Sept. 30, 2017 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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Folks, as you know, dissident dispatches, an alt-right guide to Christian theology, has been the incentive for our fundraising drive throughout the month of September, our third quarter appeal.
And we have been talking about it all month.
It is, of course, about Christian theology.
It gives voice to the ethno-patriotic concerns now fueling the growth of the secular alt-right movement.
Both reject the ongoing spiritual degeneration and demographic displacement of every white European ethno-nation.
But this book is much more than that.
It is a personal memoir.
It is the unplanned product of the culture shock experienced on all sides when an alt-right senior citizen, come cultural warrior, decides to rattle his politically correct bars by going to a theological college run by a church often confused with the Communist Party at prayer.
That is the back cover of the book that I'm holding in my hand.
Its author, Andrew Fraser, studied law and history both Canada and in the United States as well before moving to Australia, where he taught law for many years at Macquarie University.
He is the author of The WASP Question, and now, of course, this book, Dissident Dispatches, an alt-right God to Christianity.
Numerous articles in Occidental Observer, too, which are excellent, by the way.
He is a great asset for all decent people.
Andrew Fraser now joins us live from Australia, the other side of the world, but we're all here together now.
Andrew, thank you so much for being with us tonight or today.
Thank you for inviting me.
Well, it's great to have you.
It's been a long, long time since you were a guest on the political cesspool, although we did have an evening together in Arkansas a few weeks back where we both spoke at a book party, a release party for your book.
I enjoyed having the time to fellowship with you there.
Tell us what prompted you to write the book.
Keith Alexander is with me tonight.
He's going to be helping us with this interview this hour.
My co-host, he has a copy of your book as well, has read it.
First, let's start with the basics.
What prompted you to write it?
Well, it flows, I suppose, naturally out of the book I had written after being suspended at Macquarie University, the WASP Question.
I began, after that experience, I began to wonder just why it was that some of the most hostile critics I encountered then back in 2005 were some of my fellow white Anglo-Saxon Protestants and so on.
So I wrote the WASP question, and in the course of that, it occurred to me that the problem that WASPs generally face is it's political, it's cultural, but it's also fundamentally spiritual.
And that led me to think that, well, I really do need to get a firmer grounding in theology.
And as it happened, there was a theological seminary just around the corner from me, so I enrolled in that somewhat naively, I suppose, and encountered a hot pot of multicultural ideology there both among students and in the faculty.
And it was a culture shock for everyone concerned, especially me, I think.
I was suspended after one year for various crimes against political correctitude.
And as I moved, but I went back, turned the other cheek and went back after my suspension there was completed.
And I began to find it an extremely interesting experience intellectually and personally.
And I decided that I really needed to put it together in the form of a book once I was finished the degree.
Andrew, this is Keith Alexander.
This year.
Andrew, this is Keith Alexander.
Can you hear me?
Hi.
I have read parts of this book.
I'll have to confess I haven't read every word of it cover to cover.
But the cultural march, this long march through the institutions, has obviously gone through denominational headquarters and through the seminaries, just like it has just about every other institution in Western culture that sets Western culture.
And tell us, if you would, please, what, in your opinion, is alt-right Christianity and differentiate that, if you would, from the Communist Party at Prayer, which is what I think a pretty good short description of what mainline Protestantism is, both in America, Australia, England, Europe generally.
Well, I suppose in a nutshell, I mean, alt-right Christianity is, in my view, let's put it that way, I mean, is a way of taking ethno-theology seriously and involves a kind of a rejection of the cult of the other,
as I describe it in this book, that pretty much dominates contemporary Christianity, whether Catholic or Protestant.
And to me, it's just a matter of taking, in effect, the Bible seriously as the story of the rise and fall of the first holy nation.
And that's what the Bible is from Genesis to Revelation.
And in my view, it provides both a warrant for subsequent Christian nations and a kind of a warning to those nations about what happens if you fly in the face of the law of God.
Well, Andrew, let me ask you this.
