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WarRoom Battleground EP 504： Communion And Crucifixion： An Iconic Panorama Of The Passion Pt. 2


Summary

The 14 Stations of the Cross are an iconic panorama of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. They show how the images of Jesus have been spread across cultures and across time, and how they have influenced people across the globe. They also show the ways in which the image of Jesus has been seen in each language, in each nationality, and by each race.


Transcript

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00:00:34.300 fight all this nonsense all this spin they can't handle the truth war room battleground here's your
00:00:41.320 host Stephen K Bannon my kingdom is not of this world any man who claims to be a king is defying
00:00:51.540 Caesar we have no king but Caesar we have no king you who would destroy the temple and build it in
00:01:08.180 three days save yourself if you're the son of God come down from the cross
00:01:13.340 he saved others himself he cannot save the Christ the king of Israel let him come down from the cross
00:01:24.160 now and we will believe in him this man has done nothing wrong Jesus remember me when you come into your
00:01:36.980 kingdoms today
00:01:39.420 you will be with me in paradise
00:01:44.420 my God
00:01:50.420 my God why have you forgotten me
00:01:54.200 who are you
00:01:58.240 I'm the angel who guards you
00:02:00.740 your father is the god of mercy not punishment he saw you and said aren't you his guardian angel
00:02:13.060 we'll go down and save him he's suffered enough remember when he told Abraham to sacrifice his son
00:02:20.320 Abraham was just about to kill the boy with his knife when God stopped him
00:02:24.800 so if he saved Abraham's son don't you think he'd want to save his own
00:02:30.400 he's tested you and he's happy with you he doesn't want your blood
00:02:36.160 he said let him die in a dream but let him live his life
00:02:42.080 he said let him die in a dream
00:02:51.400 I told you
00:02:51.720 blow up
00:02:53.060 he said let him die in a dream
00:02:54.400 yes
00:02:58.820 Do not fret then over tomorrow.
00:03:28.820 Leave tomorrow to fret over its own needs.
00:03:33.640 For today, today's troubles are enough.
00:03:42.880 Hello, it is March 29th of the year of our Lord, 2024.
00:03:47.960 I'm Joe Allen sitting in for Stephen K. Bannon.
00:03:51.860 This is the second part of a two-part series on communion and crucifixion.
00:03:57.700 Today is Good Friday for Protestants and Catholics.
00:04:01.900 It will be Good Friday in about a month for the Orthodox Church.
00:04:07.060 And the topic today is the Passion, an iconic panorama of the Passion of Jesus Christ.
00:04:15.340 The purpose of my talk, as I said yesterday, is not to make theological interpretations and certainly not to proselytize or minister to the faithful.
00:04:29.860 My hope is that by showing the ways in which the images of Jesus have been impressed upon cultures across the world
00:04:39.540 and also across time, that whether you are a believer or not, it will at least give you a deep understanding or a deeper understanding
00:04:48.140 of how the man, Jesus, the Son of God or God himself, has filtered through various cultures
00:04:57.620 and been seen in each language, in each nationality, by each race.
00:05:06.160 To begin with, since the discussion is on the Passion,
00:05:11.160 I just want to make mention of the Catholic tradition of keeping the 14 stations of the cross in their churches.
00:05:18.060 I've spent a lot of time in Catholic churches.
00:05:21.540 I myself am not a confirmed Catholic, but in my study of religion,
00:05:25.860 it has brought me into many cathedrals across the U.S., Europe, even in Indonesia and India, so on and so forth, also Israel.
00:05:36.320 And whenever I go, I always pause to meditate on the 14 stations.
00:05:42.960 The purpose for these icons is to be a constant reminder of Jesus's sacrifice,
00:05:52.120 of the salvation that Christians believe come through, that comes through that sacrifice.
00:05:59.600 And I just want to walk through them really quickly.
00:06:03.120 The first station, you see Jesus condemned by Pilate.
00:06:07.200 In the second station, you see Jesus taking up the cross.
00:06:11.100 In the third, you see his first fall.
00:06:15.700 This really emphasizes the humanity of Jesus and the vulnerability, the fragility of Jesus
00:06:22.860 as he has been persecuted and as he is condemned to death.
00:06:27.060 In the fourth station, he meets his mother, Mary.
00:06:31.260 In the fifth, he meets Simon of Cyrene, who takes up his cross for him for a moment.
00:06:37.480 In the sixth, we see Veronica wiping his face with a cloth.
00:06:45.380 And this is associated with the Shroud of Turin.
00:06:50.780 For those who believe that the Shroud of Turin is legitimate,
00:06:57.120 and I think most Catholics or many Catholics would say so, many Protestants would say so,
00:07:03.160 this would be the first image of Jesus.
00:07:07.280 The Shroud was said to have been wrapped around his body when he was laid in the tomb
00:07:13.340 and to have captured his image.
00:07:16.860 Various scientists have worked on it and are quite confident that it is, in fact, legitimate as far as it's dating.
00:07:24.800 Others would disagree, but the most important thing is the cultural impact.
