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Folks, we are in the kinetic part of the Third World War.
We have to get focused.
We can't let the Mitch McConnells and all these people that brought us here with policies that have led us to disaster, that have allowed China to actually do a flex on the, think about that, everything the United States of America did on a war they never wanted to get involved in.
Everything we did, all the blood, all the sacrifice, all the resources, all the toughness, the firebombing of Japan, the bombing of Germany, the submarine warfare, the landings in North Africa, Normandy, all of it.
The guys that fought in China, of which President Trump said, hey, wouldn't you just give us a little thank you for that?
Of all the sacrifice, they choose the 80th anniversary to get in your grill and convince the world that was our victory.
And the Americans are nothing.
So we're in it.
And we don't have a choice.
We have to shut them down now.
They're an existential threat to the Lao Beijing, the folks in China.
They're a threat to East Asia.
They're a threat to all our allies.
And they're a threat to the people of the United States, what they've done in this country to co-opt Wall Street, to co-opt the tech oligarchs.
And that's what America First is.
Putting our citizens, our sovereignty, our country first.
If we do that, we're going to win.
There's no doubt we're going to win.
But if we flinch on that at any time, we could lose this.
Because an individual like Donald Trump comes along maybe once in a country's history.
We've had three.
Washington, Lincoln, and Trump.
With all his imperfection, in fact, his imperfections, his rising above his imperfections is his true greatness.
Just, okay, but hang on, just do the timing.
Here's what the timing is going to be.
We pass the bill, we get more money.
We start standing up sheriffs, or standing up ICE, we start standing up all of it, and build the logistics change, the camps, everything.
Boom.
We're doing that from the summer of 2025, right?
We then go, you stand it up more, and we start the 1.6 million final deportation orders, and then the other 2 million as they burn off on the phony permission we gave them to be here, right?
That's all coming essentially in a year called 2026.
And what happens in November of that year, 2026, the midterm elections?
And what you're going to have, if you think the intensity, this is what I just want the audience to understand because we're prepping the battlefield here, folks.
The media attention on the savages that President Trump as commander-in-chief sent out of here in the court cases.
And now you've got a judge in Washington, D.C. who's out of control, who has found President Trump, or excuse me, his advisors maybe guilty of criminal contempt and him coming in the middle of a decision as commander-in-chief.
And I might add, folks, take your number two personality right down.
Bannon went to prison for criminal contempt.
That's what the judge did yesterday.
They're coming.
They're coming as hard as you've ever seen anything come in your life.
So if you want to deport the 10 million illegal aliens in this country that have to go or you don't have a country, you're not going to have a concept of a country, your sovereignty, your territorial integrity, anything about that.
And we know that working class Hispanics and working class blacks and working class whites want this more than anything.
If you don't do that, and we're going to hit a firestorm, folks.
I said this back in Pinehurst, North Carolina, in a speech I gave at the North Carolina Country Club two years ago.
The convergence of budget cuts for social programs and the convergence of the deportations.
When it would happen in 25, and it looks like it's going to happen now in late 25 or early 26, is something people ain't prepared for.
They're going to have the cameras everywhere.
You're going to have to have a spine of steel.
And besides Trump, show me these guys up on Capitol Hills got a spine of steel.
I got Tom Holman.
I got Donald Trump.
I got Benzman.
I got Chrissy Noam.
I got a handful.
How many of them are going?
I got no more Tom Ten Cratos, who I saw back in Colorado was out there.
So Benzman, walk me through.
You see what's coming.
And this is going to be, this is either going to have a country or you're not going to have a country.
Bottom line, they all got to go.
You got to do it humanely.
You have to do it with respect and dignity, but they got to go.
And if we don't want the Chinese Communist Party to be competitive, there are methods to do that.
Number one, you don't let Jensen Wong talk you into selling high-end chips.
They're a couple of years behind us right now.
