being Christian nations. There's a part where he says that if we undertake
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kind of like a political, attempt at a political revolution, but without Christianity, quoting Craig
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again, he says, no one established a nation without an identity and a body without a soul,
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which I think is, it's important in the way that you're saying, I also find it personally
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encouraging thing in a way, because it kind of solidifies for me, how tremendous of a thing
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is my faith and how intrinsic it is to not just the greatness, but even the survival
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of my people and how much it's something that we can all lean on for encouragement
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in the struggle that we have before us. Indeed. And it's not unknowable. We don't have to invent
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something new. We just have to go back to doing the things that used to be done by the folks
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who provided inheritance that was then destroyed at some point in recent generations.
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But we don't need to start from scratch. We just need to go back to that, which actually worked for
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our own people. A sort of tangent, but you mentioned the necessity of having all of the
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underpinnings in place. If you want to go back to a particular time or achieve the equivalent of
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that time in the modern world, there was an experiment in the sixties. I think he may have
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run it into the seventies as well. But a man by, I can't remember his first name, but the last name
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of Calhoun ran an experiment involving mice. I think he may have also run the experiment with rats,
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but he basically built a utopia for them. What he thought was a utopia. They had food,
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they had shelter, they had everything they needed, but it was a thoroughly artificial
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environment, a very constructed environment that was not natural and it led to complete disaster
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for the rodent populations. They would have a boom cycle followed by a bus. There was all sorts of
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aggression, despite the fact that they had all the resources they needed. Basically, he was
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trying to create a utopia and wound up creating the mouse version of hell, which is essentially
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the lesson of all utopian fiction, as it were. For those who do not know, it's been mentioned
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previously, but utopia in the Greek means not a place. Built into the word itself is sort of a
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joke about the impossibility of this utopia, which is an important thing, another tangent,
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but it's an important matter for those on the right to remember. And this is where Christianity
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really serves the right particularly well in this particular way. We will never build a utopia,
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not in this life, because this is a fallen world, this is a sinful world, this is a world tainted
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by original sin. There will be no utopia in this life. That doesn't mean we can't build a better
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world, it doesn't mean we shouldn't strive to build a better world. That is in fact our duty as
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Christians, to those who will come after us, and also of course our duty to God. We can make a much
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better world than the one we currently have, of course. And no, I'm not being an optimist or
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any of the various flavors of millenarian. I'm simply pointing out it is possible to build a
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better world than the one we currently have. We know that. Our ancestors had that for centuries.
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Prior to, well, modernism. However, we have to bear in mind that if we lose sight of the fact
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that we're working in a fallen world with fallen sinful beings, and we think that we can create a
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utopia, odds are we're going to create hell on earth. You cannot create a utopia. You can create
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a better life for those who come after you, and that should be our goal. And this is something
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that Christianity is really vitally important for any sort of political movement on the right.
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You have to have a conscience for your political movement, and that is what Christianity is for
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the actual political right. Christianity informs our ethical decisions, our moral calculus,
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it is our conscience. And without it, we will probably build a complete disaster. I'm not
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saying that historically we haven't had European pagan societies that were relatively successful,
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but as well as pointed out a number of times. You had abortion, you had infanticide, you had human
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sacrifice in some cases, very rare in the European context, but not zero. These were very real problems
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that arose in the absence of Christianity. And as we've pointed out in previous episodes,
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part of the reason that Europeans did so well relative to others is that we did not fall
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as far from our historic Christian faith. Because obviously our father, our original father of all
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of the European peoples, was a Christian when he stepped off the ark. Noah had taught him
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the Christian faith. He went ahead and transmitted that to his sons. At some point that chain was
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broken, but it was not broken as early or as thoroughly as in the case of the sons of Ham
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and many of the sons of Shem. So the sons of Japheth were loyal for longer, were true to Christianity,
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and we benefited from that. We also returned to Christianity more quickly, and we benefited
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from that as well. And so that is another point to bring up for those who think that Christianity
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is incompatible with a functioning European society. The most functional European society
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we've ever had was Christian, and it was for centuries. It is only since we've abandoned
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Christianity in large part that we've had these problems. Yes, there are other complicating factors.
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There's rampant Satanism, and well, we've gone over a wealth of problems in previous episodes,
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and we'll go over more in future episodes. But we've lost our core. We no longer have any real
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moral or ethical core to our people because we abandoned Christianity. And that is the central
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point of really this podcast and also a central point in this book. You need Christianity because
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it is one of the prerequisites in order to build back the sort of society that our ancestors enjoyed
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and that we have lost in only the last handful of generations. You cannot restore the structure
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unless you restore the foundation. And the foundation of the Western world is Christianity
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because the Western world is Christendom. In Chapter 3, which is a short chapter on what he
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calls Christian Reformation, but it's really about the migration of Christianity from the
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Mediterranean into Northwestern Europe, it's the first argument that Giles make. And I refer to him
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by his first name just so I don't call him Corey because that would be incredibly confusing.
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The argument that he makes is one that it seems that he adopted from James Russell,
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which I disagree with completely the way he presents it, but I'm interested Corey for you
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to chip in because I'm sure that you know more about the background of this argument. Basically,
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it comes down to this James Russell quote. The process by which Christianity was Germanized
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in its attempt to Christianize the Germanic peoples was not the result of organized Germanic
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resistance to Christianity or of an attempt by the Germanic peoples to transform Christianity
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into an acceptable form. Rather, it was primarily a consequence of the deliberate
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inculturation of Germanic religious cultural attitudes within Christianity by Christian
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missionaries. This process of accommodation resulted in the essential transformation of
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Christianity from a universal religion to a Germanic and eventually European folk religion.
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Now, I don't know the background of that argument, interestingly later on when in the
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chapter we're discussing African and the global South adoption of Christianity,
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he makes much the same argument except very critically. For me, I think that my read on
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what was going on, I think it's a framing issue that I fundamentally have because I think when
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you look at Christianity in the first few centuries where there was persecution because
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Christians were a minority, they're first a small minority, they were viewed as a cult,
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then they became a larger minority. In some cases they became the overwhelming majority,
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yet still not an official state religion because all states had a state religion and
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generally the head of the state, the head of the nation was also a god. The pinch of
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incense to Caesar was to acknowledge his godship. I think that what changed when missionaries moved
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into Germany and elsewhere in Europe was that Christianity was not migrating to different
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cultural contexts, but it was migrating to places where it simply became the dominant religion.
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The dominant religion is always in a preferred place and should be an exclusive place in the case
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of a monotheistic religion, which is almost an obscenity because there is only one god,
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and so the notion that monotheism can have different faces is itself a separate lie.
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But my read on the history of Christianity moving into places like the German peoples and elsewhere
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in Europe was not that it was being adapted to local mores or that there was syncretism,
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it was simply that when the German people became Christian, Christianity became their culture.
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It was incorporated into their culture as always happens. It's natural that a German Christian
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and a French Christian even and an English Christian are going to behave in slightly
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different ways, certainly an Irish Christian. You put those four in one place and you're going to
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have differences in behavior and approach that isn't simply a function of the history of their
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denominational changes throughout time, but it's also a function of them as a race. The
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race of Irishmen is distinct from the race of Englishmen has been the source of the troubles
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because when the English tried to dominate the Irish, the Irish don't like it and so they fight.
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That is part of race. It's part of one of the things that makes it so ludicrous to think that
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race isn't inextricable because when an Englishman becomes Christian, he's going to approach things
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differently than a German who becomes Christian. That's fine. Those are both Christian and I
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simply reject the minor point that doesn't really flow into the rest of the book that somehow
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that was syncretistic. I think it was simply that when the Germanic peoples became Christian,
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they were still Germans. They didn't stop having German character. Christianity
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simply became their worldview as well as their religion. I'm curious what you
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have to say about that theory because I'm sure it's something you've given a lot more thought
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in reading. He gives a sort of light touch to an argument that became popular in the academy.
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Really, I guess it's been probably a couple of decades ago at this point, but Russell's book
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was 1996. Probably maybe 30 years ago, this started to crop up and it's kind of waxed and
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waned over time. The argument essentially is that Christianity started out. I'm not making
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this argument for myself. Please note that this is the academic argument that has been advanced.
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Christianity started out as a Middle Eastern religion because they always neglect the fact
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that Christianity started in the garden, but they say that it started out as a Middle Eastern
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religion. From there, it moved into the Greek and Roman context, the Roman context via the Greeks,
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and became eventually under Constantine because he always plays this outsized role
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in all of these mythologies. Under Constantine, it becomes the state religion. It becomes Romanized
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to a certain degree, which of course means Europeanized to a certain degree. Then when the
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Germanic tribes invade and start taking Christianity back with them, it becomes Germanized. The
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argument is that Christianity through this transmission route became a German, a Germanic
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European religion, whereas it had originally been a Middle Eastern religion. This is of course
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complete nonsense when taken to the degree that the academy would like to take it.
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Now, the problem isn't that the argument itself is necessarily false. It's the emphasis
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is totally wrong. The goal of the academy, of course, is to discredit Christianity, is to
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make it seem like it's this chameleon that just adapts itself as it moves through the world.
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And incidentally, we do see this today with those who are trying to say that, oh, well now,
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Christianity has become African and Asian. It's part of the global south. It's a new thing.
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That's this argument for idiots. But in reality, what you have
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is you have Christianity becoming the core of these cultures as it goes, which really,
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it's a restoration of the ancient faith, but it becomes the core of the culture and the culture
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molds itself around that Christian core. There's nothing wrong with that. If we managed to,
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say, Christianize Japan, Japanese Christianity will not look the same as Western Christianity.
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Japanese Christianity, if it is Christianity, in fact, will have the same tenets because,
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again, it's those tenets that are important. If you have some differences in the look and the
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way you conduct your ceremonies, that's fine. That's a cultural difference. There is no reason
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ceremonies need to be the same everywhere. And incidentally, I'm basically quoting the book
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of Concord right there. That is one of the arguments we put forth that you can have differences
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in the ceremonies due to cultural differences. And one of the examples that Luther liked to use
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was actually the Italians versus the Germans, which, despite the fact that we're next-door
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neighbors, two very different peoples, we're going to behave differently in all of our cultural
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contexts. We're going to have different ceremonies. You're going to have very different singing in
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a German Lutheran church versus an Italian church, whatever they happen to be. Granted,
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Italians almost certainly Roman Catholic. But Christianity did not become German. That's not
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what happened. Christianity became the core of the German culture. Now, of course, Christianity was
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in large part entirely compatible culturally with the Germans as it found them, obviously not
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religiously because the German tribes were pagan at the time. And so that had to be jettisoned.