00:07:29.440 This is, in many ways, the first image of Jesus.
00:07:34.220 In the seventh station, we see Jesus fall again.
00:07:36.740 In the eighth, he meets the weeping women.
00:07:39.200 The theme of women in Jesus' life is very, very prominent.
00:07:44.840 In the ninth station, he falls for the third time.
00:07:48.320 In the tenth station, he is stripped.
00:07:50.880 In the eleventh, he's nailed to the cross.
00:07:53.080 In the twelfth, he dies.
00:07:55.620 In the thirteenth, he is taken down from the cross.
00:07:59.800 In the fourteenth, he is placed in the tomb.
00:08:04.620 And in many ways, I like to imagine the sort of fifteenth station, Jesus resurrected.
00:08:12.200 Oftentimes, behind the altar of a Catholic church, you'll see a crucifix,
00:08:16.700 but you'll also see an image of the resurrected Christ.
00:08:19.500 And the resurrection celebrated on Easter in a couple of days on Sunday.
00:08:25.260 The resurrection is the meaning of this sacrifice.
00:08:30.920 Without the resurrection, Jesus is simply another martyr, another victim of religious or political persecution.
00:08:38.020 The resurrection is the vision of hope that Jesus, in fact, conquered death on the cross,
00:08:46.400 and that we, Christians, and who knows, might also participate in that and ourselves have life everlasting.
00:08:59.940 So, as we move through these images, some will go by quickly, some will linger on.
00:09:06.380 Maybe to avoid example fatigue, try not to linger too long on them in your mind,
00:09:13.460 and just allow the themes to pass over you.
00:09:15.660 So, this is, according to many archaeologists, the first image of a crucifixion associated with Jesus.
00:09:23.420 It's graffiti.
00:09:25.520 There's a lot of argument, but many date it to the second century.
00:09:29.960 It's found in Rome.
00:09:32.600 And what it is, it's not a religious icon.
00:09:36.180 This graffiti is, in fact, an insult.
00:09:37.860 So, from the very beginning, you see the kind of crucifixion as mockery theme emerge.
00:09:44.940 You see there a donkey on the cross.
00:09:48.440 The inscription is,
00:09:51.280 Alexaminos worships God.
00:09:54.580 And this insult would have been probably,
00:09:57.140 such insults would have been very common in the Roman period.
00:10:00.540 Christians were ferociously persecuted
00:10:02.240 up until the rise of Constantine and the establishment of Catholic orthodoxy
00:10:08.580 at the peak, at the apex of the Roman Empire.
00:10:13.480 What's interesting about the crucifixion,
00:10:16.800 an image so common in Catholic churches and also Orthodox churches and other traditions,
00:10:21.900 is that early on in the Christian tradition,
00:10:24.820 first off, there was very little iconography
00:10:27.440 because the Christians largely operated underground for fear of persecution.
00:10:31.560 But even as the church really came into its own
00:10:36.560 and you saw the rise of the Christian empire with the coming of Constantine,
00:10:45.000 crucifixion was seen as something somewhat horrific, distasteful,
00:10:49.360 a reminder of humiliation and a vulnerability of Jesus
00:10:53.420 that most of the church fathers didn't want to see made into an image.
00:10:59.520 The typical Christian symbols would have been fish.
00:11:03.600 And it really, in many ways,
00:11:05.480 the identification of Christians was around practice
00:11:08.520 and around the confession of faith.
00:11:10.920 But beginning roughly in the 6th century,
00:11:15.300 you see more and more images of Jesus crucified.
00:11:21.020 So this comes from a Syrian manuscript from the 6th century.
00:11:26.520 You can see that it's somewhat primitive or crude
00:11:31.360 as compared to the later, more elaborate images.
00:11:34.400 But it would mark the beginning of what would be a defining icon in Christianity.
00:11:39.360 And as the medieval period progressed,
00:11:42.520 you saw, and perhaps associated with the darkness of the plague,
00:11:47.700 the general sense of malaise of the Dark Ages,
00:11:53.060 you start to see in Catholic churches more and more the image of Jesus crucified.
00:11:58.140 Here's another example from the—oh, sorry, I've flipped ahead there.
00:12:03.160 This is a Roman—I'm sorry, an Eastern Orthodox icon.
00:12:10.220 The Eastern icons, as you can see, are somewhat nondescript.
00:12:14.080 The purpose of the Eastern iconography is very much to obscure the specifics
00:12:20.560 in order to maintain a sense of distance from the image itself.
00:12:25.360 The Orthodox see the icons, as do Catholics, but perhaps with more emphasis.
00:12:30.000 The Orthodox see the icons as a way of directing the consciousness or attention
00:12:34.780 of the believer towards something beyond the icon itself.
00:12:41.000 You can see here, though, a post-Renaissance painting
00:12:44.100 that would have been fairly common in Catholic cathedrals.
00:12:49.880 It's photorealistic, I guess you would say, retroactively from our perspective.
00:12:54.660 It is, in many ways, intended to really capture the imagination of the viewer
00:13:00.620 and to bring them into the event, to bring them into that time period.
