The Multicultural Time Bomb Is Exploding-Victims Are Now To Blame

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for choosing W FOURCY Radio. Well, hello and welcome. This is Bill

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Martinez and we are live. You
know, so much is happening around our

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world. Borders are being invaded,
especially ours here in the southern border in

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the North as well, if the
truth be known. But the fact of

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the matter is is that this global
movement to embrace this multic culturalism dynamic that

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is happening not only here in America
but around the world. And I think

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that we can learn a lot from
what's happening in other countries. Last month,

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our next guest writes in his latest
column that the famed psychologist Jordan Peterson

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called multiculturalism a miracle of stupidity.
First of all, we've always had a

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multicultural world, right well, and
that's why he says there's been wars.

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So along with multiculturalism goes wars when
the cultures don't get along. It's pretty

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much that simple. Selwyn Duke,
who is a writer for The New American,

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is clearing up the confusion over the
oppressor oppressed victim dialectic. I know

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that's a mouthful and there's a lot
to break down here, but really,

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when you break it down, you
realize it's not all that complex, is

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it, Selwyn Duke? Not in
a way, because truth doesn't change,

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right. It's always the same and
was the same ten thousand years ago as

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it is today, It'll be the
same ten thousand years from now. So

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the truth is is that a lot
of people bill try to make things complicated

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because they don't want to accept what
the truth is, so they rationalize and

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they go through all these intellectual contortions. Right well, I think sometimes what

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happens is because they graduated from elite
school and they have to come up with

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a new language and sound so uber
intelligent. So I think just on purpose,

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they make things complex, because after
all, you know, they were

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the ones that invested a quarter of
a million dollars in this education, and

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they got this beautiful diploma that says
that they must be the elite of the

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elite, and so they get to
show off for us, right right,

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right, Well, George Orwell once
said some ideas are so preposterous or so

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absurd that only an intellectual could believe
them. And it really is true.

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And I've often lamented that we've replaced
wise men with intellectuals. We don't really

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need intellectuals. We need wise men. We need that safe a you know,

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that stereotypical thing. But yes,
absolutely some people are really educated beyond

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their intelligence and educated out of their
common sense, right without a doubt.

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And you bring up a good point
here, because wise men, you know,

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doesn't necessarily have to be associated with
an age. Sometimes you have a

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wise person that could be, you
know, four or five years old and

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say it looks to me like the
king is not wearing any clothes, right,

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absolutely, you know, you have
to remember people have different gifts.

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Built some people have the gift of
wisdom. They do. And if you

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take someone like that and you age
him a number of decades, then you

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really have something and you don't acquire
wisdom in an Ivy League school, in

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the halls of academia, in the
halls of politics or power. Wisdom is

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something that again can be a gift
and then you can cullivated, but you

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cultivate it by seeking truth and developing
discernment. That's how you do it.

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Well, what happens when you have
a culture that wants to abandon the source

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of wisdom, the gift giver,
then you know, that really puts you

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behind the eight ball and at a
disadvantage because you're ignoring the very source of

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wisdom in the process of claiming your
own intellect. So in other words,

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you're going to discredit God and put
you and put yourself in God's position,

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like that's never been done before,
right right, right, Well, you

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have to remember the whole idea that
there is such thing as wisdom is predicated

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on the idea that God exists.
Because what is wisdom it's properly defined.

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I'm not talking about some new fangle
definition, but it's properly defined as quote,

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knowledge of what is good or true. Now, what is true?

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True refers to truth. And if
there's no God, there's no truth,

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then everything is just real. And
then there can't really be any wisdom.

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It's whatever works for you. And
then everything boils down to that formulation occultist

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so Lester Crowley put out where he
said, do what thou wilt shall be

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the whole of the law. So
when we're talking about wisdom, we're talking

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about discerning truth. When we're talking
about truth, we're talking about something that

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comes from God, that's objective and
that exists apart from man exactly. And

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what I have been seeing here and
I say being allowed to see and bear

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witness to Selwyn, is the fact
that there is a definite infrastructure and design

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to this whole universe. And so
that when we are true and we're operating

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in rhythm with the infrastructure of said
universe, it goes well for us.

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In other words, you know,
if we want to be silly and violate

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gravity, for example, we find
out when we hit the ground, maybe

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not a bad idea. We probably
don't want to do that again, depending

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on our hurt we got. But
regardless, because sometimes there's just some people

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go, nah, maybe it was
just an anomaly. I can try jumping

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off this building one more time,
until they finally realize no, it's pretty

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much a law. It's consistent,
it is consistent with the infrastructure that has

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been designed for our use and our
benefit. And when we violate that,

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we pay a price, don't we
Well, we do, we do.

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I mean, look, I'm not
the biggest fan of iron Rand, but

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she did say one thing. I
like this quotation. She said, you

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can ignore reality, but you can't
ignore the consequences of exactly reality. And

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the bottom line is that everything boils
down truth. And for instance, you

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open talking about multiculturalism, which I've
written about recently, multiculturalism can only be

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entertained by people who are moral relativists. Now why do I say this,

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Well, I said this many years
ago that multiculturalism, now follow this here,

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really is a trojan horse for moral
relativism, because multiculturalism always held that

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all cultures are morally equal. The
problem with that is that since different cultures

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espouse different values, not all cultures
can be equal unless all values are equal.

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Exactly, say that all values are
equal. That's moral relativism. It's

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obviously not true, and that way
lies destruction. And this is why it's

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so important to be more to God, to be more to truth, because

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then you look at things for the
discerning eye. You don't say, well,

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let's just take any in every culture
into our country. Let's see how

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it all works out. After all, they're all equal. It's like a

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flavor of the day. It's like
ice cream. It's a matter of taste.

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You try it to see what you
like. No, you approach it

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with that discerning eye, and you
say, okay, wait a second,

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here's what this culture says. Here's
what that culture says. Is going to

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be compatible with our culture. Is
it going to make us better or is

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it going to make us worse?
Exactly? Question? Right and clearly.