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But the culture can remain because the culture had many of the things that are required in
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Christianity that are part of the Christian religion. Because again, they had not fallen as far
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and they had not been apostate for as long. And so, for instance, you have Roman historians
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who will specifically note that marriage was held in high esteem among the German tribes
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adultery was basically unheard of, it was very severely punished usually by death, etc. There
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are many arguments along these lines from the pagan historians who are noting how these various
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tribes behaved. And so when you have Christianity that comes in and says, thou shalt not commit
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adultery, well, that's perfectly in line with what the Germans already believed. Now, notably,
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they didn't reject Christianity if instead of actual Christians,
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actual missionaries going and proclaiming actual Christianity to these tribes, you had someone
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proclaiming the modern conception of Christianity as propounded by the main line, so called churches,
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and by Rome, and in large part by basically all of the organized forms of Christianity.
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The European tribes would have rejected it because what you have today, the modern conception of
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this theology, so called, is a death cult. It's a death pact. It's a suicide pact. These are not
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the actual tenets of Christianity. These are corruptions of them. And so you would have never
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been able to convert the European peoples with the false faith that is masquerading as Christianity
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today in the West. And the global South is another problem. It's mostly syncretism that's the problem
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down there. In the West it's mostly these liberal ideas in the technical sense.
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But the takeaway point is that Christianity was not Germanized. I'm not saying that the
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book isn't worth reading. It's an interesting book. If you're the sort of person who finds
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this interesting, then by all means grab the book and read it. There's plenty of other
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material as well, many journal articles. But the emphasis is wrong.
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Germany did not transform Germany in the grand sense here, obviously it was Germanic tribes
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at the time. Germany did not transform Christianity. Christianity became the core of Germanic culture
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and eventually became the core of all European culture. It is the foundation upon which
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the Western world is built. You cannot have the West without Christianity. And in point of fact,
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you cannot have Christianity without the West, as has been proven. The West is the only bastion
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of Christianity. It has always been the only bastion of Christianity. The only possible exception
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was when basically all of the sons of Noah, at this point great, great, great grandsons,
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depending on where in the world, when all of these progeny of Noah had fallen away,
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God chose a small tribe in the Near East in order to maintain the Christian faith. And that was with
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active, pervasive, and constant intervention by God himself.
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That is what it was reduced to for a time. But since the coming of Christ, since the transmission
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of the gospel to the West, the West has been Christendom. And Christendom is the West. Without
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the West, you don't have the church. And without the church, you don't have the West.
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And that is fundamentally what is discussed in the third part of the book. So the first three
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chapters cover the just kind of a brief introduction of the state of the church. The second part of
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the book is about half of the book. In my opinion, I think it's really the meat of what is presented
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here is on the heresy of Christian Zionism. Giles gives a really good survey of the history of
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both pre-millennial and post-millennialist thought. Notably, he ignores a millennialism
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altogether, which is kind of a bummer. As Lutherans, we reject the notion that
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there is a millennium as a thousand-year period. There is the ascension of Christ,
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and there's Pentecost. And then that is the millennium until almost before the return of Christ.
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So we are living in the millennium now. That is what we believe. And there are variations
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of these various things. It's a little bit of a bummer that he wasn't familiar with. I didn't
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see it at all in the book, and I did a word search. A millennium doesn't appear even once,
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which is fine. Again, as we note these things, it's not to say, this is a bad book, but it's just
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I think that whenever you're listening to anything or reading anything,
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you should always be critical. We always encourage you to be critical of things that we
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say, because we know that they will withstand scrutiny. That should be the approach that we
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take to everything. If you are absorbing things mindlessly, you're basically a weapon at the
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hands of whoever is feeding you information. So the small criticisms that we have of the book
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are in no way a negation of the really good work that he's done here. If I wanted a better book
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to exist, I should have written myself. It's a huge undertake, and I have a tremendous amount of
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respect for him for producing this. So when we mention these things, please don't take it as
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an indictment. He covers the history of Zionism really well, and it's a really nice compliment
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to, again, the series that we did on the Jews, the four-part series, particularly the last two,
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I think, that get the most into Zionism. As Corey mentioned, we've had a ton of requests
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recently for an episode on dispensationalism. I think we're going to have to do that. I don't want
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to, because it's painful, which is just me whining like a little girl. I have decided I need to treat
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this podcast basically as my job at this point, and if I find a topic unpleasant, that just means
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it's that much more important to do it, because we have a lot of people asking for that. As we're
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recording this right now, Israel is dropping bombs on hospitals and killing hundreds of people in
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Gaza. That sort of violence ebbs and flows in that part of the world throughout time. One of the
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things that we don't want to do with with Stone Coir episodes is to make them highly time sensitive.
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I want someone to be able to come along years from now and listen to one of these episodes
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and not feel like they're listening to a time capsule. I hope that the things that we're discussing
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are always relevant, and so that means there are some topics we avoid. So in the case of
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dispensationalism, it is, again, it is the heresy that undergirds Christian Zionism in this book,
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and so he does a really good job and a great deal of detail laying out how we got here. It's
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fascinating reading through part two of this book how much of it plays directly into the headlines
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this afternoon, and it's aggravating. That shouldn't be the case. We should not have
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events in the Middle East being dictated by bad theology, but the case that he makes in the book
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and the pivotal case that we'll also be making when we do an episode on dispensationalism is that
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the heresy of Christian Zionism and the heresy of dispensationalism was specifically created
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in order to ensure that when this day and current year came, when Israel was going to war again with
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all their neighbors, that the United States would, the people of this country, would feel that we
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have a moral obligation to support Israel because they're our greatest ally and because God gave
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them that land and all that nonsense. There are a couple quotes I wanted to mention here because
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they undergird the overarching theme of the heresy of Zionism. Indeed, Zionism would most probably
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have remained a theological position where it not for the intervention of a handful of influential
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aristocratic politicians who came to share the theological convictions of Wei, Irving, and Darby
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and translated them into political reality. One such politician, the philanthropist Lord
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Shaftesbury, was convinced that the restoration of the Jews to Palestine was not only predicted in
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the Bible, but also coincided with the strategic interests of British foreign policy, a view shared
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by Prime Minister Lord Palmerston, as well as future Prime Ministers Lord Arthur Balfour
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and David Lloyd George. I believe this quote was from the mid-1800s. It was before, incidentally,
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the Schofield Bible had been covered. That's one of the things that he discusses in detail in a
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future chapter. Again, we try not to do topical episodes, but the notion that Palestine being
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ripped away from the Palestinians who lived there for thousands of years and given to another people,
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the Genesis was part of the Genesis of Christian Zionism, this heresy. Today,
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people are dying because of it. Americans are going to die because of it. Right now,
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we have naval ships moving into place. They're going to get shot at. Soldiers and Marines are
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going to be on the ground in whether it's in Gaza or elsewhere. They're going to get hurt and
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they're going to get killed. Never mind the civilians and the others who are already dying.
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I don't mean to imply that American lives are worth more to us than their lives are to them,
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but certainly the American life is worth more to me in terms of we shouldn't be going there
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and dying for someone else's war. That was the key reason that this heresy was invented two centuries
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ago, was to make the wars and the troop movements that we're seeing today even possible. That's
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a big deal. That's why this part of the book is so vitally important, because if you don't
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understand where this stuff came from and how pervasive it became in Western culture, particularly
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American and British culture, there's no way to understand what's happening today.
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One thing that I think really kind of suggests itself as you read that particular part that you
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read, he's talking about Lord Shaftesbury's view that the restoration of the Jews to Palestine
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not was not only predicting the Bible, but also coincided with the strategic interests of British
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foreign policy. I think my immediate thought was how absolutely clear it is in hindsight that
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there is no truth to that idea at all, that the interests of the Jewish state in any way coincided
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with the interests of the British Empire. The formation of, as we're all well aware,
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of the coming to existence of the state of Israel after World War II and the whole process,
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that came about by the same process that destroyed the British Empire, their insistence on fighting
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a world war with Germany. He goes into that argument, kind of the same type of argument,
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not specifically on that point, but just generally making the point that the idea that
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phylocemitism and blessing the physical people of Israel, the physical Jews, is in any way a
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blessing to the nation that does it is just completely not borne out by history. But that's,
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that was just something that really stood out to me while reading that. So I'm happy that you
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kind of picked up on that specific passage. You can say that you're avoiding the dispensationalism
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issue. And that's entirely understandable. I've read a fair amount of it, and it's
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not exactly the most enjoyable slog. But at the same time, if you're reading about dispensationalism,
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it is a valid excuse to put off reading Palimus, which is in fact worse, although we will still
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eventually get around to the episode on Eastern Orthodoxy. And I do have the full translation
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of his major work now instead of just the, it's really not a summary, it's still something like
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half to two thirds of the work. But I have the definitive edition now by a Greek Orthodox priest.
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So that particular objection that has been voiced by some will no longer be valid when we get around
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to that episode. But it is a very interesting point that in hindsight, obviously, the British
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decisions in and during World War II, leading up to it during it and after it regarding what is
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today known as the state of Israel, did not coincide with British interests insofar as the British
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nation is concerned. Now, it certainly helped line the pockets of many British politicians and
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businessmen, but it certainly destroyed the British Empire. And ultimately, as we see today, it
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destroyed the British nation, perhaps not yet beyond the point of salvage, we can certainly
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hope and pray for that. But things are not looking good for the United Kingdom, certainly.
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Because, well, quite frankly, Israel has flooded Europe with so-called refugees. It is
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biological warfare against the European nations, whom the Jews view as their mortal enemies,
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always have and always will. And so we in sort of a larger sense here in the West, largely,
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yes, the British and the Americans, basically established our centuries old enemy in a state
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of their own and then have funded them to the tune of, quite frankly, at this point,
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probably an uncountable amount of money. And we see the consequences of that today.