00:13:04.960 Now, in keeping with our last session,
00:13:08.320 I wanted to highlight this picture of a crucifixion from Salvador Dali.
00:13:13.160 He painted this or finished this painting in 1954, the Corpus Hypercubicus.
00:13:19.980 You see the very modern elements.
00:13:23.960 Many would consider this to be sacrilegious.
00:13:26.820 The geometric figures are intended as a way of linking the crucifixion of Jesus
00:13:34.240 with atomic energy, with the discovery of the power of the atom,
00:13:40.220 and, of course, the atom bomb, which had been detonated for the first time
00:13:43.540 some nine years before that.
00:13:46.220 And Dali saw this, as did many, as a pivotal moment in human history
00:13:50.760 in which human life was at risk of being ended entirely by warfare.
00:13:56.980 I want to highlight one other image of Jesus.
00:14:01.240 I don't have a pictographic image to show you
00:14:04.080 because these would be exceedingly rare if they exist at all.
00:14:07.620 But as we discussed last time,
00:14:11.140 what we know of Jesus through words comes through the four Gospels,
00:14:15.340 Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, the canonic Gospels.
00:14:18.980 But there were many Gospels that were written about Jesus
00:14:22.240 that did not make it into the official canon.
00:14:24.840 Many of these, arguably most of them, are Gnostic Gospels, the Gnostic Christians,
00:14:30.720 what would eventually be known as a heretical sect
00:14:33.460 that competed with Orthodox Christians
00:14:36.600 until they were finally suppressed, roughly 4th or 5th century completely.
00:14:42.340 And their texts largely disappeared.
00:14:45.700 Most of what we knew about Gnostics came from the criticisms of Church Fathers
00:14:50.920 and a few surviving texts such as the Pistis Sophia.
00:14:54.940 But in 1945, not long after the atom bomb exploded,
00:14:59.980 first over Hiroshima and then Nagasaki,
00:15:02.800 you see the appearance, the reappearance of the Gnostic Gospels
00:15:06.180 discovered outside of the village Nag Hammadi.
00:15:11.360 It's known that this corpus of texts is known as the Nag Hammadi Library.
00:15:15.140 These Gnostic texts surprised many people
00:15:17.660 because while they did in many ways reflect the criticisms of the Church Fathers,
00:15:22.340 they really filled out the image of who the Gnostics were and what they believed.
00:15:26.860 The Gnostics, as opposed to the Orthodox Church,
00:15:29.680 which believed that the way to salvation was through faith, through Pistis,
00:15:35.360 the Gnostics held that the way to salvation was gnosis, an inner knowledge.
00:15:42.040 Gnosis is Greek for knowledge, but this is a secret knowledge.
00:15:46.380 It is a knowledge based on experience,
00:15:49.260 as the Gnostics claimed to have experienced Jesus.
00:15:52.000 And they had very peculiar ideas about the crucifixion.
00:15:56.000 Some Gnostics appeared to believe that Jesus wasn't really crucified.
00:16:00.800 The Gnostics believed in a total separation of the spirit and the body,
00:16:04.640 and they could not conceive of a divine being getting crucified, of dying.
00:16:10.480 And so some held that the crucifixion was a sort of illusion.
00:16:13.900 Some held that the spirit of Christ came into the body of Jesus.
00:16:19.340 The body was crucified and the spirit escaped,
00:16:23.340 leaving the man Jesus hanging there.
00:16:26.000 And some of the heretical traditions held that Jesus came down off the cross.
00:16:31.600 And there are very elaborate stories about him joining Mary Magdalene
00:16:34.900 and disappearing into Europe, all of this.
00:16:37.740 I bring this up mainly to give you a sense of how diverse
00:16:42.000 the images of Jesus were in the early church.
00:16:46.600 Until the Orthodox Church had created some kind of unity of belief,
00:16:53.320 some uniformity, you had the Gnostics, you had various heretical sects,
00:16:58.920 such as the Arians, who believed that Jesus was not, in fact, fully God,
00:17:03.740 but that Jesus was the Son of God, that he was begotten, but was not God himself.
00:17:10.860 The argument over whether Jesus was man, whether Jesus was God, whether Jesus was half man or half God,
00:17:20.220 or whether Jesus was fully man and fully God simultaneously,
00:17:24.240 was settled for the Orthodox Church at the Council of Nicaea in the fourth century.
00:17:30.220 At the Council, many arguments were put forward, many disputes were settled,
00:17:35.860 but one of the more intriguing was on the nature of Christ.
00:17:39.200 Who is Jesus?
00:17:40.680 And so the Arians argued, and this was a very prominent sect,
00:17:46.600 this was basically a kind of parallel religion to the Orthodox,
00:17:51.200 argued that Jesus was not of a similar nature of God, but not God himself.
00:17:59.140 The Orthodox, of course, as you know, argued that Jesus was both fully God and fully man.
00:18:04.120 And this is illustrated in a somewhat humorous way, I would say, by the terms used.
00:18:10.060 Of course, these theologians would be speaking in Greek.
00:18:14.040 And so the term homoousius means of the same essence, the same nature as God.
