June 18, 2011 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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Welcome to the Political Cesspool, known across the South and worldwide as the South's foremost populous conservative radio program.
Here to guide you through the murky waters of the Political Cesspool is your host for tonight, James Edwards.
All right, everybody, welcome back to our show, the Political Cesspool Radio Program.
Here we are once again, live, unrehearsed, and uncensored.
It's Saturday evening, June 18th.
I'm James Edwards, joined by Keith Alexander during tonight's first hour.
And we're coming to you, as we always do, from our flagship radio studio, AM 1380 WLRM, right here in downtown Memphis, Tennessee, going out nationwide to the AMFM affiliate stations of the Liberty News Radio Network and simulcasting online at thepoliticalcesspool.org and libertynewsradio.com.
It's a big week for me and for everyone, being that tomorrow is Father's Day.
This will be my second opportunity to celebrate Father's Day.
And I'm really excited about spending time tomorrow with my daughter and my wife and family.
And then later this week, on Wednesday, it's my birthday.
I'll be 31 years old on June 22nd.
I'm going to put up on the website an interesting little post on Wednesday in commemoration of my birthday.
I'm going to put up a picture of what I looked like the year the show started.
And I'm going to put up a picture of what I look like today.
And you're going to see the toll that seven years of hosting the political cesspool can take on a man, how it ravages their appearance.
It is a labor of love, Keith, and we're happy to do it.
But I tell you, it isn't for the faint of heart.
I tell you, the passage of time spares nobody, James, and you're included in that.
I tell you what, I was just reminiscing with my son.
He was going out and buying a suit today, or one of my sons.
And I was telling him and his friend that back when I was 31 years old, I had a 32-inch waistline.
And I, you know, not only had a 32-inch waistline, I had all my hair.
Everything was in great shape.
I weighed 135 pounds.
And now we are today.
This is what happens with the rigors of life, but particularly you've been suffering because of the slings and arrows that you get from being the host of this show.
But quite frankly, it's a labor of love, is it not, James?
It is.
I wouldn't trade it for anything.
It has been one of the most remarkable experiences of my life.
Hard to believe that we're now in our seventh year of broadcasting and special occasions like birthdays and anniversaries always brings to you a time of reflection.
And, you know, so we're excited about that.
Anyway, happy Father's Day as we kick off today's show.
Happy Father's Day to all of our fathers out there in the listening audience.
And then, of course, birthdays in my family, Keith, were always really big.
I mean, when the calendar flipped to June as a younger kid, you know, we'd start celebrating.
I mean, it's something, you know, some people look at their clocks at 8 p.m. on the day of their birthday and, oh, my God, it's my birthday today.
Well, it never was that way.
It never snuck up on us.
You know, we celebrated birthdays for two weeks, you know, my brother and I.
It was always a big, bigger than Christmas our birthdays were.
And so still, even having the childhood like that and an upbringing like that, even today as an older man, as a husband and a father, I still kind of look forward to birthdays more than most people.
And it's always exciting.
I'm sure the fact that you got out of school and were out of school by the time your birthday rolled around didn't hurt either, did it, James?
Yeah, being a summer baby, June 22nd, that was always a nice little treat for me.
I didn't have to go to jail for my birthday as a lot of my friends did.
Have you ever noticed how, you know, even though you're now grown up and you're many years away from school, you still have this special regard for Saturday and Sunday and also the summer just because it was imprinted basically in your consciousness.
This is when you were free, finally, from the tyranny of the government schools we used to attend.
Yeah, and of course, the political Cesspool radio program brings an all-new significance to Saturdays, of course, because that's our weekly broadcast date.
And so we're happy to be here with you tonight.
And even more importantly, we're happy that you're here with us.
You know, last week, ladies and gentlemen, to kick off the show this evening, we spent the entire show talking about how the churches, our churches, are now being infiltrated and subverted and used against us, just like all of our other institutions, the media, academia, so on and so forth.