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You mentioned that you hope that the episodes aren't topical in the sense of
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not standing the test of time because of things that are no longer relevant,
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were relevant only in the moment. In point of fact, I do hope that these episodes,
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certain ones, become entirely topical because I would very much like to see Israel no longer
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be an issue at some point. So hopefully someone listening 50 years in the future will have to
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go and look at a history book for that one. So part of the dispensational heresy is the
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Schofield Reference Bible. I think pretty much everyone who's listening has probably heard
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about it before. This was a study Bible that was published in 1909. The author of this book does a
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really good job going into the history of that man or the absence of history of that man who called
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himself a doctor and called himself a number of other things, despite there being literally no
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evidence of any of them. As best we can tell, he was a complete fraud and charlatan at every step.
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He was an absolute nobody scumbag grifter who somehow became connected with the highest echelons
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of Western society on both sides of the Atlantic. And this translated directly into him,
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publishing, so-called this Bible. I think it was Oxford Press that did it, which was, again,
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completely out of the blue, was the publisher, the press that produced it. I don't think they'd
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done a Bible at least in quite some time. It was far outside of their purview. And so as he makes
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the case, all these little facts on the ground, seemingly out of nowhere, make no sense. But
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looking back in time, they do make sense if you believe that the supernatural acts
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to cause things, and if you believe that there are men who conspire to achieve things in time,
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which I would hope all of us do, as we established in the beginning of the greatest lie episode,
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we talked about COVID. We talked about the fact that we were all lied to about the origins of
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the disease, about the nature of the injections. Conspiracies actually happen. People in dark rooms
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make plans to hurt people, and then they put them into practice, and they often succeed.
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They sometimes fail. Plans don't always work, but they try. And as we've said in the past,
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one of the chief blind spots that Christians in particular have is we're governed by a belief
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that I would never do that, therefore no one would ever do that, which is a pernicious lie.
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And so after World War I, I'm going to read a quote here now.
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After World War I, the Schofield reference Bible flew off the rack,
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exceeding 2 million copies by the end of World War II. Hence the pointless carnage of the World
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Wars literally sold the Schofield Bible and its apocalyptic pro-Israel message.
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The 1948 creation of the state of Israel also made Schofield's premillennialism seem prophetic.
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So basically what he did with annotations and footnotes, they were very selective as he went
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through the text of the Bible. The only additions that were made, the only changes that were made,
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were done with the specific intent of laying the groundwork for the mandate of Palestine to become
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what we now know as the state of Israel. Here's another quote.
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Schofield wisely chose not to change the text of the King James edition.
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Instead, he added hundreds of easy to read footnotes at the bottom of about half of the pages.
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And as the old English grammar of the King James becomes increasingly difficult for progressive
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generations of readers, students became increasingly dependent on the modern language
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footnotes. That's entirely true. And I find this particular comment to be pretty hilarious because
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in the preface, the very first words of this entire book by Giles, he specifically says that the
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King James is essentially the only true Bible that all the others have basically been corrupted,
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hence the only one one should use, and that the corruptions in other translations are the fault
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of the problems that we have in the church today. There are definitely bad translations, but we
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actually spent about half of last week's episode or two weeks ago now because we had a brief hiatus.
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Two weeks ago when we did the episode on their listener mail, we talked about choosing Bibles,
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and I specifically made the point that the King James is singularly unsuitable
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for a modern Bible precisely for the reason that he mentions here. Because the grammar was
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increasingly difficult, people relied on the footnotes. So the very thing that he holds up is
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a necessity for the preservation of the word. In fact, is its greatest weakness. As we said in
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that episode, it's a beautiful book. It is the Bible, but it's archaic language to the point
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that people don't know what they're reading. And that's borne out by history. It's borne out in
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modern denominations today. The more adamantly a denomination says we are King James only,
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nothing else is suitable. I can pretty much guarantee that overwhelmingly they're going
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to be dispensationalists, and they're going to have a lot of other really bad doctrine too.
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At some point, the two cannot be ignored as going together. So it's a minor point that he made. I
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don't mean to pick on them, but it's important to recognize that if you can't understand the Bible,
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what are you going to do? You're going to go to someone who can help you, and that's precisely
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what Schofield and his financial backers exploited. They put these footnotes in, and the footnotes
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didn't have anything to do with Scripture. Again, what he inserted into the text was specifically
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around creating a moral imperative for Christians to recreate basically the third temple. The idea is
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and he gets into it in some of the later chapters, forget the Jesus stuff. We need
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Israel to be in the land of Israel because that's what God promised to Abraham,
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and we as Christians must do everything we can to give them back everything that was taken in
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AD 70. It's blasphemous on its face. It's predicated on false doctrine, and it's also fundamentally
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destructive to nations. This is part of the reason that we need Christian voices in these
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discussions doing a good job with the Christian stuff because geopolitics hinges on today,
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hinges on false doctrine that was introduced over a century ago. Schofield didn't come up with this
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stuff. He cribbed it from Derby and others, but it was inserted into Western culture in a way that
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we're stuck with today. Those footnotes and the annotations that he made are today cited as doctrine
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by many people. The end result is the creation of the state of Israel in two carrier battle groups
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off the shore of Gaza today, ready for us to go to war and die for a conflict that has nothing to
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do with us. We see the long coattails of Schofield in many modern study Bibles. This is not
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something where someone needs to have Schofield in order to be influenced and really infected
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by these notes, because there's rivalry, which is an updating of the Schofield. There's the
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MacArthur Study Bible, which in large part is the Schofield reworked. Yes, there are many
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additional notes, but Schofield still comes through. And this is the case for really anything
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produced by those who've attended any of the various institutions that are largely dispensationalist.
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One of the biggest offenders would be Dallas Theological Seminary, but the Southern Baptist
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Theological Seminary is another major offender when it comes to promulgating and pushing
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dispensationalist heresy. So this is very much a live issue. This is not something that has
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faded into the background. And I had the same reaction when I saw that particular comment
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in light of the preface. And that was the one, the biggest problem I had with, I guess we could
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say really this addition, because you can go back through and swap out all of the citations
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to scripture for a different translation. That's fine. I would love to see a version of this that
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had, say, the ESV or the NASB or any of a number of translations other than the King James.
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Now, I recognize there are copyright issues, but that's a separate matter. It would be more
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accessible to the reader if a modern translation of scripture were used. And that's exactly what
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is admitted in that chapter. The King James is just not accessible to people anymore as we went
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over at length in the previous episode. I do find it funny, though, that it's always the King James,
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which obviously 1611, although it's never the 1611, because they always use the updated version.
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So apparently updating it's fine as long as you're still calling it the King James,
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because no one is using the original version with the old spelling and the apocrypha.
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You never see that. Okay. That's not entirely true. I did meet one man in a coffee shop who
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absolutely insisted that the original spelling was somehow also important. And he had it on him at
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the time. So I've had, I've encountered that once in my life. But I do find it funny that you don't
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have the original version of the King James being the one they always argue you have to use.
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And for some reason it's the King James and not the Tyndale. You have the Tyndale that came before
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the King James in, well, it's an older English and it's even more difficult to read. But the point
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is the language has changed. So you need to have a version you can read. I do also find it worth
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noting that the Tyndale Bible in English and the Luther Bible obviously in German,
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essentially the exact same years for the initial and full versions 1522 and 1534, 1535.
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And to be clear, that critique of the author in no way changes any of his conclusions. Like
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Corey said, you could swap out any other version of the Bible and the theology would,
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the arguments would work just as well. In fact, one of the first citations from the King James
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that he uses, I struggled to think what I, what, what does that mean? I'm literate. I'm not dumb.
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And yeah, I, if I'm struggling, struggling with something, I guarantee that other people are.
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And guys who tell me, oh, you just need experience with a well, you think that because you think
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it's a magic Bible language. And I'm sorry, I know that there are guys that get really adamant
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about this, but you know, right in the text of this book on one hand, he says, King James is the
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only thing. And on the other, he says it's causing problems and everyone was going to the footnotes.
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The footnotes wouldn't have worked if not for the confusing language.
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There's also the issue of if you're saying that you have to spend time with this in order to
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know how to read it, you're really admitting what you're doing. You're learning another language.
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Yes, you're learning equivalent of say a dialect sort of, you're learning a form of English.
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But if you're saying that you have to spend time with this to learn it, go ahead and learn Greek.
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Just read the untranslated New Testament and the Septuagint then.
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The problem is you see men who are advocating King James only, and they don't put in the time
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to actually learn the Greek. I'm not saying you have to learn Greek to know scripture,
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but I am saying if you're going to absolutely insist that, oh, you have to know this, that,
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and the other in order to understand scripture, learn the original language. Put in the effort
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and do that. Don't tell me that I have to read English from 400 years ago, because the men who
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were translating it were looking at the Greek when they translated it. So they were relying on the
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Greek. So if you want to insist that you absolutely must read in this particular version,
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go ahead and learn the Greek. Then we can have a discussion about whether you find something in
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the Greek that doesn't come through in, say, the English standard version or the NASB,
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because then we can actually have a real conversation about translation choices.
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Otherwise, it's really just turning the King James into an idol,
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which is not what scripture is meant to be. I'm not saying, you know, oh,
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biblicism is dangerous and you can't rely too much on scripture. No, that's not the point.
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The issue is when you turn one particular translation into the Bible.