00:18:22.260 And this Orthodox idea was put against the Arian idea that Jesus was homoousius,
00:18:30.240 that he was of similar nature to God.
00:18:32.880 And so, you know, a single I, a single iota was the differentiation between
00:18:39.720 what would have been a completely different Christianity had the Arians prevailed.
00:18:46.940 The, all of this kind of, it illustrates both the contention within the church,
00:18:53.760 but it also illustrates the stickiness of language.
00:18:56.480 So that the Gospels themselves were, most scholars agree that Jesus and his disciples
00:19:04.620 and the people that he was speaking with would have been speaking a dialect of Hebrew known as Aramaic.
00:19:09.320 But the Gospels themselves written sometime after Jesus's death,
00:19:14.040 the Gospels were written in Koine Greek, a kind of common tongue
00:19:18.460 in and around the Eastern Mediterranean and the Roman Empire.
00:19:22.740 And I show this illustration not as some sort of act of scholarship.
00:19:28.080 It was not hard to find these, but just to give you a sense of the relativity
00:19:31.960 so that you see the Hebrew rendering of Jesus Christ.
00:19:36.440 You see the Greek rendering of Jesus Christ.
00:19:38.760 You see the Arabic rendering, because, of course,
00:19:41.280 the Muslims would place Jesus, put Jesus in a very important place in their religion,
00:19:46.940 not as God or the Son of God, but merely as a prophet.
00:19:51.100 And I even included Hindi here, because the Hindus believed that,
00:19:56.420 I won't say the Hindus, there are so many different varieties of Hindus,
00:20:00.760 but many Hindu teachers believed that Jesus was an avatar,
00:20:05.380 not unlike Krishna or Rama, that Jesus was, in fact, an incarnation of God,
00:20:12.060 but they believed that he was one among many incarnations of God,
00:20:15.860 which, of course, Orthodox Christians, Protestants, Catholics disagree with fiercely.
00:20:21.880 I would like to go back now, if we could.
00:20:24.980 I'd like to go back to the Gospels themselves,
00:20:27.260 because this is really where, to me, the clearest image of Jesus that we have emerges.
00:20:34.460 The Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, the canonic Gospels,
00:20:39.040 are quite different from each other in many respects.
00:20:42.360 Matthew, Mark, and Luke are quite similar in comparison to John.
00:20:46.600 They're known as the Synoptic Gospels.
00:20:48.940 Synoptic basically meaning they look alike, they look similar,
00:20:53.220 but they are also different between themselves.
00:20:56.240 And then, of course, the Book of John, a much more mystical depiction of Jesus,
00:21:00.640 is quite a bit different.
00:21:03.440 It was said to have been written by his beloved disciple,
00:21:06.220 and it basically gives a sort of esoteric view of who Jesus was.
00:21:11.700 The real crux of the Gospels, for me, is in the words of Jesus, in his sermons.
00:21:21.600 Jesus spoke in parables.
00:21:23.320 He was often very cryptic, but the parables also served to bring a kind of common audience
00:21:28.820 into the mystery of what he was speaking about.
00:21:32.200 And you see, again, very different pictures of Jesus emerging,
00:21:39.200 even among the Synoptic Gospels.
00:21:41.840 So if I could just read you one illustration from both Matthew and Luke.
00:21:47.680 In Matthew, you have the Sermon on the Mount.
00:21:51.280 In Luke, you have the Sermon on the Plain.
00:21:55.500 In the account in Matthew, Jesus is being chased by the multitudes.
00:22:01.000 He takes his disciples up onto the mount and speaks directly to them.
00:22:07.140 In the Sermon on the Mount, you have the Beatitudes.
00:22:09.480 And in the Sermon on the Mount, you hear Jesus say,
00:22:11.800 Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
00:22:15.940 However, in Luke, you have the Sermon on the Plain.
00:22:19.560 And in the Sermon on the Plain, Jesus is speaking to the multitude.
00:22:22.840 And in Luke, you hear Jesus say,
00:22:25.160 Blessed are you poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.
00:22:29.660 And so you see the difference quite clearly in the Sermon on the Mount to the disciples.
00:22:36.180 It is a more spiritual statement.
00:22:37.900 Blessed are the poor in spirit.
00:22:40.360 Whereas it's quite material in Luke.
00:22:42.580 He goes on to say, But woe unto you who are rich, for you have received your consolation.
00:22:50.440 And this difference runs all the way down through the Beatitudes.
00:22:55.940 In Matthew, he says, Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
00:23:03.020 In Luke, we hear, Blessed are you that hunger now, for you shall be satisfied.
00:23:09.840 And woe to you who are full now, for you shall hunger.
00:23:15.060 The message of both the Sermon on the Mount and the Sermon on the Plain is quite contrary to everything that we think of as a proper way of living that would allow one to survive.
00:23:28.160 Jesus makes radical statements such as you have heard an eye and a tooth saying to you, turn the other cheek if one is struck on one cheek, turn also the other.
00:23:43.100 Jesus talks about adultery, not just the act, but says that, yes, you have heard it said, do not commit adultery.