And at the time, I worried that we might be spending an excessive amount of time on the subject.
We spent nearly the entire three hours of last week's show on that single issue.
But we were absolutely inundated in the days since last Saturday's show with letters and emails.
You know, people would be surprised at how much correspondence we get from our fans, but last week it was even more than usual.
And in the wake of our program and in all the reaction it elicited, the Southern Baptists, just a couple of days after we talked about this subject, the Southern Baptist Convention, which is the governing body of the Southern Baptist Church, elected a black man to be their vice president.
And of course, people are going to ask me, well, what's wrong with that?
Well, nothing's wrong with it.
I mean, certainly everyone is entitled to inherit the kingdom of God.
Everybody who accepts Christ, you know, will be with us in heaven.
And, you know, I'm not saying that these churches shouldn't allow black people in the doors, not at all.
What I'm saying is, what I'm saying is the problem is, you know, there aren't three black pastors in the Southern Baptist Convention, just like there aren't three blacks that attend any given tea party rally.
But those blacks will always be the ones that are featured and showcased.
And so this is a problem that we have.
I hear this multicultural, so-called diversity nonsense every time I turn on the radio.
Except if I'm listening to my own show, of course.
Every time I turn on TV, every time I watch a political news broadcast, I don't want to hear it on Sunday morning.
That's all I'm saying.
Leave it out of the church.
Stick to the word of God and add nothing to it.
Take nothing away from it.
Well, anyway, as I said, we got a very strong reaction last week to our commentary on the Christian faith and politics.
And as I said, this is a conservative, paleoconservative, you know, talk radio show.
We're Christians, and we don't separate our politics from our faith.
So sometimes there is the inevitable overlap.
And when they do intersect, we talk about them.
And this is just one of hundreds of emails we got last week.
It comes from listener Jeff.
I don't know where Jeff writes from, but he writes this, James, I've been listening to your show for several months now, but last Saturday's show was the best yet.
You guys hit the nail on the head.
Because of liberalism and Zionism, we haven't attended church in years.
We read the Bible and worship at home just like the Bible says.
I'm disappointed to hear that the churches in the South are just as politically correct or worse than the ones up here in liberal New Jersey.
Well, there he is.
He writes from New Jersey, Keith.
The problem is that the traditional church is a tax-exempt corporation.
Jesus said, render unto Caesar what is Caesar's and render unto God, what is God's?
Pastors should not have the final word.
Christians are to be equal.
Pastors are supposed to serve, not be served.
Even Jesus washed the disciples' feet to make a point.
I've never seen a pastor serve anybody but themselves.
I don't understand why you guys stay in churches that you disagree with.
Anytime I would hear a politically correct sermon, I would confront the pastor just as the Bible says to do.
If he continued, then I would leave.
I think the direction the church is heading is a subject that you should cover from time to time.
You can't separate politics from Christianity.
That's exactly what we said.
I'm looking forward to hearing more from you.
Keep up the good work.
Keith, I read a hundred emails like that if I read one.
And so it appears as though we struck a chord with the audience last week in talking about this.
And as I said, because of the overwhelming response from our audience to last week's show and because three days after our program tackled the issue as if they were hearing us and as if they wanted to spite us themselves, the Southern Baptist Convention elects a liberal pastor from New Orleans to be their vice president.
And so with all that being in play, we are actually going to resume our coverage on this issue for a little bit tonight.
And we're going to do so right after these words from our sponsors, ladies and gentlemen.
We're going to turn it over to Keith and we're going to hit the ground running tonight.
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And here's the host of the political cesspool, James Edwards.
All right, everybody.
Just to recap what we discussed in the opening segment of tonight's show.
Big show last week on religion and how liberalism is taking over the Christian church.
It elicited such an overwhelming response from our audience.
We're going to continue to talk about it tonight, not just because we got so many letters and emails on the show last week, but because in the wake of that which we discussed last Saturday night, the Southern Baptists have elected a black man for the first time ever to be their vice president.