There's certain aspects they may be ahead, but if you cut them off from equity capital, you cut them off from debt capital, you cut them off from all the capital markets in the United States, you cut them off to how to build the ecosystem.
What I mean by the ecosystem, the training, the know-how, the expertise, the knowledge, training these Chinese engineers in our own colleges and then have them go back to compete with us.
Who does that?
Who does that?
Would the Chinese do that for us?
No, they wouldn't.
Would the Chinese ever sell these chips us if they had when we did?
So the message that is being projected behind us right here, right now, it says, don't let AI buy the government.
It's going, it's sequencing through, and hopefully many thousands, tens of thousands of people will see this.
Stop SACS AI preemption.
As this message is going out, as it's going out to the war room posse, what do you hope to see tomorrow and what do you hope to see long term in this fight against these companies and the people who are facilitating it here in Washington, D.C.?
This is about power politics and what Charlie Kirk believed in to the core of his being.
That America makes decisions for America and Americans make decisions for America.
That was Charlie Kirk.
Why the hell do you think they assassinate him?
Why do they put the poison all over this place?
Why they mock and ridicule?
James Carville said yesterday that Rob Reiner has done 100 times more than Charlie Kirk.
They hate Charlie Kirk because Charlie Kirk brought victories.
And with victory after victory after victory, that's when we can re-Christianize this country.
What was Charlie Kirk's lesson?
That we are a Christian nation that got off the rails.
We have to re-Christianize this country.
You are in the shadows of a giant, not just an American patriot and an American hero.
Charlie Kirk is a Christian martyr, and Charlie Kirk is a Christian saint.
That is your legacy that you take up.
The day I went into prison, the day I went into prison, we passed the show to Charlie Kirk as we did oftentimes in the three and a half years that Charlie Pesobic and I had that block at Real America's Voice.
And what Charlie said, I said to Charlie, next man up.
Charlie said, I got it.
Next man up.
Are you next man up?
Are you going to fill the shoes of Charlie Kirk?
Do you have the stones to do it?
Do you have the guts to do it?
Ask yourself that because I tell you what, that's what's going to you in this room right here are going to decide whether we win in 26.
And if we don't win in 26, they're going to bring holy hell down on us.
It's Wednesday, 31 December, the year of our Lord 2025.
And of course, that is the last time we'll be saying that, the 2025.
This is the last day of the year.
Our traditional New Year's Eve special where we're going to go through the victories and defeats, particularly where we use the big muscles in 2025, a historic year, the first year of the return of President Trump's second term and the days of thunder, the flooding the zone.
But as you saw right there, man, that's pretty good.
You would think that was ripped from this morning's headlines.
It was not.
That is the things we've talked about and discussed and worked on in your victories over this past year.
So I've got Ben Hornwell in Rome.
He's going to join us, head of our International Bureau, and of course our own Dave Brett riding shotgun with me this morning because we're going to go through the year, but do it as a prep for the springboard for what's to come in the coming year.
Today, you know, Tehran is in absolute chaos.
As I've told you time and time again, don't need to go in and bomb them.
Don't need to send troops in.
If you just pay attention in Jerusalem and focus on what the cut them off economically, they'll overthrow the Mulas themselves.
They're in the streets today.
Of course, last night, I think they were actually firing on the crowds.
In Minneapolis, the Somalians are bringing kids back, scrambling to bring kids back to these phony child care centers.
And in New York City, they're preparing for the inauguration of the mayor.
And for the first time in history, they're going to use the Quran.
I think I see a common theme there.
Short commercial break.
We're going to be back in the warm New Year's Eve special.
Just a moment.
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This morning we're live.
Wednesday, 31 December, year of our Lord, 2025.
A lot of news and a lot of news revolving around one topic, Ben Harnwell.
On 9 January we're going to go to Texas, the great state of Texas, and we're going to have an event.
We're bringing over Geert Wilderss, I'm going to be there others, and we're going to spend, I think, a couple of days down in Texas meeting people helping to organize or I should say, not helping to organize, but driving forward the organizations.