00:23:49.660 But even if you commit adultery in your heart, you have sinned.
00:23:53.940 And maybe one of the most stunning and difficult commandments in the Sermon on the Mount and the Sermon on the Plain, in the Sermon on the Mount, he's very specific.
00:24:03.200 He said, You've heard it said to love your neighbor and hate your enemy.
00:24:08.360 But I say unto you, love your enemy.
00:24:12.440 Be perfect like God in heaven is perfect, who sends down the rain and the sun on the good and evil alike.
00:24:20.620 This is extremely difficult, but it also sets the stage in many ways for the crucifixion.
00:24:27.640 There are many sorts of images of God men throughout mythology across the world.
00:24:33.900 But in general, almost entirely, the way to victory for any deity in almost any religion is through victory in warfare.
00:24:44.740 You destroy your enemies.
00:24:46.880 Whereas Jesus flips this on its head.
00:24:49.640 He flips the entire narrative.
00:24:51.540 Instead of winning by way of destroying the enemy, Jesus's victory on the cross is one of sacrifice.
00:25:00.820 It's one of martyrdom.
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00:31:24.460 War Room Battleground with Stephen K. Bannon.
00:31:27.080 I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute.
00:31:36.480 For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed,
00:31:42.620 in other years it has been, and may someday be again, a Jew or a Quaker or a Unitarian or a Baptist.
00:31:50.600 From Dallas, Texas, the flash, apparently official, President Kennedy died at 1 p.m. Central Standard Time.
00:32:00.700 Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as raven's claws.
00:32:08.440 Mankind must put an end to war.
00:32:12.040 A war will put an end to mankind.
00:32:15.400 It is no longer the choice, my friends, between violence and nonviolence.
00:32:19.600 It is either nonviolence or nonexistence, and the alternative to disarmament,
00:32:25.020 the alternative to a greater suspension of nuclear tests,
00:32:28.660 the alternative to strengthening the United Nations and thereby disarming the whole world,
00:32:34.540 may well be a civilization plunged into the abyss of annihilation,
00:32:39.180 and our earthly habitat will be transformed into an inferno
00:32:42.800 that even the mind of Dante could not imagine.
00:32:47.260 Good evening.
00:32:48.920 Dr. Martin Luther King, the apostle of nonviolence in the civil rights movement,
00:32:53.900 has been shot to death in Memphis, Tennessee.
00:32:59.260 You're a person of Jesus
00:33:04.600 Someone to be oppressed, someone who cares
00:33:12.100 If it had said, television is more popular than Jesus,
00:33:17.240 I might have got away with it.
00:33:20.160 Some teenagers have said, have repeated your statements,
00:33:23.480 that the Beatles, I like the Beatles more than Jesus Christ.
00:33:25.980 What do you think about that?
00:33:27.200 Well, originally I was pointing out that fact in reference to England,
00:33:31.400 that we meant more to kids than Jesus did,
00:33:34.900 or religion at that time.
00:33:36.480 And I wasn't knocking it or putting it down,
00:33:38.580 I was just saying it for the fact.
00:33:41.160 Good morning, everyone.
00:33:42.040 I'm Tom Brokaw.
00:33:42.940 This is today, December 9th.
00:33:44.520 I'm here with Jane Paul,
00:33:45.640 and this entire half hour will be devoted to the murder of John Lennon.
00:33:50.200 Lennon was shot and killed at about 11 o'clock last night
00:33:53.180 outside his apartment building.
00:33:54.760 We have an everlasting release.
00:34:13.920 This is the power of the blood.
00:34:16.220 When Jesus hung on the cross,
00:34:19.300 suspended between heaven and earth,
00:34:21.520 he took all of our mistakes,
00:34:24.760 all of our failures and weaknesses,
00:34:27.400 all of the times we've blown it,
00:34:29.600 and the times we ever will blow it,
00:34:31.800 and he forgave it.
00:34:32.740 I have a day today.
00:35:00.060 Sometimes it gets so hard to hide.
00:35:07.620 Always look on the bright side of life.
00:35:12.180 Christ is king!
00:35:31.740 Christ is king!
00:35:35.740 That's what it's all about.
00:35:36.920 When I come out to these rallies,
00:35:38.440 and I see everybody,
00:35:39.980 and they bring their rosaries and crucifixes
00:35:41.840 and their American flags,
00:35:43.860 I know we're on the right side of history.
00:35:47.000 He made them come up with a vaccine.
00:35:49.580 That is from God to us.
00:35:52.060 And Jesus taught us to love one another.
00:35:54.800 And how do you show that love
00:35:56.440 but to care about each other enough to say,
00:35:58.900 please get vaccinated because I love you.
00:36:00.780 I want you to live.
00:36:01.640 In the name of Jesus!
00:36:04.020 In the name of Jesus!
00:36:05.380 Say can you bow your knee!
00:36:08.200 COVID-19!
00:36:09.700 COVID-19!
00:36:16.480 I blow!
00:36:18.380 I blow!
00:36:19.280 The wind of God!
