Dec. 16, 2023 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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By now in New York City, there's snow on the ground.
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Well, that is most certainly our wish to you, ladies and gentlemen, here now, just barely a week before Christmas, this Saturday evening, December the 16th.
It's a very special night, a very special time here on TPC.
And it continues this evening as we are full throttle into the Christmas season.
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Real quick, before we bring Keith Alexander on, he's actually on the phone tonight.
Kind of a topsy-turvy evening at TPC.
Keith is driving to a dinner meeting right now while my wife is actually in the studio.
Today, December 16th is her birthday.
So I want to tell you, happy birthday and let everyone know that you're going to be hearing a little bit more from her later on in the program.
But she's got our youngest daughter here in tow.
Happy birthday.
Aw, thanks.
Now, you've sacrificed every Saturday for the last 20 years.
So I figured, why should your birthday be any different tonight, right?
That's right.
Got to do it big.
Well, she is with us tonight because we're going to be going out after this and celebrating together as a family.
But anyway, so I wanted to make mention of that very special occasion as well.
So it's been a lot of birthdays together.
That's sweet.
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Well, you're going to hear a little bit more from her and a few of the other ladies later this evening.
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It's going to be a fun conversation with him.
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Keith, how are you tonight, my friend?
Doing great.
Doing great.
Well, you and I had seen an article in the newspapers.
Well, really, it was on all of the local TV affiliates.
It was in the local newspaper.
It actually ended up making some national news.
Headline reads, the after school Satan Club is coming to Tennessee.
Now, I saw the graphic that this club used to make its announcement.
It's got all of these sharpened colored pencils.
And it reads, hey, kids, let's have fun at the after school Satan Club.
And it's got sort of a cartoon of, you know, a quintessential devil with the horns and he's smiling and he's, you know, red and got a beard and all of that.
So that's interesting.
The story reads here.
This is from one of the TV affiliates and then we'll read what the newspaper had to say.
The Satanic Temple announced that the After School Satan Club is coming to Chimney Rock Elementary School in Cordova, a school that is part of the Memphis-Shelby County School District.
The Satanic Temple is a non-theistic religion that views Satan as a literary figure who represents a metaphorical construct of rejecting tyranny and championing the human mind and spirit.
All after-school Satan clubs are based on activities centered around the seven fundamental tenets and emphasize a scientific, rationalist, non-superstitious worldview opposed by the Satanic Temple announcing the club's arrival at Chimney Rock Elementary Red.
So first of all, Keith, I got a lot.
Listen, we're going to have a singular focus this hour on this story because there's several different rabbit trails that we're going to tie together to make an overall big picture point.
But the first thing I notice, Keith, is I'm reading this.
I'm reading and watching all of this coverage.
And I see all of these church-going suburban whites who always wilt and melt at the first at the sound of the first shot fire.
They're trying to be brave on their Facebook pages, okay?
They're up in arms.
I mean, they're brave.
They're taking the last full measure for them of complaining about this on social media.
And I laugh.
I mean, is this ridiculous?
Of course.
Should it be banned?
Absolutely.
But I see this in more dimensions than they can.
And first of all, I see it as a farce.
I mean, this group doesn't even believe in Satan.
They even say he's a literary figure.
So why not just call yourself the Secular Humanist Club?
I mean, it is just a troll.
I mean, they incorporated, of all places, they Satanic Temple Incorporated in Salem, Massachusetts.
I mean, you know, it's all just a gimmick.
But anyway, there's a lot of ways we're going to approach this story.
And I think in some of the ways you'll find interesting.
But first, you see this, Keith?
You're reading this.
And what was your take?
Well, chickens coming home to roost, actually.
You know, back in the days when Madeline Murray O'Hare was, you know, moving for atheism to be legitimized and considered to be protected by the First Amendment,
this type of argument would be, and her, she was trying to shut down, for example, Christian clubs that were meeting either during school hours or after school hours.
Well, these, you know, that's what they did.