The Southern Baptist Convention did.
So Keith, my question to you is, you know, the Southern Baptists, as with many of the Protestant denominations and the Catholic Church as well, seem hell-bent to diversify their flock and to allow multiculturalism to run its course.
Do you see this in any of the major black churches in America, Keith?
Are they eaten up with self-guilt and self-hatred because there's not enough whites in their congregation?
I haven't seemed to have read anything about that yet, but I'm sure it's going on, right?
I have never seen or heard of a black church that had these elaborate outreach to the other race type of movements.
In fact, they're very happy and insist upon being segregated.
And of course, that's what Jared Taylor brings up in his new book, White Identity.
He said that left to their own devices, all races, all groups of people prefer the company of one another to the company of strangers, racially or otherwise.
This is the way human nature is programmed by the Almighty.
But the churches are, you know, they've just fallen prey to the, you know, to use a computer analogy, the virus of liberalism.
We as conservatives have two firewalls to protect us from these viruses.
We have the Bible and we have the Constitution of the United States.
And the churches, just like our political leaders, seem intent upon having us lulled to sleep so that we don't, we're not aware of the fact that they're changing the Bible and the Constitution on us constantly, James.
It's, you know, I was thinking, for example, I was meditating upon Detroit, Michigan.
And throughout my lifetime, Detroit, Michigan has changed from a vibrant economy with great, impressive architecture and, you know, the home of American heavy industry into an urban wasteland.
What has brought this about?
Well, here at the political cesspool, we have a very short and succinct answer to that.
What's brought about is liberalism.
Liberalism has gotten into every institution, every corner and crevice of our lives.
It will not give us any refuge or resort from its incessant attacks on us.
For example, several years ago, I remember reading an article about the major institutions in America, like the news media, like the entertainment industry, like higher academia.
And they were charting how liberalism either predominated in them or took them over.
And the two institutions that liberalism had made the least progress in were the church and the military.
But like a swarm of termites, liberals have been silently gnawing away at both of those institutions.
And I just was surprised today to read an article in the local newspaper, First Female Marine General Takes Over Parris Island.
Here's what it says.
For the first time in the 96-year history of its 96-year history, a female general is taking charge of the Marine Corps Training Depot at South Carolina's Parris Island.
Keith, I got to say something.
I've just got to say something.
I normally don't interrupt Keith when he's in the middle of a commentary, but that is just, and this is, again, a reaction that you would only get here, and that is an honest reaction.
That's absolutely ridiculous.
A female general, that is absolutely absurd.
And if you don't share that reaction, then you have been subjected to too much liberalism and brainwashing.
I mean, women should not be in the military on the front lines.
They should certainly not be the instructors of the Marines at Paris Island.
This is absolutely a bridge too far.
It's jaw-dropping.
Yeah, this is a bridge too far, as the old movie said.
This just shows you that they've taken over the military as well.
There's no aspect of American life that liberalism hasn't sunk its tentacles into and subverted.
And as a result, our entire society is in a state of decline and decay.
And this is even better, James.
Guess who the new female Marine General Commandant of Paris Island took the place of?
Brigadier General Frederick Padilla, obviously a Hispanic.
Still, we have a majority of red state white American boys serving in the U.S. military and particularly in the Marine Corps, but they are now the last hired, first fired, the last promoted, the first demoted.
This is the way things work in today's liberal America.
Yeah, I want to chime in on that as well, Keith.
Yeah, you look at the body of the United States Armed Forces, and it's an overwhelming percentage of whites.
I mean, whites overwhelmingly make up the body of our military.
And yet, you know, you continue to read more and more that there is a disproportionate amount of representation in the leadership of the military with, you know, women and minorities and so on and so forth.
And that's what's going on in the churches.
That's what's going on everywhere.
You know, I read that the NBA, Keith, the National Basketball Association, got an A for diversity.
So I guess that's what diversity means.