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I mean, just as a quick
example, we saw what happened with Israel

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and Hamas. Right, Hamas what
Hamas did. I think most people,

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reasonable people would see it for what
it is, that it was terror,

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what they did to women. You
know. Benjamin ett Yahu here recently,

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i think the other day, finally
spoke out and said to the international community,

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Hey, hello, it's been eight
weeks Jewish women were raped. They

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were you know which, Oh yeah, by the way, you guys keep

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talking about, you know, war
crimes. Clearly a war crime, raped,

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dragged naked in the streets, and
the other thing that hasn't really been

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brought to bear on this, Selwyn, is that you had Palestinians in the

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streets cheering this on, So you
know, going and talking about what and

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bringing reference to what you were saying
in terms of value, You've got to

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consider what are the values of the
Palestinians that would cheer on a woman who

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has been being drag naked in the
streets of their city. And nobody stepped

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forward to say this is wrong.
No one, Yeah, well, absolutely

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absolutely, And this is a problem
we're seeing all over the world. We're

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seeing this conflict between certain Islamic cultures
and others. We see it in Nigeria,

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we see it in the Philippines,
in many, many places. So

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anyone who thinks it's just a function
of Israeli's presence in the Middle East,

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or it's just a function of the
Jewish situation, no, it's not.

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And I often point this out.
Now this is a political incorrectness alert.

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I'm going to say something very politically
incorrect. But there was an interesting study

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that was released in Germany in twenty
ten I think it was, and what

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they did was they studied forty five
thousand youths and what they found Bill was

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that with increasing religiosity, Christian youths
became less violent, but with increasing religiosity

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Muslim youths became more violent. Right
now, that's very very interesting. Now

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we can discuss why that is if
you're interested. I certainly have some ideas.

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Well, let's just let's go ahead, Ben, since you brought it

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up. I think it's important to
understand because this is something we've been talking

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on the radio show as well,
Sewyn, is that when you look at

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the difference between the left and right, it would seem that the consistent theme

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of that on the left seems to
rhyme with destruction and loss of life.

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That seems to be a consistent attribute
with the left, whereas on the right,

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I'm not seeing, you know,
damage of property. I'm not seeing

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a lot of smash and grab coming
out of those from the right. If

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I might put it in terms of
left and right, right, well absolutely,

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I mean I guess we're going off
with a tangent, but sure I've

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often made that point. You have
leftist propagandists and the media and politics trying

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to portray it as if the right
is responsible for all the violence, When

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I have to say they're really projecting
there, because if you look at the

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reality of the situation, they January
sixth now as their Reichstag fire moment.

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But the truth is, as we
know, there were government agents there trying

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to foment problems. We know there
were ajon provocateurs among the crowd for one

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thing. Not only that, that
was one instance, it was not an

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insurrection. You want to talk about
violence, Well, here was a real

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insurrection. You had the Chaz Insurrection
Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone that was in Seattle,

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right, and they actually said they
were starting their own country. We

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have the leader of that little uprising, ras Simone video of him giving a

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follower in AAR fifteen from the trunk
of his car, and as far as

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I know, nothing has happened to
him. He hasn't even been brought up

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on charges. But that was a
real insurrection. Now, admittedly I'm not

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going to overstate the case. It
was a lame one, but it was

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an insurrection. Nonetheless, Then we
had the six hundred plus violent left wing

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riots in twenty twenty. Has everyone
forgotten about that? We had I think

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it was in May twenty two,
the attack on the White House, which

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was so egregious that Trump had to
be ushered into an underground bunker exactly you

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want to talk about, Yeah,
attacking our capital city. I mean,

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the whole thing is just unbelievable.
So the left, it perpetrates all this

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violence and then tries to make it
seem as if its hands are clean and

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that the violence really originates with the
right. It's unbelievable. And when you

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can control the media, you can
propagandize people in all sorts of ways very

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effectively, can't you. You know, we really have turned it on its

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head. I mean, the Bible
warns us of the time that we will

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come to when evil will be called
good and good will be called evil.

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And here we are. It is
in the midst of us right now.

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And you know, for those of
us who want to call it for what

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it is, not because you know
so much that we want to be right,

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that's not the point. The deally
is is that we want to return,

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if that's possible, to an America
that you and I grew up with,

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that there was some hope that there
was a chance to realize the American

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dream, and that is, you
know, being able to exercise your gift

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and talents to be all you could
be, you know, provide for your

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family and to live in peace.
But unfortunately there are those antithical forces that

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have been around forever and they come
and they go. Just like you say,

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you know, history is very clear. But if you do not take

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a stand against the evil when it
lifts its head, then you're going to

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be dealing with the kind of stuff
that we're dealing with here, not only

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in America, but around the world. We've got some thirty two wars right

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now that people seem to know.
You know, we know about Ukraine,

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we know about Russia, we know
about Israel and with Hamas, but there

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are so many other, you know, countries that are dealing with wars thirty

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two in total right now. Right
well, absolutely you said we have to

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be on guard, no question.
Now I'll just mention in passing, we

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understand now that Venezuela is pondering invading
neighbor and Guyana and taking seventy eight percent

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of its territory. But anyway,
onto the deeper issue, you know,

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as far as being on guard goes. GK. Chesterton, whom I quote

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once in a while, put it
very very well. I'll paraphrasem he said,

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the great flaw and conservatism is in
believing that if you leave things alone,

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they remain the same. No,
if you leave something alone, it

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becomes subject to a torrent of change. And that's absolutely true. You know,

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I often put it this way,
Bill, It's like if you take

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a house or a car and you
just let it sit somewhere in the country

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and you don't give it any attention. What happens, It degrades. Exactly.

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Constant maintenance is necessary, a continual
application of energy to maintain what you

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have, and civilization culture is no
different. Without a continual application of energy,

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it descends into chaos, into disorder, because things naturally move towards this

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order. And unfortunately we have not
been vigilant in that regard. Why do

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you think one of our founding fathers
said eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.

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Yeah, because actually I'm not sure
if that was a founder. Yeah,

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right, eternal vigilance, Yeah,
go ahead. Well, Ronald Reagan

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himself said, we're only one generation
away to your point. Again, these

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warnings have been echoed through our history. And you know, we get busy

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and we take our eye off the
ball, and you know, when you

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look at those three most powerful words
and the Declaration of Independence, our constitution,

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we the people. It really infers
you know that we must be involved

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in more than infers it. If
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then you will you'll be laissez fair
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republic. By design, it demands
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like you said, the natural regression
on this plane is towards obsolescence. Yeah,

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well, there's no question about it. I mean, you have to

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remember that the default for mankind is
to live in tyranny. Right for almost

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all of human history, that was
the norm. We didn't have representative government,

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we didn't have the rights that we
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real anomalies on the world scene.
All these amazing men came together in the

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same place and time to create the
greatest government, the greatest civilization this world

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has ever seen. There's no question
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an anomaly, you realize, well, that's another reason why you can't just

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sit back and let nature take its
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to bring us back to that historical
norm, that historical default tyranny. Okay,

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now, how do you actually contravene
that? What do you do?