The organizing is going on.
It's about this topic of Islamification and you can see it taking place in Texas and we're seeing the results of what's happened in Europe over the last couple of decades and it's not pretty, it's, in fact it's.
It's very scary seeing Paris has fallen, London has fallen.
Tomorrow the Quran is going to be used for the first time in the city's history, as you guys remember.
Let's go back to the combat history of Christmas, where we go through the found, that first Christmas of the United States in 1776, and we talk about the centrality of New York City in our revolution and how it was probably the most key center, Important even than Boston and Philadelphia.
It was the center, it was the key that picked the lock and fought over or fought around forever.
Founded by the Dutch and then the Americans, and now a Ugandan Marxist jihadist is going to take the oath of office tomorrow on a Quran.
Ben Harnwell, the reason we're going to Texas is to stop that happening in the great state of Texas because there's actually a very well thought through plan by the forces of Islam in this world.
And you see, and this is this year, you start to see it perk up.
You know, we've been all over it, but it's coming to not coming to a head, but getting more and more in your grill, as we can see up in Minneapolis.
Your thoughts about all of it, sir?
You've been particularly focused on this, like Rahim has for many, many, many years.
48 mosques that they're opening or have opened down in Texas.
What might once have been called Bible Belt and are becoming Quran Belt?
I was particularly interested to see the New York Times.
If Denver, I don't know if you've got the article, you might splash it up on the screen as I'm talking.
I'd be grateful for that.
The New York Times, I think, is always the thanks very much, guys.
I love the way they frame this, Steve.
They're falling over themselves to say how natural and appropriate it is that Mamdani will be the first mayor to swear in with his hand on the Quran.
Or let me put it, you called him a Ugandan Marxist jihadist.
As the New York Times put it in slightly differently, they said Mr. Mamdani's faith was a defining feature of his campaign.
Folks, we'll get the link out.
You know, you've got to read this article because it illustrates everything that's wrong with the left and just how closely integrated they are, the nexus between the left and the Quran.
I know Dave Bratt is waiting on the wings.
He's going to come on and say a few things as well.
There is something fundamental here, and we can expand on this in the show, right?
It is appropriate that Mamdani does put his hand on the Quran because that's programmatic of his intentions.
This represents something new, Steve.
They're not sneaking this in anymore.
This is full frontal in your face.
They are telling you what they are doing now as they are doing it.
There's no more duplicity.
Look, I say this: we've said this on the war room for many years.
There is, as separate notionally, as the left and its LBGQ agenda is from Islam, you know, as much as the left is attached to feminism, which is not part of the Islamic agenda, obviously you have all these issues on which there is an antagonism.
The most fundamental point between the two of them is the alignment in the opposition to Jesus Christ and his kingdom.
That is what unites the left and Islam.
That's why they're so compatible.
Right across the West, you see this affinity between the left and Islam.
It's for that reason.
Fundamentally, Steve, history is driven by supernatural factors, right?
The Holy Spirit, the battle between, you know, what is it, Ephesians 6, 12, that our fight is not against flesh and blood, right?
There's a spiritual dynamic to human history, and you see that in the ever more overt coming together of the left and Islam.
And you can see this with the placing of the hand on the Quran tomorrow by New York's mayor.
It's appropriate that he does that.
They're telling you what they're doing.
The response, Steve, and you're leading the way in Texas next week, is what we're going to do about this from this scenario.
We've been led in by our own complacency and our own willingness to be distracted over many decades.
Now the fight is taking back.
And perhaps I'll go into more detail tomorrow on this on the New Year's show.
But I would suggest that the approach for every Christian who is opposed to what they are doing is to pray, to discern, and then to act and do everything within one's power within the realm that Christ has put us, within which the Holy Spirit has put us to effect that gospel change in our immediate lives.
That's what we can do.
And I think that's what you're going to be doing in January.