If you're 95% non-white, I guess you are, you know, sufficiently diverse.
You're approaching, you know, great diversity.
NBA got an A plus.
They're 95% non-white, ladies and gentlemen.
And I don't want to see our churches go like this.
Okay.
Why is Detroit like it is?
Because of diversity and multiculturalism.
And what happened to Detroit isn't going to spare itself from our churches.
But the biggest thing that irks me about this stuff is just like I said with the tea parties, you know, we're going to talk a little bit more about the election of this gentleman, this black gentleman to the Southern Baptist Convention Vice Presidency.
And we're going to talk about that vis-a-vis the tea parties.
You know, they'll have three non-whites in the crowd, but those are going to be the ones that are showcased.
And this goes back to what Keith said about the military.
You know, how many women are in the military versus, you know, white men?
And yet here we have, you know, a celebrated now general, a female general leading the cadets there.
Well, I remember going on a vacation some years ago down to the Mississippi Gulf Coast and seeing an Army major woman in her maternity uniform at a Baskin Robbins ordering ice cream.
And I said, that does it.
Just like Willie Nelson said, Mama, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys.
I said, Daddy, don't let your sons grow up to join the U.S. military.
I'm not going to have some woman in a maternity uniform telling them to fix their bayonets and go over the top.
This is what, and as a result, our military hasn't won a war in a Kuhn's age, James.
It's declared war in a Koons Age either.
Yeah, well, see, we're basically the police force for a global one-world government.
We go out and stamp out the hot spots, but just like policemen, we have to wait to be fired upon in order to fire.
And as a result, the need to issue them new uniforms with a bullseye on the front and the back.
But see, this is just another example of how liberalism changes things for the worse.
The military has become a less effective fighting force despite all of this great technology that they have and all of the advances that they supposedly have made in weapon systems and whatnot.
Despite all of that, when you staff the military with women and with other people that really, you know, and when they're promoting people based on gender and race, and they're not seeking diversity just like the NBA isn't seeking diversity, what they're seeking is the promotion of non-whites at the expense of whites.
Now, that's the military.
That's, you know, just, you know, another message from behind the enemy lines.
But then we've got the churches.
And what's happening with the churches is something that we're really going to get into in this next segment.
Stay tuned, everybody.
James Edwards, Keith Alexander, the political cesspool, back your way right after this.
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We got to get out of this place.
All right, everybody.
Welcome back.
We are continuing our conversation tonight on liberalism and the church.
It's something that we covered for three hours last week, the entire show last week.
It got a great response.
And we're continuing with that and other issues tonight.
During tonight's third hour, we're going to be, if I may use the word, Keith, diversifying our own lineup this evening.
We're going to cover issues not pertaining to the one at hand now.
But I just got an email in from a listener.
By the way, ladies and gentlemen, you know, we talked about all the letters and emails we got between last Saturday show and today.
Keep them coming.
If you want to comment during the show tonight, we'll try to read a couple of your emails on the air.
My email address is james at thepolitical cesspool.org.
James at thepoliticalcesspool.org.
Couldn't be easier to remember.
Send us your email during the course of tonight's broadcast, and we will try to read a few of them on the air talking about, Keith, what the Southern Baptists are doing.
Keep in mind, the Southern Baptists split from the American Baptists back in the 19th century.
They split.
In 1845, they split from the American Baptists because they thought it was all right for slave owners to be missionaries, whereas the American Baptists did not.
This is how the Southern Baptists got started.
And now we see that they are basically as liberal as the most liberal denomination out there.
Just got an email in from a gentleman in Colorado, and he writes, James, I just heard at the top of the news hour that the Southern Baptist Convention has just endorsed amnesty for illegal aliens.
You should get out of the Southern Baptist Church, ASAP.
I did the same with the Vatican II.
I did not think the Southern Baptists would capitulate like this.
So thank you from Colorado for your email.
Again, ladies and gentlemen, if you want to send in your email, we might read it on the air.
