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Sept. 10, 2025 - The David Knight Show
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From Marxism to Gender Delusion: Societal Collapse
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The book is a godless crusade, the progressive campaign to rid the world of religion.
I guess any religion except theirs.
Thank you so much for joining us.
And of course, uh Dr. Richard Craden is a psychologist and a psychoanalyst, and I'm not really sure what the difference is between those two.
Uh he is Professor Emeritus from Harvard Medical School.
Uh we won't hold that against you.
Sorry.
Uh but uh give us an idea of what you see as a problem with the left.
And uh you s you say I diagnose it as a psychological disorder.
I think we can all see elements of it, but give us your take on it as a psychoanalyst.
You know, I think one of the problems that we have with uh understanding the left is understanding their version of reality.
Uh the diagnosis of a mental disorder really revolves around a certain consensual understanding of what reality is.
And if you're dealing with a group that has a separate reality or has a whole different set of tenets that make up their reality, then it's almost impossible to use the usual diagnostic uh approach to understanding what they're about.
Some of the so from the perspective of the conservative mind, the left is clearly at some level mentally disturbed.
Uh on the other hand, they're not playing by the same rules that we are.
And so uh if you can't get a consensual agreement about what the rules are, then it's impossible to really even define what mental disorder is.
That's right.
They constantly tell us that they've got their own truth.
They've got their own reality, right?
Yeah, well, this is what the the neo-Marxist postmodern philosophies are about.
Uh they're about uh the idea that there is no truth, uh that there's moral relativism.
And again, I think it speaks to what I've been listening to you uh talking about, the the whole idea of promoting conflict.
Yes.
And uh the conflict is is you know persistent, and as a result there's no possibility of producing a coherent society, which is how they intend to transform the society by undermining it.
Yes, yes, uh and the conflict is key.
Now how do these people get in charge of everything?
I have people ask me that all the time, and it's like, you know, the as you point out, they've infiltrated the universities, they've infiltrated politics, even churches, corporations and so forth.
How do they get in charge of all this stuff?
Well, I I I think I'm old enough to realize where it began, and uh at least from my perspective, and that was probably back in the sixties.
And the idea of a violent revolution uh was not seen as something that was likely to be workable, you know, in the United States or in the West.
And so the approach was instead to uh infiltrate the institutions and to produce this conflict around race in particular, and around any other uh any other division that they could uh inject into society.
And as a result, rather than being active on the streets, uh the activists uh entered the institutions.
Uh they entered uh higher education in particular, and from there they just moved on to all p positions of leadership.
And so at this point, again, virtually all of the institutions have been markedly infiltrated by this type of thought.
I agree.
I think it really is uh, you know, the uh uh the educational institutions are really seminal in this.
They act as seminaries for this type of thing.
And I always think back to Bill Ayers.
Do you see that as part you mentioned how they switched from kind of a class-based struggle, which the Marxists used in Europe, to a race race-based uh struggle, and they were the ones who really kind of popularized, I think somebody else came up with the term white-skinned privilege.
They just shortened it to white privilege, and uh Bill Ayers and his uh group there stopped bombing buildings and they decided they would start bombing mines, and they got involved in education, right?
Yeah, Herbert Marcuse, who was part of the uh Frankfurt school coming over from Europe uh back in the 60s, became prominent in the educational system in California.
Angela Davis was one of his students, Bill A's again of the same mindset.
And Barack Obama, you know, really is, you know, just a generation removed from that.
Yes.
And so again, this has been a s systematic infiltration of the institutions.
And I think unfortunately, uh most Americans have been naive and probably good natured enough not to believe that this is truly uh happening.
That's right.
People don't want to believe that uh that this is they don't want to believe the worst of people.
And we typically will project our values onto them.
I remember at the end of Barack Obama's administration, uh, I think it was um uh Harry Belafonte, I believe, who would support him, who was very leftist, and he said, I don't know who this guy is, we just projected our values on him.
And of course, uh he was he was uh disappointed that uh Obama had not been radical enough, but I think we all wind up doing that to some degree.