In the next block, in fact, I want to give enough runway for Brett.
Brett's got a great way to compare and contrast this.
It's for this audience, looking back over this year.
And this is why we say, and in fact, at the bottom of this block, we've had traditionally for the last, I think, a year or two, Modern Day Holy War by Nicole Negrady, because we just think it's a fantastic song.
This is, even if you're not particularly religious, even if you're not spiritual, as Ben said, this is a bigger, bigger drama that's playing out on a bigger scale.
And that's why I continue to say Donald Trump, for all his faults, and look, this year, you know, has it been perfect?
No.
It's never going to be perfect for the simple reasons that these are human institutions and we're all humans.
But directionally, it's pretty damn good with some big exceptions.
We understand that.
And that's why the War Impossi is here to make sure that people can stay focused and we can hammer things out.
But this is providential.
This is why the return of Trump in 2024, with that amazing come from behind victory, which was on your shoulders, the grassroots, and that's why you're going to drive things more than ever in these massive fights, really about the salvation of Christendom, the Christian West, and by two forces.
One, this massive force of Islam, right, with the money and power behind it, and also transhumanism, which kind of inextricably are linked.
And it's a huge fight before us.
We've had many, many, many victories here, right?
And all of them have been massive victories.
They're not all going to be massive victories.
Victory begets victory.
And that's why you, this working class and middle class audience, are to hammer through 2026.
I've said time and time again, I believe that President Trump, the economic plan of Bessette and Trump, is really going to start kicking in.
I realize everybody haven't seen the benefits of this, and that economic plan is not perfect, far from perfect.
There are many aspects of it that I don't particularly care for, but generally and directionally, about bringing manufacturing jobs here back, high-value-added manufacturing jobs.
When that starts to kick in, as I said, they're going to get more and more vicious.
And the buried leader, what Ben Harnwell just said, is that they're not hiding it anymore.
They're not hiding it anymore.
They're not trying to sneak in here on cat's paws.
They're coming in and rolling in up in your grill.
And the question is going to be: are you going to defend this and start pushing back and making sure that our country is what it was founded on, a Christian country, part of the Judeo-Christian West, underpinnings our civilization, but a Christian nation?
That is going to be one of the big fights before us in 2026 between transhumanism and the Islamification of the United States of America.
Short commercial break.
Dave Bratt's got a thing or two to say about this.
He'll have a lot of runway in the next segment of the war room.
Zora Mamdani, the 34-year-old Democratic socialist who stunned a political world in November, will be sworn in as New York City's 112th mayor at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day.
Mamdani, who will be New York's first Muslim and South Asian American mayor, will be introduced by Progressive Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez and sworn in by Senator Bernie Sanders.
Mamdani, who previously served in the state assembly and once moonlighted as a rapper, will take over the reins of America's largest city, overseeing 300,000 public employees and a $116 billion budget.
To pay for his ambitious agenda, Mamdani wants to raise taxes on wealthy residents, an ask Governor Kathy Hochl has so far rejected.
But the governor, heading into her own re-election year in 2026, has said she'll work with the incoming mayor.
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He and I have had many meetings individually and with our staff to find a path forward, something that's reasonable, that we can get started on universal child care.
Trump even reportedly remarked, Wow, you are even better looking in person than you are on TV.
So far, Mamdani has made appointments to New York City's core service agencies, including keeping NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch in charge of the department.
I will demand excellence from my team, from myself, and also I will ensure that we create the conditions where that excellence is possible to deliver on.
A day after naming his director of appointments, Mamdani accepted her resignation after it was revealed she had posted a series of anti-Semitic posts online more than a decade ago.
As he prepares to take office, Mamdani is also getting a major real estate upgrade.
He and his wife, Ramaduwaji, will leave their one-bedroom, $2,300 a month apartment in Queens and move into Gracie Mansion.
Mamdani will be sworn in during a private midnight ceremony at the old, now abandoned City Hall subway station.