James at thepolitical Sesspool.org.
But Keith, that's a new one on me.
But it doesn't surprise me.
Well, the Southern Baptists and the fundamentalists generally aren't as far along the path as the mainline Protestants and the Roman Catholic Church, but give them time.
In fact, they've even gone one better than the Roman Catholics and the mainline Protestants in that they have embraced a particularly egregious heresy called Jewish dispensationalism, which Eddie talks about.
In other words, he who blesses Israel is blessed.
He who curses Israel is cursed.
They've mistaken their worst enemy to be their best friend, and they basically are willing to go to war and jump on a grenade whenever the Israelis ask them to, which makes them a particularly dangerous segment of society now.
We were talking about this.
You never thought the Southern Baptists would capitulate like this.
Well, let me tell you, the left has a game plan.
They've got a blueprint, and it is being followed to the letter regarding the subversion of the Christian faith and the various Christian denominations.
The first suit they lead with, which they consider to be their strongest, is the Civil Rights Movement and Black Rights.
They now have the Southern Baptists believing, just like they got the mainline Protestants and the Roman Catholic Church before them, to believe that basically the Civil Rights Movement was conceived and executed in total righteousness, and anyone who opposed it was a bad, evil person.
Now, this basically ignores the fact that most of our ancestors were undoubtedly better Christians than most of us are today.
And we're supposed to consider ourselves superior to them because they held views that were not consistent with modern day liberalism.
Now, they are not at the present time the Southern Baptists and other fundamentalists embracing things like gay bishops and gay marriage, but give the liberals time.
I predict that within 20 years or less, you're going to find the Southern Baptists trying to write God's admonition and condemnation of homosexuality out of the Bible, just like the mainline Protestants do and just like the Roman Catholics do.
Let me tell you, what are the last words in the Bible, James?
We were talking about this before.
The last words of the Bible are it pronounces a curse on anyone who would either who would change the holy writ in any way, that would add as much as one word or take one word from it.
But what liberals have done to the Bible is exactly what they did to the Constitution before.
They have written sins out of the Bible like homosexuality.
Homosexuality is no longer a sin.
You're not even supposed to be embarrassed about being a homosexual.
In fact, you're supposed to be proud of it.
Gay pride is something they're saying.
And then on the other hand, things like slavery and racism, which are not pronounced sins in the Bible, we guess that Moses must have dropped those on the way down the mountain because they are now considered the greatest sins of all.
They override everything.
In fact, the church's mission is to go out and combat the lingering effects of racism and slavery in our society.
That's its primary mission.
And anyone that has a darker complexion than most of the people that populate the pews of our churches are supposed to be the primary objects of our bounty and beneficence.
They bought totally into white guilt.
They've bought totally into the social gospel.
And they have bought totally into the reparations argument.
And believe me, you know, we had somebody say, I don't see why you stay in a church like that.
Well, I haven't.
I've gotten into the Reformed Episcopal Church.
I was in the Episcopal church, raised an Episcopalian, but with a gay bishop, that did it.
That ripped it for me.
I got into a Reformed Episcopal Church.
But the problem is this.
There is no such thing as a conservative church.
The best you can hope for is a non-liberal church.
They assiduously stay away from talking about any controversial issue that would pit conservatives against liberals.
On the other hand, you go to a regular Southern Baptist church, you go to a regular Episcopal church or a Roman Catholic church, and they have no hesitancy whatsoever of promoting liberalism from the pulpit.
You know, they've exchanged the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John for the Gospels of Peter, Paul, and Mary, as I've said in my book.
Yeah, and Keith, I want to address this as well.
Eddie the Bombetter Miller showing up to work early tonight.
He's not scheduled to come on the show until the second hour, but he's here early.
He's here to pour some kerosene on the flame.
Glad to have you here, Eddie.
Yeah, I want to comment on what this listener brought up, the issue he brought up being he can't understand why we're staying in churches like this.
It's a point of pride for me.