Have you ever, have you, now that you've gone to seminary, been able to find a church that you think is consistent with your conservative viewpoint, which is an informed viewpoint because you have studied the Bible now, I'm sure, quite extensively.
In fact, the book is almost like a diary of every one of your confrontations, I think, with the faculty.
I'm having trouble hearing you, actually.
I'm wondering whether I've Let me just fiddle with my phone and see if I've not screwed up the volume here.
Okay, can you hear me now?
Yes, yes, that's much better.
Yes.
Okay, we seem to have deficient equipment down here, but so bear with me and be sure to tell me if you're having trouble hearing me.
It's not the time zone differential.
It's the day.
It's the differential and day.
He's a week ahead.
But what I was saying basically was, have you been able to find a church that you feel comfortable in that basically teaches what your study of the Bible has caused you to conclude is the true word of God.
We'll save that question until the next segment.
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Folks, it's an amazing book.
It's an amazing man.
It's an amazing story.
Professor Andrew Fraser, who spent a career teaching law.
He was a law professor.
And then rather than retiring, he decided to go to a theological seminary and obtain a degree in divinity.
And this book, Dissident Dispatches, an alt-right guide to Christian Theology, is his memoir.
It tells you what it was like to be a traditional, a traditionalist in a left-wing seminary.
And it's just an amazing reading.
I gave it to Keith said he's read a lot of it, but not all of it.
The reason is I gave it to Keith a week ago.
I said, read it before we have Drew on next week.
Well, it's 506 pages before you get to the index.
So Professor Fraser generously shared his experiences with us.
And it's a book that we want everybody to have in their hands if they're listening to us tonight.
Keith, you asked a question right before the break.
Could we pose it to the good professor and we'll get his answer and we'll go from there.
Well, let me say this.
Can you hear me, Andy?
Yep.
Yeah, you're fine now.
Okay, let me just say this.
The way I put it is that modern churches, mainline Protestants and now, alas, also Roman Catholics and fundamentalists, have exchanged the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John for the Gospels of Peter, Paul, and Mary.
Their true religion now seems to be liberalism rather than Christianity.
And my answer to you is, now that you have really studied the Bible in depth in seminary and you know what you think, have you been able to find any church that you really and truly feel comfortable in that you attend on a weekly basis?
The short answer, I suppose, can you hear me?
I can hear you.
I can hear you well.
I am very much attracted to the Anglican church.
The problem is that both branches of the Anglican church, the so-called low church and the high church, are totally invested in this cult of the other that tends to confuse the worship of Jesus Christ with the worship of brown people.
And so I do feel very uncomfortable in most existing churches now.
And there isn't really one that does try to root itself in the spirit and blood of the particular people, the way the Christian faith grew out of the experience of ancient Israel.
Well, let me say this.
I come from a similar background.
I'm a member, or was.
I grew up an Episcopalian.
My mother was English and Anglican.
And as my father said, any man that tells you he's a boss at home will lie about other things, too.
So he said he took care of all the big items and agenda items like whether Red China ought to join the UN and mother made all the little inconsequential decisions, including where we went to church or what we had for dinner or where we live, things like that.
Well, so I come from a similar background.
I had to get out of the Episcopal Church USA because it was the church.
It was following the Gospels of Peter, Paul, and Mary.
It was liberalism with a little veneer.
But, yeah, I now belong to the Reformed Episcopal Church, which was formed in 1873.
And that basically misses all of the big things that we find objectionable.
But I swear there's a guy that's supposed to be conservative in my church who said there's no such thing as a white race.
I don't know where to go, basically.
Well, there's definitely a black race or they wouldn't know where to go and be missionaries to.
But yeah, so let me ask you this, Drew.
Again, your book is excellent.
It's so excellent.
Again, we chose it to be an incentive for our quarterly appeal, and that really sets it apart.
And I'm a big fan of yours.
What would you advise for the Christian who is tuning in to tonight who has been alienated from the church, a church that has alienated men who are the natural spiritual leaders of families, because to accept the gospel as prescribed by them would be to accept the suicide cult of the left.
