Ep. 1266 – HOW WE FIGHT dissects GOP Senator Schnorer’s shift to Fox News-driven attacks, Congressman Lovelace’s critique of Trump’s policies, and the left’s weaponization of language—like "minor attracted person" for pedophilia—to distort truth. The Super Bowl halftime show sparks debate: Kid Rock’s TPUSA concert drew viewers but failed to counter cultural narratives, while Bad Bunny’s performance is framed as ideological propaganda. A White House hearing on anti-Semitism exposes clashes over Zionism, with critics dismissing Carrie Prision Bowler’s arguments. The episode warns against conflating personal kindness with broad moral compromises, urging truth and discernment in faith, art, and politics to resist the polluted "zeitgeist." [Automatically generated summary]
Republicans are beginning to panic as polls show them losing popularity before the upcoming midterm elections.
In a party Zoom meeting to discuss the crisis, GOP Senator Samuel T. Schnorer from the great state of lassitude told his colleagues, quote, When I first saw the new numbers, I nearly lost my head.
I started babbling like a crazy man about passing laws and cutting entitlement spending before it drives us into insolvency.
Thank God, my consultant was there to slap me in the face until I came to my senses and realized if we start passing laws and all sorts of loony stuff like that, we might be blamed for the results.
I think we just have to stick to the original game plan of shaking our fists at Democrats on Fox News, unquote.
GOP Congressman Lauren Lovelace from the persistent state of hysteria blamed President Trump for the bad poll numbers, saying, quote, the president keeps doing things.
Things are bad, especially when you do them.
That's why we do nothing.
It literally means no thing.
It's right there in the word.
Really, being a congressman is not that complex if you know how to speak English.
Also, you have to know when to stop speaking English before you actually say something and instead just keep shaking your fist at Democrats on Fox News, unquote.
The polls do confirm that Trump's actions are alienating some people in the party's coalition.
According to one poll, Nikolai Kaminsky, 67% of Republicans feel Trump is not carrying out their wishes that he would make government smaller while not cutting any of their benefits, bring down prices while continuing to print massive amounts of money so they don't lose any of their benefits, and deport illegal immigrants without making it hard to find someone to mow your lawn while you pay him crap wages and shout, that's mucho denero, amigo, because what the hell does he know?
He doesn't even speak English.
According to another poll, Stanislaw Dabrowski, 55% of independent voters feel the news under the Trump administration is far too chaotic, and they yearn for the days when they could kick back in front of the TV and watch President Biden shuffle around aimlessly calling America racists while reporters marveled at his ability to lick an ice cream cone and fall down a flight of stairs at the same time.
In yet another poll, this one at the Spearman Rhino Club in Oakland, 75% of Republicans who listened to Tucker Carlson blame Trump for sending Christian men to die for Israel in Carlson's imagination.
95% of Carlson's listeners who named their firstborn sons Adolph are also angry that Trump prevented the Iranian mullahs from acquiring nuclear weapons, which would have sure come in handy the next time their pagers blew their testicles off.
Finally, according to the traditionally reliable North Poll, 116% of readers of the New York Times, a former newspaper, are furious at the things they read about Trump doing in the Times, and they're deeply concerned he might start doing them in real life as well.
Democrats are seizing on these poll numbers to launch attacks on the administration that they feel will resonate with the public.
Democrat strategist Lilith Abaddon rolled over in bed and told a reporter, quote, affordability was a good issue until people discovered inflation was caused by President Biden printing massive amounts of money before tripping over a sandbag, flying out the door, bumping into a little girl and burying his nose in her hair while calling half the electorate fascist.
So now, we've cleverly switched to harping on deporting illegal immigrants who came swarming into the country by the millions while President Biden was falling off his bicycle and lying face down in the mud for three hours before anyone realized he was no longer in the Oval Office.
Right now, we feel the idea of defunding ICE will be really popular with millions of poor refugees who came to this country simply looking for a better life with their 72 virgins in heaven, unquote.
As for Republicans, they say they will continue to beat back the tide of unpopularity until their fists get tired from being shaken on Fox News.
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Let us get directly to today's episode, How We Fight.
I want to continue talking about what I was talking about last week.
So I'm going to do a brief recap as if we were on Netflix, but without the homosexuality.
America is, I was talking about the fact that America is in a time of great transition.
And most of this just arises naturally from the fact that my generation, the boomers, are passing away.
I'm hoping they won't take me with them, but I'm afraid they might.
And our generation was often wrong-headed, but we were competent.
We knew how to run, you know, fix a car tire and things like that.
And so a lot of the things we did in office and powerful boomers did in office actually worked even when we were doing the wrong thing.
So we've had one major attempt to go past the boomers with a new younger president, which was Barack Obama.
And he looked like he was perfect for the role.
He was the post-racial future.
He was going to forgive, you know, let bygones be got bygones and the racial sniping was going to end.
And no, that's not the way it turned out.
He was a sinister socialist and racist disaster.
He destroyed our healthcare systems, promoted Iran, and turned us against each other for racial reasons to hide the fact that all of his policies were failing.
But people did catch on because while they liked him and didn't vote him out of office, they voted out every other Democrat in the country.
So we have now returned to the old guys with Biden and now Trump, which is obviously has taught us a temporary stopgap since eventually the boomers will go out the door.
I hate to break this to myself, but in fact, it's true.
Now, at the same time that was happening, we had this incredible transformation, this technological transformation, which was the internet and the proliferation of information outlets, which undermined this carefully built monopoly that the left had on the engines of culture.
So this leaves us in a fight for who is going to get control of the culture at the same time we fight for who is going to get control of our politics.
And the battleground of the cultural fight are the media, you know, an information high ground, like the academies, the news media, and the arts and the left who have been able to strangle dissent for maybe 30 years and competition from the right by blacklisting us and demonizing us and labeling our love of liberty and family and country as bigoted or phobic or authoritarian.
They've really had a lot of power to shut us down and make us feel like, oh, I can't say anything because I must be the only person who thinks that socialism is bad because they made it sound like that.
They made you feel like that.
And so they are now threatened by losing that monopoly.
Almost everything people say is not the only way to look at our politics, but it is a very important way to see our politics as part of this battle for control of the culture.
The news media, the academies, the entertainment outlets.
This is on the left.
Whenever you hear people saying we've lost our shared reality, what they mean is we're losing control of dictating what that reality is.
And when they say, oh, this is misinformation or hate speech, it's simply an attempt to brand anything that undermines their informational power by bullying us into silence.
And they are losing it.
They are losing that power, which is why the reelection of Donald Trump, despite every cultural lever that they pulled, I mean, they used the courts, they used the TV, they used entertainment, they used everything they possibly could.