We can't believe that somebody would do the types of things that people will do out there.
But uh uh how do you see this happening with um uh the various uh adoptions that are happening right now with Gen Z. You've got a stat in your book, 42% of Gen Z is struggling with depression, which is double the rate of older adults.
What is causing that?
Well, uh there's a number of causes.
Clearly uh the internet and social media and uh the uh iPhone uh has played a role, and you can look at the statistics and you can see that uh as people spend more time on their screens, uh they become more and more anxious and more depressed.
But in addition, uh again, the loss of a commonly held uh set of religious values, moral values, I think has left uh most young people with the sense that there's no meaning in their life, and so they can't look to any defined sort of meaning, and as a result, uh, you know, the the human psyche is is uh is essentially conservative.
Yeah.
Uh and it it's unable to keep up with some of the technological advances that have been made uh over the last 20, 30 years.
And so as a result, you know, we're we're seeing uh kind of revolt of the mind uh that really can't absorb what the technological changes are that have been occurring.
And it's really going to accelerate with artificial intelligence, isn't it?
Absolutely.
I think that's going to be a huge problem.
Yeah, we look at uh you know, this generation that is constantly online, as you point out, you know, and on social media, it's making them anxious, they've lost a moral foundation, they don't have a framework of what's right or wrong, you know, and they're just kind of adrift.
And then we bring into this mix uh this m this tool that uh can be used.
Uh it's not necessarily, you know, that it's going to do its own thing, but it is being wielded uh by people.
Uh they they have uh people who are setting a bias into this thing.
And yet people by all means.
I mean, I've done it's I've done some recent searches uh on AI just to see whether or not there is a clearly uh artificially induced bias within the system, and there's no doubt about it.
Yeah.
Uh you know, you you get questions that really just mimic the propaganda of the left uh when they when you get an answer.
Yes.
And they pay people to do that.
I mean, it is a deliberate thing.
What I find so dangerous about it is that it operates under the veneer that it is objective when it is anything other than that.
Uh as an engineer, uh we would constantly be warned uh by our professors, uh garbage in, garbage out, right?
Don't take this as something that is objective fact simply because you got a computer printout.
And yet people will do that be with artificial intelligence.
It sounds very intelligent, it sounds very authoritative.
Well, unfortunately, uh most people will trade almost anything for for comfort and ease.
Yeah.
And so if it's easy, if it helps them write their papers, helps them do their studies, help them, helps them with whatever they're trying to do, they'll defer to that and without being critical about what you know they're absorbing.
Let's talk a little bit about the corporations because we just had cracker barrel uh update this.
First they changed the logo, and I saw that and I thought, yeah, but are they going to still change the interior of the uh buildings because that's not what the customers want.
And now uh the cracker barrel CEO has tapped out and said we're not gonna spend all this money remodeling all these things.
But uh there's a lot of corporations that uh uh maybe they've learned from uh what Bud Light and some of the others did.
Uh what do you think is going on with this?
Over and over again, we see corporations counter programming and going head to head with the perspectives and the cultures and the opinions of their own base.
We see that especially like with NASCAR, for example.
Uh, there are two sometimes conflicting motivations for the corporations.
Uh one obviously is the profit motive, which one would think would be the driving force, and I think underlying it uh for most corporations it actually is.
Uh but the other issue I I think is that you're seeing that the people who come to head these corporations have gone through the institutions and they've actually absorbed uh you know this leftist propaganda and left this ideology as a as their way of being in the world.
And so they're really out of touch with the consumer in many cases, such as cracker barrel or Bud Light.
Uh, but you know, they're so isolated and insulated from the rest of the world that you know they don't see that as an issue.
But ultimately, uh again, I think for people like the Zuckerbergs and and the Cooks, you know, that they realize that the bottom line is uh, you know, they need to make money, and they've got a globalist agenda with respect to money.
Corporations, you know, basically run the West.
They run this country, they run the countries in the West.
I mean, there's nothing new there.
It's just become more overt.
Yeah, it's something that I saw.