00:36:20.440 The wind of God!
00:36:21.480 They have just done an art exhibit
00:36:24.760 where they've replaced Jesus Christ
00:36:28.020 with George Floyd.
00:36:31.700 There are no words.
00:36:33.600 At a Catholic university,
00:36:35.580 this is what they are teaching.
00:36:36.960 Two worlds collided
00:36:40.240 And they could never tear us apart
00:36:45.820 I'm not your babe,
00:36:59.040 I'm not your babe
00:37:00.520 I may have a darling kiss
00:37:03.720 Don't wanna touch
00:37:05.080 Fernando
00:37:06.460 Don't
00:37:07.800 I know that sign!
00:37:09.620 It is an insult!
00:37:10.780 He is not the king of the Jews!
00:37:12.360 Those are the orders where this team!
00:37:15.820 Father
00:37:16.440 Forgive them
00:37:20.320 They know not what they do
00:37:25.360 All right, welcome back.
00:37:30.740 I can hear Steve Bannon's voice right now.
00:37:34.320 Joe Allen, what did we just see?
00:37:38.680 What I would say in a nutshell we saw
00:37:41.500 is the total mutation
00:37:44.140 and in many ways defilement
00:37:46.280 of the image of Jesus
00:37:47.500 in order to either push
00:37:49.900 political agendas,
00:37:52.100 racial agendas,
00:37:54.440 economic desire and agendas
00:37:57.440 and this marks the images of Jesus
00:38:00.640 in the modern era
00:38:02.340 and the post-modern culture
00:38:03.640 that overlays it.
00:38:05.140 What we saw at the beginning of the show
00:38:09.180 were films of Jesus
00:38:11.400 covering almost an entire century.
00:38:14.380 Those films begin with the 1912 film
00:38:18.440 from The Manger to the Cross
00:38:19.840 and of course we ended with
00:38:21.880 what I believe is a very beautiful film
00:38:23.480 The Passion of the Christ by Mel Gibson
00:38:26.500 But in all of those films
00:38:29.900 it required deviating from the Jesus
00:38:33.260 of the gospel to some extent
00:38:35.400 whether it be rearranging the stories
00:38:38.240 rearranging his statements
00:38:40.380 or even in the case of
00:38:42.240 The Last Temptation of Christ
00:38:43.660 or Jesus Christ Superstar
00:38:45.380 warping the story out of all recognition.
00:38:49.660 Then what we saw in this last series
00:38:54.220 of film clips
00:38:55.880 you see John F. Kennedy
00:38:57.800 and Martin Luther King
00:38:59.160 both of whom have drawn
00:39:01.060 endless comparisons to Jesus
00:39:02.700 because of their martyrdom
00:39:04.020 and in a sense their resurrection
00:39:06.440 and their permanence in the culture
00:39:08.620 due to that martyrdom
00:39:09.780 through the media.
00:39:11.680 You see rock and roll and pop stars
00:39:14.440 co-opting the images of Jesus
00:39:17.100 either to sneer and mock it
00:39:19.720 or just simply to make statements themselves
00:39:22.520 what really marks
00:39:23.820 the postmodern images of Jesus
00:39:25.960 is the projection of ego
00:39:29.900 of desire, of sex and violence
00:39:32.400 onto Jesus' image
00:39:34.800 or maybe more appropriately
00:39:37.520 taking elements of Jesus' image
00:39:41.280 be it his sermons, his travels
00:39:43.440 his charisma or his crucifixion
00:39:46.160 and co-opting it
00:39:48.040 for the purpose of ego
00:39:49.580 to make oneself
00:39:52.620 into an image of Jesus.
00:39:56.120 Now this has its beginning
00:39:57.620 in the early Christian church.
00:40:01.080 We discussed this last segment
00:40:03.920 or last session
00:40:05.120 the book The Haleond
00:40:07.220 The Haleond was written
00:40:08.620 in Old Saxon
00:40:09.620 so it had gone through
00:40:11.420 a series of translations
00:40:12.420 before it got there.
00:40:13.780 It's a synthesis
00:40:14.880 of all four Gospels
00:40:16.120 eliminating what seemed to be
00:40:18.300 at least the variations
00:40:19.460 which occasionally seem to be
00:40:21.600 perhaps contradictions
00:40:23.840 and one of the key elements
00:40:26.260 of this Saxon Gospel
00:40:28.020 aside from using pagan words
00:40:31.260 and even pagan themes
00:40:32.780 to describe the story of Jesus
00:40:34.620 to the old pagan audience
00:40:37.140 that he approaches
00:40:39.500 the crucifixion as a warrior.
00:40:41.460 He's a chieftain
00:40:42.720 He is followed by thanes, warriors
00:40:45.140 and the theme of this gospel
00:40:48.480 or myth really
00:40:49.940 this mythical telling of the gospel
00:40:51.420 the themes center on it
00:40:54.380 preserves a sense of battle
00:40:56.720 and a sense of valor
00:40:58.820 even in the self-sacrifice
00:41:01.640 on the cross.