They had everything.
They had all of the high ground and he still won.
And basically proving, as I said on the night, as I realized on the night, that there were information sources that were replacing them and people had stopped trusting them and they had lost the faith of the people, that people were no longer going to eat that slop without even thinking about it.
So it's a real trauma for them.
And then you have the renegade right.
You have Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens and Nick Fuentes telling you that, no, they've got the inside story.
They understand the real conspiracy.
They don't have any evidence, but it's coming.
The evidence is coming.
But they get the real conspiracy.
And by the way, it's the Jews.
You never would have thought of that.
They are taking advantage of the fact that the mainstream outlets have lied to you.
So you don't know who to believe.
You don't know where to go for news.
And you know that they've lied to you so that they could do things you didn't want them to do, like open the borders while they sat there with that bland smile on their face saying the borders are secure.
And so these renegade right-wingers, and they're, I don't even know if they're right-wingers.
Once you start with the Jew stuff, you end up being a leftist.
I mean, you listen to Canthis Owens now.
She's on the left.
I mean, there's nothing conservative about her.
But they want to seize the open space as the mainstream left loses its place.
They want to seize that place and keep wiser heads from taking it over.
And so they're going to play into your suspicions.
They're going to play into your worst prejudices and fears.
And they're especially going to play into your anger at being betrayed by the elites.
Anger, as I always tell you, anger is the devil's cocaine, and they're the corner boys.
They're the pushers of that cocaine.
So here on this show, in this little island of the Andrew Clavin Show, we are dedicated to one thing, and we've been really open about where we stand.
We believe in American liberty, which requires reverence for our founding ideals and adherence to our constitutional principles and a humble acceptance of the reality of a God who looks suspiciously like the God of the Old and New Testament.
So that's basically what I pitch for.
And if that's not enough to get your juices flowing, you got to go elsewhere and buy the cocaine because we're not selling the cocaine.
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I want to start with this because I like to keep things light and I like to laugh.
And this is hilarious.
A little more than a week ago, the Washington Post laid off almost 30% of its workforce, including 300 of its 800 so-called reporters, saying they were simply just losing too much money to go on the way they were going, which means their international news, sports news, and local news will almost vanish.
And I believe, I said this last week, I believe these people will ultimately be replaced by a better, more mixed staff.
It's like 20 years ago, I wrote a piece in the LA Times saying, hire some conservatives if you don't want to go down this drain.
But nobody listens to Andrew, so that they didn't listen.
But I think they'll do that now.
I don't think they're going to go on as a penny saver like this.
So listen to some reactions in the press.
Here's David Remnick, who runs The New Yorker, a total left-wing rag, in my opinion.
He says, early in his proprietorship, Bezos endorsed a new motto for the paper, Democracy Dies in Darkness.
It turns out that one of democracy's most celebrated media institutions can be strangled in broad daylight.
So remember, this is an icon.
The Washington Post is an icon of left-wing media.
It is a left-wing paper, and they want you to think that it is, for all of us, a media icon.
It's not.
It's a left-wing bulwark of this territory that they have owned and they've hold on to by their fingernails.
Slate, another left-wing outlet by Alex Kirsner, he says, Jeff Bezos killed the Washington Post.
The billionaire wanted the post to die because a vigorous, well-resourced newspaper does not help his bottom line.
I'm sure that's what Jeff Bezos was thinking about.
Here's Ashley Parker at The Atlantic, which is also used to be a much better magazine, but it's now gone woke as well.
We're witnessing a murder.
Jeff Bezos, you got to say that, murder.
Jeff Bezos, the billionaire owner of The Washington Post and Will Lewis, the publisher he appointed at the end of 2023, are embarking on the latest step of their plan to kill everything that makes the paper special.
Now, this all translates into one thing, that we on the brain dead left, this is what they're saying, we on the brain dead left are losing one of our powerful outlets.
And you know, you may think, well, I don't even read the newspapers, but everybody who gives you the news reads the newspapers.
Ultimately, something is coming from the newspapers because they're the only ones with the time and the reporting power to go out and get the stories in depth that everybody uses.
So I'm very opposed to what the Germans call Schadenfreude.
probably heard that word before, schada.
Schaden is German for shame.
You know, when you want to say, oh, that's too bad, you say schada, schaden, or schada schaden.
And Freuda means joy, as in Beethoven's Ode to Joy, it was called something like the Andie Freud.
So schadenfreude is finding joy in other people's shame or misfortune, right?
So it's more, it's immoral to do that, but we all know that sometimes you just can't help it, and I can't help it in this case.
And the reason for this is I get a lot of news subscriptions through the Daily Wire, so I get news from everywhere.
But I like to receive one dead tree newspaper at home, and it was always the Wall Street Journal.
And recently I got angry at them because they're endless griping and hysteria about tariffs and arresting illegal immigrants, whom they don't call illegal immigrants.
They call them immigrants, which is wrong.
And I got so, talk about anger as the devil's cocaine.
You know, I'm a very even-tempered person, but I just got canceled my subscription.
So I got the Washington Post instead, so at least I would have the theater listings.
And I want to apologize to the Wall Street Journal.
They've calmed down on the tariffs, calmed down a little bit on the illegal immigrants.
And they are still, with Brett Baer on Fox, the best daily news coverage out there.
And I made a mistake.
So now I read them on iPad.
But I have been getting the Washington Post every day.
And this paper is crap.
I mean, recently they brought in Adam O'Neill to redo the op-ed page.
He's done a very good job.
He's making it much more fair.
It's not one way or the other.
It's a fair, level-headed op-eds section.
I knew Adam when I wrote for him, when he was the editor of the Houses of Worship column at the Wall Street Journal.
I respect him, and I think he's doing a really good job.
But aside from that, this paper is, the Washington Post is garbage.
Its art reviews are disgraceful.
I mean, every review has to attack Trump, every single one, no matter what it's about.
You know, there'll be a book about Jews in America.
Isn't it amazing that they would bring about a book like this when this fascist Jew hater, and you're like, Trump?
You know, what the hell's wrong with you?
Doesn't matter.
Whatever the subject is, they have to attack Trump on it.
There's sports coverage.
Here on the day of the Super Bowl, or right before the Super Bowl, the story by Adam Kilgore, the most relevant figure to Super Bowl 60, is absent from it.
The game will be played in his former home stadium, in the place where his protest made him a national lightning rod and a global symbol.
Who do you think it is?
Colin Kaepernick.
Colin Kaepernick.
This is the guy who started the kneeling, taking a knee because of racial prejudice.
And he says the image of Kaepernick on his knee became a worldwide emblem of outrage over police violence and racial injustice.