We had uh video stores about 30 years ago, a little bit more than 30 years ago.
And um we would see this with Hollywood, you know, they would increasingly make films that would not do well.
Uh and they seem to revel in offending people.
And it's the same kind of stuff that you see coming out of Bud Light or NASCAR or whatever, uh these these um movie studios loved to offend people, or at least the directors that were there loved to do it.
And as you point out, they're true believers in this stuff, but there's also this um uh peer pressure.
They wanted to be respected by their peers in the industry, and the way that they would be respected by their peers in the industry is just to show how awful the middle class is and how awful religion is, and to deconstruct all these things in a very Marxist way.
And uh the audience, even if they didn't analyze it along those kinds of lines, still could understand that they hated them.
It's pretty obvious that they hated their audience and uh their audience uh didn't like their films either, but they wouldn't change.
Even when you talk to them and say, you know, we'd make more money if you would uh uh make movies that were not combative with your audience, but they just continue to go down that route because it was, as you point out, it's like a religion.
I like the analogy that you had uh about the um uh the religious aspects of this.
Uh it's most definitely a religion, and the most cynical aspect of it is that uh this neo-Marxist ideology, which again is a uh secular humanist religion, yes, has uh adopted many of the Judeo-Christian uh elements of social justice uh as as their goal.
Yes, uh, without crediting uh traditional religion for it, but that's where it's coming from.
Uh but it's uh it's a very cynical uh uh adaptation, uh if you will, because it really has nothing to do with uh social justice as it was understood in traditional religious uh mode.
So let me ask you, what what do we do to uh reclaim a uh religious foundation in this thing?
How do we uh how do we get that old-time religion uh, you know, what is it uh is it based on what we do in terms of education?
I think that is fundamental, but how how do you see it?
You know, I I I really can't say that I know the answer to that.
Uh I I I think one of the things that I tend to believe is that the ideas coming out of the woke left at this point uh are so bizarre and so unnatural, if you will, uh, that it may Reach the point where the minds of people will just uh rebel against it and and seek another form of meaning and and and to find that meaning,
they're going to have to go back to traditional religion because in in the West and Western civilization, that's where it comes from.
I can't you can't find anyone who has real moral values that won't trace them at some level back to traditional religion.
So uh I'm I'm hoping that at some point, and maybe it's beginning to occur, th there's some evidence perhaps that it is, uh that people are just getting fed up with this nonsense uh because it makes no sense.
It's not improving their life, and uh they will begin to seek uh other modes of uh meaning.
It seems like the danger is that as people realize that this moral relativism, that this humanism, that this transhumanism, whatever, you know, these different elements don't make any sense, that they can't produce anything that anyone wants.
There's no good to be found in them, that they'll start seeking around for other failed modes, you know, we might wind up with a religion of the state or something like that.
And so that that's the key thing.
Uh when I look at it, uh Dr. Craden, I I I think that um so often, you know, we want to make a major change in our life, and we take off all these different things that we want to do, and we try to do them all at once.
And I think, you know, the wise people have said you you pick one of these things that you want to change in your life, focus on that one at a time.
And I think that uh when we look at society, this big nebulous thing.
I don't think anybody can change society.
It's like trying to uh move this gigantic ship that has massive momentum in the sea with uh a little tiny boat or something.
But I think that uh we can make a change if we accept that we're going to do the small things and and fix those one-on-one in people's lives.
I think that is maybe uh the perspective that we need to have.
We can't fix society, but we can fix maybe one person here and another person there, or maybe a family here and a family there.
And as you point out, that is going to be with a foundation that has a more a moral foundation that is rooted most likely in a religious belief.
Well, I think if there's one thing that probably needs to be done, and it's a small thing, but it's at the same time a huge thing, and that is to focus on the education of our children.
Yes.
Because they are the future, and uh, if they're not educated properly, uh we're going to go down the wrong path in the future.
I agree.
So either changing the public educational system or pulling one's children out of the public educational system and educating them either at home and or in religious schools, I think is probably an important uh task uh and something that needs to be seriously considered by most parents at this point.