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That's not how the Word of God works. That's not how God has told us it works,
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because look at the history. God caused the original Hebrew of the Old Testament and,
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yes, Aramaic in certain places, to be translated into Greek. God caused that to happen,
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and then when he came to earth, he cited the Greek. So God gave his stamp of approval
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to translation. So using a translation of scripture is entirely fine. As we keep telling people,
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read the scriptures, one, in the Bible you actually have, so you actually read, and two,
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in a language you actually understand, with the one caveat being, if you want to learn a foreign
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language, reading scripture is a great way to do that. There's another long quote from this chapter
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that I want to read. I think it's important to know that, you know, this was written, I think,
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in 2019, 2020, roughly, and yet this describes current circumstances almost to a T. A lot of the
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same names hurt in this, as we're seeing in the news today. As Corey said, that shouldn't be,
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we shouldn't be hearing about this stuff, but the heresy of Christian Zionism is what has produced
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the geopolitical situation we have. Quote, Falwell was the founder of Liberty University and operated
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a popular television ministry. In 1979, Falwell founded the Moral Majority, a major organization
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in the American religious right. Israel, the state of Israel, provided Falwell with a personal
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leerjet. In 1980, he became the first Gentile to be awarded the Vladimir Ze'ev Jabot Tinsky
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medal for Zionist excellence by Prime Minister Begin. When Israel bombed Iraq in 1981, Begin called
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Falwell before Reagan to explain to the Christian public the reasons for the bombing. Falwell
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regularly defended and minimized Israeli atrocities, and in 1985, pledged to the rabbinical assembly
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in Miami to mobilize 70 million conservative Christians for Israel and against anti-Semitism.
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Continuing the pattern in 1998, then and current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
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met with Falwell before President Clinton, and in 2000, Falwell revived the Moral Majority as
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People of Faith 2000, a pro-Israel movement to reclaim America as one nation under God.
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Caesar writes that Falwell succeeded probably better than any other American Christian leader
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in ensuring his followers recognize that their Christian duty to God
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involves providing unconditional support for the state of Israel. Boy, howdy. Doesn't that
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sound like a lot of people on Twitter and pretty much everywhere else right now? When you see news
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from the Middle East, this is the first thing that many people who call themselves Christians will
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say, we must support Israel. Those who bless Israel will be blessed. That's what God promised,
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and it's eternal, and blah, blah, blah. He goes into several chapters detailing specifically how
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utterly blasphemous and nonsensical that is. But again, when this was created and then passed
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through time, it has reshaped our world physically. It's reshaped the physical world. This isn't just
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about ideas. This isn't just footnotes and theories and theology. This is life and death.
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And again, part of the reason it's important for it to be discussed in the political sphere,
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even among unbelievers, is to explain it's not the no true Scotsman fallacy. For us to say the
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dispensationalism is evil. It is per se evil, because it's not simply that these people are
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getting a few things wrong. There are those. Maybe they've fallen for the dispensationalist lies,
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but they're not particularly invested in them. Those people are in error. They're Christians who've
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made a mistake. The problem is that when push comes to shove, the vast majority of radical adherence
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to dispensationalism, which is most of them, they're not many lightweight dispensationalists.
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If this is your bag, you're all the way. Those people will throw God out the window
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to support the terrorist state of Israel. And they think it is more important. They think it is more
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important to do these things than to have Jesus. And they were told by false teachers that Jesus
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said that's okay. It's interesting as he details in the book the history of this infiltration of
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these things. Every tale, televangelist you've ever heard, every name you would recognize
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as a grifter, as someone who is a thief and a liar and a blasphemer, they're all in there.
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They were all paid by the state of Israel to tell the lies that they told on TV.
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It was a system. They became fabulously wealthy serving Satan, because it's one of the promises
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of Satan made to Jesus. I'll give you everything. Just serve me. Well, Jesus said no, but these
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televangels, like, that's a great deal. I love a jet. I'd like a free jet. Wouldn't that be nice?
01:29:31.040 --> 01:29:35.840
These guys will happily sell out because they can convince themselves, well, no, it's okay.
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And so whether they are knowingly complicit in these lies, which I think virtually all of them are,
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I think they all are, whether or not they were knowingly complicit initially,
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they all have seared their consciousness to the point that they cannot possibly be Christian
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when they continue to perpetuate these things. But it's not just theology. It's not just a
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theological fight. And I think that's an overarching theme of the book and of Stone Choir.
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This stuff that we're talking about, it's not simply an interdenominational
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squabble over who's reading the Bible better. When these ideas are taken into the real world,
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civilizations rise or fall as a result. That makes it the most important thing that we can
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be talking about right now, as Cori alluded to earlier. Satan's not coming after justification.
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He's not coming after the nature, two natures of Christ or any of the other things that were
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past battles. He's coming after physical reality. He's coming after sex. He's coming after race.
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He's coming after nations and borders and saying none of those things exist.
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And virtually every church is going along with it. And the heresy of Christian Zionism was,
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in many cases, the solvent that made that possible. See, they were preaching against
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so-called anti-Semitism long before the anti-racism screed got fired up in churches.
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That's not a coincidence. The only way that we have current year problems in our schools and
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workplaces is traced directly back to this original invention. If you have people who are so evil
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that they're using the equivalent of napalm, that's effectively what white phosphorus is,
01:31:15.440 --> 01:31:20.480
it's just that it's something that you can get away with because there's a legitimate
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battlefield use for it. It's not how they use it. When they use that stuff against civilians,
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when they bomb hospitals, as they just did tonight, the dispensationalists are going to say,
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well, we got to bless Israel. Those Hamas people, those Muslims, they were the bad guys.
01:31:36.800 --> 01:31:44.080
To be clear, I don't think the Muslims are the good guys religiously. It's not that Jews and
01:31:44.080 --> 01:31:50.320
Muslims, one has a better religion, one has a worse religion because we know that they both
01:31:50.320 --> 01:31:56.480
worship Satan. That's what Scripture says. They don't worship Allah and Yahweh. They worship Satan
01:31:56.480 --> 01:32:00.880
because they don't worship Christ. They reject Christ as their religious identity.
01:32:02.640 --> 01:32:06.480
When we talk about this, it's not picking a side in that fight. It's simply saying,
01:32:07.040 --> 01:32:12.560
the evil that is being done is not being done. Hey, is there a problem? It's their fight. If
01:32:12.560 --> 01:32:17.200
they want to be evil to each other, it's none of our business. But when we look at what's happening,
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it's clear that the invention of Christian Zionism, so-called, was necessary for them to be able to
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get away with it. If any other country on the planet were doing what they're doing right now,
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we would have intervened to stop them. We would have bombed them to prevent it. Again, we try not
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to make this timely, but frankly, you could listen to this on any random day and any random year
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and have a pretty decent chance that it would still actually be ripped from the headlines,
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because this crap is always going on. It is going on because this doctrine was permitted among
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Christians, and it eventually replaced Christianity itself. I think one of the only things you really
01:32:58.320 --> 01:33:07.840
need to highlight how wicked dispensationalism is, Christian Zionism is, is 1 Timothy 5.8,
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a verse that we have used a number of times previously. If anyone does not provide for
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his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is
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worse than an unbeliever. And if you look at those who say that they support the nation of Israel,
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in quotes, they will, and they are, in fact, quite happy to, support Israel above and before their
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own. And this verse is very clear. That makes them apostate. You have, particularly among the
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older generation, but some in the younger generations as well, notably significantly decreasing,
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which is good news. But you have many who are willing to send their sons, their grandsons,
01:33:57.760 --> 01:34:07.760
over to die for Israel, in a war in which we have no interest, which will not benefit us in any way,
01:34:07.760 --> 01:34:13.200
shape or form, which does not involve us. Unless, of course, Israel decides to use the
01:34:13.200 --> 01:34:20.080
Samson option, but that is a separate matter. If they are willing to send their own flesh and
01:34:20.080 --> 01:34:26.400
blood, their own children, to die for some foreign people, they're worse than an unbeliever. That's
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what Scripture calls them. We cannot call the people who hold to these heresies Christian. Does
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that mean they are all damned? No, of course not. Lutherans have the perfect answer for this one.
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We call it felicitous inconsistency. We've mentioned this before. It may be that these men
01:34:47.520 --> 01:34:54.720
publicly profess one thing, but when it comes right down to it, they still trust in Christ.
01:34:55.520 --> 01:35:01.680
They still have faith. They still believe there is only one way to the Father. And certainly,
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we hope that for some of them at least, perhaps most of them. God, of course, hopes that all will
01:35:09.920 --> 01:35:17.120
be saved, and we agree with that. However, we recognize the evil of these men, and we recognize
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that many of them are hardened. Their consciences are seared. They have chosen wickedness. They have
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chosen evil. They are not Christians. And that is simply what Scripture says of them.
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We don't get to debate whether or not these men are Christians. If Scripture says they are not,
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then they are not. Even if, in their heart of hearts, where we cannot look, God alone can look,
01:35:43.920 --> 01:35:49.280
they happen still to be Christians, we have to deal with them according to what they do
01:35:49.280 --> 01:35:55.840
outwardly, because we can only look on the outward behavior. We can see what they say.
01:35:55.840 --> 01:36:01.280
We can see what they do. We have to judge according to those things, and we went over
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what it means to judge or judge not in a previous episode, conveniently entitled,
01:36:06.160 --> 01:36:11.440
Judge Not, not in parentheses. But we have to deal with these men,
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as they are, as we can see them, according to their deeds, according to their words.
01:36:18.640 --> 01:36:23.760
And according to their deeds and their words, they are apostate. They are outside the faith,
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because they do not provide for their relatives. They have abandoned their households. They have
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abandoned their own for the sake of foreigners, and not just for the sake of foreigners, but for
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the sake of particularly wicked and vile pagans in the encompassing sense of pagan, which simply
01:36:44.160 --> 01:36:50.640
means not Christian. It would be one thing if they were advocating that we have to interfere
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to protect Christians somewhere. And there have been opportunities for that recently. There have
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been many opportunities for that historically to defend persecuted Christians around the world.
01:37:01.520 --> 01:37:08.240
They aren't advocating for that. They're advocating that we go and shed our blood and expend our
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treasure for those who, every single day, multiple times a day, deliberately blaspheme God and curse
01:37:17.520 --> 01:37:24.240
Christians. There is absolutely no way we can call that Christian. And the details of those prayers
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are presented in one of the later chapters. In chapter 5 on the theology of Christian Zionism,
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the author does a really good job examining a number of the Zionist proof texts
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that have historically been deployed to basically get us to where we are today.