Well, no, it didn't.
This was, again, the left peddling this.
Remember the Nike commercial, which said, believe in something even if you sacrifice everything?
It's like Colin Kaepernick was a second-rate talent.
He had a couple of moments when, like most of these new quarterbacks, he could run and pass.
The minute he lost his running game, he was destroyed.
And what he was protesting wasn't happening.
The police do not single out black people.
There's a lot of crime in black neighborhoods for all kinds of reasons that have nothing to do with the color of their skin.
It's a lot of crime.
And the cops can't help it.
The cops didn't cause it.
It's Democrat policies mostly that cause it, but the cops just have to handle it.
And so they deal with black people a lot.
But what he was saying was untrue.
And the thing is, I stopped watching.
I stopped watching NFL football, which I love.
I love watching football.
And I stopped watching it because I just thought, you know, you want American rights.
Respect the American flag.
If you think you're being treated unfairly, I'll listen to your argument.
I might not agree with you, but I'll listen to your argument until you tell me the flag that people have fought for and died for is not worthy of your respect because that's ridiculous.
So even the Washington Post legend of itself, which has to do with the Watergate hit on Nixon, all the president's men, Woodward and Bernstein, that's their great moment when they brought down an evil president.
It's now coming out.
I don't have time to talk about this, but it's coming out that Nixon, not that Nixon was innocent, but he was a target of the deep state.
He took on the deep state and the CIA and the military-industrial complex.
They wanted him gone, and he was targeted by them.
And I think that that's part of what was happening.
And when you take down Nixon, whom you hated, while letting JFK get away with the things he did, including rape in the White House, I think that you're not actually making yourself a legend.
You're just making yourself a pain in the neck.
And you're targeting people you dislike.
So the Washington Post is just bunkum.
And it's true, too.
You know, they tried to debunk Hunter Biden's laptop.
So did CBS.
Catherine Herridge, great Fox News reporter, went to CBS and a couple of years ago came out and said they let her cover Hunter Biden's laptop, but only after the midterms.
They didn't want the news, the scandal to affect the midterms, and then they shut her down.
Here's Catherine Herridge cut one.
Once we got the laptop story on the morning news, I felt that there was so much there that we could still do.
For example, in the text messages, there's unfortunately the use of the N-word, the liberal use of the N-word.
And I thought this was worthy of a story, but I was told that it was not something that interested CBS News.
Then I asked for a forensic review of the laptop and we found that there were more than half a dozen emails that were likely used by Joe Biden.
I thought that was a story.
But the answer that came back was, well, we need to know what the content is of the emails.
But that was going to be a years-long process.
So there was no way.
So there were a lot of reasons I was told not to do it, not to pursue it.
So, you know, they're covering up for Joe Biden and for Hunter Biden because Joe Biden was involved in a lot of that corruption.
New York Times, same thing.
They beefed up the Russian collusion hoax.
And when that fell through because of the Mueller report, found that there was no Russian collusion, they held a meeting in August.
The staff in the newsroom in Dean Bicket, August 2019, and Dean Biquet said, you know, don't worry, we're going to move on to calling Trump a racist now.
We're going to cover him from a racist point of view.
And that moved on to become the 1619 Project.
And of course, the George Floyd riots, which the New York Times and all leftist outlets promoted as mostly peaceful protests against the evil of the police, which was just all nonsense.
Nellie Bull's memoir, she's the one who was married to Barry Weiss, who's now taking over CBS.
And her memoir talked about how she wanted to cover the riots in Seattle, which, you know, Seattle was taken over by leftist thugs.
And she said, I ran into a colleague at the New York Times.
She was a financial reporter at the New York Times.
I ran into a colleague who was a rising newsroom leader.
He said he was worried about what these story ideas said about me and if I was thinking about my career.
That's a threat.
She was threatened.
She said Antifa was nonsense, a nothing burger, a non-story, not interesting, not real.
He said the reason he doesn't go to Seattle and cover things like this is because he knows right now it's time for white people to sit certain things out.
So these are the practices of a corrupt press.
This is a practice of a press that thought they would never be taken down, that thought their domination, their monopoly on information was going to stay forever.
I told you this during the pandemic when the George Floyd riots happened.
I said they think they've won.
They think they're never going to be taken down.
They're wrong.
Well, now it's happening.
I mean, you know, the other day there was a mass shooting in British Columbia, Canada.
I'm sure you heard this.
And the police came out and said, oh, it was committed by a gun person because it was committed by another transgender person.
Just like in Nashville, they were going to cover it up.
But this one came out.
They're still covering it up in a lot of ways.
You know, saying we don't know what his motives are, you know, just like the Muslims who we may never know why they blew themselves out shouting Allahu Akbar.
So every word you hear in the news media for so long has been slanted in one way or another.
And the mainstream media isn't dying because of technology or because, you know, Jeff Bezos is mean or because of Donald Trump.
The job of a reporter is to report the facts.
It's not to sell an ideology unless the ideology is fully identified.
That's why I don't pick on MS Now, as they call it, in MSNBC, because they come out and say, we're crazy leftist people and here's the crazy leftist news.
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And I think, okay, I can live with that.
But if your slogan is all the news that's fit to print and you print all the news that fits the narrative, if your slogan is democracy dies in darkness and then you turn off the lights so nobody can see, you are not doing your job.
All your complaints, all your Jeff Bezos, you know, murdered the Washington Post, all your Barry Weiss's mean, all lies.
You did it.
You did it to yourself.
You lied and lied and lied.
You're corrupt.
You are corrupt down to your toes.
And I got one thing to say to you, and it's cut to.
If I didn't have to move on, I would play that 300 times.
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Chapter two, Bad Bunny's Bad.
Then there's entertainment.
I said, you know, there's the news media, there's entertainment, and there's other areas, the academies.
But entertainment, we had this really interesting conversation on Friendly Fire, where we all get together and talk.
And this was about the Super Bowl halftime show.
And, you know, this is about the fight for the entertainment space because both football and the halftime show are entertainment.
And I never watch the halftime show.
First of all, because I'm male and I just don't care, but also I don't like pop music.
So I have no way of judging whether the show is good or bad.
I mean, I can only do what most conservatives do, which is judging art by what it says, what they think it's saying.
And that is not how actually you judge art.
You judge art as an aesthetic thing.
A left-wing piece of work can be very good.
Usually, if it's very good, it will tell a truth that will be conservative because conservatism is just about the truth.
But still, you have to judge art by its ability to do what art does, which is delight and entertain and move you and communicate the human experience.
And so I don't watch it, and I tend not to talk about it because I think it's a dodge.