So what would you advise to the Christian listening tonight, based upon your experiences as a scholar and as now someone who has gone through theological seminary, what would you advise the Christian to do in order to maintain their faith in a society that is hostile to them and also in a society institutional church that is hostile as well?
Go.
Right.
Well, I'm not sure my advice would be useful, but what I do is just continue going to my local church,
trying to establish some sort of credibility, you know, intellectually and personally, and trying whenever possible to raise issues about the legitimacy of grounding one's faith in,
you know, the spirit, water, and blood of our own people and just resisting this pernicious cultural Marxist cult of the other that is destroying us.
And I think you just have to, I mean, it's a form of cultural politics that is an alternative to trying, focusing political struggle solely on the state.
I think we do have to recognize that the church is an alternative space where it is possible to make claims upon our kinfolk.
Well, let me say this.
Yeah.
Andrew, tell us what you had a nice exegesis of Psalm 22, and you brought up Pope Leo the Great's interpretation of it.
And basically, it gets down to this question that we discuss a lot on this show, which is Jewish dispensationalism.
In other words, the Jews are still the chosen people when I learned in Sunday school that Jews were the chosen people and were the bears of the true religion up until the time of Christ.
And then Christians became the true bears of the true religion.
And then since then, we are the chosen people as Christians.
And fundamentalists in particular have come up with this dual covenantism where, for example, Jews are going to heaven even if they don't accept Christ as their savior, which is directly contrary to what I learned as a child.
Tell us about your situation with Psalm 22, for example.
Well, I mean, to my mind, I mean, the point you're making brings up the whole issue of what some people call preterism, a word from the Roman preter meaning past, or covenant eschatology.
I mean, the question is, you know, is the Bible a story of old covenant Israel that has a beginning in Genesis and an end in Revelation?
And to my mind, we really need to understand that Revelation is a prophecy of the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in AD 70.
And from that time on, Old Covenant Israel was finished.
You know, and a new covenant came into being where the church had a mission to go and disciple the nations.
Not to disciple individual believers, but to disciple nations.
Hold on right there.
Professor Fraser, they call it commercial radio, unfortunately, because we have commercials.
And I hate to interrupt you on such an important topic, but we do have to take a break.
But we'll be back with you in the rest of the hour.
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Drew Fraser is with us, author of this book, Dissident Dispatches, an Alt-Right God of Christian Theology.
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Keith, I got a question I have to ask Drew.
Actually, it's a three-part question.
But first, you made an observation during the break that I thought you should share with the audience.
What I said was this book seems to be almost a diary of every confrontation that Drew had, or at least the high points of conflict and confrontation that he had with his professors on a wide assortment of doctrinal issues and parts of the Bible.
And every one of those could result in a one-hour program, quite frankly.
And we have to, unfortunately, just kind of hit a very general type of approach on this in order to make much headway on it.
And we apologize to you for that, Andrew.
The book's an epic.
The book is an epic.
I thoroughly understand.
Well, you wrote an epic, my friend, and every part of it would dominate a program in its own right.
And of course, we're trying to just skim the tip of the iceberg here tonight.
But I would ask you this.
It's a three-part question.
I'll ask them all at once, though.
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Here's the questions, Andrew.
How can people get the book otherwise?
Number one.
Number two, what degree did you obtain upon graduation?
And then more broadly, tell us a little more about the confrontations that you had while going through this journey to obtain that degree.
And let me say this one thing.
The one thing that I drew from the book was the challenge to academic freedom that is now being, you know, is commonplace in academia where they no longer tolerate honest debate on issues that they feel strongly about.
All right, so there's the questions, Andrew.
Where could people get the book?
What degree did you obtain?
And tell us more about that journey.
Okay, the book is easily obtainable on Amazon.com or directly from the publisher Arctos, that's arctos.com.
That's A-R-K-T-O-S.com.
The degree I received was a Bachelor of Theology with Distinction.