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I want to read a couple snippets here. For example, Carlson argues that the 1967
01:37:46.400 --> 01:37:52.400
New Schofield Reference Bible deifies the state of Israel. One newly inserted footnote reads,
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For a nation to commit the sin of anti-Semitism brings inevitable judgment. That's a footnote to
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Genesis 12-3. These words, which might as well have been written by Theodor Herzl or Ariel Charone,
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are found in the Bible. That is followed by millions of American churchgoers and students and is
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used by their leaders as a source for their preaching and teaching. Carlson explains that
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Oxford is hereby made antipathy toward the state of Israel a sin. Well, isn't that exactly what
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Cory and I are accused of? The sin of anti-Semitism? That didn't come from Scripture. In large part,
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it came from the Schofield update in 1967. These moving pieces, one of the reasons that we focus
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on the genealogy of ideas, is when you start looking at where this sin came from. Not only
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don't you find the Scripture, but you will find it in many cases within living memory. As a Christian,
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that should terrify you. That is literally a new religion being hot-swapped for our own. It's
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happening on the fly. It's like swapping organs in someone while they're alive. You put them on
01:38:58.480 --> 01:39:03.280
heart-long bypass and you just chop something out and you slap something in. That's what's being done
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to Christianity by this stuff. So the sins that have been made up in the 20th century that men
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like us are accused of are literally created for the purpose of achieving some of the other evils
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that he goes into this book. We're getting along. We're kind of close to two hours at this point.
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I can tell you I mentioned earlier there are a couple chapters. I only skimmed them because I
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was aware of some of the material and what we'll get into some of what that was. But the
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depths of the evil that are downstream from these things that we're talking about here,
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we're not even going to talk about it. I don't want to put it in your ears. I commend the book
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to folks. If you buy it, there are some chapters that you may choose to skip. You may get a few
01:39:46.880 --> 01:39:51.680
pages in. I can't take any more of this. And it's not that the author is doing anything bad. He's
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just unflinchingly reporting as a decent historian, as a good historian. Here are the facts and the
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facts are they're unspeakable. It's an overused term, but we're not going to speak them on this
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podcast because I don't want to do that to your ears. You can go opt into it and see on the page
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and decide if you want to be subjected to it. Another quote, by blessing the state of Israel,
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Christian Zionists believe that, as Schofield said, Gentiles today are thereby blessed in
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association with the state of Israel. They frequently misapply God's promise to Abraham
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that I will bless them that bless thee and curse him that curses thee, and in thee shall all families
01:40:36.080 --> 01:40:44.480
of the earth be blessed. Now, this is a shocking and blasphemous misapplication of that passage
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because when Abraham is going to be used to bless all the families of the earth,
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that's talking about Jesus. And I think that's a seminal point that cannot be missed when we're
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looking at dispensationalism and Zionism. They replace Jesus in Scripture with the modern nation
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state of Israel. Just as the Holocaust replaced the crucifixion, and just as Hitler replaced Satan,
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you have these wholesale swaps of the fundamental elements of Christian doctrine,
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not small stuff, where we're not talking peripheral issues here. They literally remove Jesus from the
01:41:22.480 --> 01:41:30.960
explanation for this passage and insert a country, a modern synthetic country of wicked evil people.
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It's a pedophile capital of the world. It's the homosexual capital of the world. It's the transsexual
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capital of the world. It's Satan's throne on earth today. And when these people say,
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we must bless them at all costs, all cost is us, as Corey said in reference to 1 Timothy,
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as talking about us and our children, our posterity, let them die so that Israel might live. Why?
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Because of the promised Abraham. That's just demonic. I'm almost at a loss for words. And yet
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this is the essence of how Zionism works. There's bait and switch. There's a removal of Christianity
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in terms of sound Bible-y. This is the Jesus dust. And then what do you do? You start doing
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wicked things, and you say you're doing it in the name of God. And then you're off to the races,
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because if you're doing wicked things in the name of God, you got to do them as hard as you can.
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That's where we're at today. The Bible that was corrupted by Scofield and the false preaching
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that comes from the heresy of Christian Zionism is one of the things that uttered all of it.
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And necessary to those false beliefs, again, is racism and anti-Semitism. None of this works
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without those new sins. I think this whole discussion is a very good illustration of
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just how all this stuff is really tied together. And again, from my own background,
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I can attest that there's plenty of conservative Christians who would take issue with one thing
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here or one thing there. They don't like transsexualism, or maybe they're even uncomfortable with
01:43:08.320 --> 01:43:14.960
anti-whiteness. But they would really, really balk at understanding how all of these things are very
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intrinsically connected to another, and how you both were saying, and I especially liked what
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Corey was saying from the book of Timothy, how this leads to the sacrifice of your own family
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members and your own children on this false altar, this false idol of egalitarianism and
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anti-racism and anti-Semitism. And I'm not going to go into it because I think I've picked up on
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that from what you're saying. Well, but there's a chapter in the book as one of the ones that I
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also found difficult to read that talks about instances in recent history in the past decade
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or so of where you had people murdered by refugees or something like that, and the response by their
01:44:07.200 --> 01:44:15.360
own family members was not even to, in some cases to say we're forgiving, we just want to
01:44:15.360 --> 01:44:20.880
move on, but in some cases they even go further than they use it as they use the death of their own
01:44:20.880 --> 01:44:28.240
family members as an opportunity to attack the race even further. So it is really evil and it's
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really amazing how incredible this change to, again, what is kind of the cultural phenomenon
01:44:38.720 --> 01:44:44.560
of Christianity, how amazing that change has been when you kind of look back like this book does
01:44:44.560 --> 01:44:50.640
and you look at that journey and how it's taken place. That's a good point that's actually continued
01:44:50.640 --> 01:44:55.760
in the next chapter, which is on the myth of Judeo-Christianity, talking about the evolution
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of these things. This is just a great quote and I, I'd never heard it before, but it makes
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such perfect sense. Thorpe points to noontime on December 22nd, 1952 as the precise day,
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nay the precise hour, the term Judeo-Christian tradition achieved its vaunted victory over
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the term Christian tradition. President-elect Dwight Eisenhower declared that the American
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Republic is founded in a deeply felt religious faith and I don't care what it is. With us, of
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course, it is the Judeo-Christian concept, but it must be a religion that teaches all men are created
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equal. In one fell swoop, Eisenhower reconfigured the American founding to be Judeo-Christian,
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an unprecedented and a historical superimposition. Our Latter-day Saint Martin Luther King, Jr.,
01:45:45.520 --> 01:45:49.600
who shares with Jesus Christ the honor of a federal holiday for his birthday,
01:45:49.600 --> 01:45:55.360
utilized Judeo-Christian as a way of grafting historical logic onto the Black Power movement.
01:45:55.360 --> 01:46:01.440
By the 1980s, the appellation of a Judeo-Christian heritage, having begun its life as a slogan of
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Jewish revolutionaries, had achieved mainstream status such that it became a signature expression
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particularly among the religious right. And the term Judeo-Christian is used even in our
01:46:11.680 --> 01:46:17.520
seminaries by who are supposed to be the good guys, the conservative, the really solid confessional
01:46:17.520 --> 01:46:22.560
Lutheran seminary professors. Say Judeo-Christian and I think there's nothing wrong with it.
01:46:22.560 --> 01:46:26.880
That's something we got into in one of the episodes on the Jews, the four-part series.
01:46:27.440 --> 01:46:33.760
It's part of the Marcian heresy that the Old Testament is the Jewish book and the New Testament
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is the Christian book. And when you do that, suddenly you have two gods too. You have the
01:46:39.520 --> 01:46:44.480
God of the Old Testament, whom they often refer to. And then you have the God of the New Testament
01:46:44.480 --> 01:46:49.360
and we can see and touch and hear Jesus Christ in the New Testament. So he's a God in the New
01:46:49.360 --> 01:46:54.000
Testament. But in the Old Testament, there was this other God who was mean and he killed a lot of
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people and he had these harsh rules. But then the new God showed up and fixed it on, made us all loving.
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That's what we're told. Not in so many words in some cases, but when you say Judeo-Christian,
01:47:05.680 --> 01:47:10.160
that's what you're saying. You're saying, I buy into that, that there is one period for them and
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there's another period for us. That's basically just baby dispensationalism, which is not the case.
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As we laid out in one of those episodes, Noah, Adam, these men were not Jews. Abraham, not a Jew.
01:47:25.920 --> 01:47:32.320
They were Christians and they were not ethnically Jewish. It's complete nonsense. It's utterly
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historical. Jews lasted in Scripture for 2000 years from about 2000 BC to the birth of Christ.
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And then what continued, there was a rapid conversion of some of the Jews and it's important
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when we're discussing them as we did in those episodes. Many of the Jews of that day converted
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to Christianity. Much of the early church had been Jews, Jews by race and Jews by religion.
01:48:00.080 --> 01:48:03.120
The reason that they converted was that it wasn't really a conversion.
01:48:04.560 --> 01:48:08.320
They were Christians and when Christ showed up, when the Messiah showed up,
01:48:08.320 --> 01:48:12.640
like, yep, there he is. The Messiah who was prophesied was delivered to us.
01:48:12.640 --> 01:48:18.640
That is what happened and that's what they believed. Paul had to be converted because
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he was murderous. Mary didn't have to be converted. When the angel appeared to her and announced that
01:48:24.320 --> 01:48:28.880
she would be with child, she wasn't converted to a Christian. She's like, I believe you, God.
01:48:29.440 --> 01:48:35.120
It was the same faith one minute before is one minute after. She was a Christian the entire time.
01:48:35.760 --> 01:48:41.040
The necessity of Paul's conversion on the road to Damascus was because he was a Pharisee.
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He was what rapidly became Talmudic Judaism, which is something that's discussed in an
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upcoming chapter. We're not going to get into details of it, but the Talmud is an absolutely
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wicked perverse book. When King Louis burned as many as he could get his hand on, he had the
01:48:59.840 --> 01:49:04.960
Disputation of Paris. That was a service to God. The rest of them should be burned as well.