I don't want to be run out of my own church.
You know, this is a church that my ancestors founded.
You know, we talked about the origins of the Southern Baptist Church.
It was basically a denomination of the Christian faith that existed only in the South.
You know, it came into existence right before the Confederacy because our ancestors had the courage of their convictions.
And so this is the church that my parents went to, that my grandparents went to, and that their parents went to.
I don't want to be run out of my own institutions.
That's just like saying, well, you know, why do you still live in America?
Why do you still live in the South?
Well, I was born here.
This is my country.
This is my state.
We still live here because this is who we are.
And so I don't want to be run out.
I don't like what they're doing.
But, you know, I'll be dead gummed if I'm going to let them win the day without a fight.
You know, if I'm the last one in there that still believes, you know, if I'm that remnant of the old faith, then so be it.
But I just don't like, I don't like giving them the satisfaction of knowing that they can drum a sound.
You know, and if everybody shared my belief, perhaps it wouldn't be going this way in the churches.
Our problem is that we need to speak up.
We don't need to just sit there, and we certainly don't need to ring the collection plate.
You know, the only sound that a liberal fears, as I've said before, is the sound of a closing purse.
And we need to withhold our money, and we need to let the pastors know loudly and strongly that we oppose this liberalizing of our faith.
There's nothing.
In fact, basically what it is, it's an apostasy and a heresy.
Have an apostate priesthood in all of these churches because they are more than willing to outride out of the Bible things like the prohibition against homosexuality and write into the Bible things like the great sin of racism and slavery.
Now uh, this is.
You know, I i've said in the last show that what it may come down to is just like in education and the total domination of liberalism in public education and the and even private education.
You hear a lot of the same liberal claptrap in even private fundamentalist church schools that you hear in the public schools nowadays, like Macon ROAD Baptist School that Eddie was talking about last week.
So, just like we went to home schools, we need to possibly consider going to home churches, having people that believe like we do meeting in people's homes.
Let's withhold the money from these apostate churches.
Let these people hit them where uh, it hurts.
Let them know.
This is, like I said, the only sound the liberals fears is the sound of a closing purse.
We got one more segment with Keith Uh, Forthcoming right around the other side of this commercial break.
Then we're going to get into tonight's second and third hours with Eddie the Bombardier Miller, but but i'll tell you, you know, and it's not just the southern Baptists, it's every Protestant denomination and the Catholic church as well.
Our good friend Hutton Gibson our good friend Hutton Gibson Mel Gibson's dead, the man who's been on this show several times.
You know he is dealing with this in the Catholic churches, but he still goes.
I still go.
I tell you, if they can take southern baptism, they can take anything and they have.
You know, the southern Baptist is the core of the core.
And if they can get a lot of these big southern Baptist churches and it's not all southern Baptist churches, there are still some good churches, ladies and gentlemen uh, but uh, they've gotten a foothold in even the southern Baptist now.
Well, my co-hosts are acting up.
We're going to take a break, and I've got to get these guys straight, Keith and Eddie, but we'll be back right after this.
We'll be back right after these messages.
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I tell you, ladies and gentlemen, when Eddie the Bombardier Miller, walks in the room, that is when the party starts.
That's when the party starts.
And we've had more fun in the, in the, in the commercial break, in the last uh, three minutes than i've had all week.
And I tell you you know, you got to have some good times Keith, because if you, if you live your life based upon the news that you read, you're always going to be down in the mouth.
But Eddie has come in and he's lifted our spirits and I look forward to bringing him on the air at the top of the second hour in just a few minutes and he's going to be with us for the rest of the show tonight.
We're going to continue to talk about this issue at hand, as well as others, as the show, uh progresses.
But one of the big agenda items that we took care of in that last commercial break was the fact that these two men, my good friends, my comrades in arms, literally, my co-hosts, Eddie and Keith, are going to take me out for a birthday lunch on Wednesday, and we settled on the time and place.