I was just awarded, in fact, in August this year.
And the third part of the question was, remind me.
It was, tell us a little more because I think this is so interesting.
Your confrontations along the way.
Oh, obviously.
Yes.
In the first year, this is a college that offers degree or courses at several levels.
You can take a one-year, a two-year, or a three-year course.
In the first year, there were a very large number of non-white students, predominantly Pacific Islanders, but also some Africans and Koreans and so on, including in my first year, a number of non-white women, in particularly interestingly, who were, I guess you'd say,
anti-racist activists.
And so I, and they had a number of events that year about, you know, the white, you know, white privilege and so on and so forth.
All of which.
Yeah, real hot topics in the Bible, right?
Sorry.
Yeah, right, exactly.
Yes.
Well, you know, I mean, that's the interesting thing.
I mean, in this college, there is no problem whatever in finding a theological basis for national identity and the promotion of national identity if you are a non-white.
It's only white people who are committing a sin by trying to preserve their own race.
And so, you know, simply by saying that sort of thing in classes or in seminars, I evoked an enormous amount of hostility and accusations of racism, sexism, anti-Semitism.
I don't think I was ever accused of homophobia, but that was the only charge I escaped.
And so eventually they hauled me up before a university committee, gave me a kind of a kangaroo court trial and suspended me for a year.
Well, you know, we have a very similar situation that's happened at my alma mater here in Memphis, where a kid basically reacted to the college professor and the student council denouncing Trump and his proposal on DACA.
And as a result, he was given the choice of either resigning and having course credits preserved or being expelled and having no credit whatsoever for so many years of coursework, which I find appalling.
What an appalling thing to happen in academia, and it apparently happened to you as well.
What do you think can be done about that?
Well, once again, I think it's a question of just trying to persuade more Christians.
I mean, if we're talking about theological seminaries and churches, more ethnically and racially conscious Christians to take their views and present them as calmly as possible to their fellow students, to their professors, to their ministers, and so on.
And the more that happens and the greater the number of Christians who take that course of action, perhaps you'll get a critical mass of people that will tip the balance.
Because I think it's worth pointing out that after my suspension had run its course and I went back into the degree program, I discovered that actually the composition of the student body was substantially whiter.
There were more Anglo-Saxons and more Anglo-Saxon men.
And most of the teachers here were WASPs as well.
And I found then that it actually was reasonably possible to conduct a civil exchange of views from then on.
A lot of the heat went out of my interactions with both faculty and students in the subsequent years.
Well, I found it very intriguing that you wound up graduating with distinction.
Yes, well, that's what I mean.
I mean, they did eventually, I think, take me seriously.
And I mean they, by they, I mean both staff and fellow students and so on.
So I think it is possible to engage in the Let would call it entryism, get in there and try to establish your personal and intellectual and spiritual credibility.
You're bona fides.
Well, Andrew, I would ask you this.
I would ask you this.
So you had a successful career as a professor of law, a law professor.
What motivated you?
I don't even think we talked about the most basically.
What motivated you at what should have been the end of a career?
What would have been the end of a career for a mere mortal?
What motivated you to go in and pursue a degree in theology?
Well, I mean, essentially the disappointment I experienced as a law professor with the spiritual state of the legal system and the legal profession.
I mean, it's a legal system that is devoid of any spiritual or moral core.
You know, as you can see, especially in the United States, I mean, the law is whatever some politically appointed judge says it is.
There's no more to it than that.
Andrew, the cultural Marxist lawmarch through the institution has gone through law school just like it has Divinity School, and it's affected everything.
I loved your recent article, for example, about the No Fault Divorce Initiative and how that has affected marital relations.
Well, hey, one thing, that was a great article, and we actually reposted that.
Drew, if you don't mind, we're going to keep you for one more minute after the next break, and then we'll let you fly and enjoy your Sunday afternoon in Australia.
Stay tuned, everybody.
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Parting shot with Drew Fraser.
I thought he gave an excellent answer as to why he sought to pursue a degree in divinity in the theological seminary after a successful career.