00:41:03.000 There's a correlated text
00:41:05.220 called The Dream of the Rude
00:41:07.160 It appeared
00:41:08.300 the Halion appeared
00:41:09.520 in the 9th century
00:41:10.240 The Dream of the Rude
00:41:11.880 which means
00:41:12.620 The Dream of the Wood
00:41:13.440 The Dream of the Cross
00:41:14.420 It appeared
00:41:15.540 perhaps the century before
00:41:16.920 in Old English
00:41:18.260 and in that poem
00:41:19.740 we see
00:41:20.240 an even more
00:41:21.860 extreme example
00:41:24.120 of Jesus being portrayed
00:41:25.180 as a warrior
00:41:25.760 going to war
00:41:26.800 on the cross
00:41:28.260 rather than
00:41:29.340 submission
00:41:30.100 to death
00:41:31.960 in order
00:41:32.440 a sacrifice
00:41:33.080 in order
00:41:33.620 to save
00:41:34.440 the human race.
00:41:35.680 This translation
00:41:38.120 both language translation
00:41:40.520 cultural translation
00:41:41.640 and the thematic mutation
00:41:44.680 continues on
00:41:45.860 into the modern era
00:41:46.820 in modern literature
00:41:47.780 and so we'll run through
00:41:49.000 these really quickly
00:41:49.700 you have some examples here
00:41:51.380 D.H. Lawrence
00:41:52.740 in 1929
00:41:53.760 published a short story
00:41:55.300 called The Escaped Cock
00:41:56.660 as in chicken
00:41:59.220 as in rooster
00:42:00.340 but the theme
00:42:02.300 of the book
00:42:03.660 is a retelling
00:42:04.380 of the gospel
00:42:04.940 and there's a very
00:42:06.020 sexual element
00:42:06.900 Jesus isn't actually
00:42:08.700 killed on the cross
00:42:09.700 and he is not
00:42:11.700 resurrected so much
00:42:12.580 as survives
00:42:13.200 and engages
00:42:14.040 in a sexual relationship
00:42:15.840 then you have
00:42:17.600 similar sorts
00:42:19.700 of changing
00:42:21.100 of the gospels
00:42:22.380 but also preserving it
00:42:23.940 Norman Mailer
00:42:24.680 a famous
00:42:26.060 World War II veteran
00:42:27.320 wrote many
00:42:28.120 great war novels
00:42:29.700 Norman Mailer
00:42:31.840 late in his life
00:42:33.140 1997
00:42:33.860 penned the gospel
00:42:36.000 according to the sun
00:42:37.500 and trying to stay
00:42:38.980 as true to the story
00:42:39.840 as he could
00:42:40.340 he wrote it
00:42:40.880 from the perspective
00:42:41.720 of Jesus
00:42:42.800 but that still
00:42:43.760 there are all sorts
00:42:45.300 of little variations
00:42:46.460 that are required
00:42:47.240 to do this
00:42:48.160 that you see
00:42:49.080 again a sort of
00:42:50.520 personalized Jesus
00:42:52.000 your own personal Jesus
00:42:53.620 as it were
00:42:54.760 now in the film series
00:42:56.580 that we saw
00:42:57.200 at the very beginning
00:42:57.860 of the show
00:42:58.420 you saw a young girl
00:43:00.540 who was an angel
00:43:01.420 speaking to Jesus
00:43:02.400 on the cross
00:43:03.040 Jesus being played
00:43:03.960 by Willem Dafoe
00:43:04.620 that comes from
00:43:05.200 The Last Temptation
00:43:06.040 of Christ
00:43:06.540 a 1955 book
00:43:08.560 penned by the Greek
00:43:09.560 author Nikos
00:43:10.900 Kazantzakis
00:43:12.440 and the theme
00:43:16.380 of this book
00:43:17.280 I mean it's a very
00:43:17.920 complicated tale
00:43:18.980 when it was made
00:43:20.200 into a film
00:43:20.980 by Martin Scorsese
00:43:22.700 in 1988
00:43:24.120 it caused a huge
00:43:25.020 scandal because
00:43:25.920 Jesus again
00:43:26.920 has a sexual
00:43:28.480 relationship
00:43:29.020 in this case
00:43:29.660 Mary Magdalene
00:43:30.680 he comes down
00:43:31.960 off of the cross
00:43:32.760 he does not
00:43:33.480 sacrifice himself
00:43:34.880 on the cross
00:43:35.580 but a quick
00:43:36.680 spoiler alert
00:43:38.080 but really
00:43:39.500 the deep message
00:43:40.580 of the book
00:43:41.240 it is at least
00:43:42.240 intriguing
00:43:42.880 at the end
00:43:44.360 you know
00:43:44.980 it shows Jesus
00:43:45.680 very much as a human
00:43:46.620 as a man
00:43:47.120 who can be tempted
00:43:48.240 just as Jesus
00:43:49.340 was tempted
00:43:49.860 in the desert
00:43:50.440 in the gospels
00:43:51.600 but he's tempted
00:43:53.720 off the cross
00:43:54.520 in the end of the book