They were always, you know, saying, well, you know, if there was a satanic club, they would have the same rights.
And that's what people defending the First Amendment and opposed to Satanism were saying back then.
Now, you see, the chickens have come home to roost.
You can see now that the First Amendment doesn't apply to anything that the left doesn't want it to and everything that they do want it to, you know, apply to.
And this is, you know, they're probably going to get their way in the courts, at least if the courts follow precedent.
But it shows you just how far things have come from back in the housing days of the 50s and early 60s in America.
Yeah, I mean, that's right.
And I'm going to get to some of these court precedents that they've, of course, already won.
That's how they're as far along down the track as they are already.
But again, they are using a classic devil as their mascot, a cartoon devil.
They call themselves the Satan Club.
But then they say that Satan's just a literary figure.
So again, why not just call yourself the Secular Humanist Club?
One thing.
And then it goes on this heavy.
I mean, this was probably the biggest news story, certainly in town.
And I said again, it did make some national news as well.
And this is a Memphis story.
But one of the local affiliates in their coverage put forth that the Satanic Temple said that, quote, the after school Satan Club will include science projects, community service projects, puzzles and games, nature activities, arts, crafts, and snacks.
I mean, what?
Why not just call yourself the kids' happy hour?
I mean, are you just using Satan for his name recognition?
I mean, what are you doing?
What is this?
And imagine if kids actually do go to this.
They're going to get bullied and mocked.
I mean, and understandably so.
So what's the point of all this?
What's the point?
And why are we covering it?
What's the point of us covering it?
It's an easy and lazy thing to say, oh, yeah, we should ban the Satan Club.
Why are we covering it?
Well, we haven't even begun to scratch that itch yet.
We'll let you know.
Stay tuned.
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It's windy in Chicago.
The kids are out of school.
There's magic in Motown.
The city's on the moon in Jackson, Mississippi to Charlotte, Caroline, and all across the nation.
It's peaceful Christmas time.
Christmas indexing.
A peaceful for now, at least, next year, God only knows.
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And just in time for Christmas, if you live in Memphis, you're a local listener.
You can get your kids in the satanic after-school activities that are coming to Chimney Rock Elementary School.
We are talking about this, not in the way that the average churchgoer would be talking about it.
They are feigning their outrage, or who knows?
Maybe they really are outraged by this, but it's good to know that they can get outraged about something.
They've basically given away their entire birthright and heritage, but they can still post about some things from time to time.
But yeah, so it was saying, Keith, I was saying in the last segment before the break that the Satan Club's going to focus on puzzles and games and arts and crafts, and they're going to have some snacks.
So, you know, I don't know what these people are really doing, whoever's behind this.
If kids go to this, they're going to get mocked and bullied for being outside of societal norms.
So I really don't know what the point is of the Satan Club, or whoever they are.
And they have made a stink in Iowa, too.
They've won some court cases recently, apparently, so they're now moving into these schools.
And at the Iowa Capitol building, they put up a pagan display, a satanic display.
And, you know, this is presented by the Satan, Church of Satan or whatever.
But here was the response.
Let's see.
No, this is not the response.
I'll read the response in just a second from the Shelby County School System.
This is from the local paper.
And it reads Chimney Rock Elementary, part of the Memphis Shelby County School System, has multiple after-school clubs and extracurricular activities for its students.
Listed on its website are strings, beta club, Girl Scouts, and piano lessons.
But early next year, an entirely different kind of club meeting is slated to be held at the Cordova-based elementary school on January 10th.
Students will have the opportunity to attend the after-school Satan Club.
And it is sponsored by the Satanic Temple of Salem, Massachusetts, of course, a nonprofit that has rented out the Chimney Rock Library for the meeting.
The website also asserts that the Satanic Temple is the primary religious satanic organization in the world.
They're religious, but they don't really believe in anything.
Whatever.
And its mission is to reject tyranny, authority, oppose injustice, and undertake noble pursuits.
Now, now we're getting somewhere, I think.
Now we're beginning to see the picture crystallize a little bit.