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But I would ask you this, Drew, final question.
Now that you have this degree, how do you plan to apply it?
I mean, certainly we could use you as the president of the Southern Baptist Convention, my denomination.
God knows they're god-awful.
Do you plan to apply it at all, or is it just something you wanted to do for yourself?
For intellectual curiosity.
Well, I'm afraid I'm totally addicted to the academic life.
I've actually been thinking about whether I should do a master in theology degree.
Maybe that would be another book.
Interested in.
Sorry?
No, I was just going to say maybe that would be another book.
I'm sorry for interrupting.
Go ahead.
Yeah, well, that's right.
More dissident dispatches.
Well, that's a fair enough answer.
Hey, listen, thank you so much.
I know it's Sunday afternoon as we're broadcasting live this Saturday night.
I appreciate you being on with us all the way from Australia.
It's great to have you.
I think this is your encore appearance on the show.
We love the book.
We're big fans of yours.
Stay in touch and let's do business again soon.
You need to start preaching, Drew, and have Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show in Australia, okay?
Thanks a lot, and thanks for having me.
Bye-bye.
You're welcome.
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Listen to this.
Dear James and Cesspool hosts, I've been listening to your show for many years and have never written or reached out.
As I stand on the cusp of my 30th birthday, I decided to seize the day and send words of encouragement to you all.
I have benefited greatly from your weekly shows.
They are both entertaining and informative, like a discussion with old friends.
I live and went to college in an extremely liberal part of the country, and tuning in every week to hear the joyful forthrightness of James, the encyclopedic wisdom of Keith, as well as the lovable bombast of Eddie the Bombardier was a breath of fresh air.
It got me through some dark times.
I've always said that if I could choose an America to live in, it would be what I call the James Edwards America, the simple, quiet life of faith, family, and friends lived with courage and good humor.
So to be brief, thank you all.
Please accept my humble donation of $50, and may you have many more years of great radio.
It would be an honor to meet you in person someday.
That comes, and he finishes it with God bless.
That comes from Brandon in Colorado.
I wrote back to Brandon and said that, of course, time doesn't permit us to answer all emails, although we would like to, but I did want to answer his.
And I shared with him that reading notes like his reaffirms why we do what we do and why we're so open and honest with our audience.
We make a purposeful attempt to build a relationship with our audience to the extent that we can over the airwaves, of course.
But it's very heartwarming when those who tune in can pick up on our personalities and our eccentricities.
And I told him that I'd read the letter on the air tonight, which I just did.
And, of course, thanked him for the generosity of his contribution.
But Keith, hey, that email really says it all.
This is a man who's listened for years, only wrote in this week, but he knows us, and he's with us, and we're with him.
Well, they say, bread cast on the waters will come back to you.
This is what is that, you know, we probably have no idea how many people actually listen to this show and how many people are influenced by it.
And those in our audience need to know that.
We are doing this as a labor of love.
We're not getting paid to do this.
We're basically meeting expenses.
But we do it because it's our mission in life.
We feel like it's very, very important for our viewpoint as Christian paleoconservatives, alt-writers, or whatever you want to call us, gets expressed because other people are making millions of dollars to give, to pursue careers, giving the opposite viewpoint.
And we are a voice in the wilderness, and we need your help to keep doing it.
And we think that it's, you can see by the rise of the alt-right, by the Trump election, that we're having an effect.
There is an effect.
There is a sea change going on in American society and Western society today.
And we feel like we're on the cutting edge of it, James.
Well, listen to this one, Keith.
Another first-time writer into the political system, another first-time donor, as Brandon was in Colorado.
First-time writer, first-time donor.
Listen to this from Kathy in Alberta, Canada.
Listen to this.
I'm writing you, dear James, I'm writing you from Edmonton, the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta.
When I awake Saturday mornings in happy anticipation, I set my iPad alarm to 8.55 p.m. to catch your show that evening.
The Irish gift of Gab is my fondest memory of my two happy years living in Dublin.