And look, guys, I really appreciate it.
You got to eat.
We're going to eat big on Wednesday.
Yep, Eddie came in here locked and loaded as usual, both figuratively and literally, and he has got everybody stirred up, ready to ride to the sound of the guns as we normally do here at the show.
But we depend on Eddie to motivate us, and he never fails.
He never disappoints, James.
You know, it's great.
Let's get back to the subject we were talking about, which was the subversion of the Christian church.
It's gone down the line every way.
I was telling you last week about the peace, Justice for All rally that they had at First Congo churches.
They self-advertise themselves now.
This is the Congregational Church.
They have two of them.
It's a carpetbagger church from New England, which, of course, was the home of the abolitionist, Transcendentalist, Unitarians back in the pre-Civil War antebellum days.
And they haven't disappointed.
There's probably the most liberal denomination there is.
They have the local Acorn affiliate headquartered in their Sunday school building, if you can believe that.
Well, the whole purpose of this was what is called the Tennessee Equality Project.
They are trying to link up black civil rights people like the AFSME Union, affiliated federal, state, and county municipal employees with the transgendered, gay, lesbian, bisexual community and Planned Parenthood, you know, those people that, you know, provide us with those wonderful abortions all the time, okay?
Well, they're going to be the new three musketeers, one for all and all for one, linking arms in every way.
And of course, I'm sure there are a lot of people in the Southern Baptist community now that are saying, well, we'll never go a bridge that far.
But, you know, 30 years ago, I would say I never would have thought that the Southern Baptists were going to embrace the civil rights movement, St. Martin Luther King, St. Rosa Parks, St. Malcolm X, just like they have now.
And now they're gone to the Hispanics.
Now they're for open borders.
We just got that report.
You know, they're moving right along.
It's happening just, it's unfolding right before our eyes.
Now, I said I'd use a computer analogy.
You can't let the camel's nose in the tent.
Basically, the virus of choice for liberals is the civil rights movement and black rights.
They've gotten the Southern Baptists and other fundamentalist churches now to embrace that.
And it won't be long before the whole kitten caboodle of the radical egalitarian agenda is going to be swallowed hook line and sinker by the fundamentalists they're going to be for radical feminism they're going to be for environmentalism they're going to be for open borders.
They're going to be for homosexual rights.
It's all coming, folks, coming to a church near you soon.
And this is what liberalism is doing to America.
It is causing, you know, you can't embrace error.
You can't embrace untruth without it having a consequence in your society.
And that's why America is in decline.
We talked before about how in 1950, America manufactured 96% of the goods that Americans consumed.
Today, manufacturing is down to 9% of our gross national product.
And it's going down even further.
Liberalism is a disease.
And diversity and multiculturalism are not pro-minority.
They are anti-white.
And quite frankly, when white people leave a community or leave a church, it's just like Detroit.
Prosperity is not going to be very far behind them.
And that's what is happening to America and the entire West.
It's happening in Europe with Muslims and other foreigners, Somalians, Africans, being invited in to the nation.
You don't see other nations.
You don't see the Chinese.
You don't see the Japanese.
You don't see the Saudi Arabians or Israel, as Eddie chimed in very appropriately as usual, embracing all of this.
They're the most conservative in the world when it comes to immigration policy.
But we're supposed to open our arms and our wallets and our churches.
And basically, these people are scratching their heads wondering why churches are in decline, why churches are closing up.
I was reading one today in an article that I got from the Communist Appeal, our local paper.
And here's what it says.
Windows to faith, stained glass works, unite worshipers to marry denominations in, to many denominations in Memphis.
Tom Graves went to church Sunday looking for inspiration, something the born-and-bred Southern Baptist doesn't normally do.
I left the fold years ago, said Graves, a teacher, author, and photographer now in his late 50s who calls himself a Gore Vidal liberal.
My goodness, does that mean he's a homosexual like Gore Vidal?
Possibly so.