A public inauguration is scheduled for the afternoon, planned in part by a star-studded committee, including children's YouTuber Miss Rachel and actress Cynthia Nixon.
As I said, the National Conservative speech I gave, I think it was back in June.
Might have been July.
The Israel First Crowd that brought you a two-state solution.
You know, they had this thing the other day about what went on in Mar-a-Lago.
And Netanyahu, who's making the argument, oh, we'll never agree to a two-state solution.
Yo, dude, what do you think is happening in Gaza right now?
This is kind of this separation from reality.
You got Qatar that's got money in everywhere, including the New York City public school system.
You've got Qatar underwriting it, and the Turks are going to provide security.
That's a two-state solution.
That's a Palestinian state.
As I said, don't focus on bombing Tehran.
Don't focus on sucking, doing a regime change war from the top, decapitating the top, and having America get involved in another endless war in the Middle East.
And if you watched Pesobic's specials this week, they were breathtaking about the Iraq war and about how we got sucked into other Middle East wars.
We're tired of it.
It's irrelevant.
As I said at the time and told these guys, what's relevant is what's happening in New York City.
And so now we have the Israel First Crowd has visited upon us a two-state solution in Israel.
And this is why I argue we have to have a third state.
We have to have a Christian state.
And we're going to actually be bringing people on starting on Friday and Saturday to discuss that.
We have to do that.
And number two, this mess, and this is a huge, huge, huge wound in the United States.
And if you connect what's happening in Minneapolis with what's happening in New York City, with what's happening in Texas, exactly what I told this conference of neocons in Washington, D.C. back, you know, they're talking about national conservatives.
We're popular.
It's all a front.
It's all a front for neocons.
And they should be ashamed of themselves of how they've left this world right now, of which you have to fix.
You, this audience, we're going to have to fix this.
We're going to have to fix it.
We're not going to have a country.
Dave Bratt, you've got some thoughts about this, sir.
The New York Times, as we've gone over on this show for years, has just been constantly putting down evangelicals, Protestants, Catholics, on and on and on.
And yet in today's New York Times, you know, Mamdani will be the first NYC mayor to use the Quran at his swearing in.
I'm going to flesh out what the New York Times is saying.
There's no way they can defend intellectually what they're saying.
Mr. Mamdani will join a small group of prominent elected officials in the U.S. to use a Quran for their swearing in.
Keith Ellison, Minnesota's attorney general, became one of the first American elected officials to put his hand on the book when he sworn into Congress in 07.
Representative Ilhan Omar in Minnesota, who succeeded Mr. Ellison, also put her hand on a Quran for her swearing in.
So this tees up the basic question.
What is going on here?
The trend line is not looking good here for the Quran swearing in folks in government.
Then, second paragraph in on this story, but for New York's hundreds of thousands of Muslim residents who have taken pride in seeing one of their own rise to the mayoralty, comma, his inauguration will bring another special first rooted in tradition and piety.
Boy, that's what I'm going to dig in here just for a few minutes.
What tradition are you talking about, New York Times, and which piety?
What are you saying?
Please, we want to know this, right?
We really do.
We're serious on ideas.
The Christian faith is rooted in knowledge.
So let me just get to a few contrasts, right?
First, the United States Constitution.
Let's cite that.
The thing that gives Muslims their minority rights in this country and the full rights to everything, even rights they're making up.
So the U.S. Constitution, the primary document used most by our founders when they wrote the U.S. Constitution was the book of Deuteronomy in the Christian Bible.
And of course, in the Hebrew scriptures.
The Quran, by contrast, show me the lines, connect the dots between the Quran and any significant document that shows me democracy or human rights.
And the plain fact is, if you look, and all of this is just mainstream, right?
No one wants to talk about it because it's not polite.
All political views are my own always.
But there is no Muslim country that's a functioning full democracy.
There is no Islamic country that has a human rights record at all because human rights language does not exist in the Islamic tradition.