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Because we're talking a lot about problems, but people need to talk about solutions

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too. And now maybe I should
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show, but basically I think I
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If we're worried about the undermining of
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demoralization in that sense, well,
what's the solution. The solution is the

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opposite moralization. Well, what does
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way, if morality came in a
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label? Well, the virtues would
be Virtue refers to that set of objectively

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good moral habits, and the virtues
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love, chastity, charity, diligence. There's a whole host of these

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things. But once you understand this, it becomes very, very clear what

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needs to be done. You know, Bill, I had someone say to

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me years ago, a very nice
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you just have to get lucky.
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She meant well, but she didn't
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not a matter of luck. When
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you understand this. It's like in
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kid to become good in tennis,
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inculcate them in the child. This
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principles of morality, namely the virtues, then you model them for kids.

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You try to inculcate them in kids, and you try to cultivate them in

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yourself and in your civilization. That
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that bill is why the Founding Fathers
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didn't just talk about freedom, No, they talked about also how virtue was

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a prerequisite for it. Well,
they knew that our constitution was designed for

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a moral and righteous people. I
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Adams said it specifically. And this
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know, just like you're saying,
if you're raising a child who's playing tennis,

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you don't just check on him or
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and practice tennis, you know,
one time a month. This is something

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that he does repeatedly. You know, I like the story of Kobe Bryant.

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So when he was growing up,
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the basketball courts, and he realized
at an early age that he was willing

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to put in three five hours a
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distracted and they were doing other things. Well, look at the end result

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here you have. You talk about
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and of himself was quite an anomaly. But it didn't happen by accident.

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It was on purpose, by design, wasn't it. Yes, absolutely,

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And that's why you know, I
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to tennis or other things. Parents
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tennis lessons or music lessons or soccer
training, things that are fine in and

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over themselves, but basically their frivolity. But then many times they behave as

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if somehow their kid is going to
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the same thing that also requires focus. The Bible says train a child and

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the way he should go, and
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depart from it. Now, what
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It didn't say tell, It didn't
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all know what training involves. Training
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showing and telling, but also it
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of repetition, which is the branding
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that is very very important. And
we've forgotten that in our society, haven't

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We We have. And the thing
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athletics, with sports and competition.
I can tell you I grew up in

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an athletic family. Our dad coached
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and Babe Ruth American Legion Baseball in
that and we're very, very blessed to

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have some great coaches, the likes
like coach John Wooden that didn't just you

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know, teach basketball. He taught
citizenship. He taught these values that you're

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talking about. It's rare these days
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you have them, and they can
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in the least that you would expect. It could be just leading a little

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league team or a soccer team or
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have a heart and they're gifted in
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have a coach like that that is
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can thank God for him and whatever
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You want to do that and come
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have people who can help, that
you can network that are doing what Selwyn

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is talking about, and that is
we train a child. Now, there's

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all kinds of instructors, but just
like with ideas, we need to be

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vigilant about, you know, who
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information into the minds of our kids, especially with what we've seen after COVID,

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when the you know, when the
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we saw what our kids were exposed
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Well, absolutely, But what we're
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didn't happen overnight. This is on
a result of a process. Succeeding generation

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has degenerated from the previous one.
That is the truth. You know,

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people will complain about today's kids,
but you have to point out who raised

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them. Didn't come out of nowhere. And I'm not trying to put the

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onus on any generation in particular,
because if you talk about the generation that

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raised them, well, then you
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know. The point is is that
we talk about the founding fathers, and

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what you see happen in civilization is
you see often some very spectacular or unusual

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people found a civilization and then succeeding
generations really can't maintain it forever and things

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start to degrade. You know.
It's just like if a man founds a

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business or a restaurant, maybe he
hands it down to his son, maybe

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his son does a decent job,
but eventually things can break down. And

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unfortunately that's what has happened. And
now I wrote about this just recently.

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Education. Education is now an absolute
train wreck. There's no discipline within the

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context of the schools. The kids
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they're cursing, there's violence, They're
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They're not learning much and this is
really disastrous. And by the way,

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why we're allowing cell phones in school
is beyond me. Obviously that should

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be disallowed. That's the biggest distraction
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too. So it's very, very
disastrous, and it's disastrous again. Thomas

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soul put it very very well,
he said, on paraphrasing. Now,

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in essence, each new civilization,
or each new generation, I'm sorry,

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is in essence an invasion of civilization
by barbarians who must be civilized before it

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is too late. And that really
is true. That's what it is with

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children. That's why Reagan said,
you mentioned this earlier. Freedom is always

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just one generation away from being extinguished, because if you don't do a good

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job of molding the next generation,
they're going to be wild, brutal people

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who will be incapable of maintaining a
constitutional republic. You mentioned John Adams what

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he said in seventeen ninety eight.
Our constitution was made only for a moral

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and religious people. It is wholly
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The founding fathers, many of them
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Burke, the Anglo Irish philosopher,
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it is ordained in the eternal constitution
of things that men of intemperate minds cannot

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be free. Their passions forge their
fetters. And that's what really should scare

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people today. Yes, not what's
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which is our greatest geopolitical rival.
What should scare us is the fact

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that the moral decay is now so
rapid and so widespread that we're not going

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to be capable of perpetuating legitimate just
freedoms. No, it's they're going to

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be descending into tyranny if we don't
write this ship and it seems Selwyn is

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we look at the current condition,
the state of affairs, we're so close

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to losing it. You know,
we've been saying for a number of years

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now that we're at the tipping point, and I believe we're at the beyond

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the tipping point. We're on the
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things are moving so quickly. You
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years. I mean drag queens story, our sex change, our children being

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mutilated. You can mail order abortion
pills sent across lines, sent to young

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girls that are left in their apartments
or their homes by themselves, without a

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doctor, that are going to you
know, going to expel a baby and

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right there in their toilet. I
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of being barbaric? I mean,
what is going on with our civilization.