I absolutely agree with you.
And I think we can see that the other side agrees with that as well because that's where they began.
You know, they they looked, you look at some of the utopian societies in the middle of 1800s, and they said, well, you know, this uh this uh society that we're trying to set up here failed because we didn't get to the kids early enough, and they were uh entrenched with the values of their parents, which are antithetical to this uh utopian society that we're trying to set up, typically socialist.
And uh so they began in the educational system, and I think that we're going to have to begin there as well, and we're going to have to gradually unroll that, as you said, family by family, they're going to have to have the determination that they are going to take control of their children's education.
Maybe that's going to be homeschool, or if they want to create some other structure in conjunction with other people, uh that uh, you know, they want to have some kind of a charter school or something that's not as formal.
And I think a key issue with all that is going to be it's going to have to be the kind of mindset where people don't place money first.
In other words, if they go begging for uh financial support from the government, uh it's doomed to failure because the government's going to then drag them right back into some uh frame of reference that is going to be antithetical to what they're trying to do.
Uh what what do you think about that?
Well, I I agree with you.
And again, you know, the educational system is one uh critical part of this, but the other critical part is what takes place in the home.
Uh You know, what what values are the parents actually conveying to their children?
And it's not clear to me that even conservatives these days uh have really adhered to the t the proper morality to uh to instill in their children.
I mean they they've given a lot over to the left.
And the propaganda of the left and and the acceptance of homosexuality, uh same-sex marriage, uh all of these types of things, they're all problematic.
Yes.
Uh you know, even even the homosexual population, which uh again I think almost everyone will look will kind of agree is uh is kind of accepted as normal uh these days or or uh or even celebrated, uh there are problems with the homosexual population.
I've treated many homosexuals in in uh my my practice, and they all virtually all have major psychological issues.
And much of the what's detrimental to the morality in in society today is coming from the LGBTQ community, not just the transgender community, yes, uh, but the homosexual community.
Yes, I agree.
I agree.
So, you know, when we look at uh what is happening, um you you've talked about uh what may be happening and the blowback as we see these people who have been gaslit as young children or teenagers into mutilating themselves.
We're starting to see people as they grow up, sorry, say, wait a minute, uh uh you did this to me, and uh I I was taken advantage of.
We've even seen that from a former Navy SEAL who uh they commenced to transition uh as an adult, and he he's came out against that and attacking the people who pushed them in that direction and speaking about how well he said if they can do that to me as an adult Navy SEAL, imagine what they can do to children.
Uh what what do you think is going to happen in that regard in terms of uh how that's going to blow back against the institutions, both educational and even medical.
The transsexual transgender community is uh a community that suffers from severe mental disorder.
Um and this was generally accepted by the psychiatric community until it was infiltrated as well and taken over by uh leftist ideology.
Uh and again, uh it it links directly to the acceptance of homosexuality back in the 1970s when it also was considered a a normal lifestyle instead of a a neurotic uh type of uh disorder.
Um the fact that people can even accept the idea of transgender as a transsexuality i i is just just shows uh how far gone w we are as a as a community, as a society, and and even entertaining the idea.
Yes.
Um and I blame the mental health profession in large measure for this, because the mental health profession has has really taken on the role of Nazi doctors, you know, back in Germany who were working for the state uh without any concern for the welfare of their patients or individuals.
Yes.
So that transgenders uh are are treated in any way other than uh with some type of psychological support is abhorrent, uh frankly.
Yeah.
Absolutely there's going to be blowback, but you we we want to be careful that the blowback doesn't take the form of another element of victimization within society because we have enough of that.
Yes, yes.
That's right.
Um it's kind of interesting, you know, when all this stuff started.
I used to play clips of uh Corporal Klinger from MASH all the time because he was deliberately dressing up in a woman's outfit as a cross-dressing so that he could get a section eight, meaning that he would be declared insane and kicked out of the military because he wanted to get out of the Korean war and go home.
And that was the running joke with him, and they didn't do it because they all knew it was an act.