Back in about 1300, they had some great philosophers.
Now you cannot name a great Islamic university.
I wish there were.
Let's go to other, and this is why the New York Times is, it's not puzzling.
It's on purpose, right?
They do not like Christianity because it keeps them from their globalist ambitions and big government ambitions.
That's what is going on here, right?
The Protestants believe in largely capitalism versus Mamdani's socialism.
There's another contrast.
In capitalism, properly construed, free markets, you have to make what I want or I won't buy your product.
It's self-regulating.
It's self-discipline.
If you don't make good stuff that I want to buy, you fail.
In socialism, it's you give me more stuff, period.
And or otherwise, I'm going to use the state.
And the definition of the state is that which has a monopoly on violence.
I'm going to use a monopoly on violence to force you to overcome your liberties to your own money and to your own freedom to give me what I want.
That is socialism.
So now you see why the New York Times and the power crew is being a little glossy about the tradition and the piety of Islam.
I skipped over the major piece right off the bat in theology.
Harnwell struck it just right.
This is a war, a spiritual battle.
And so you've got to do your theology, New York Times.
Allah, the God in Islam, is so sovereign that there can't be a human rights tradition.
It's totally top-down.
And that's why when you see the logic, it's top-down.
The major priority in Islam is complete submission to Allah.
There is no bottom-up populism.
There's no bottom-up revolution or populism in Islam anywhere, as there was when Christmas, we just got done with Christmas.
Jesus comes in the flesh as a baby, right?
And so the logic right off the bat, the initial logic of the Christian theology versus the Islamic theology is just stark.
I want to say a little bit more on this rights, the rights theme.
We gloss over it like it's just, you know, here, Brad talking about the Constitution rights, but our rights to liberty, right?
It's the first one, life, liberty, pursuit of happiness.
Our rights are being infringed by a group who wants to get rid of our right to liberty.
They want to force us, as I just said on socialism.
And I'll just close with one of my pet peeves.
The minority groups in this country have been successful in getting the Bible out of K-12 schools.
Well, why is that a problem?
Because the Bible is the document that gave us the minority rights in the first place.
That's the stunner, the very book that originates our right language, of which free market system, private property rights, and the rule of law, all of those come straight out of the Catholic tradition in the 1300s and through our founders and Protestants at the founding.
And so a huge set of contrasts.
I look forward to a response by the New York Times.
And I'm dead serious.
I would love to hear how they adjudicate the piety and tradition they refer to glowingly while they mock evangelicals, Protestants, and Catholics.
They mock everything about the Christian faith, everything.
And they look to undermine everything about the Christian faith.
But today, in full view, they're glazing Islam and glazing Mamdani.
The Mamdani situation may be taken head on.
President Trump's got a different idea.
President Trump's the president, and he's, you know, he's the master negotiator.
I think this thing has to be confronted head on, head on, because you see in his selections, he's got all these guys, lawyers who defended al-Qaeda.
It's very obvious you're going to see the Islamification of New York City.
And if New York City falls, folks, the United States of America are going to have a big problem.
Texas and New York City, they're coming for it.
And as Ben Harnwell said, they're not coming in on cat's paws.
This is up in your grill, up in your grill.
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We'll return to the war in just a moment.
Welcome back.
It's very appropriate we have bagpipes because I'm going to bring Harnwell in.
So for edification, as we come to this end of this year, and now you've got all this explosion about the Islamic problem in the United States, and it's a problem.
How is it Christianity as we know it is the Gentile church, not the Christian Jewish part of it, for many reasons, didn't get traction.
The church in Jerusalem did not get traction, right?
James, the brother of Jesus, historically, was the head of that church.
But very quickly, in the apostolic age, there was a shift to Rome and to Greece and to other places where there were Gentiles and the Gentile churches where it got traction.
How is it that that kind of What became the Christian West out of Europe, uh, with all the art and all the music and uh all the you know celebration, the reformation trying to reform the church, the counter-reformation, trying to reform the or counter the reformation, all of that.