The NFL gets rich off Americans who probably are more, you know, if they polled them, would probably be more in the conservative vein.
Whenever Trump shows up at a football game, everybody cheers.
And then they put on these entertainments that are meant to stick us on the eye, and then they sit back and watch us complain and sound like cranky old men.
And so I always feel that that's a win for them.
I can't tell the difference between, you know, Bad Bunny songs and the tinkling music that comes out of a taco truck.
You know, they all sound the same to me.
And then I went over to TPUSA, who put on alternative patriotic programming, which I'm thrilled that they did.
But I listened to that.
And to me, it's just an guy shouting America in a rough voice and hitting an electric guitar, which to me sounds like I'm being electrocuted.
So I have no way of doing it.
But I will say it was very clear the message from Bad Bunny was a leftist, nasty message.
His entire act was apparently in Spanish.
So it wasn't in the language of our country.
And this is what he said at the very end.
Listen to this.
It's cut three.
God bless America.
Serate, Argendina, Puruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, El Puadal, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Buyana, Panama, Postarika, Nicaragua, Hondura, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Cuba, República, Dominicana, Hamalta, Yida, Antilla, United States, Canada.
Amazon, Vivadria, Puerto Rico.
All right.
So, in other words, God bless America doesn't mean God bless the United States of America.
It means all of the socialist dictatorships in South America and in Canada.
You know, we're not special.
And he's telling us, he's swaggering around and he's telling us.
So, yeah, it's offensive and it's insulting to most of the audience in America, although a lot of them turned it off.
But I can't judge his performance.
And so I don't want to fall into this trap of, you know, of becoming the cranky old guy who we all sound like no matter how old we are.
Chris Ruffo said something similar on X.
He said, the problem with the annual conservative outrage cycle over the Super Bowl halftime show is that it has no impact on the NFL and makes conservatives look weak and left behind.
Kid Rock, who was the guy at the TPUSA concert, does not change this calculus.
He reinforces it.
The ghettoization of conservative culture.
I'm a right-winger.
I love country music.
But come on, Kid Rock did not mog Bad Bunny.
This wasn't a stunning culture war victory.
Advertisers are not going to flock away from the Super Bowl.
Conservatives have started lying to themselves and to their audiences.
Not good.
Now, the TPUSA concert did get a lot of people on.
I don't know the exact numbers, but it did quite well.
And the people watching the Super Bowl dropped off during halftime.
I think most guys turned it off or go, you know, I always go have dinner with my wife.
This time I was with my grandson.
So I just pounded on him for a couple of minutes and then went back to watching the game.
But Matt Walsh had another take on Friendly Fire.
And you will be shocked to know that I actually respected Walsh's take.
Here he is, Cut Four.
The other thing that we're used to from conservatives, which is you have this huge win, this like unprecedented that you counter-program the Super Bowl and it pays off.
One of the, I think, the biggest top three streams in the history of YouTube they had.
I mean, it's huge.
And then immediately, what do you have on the right, which you never have on the left, is all these conservatives that have to start.
Well, I don't.
It seems like that was a big win, but actually it's bad.
Let me explain why this thing that seems really good is actually bad.
Let me explain why, yeah, they went out and did something that had a big success, but it would have been better if they didn't do that.
Or, you know, having these critiques that are totally useless.
Like, you know what I think would have been better?
What if they had an even bigger star than Kid Rock?
That would have been better.
Oh, you think they didn't think of that?
So I really respected that opinion.
I thought, like, yeah, as a culture war thing, I think that the TPUSA thing was great.
I appreciate what they're doing.
And I think he's absolutely right.
You know, people, younger artists don't come out and support conservatives because they'll sacrifice their career where older artists feel like they've already got what they've got and they're going to be all right.
It's tough out there.
It's a very, very hard profession.
Entertainment, writing novels, these are tough professions to make it in.
And you don't want to sacrifice that unless you're a self-destructive, crazy man like me.
You don't want to sacrifice that just for the right to speak your mind.
So Matt is a culture warrior.
He's a great Samas dot artist.
His films are terrific, Samas dot, you know.
And I'm just an artist.
I just want the arts to be the arts.
I want the arts to stop being propaganda because it kills them, because they're dead, because they're ugly and stupid and small-minded.
I don't want that.
I want all different kinds of people to create art.
So I respect his warrior strategy, but I'm after something different.
There was one thing that Chris Rufo said that I did disagree with.
He said, I used to think the problem was conservative billionaires don't care about culture.
But over time, I realized that the problem is not with capital, but with both the supply of creatives and the demand.
There's an audience of culture production.
There's tons of money sloshing around with nowhere to go.
And even if we had great artists, it is not certain that they would find an audience.
I disagree with this because I think it's short-sighted.
If you build it, they will come.
I've talked to billionaires a lot and made speeches before billionaires.
And he's absolutely right.
They are willing, but they don't know where to put the money because they're not artists.
So they'll come up to me and say, can we give you money?
And you'll be shocked to know, probably not that shocked to know.
They say, no, I don't need your money.
I make money by creating art.
I'm a very talented, very hard-boiled guy who has found ways to bring my art to people.
And you guys have supported me.
And so I'm also rich because I don't like a lot of stuff.
I've got hundreds of millions of dollars of things that I don't want.
So I have all that money that I don't need or have to spend.
But what we do need, we need billionaires to start building infrastructure, a think tank like Andrew Breitbart wanted for art instead of just policy, review venues with people who really know what they're talking about.
And yeah, some promotion money for, you know, anybody, listen, anybody who wants to send me money.
I'm sorry I've turned down all that money.
Anybody who wants to send me money, I'll make a movie, send me five, 10 million bucks.
I'll make a movie.
You can just go on my website and your email will come right to me.
I'll promote my books with it.
So go ahead, send me some money.
But listen, we're in this situation.
It is not that there are no artists, that the artists all know that they'll be destroyed.
Like Sidney Sweeney, she can't buy a good review because she won't kowtow to the leftist tyrants.
That's why she can't do it.
She's a very talented actress, obviously a very beautiful girl.
And she can't buy a good review because she basically suggested that some of her family were MAGA.
So that means the next starlet knows to keep her mouth shut.
They go after J.K. Rowling.
They can't touch her because she's a billionaire.
They go after her because she's honest about what transgenderism is and what it's not.
But if you're a writer, you know you're not as strong as J.K. Rowling, so you don't do it.
So the answer is, look, make good art, have courage, build good platforms where you can get your art out to people.
I've made art for, I've made a movie for iPad with my friend Neil Edelstein.
I've done all kinds of things to get my books out there.
I've established a platform so I can sell my books.
You guys have supported me.