01:49:04.960 --> 01:49:12.000
That would be appropriate for Christian states to do, not saying individuals should be stealing them,
01:49:12.000 --> 01:49:16.080
but those books should be burned. They're absolutely wicked. There are a bunch of quotes
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in the later chapter discussing that. Just make abundantly clear. Again, the author does a really
01:49:21.520 --> 01:49:25.840
good job of just laying out facts, just as we tried to do on Stone Square. Here you go,
01:49:25.840 --> 01:49:29.520
one fact after another. We're not going to delve into it too much because we're getting
01:49:29.520 --> 01:49:35.280
long on time. But when you present those things, a lot of what's presented, particularly in the
01:49:35.280 --> 01:49:42.240
later chapters on the Talmud, it's vile. It's absolutely wicked. It goes into the lies and
01:49:42.240 --> 01:49:50.000
the blasphemies that every Jew is taught, every Jew to this day, because after the destruction of
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the temple, they codified the beliefs of the Pharisees and the Sadducees who rejected Christ,
01:49:55.920 --> 01:49:58.640
and some of them converted. At least some of the Pharisees converted.
01:49:59.680 --> 01:50:08.240
Those who didn't accept Christ as their Savior produced a new religion. The Judeo and Judeo
01:50:08.240 --> 01:50:15.760
Christian, it's effectively saying, Satan no Christian, this satanic religion that emerged
01:50:15.760 --> 01:50:20.880
from the ashes of the destruction of the Second Temple among these absolutely apostate,
01:50:20.880 --> 01:50:28.560
demonic people whom Christ called the sons of Satan. Today, consciences are bound. If you don't
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say Judeo-Christian, there's something wrong with you because we have to recognize our elder
01:50:33.440 --> 01:50:39.040
brothers in the faith. Well, I recognize them to the extent that Scripture does, but I also
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recognize that the greater punishment is upon them because their inheritance they despise.
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We were grafted into the branch of Israel by God's grace, which makes us Israel and is a gift,
01:50:52.560 --> 01:50:58.080
just as everyone who receives faith is receiving it as a gift. That's basic Christian theology.
01:50:58.080 --> 01:51:02.880
And yet, if you say what Scripture says about the Jews today, you're literally called anti-Semitic.
01:51:02.880 --> 01:51:06.960
There are laws being passed around the country right now. It's already happened in Florida.
01:51:06.960 --> 01:51:13.760
If you say what Scripture says about the Jews, the theologically, you will face prison time.
01:51:14.480 --> 01:51:20.160
That's on our soil. And it shouldn't be any surprise because, again, all these things
01:51:20.160 --> 01:51:27.760
are in motion. All these theological quibbles quickly turn to policy and they'll turn to
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death and destruction and despair because Satan is running the board. So I'm really thankful that
01:51:34.480 --> 01:51:40.000
he laid out some of the details of that myth. It's something we've covered as well. But again,
01:51:40.000 --> 01:51:44.160
I think it's part of what makes this book a really good compliment to Stone Choir, particularly if
01:51:44.160 --> 01:51:47.680
you want to introduce some of these subjects to somebody who maybe isn't going to listen to a
01:51:47.680 --> 01:51:52.400
podcast or you think it might be too much. There are things in this book that will be shocking.
01:51:52.400 --> 01:51:57.440
Like you said, they go further than we want to discuss out loud simply for the sake of not
01:51:58.160 --> 01:52:05.280
giving people nightmares. But that's the level of detailed evil we're talking about. And it's
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inextricable as he makes the case in the next chapter on historical Christianity on Judaism.
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There's a short chapter. Bequotes Chrysostom and Luther saying the same things that we say that
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these are bad people. They're enemies of God. That's what God says. And as Christians,
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we should be able to say that without any fear or doubt. In fact, we're obligated to.
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If telling the truth is out of season and if itching ears want to hear something else,
01:52:35.520 --> 01:52:40.720
the Christian is still under an obligation to God Almighty to say what Scripture says. In fact,
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that's when it's the most important time to say it. If these things didn't matter, if no one cared,
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if they weren't getting people upset, sure, you could talk about other things because there'd be
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something else that would be upsetting people in Scripture. But today, these passages, these are the
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things that will inspire such anger and hatred that people will try to physically harm you.
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On the Talmud note, I have been asked a number of times recently for readings
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or book recommendations related to the Talmud. I will include one in the show notes.
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It is a book by Peter Schaefer, who is a Jewish professor, but it is a book on the passages,
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many of the passages, not all of them, dealing with Christ in the Talmud. It is
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quite frankly an important book for Christians to read or at least get a summary of what is covered.
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Eventually, we will get around to an episode on the Talmud proper.
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I will not promise when that will be, that's going to be in the distant future. We have many
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other things on the list to get through first. However, Schaefer's book does a good job of that
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and it also touches, to some degree, on the traditional Jewish prayers that curse Christians.
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I have answered that other places as well. Perhaps I will do a write-up on that at some point.
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But I want to be clear about the topics in this book that we are reviewing today,
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discussing today, that will make some of you uncomfortable. We are not trying to hide what
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they are. We are not playing coy. It is dealing with sex crimes. The reality of mass immigration,
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so-called, really invasion of the West by the Third World. The reality on the ground of what that
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means for largely women and children, but also in fact some men. I may be somewhat biased, but
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I would say that the treatment in this book is not unduly detailed. It is not unwarrantedly explicit.
01:54:44.640 --> 01:54:49.520
I think he strikes a fairly good balance when it comes to that describing the accounts,
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but not going into, like I said, not undue detail. But I've also read some rather horrible fact
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patterns for various legal cases in the past, so I may be a little biased on that. I do think that
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he does strike a good balance though, and I think Will would probably agree with me on that. Still
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unpleasant to read, of course, but it is the reality of the situation, and particularly for
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the male listeners, and that would be the majority of our audience, you are not given the luxury of
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ignoring reality, particularly when it is staring us in the face at every juncture as it is today.
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What is covered in those chapters will make you uncomfortable, will make you angry, and it should.
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And that's a good thing, because that is the proper Christian response, that is the proper
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response for a Christian man. It should drive us to want to change these things. It is an indictment
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of our forebears that, despite having this knowledge, despite seeing what is happening,
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they did nothing. We do not want to share in their wickedness by also failing to address these issues,
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and so it is important to understand the issues, to know what they are, to know what is happening,
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so that we can have a proper response to them. Yeah, I agree completely. When I said I skipped
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over the stuff, I was already familiar with it. I didn't need a refresher. Many of our listeners
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probably don't know. In Chapter 8, it goes into the Talmud specifically. It talks about the Talmud's
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hatred for Scripture. It talks about how it justifies violence and murder against Gentiles.
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That's everyone else. And then in Chapter 9, it goes into the specific manners in which they
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believe they are permitted to harm us. And like I said, I completely agree with what you said
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about the degree of detail it's given. It's citations. He's not just making stuff up. He's
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giving quotes and citations from real-world events over and over and over again. It doesn't
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belabor the point. It's necessary to reinforce that it's not just, oh, there was one bad guy.
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This is their religion. The religion of bombing hospitals and starving children is their religion.
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That's what they do. And when they're doing it in current year, in current moment,
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they're saying those people deserve it as they're doing it. That's their religion. They're being
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honest. They're being completely honest about whom they serve, except for calling them God. They serve
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Satan. But you can tell by their actions whom they actually serve. Chapter 9, the title is
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Case Studies in Jewish Hostility, Degeneracy, Filth, and Pornography. And he omitted the second
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half of that chapter from the header. But the second half is specifically about the sacrifice
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of children by Jews, murdering Christian children, ex-anglinating them, and using
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white children's blood for their magic rituals. Now, I think that probably most people listening
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don't know anything about that. You might know the term blood libel, but libel, obviously,
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it's false. Well, one of the great things about that chapter in this book is that he makes extensive
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citations from a scholarly work by a work called Blood Passover. It was published in 2007
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by a Jew named Ariel Tov, the son of the former chief rabbi of Rome. So this is a Jew who's
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did an excellent, incredibly in-depth historical examination of the entire history of Jews
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murdering Christian children and stealing their blood and using them for their magic rituals.
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Going back to the beginning of the 1st millennium, I think some of the earlier accounts were from
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like 400 AD. And it gives great detail in each of them. And again, I skipped some because I didn't
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know some of those details, but I don't need further convincing of just how demonic these people are.
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Some of you probably do. And that's one of the valuable things about this particular
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chapter is that the first part of it is talking about how they have used the liberalization
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of sexuality and sexualization of mass culture, which they, of course, control to act as a solvent
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against the church, against the family and against civilization itself. And again, it's a case where
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he goes into insignificant and necessary depth on the excitement that Jews have as they're doing
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these things. Pornography is entirely Jewish. The destruction of the laws against the dissemination
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of pornography also entirely Jewish. It was Jewish lawyers with Jewish plaintiffs or Jewish
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defendants, in most cases, because they're being prosecuted for committing crimes against America.
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And then Jewish judges would say, no, it's okay, we have the bill rights. And so you're allowed to do
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this horrible stuff. This is the enemy that the West faces. I think that's why I say I think the
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center half of this book is the most vital part of it because it lays out in detail,
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in documented detail. Well, again, this isn't just the author extemporaneously spouting off
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about this stuff. He does a good job as a historian, citing other historians who've
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delved into these things, like just laying it all out. When you look at the totality of the
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evidence that he presents, as Corey said, you're going to be angry. It made me viscerally angry
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to read this. It was a perfect hatred because the wickedness that is being done to us,
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again, as I said earlier, and we said in other episodes, we as Christians or even as non-Christians
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who are just decent Europeans would not act in these ways. Because even those Europeans who
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have abandoned the faith, because their families typically have abandoned the faith,
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still have the ambient morality of Christendom informing the culture that until recently
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surrounded us. The idea of harvesting organs from people while they're still alive because
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they're not Jews, we would never do that to someone. He's not white, just take his organs,
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it's fine. Don't use anesthesia either because that's going to mess up the organ. You got to do
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it while they're fully awake, cut their heart out. We have a Jew who needs it. There are accounts
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of that sort of thing in the book. They're historic accounts. They're real accounts. This
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actually happens. I think one of the important parts is you read through some of the chapters
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that specifically deal with horrors that we're not going to go any further details on.
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This is just the stuff where they got caught when that Ariel Tov goes back through the history of
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recorded murders of Christians by Jews to steal their blood for blood magic rituals.