Okay, it says, in recent weeks, Graves found himself drawn to Burke Clare Baptist Church at the corner of Summer and Perkins and its striking modern geometric design.
Okay, that's another way that the church shows its contempt for its congregation with postmodern architecture.
You're expected to profess the old-time religion while you go to church in something that looks like a spaceship from some science fiction movie back in the early 50s.
It says, what Graves saw took his breath away.
Burke Claire's newest sanctuary was dedicated in 1963 when the 30-year-old congregation was bursting at the seams.
More than 2,000 people filled the pews every Sunday morning.
Even the balcony was packed.
Nowadays, the spectacular sanctuary sits empty, even on Sunday mornings.
Burke Lair's membership has declined to a few dozen folks whose average age is 81.
Exactly the age of the church itself.
Sunday services are held in a smaller side chapel next door.
Now let me move on to the next page here.
He's trying to find his way in the paper, folks.
You bear with us.
You know, we're live.
We're unrehearsed.
He had to change.
He had to turn the page.
Here he is.
Our interns are letting us down here.
Okay.
Here's what it says.
Graves was sorry to hear about the congregation's problems.
Sorrier still to hear that CVS, that's the pharmacy chain, has offered to buy the church, to put the church out of its misery for $1.6 million.
It says, the congregation has voted three times not to sell, but CVS is chomping at the bit to get the property, Watkins said.
Eventually, we're going to have to sell.
Well, they're doing just what the mainline Protestant United Methodists did when they sold the Union Avenue Methodist Church for $3 million.
You know, you know your church is in trouble when its primary fundraising activity is estate planning.
They're trying to live off the corpse of their congregation because they're not attracting anyone else.
Why would, if you're going to have nothing but liberalism to offer people, why go to church at all?
You know, you can join the Rotary Club.
You can join the Kiwanis Club.
You can join Leadership Memphis or all these other various and multitudinous liberal organizations.
And people that are true Christians are tired of asking for a loaf and being given a stone and asking for a fish and being given a serpent.
And consequently, they stop going.
They're going to have to go to home churches or start reading the Bible like that person that we read the email from at the beginning of the hour are doing.
This is how the church is committing suicide, just like education is falling behind.
You know, back in 1954 when the Brown decision was reached, America was number one in the developed world for public education.
Now we're number 17th in falling like a rock.
This is what happens when you embrace liberalism.
You're embracing error.
You're embracing apostasy.
You're embracing unconstitutionality and sin, as Eddie said.
And see, what happens is this.
The church has, gosh, you guys threw me off my path there.
Let me see what I was saying here.
Here's what is happening.
Yeah, I got to say it now.
What's happened to the church is just like what's happened to education, what's happened to the military.
It's what's happened to higher education.
It's happened to the entertainment industry.
Everything has been subverted.
And basically these churches nowadays, they want to make converts, but they don't want to make converts to Christianity.
They want to make converts to liberalism.
And this is exactly what is happening to America and its churches.
And that's why they are predictably dying and becoming irrelevant.
That's Keith Alexander for tonight, everybody.
As Eddie the Bombardier Miller is doing, give him a big round of applause.
Keith Alexander has come in and punched the clock.
That means the first hour is up, but don't go anywhere.
Two more hours of tonight's live broadcast.
Still forthcoming.
Eddie the Bombardier Miller will be filling in for Keith as my co-host as the show continues and we continue to revisit this topic, liberalism in the church.
Stay tuned.
Harve leaped to his feet and says, something's got a hold on me.
Yeah!
The day the squirrel went berserk in the first self-righteous church in that sleeping little town of Pastor Goomba.
It was a fight for survival.
But that broke out in revival.
They were jumping views and shouting, Hallelujah!
Well, Harve hit the aisles dancing and screaming.
Some thought he had religion, others thought he had a demon, and Harve thought he had a weed eater loose in his fruit of loons.
He fell to his knees to plead and beg, and the squirrel ran out of his britch's leg unobserved to the other side of the room.