It's just, you just have to do it.
Let your work sing out.
Don't be afraid.
Don't be afraid.
But it's got to be art.
You've got to learn how to make art.
And you can't learn to make art without experiencing art and understanding art.
And this is where the victory lies.
And It's going to be more and more easy to do that as the internet gives us tools to make things that we couldn't make before.
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Chapter 3, For God's Sake.
My priest taught me that this means for God's reputation.
When it says do something for God's sake, it means for God's reputation.
In other words, this is a lot in the letters, the epistles of Paul, when he says, you know, obey the civil authorities and do all this stuff.
He wants to make sure that you don't misrepresent God, that you don't show people that God means you're going to be a ruffian or you can do whatever you want.
You can lie or cheat or steal.
That's why you want to behave in a way that people respect because you are selling God.
You are the emissary of God.
And, you know, I think about this a lot because the biggest hit on me by people who like the show is they say, well, he says a lot of good things, but Christianity is heretical or it's wrong or it's mistaken.
And there's truth to that.
If what they mean is that my reading and study of the Bible sometimes causes me to contradict what this church or that church says Christianity should be.
My faith consists of a living relationship with Jesus Christ as I know him through scripture and prayer and study.
And my Christianity, which is different than my faith, my Christianity is the things that I do and the church that I attend that facilitates and deepens my relationship by giving me rituals and fellowship and information through sermons and things like that.
That deepens my relationship and helps me to have that relationship in fellowship with other people.
So that's the way it works for me.
And so, so, yeah, sometimes I look at, you know, Jesus says, judge not lest you be judged.
And the church says, well, what he meant was, you know, don't judge people hypocritically.
And I think, you know, the guy's the living word.
I'm pretty sure he can use words to mean what he says.
And I think he meant, judge not lest you be judged.
And that's a complex thing.
What does it mean?
It doesn't mean that you let people off the hook for murder or anything like that, but it does mean you look at people in a different way.
And so that gets people angry and it upsets people.
And it especially upsets people who don't want to let go of that capacity for judging people's sins.
You know, because obviously you have to judge people's behavior if somebody is a hit and run driver.
You have to report that.
But, you know, you don't have to judge people's sins.
It's not your job.
It's not your job.
You're free.
You know, I let you go.
You know, you were let go by the God of heaven and earth.
He said, I've got this.
I will do this.
If you are interested in the way I think of this, probably the best expression of it is in the last part of The Truth and Beauty, but you should read the whole book.
It's a short book, and it will tell you how I feel about this.
So when I first started doing this, the minute I turned my attention to what I thought was a political crisis in America that was really a cultural crisis in America, I felt that the heart of all our problems was the death of God, the death of faith.
You know, it's kind of Nietzsche was right when it's going to be a catastrophe when the framework of Western civilization, which is Christianity, falls away because people stop believing.
And, you know, it's obvious.
Without God, nature is accidental.
Reality is unreliable.
Morality is relative.
You know, you can't run a society like that.
We know what happens when you do that.
Some strong man takes it over because it descends into chaos and then you've got fascism and death and it's not a fun thing.
So if you want to be free, you have to know that there is a shared moral, that there's a moral order.
You have to have some kind of agreement on what the nature of God is and what the nature of that moral order is.
And, you know, it's delicate because God has made the world, so you have to choose.
He wants you to be free.
And so he's made the world.
So you have to choose whether you're going to have faith or not.
He doesn't prove himself to you.
He's not amenable to proof.
He's not there to be proved or disproved.
He simply says, look, you know, which is it?
You know, is like, is there a difference between giving a beggar bread and curb stomping a child to death?
Because if you think that there is somehow an objective morality, you cannot construct that.
Trust me, I tried to do this for 40 years.
You can't construct an objective morality without God.
You know, either the world assembled itself accidentally, like wind blowing through a junkyard and constructing a 747, or it was made by a mind.
And, you know, like everything else that was made that has a design, it was made by a mind.
You know, either there's a man and woman inside each of us who we are supposed to be in order to fulfill God's will, but we haven't become that person yet, but we're striving toward it, or not.
You're just a sort of materialist act of flatulence out of the backside of the universe.
You know, those are your choices, and you have to decide.
So this week there was a hearing of the White House Religious Liberty Commission on anti-Semitism.
And as you know, I believe that anti-Semitism is a hatred of that God because it was the Jews who brought us the Jewish God and allowed everybody to share in that through Jesus Christ.
And so I believe that the uprising of anti-Semitism is a rebellion against God.
Not that you have to like this Jew or that Jew, you know, not that you have to agree with everything Israel does, none of that stuff.
It's simply if you're filled with hatred and obsessive hatred, like Candace and Tucker and Nick, if you're filled with obsessive hatred, you are in rebellion against God.
So Carrie Prisjon Bowler, I believe her last name is pronounced, is on this commission, is on the Religious Liberty Commission, appointed by Donald Trump.
And if you don't recognize that name or you think you do, she was a beauty queen.
She was Miss California and she was in the Miss USA competition.
And Perez Hilton, who if you don't remember him, he was this Hollywood gossip guy, flamboyantly gay, during the questions where he was a judge, one of the judges in the contest.
And he asked Carrie about same-sex marriage.
And she said, well, in America, each person gets to choose what they believe, but I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.
I'm paraphrasing, but that's basically what she said.
And of course, it was the Inquisition.
She was tormented.
She was hounded from pillar to post.
She had to say, oh, yes, I would meet with gay people.
But that was a brave thing to do.
And it was the courageous, it was the thing of integrity to do.
That was what she believed.
And shame on the people who shamed her.
So she has some based credentials, I think.
But unfortunately, she caught this demon bug that's going around.
She became a Catholic a year ago, and somehow their version of Catholicism is not the one that I believe in.
I'm an Anglican Catholic, but still.
And this thing with anti-Semitism, it truly looks so much like demon possession that I wonder if that is what it is.
She arrived at this hearing wearing a Palestinian flagpin, and she started to interrogate the panel on whether anti-Zionism was anti-Semitism.
See, this is the selling point.
Oh, you can't say anything about Israel, or you're shut down by being called anti-Semitic, right?
Now, you know, if Zionism means support for a Jewish state, then I'm definitely a Zionist.
I support a Jewish state.
But I don't think it's a religious obligation, as far as I can tell.
I mean, look, when I read the Bible, it seems to me the Bible supports it.
God promised this land to the Jews.
Isaiah prophesied that they would return to this land and that that remnant would be important in the history of salvation.
And it seems to me the Bible supports Zionism, but I don't think it's an obligation.
I think you're free to read the Bible in different ways.