And so it's kind of it's kind of funny that we see this coming back in that way.
We we know that you know, it is an act by the people who are running the institutions now, rather than the individual who wants to get out of the institution.
Uh they're trying to institutionalize them.
But uh it was always, as you point out, It was a mental disorder.
And um and it still is, quite frankly, it is uh making the people uh as we've seen the violence that's been done recently, uh again, targeting religion and uh the transgender shootings that we had in Nashville and the other one that was up in Minneapolis.
Uh do you want to comment on that?
Well, once again, uh as I said, you know, these uh this population is is seriously mentally disturbed uh and they're very angry.
That generally goes along with serious mental illness.
It's not unusual for seriously mentally ill individuals to be extremely angry and paranoid.
And I think it's the paranoia that you're seeing in this population, uh, you know, when they feel that they're being threatened in some way, uh uh, you know, again artificially, but being threatened by conservatives or being f being threatened by traditional religious ideas, then they lash out.
I mean, they they see this as self-defense on their part.
So again, it's just indicative of how mentally disturbed these individuals are and how in need they are of treatment and how uh uh how abominable it is that the mental health profession has gone along with this idea that this is essentially a lifestyle uh choice.
Yes.
Yeah, that was something that really surprised me when that began about a decade ago.
And uh then five years ago, what we saw was the informed consent attack, how the government started using medicine as a weapon where they remove people's informed consent.
Um talk about that and and the damage that that's done to the institutions, and how do we pull that back?
How do we, you know, RFK Jr. said that his uh mission was to restore confidence in uh the in HHS and by extension, I guess the CDC and FDA and others underneath uh that umbrella.
But um uh are how do they get that kind of confidence back?
Uh we have to see some real change, don't we?
Absolutely.
You know, I I I've written two other books, uh one dedicated to this whole issue of what's taking place in the mental health profession, and the other to in terms of what's going on in the general medical profession, because I in addition to being a psychotherapist, I am actually a pulmonologist, I'm a lung doctor.
Oh, wow.
Um what you think what do you think of the ventilators?
Uh what?
Uh the ventilators.
The ventilators being pushed for people who had respiratory issues at the beginning of the lockdown.
There was a big push for ventilators, and uh I've been told that uh they had a very, very high casualty rate.
What do you think of ventilators?
I'd seen one pulmonologist who said we've never done that type of thing typically.
Well, you know, I I forgive a lot of the confusion that occurred at the beginning of the pandemic, because uh I I think w when you're faced with a serious disease uh and with people dying at an increased rate, it's it's easy to to make mistakes.
Ventilators are are absolutely life-saving uh when they're used properly and when they're used in the right uh for the right populations.
When they're not used properly and overused or used with the incorrect settings, which is often the case, then they can produce increased lung injury and they can produce death.
So again, I I don't know exactly how to evaluate each and every case.
You'd have to look at the specifics of of that.
Sure.
But certainly what the medical profession did with respect to the COVID epidemic again is another abomination.
Um it just speaks to how readily that particular profession and and maybe uh the population in general is to just conform uh to what is expected of them.
Uh uh, but the decisions that were made were were uh uh obviously contrary to general scientific thought.
The idea that a quiet immunity was not effective uh for a virus is uh something that I never heard of.
I mean it was very obvious, I think, to some of us that what was going on with COVID was just uh the scientific decisions were just totally incorrect.
Yeah.
The masking, the distancing, the lack of isolation of the people who are sick and mandating uh vaccines or a vaccine that you had to take uh uh Endless numbers of times.
I mean, no one had ever seen anything like that.
Yeah.
And the fact that the medical profession was on board with that is just uh extraordinary.
Yes.
But if you read the medical journey.
Anyone who questioned the safety of the efficacy or why they would roll something out without sufficient testing of it in a very radically different approach.
They were vilified and canceled.
I get tested that personally.
Well, they were qualified not only by the government, but by the medical profession itself, by the professional societies.
Yes.