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Those are just the times when they got caught. That's not the only times that they did it.
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That was the times where there was sufficient evidence that everyone agreed, yes, this actually
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happened. I said one of the earliest examples was from like 415. The later examples are from
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the 20th century. The stuff is still going on today. If you find that shocking, think back to
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what we found out was going on with Epstein and with that entire circle, with the paintings,
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in with the rooms and the chambers, in what was called Pizza Gate. Everyone's told,
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oh, that's just a conspiracy theory. Well, if you know nothing else, yes, it's unbelievable.
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If you know the history of these people and you start noticing the last names of the people
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involved, you take a second look because frankly, it's the only logical conclusion.
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Then when examining the evidence, it's literally the only conclusion. These people are guilty of
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things that we would never conceive of. That's part of why it's important for these heinous details
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that he provides in some of these middle chapters are important for us to read. Because if you don't
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know the evil you're facing, you're never going to respond appropriately when someone comes along
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in soothing tones and said, hi, I'm your Judeo-Christian friend. I'm from the other side of the tract,
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but we worship the same God. We just have different approaches. Don't worry about it.
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You know, he was taught as a child to murder the Goyim. That is what they're taught,
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it is what they believe. There's video to this day of little Jewish children in their own schools
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laughing and talking about how excited they are at the prospect of killing non-Jews.
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It's part of their religion. It's part of the religion that's concealed by the language barrier.
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It's one of the reasons that the translation of the Talmud was such a pivotal moment in history,
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because these things were secrets. It's one of the points that the historian who documented the
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so-called blood libel incidents makes very clear. The specific details in the accounts could only
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have possibly come from Jews, because all the practices were completely hidden. The Seder meal,
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which incidentally was part of a Satanic worship practice, the specific details that were revealed
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in some of the interrogations of the Jews who are guilty of these things, could only have come from
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a Jew. They couldn't have been made up by an accuser trying to falsely accuse a Jew of something
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he didn't do. Only someone who knew the intimate details of their secret of religion would have
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been able to divulge them. So for that reason, I commend the whole book, but I simultaneously
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warn you, there's stuff that's going to be hard to read. And as Corey said, you need to know,
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particularly as a man, as a husband, as a father, you need to know what you are facing as a blood
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enemy, as a mortal threat to your family, to your civilization. And that's really the crux of the
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book in its entirety, is that once you understand the threat that we're facing, it recontextualizes
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how we respond to it. If you just think that these are doctrinal disagreements, it's a church fight.
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When you realize that civilizations are rising and falling as a result of these battles,
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you have to take a different approach. And that's where the book concludes. There's some
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of the conclusions I don't really want to get into, because frankly, they're things that today,
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people are getting thrown in jail for. And it's not a matter of cowardice. You can draw your own
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conclusions. I don't need to bite a bullet for something that isn't going to move the ball.
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Read the book, deal with the facts as they're presented, and draw your own conclusions. But
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just be aware that when you're talking about everyone from Darby to Scofield to Jerry Falwell
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to Netanyahu, all on the same page, all saying the same things. And then DeSantis is passing laws
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saying you can be thrown in jail for disagreeing. That's real. You can go to jail for it, and you'll
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die in prison for it. There are a bunch of J6 prisoners who've died, some by their own hands.
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That's, those are the stakes. This stuff is not academic. And that's, that's why I'm glad that
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we're able to tackle this book today, because this stuff is, it's consequential. And it,
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unfortunately, it's timely, because it's, it's unfolding right before our eyes on,
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in the news today. But like you said, it's still going to be current in a few years, because until
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these people are ended, until they're stopped and they're evil, they will persist. They made clear
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for thousands of years, they will persist in evil as long as they're permitted to do it. And so as
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Christians, we have to decide how to respond to that faithfully. It's good that we've gone
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into some detail on some of the chapters. We're going to leave some as kind of a tease for you
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as listeners. Chapter 10 on ethno-nationalism. Corey and I both despise this word because
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it's redundant. There's no such thing as an ethno-nation. It's, it's a nation-nation. Natal
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is blood. Either it's a nation or it's a heterogeneous empire. The point is we need to get
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rid of the empires and get back to actually having nations. So I, just as a framing issue,
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he reaches good conclusions. But frankly, to say ethno-nationalism or ethno-nation
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is really seeding the frame to the enemy that there can be any other kind of nation. And there
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simply isn't either a nation or you're not. And right now, we're not, not in any meaningful sense.
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We don't have our own lands. We're being deracinated, being done forcibly in the church,
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in advertising and everything. So in that chapter, he covers some of the same ground that we've
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discussed in the past, talks about the passage about neither June or Greek, the flood and Noah's
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sons, talks about Babel. It's a fairly short chapter, but it covers some important scriptural
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ground and he does a good job there. In chapter 11, the title is evangelism at what cost,
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non-white, quote unquote, Christianity. And in this chapter, he makes the argument that we
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referenced towards the beginning about the global South syncretism that really goes back to the
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beginning of colonization. Effectively, wherever Christian Europeans have brought Christianity
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to non-white nations, virtually all of them have engaged in such a high degree of syncretism,
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meaning incorporating Christian beliefs and practices in with their demon worship. That's
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what it is. That's the syncretism. That's the, the syncretic part of it. You take,
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you take a belief from one religion and add it to a belief from another. And you don't end up with
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Christianity because you can't possibly. There's only one God and there's only one path to heaven.
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So he makes an argument in this chapter that in all the cases where Christianity has been
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brought to these people, they have butchered Christianity. And one of the important things
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for Corey in me as we're tackling these subjects is that that's no excuse not to take the gospel to
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them, but it does raise the question, when you have taken the gospel to people who are only ever
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going to butcher it, if they're not supervised heavily, the open question, at least for me,
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is, are we obligated to heavily supervise them? Or is it sufficient to take the gospel and then
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set them loose? Corey has his opinions. I have mine. They're not, they're not the point of this
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discussion, but I think it is interesting that this, this chapter is a good companion to the
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episode that we did on race and IQ, where we took the same subject from a different angle,
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not talking about their spiritual inclination to syncretize with their pagan beliefs, their demonic
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acts. We took it from the perspective that they, their IQs are so low that apart from any spiritual
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issues that these people may have, they're still not smart enough to actually do it. And we make
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the case there. So he doesn't tackle that. He tackles it from another perspective, which is
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is important. Again, these are complementary presentations. Chapter 12 is titled pro-slavery
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theology. Slavery is not a biblical sin. He does a very strong scriptural defense of the institution
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of slavery. He provides some good details on how masters in the South were held to account
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socially and legally if they abused their slaves. The one small chrism I have of this chapter is
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very clear that he is a Southerner, and probably so. I don't have a problem with that. As I've said
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before, I'm a, I'm from a mixed race marriage. My dad's a Yankee going back to Plymouth Rock,
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and my mom is a hillbilly going back to Plymouth Colony. So I was raised Yankee. I effectively
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am a Yankee. But at the same time, I have complete sympathy for the plight of the Southerner.
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And I understand where they're coming from when they're pissed about what was done in the War of
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Northern Aggression. The problem that I have with this chapter is that one, he tries to make
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the slavery issue center around Yankee versus Confederate. And it's not really the subject
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of the chapter, but it's something that we see elsewhere, particularly in the distant right
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and online. There's a lot of public antipathy of Southerners, typically in one direction. It's usually
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people saying they hate Yankees, which is really weird because when you actually look at much of
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the prosecution of the war itself, you find a lot of Jewish names, and you find that a lot of the
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soldiers, as we all know, were Germans and Irish. They were just fresh off the boat, and then they
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were sent down to kill Americans in the South, which was despicable and evil. But to call
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some guy fresh off the boat a Yankee is kind of goofy. Now, it was certainly the Yankees sending
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them, but the other conspicuous thing that's missing from this chapter that I found particularly
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weird in light of how well he handled the Jewish question in the middle part of the book was it
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there's zero mention of Jews at any point in the slavery chapter, which I think is a material
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mission, because we know for a fact that a substantial portion of Southern slavery and
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slaveholding was tied to Jews. So his framing is, it's got to be Confederate versus Yankee,
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and it would really confuse that narrative to say that they were Jews present. I think that
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more fleshed out historical approach to the subject, which is being to include all those
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things, that there were different things in the mix, and I don't want to say there were bad people
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on both sides, because it was a war of northern integration. The evil was predominantly being
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done from the north to make it crystal clear. The South had every right to secede. They had every
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right to their own self-determination. It was wicked that that was prevented. I despise that as
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much as any Southerner, because it was unjust. It was an evil thing on its face. I don't think
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that you have to hate Yankees 170 years later in order to make your case, but that small quibble
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aside, it doesn't change the really good job he does treating the subject of slavery.
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And the last section is Theories of Christian Violence, and he talks about pacifism. He does
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a good job dealing with turning the other cheek and warfare and scripture. Next chapter, he deals
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with holy war. I find that a little bit of a strange shift to go from—basically he's trying
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to make the case that there is the justification for muscular Christianity that is not ashamed
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of having a national identity, when a Christian nation exercises its Christian rights as a nation
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to do things that in some cases may involve violence against other nations.
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I think if he knew more about Lutheran doctrine, not to plug us, but some of the treatment that came
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out of the 16th century from some of the Lutheran reformers, I think has some material that would
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have helped him make a slightly different case, because when you talk about holy war,
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that kind of limits where you can actually fight a war over. And I don't think a war needs to be
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holy to be just. You don't have to be liberating the Holy Land or something to say that
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it is permissible and, in fact, necessary for a Christian prince to go to war to protect his
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people and his interests. The problem today is fundamentally, we don't have Christian rulers,
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and when we do go to war, it's for the worst possible reasons. And then the last chapter,
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he's specifically dealing with abortion and the treatment of the unborn and legal responses to it.