I think, if you had to guess, this is ultimately, Keith, going to be just another anti-white, so-called social justice club for the kids.
And in this case, linking that with Satanism is quite appropriate.
Yeah, exactly.
And it's going to be interesting to see what people like Russell Moore do about this.
You know, if this doesn't stir them up and get them on the right side, at least temporarily, then we know they are totally sold out to the devil, which is what I suspect anyway.
Well, I was actually, I'm going to get into that in just a moment.
I know that you're about to step into a meeting, but I'm going to bring some of that up.
You know, where are the Steve Gaines and the Russell Moores and the David Frenches and all of these so-called and self-appointed, in many cases, evangelical leaders, certainly media spokesmen, the media gives them the platform.
They are quick to denounce the Confederate flag or Christians who vote for Trump.
I haven't seen a word about this from them yet.
And it's not that they haven't heard about it.
Bellevue Baptist Church is about.
Silence is deafening.
Well, you could walk to Chimney Rock School from Bellevue.
It's right across the street.
But listen to this.
This is the another point I want to be sure to make with you before I transition into that is that this is the official response from the Memphis-Shelby County school system.
And it reads, as a public school district, we're committed to upholding the principles of the First Amendment, which guarantees equal access to all organizations seeking to use our facilities after school hours, the statement said.
Now, Keith, I'm calling BS on that one.
I'm calling BS on that one because you're telling me a pro-right group wants to use the Chimney Rock Elementary School Library to have a meeting, particularly in elementary school.
I mean, Youth for Western Civilization got ran out of college campuses.
And they always find a way to circumvent the First Amendment when it's not convenient.
Well, yeah, technically they have a right, but we couldn't find a professor who would sponsor their club.
That's really one of our rules.
You see, we've got to have a professor that's going to sign off to be their sponsor.
But, you know, if it's one of their groups or an ideology that they support, they just conveniently fall back on the Constitution.
Well, the First Amendment says we've got to grant equal access to everybody.
So your take on that very quickly, Keith?
Well, I like it.
I like what is happening now because if this doesn't wake up the so-called normies, nothing will.
And if they don't see what the public schools and public education generally in America have sunk to, this should be a wake-up call.
On the other hand, I'm really just kind of curious.
I'm waiting to see how these people are going to respond to this, how, you know, people like David French and Steve Gaines and Russell Moore are going to reply to it.
Because, you know, I suspect that, you know, they are, you know, they've exchanged the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and Johnson, gospels of Peter, Paul, and Mary.
They're just into kind of early 60s style civil rights movement of ideas that they try to extrapolate and build a bridge onto things like homosexual rights and whatnot now.
But this is, you know, this is exactly what we need to help tell our tale to people and tell them that, look, public education has gone to hell in a handbasket in America.
And this is what it's come down to now.
And, you know, we've been telling you this ever since Brown versus Board of Education.
But now here's more proof.
And I'm going to see if all these south-hearted Southern Baptists actually, you know, take steps to fight this or if it's one of these things that when all is said and done, more will be said than done.
Well, I mean, you know, this whole farcical Satan club is not even really a threat.
I mean, I would say ban it, but what the Southern Baptists actually, and most head tables at any given denomination, the real things that they support are far more dangerous than this sort of made-up, I think this is just a big troll job, you know, frankly.
But, I mean, again, why call yourself the Satan Club out of Salem, Massachusetts if your whole thing is about giving kids puzzles and snacks?
I love this.
It seems that things have devolved to such a point, James, that now there's nothing that's off the table.
Nothing.
Well, that's true, too.
Yeah, I shouldn't minimize this.
I guess maybe I am minimizing it to a greater extent than it deserves.
I mean, it should be opposed.
It should be routed out.
But I mean, I'm not sitting here.
I'll get to this in just a second, but I want to read just one more sentence from this official response from the Shelby County School System.
The First Amendment states that we cannon, C-A-N-N-O-N, we cannot approve or deny a request.