And still, but I don't think it's an obligation not to be a Zionist, a Christian obligation not to be a Zionist.
As I say, I am, and I do believe it is a godly thing, but that's not the point.
So she goes in with this challenging thing.
Are you saying we can't criticize anti-Zionism, all this?
And she got slammed by this guy named Rabbi Ari Berman, who challenged her on this.
And here's that exchange, cut five.
One does not have to support the specific policies of the government of Israel, but to not support the right of Israel to exist, which is what anti-Zionists do, while not taking that same stand to the 28 Muslim countries and 13 Christian countries in this world, is a double standard, is hypocrisy, and is absolutely anti-Semitism.
I think it's also important that we not make Islamophobic remarks while we're here today.
I would appreciate that.
I just want to say that.
God forbid was anything like that said.
But if the Jewish people are the only people that you deny the right to have its own state, that is absolutely a double standard hypocrisy and anti-Semitism.
Well, as you know, I'm a Catholic.
I'm a Catholic, and Catholics do not embrace Zionism, just so you know.
So are all Catholics anti-Semites?
So this is my audience, so you're smart enough to hear dishonesty in that response.
You know what the rabbi said was absolutely true.
If Israel is the only place that doesn't have the right to exist, then what about all the Christian, as he said, and Muslim countries?
He says, well, it's Islamophobia.
Why do you hate all Catholics?
You know, I mean, that's McCarthyism.
It's ridiculous.
And the other thing, she went up against Seth Dylan from the wonderful Babylon B.
And Seth, I mean, it was a bloodbath.
It's got six.
I would really appreciate it if you would stop calling Candace Owens an anti-Semite.
She's not an anti-Semite.
She just doesn't support Zionism, and that really has to stop.
Okay.
Yeah.
I don't know why you keep bringing her up in Tucker.
Well, because they're the two most famous anti-Semites.
There you go again.
Everyone's an anti-Semite.
Everyone's an anti-Semite, I guess.
So if you don't support Zionism, you just said you're not an anti-Semite, yet Candace is an anti-Semitic.
I think she goes far beyond not merely supporting Zionism.
She calls Jews the synagogue of Satan.
She denigrates anyone who...
She often uses the word Zionist and the word Jew interchangeably.
At one point, she slipped up and used the word Jew, and someone said, oh, you're not saying Zionist anymore.
She's like, no, gloves are off.
So do you think saying Christ is king is anti-Semitic?
No.
Christ is king.
Amen.
Christ is my king.
He's the king of the universe.
That's what started the whole thing with her, right?
See, it's not the whole thing.
Again, just dishonest.
This is done to me almost every week.
Somebody comes out and says that I have said Christ is king is inherently anti-Semitic.
I said exactly what Seth Stillon says, and he goes on to say exactly what I've said.
The Christ is king of the universe and king of my life.
But you can use that as an anti-Semitic way.
You can use anything, weaponize anything, right?
It's like it's basically like saying you're against the cross of Christ if you're against burning it on somebody's lawn.
That's essentially what that is like saying.
It's just despicable and dishonest.
And I'm sorry because I always admired Carrie Prejan for what she did in the beauty contest, but I think she has gone down a very bad road.
And then on the other side, there was this Kentucky, the governor of Kentucky, Andy Bashir, who's apparently going to run for president.
He recently said this on the view, which is something I hear from a lot of left-wing people.
It's cut seven.
But we rarely talk about the why.
People want to know what drives us, especially in a world with social media where everyone's looking for the next authentic thing.
For me, that's my faith.
Most of the decisions I make are based on that golden rule that says we love our neighbor as ourself.
And that parable of the Good Samaritan that says everyone is our neighbor.
And so when I've taken actions like vetoing the nastiest piece of anti-LGBTQ legislation that ever came through my state, I described it in those terms.
I said, my faith teaches me that all children are children of God.
And I didn't want people picking on those kids.
I mean, that's just absolute baloney.
Absolute baloney.
Those bills that he vetoed, among other things, prohibited butchering, sexually butchering children to magically change their sex, which can't be done, which I'm sorry, is a Hitler-level offense.
I mean, you know, you should never go to Hitler, but that is the kind of thing that a Nazi does.
They always call people Nazis.
You're sexually castrating little boys who are confused about who they are and giving mastectomies to little girls.
You know, I'm sorry.
That's an atrocity.
And that's not loving your neighbor, opening girls' private spaces to guys pretending to be girls so that they are in danger or that their modesty is compromised.
I mean, that's just such basic decency that you don't let some, pardon the expression, swinging dick walk into a girl's locker room just because he says, oh, I'm a girl now.
You know, I mean, that is just basic decency, stealing girls' athletic achievements, basically canceling the category of womanhood.
I mean, it's basically what it is, basically what it's meant to do.
And, you know, so these are two sides of not doing things for God's sake.
If you are hating people for God's sake, if you are version of loving people as you love yourself is to castrate children, you know, you are not acting for God's sake.
I will pass that judgment.
That's not a sin.
It's like a bad thing that you are doing.
You're lying.
You're just a liar.
And you know who gets this right?
You know, Ali Beth Stuckey gets it right.
Megan Basham, though, is the one that I'm thinking of.
She has gone on this crusade against LGBTQ agendas in church.
She's always pointing this out as a kind of corruption in church.
And yet she has never treated my gay son Spencer with anything but love and support and respect.
That's how you do this stuff.
You know, you have an absolute right to interpret the gospels to say, you know, a general thing, but you have no right to use that as a license for hatred.
Jesus sat down with everybody and was always being told, you know, you're sitting down with sinners.
We don't know what he said to those sinners.
We don't know how he said.
I doubt that he went to sinners and just pointed his finger in their face.
In fact, I know he didn't because when he talks to the Samaritan woman at the well, he doesn't do that.
People sometimes read that as if he did, but he doesn't.
So, you know, if you're not, this is so frustrating to me because I think the loss of God is what is destroying us.
But I don't think the loss of religion is what's destroying us.
I think it's the loss of God.
I think it's the loss of God who is incarnate in Jesus Christ that is destroying us.
And we can't sell him if we become hateful or if we become talk nonsense.
Why We Left Religion00:02:06
Oh, God was a Palestinian.
God was a, you know, Jesus was a Palestinian.
Jesus was an immigrant.
So we have to let in all the immigrants.
You know, the Bible is very tough on invasions.
It's very nice to a stranger in your midst, but it's very tough on invasions.
So no, we don't have to do that.
You know, if you're going to preach the Bible, and this is true of Tucker, too, read the damn Bible and then read people who know the Bible so that you're not like just saying stuff that supports what you believe.
I mean, I have to, there are times when I have to change my mind because I see something in the Bible and I understand after reading and reading.
