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Jan. 31, 2025 - The David Knight Show
08:33
From Peaks to Persons: New Zealand's Descent into Pagan Madness
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Let's talk about personhood.
A New Zealand mountain is granted personhood, recognizing it as sacred for the Maori.
I remember years ago, there was this movie, it had a ridiculous title, The Man Who Went Up a Hill and Came Down a Mountain.
Remember that?
It had Hugh Grant in it, and he was a surveyor.
I think it was set in Wales, and it's a small town that's there.
And so he was going to survey this hill.
And the question was, you know, they had identified it as a mountain, but he looks at it and is like, no, a mountain begins, we start calling something a mountain if it is this high.
You know, whatever that line was.
And it was just under it, according to him.
And so that was the whole thing.
The back and forth between him and the villagers, for them to try to get him to certify it as being an actual mountain.
It wasn't the man, in spite of the title, the man didn't go up a hill and become a mountain up there.
He didn't become a mountain man or a mountain.
But here in New Zealand, they're actually granting personhood, rights, and responsibilities of a human being to a mountain.
And it's not the first time they've done this either.
New Zealand is being taken over by the Maori.
New Zealand.
It's a beautiful place.
Karen and I went there.
We'd heard, I'd actually heard some chatter about how, this is in the late 90s, and this is, after Waco and Ruby Ridge, I started thinking, you know, I better get out of here.
The U.S. is crazy, and it's headed down a really bad path, and I was right about that, but I was wrong about the idea that maybe New Zealand would be any better.
So we went to New Zealand.
We had a wonderful time.
Stayed for a few weeks.
I met with some people, some of them who were in radio, and I wasn't in radio at the time either.
It's just somebody that was in radio through the libertarians that were in New Zealand and that type of thing.
Karen and I met with them for dinner, and we had scheduled a guy who was like the Rush Limbaugh of New Zealand.
But he canceled at the last minute.
But we still talked to the other people.
And so the dinner was kind of, well, you think your country's bad.
This is what happens here.
You know, we're going back and forth as to what was happening.
So they finally convinced me that New Zealand was even worse than the U.S. So we didn't move there.
But that was in, I think, 1998. But they were fascinated with the Maori.
And I thought that was kind of interesting, you know.
The Maori really gave the British a run for their money.
They had earthen forts.
And as we see with Fort Fisher in North Carolina, that withstood the biggest naval bombardment in history up to that point in time, by a long shot.
And I think it was equivalent to some of the biggest naval bombardments, even in World War I. And it was an earthen fort at Fort Fisher.
And they couldn't take out the Maori's forts because there were earthen forts as well with all of their stuff.
And so, you know, they had a hard time.
The Maori would, when they would get their weapons, would pretty quickly figure out how to use them and use them back against them.
And they were cannibals as well.
And they still celebrate that culture, which I thought was really strange.
You know, the tattoos and the...
You know, the cannibalism stuff that they kind of wink and nod at.
And you see them do the dance, you know, and they're stomping their feet and all that kind of stuff.
They do that.
And they did that in their legislative body as well.
This place is really going pagan.
Now we see this.
And it's not the first time they've done this.
They've given some inanimate object, personhood.
They have now named this thing Mount Taranaki.
It's Maori name.
And they, why don't you just call it McKinley?
The latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New Zealand, which has previously ruled that a river and a stretch of sacred land were people before.
This is paganism.
New Zealand is leaving Christianity.
I mean, you look at Christ Church.
uh one of the um uh cities that was there's a beautiful little english type city it had this meandering river that was running through it and and you you know you see the uh in in the uk you see pictures of people they call it punting where they've got like a small little boat and you got a guy with a pole and you pay him he takes you for a ride and they got a little straw brim hats oh like i'm very very english um And yet now it's going full pagan.
And they don't know the difference between inanimate objects and people created in the image of God.
Isn't that interesting?
This is this kind of, it's inherent with paganism.
And yet, personhood.
Personhood is at the core of the arguments for or against slavery in this country.
Well, you know, these slaves that we got here, they're not fully persons.
Well, the baby's not really a person either, right?
And that's the situation in New Zealand.
They've got very liberal abortion laws.
Really, no penalties at all at any point in time.
Theoretically, it's limited to before 20 weeks.
But if you do it after 20 weeks, as long as you get a note from the doctor, you're fine.
And nobody's ever been criminally prosecuted for it, even at full term.
So the babies are not persons.
But the mountain's a person.
The lake is a person.
The river is a person.
The law passed Thursday.
Gives Taranaki all the rights, powers, duties, responsibilities, and liabilities of a person.
The law views the mountain as, quote, a living and indivisible whole.
This is pure paganism.
Western civilization is being removed off of its Christian foundations, and this is the kind of insanity that we can expect.
A newly created entity will be the face and the voice of the mountain, the law says.
They will have four members from the local Maori tribes and four members appointed by the country's conservation ministry.
These will be people who are advocates for the mountain, and they will speak for the mountain as we have liberals always be advocates for the environment or for inanimate objects here in the U.S. The mountain has long been an honored ancestor, they say.
And here's the amazing thing.
It passed unanimously.
Unanimously in the legislature.
Today, Taranaki is released from the shackles of injustice, of ignorance, and of hate.
Ignorance?
I don't know.
Don't you be racist to mountains.
I hate mountains.
Who hates mountains?
I think that would be the height of racism, wouldn't it?
To be a racist against a mountain.
The bill, recognizing this again, passed unanimously.
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