This was what was printed in the paper, based solely on the organization's viewpoints or beliefs.
I think what they meant to write was they cannot approve or deny a request based on the organization's viewpoints or beliefs.
But I guess Cannon is as close as you're going to get to cannot with the Memphis school.
Well, exactly.
That's the point.
But some of the moms on the social media who, again, were upset enough to make a negative comment on Facebook in response to these stories were doing some digging online.
And according to their research, they said that the Satanists were able to do this because they won this court case here, that court case there, citing that pesky First Amendment.
But as we know, Keith, the First Amendment offers selected protections.
That's not a blanket deal.
Sure, it can help give a win in court to Black Lives Matter or Antifur or the Satan Kids Club.
But what if you want to exercise your Freedoms of Speech Association and Assembly to voice your opposition to the removal of a historical monument and say, I don't know, Charlottesville, Virginia?
First Amendment is going to protect you there?
I don't think so.
So I think ultimately the takeaway here, one of the first takeaways from this story is that as we've demonstrated time and time again, the only thing that matters in the courts is whose side you're on.
And the Satan Club is going to get a pass.
Well, you know, also anti-Semitism, anything that is contrary to the interests of Jews generally and the Israeli state in particular, like what's going on over in Gaza right now, that's going to be punishable.
Just, you know, the First Amendment be damn.
It's really interesting.
First Amendment is really being brought into focus now, and this is just another aspect of it, I guess.
And it's, I got to say this.
I think you'll appreciate it.
I want to go back and watch Turflot.
This is what Sam Dixon said in response to all of this in an email a few weeks ago, but I saved it.
I saved some of his gems for just such an occasion as this.
When the topic comes up and I can pull one and put it into play, he writes, and I think you'll agree with this, Keith, that the liberals knew.
Well, I'll tell you when we come back.
If Keith, I know you're waiting and you have a dinner guest waiting.
If you have five minutes on the flip side, I'd like to read this and get your response and then you can go eat.
Does that work?
Sounds good.
Let's try it.
Okay.
All right.
Set tight.
We'll be right back.
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You better watch out.
You better not cry.
You better not pout.
I'm telling you why.
Santa Claus is coming to town.
He's making the list and checking it twice.
Gonna find out who's not in nice.
Santa Claus is coming to town.
What do you think, Keith?
You're gonna get all good things this Christmas?
You're gonna get a lump of coal.
I'm hoping for the first and stealing myself in the second.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, our good friend Keith Alexander is at his dinner meeting as we speak and keeping his company waiting for just a couple of more minutes.
As I wanted to share this observation that Sam made as it ties into what we've been talking about the first half hour.
And then I'm going to make some other observations.
Then we're going to move on with fun and festive second hour, third hour, Chuck Baldwin, back for the first time in 16 years on TPC, former presidential nominee of the Constitution Party, a minister for 48 years, formerly of a Baptist church in the Deep South in Pensacola, Florida, now still the active pastor of a fellowship in Montana.
And he's just a great guy.
I mean, if Christianity had more people like him, it wouldn't be in the state of affairs that it is in.
And we're going to ask him what the state of the faith is on this continent now, right before Christmas 2023.
Yeah, ask him about this particular incident, too.
Sure, sure.
We'll talk about that.
He wants to talk about Israel and erasing Palestine.
He takes a lot of the right stands on the South, on Israel, on the liberty of very rare for a bad man.
That's major too in what I told you about Mark Levin about him saying that Netanyahu is just like Abraham Lincoln.
I'll mention that.
He said that last Tuesday, and I couldn't believe it.
I said, boy, I wish I was recording this right now.
Well, Chuck is old enough.
He'd probably like your Gospels of Peter, Paul, and Mary line that you use so often.
I like that, too.
And attribute it to me.
Okay.
All right.
So one last thing with regards to, again, we were talking about the double standard.
Well, the First Amendment says, you know, equal accommodations for everyone.
But of course, it's never really that way.
What it comes down to is whose side you're on.