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Yeah. Well, first of all, if you believe in God, then

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you have to think, well,
is God really going to smile? And

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a civilization that does all these things, that violates his laws so egregiously,

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that basically thumbs its nose at him? And it's not that God is necessarily

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going to quote punish us, but
he just might say, well, look,

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if they're not interested in me,
hands off. You know, I'll

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just leave them alone and leave them
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you don't believe in God, here, let me frame it this way.

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Let's say you saw a man someone
close to you who was really descending down

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a dark hole where he was starting
to do drugs more and more and drink

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more and more, and he wasn't
showing up for work on time, and

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then he loses his job and he's
engaging in a lot of promiscuous sexual activity

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and you just see him on this
downward slope. Well, what are you

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going to conclude? You're going to
say, well, hey, if there's

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not an intervention and a successful one, well, my friend is going to

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really be in a bad way.
He's going to kill himself. Probably.

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Well here's the thing, Bill,
is it any different if you witness that

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with two people, or with ten, or with one thousand, or with

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a whole nation of people. You
see, that's really a good way to

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analogize what's happening with our civilization.
There needs to be a serious intervention,

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and barring that, yes, we're
going to collapse, and what's going to

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emerge from that is not going to
be something we're going to like very much.

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Because let me say something to all
these left wingers. You talk about

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all these freedoms that you want,
and your idea, you leftists, of

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freedom is very very distorted. You
know, you want the freedom to engage

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in any kind of sexual activity,
you want to express yourself however you want.

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When the kind of regime that you
dream about comes to fruition, you're

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not gonna have any of those freedoms
because it's gonna clamp down hard, just

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like in the Soviet Union. You
think they tolerated all these elements that would

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destabilize civilization, know because once the
kind of people were talking about the tyrants

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have power, they no longer want
these destabilizing elements running around. No way

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exactly hard, Yeah, yeah,
yeah, I mean they will. You're

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a useful idiot. Until you're no
longer necessary, and once the tyrants are

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in control, you're unnecessary. It's
like, you know, it's like,

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what's happening you see, you know, gays for Palestine. You know,

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it's like, what do you understand
what you are promoting here? You're promoting

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an entity that as soon as they
get their hands on you, they're gonna

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throw you off buildings and this and
stuff that's made up. This is what

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they do. This is how they
treat gay people. So you know,

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it's so upside down. But to
your point, they will utilize these tyrants

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that are proposed, you know,
hoping, you know, for this great

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utopia that the thing's going to come
about. They'll take advantage of the useful

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idiots until they don't need them anymore, right right, Well absolutely, you

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know, it reminds me of the
story of the Kronstat Sailors. Maybe you

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know about it, but it's very
interesting. Well, who were the Kronstat

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Sailors. Well, they were,
we understand, an elite group of fighting

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men who were stationed at a fortress
on Kronstadt Island in Russia and this was

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prior to the Russian Revolution. Well, what happened was these men were the

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sons of peasants, basically probably pretty
good guys in general. Well, they

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fell under this way of a female
poet who filled their ideas with alls filled

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their heads, I'm sorry, with
all sorts of ideas about a worker's paradise

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and a utah. Well, what
happened was they bought a hook line and

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sinker and they helped facilitate the Russian
Revolution. They were instrumental, we understand,

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in its success. Well, so
then the Soviets took power, and

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sometime after that these sailors started getting
letters from home. Again they were the

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sons of peasants and whatnot. Well, they started reading about how the peasants

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were being abused terribly and brutalized,
and one of them actually wrote, it

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makes me sick to my stomach to
think that I was part of this.

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Well, they rebelled, and what
happened. They put up a very good

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fight, but eventually they were vanquished, and about seven or eight thousand of

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them escaped to Scandinavia, I believe, and the rest died in Soviet gulags.

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I think that's the story, and
that is the story of the Cronstat

408
00:30:47.119 --> 00:30:51.839
sailors. It's also the story of
the useful Idiot. And it's a cautionary

409
00:30:51.920 --> 00:30:55.480
tale because you have to remember,
as I said, they were probably good

410
00:30:55.599 --> 00:30:57.960
men. You don't have to be
a bad person to fall under the sway

411
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of evil like that, and to
enable it, you just have to be

412
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someone who falls victim to lies,
because we all know what the road to

413
00:31:06.359 --> 00:31:10.920
hell is paved with exact pretension.
So again that's a cautionary tale. And

414
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the problem though, Bill, is
you can't tell the left wingers this because

415
00:31:15.200 --> 00:31:18.720
they won't listen. They're operating based
on emotion, not based on reason exact,

416
00:31:18.720 --> 00:31:22.519
and they're just going to say,
you don't know what you're talking about.

417
00:31:22.720 --> 00:31:25.680
You're evil, you just don't care, you're a bigot. We know

418
00:31:25.720 --> 00:31:29.000
what we're doing. This is different, and that has been said over and

419
00:31:29.039 --> 00:31:33.440
over again all throughout history, and
it always ends in the same way.

420
00:31:33.960 --> 00:31:37.640
Gooblessness always leads to the gulag.
Godlessness to the gulag. It's what the

421
00:31:37.680 --> 00:31:44.640
Bible refers to as a fool.
And how you know, when you come

422
00:31:44.680 --> 00:31:48.440
in contact with a fool, you
want to disengage because they're not going to

423
00:31:48.440 --> 00:31:52.279
add to your day, no doubt
about it. But by the same token,

424
00:31:52.920 --> 00:31:57.000
you also need to know how to
adjudicate said full when they grow in

425
00:31:57.160 --> 00:32:01.319
enough numbers that they start making it
an impact. You know, initially,

426
00:32:01.480 --> 00:32:06.359
you know they're just the silly people
on the street, until next thing,

427
00:32:06.400 --> 00:32:09.400
you know, they start, you
know, leading a parade of fools,

428
00:32:09.440 --> 00:32:15.160
of like minded people that are so
ideologically fixed. As Jordan Peterson would say,

429
00:32:15.160 --> 00:32:19.160
and I love this one, is
that you know, you become so

430
00:32:19.279 --> 00:32:22.920
ideologically fixed that you render yourself stupid. I mean, this is self inflicted,

431
00:32:23.000 --> 00:32:27.720
isn't it. Well, it is
it is. And you see again,

432
00:32:27.960 --> 00:32:32.759
it's not having a love of an
ability to recognize truth. If from

433
00:32:34.000 --> 00:32:37.559
the time kids are very young you
inculcate them with that that knowledge that truth

434
00:32:37.640 --> 00:32:40.960
exists and that love of truth,
they're going to seek it in all things.