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And as I said, that's kind of one of the most fraught chapters in the book simply because
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it will be treated as something that you can get into legal trouble for talking,
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for fleshing out some of the things that he says. And I don't fault him for it,
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I think that it's an important moral point to be made. And then there's also the legal reality
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that people want to see us dead and any excuse will do. And a careless word is very easy to get
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you in a position where you can go to jail where you may die. You may be there for the rest of your
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life for saying something that's entirely scriptural and entirely moral. But I think, again,
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I think the meat of the book, for me at least, was the really well fleshed out work that he did
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dealing with the history of Jews and of Zionism. And now that they're inextricable,
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the fact that dispensationalism was inserted into Christianity and is now shaping
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world politics is a huge deal. And he provides a lot of really excellent detail there.
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So overall, I think Corey and I both absolutely commend this book to anyone who wants to delve
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into some of these subjects. It's not perfect. And that's not a criticism. Like I said, if I wrote
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a book, I don't think I would necessarily do as well as him. He did a really good job with the
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research and you have to give a lot of credit to someone who's willing to put in this time. So
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again, as we make these relatively small criticisms of different points,
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I don't think any of them detract from the book. And I think that's a crucial point.
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But as you're reading them, it's important for you to draw your own conclusions.
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I think that the facts that are presented, there's only one possible conclusion about those facts.
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You will become very angry because any Christian, any decent human being
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would become very angry reading some of those. And some of the other stuff is just very interesting
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and formative history. Like, wow, I had no idea. But then when you see the arc of history plotted
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out, suddenly, the things we see today make perfect sense because we can see where they came from,
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where without someone drawing you a straight line or maybe a squiggly line in some places,
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you wouldn't necessarily notice. And so it's a very valuable book. I'm glad that Ann Low Pill
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has published it. And I'm very thankful to Giles Corey for writing it because it's important for
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there to be Christian voices in this space. And for us to be frank, just as when we approach
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these subjects, we go into as not much detail as is necessary. Again, it's no criticism of him,
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in some cases, going into great detail. This is a place for it. You do that in a book.
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You can't really skip it and you're easily in a podcast. And some of the scuffs is,
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frankly, it's kind of scarring. That's important. You are not permitted to be ignorant of how evil
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the world is as a Christian man. You need to know how bad things are because it's the only
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possible way that we as Christians can be faithful to God in preserving what he intends for us to have.
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So thank you to Taylor from Ann Low Pill for presenting this and giving us the opportunity.
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Again, thank you for the free copy. I forgot to mention that up front.
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And we'll put a link in the show notes to the book itself. Corey's going to end with that
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couple quotes from the book that was referenced, I think, really lay out a good case for why all
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this matters. Thank you guys again very much for having me on. It's been really great. And I hope
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that I'm glad you guys enjoyed the book. And I hope people who are listening will enjoy it as well.
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I'm sure that they will. It's a good resource for an overview for a number of different subjects
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and also does, as mentioned, dive into detail on some of them. From a Lutheran perspective,
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yes, I would have loved to have seen a reference to the Magdeburg Confession, which is a vitally
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important document in Christian history when it comes to resistance against unlawful or tyrannical
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authority. But we'll eventually get into that in a different episode. Conveniently, in my case,
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I had already read basically all of the books of a scholarly nature that are in the footnotes in
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the book. So I happened to grab one from my shelves. And it is the Passovers of Blood book by Ariel
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Toef. It is a scholarly work. It is very well done. I guess I can recommend it for some of the
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listeners. Like I said, it is a scholarly work. It is going to be a little on the dry side. It is
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technical. It is going to demand, if you at least a little bit of knowledge of Latin. There's also
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some Italian, a few other things in here. But we're going to close with a couple passages from
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this separated by a number of centuries to give the right sort of framing and impression of things.
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On the eve of Passover 1144, the mutilated body of William, a child of twelve years, was found in
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Thorpe's Wood, on the edge of Norwich, England. No witness came forward to cast light on the
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savage crime. The child's uncle, a cleric by the name of Godwin Sturt, publicly accused the Jews
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of the crime in a diocesan synod held a few weeks after the discovery of the body.
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A few years later, between 1150 and 1155, Thomas of Monmouth, prior of the Cathedral of Norwich,
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reconstituted with plentiful details and testimonies the various phases of the crime,
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perpetrated by local Jews, and prepared a detailed and extensive hagiographic report of the event.
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These were the origins of what is considered by many to have been the first documented case
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of ritual murder in the Middle Ages, while for others it is the source of the myth of the
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blood libel accusation. The latter considered Thomas to have been the inventor and propagator
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of the stereotype of ritual crucifixion, soon to be rapidly disseminated not only in England,
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but in France and the German territories as well, fed by the information relating to the now famous
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tale of the martyrdom of William of Norwich by the Jews in the days of Passover.
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William was an apprentice tanner in Norwich and came from an adjacent village.
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Among the shop's clients were a few local Jews who are thought to have chosen him as the victim
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of a ritual sacrifice to be performed during the days of the Christian Easter. On the Monday
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following Palm Sunday, 1144, during the reign of King Stephen, a man claiming to be the cook for
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the archdeacon of Norwich presented himself in the village of William, asking his mother Alvaiva
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for permission to take William with him to work as an apprentice. The woman's suspicions and
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hesitation were soon won over, thanks to a considerable sum of money. The following day
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little William was already travelling the streets of Norwich in the company of the self-proclaimed
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cook, directly to the dwelling of his aunt Levaiva, Godwin Sturt's wife, who became informed
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of the apprenticeship undertaken by the child and his new patron. But the latter individual
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awakened numerous suspicions in the aunt Levaiva, who asked a young girl to follow them and determine
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their destination. The shadowing, as discreet as it was effective, took the child to the
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threshold of the dwelling of Eleazar, one of the heads of the community of Norwich,
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where the cook had little William enter the house with the necessary prudence and circumspection.
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At this point Thomas of Monmouth allowed another key witness to speak, one who had been strategically
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placed inside the Jew's house. This was Eleazar's Christian servant, who, the following morning,
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had by chance witnessed with horror, through the crack of a door left inadvertently open,
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the cruel ceremony of the child's crucifixion and atrocious martyrdom, with the participation
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carried out with religious zeal of local Jews. In contempt of the passion of our Lord,
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Thomas kept the date of the crucial event clearly in mind. It was the Wednesday following
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Palm Sunday, 22 March of the year 1144. To throw off suspicion, the Jews decided to transport
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the body from the opposite side of the city to Thorbes Wood, which extended to within a short
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distance from the last house. During the trip on horseback with the cumbersome sack, however,
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despite their efforts at caution, they crossed the path of a respected and wealthy merchant of the
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locality on his way to church, accompanied by a servant. The merchant had no difficulty
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realizing the significance of what was taking place before his eyes. He is said to have remembered
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years later on his deathbed and to have confessed to a priest who then became one of the diligent
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and indefatigable Thomas's valued sources of information. Young William's body was
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finally hidden by the Jews among the bushes of Thorpe.
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Ritual murder accusations have been made against the Jews for thousands of years.
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The murders were sometimes alleged to have been accompanied by ritual cannibalism,
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but not always. In every case it is rather improbable the testimonies which have come down
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to us from antiquity were known, and disseminated in the Middle Ages, and could constitute a
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significant point of reference for later accusations of crucifixion and ritual cannibalism.
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As early as the second century before Christ, the almost unknown Greek historian
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Democritus, who probably lived in Alexandria, recorded a violently biased anti-Jewish testimony,
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at that time referred to under his name in Sweden's Greek Dictionary.
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According to Democritus, the Jews were accustomed to render worship to a golden head of an ass.
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Every seven years they abducted a foreigner to sacrifice him, tearing the body to pieces.
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This horrible rite is said to have taken place probably every seven years
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in the Temple of Jerusalem, sanctuary of the Jewish religion.
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A report only partly similar to that reported by Democritus is found in the polemical contra
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Apione by Flavius Josephus, quoting the tendentiously anti-Jewish rhetorician Apione,
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who lived at Alexandria during the first century of the Christian era.
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According to Apione, Antiochus Epiphane, entering the Temple of Jerusalem,
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is said to have been surprised to find a Greek stretched on a bed and surrounded by exquisite
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foods and rich dishes. The prisoner's report was extraordinary and horrifying.
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The Greek said that he had been captured by the Jews and taken to the Temple and concealed from
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everyone while they force fed him on all sorts of foods. At first the unusual circumstances in
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which he found himself did not greatly displease him until the sanctuary attendants revealed
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the fate waiting in store for him. He was fated to die, the predestined victim of
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homicidal Jewish sacrificial practices. Quote, the Jews carry out this rite every year
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on a pre-established date. They catch a Greek merchant and feed him for a whole year.
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They later take him into a forest, kill him, and sacrifice him according to their religion.
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They then savor the viscera, and in the moment of sacrificing the Greek,
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they swear their hatred of all Greeks. They then dump the remains of the carcass into a ditch.
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Flavius Josephus reports that the history recounted by Apione was not invented by him,
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but was rather derived from other Greek writers, an indication that its dissemination must have been
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much more widespread than we are led to imagine based on the two only surviving accounts,
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i.e. of Democritus and Apione.
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And we will end this episode with one other brief reading from this particular book.
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The Christian Europe of the Middle Ages feared the Jews is an established fact. Perhaps the
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widespread fear the Jews were scheming to abduct children, subjecting them to cruel rituals,
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even antidates the appearance of stereotypical ritual murder, which seems to have originated
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in the 12th century. As for myself, I believe that serious consideration should be given to the
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possibility that this fear was largely related to the slave trade, particularly in the 9th and 10th
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centuries, when the Jewish role in the slave trade appears to have been preponderant.
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During this period, Jewish merchants from the cities in the Valley of the Rhone,
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Verdun, Lyon, Arles, and Narbonne, in addition to Aquisgrana, the capital of the Empire in
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the times of Louis the Pius, and in Germany from the centres of the Valley of the Rhine,
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from Worms, Magonsa, and Magdeburg, in Bavaria and Bohemia, from Regensburg and Prague,
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were active in the principal markets in which slaves, women, men, eunuchs, were offered for
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sale by Jews sometimes after abducting them from their houses. From Christian Europe the
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human merchandise was exported to the Islamic lands of Spain, in which there was a lively market,
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the castration of these slaves, particularly children, raised their prices,
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and was no doubt a lucrative and profitable practice.