If they can lazily give a victory to— Yeah, apparently the First Amendment doesn't protect any of the people that are making Jewish students at Harvard, Yale, and MIT feel discomfort.
Well, exactly.
So anyway, this is what Sam Dixon said.
I was going to get to this right before the last break.
And tell me if you agree with this.
He writes, the liberals we knew when we were young were liars.
Thoughtful kids capable of critical thinking saw through them.
But at least back then, they postured in order to impress and win over youngsters that they were, A, opposed to the military-industrial complex, B, in favor of peace, C, opposed to guilt by association, D, were thoughtful men of ideas who were open to thinking and discussion, and E, against censorship.
And finally, F, in favor of the rights of the accused, and so on and so forth.
Now that they have shed these pretenses, they have come out into the open as what they always were at heart.
Their positions today are 180 degrees opposed to everything that they said they stood for when I was in high school and college.
This is Sam Dixon writing.
But the only change is that they are now out in the open.
My liberal teachers and professors never believed in any of what they claim to represent, Keith.
Yeah, it reminded me of the famous Bilfredo Pareto, Italian socialist from the 19th century said.
He said, when I am weak, I ask you for equality, justice, and fair play because those are your principles.
He said, when I am strong, I deny those principles to you because that is my principle.
See, he's absolutely right.
These people were nothing but a bunch of charlatans.
They were totalitarians in hiding, waiting to get the strength that they needed in order to renounce everything that they used as an excuse for their positions back in the 50s and 60s.
And we see that just like Sam has chronicled there, that's exactly what they've done.
They have turned their back.
They don't give two hoots in hell about principles like fair play or freedom of speech and whatnot.
They will deny that to you in a New York minute.
And that's what they're doing.
And not only they, but I mean, it is so easy to just drift along with the tide.
Those who best understand the strength of the tide are the ones with the courage to swim against it, and that's us.
But for everybody else, whether it be people in government, in the media, even in the churches, which we're about to get back to, a lot easier to be a craven coward than it is to be a sturdy man of principle.
Keith, I know you got to go.
I know you've stayed with us longer than you had time to.
Give our best to your dinner companions tonight.
We'll talk to you again next week.
The show goes on for everybody else.
Love you, Keith.
Talk to you soon.
Take care and Merry Christmas, everybody.
Well, you'll talk to him again before then, but we can't say that enough.
Thank you, buddy.
So again, what we were talking about with Keith, another thing, this blanket coverage of this Satan club coming into one of the local elementary schools here in Memphis has made national news.
Where are the clergymen?
So where's Steve Gaines?
Now, that name isn't going to mean anything to anybody outside of Memphis, but Steve Gaines is the former president of the Southern Baptist Convention.
He is the pastor of a megachurch, Bellevue Baptist Church, here in Memphis.
And its proximity, the proximity of this mega church to Chimney Rock, it's literally across the street.
You could walk to it in, I don't know, 10 minutes.
And he was, as timing and fate would have it, the president of the Southern Baptist Convention during the alt-right years.
So those years between, let's just say, what, 2015 to 2017, you know, were the alt-right years when the alt-right was, you know, the media had puffed that up.
That had played itself out by about 2018.
But in 2016, during the first Trump run through 17, you know, that was the House Eon days for the alt-right.
And in 2017, at the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention, the meeting of all of their member churches, they passed a resolution against white supremacy.
And in part read that the Southern Baptist Convention decries, quote, alt-right white supremacy as antithetical to the gospel of Jesus Christ.
And that we denounce and repudiate white supremacy as a scheme of the devil intended to bring suffering and division to our society.
Basically, the resolution just states that human beings are equal in every way, in spite of all of the evidence to the contrary.
But they only have a problem with white racism or whatever they consider that to be.
And what they consider that to be is any white person who's not ashamed of themselves.
That's what that is.
They don't have a problem with black racism.
They don't have a problem.
At the very same convention that they passed this resolution, there were breakout sessions for every racial minority in the Southern Baptist Convention.