435
00:32:42.000 --> 00:32:45.039
But the problem is is that today
most everyone is a moral relativist.

436
00:32:45.400 --> 00:32:49.920
I've mentioned this before. I've said
this for a very long time, for

437
00:32:50.039 --> 00:32:54.680
decades, that moral relativism is the
characteristic philosophical disease of our time. I

438
00:32:54.680 --> 00:32:59.240
didn't need vindication, but some years
ago I found a study that vindicated that

439
00:32:59.279 --> 00:33:02.240
assessment. In two thousand and two, the Barner Research Group, or at

440
00:33:02.319 --> 00:33:08.200
least a studies showing that back then
only six percent of teenagers believed that morality

441
00:33:08.480 --> 00:33:14.039
was an absolute phenomenon. The rest
were relativists. And get this, among

442
00:33:14.119 --> 00:33:17.400
quote born again teens, what percentage
believed in absolute truth? Well, truth

443
00:33:17.440 --> 00:33:22.160
is absolute by definition? Nine percent? Yeah, nine percent? Think about

444
00:33:22.200 --> 00:33:25.039
that, and they claim to be
born again again. Doesn't mean they don't

445
00:33:25.039 --> 00:33:30.680
mean well, but they've missed the
whole point of their faith. Okay,

446
00:33:30.200 --> 00:33:35.799
because Jesus not only said there is
truth, he said he was the truth.

447
00:33:36.240 --> 00:33:37.960
That is central to Christianity. And
by the way, if you want

448
00:33:38.000 --> 00:33:42.799
to know, folks, why kids, why young people are drifting away from

449
00:33:42.920 --> 00:33:46.240
Christianity, that is a big part
of the reason, because, after all,

450
00:33:46.920 --> 00:33:51.720
what did Jesus say? He said
he came here to save us from

451
00:33:51.720 --> 00:33:55.240
our sins. He died for our
sins. But if there's no truth,

452
00:33:55.319 --> 00:33:59.759
if everything is relative, then there
are no sins. There are always respectives,

453
00:34:00.119 --> 00:34:02.559
only tastes, and then there's no
reason for Jesus to die. It

454
00:34:02.599 --> 00:34:07.480
renders the sacrifice on the cross incomprehensible. So if I were a relativist,

455
00:34:07.599 --> 00:34:12.119
I would do exactly what these young
people falling away from the church do.

456
00:34:12.440 --> 00:34:16.360
I would say Hey, why constrain
my life with the teachings of Christianity.

457
00:34:16.800 --> 00:34:22.000
I should rather be a hedonist or
at least maybe a Unitarian, right,

458
00:34:22.199 --> 00:34:24.920
But you're not. I insulted Unitarians. They're all three of them. Sorry,

459
00:34:27.039 --> 00:34:30.039
you're so disingenuous in a sense that
you're going to sit there and stare

460
00:34:30.079 --> 00:34:34.280
at the cross with Jesus hanging from
the cross and going, what a waste?

461
00:34:35.079 --> 00:34:37.719
You know, you know, I
mean, think about it, how

462
00:34:38.239 --> 00:34:45.440
how arrogant that? But you see, this is what's going to happen is

463
00:34:45.840 --> 00:34:49.039
as you say these numbers, but
it goes back to what you said earlier.

464
00:34:49.320 --> 00:34:52.480
You got to look at the generation
that's raising these kids. You know,

465
00:34:52.800 --> 00:34:55.400
back then in two thousand and two, when George Barnet did that research,

466
00:34:55.800 --> 00:34:59.880
it was what do you say,
six percent? I think now it's

467
00:35:00.280 --> 00:35:04.280
to four and it's still heading south. Could be about three percent right now.

468
00:35:04.280 --> 00:35:07.760
I think the last time I spoke
with him, adults less than ten

469
00:35:07.840 --> 00:35:13.039
percent. So those are the parents. And we've got pastors in the church

470
00:35:13.880 --> 00:35:20.039
in the pulpit today less than fifty
percent hold to a biblical worldview. And

471
00:35:20.119 --> 00:35:23.239
at the basis of the biblical worldview
is the truth that you're talking about Sellen.

472
00:35:24.239 --> 00:35:28.400
Well, absolutely, and that's why
for so many years I've been putting

473
00:35:28.400 --> 00:35:30.239
forth arguments trying to come bat this, and one of them is this,

474
00:35:30.360 --> 00:35:34.440
And let me repeat it now because
I think it's important because a lot of

475
00:35:34.559 --> 00:35:37.320
very good people will claim, well, you can't really know what the truth

476
00:35:37.400 --> 00:35:40.440
is. Who says there's truth?
Everyone has a different perspective. Okay,

477
00:35:40.960 --> 00:35:45.239
Well, someone very close to me
knew a man who told him, well,

478
00:35:45.480 --> 00:35:49.599
you know, murder is not wrong, it's just that society says it

479
00:35:49.679 --> 00:35:52.440
is. Now I suspect this individual
might be a sociopath. But that's not

480
00:35:52.840 --> 00:35:57.519
really the point here, Okay.
The point is this, how would you

481
00:35:57.679 --> 00:36:00.679
contend with that? How would you
argue against them? Now? I know

482
00:36:00.760 --> 00:36:02.840
what I could say. I could
say, well, that's not true because

483
00:36:02.880 --> 00:36:07.239
God exists, God has a will, God has truth, and he has

484
00:36:07.320 --> 00:36:13.199
dictated that murder is objectively wrong.
Now, that man might disagree with my

485
00:36:13.400 --> 00:36:17.000
premise that God exists, so on
and so forth, but he can't disagree,

486
00:36:17.079 --> 00:36:21.360
or at least he can't refute my
logic. My logic is airtight.