You know, the fact that they were threatening cancellation of one's licensure if you uh uh prescribe nivomectin, you mean it's just nonsense.
Yeah.
And nothing that we'd ever seen before.
And and so the medical profession, you know, if you read the medical journals these days, half of the articles are about DEI in in medicine.
They're no longer about medical issues.
They're they're all about, you know, distributing care equitably uh to minority populations.
So I mean the the whole the whole the whole profession has been co-opted by progressive thought.
It's a travesty.
Yes.
And I think people are able to do that.
Yeah.
What Robert Kenney is doing is extremely important.
You know, he may not be right on every issue, but he's certainly right in terms of realizing that what we're doing and prescribing for people has no scientific basis anymore.
And you know, much of this has been because it's co-opted again by money, it's been corrupted, and corrupted largely uh by the influences of foreign governments, particularly China.
When I worked at Harvard, you know, most of the people who were working in the laboratories were Chinese.
The Americans no longer wanted to work in the laboratories.
There wasn't enough money in it for them.
So the Chinese communist party was sending people over here and they were filling up the laboratories.
So the researchers were perfectly happy to have these people here, but they were taking the information and sending it back to China, you know.
And uh so the money it was coming from other places and it just uh corrupted the whole institution.
Well, you know, we were talking about uh the in the insanity of the left and and especially of uh transgenderism, but but it was it really was truly insane.
I mean, even with the virology paradigm, the purpose of a vaccine was to train your immune system.
So how in the world can they say that according to that paradigm that if you uh have actually been exposed to the thing that they're trying to protect you from and you've recovered, how has your immune system not been trained by that?
That's the whole idea of natural immunity.
So uh do we have to go back and uh rethink the whole field of virology now with these people, or is it or was it uh clearly a case that they had a political agenda that had nothing to do with any of their scientific beliefs or teachings?
It's the latter.
Yeah.
Uh I mean I I'm trained also as an immunologist.
Uh and you know, I did research for many years in in respiratory immunology.
Immunologists understand how the immune system works.
Uh and it doesn't work the way the the people were telling us it worked during the COVID epidemic.
Uh so it was clearly political.
It was clearly ideological.
It was clearly being driven by the drug companies and the corruption within the NIH uh with Dr. Fauci and others.
Yes.
So I mean, again, it's just a travesty.
And I don't know what it's going to take to restore you know America's faith in the health profession.
Yeah, I think when you go back and we look at it, you know, people began to look more closely at uh what was happening with the pediatricians and the vaccine schedule and other things like that.
I was really surprised at how they wanted to do multiple boosters with the COVID thing.
I said, you know, what is up with that?
Uh but when I went back and looked at the uh the standard uh vaccine schedule for children, you see the same vaccines being given over and over and over and over again, sometimes multiple times a year for these childhood uh diseases.
And uh that that begins to raise questions as to whether or not what the real motivation is for this and whether or not these things are have any efficacy at all.
Uh I think that's one of the reasons why people are looking at uh the vaccine schedule.
Well, two two things along those lines.
Uh first of all, the children, for the most part, virtually none of them uh developed any lethal disorder from from COVID, so to keep vaccinating them was just improper.
Second of all, the mRNA vaccination uh by itself is it was clearly experimental.
It had never been used, uh it had never been used on people.
And so to use the entire world as uh as a guinea pig to see whether or not this vaccine worked without any knowledge whatsoever as to its efficacy or the complications that might ensue.
It's just extraordinary.
And yet you say that the WHO and the globalists went along with that is just, you know, it just tells you what it's about.
I agree.
Yes.
Yeah.
Moderna had been around for a decade and they had never been able to get past any safety testing.
So with this, they just skipped it.
But now we we're the situation where and you've got a lot of people in the current administration who are trying to remove all of the concerns about AI and rush it as quickly as possible.
Peter Thiel says that he's trying to tie it into uh Christian eschatology and saying that if you try to regulate AI, uh you're gonna have to do it with the global government, which is going to actually be the beast itself, not the AI, but the global government.
And uh so there's a uh move to get rid of any oversight of AI, and there's also a move to get rid of oversight of MRA.