I think, no, it's saying something different.
Then you have to change your mind.
But don't just use it as a prop for your political beliefs, right or left, because that is not acting for God's sake.
And if we do not get God back in the lives of especially young people, we're lost.
We're lost.
You will not have freedom.
You cannot have freedom.
As John Adams told us, our Constitution is for moral and religious people, and that is true.
And so that's what all of us should be thinking about all the time is are we acting for God's sake?
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Final chapter, Rules of Engagement.
So look, transitional periods like this usually end with a person of strong personality redirecting and recongealing the scattered energies of the nation through the power of his vision.
And these can be bad guys like Mao and Hitler and Lenin, but they can also be good guys like George Washington and Queen Victoria and Ronald Reagan, who sort of readjusted the way that people looked at things.
And I'm not sure yet about Donald Trump.
He's obviously a tremendously powerful personality.
I'm not sure he's coherent enough to bring people together around him.
I don't know.
But I certainly admire his honesty and his patriotism and his fearlessness.
I think those are all inspiring and those are certainly things that we can use as we make this transition so it doesn't become a transition into a nightmare.
And I think there are certain things we have to understand in this information crisis as we are bathed in false information and true information with no way to tell the difference and no elites whom we can trust.
Number one thing is truth before ideology.
Truth before ideology always.
If you have to lie or obscure the truth or look at one fact but not another, to sell your ideology, change your ideology.
If you can't admit that Trump does bad things or that sometimes conservatism has its problems or capitalism has its problems, change your ideology.
If you can't admit the truth about what you believe, believe something else so you can stick to the truth.
When the New York Times says we shouldn't cover the riots in Seattle, when the Washington Post says the police targets blacks for violence, when the CBS says Bury Hunter Biden's laptop, no, change, you're fired, change your ideology.
And this is true on the right as well.
And I would also say, by the way, just as a kind of corollary to that, if you have to do evil to achieve the goals of your ideology, change your ideology.
You can't murder your way to paradise.
A second thing is you have to understand, and this is really important.
And I hate to say this, but I'm speaking to women more than men.
But still, this is for everybody.
Stories are not generalizations.
Stories are not illustrations of a general point unless they are.
Stories are not illustrations of a general point unless they are, because for the simple reason that individuals don't scale.
I was saying that Megan Basham attacks gay ideology, but she's kind to gay persons.
Of course.
Of course you should be kind to gay persons and all persons who won't kill you for being kind to them.
Anybody who is trying to make their way through this foggy life on their own, of course, be kind, give them a hand, whatever it takes, to express the love of God to them, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't stand for an ideology, an idea that makes general sense.
Persons don't scale.
Individuals don't scale.
So when you read the news, when you're consuming news, a story about a kindly illegal immigrant is not an argument for letting illegal immigrants into the country en masse.
And a killing by an illegal immigrant is not necessarily an argument for keeping them out.
I mean, illegal, the word illegal, it may be an argument right there because we should have laws that are obeyed or we should change the laws.
But this is the way that the media works.
And, you know, oh, here's a lovely transgender boy.
And he's so sure that he should be a girl that even though he's only 10, you know, he's like, no, I'm sorry.
No, that does not actually get at the heart of the problem.
And this is the way it works.
And again, you know, like I may have compassion for a black kid who is sucked into the gangs.
I think it's really easy for that to happen.
And it's amazing it doesn't happen more.
It only happens in a minority of cases.
But we're sucked into the gangs.
But if you're sucked into the gangs and become a criminal, you got to go to prison.
Like that's the way it is, because otherwise everybody will become a criminal, as we see when the left takes over the courts and defunds the police.
Stories, you know, I'm a storyteller, a lifelong storyteller.
It's what I do for a living.
They give us fresh, surprising glimpses of life that should help us become more broad-minded and more tolerant and more compassionate.
But that doesn't mean they always illustrate some larger assumption that works at scale.
I talked about Anna Karenina and the wonderfully compassionate Depiction of an adulteress, but also about the fact that she lives in a world where that is a, she lives in a moral universe where that's a sin, and the sin will be paid for in the end.
As I say, women are particularly susceptible to this.
The brilliant Angela Frank, who I interviewed a couple of weeks ago, she wrote this book, Body and Identity, and she said, one way to define a woman is as somebody who has a capacity to make room inside themselves for someone else.
In other words, a baby.
And she said that also has an emotional component, that you have the capacity to make room inside yourself for someone else.
And that is usually one of the most beautiful things about women, one of the things that make good men awestruck in the presence of true and good women.
But it also is a weakness.
It can be a weakness if you let people tell you stories that make a little tear run down your cheek and then you do something stupid, like let a million immigrants, illegal immigrants into the country to stay.
Thirdly, and this is actually the thing I want to talk about most.
I'm running out of time, but just I want to say, beware the zeitgeist.
And that's another good German word.
Zeit means time, and Geist means just what it sounds like, ghost or spirit, right?
So Zeitgeist is the spirit of the time.
The zeitgeist is what we're fighting for.
This is what we're battling over, because the zeitgeist has the power to change minds no matter even if you disagree with it.
People, when they say shout your abortion, that's the zeitgeist polluting somebody's mind.
That is a zeitgeist.
When I say good women have abortions, what I mean by that is the zeitgeist has made it impossible for them to see what they're doing, just like it made it hard for George Washington to fully understand the evils of slavery, even though he was a great man who gave everything for liberty, right?
That's how powerful the zeitgeist is.
That is what these tools are for.
When I talk about the academy, when I talk about entertainment, when I talk about the news media, they are for creating a zeitgeist.
And the zeitgeist we have is polluted, it is decadent, it is filled with death and the love of death.
And so, you know, this is why they use words like, you know, a woman's health care for abortion, or why they, you know, use different words.
They denature the language.
They take the moral ideas out of the language.
They say a minor attracted person for a pedophile or racial realism for what's just essentially racism.
And this is why ultimately truth matters so much.
I always come back to this.
I know I hammered on this last week, but I'll hammer it on it again.
It matters in art.
The truth matters in art.
Even if your story is about dragons and fairies and elves, you have to tell the truth.
It matters in journalism.
Get the facts.
That is the job of journalism.
That is all you're there to do.
Do less than what you think you should do.
Get the facts and tell them to the people, and the people will decide.
In religion, it matters.
If you are reading the Bible offhandedly and saying, oh, Jesus went to Egypt, so he was an immigrant, so we should let all the immigrants in, then you're, you know, that's not the truth.
That is not what that book is about.
It is a very deep, very complex, very ancient and inspired book.