The black Southern Baptist, the Taiwanese Southern Baptist, the Malaysian Southern Baptist.
They all had their own little breakout groups where they could get together and be with their own kind.
And you know what I say to that?
That's natural and healthy.
But that's not a problem.
It's only a problem when whites do it.
Now, this resolution was, of course, very vague and broad.
What exactly did the SBC mean by racism and white supremacy?
What do they think is hatred?
Do they think it's a hatred to have a preferential, a preference for one's own people?
If they do, then why do they allow all of the other groups that are non-white to meet and to share their sense of togetherness and cohesion?
Do they think it's supremacy to prefer to be among your own kind?
And more importantly, even if any examples of unjust hatred can be found, does it follow that anyone who could have been at the time classified as alt-right is himself guilty of such hatred?
Of course, this SBC resolution that was presided over by Steve Gaines, who is the pastor of a Southern Baptist megachurch within a stone's throw of China Rock Elementary, where the Satan Club is moving in, he didn't have anything to say.
I've looked at his social media.
Nothing on there.
Maybe he'll post something after this show.
I don't know.
But the resolution, of course, it was not intended to be faithful to scripture or to clearly articulate the issue.
Only.
It only was passed to virtue signal and express platitudes.
That's the only reason they passed it.
There was no understanding of what even the alt-right was.
You're telling me the average Southern Baptist churchgoer has a firm understanding of what the alt-right was in 2017?
I mean, if they knew anything about it, they knew hysterical press releases from the SPLC or the ADL and based their opinions on the word of these very antichrist organizations.
But I remember this convention.
I mean, I remember it well because this was the same year that my church was disfellowshipped because my pastor wouldn't expel me as a member.
They are so brave when they are doing the bidding of the Antichrists.
So I paid attention to this meeting.
They had to, they broke their own parliamentary rules of procedure.
They voted three different times.
They couldn't get a quorum, and they just kept voting over and over and over.
The vote failed the first three times.
The vote failed on this alt-right, you know, denouncing white supremacy and only white supremacy.
Every other kind of supremacy is fine.
Every other kind of racism is fine.
Whatever you want to call racism.
You know what I'm talking about.
It failed two or three times.
Clearly states in their bylaws, after an issue is dealt with, you can't keep revoting on it.
You know, that kind of makes sense.
You can't just keep voting, voting, voting, voting until people get tired and just leave, and then you finally get the votes you need.
But they did.
And that was one thing.
This was the same year as I mentioned that my church was purged.
Big-time witch hunt for racists by the so-called leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention in 2017.
And it was really far more ridiculous than the Salem trials.
I mean, you know, what was the difference in Salem back then?
We were talking about Salem coincidentally just a couple of weeks ago on the show.
If you admitted you were a witch and issued a false confession, you got to stick around.
But if you held fast to the truth, they killed you.
And frankly, nothing has changed.
I'm going to say a little bit more about that when we come back.
And I'm going to tie this whole thing in together.
This whole tapestry that we have been painting for you or sewing for you or putting together for you this hour.
I'm going to stitch it with needle and thread to the very conclusion.
Why does the left lie constantly?
Because they get spiritual power from lying.
The lies come from Satan, the father of lies.
John 8:44.
Here's how the political lying process works: Satan provides the beast with a lie.
Then the more they use the lie, the more spiritual power they get.
Look, the media is a lie multiplier, and this multiplication gives more evil spiritual power to the beast.
And that can overwhelm and even deceive the body of Christ, especially when the body is being disobedient to the head.
The churches today are incorporated, so they're subordinate to human government.
They obey the beast and do nothing to restore our national relationship with God.
And the government shall be on his shoulders.
Isaiah 9:6.
That verse is not for the present-day church.
Rather, it is for the end-time church, the body of the line of Judah.
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Now, back to what we've been talking about this hour.
Using the story of the Satan Club setting up shop at a local elementary school in Memphis, and first of all, talking about the hypocrisy of First Amendment protections, the hypocrisy of the left with regards to these issues, and the cowardice of, frankly, the Christian church in a lot of ways.