487
00:36:21.679 --> 00:36:23.719
But how would you if you're an
atheist, or if you don't believe in

488
00:36:23.800 --> 00:36:30.000
truth argue with him because your premise
is basically the same as his. Your

489
00:36:30.079 --> 00:36:34.159
premise is that society is all there
is to say that murder is wrong because

490
00:36:34.159 --> 00:36:37.000
society is all there is to say
anything exactly. That's the truth if there's

491
00:36:37.039 --> 00:36:40.360
no God, and that's also the
truth if there is a god, quote

492
00:36:40.519 --> 00:36:45.000
some force out there. But it's
an existentialist kind of situation where he really

493
00:36:45.000 --> 00:36:49.440
doesn't have a will for us and
he doesn't care what we do. Then

494
00:36:49.599 --> 00:36:52.480
it's also that situation that society is
all there is to say anything. So

495
00:36:53.000 --> 00:36:57.760
that's a point to ponder. It's
a point to ponder. And there's one

496
00:36:57.760 --> 00:37:00.760
more argument I could make, but
I don't want to monopolis the discussion.

497
00:37:00.800 --> 00:37:02.360
Well, no, no, no, it's okay. This is what I

498
00:37:02.360 --> 00:37:08.320
appreciate about our relationships seen is that
we're able to have a free flowing discussion

499
00:37:08.400 --> 00:37:14.599
that I know that our audience in
viewership is hopefully being blessed by it.

500
00:37:14.679 --> 00:37:20.000
Because my heart's desire is always that
I would add to your day and not

501
00:37:20.159 --> 00:37:23.800
take away that as a result of
conversations on the show, whether it's the

502
00:37:23.880 --> 00:37:29.320
radio or the TV show, would
make you better. As a result my

503
00:37:29.400 --> 00:37:34.920
old mentor in my early days of
radio, would always say to us that

504
00:37:35.519 --> 00:37:39.559
your job every time you open up
the microphone is to elicit a positive emotional

505
00:37:39.639 --> 00:37:45.000
response. And what we're doing here, my prayer is is that we are

506
00:37:45.119 --> 00:37:51.719
doing that, that we are listing
a positive emotional response, you know,

507
00:37:51.960 --> 00:37:55.599
from our audience to where it's getting
them to think and going, Okay,

508
00:37:55.639 --> 00:38:00.719
this starts to make sense. I'm
starting to connect these puzzle pieces in such

509
00:38:00.760 --> 00:38:07.039
a way to where it's my own
knowledge and it's not just what Selwyn and

510
00:38:07.039 --> 00:38:09.639
Bill are telling me, but that, you know, I'm beginning to own

511
00:38:09.719 --> 00:38:15.840
this of myself, and that we
don't just go off and sound like a

512
00:38:15.880 --> 00:38:20.360
bunch of you know, bumper stickers
from a car that are you know,

513
00:38:20.880 --> 00:38:23.840
kind of loose and going with the
wind, you know, yeah, yeah,

514
00:38:23.920 --> 00:38:29.599
yeah, absolutely, absolutely. Yeah. So really relativism has to be

515
00:38:29.679 --> 00:38:32.360
combated, and relativism moral relativism is
the idea. Of course, I guess

516
00:38:32.360 --> 00:38:37.880
we should state this that what we
call morality is really just a function of

517
00:38:37.920 --> 00:38:42.079
the time and the place and the
people, that it doesn't come from anything

518
00:38:42.119 --> 00:38:45.159
outside of men. And of course
that's another way of saying that morality doesn't

519
00:38:45.199 --> 00:38:49.559
really exist, and that's the problem
with that. So maybe I will present

520
00:38:49.599 --> 00:38:52.800
my second argument. And I've been
doing this for decades, and I put

521
00:38:52.840 --> 00:38:57.440
it like this. Let's ask the
question, who or what determines what this

522
00:38:57.519 --> 00:39:00.079
thing we call right and wrong is. Well, they're only two possibilities.

523
00:39:00.079 --> 00:39:04.599
Either man does or something outside of
man does. Now, if it's something

524
00:39:04.599 --> 00:39:08.400
outside of man, something above him
and in errant, namely God, then

525
00:39:08.440 --> 00:39:13.480
we can really say that right and
wrong exists. We can say that morality

526
00:39:13.480 --> 00:39:17.559
exists. It's something objective. Okay, But what are the implications of saying

527
00:39:17.639 --> 00:39:21.679
that it comes from men? Well, let's look at it this way.

528
00:39:22.119 --> 00:39:29.320
Let's say you determined that ninety percent
of the world disliked vanilla and love chocolate.

529
00:39:29.519 --> 00:39:32.320
Would that make vanilla wrong or evil? Well, we know that's not

530
00:39:32.400 --> 00:39:36.079
the case. It's just a matter
of taste. It would be ridiculous to

531
00:39:36.079 --> 00:39:39.119
say otherwise. Okay, But how
does it make any more sense saying that

532
00:39:39.239 --> 00:39:45.719
murder is wrong if the only reason
we say that is that the vast majority

533
00:39:45.760 --> 00:39:50.719
of the world prefers that we not
kill others in a way the vast majority

534
00:39:50.760 --> 00:39:54.880
of the world considers unjust. If
as with flavors, it's just a function

535
00:39:55.000 --> 00:40:00.920
of human consensus. Then it lies
in the same category as flame that of

536
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:05.480
human preference. That's all there is. And believe me, this idea has

537
00:40:05.519 --> 00:40:08.440
taken hold. I know most people
don't think it through that thoroughly, but

538
00:40:08.559 --> 00:40:13.039
listen, I remember Jeffrey Dahmer,
the serial killer. When he was in

539
00:40:13.079 --> 00:40:16.079
prison, he gave these interviews.
It was very interesting because in prison he

540
00:40:16.119 --> 00:40:20.920
said that he experienced a conversion,
and I believe that it was sincere because

541
00:40:20.920 --> 00:40:23.880
of the philosophical depth that he demonstrated. But here's what he said. At

542
00:40:23.880 --> 00:40:29.920
one point about his descent into darkness. He said that the theory of evolution

543
00:40:30.039 --> 00:40:32.440
affected him, and he said,
my thinking was, if we all just

544
00:40:32.559 --> 00:40:37.280
emerged out of the muck, then
what difference does it make. And at

545
00:40:37.280 --> 00:40:40.400
one point when he was a teenager, he reportedly said to his parents,

546
00:40:40.480 --> 00:40:45.880
quote, if there's no God,
why can't I just make up my own