You know, it takes a lifetime to even come close to understanding it, but you should work hard to do it and you should interpret it humbly with experts to guide you.
You know, the cat, you know, Matt Fratz says, I think I'm my own pope, and there's some truth to that.
I think I should make the final decision about what I believe.
But still, I don't do it without consulting every expert I can get my hands on and all of the church fathers and all of that stuff.
The truth, what the truth, when they say the truth sets you free of, what it sets you free of is the zeitgeist.
The truth is, you know, a path through the cloud of unknowing and lies that the culture throws up.
You know, the truth is, the main truth is that there's a God.
The truth is that there's a moral order.
The truth is that the truth isn't always black and white.
There are plenty of gray areas that you have to maneuver through.
You have to guide yourself by true Christly love, you know.
But in this really obscure and chaotic and frightening moment of transition, we don't know yet.
The reason it's frightening is we don't know what we're going to transition to.
But the truth, the truth is the way through the zeitgeist, the truth of love, the truth of God, the truth of morality.
It is the way through the zeitgeist and it will take you to the other side.
And hopefully, we will reestablish an America in which we can all be free.
So, when you lived as long as I have, you have seen a lot of stuff.
Dinosaurs, you know, woolly mammoths, like guys who could barely walk.
They had to use their fists to walk on.
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Always look on the bright side of life.
Yeah!
It's the drugs, folks.
I don't know what to do about it.
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This is from Anonymous.
He writes in a lot.
He says, dear bald.
He doesn't even come up with a nickname for it, just bald.
You're bald.
He says, I'm single, 28 years old, and about to graduate from graduate school.
I'm friendly, and I often hear, when will we hang out?
Where have you been?
From my classmates.
I notice a trend in my life where there seems to be a mismatch where people want to spend time with me and I do not want to spend time with them.
I'll get coffee with a person who repeatedly asks to hang out and walk away saying, yeah, I don't want to do that again, even if it was a decent time.
I feel a lot of the time, it's just me asking them questions and making them feel good.
What advice do you have for me as I crave connection, but feel I almost never encounter people with whom I actually want to connect?
Yeah, this is an ego problem.
It is a fragile, you have a fragile ego.
You take a lot of pride in your intelligence.
You're a graduate student, so you're probably quite intelligent and you take pride in that.
And that is how you bolster up your ego.
And when you talk to other people, sometimes they contradict you or disagree with you or have ideas that contradict yours and that makes you threatened.
So you feel like maybe, you know, Is it possible I'm not as smart as I think I am?
No, that can't be that.
But in fact, many people with IQs that are not as high as you know things that you don't know will say things that you have seen things that you haven't seen, will say things that you don't understand until much later when you gather more experience.
So when you deal with other people, this is why people love animals.
This is why people who love, I love animals, but this is people who I who why people who love animals too much usually hate human beings because animals will never contradict you.
Dogs will not, the dog will never say, you know, the beach isn't as really as great as you say it is.
You know, the dog just loves you.
He just wants you to scratch his ears and he will do anything you want.
People, you know, disagree with you and they come from a different point of view and they can shake up your world.
And so what's happening to you is like to show you, you know, like I like everybody.
This is actually a character flaw.
When I meet people, I like them almost instantaneously.
People have to really do something bad or cruel before I'll stop liking them.
And so I stick with a lot of people.
Even after I find out they believe things that are appalling, I will stick with people because they're my friends and I like them.
But if you can't do that, it's probably because they threaten something in you.
You're saying you're having a good time.
You go out with people.
And so what I would say to you is like, stop listening so much and start sharing something.
Share some of the things that are inside you, the personal things inside you.
And that's how you connect with people.
Open up to people, risk getting hurt, risk feeling like you're less than you are because you are less than you think you are.
And, you know, that is the way forward to friendship.
And friendship is a huge, huge comfort in a very, very difficult and cold world.
Yeah, here's an interesting.
Dear Andrew, I attended church after hearing your advice to just go, even if you don't believe it was the best advice I could have gotten and soon wanted to find a church of my own.
I settled on an Orthodox Presbyterian church, very traditional and conservative.
I really like the scripture and hymnal-based worship.
My husband is Jewish by lineage.
And during two of the last two sermons, few sermons, the pastor said something somewhat concerning.
He made reference to anyone who doesn't follow Christ is not following God's word and specifically mentioned Jewish people.
I love and respect my husband.
I'm pretty sure he's secure enough that he would be okay with me continuing to go to this church and even becoming a member, despite them saying something like that.
But I wanted to ask your opinion sincerely.
Stephanie, she says, I'm pretty sure you're going to tell me to find a new church, but it is difficult.
I really like this church.
Why did they have to imply my husband is going to hell?
I'm not going to tell you to find a new church.
I go to a church that's very conservative, that I love.
I love the church I go to.
But they sometimes say things that are not what I believe.
I am much more non-judgmental about the practices that people do, even if I sometimes think they're wrong.
I think we all do wrong things.
I'm very libertarian about sexuality because I know what a powerful thing it is.
But I don't feel that I'm there.
I mean, I love the priests there and I love the priests there.
And their sermons have been incredibly deep and helpful in my life.
And I'm grateful for it.
But if they say something I don't believe, I don't believe it.
I'm there for the ritual, for the presence of Christ, for the fellowship with Christians.
And so what I would say is there's a line.
You know, I left the church once because the guy said something incredibly stupid.
And I thought, I can't think with having a person say stuff like that.
So if he becomes truly anti-Semitic, Where he's actually, you know, browbeating Jews or obsessed with Jews, then I think you might have to go.
In the meantime, remember to respect your husband.
That's the most important thing you said in your letter.
That shows that something really great is happening in your life.
And if that starts the waiver, get out of the church.
Dump the church before you dump the husband.
That would be my answer to you.
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What was it like, Merlin, to be alone with God?
Is that who you think I was alone with?
Maradin, I knew your father.
I am yet convinced that he was not of this world.
All men know of the great Taliesin.
Who are my father?
The gods should war for my soul.
Princess Garris, savior of our people.
I know what the bull god offered you.
I was offered the same.
And there is a new pirate work in the world.
I've seen it.
A god who sacrifices what he loves for us.
We are each given only one life, Singer.
No.
We're given another.
I learned of Yezu the Christ, and I have become his follower.
He's waiting on a miracle, and I think you can give him one.
Trust in Yezu.
He is the only hope for men like us.
Fate of Britain never rests in the hands of the Great Life.
Great Light, Great Darkness.
Such things mattered to me then.
What matters to you now, Mistress of Lies?
You, nephew.
The sword of the High King.
How many lives must be lost before you accept the power you were born to wield?
Still clinging to the promises of a god who has abandoned you.