We were talking in the last segment about how, and we're using the Southern Baptist Convention as an example here because in 2017, the president of the Southern Baptist Convention, the current, the then and still current pastor of a Southern Baptist megachurch in Memphis, just a few feet away, really, from the Chimney Rock Elementary School, he, you know, was passing these resolutions, these embarrassing resolutions where basically stating that only whites can be guilty of racism and so on and so forth.
And at the same time, at the same time while this was going on, do you know what was simultaneously happening in the Southern Baptist Convention from black pastors of churches in the Southern Baptist Convention?
The leadership of the SBC was excluding churches and members who are unapologetically pro-white, while also including churches and members who are unapologetically pro-black.
I guess that won't come as a surprise to you, but Dwight McKissick, who was the bloated black pastor of a Southern Baptist church, in name only, I guess, in Dallas, he wrote two books.
He was the one who really, wanted me to be expelled.
And he let it be known on his Twitter account just about every day for a couple of years.
And he wrote two books.
It's called Beyond Roots, parts one and two, and it talks about black people in biblical and Christian history.
The preface of the first book, he writes, it is my desire that these pages inspires others to explore the ethnic factor in scripture, Christian history and contemporary society.
And it is interesting to those of us who believe and are curious about the role of the black man in biblical and historical Christianity.
Well, you know, again, being fair, that's all well and good, but, you know, race is a social construct, and we're all one in Christ.
So what's the significance of the black man in the Bible, Mr. Black pastor?
And if I'm expelled for saying the same things, why aren't you expelled?
Well, we know that there's the double standards.
And he wrote another book that explicitly focuses on black people because they are black.
Because they are black.
This, he says, is because, quote, there can be no authentic black identity unless we would claim our black families.
I don't have a problem with that.
But he goes on and on and on about this.
We've got to take charge in our community.
Everything is race-based, which is fine.
It's natural.
It's natural for us to do it too.
That's the point.
McKissick has written these books because he wants black people to have a strong racial identity so that they can flourish as a people, presumably so.
But this was all going on at the same time that they were coming down on me so hard.
Another example is Dr. Chris Williamson.
He's the founder and senior pastor, or at least he was in 2017, which is the time we're focusing on right now, of Strong Tower Bible Church.
Now, listen to this, folks.
He's written articles posted on the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission website.
In one article, it's entitled, How the Black Panther Has Inspired Me Since I Was Nine Years Old.
And he writes in this that this fictitious comic book hero.
Everything changed for me once I discovered an African superhero called the Black Panther.
I naturally gravitated towards this commanding character who looked like me.
For a black boy growing up in the hood, the Black Panther increased my sense of somebody-ness before I could fully comprehend why I even needed that boost in my psychological development.
Now, I'll just pause right there and say, at least my heroes were real.
Nathan Bedford Forrest was real.
I mean, this is a comic book character, but it's all about he's black, he's black.
Black Panther was black, black pride.
All of this was going on.
My sons need to see African men who were full of royalty, purpose, and courage, and black queens, scientists, and mothers and warriors.
What?
It's a comic book.
But anyway, this guy believes, black pastor at the same time that my church was expelled because I wouldn't urinate on my father's.
He believes it's good for blacks to have a positive image of themselves, yet he sometimes simultaneously looks down on white history and people who celebrate that white history.
He portrays, and folks, you're going to think I'm making stuff up now.
You're going to think I'm doing like they do.
This black so-called pastor of this black so-called Southern Baptist Church had tweeted at the time that the founding pioneers of the United States were evil rapist colonizers who stole the land from the innocent, peaceful, God-fearing Indians.
Yes, the Indians were Christians before the white men came.
I did not know that until this black Southern Baptist pastor told me about it.
It's incredible.
But both of these men were unapologetically pro-black.
They want black people to flourish as a distinct race.
SBC saw nothing wrong with that.
And frankly, I don't either.
I mean, I think they're ridiculous, but that's a side issue.