547
00:40:45.960 --> 00:40:50.119
rules? And again, it's like
a Lester Crowley, the occultist. It's

548
00:40:50.159 --> 00:40:52.519
the same way of thinking. Do
what thou will shall be the whole of

549
00:40:52.559 --> 00:40:57.400
the law. If you think things
through, you come to one of two

550
00:40:57.480 --> 00:41:02.239
conclusions. Either God and his will
truth exists, and therefore morality is something

551
00:41:02.280 --> 00:41:07.159
real or no, it's all just
a matter of preference, and then it

552
00:41:07.199 --> 00:41:09.599
doesn't matter what you do. Hey, whatever works for you. But that

553
00:41:09.639 --> 00:41:14.440
way lies madness, and that is
the hole, the rabbit hole that we've

554
00:41:14.440 --> 00:41:17.239
been going down for a very long
time in Western civilization. Well, you're

555
00:41:17.280 --> 00:41:22.519
exactly right. I mean, this
is why we're in this uh, you

556
00:41:22.519 --> 00:41:25.199
know, the spirit of chaos that
we're in and this darkness and this madness

557
00:41:25.679 --> 00:41:30.039
that we're experiencing right now. And
you talk about you talk about murder,

558
00:41:30.360 --> 00:41:37.400
Well, we've murdered one hundred one
hundred million babies and we have justified it

559
00:41:38.000 --> 00:41:45.159
with man's own thinking. We've ignored
God altogether, and God has has in

560
00:41:45.280 --> 00:41:52.199
a sense left us up, you
know, to our own devices, and

561
00:41:52.239 --> 00:42:00.440
with all the negative results of that, we're slow to discern the consequences of

562
00:42:00.559 --> 00:42:07.440
that worldview and the choices that we've
made over the last fifty years. Yeah,

563
00:42:07.440 --> 00:42:10.639
because we've become very, very comfortable, There's no doubt about it.

564
00:42:10.679 --> 00:42:15.960
And so when you become comfortable,
often you become soft. I think you

565
00:42:15.000 --> 00:42:21.079
know, that's saying that's gotten around
in recent years. You know, hard

566
00:42:21.199 --> 00:42:24.719
men create good times. Good times
create soft men or weak men, and

567
00:42:24.760 --> 00:42:29.400
weak men create hard times like that. It's a certain pattern. Well you're

568
00:42:29.400 --> 00:42:31.559
back here. It's like a book
of Judges all over against that cycle of

569
00:42:31.679 --> 00:42:37.559
nations. Right. Yeah, it's
absolutely true, there's no question about it.

570
00:42:37.119 --> 00:42:40.760
And that's why we really have to
put some thought into these things.

571
00:42:40.800 --> 00:42:45.199
But it's a tough thing to do
because so many people are operating emotionally now

572
00:42:45.239 --> 00:42:49.320
and by the way, that's what
happens when you're disconnected from truth. I

573
00:42:49.480 --> 00:42:52.920
mentioned that Barner research earlier. Well, here's another thing it found that vindicated

574
00:42:52.960 --> 00:42:57.320
something I'd always said. I said, Well, if you believe in truth

575
00:42:57.639 --> 00:43:00.000
and you have to make a quote
moral decision, refer to truth, you

576
00:43:00.039 --> 00:43:04.679
try to discern what it is.
Okay, But if you don't have truth

577
00:43:04.760 --> 00:43:07.239
to use as your yardstick, what
do you have left to use? The

578
00:43:07.239 --> 00:43:12.960
only really compelling thing you have left
are your feelings, your emotions. And

579
00:43:13.239 --> 00:43:16.360
I think that's a major reason why
so many people are so emotion driven nowadays.

580
00:43:16.400 --> 00:43:22.119
And what did Barna find. He
found in his research that that's what

581
00:43:22.159 --> 00:43:24.960
most Americans said, or at least
a plurality, that the most common way

582
00:43:25.000 --> 00:43:30.559
in which they made these so called
moral decisions was based on what felt right,

583
00:43:30.159 --> 00:43:34.480
that's what happens when you drift away
from truth. Yeah, yeah,

584
00:43:34.559 --> 00:43:37.079
well look at it again. When
you and I were growing up in the

585
00:43:37.280 --> 00:43:40.920
latter sixties seventies, you love the
one you were with you, you know

586
00:43:42.000 --> 00:43:45.480
the music of the era, which
you know, I thought was quite interesting

587
00:43:45.599 --> 00:43:51.840
because you had two parallel dynamics.
You had this dynamic of free love and

588
00:43:51.880 --> 00:43:59.199
woodstock and then you had the A
Jesus Revolution that's taking place simultaneously. And

589
00:43:59.280 --> 00:44:01.960
I've thought about that often, Selwyn, that here it is. We had

590
00:44:02.000 --> 00:44:07.360
an opportunity. We were at a
critical cultural crossroads. Were we going to

591
00:44:07.480 --> 00:44:14.239
choose life or were we going to
choose death once again? Yeah? Yeah,

592
00:44:14.239 --> 00:44:16.960
it's interesting you mentioned abortion before,
which really I like to call prenatal

593
00:44:17.000 --> 00:44:22.119
infanticide because that's what it is.
But it's interesting. It makes me think

594
00:44:22.159 --> 00:44:24.000
back to this story from my high
school days. I think it was my

595
00:44:24.119 --> 00:44:29.119
sophomore year maybe I'm not sure,
but anyway, we had this very interesting

596
00:44:29.159 --> 00:44:32.760
English teacher who would pose a lot
of philosophical questions, and he asked the

597
00:44:32.800 --> 00:44:37.599
class one day if you could press
a button and you'd get a million dollars.

598
00:44:37.679 --> 00:44:42.360
But a little old man in China
somewhere would die a little old man

599
00:44:42.400 --> 00:44:45.679
with no family, no associations at
all, would you press that button?

600
00:44:45.800 --> 00:44:50.880
And about a third of the class
raised their hands in the affirmative, So

601
00:44:51.519 --> 00:44:54.639
I think it's very telling it.
Yeah, again, that shows what a

602
00:44:54.760 --> 00:44:59.920
lack of respect for life prevails nowadays. And of course, though it's not

603
00:45:00.119 --> 00:45:05.639
surprising when you descend into this relativistic
morass like who's to say what's right or

604
00:45:05.639 --> 00:45:07.559
wrong? It's whatever works for you, right, We've heard that over and

605
00:45:07.639 --> 00:45:10.679
over again. And you don't have
to be a bad person to believe that.