Why was it Christian Europe that the elites failed to take a stand?
Because Europe is in dire straits right now.
I would say Paris has fallen, London has fallen, Brussels, it's a horrible story overnight coming out of Brussels.
So, Ben, as we look at this as a Christian nation here, based upon the Judeo-Christian West, our civilization, how are we supposed to look at this when you have a perfect example of the elites in this country?
That's why this New York Times article is so important to read today.
The elites in this country are choosing a side, right?
And in that article, they're choosing Islam.
They talk about the piety of it and how solemn it is and how, you know, what a deep meaning it has for the Ugandan Mundami.
If the elites are not prepared to defend it, is it worth defending, sir?
Well, I don't think post-Christian civilization is worth defending.
I don't think it's worth defending remotely.
I'm interested in defending Christian civilization because that's founded on the true revelation of God to humanity through Jesus Christ and through the prophets, through the Old Testament prophets before that.
That is something worth fighting for.
Post-Christian civilization in inverted commerce is just a make-it-up as you go along project which has been failing since the Enlightenment and the French Revolution.
Look, so many things you said in your question, right?
Let's start off.
I think we're going to need more than one block to handle this because you're also going to get to the point of where we're going now.
So, firstly, on the issue of the Jewish church, I need to push back on you from memory here.
I need to push back on you something.
It's not quite true to say that the Jewish element of the church collapsed pretty quickly as momentum went over to the Gentile side via St. Paul.
Because really, what actually happened was that Judaism at the time was split into two factions: Greek-speaking Judaism, which followed the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Old Testament, and then the Hebrew faction, which was basically being promoted by the Pharisees.
What actually happened at the time of Christ after the death of Christ, before the collapse in that period between what, 33 AD and the collapse of the temple?
When was that 69, 70 AD?
Is that almost almost the entirety of the Greek-speaking Jews came over that?
It's not that they, that is what the first century church grew out of.
They all converted to Christianity.
And what you had left is basically the Pharisaical movement, which is via various stages, what the Jewish community is descended from today.
That's the first thing.
And the important thing about that is the fact that the Jews out of which the first church emerged was Greek-speaking, because that comes into the point now of how influential Christianity was in Europe as it moved westward with the inspiration of Greek philosophy at its wind.
That's something absolutely lacking in Islam, which is the importance of rationality.
Now, I am the first person who will queue up and criticize Pope Benedict on so many fronts.
But if you want one positive thing to identify in his pontificate, which was actually the important thing about his Regensburg speech, was he was making precisely this point that Christianity as a religious force developed from three principal streams.
We are three principal cities, which is Jerusalem, Rome, and Athens.
And the importance of rationality, and obviously Dave Bratt can speak far more eloquently to this than I can, but the importance of rationality as being a tool given to mankind for discernment by God and in understanding the world and revelation is there in Christianity, and it's absolutely not there in Islam.
And as Dave was saying, there are no really great Islamic universities for this reason, because the whole point of Islam is contained and limited in the Quran.
And rationality has no place in that, whereas obviously it does in Christianity.
Let me give way to the break now, and then I want to come back and explain to you exactly what's going wrong now in the West following this.
We're going to continue with this with Brad and Ben Harnwell.
And remember that Regensburg speech, once again, the New York Times and the mainstream media picked out one or two elements and they tried to put, they tried to tar and feather Pope Benedict in running out of town about this one.
It was actually one of the deepest and most meaningful speeches I think any pope has ever given to lay it out.
And man, is it relevant in America on the 31st of December in the year of our Lord 2025?
We're going to take a short break.
We're going to continue with great music.
Joe Allen's also going to join us.
The victories and defeats of 2025, two of the biggest transhumanism, artificial intelligence, and the Islamification of the West.
And now the target.
As Ben Harnwell said, they're not coming in on cat's paws.
They're not sneaking in here.
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