So the double standard and the hypocritical exclusion of whites who love their people, this is a cause for repentance, I think, you know, surely.
The SBC leadership, obviously just conforming to the egalitarianism of the post-World War II era, just as most people conform to whatever's popular during their day, there's no real leadership here.
That's why I'm glad I'll have a chance to talk with somebody like Chuck Baldwin later on in the program tonight so I can like cleanse myself from even having to revisit this awful incident.
But fact of the matter is, folks, we were right about everything.
I was right about everything then, and I'm still right about everything.
You know, the Bellevue Baptist Church, this church that I'm talking about, they can't even have fireworks shows anymore.
They used to have a big firework show every 4th of July.
Huge thing all of Memphis would come to.
And then, you know, the last couple of years, they haven't had it in years now.
The last couple of years, they started locking the church door.
You couldn't even get in to use the bathroom.
And I was like, well, that's weird.
And then they started putting up signs like, you know, you can't bring Confederate flag and so on and so forth.
Well, then they stopped having it all together.
Well, why don't they stop having it all together?
Because in all of their outreach, which was focused to the inner city, it started to draw in a lot of inner city-type people.
And they started shooting.
It was a shootout.
My family was there.
The last time they had one of these fireworks shows, they had a shootout.
The blacks were just there shooting at each other.
And so now you can't have the fireworks show anymore.
But why did I get into all of that?
The reason I got into all of that is because Steve Gaines, the pastor of this megachurch right around the corner from Chimney Rock Elementary School, he wrote a letter.
He wrote a letter to the Memphis media a few years ago lobbying for the removal of the Nathan Bedford Forest Monument.
Now, forget honoring your fathers in the Southern Baptist Convention, a denomination whose very founding goes back to the issue of race.
And okay, let's just say that you believe that the war between the states doesn't concern you.
That's fine.
That's fine.
You're wrong, but just shut up.
Why virtue signal to people who hate you, who hate you, and want you and your way of life and everything to do with you destroyed?
It is because you are a coward, and there is nothing more repulsive, nothing more repulsive than a weak man.
Nothing.
But Gaines was quick to write that letter asking for the removal of the Forest Monument.
What about the Satan Club?
I haven't heard anything yet from him.
And here's why.
I think there's no social currency that he thinks he can gain from going against the establishment.
So it's really not worth his time.
It wouldn't cost him anything to say, I'm against the Satan Club coming here and our kids being subjected to that.
It wouldn't cost him anything, but it wouldn't gain him anything either.
It wouldn't gain him what he craves the most, and that is society's acceptance.
That is the old A.W. Tozer quote.
Christianity is not lifting society up to its level.
It is succumbing to society's level and then congratulating itself because society is smilingly accepting its surrender.
And that's why I do get, I think, a little bit of Schauldenfreud watching these churchgoers get all worked up over this on social media.
Because again, first of all, it's just a joke.
Nobody's going to go to this meeting.
But in the meantime, the absolute destruction of your way of life is taking place and you're dead silent.
You're too scared to make those social media posts.
That's the point of this hour.
That's the whole point of this whole hour brought to summation.
Christians should fear the displeasure of God more than the displeasure of a godless society.
And we'll talk more about that with Pastor Baldwin as we wrap up this show.
You're also going to hear from Sam Bushman as we begin to look ahead, not too quickly, because we want to be present.
We want to, as the Psalms instruct us, be still and know.
We want to be in this moment at Christmastime.
The battles of 2024, whatever is going to come next year, will come in time.
Let us be here.
Let us enjoy this time of Christmas together.
And there'll be time for looking ahead.
But we are going to just give a quick peek behind the curtain as we look ahead with Sam Bushman.
But before we do that, next hour, we're going to have a trio of TPC ladies on to, what are we going to do?
We are going to give you a behind-the-scenes look at how the Christmas spirit is manifesting in the hearts and in the homes of some of our regular listeners and guests.
The Christmas spirit abounds, and we'll see if we can touch you with it through the radio in this next hour.