606
00:45:10.920 --> 00:45:15.760
You just have to have been inculcated
with the wrong philosophical foundation. And

607
00:45:15.840 --> 00:45:21.519
how far down the road have you
gone with that inculcation? I mean that

608
00:45:21.719 --> 00:45:25.239
was then thirty percent of the class. What do you think that number would

609
00:45:25.280 --> 00:45:30.360
look like today? You know,
it might be higher, especially in a

610
00:45:30.400 --> 00:45:31.880
place like New York City. That's
where I grew up, by the way,

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I was in the Bronx, so
not Manhattan, but still the Bronx.

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It probably would have been better in
some other areas, but it certainly

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hasn't gotten better with time, as
you said, because unfortunately that moral decay

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has continued, because we have not
had that application of energy that I was

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talking about. And it's very necessary. And by the way, that means

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all of us have to turn this
discerning eye inwards and we have to say,

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what can we do differently in our
lives to be one of those thousand

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points of light, to be more
virtuous. Because let me tell you something,

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if even a sizable minority of us
became heavier in terms of virtue,

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so to speak, we could really
start tilting the country and the other direction.

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And I'm going to lay some things
out there. Some people may not

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like hearing this, but how about
this profanity has become so common nowadays.

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How about this just stop cursing.
Stop cursing. Make that resolution. That's

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a good one right there. How
about this, if you say you believe

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in God, act like it.
It's not something just for one hour a

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week in church because you say grace
over meals with your kids. I'm not

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saying you have to beat them over
the head with the Bible. But you

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know, in church we have this
thing where we go like this, Okay,

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that means, may God always be
on my mind, on my lips

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and in my heart. Okay,
we complain, for instance about the attack

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on Christmas, and Christmas is coming
up, of course, how it's been

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wiped off school calendars for instance,
and people don't want to talk about it,

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they don't want to say Merry Christmas. But why should that surprise us

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when we have taken ourselves God out
of our minds, off our lips,

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and out of our hearts. Exactly, how is it being demonstrated that He

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resides there? Again? Are you
saying grace over meals with your kids?

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Do you talk about God sometimes with
your family. I'm not saying you have

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to be obsessed till they get sick
of it. I'm just saying God has

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to be an obvious presence in our
lives, and if he is not,

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then we shouldn't complain about what's happening
with the culture, because then it's just

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a reflection of us, isn't it
Exactly? Well? I was reminded here

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again of the Shemah, the Israel
prayer three times a day that is prayed,

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and that is, you know,
Hero Israel, the Lord, that

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God is one, And it goes
on to admonish the adults or those that

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are making the prayer, particularly adults
though, because that they are to talk

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about this as they sit down,
as they lie down in their walking about

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with their children, so that you're
constantly reminding them again that God is the

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center of your universe. But you
know, I would agree with you,

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Selwyn that if we take individual responsibility
to just you know, I say,

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think a little bit better, do
a little bit better, be a little

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bit better, okay, and simple
things just being conscious of you know the

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language that you speak, being conscious
of being kind for a moment. You

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know. I like what the story
of Benjamin Franklin. What he would do

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is take a virtue every week and
just really focus on that one virtue,

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like being kind. And you know, at the end of the day,

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and maybe even during the day,
he would say, was I kind?

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Did I lack kindness? Do I
do I need to be more kind?

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And he would focus on kindness for
an entire week. It doesn't take a

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whole lot, you know, considering
all the time that we spend in front

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of these devices. You know,
the kids are spending six to eight hours.

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You know, we're probably spending an
equal amount of time in front of

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all these things. Why can't we
set aside just a moment of time to

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remember that it's all about God,
not about us. Yes, well absolutely,

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and there's something else we can do. This is very important. GK.

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Chusterton said, quote, thanks are
the highest form of thought. I

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think he might have been right about
that, because you see, when you're

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thankful, when you have a grateful
heart, you're recognizing a very high truth,

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a very lofty truth, which is
that we're sinners. We really don't

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deserve anything but damnation. But we're
not going to get that because God is

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good and he offers us his salvation, and everything we get is a gift.

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Everything we get is icing on the
cake. And I will tell you

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something else. Even if you're a
secularist, listen to this. This is

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one of the secrets to happiness in
life, because when you're thankful, you

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don't see that glass as being half
empty, always seeing it as being half

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full. And that's very important.
You're always thankful. Thank you Lord for

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this, Thank you Lord for that. Chesterton said, you say grace over

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a meal, all right, but
I say grace when I dip the quill

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into the ink, And he was
expressing a very important truth there. Everything

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we have is a gift, and
that is so lacking nowadays when you see

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all these people protesting and angry because
they've been denied this, or they've been

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denied that, and they think they
deserve some right they shouldn't have, or

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they think they deserve some benefit they
shouldn't have. What's lacking is the truth

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that I just articulated. They don't
understand it. They have an ungrateful heart

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instead of a grateful heart. And
if you have that grateful heart, you're

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going to be happier. Why because
you're going to see yourself as getting gifts

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all the time, not as being
denied your birthright all the time. And

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as I think Chesterton also said,
but I'm not sure, he said,

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goods look a lot better when they
come wrapped as gifts. That's how you

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see them as gifts. Well,
let me say this, Selwyn. I'm

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thankful for you. And we got
to leave it there. We gave so

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much to our audience to ponder,
and I pray that it would be a

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blessing to them that they would go
into the rest of this season of Thanksgiving,

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this advanced season that leads to you
talk about being wrapped in a gift,

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this great gift that's just a few
weeks away, that God gave to

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all this creation, Selwyn Duke,
the writer for The New American, has

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been our guest. Thank you,
Selwyn, I appreciate you. God bless

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Thank you Bill. The feelings mutual
and God bless you too, and you'll

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are thanks to Selwyn Duke, as
I say, the writer for The New

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American, and our thanks to you
for being a part of the show and

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sharing a part of your day with
us. May God bless you and keep

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you. May make his face shine
upon you, may be gracious unto you

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and give you his piece. Thanks
again for being with us. God blessed.

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