And you folks on the political session will have that same gift as you passionately discuss the issues of concern to you.
Enclosed is a contribution of $100.
That comes from Kathy from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Keith.
And she writes in perfect cursive.
They don't even teach that in schools anymore.
But I want to thank Kathy.
I want to thank Brandon.
There are good people everywhere, and even up in the Great White North, as they call Canada, and particularly in the western provinces, there are a lot of self-sufficient, good people who are of the pioneer stock still up there.
And Kathy, god bless you, thanks for reaching out to us and we hope you will basically spread the word and get other people involved in your locality.
It's not millions of dollars worth of sponsorships that keep us on the air.
It's the 50 contribution from Brandon.
It's the hundred dollar contribution from Kathy.
It's it's the the, the five dollar contribution, the ten dollar contribution it's it's.
It's Jim in Lincoln Nebraska, who sent in a note uh, today.
Hey, James and gang hope things are going well.
Here's a little more money.
Thank you for all you do, Jim.
Thank you uh, it's.
It's um, it's Philip in Granite Silly.
Uh, Granite City, Illinois.
Here's some spare change for the Cesspool boys.
Long live the south and god bless the Alt-right, wherever they may be.
Long live the south.
From a listener in Granite Silly, Illinois.
Thank you Philip.
Thank you Jim.
Uh, it's it's the contributors that we've received this week.
Uh, the contributions from listeners in Nashville Tennessee Beecher Illinois Cordlaine, Idaho.
Thank you, Stan.
St. Louis, Missouri.
Thank you, Lon Bloomington, Illinois.
Greenville, South Carolina, Thedixie Republic.com Parksville, British Columbia, Ben Wheeler Texas, Moreno Valley California, Loves Park Illinois, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, RON and Baton Rouge, you've always been good to us.
We love you, Brother.
Bronx, New York, White River Junction, Vermont have you even heard of that place?
Philadelphia Pennsylvania Littleton Colorado Gallatin, Tennessee, thank you, thank you, thank you Rich, we love you.
Winnipeg Manitoba, Little Rock, Arkansas.
It was a big week for contributions from Canada and Illinois.
For some reason, they stepped up to the plate.
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
This is what we, you know, hearing from people that we really don't even expect or suspect are out.
There is one of the most joyous events in our lives.
We want to want you to know how glad we are that we have it.
Fans and admirers in far-flung places all over the world we have.
You didn't know you had a listener in White River Junction.
No, I didn't, not at all.
In fact, i'm going to look it up and find out where it is now.
Did you know there was actually a Confederate raid that took place in Vert?
Does anybody know that?
I have a movie about that.
It stars Van Heflin.
Okay, it's called The raid and it was made by a Mexican anti-war director and it is a famous movie.
I I have a copy of that and, quite frankly, we need to make copies of that and make that another one of our uh, an attorney and uh, an attorney in Washington Dc who never misses a show.
You know who you are sir, and we love you uh.
And he sent me a print uh, a photographic uh print, a picture uh, a painting I guess is what i'm getting at of this raid in Vert and uh, we have it, of course, hanging in in the office.
So uh, thank you for that.
Anyway, bottom line is, we have listeners everywhere, from big cities, metropolitan areas to small hamlets uh, in America and Canada, across the western world.
If you want to donate before the end of our third quarter, uh fundraising drive tonight at midnight, you you got a couple of hours left to go.
A hundred dollars or more gets you the book from Andrew Fraser, who you've heard from this hour.
Uh, but five dollars, ten dollars, twenty five dollars, fifty dollars hey, it all keeps us on the air, but we will send you this 500 page epic book which we barely scratched the surface of tonight.
I hope we came close to doing it justice.
You'll get it for a hundred dollars or more.
Donate tonight at thepoliticalaccessible.org and uh, you'll be counted among the heroes who have helped keep us on the air this quarter.
Thank you, Keith.
Eddie the Pompadier Miller is sliding in.
We're going to talk about the Nashville church shooting from a church perspective.