And you you've got people who are rushing to apply this in a lot of places.
Trump's very first uh event that he had was Stargate, where they wanted to use AI to design mRNA, and it's like, whoa, you know, how could possibly go wrong with this?
Uh how do we have control?
Well, I think people need to begin to reevaluate what progress actually means.
Um progress is not solely uh some advance in technology.
I agree.
Progress needs to have some uh some evaluation with respect to whether or not it improves, you know, the welfare of society.
And if it doesn't do that, then that's not necessarily progress.
I mean, Chesterton wrote about that, you know, years ago.
Uh and so I I think people need to get beyond their individual comforts and ease and and really see, you know, is what's being introduced into my life uh into this society improving it or not.
I agree.
I agree.
Yes.
Uh the book is a godless crusade, the progressive campaign to rid the world of religion.
We're talking to Dr. Richard Crayton, that's K-R-A-D-I-N.
Do you have a website that you sell that, or can people find this on Amazon only?
Or best.
You can find it on Amazon and Bonds and Noble.
Okay, great, great.
Well, it's a fascinating book, and I think it is important for us to keep pointing back to the foundation that we must have.
We are a society that is cut adrift, and we're being tossed about by every new wave of ideas or technology that come in.
We're going to have to have an anchor somewhere.
And that has always been religion.
You're right about that.
And um I think an anchorless society is a very dangerous society.
And I think we're approaching a very dangerous time.
And people need to start looking at uh what is really going to be necessary for us to move forward in all this.
I agree.
Thank you so much for for focusing that on that.
And I think it's it's very important that you see it for what it is, I think, and that is a crusade.
It really is their religion, and they really are on crusade with it.
And and they seem to be uh, even though they deny any objective truth in their moral relativism, uh, they hold that, if you want to call it a truth, that truth is totally absolute, and a few other things that they push out there, and they seem to have a greater conviction, unfortunately, in this um uh uh r religious uh lack of religion or lack of any moral beliefs.
They have more of a conviction to that religion than uh the people who profess to have a connection to religion too.
I think that's one of the reasons why we're losing the battle.
So thank you so much for picking that up and pointing out uh the different aspects of that.
And um the things that you talked about was uh the narcissism of the left and the woke technology.
Talk a little bit about that from a psychological standpoint.
I think people are very fascinated by narcissism.
It's kind of hard to get our heads Around it, but uh uh just briefly, what do you what do you think?
As we're almost out of time, uh, as a parting thing here, what do you see the narcissism of the left?
How does it uh manifest itself?
You know, one of the basic tenets of virtually all uh traditional religions is an abhorrence of narcissism.
That is, you know, the idea that one is egotistic, prideful.
Yes.
Thinks that you know things revolve around oneself and uh totally involved, engaged with oneself.
That would that was one of the messages, critical messages of religion.
As religion is uh basically ignored, narcissism emerges and replaces it.
And you know, Christopher Lash wrote about this back in the 70s that we've become a culture of narcissism.
I don't think there's any question about it.
All you need to do is see people out on the street or see what's on social media or on the TV screens or in the movies.
Uh it's all about uh self-absorb self-absorption.
Yes.
So uh uh again, in in the absence of religion, of religious ideas that that counter that uh one comes up, one comes to a society where individuals just uh are completely self-absorbed and not particularly concerned about the welfare of others.
I mean, that's really what narcissism is.
I think exactly right.
We end the interview on a very important insight, I think.
You know, we see that in Christianity.
We see the pride of Satan from the very beginning, and uh, we're told that in the last days people will become lovers of themselves.
And that we now call that narcissism, but that's that's exactly what it is.
Lovers of themselves more than they love God or each other or anything else.
And that really is where we are.
So thank you very much.
Again, the book is A Godless Crusade, the Progressive Campaign to Read the World of Religion by Dr. Richard Crayden.
Thank you so much, sir, for joining us.
And uh all of you, thank you for joining us and have a good day.
Hopefully we'll see you tomorrow.
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