00:43:55.380 it turns out
00:43:55.920 that this angel
00:43:56.680 that assures him
00:43:57.700 that the sacrifice
00:43:58.400 isn't necessary
00:43:59.080 is in fact Satan
00:44:00.000 and he repents
00:44:02.340 and he asked
00:44:03.500 to be sacrificed
00:44:04.140 to become the Messiah
00:44:05.160 to save the world
00:44:06.080 and the film
00:44:07.840 concludes with
00:44:08.780 Jesus again
00:44:10.020 hanging on
00:44:10.960 the cross
00:44:12.160 moving into
00:44:14.560 another genre
00:44:15.620 science fiction
00:44:16.460 the classic author
00:44:18.400 Philip K. Dick
00:44:19.440 used images
00:44:20.880 of Jesus
00:44:21.340 throughout his work
00:44:22.380 in his
00:44:23.820 famous
00:44:24.620 1968 novel
00:44:27.660 Do Androids Dream
00:44:29.040 of Electric Sheep
00:44:30.080 you see
00:44:30.880 a technological
00:44:32.400 religion
00:44:32.900 called Mercerism
00:44:33.720 the kind of
00:44:34.100 virtual reality
00:44:34.860 religion
00:44:35.320 in which
00:44:36.220 the characters
00:44:38.340 tune in
00:44:39.200 to an experience
00:44:40.160 of this character
00:44:40.860 Mercer
00:44:41.640 who is being
00:44:43.100 persecuted
00:44:43.600 and he's
00:44:44.420 climbing up a hill
00:44:45.540 people are throwing
00:44:46.300 stones at him
00:44:47.040 and it's sort of
00:44:48.000 like a first person
00:44:49.140 martyrdom trip
00:44:50.880 I have not
00:44:52.420 seen it yet
00:44:53.180 but I am
00:44:54.220 predicting right now
00:44:55.260 that similar
00:44:56.380 sorts of
00:44:56.920 blasphemies
00:44:57.540 will be seen
00:44:58.380 in virtual reality
00:44:59.580 before you know it
00:45:00.920 if they don't
00:45:01.460 exist already
00:45:02.800 and of course
00:45:03.740 his 1981 novel
00:45:06.760 Valis
00:45:07.840 Vast Active
00:45:09.220 Living Intelligence
00:45:10.320 System
00:45:10.980 Valis is a kind
00:45:12.780 of Gnostic story
00:45:14.120 that recaps
00:45:15.420 his own experiences
00:45:16.780 which he claims
00:45:18.040 to have experienced
00:45:18.740 being hit by a pink
00:45:19.740 beam and given
00:45:20.860 direct knowledge
00:45:21.900 direct experience
00:45:22.720 of some sort
00:45:23.580 of divinity
00:45:24.000 he wasn't sure
00:45:24.600 if it was God
00:45:25.260 or some alien
00:45:26.160 force
00:45:26.680 or both
00:45:27.620 and so
00:45:28.940 you see
00:45:29.660 some preservation
00:45:31.780 of the original
00:45:32.940 stories of the
00:45:34.600 Gospels
00:45:35.040 and the stories
00:45:35.620 even of the Gnostics
00:45:36.540 but it's very much
00:45:37.420 warped into a
00:45:38.440 technological form
00:45:39.700 this is going
00:45:41.900 to mark
00:45:42.440 in many ways
00:45:43.100 too
00:45:43.460 the ways in which
00:45:44.640 Jesus is interpreted
00:45:45.960 by many of the
00:45:46.840 transhumanists
00:45:47.540 and post-humanists
00:45:48.360 that we see today
00:45:50.000 and that you hear me
00:45:50.640 covering all the time
00:45:52.000 on the war room
00:45:52.900 and we'll conclude
00:45:53.600 on that
00:45:54.500 but really quickly
00:45:55.420 another theme
00:45:56.860 that ran through
00:45:57.480 the cold open
00:45:59.320 was the rock star
00:46:00.880 right
00:46:01.500 and the rock star
00:46:02.940 martyr
00:46:03.480 Elvis was a rock star
00:46:06.080 martyr
00:46:06.500 he died in 1977
00:46:08.260 and after his death
00:46:09.920 fans would go
00:46:11.140 to Graceland
00:46:12.120 I've been myself
00:46:13.280 there are still people
00:46:14.640 or at least there were
00:46:15.520 a few years back
00:46:16.440 going and writing
00:46:17.900 prayers or messages
00:46:19.120 to Elvis
00:46:19.640 to lay on his tombstone
00:46:21.420 at Graceland
00:46:24.180 and Jim Morrison
00:46:25.920 of course
00:46:26.420 you see him
00:46:27.080 in this kind of
00:46:27.560 Christ pose
00:46:28.160 before he died
00:46:29.080 and he died
00:46:30.180 of an overdose
00:46:30.700 he was made
00:46:32.220 into a kind of
00:46:33.080 Jesus Christ
00:46:33.720 or martyr figure
00:46:34.480 after his death
00:46:35.820 but a very sexual one
00:46:37.120 obviously departing
00:46:38.320 from the asceticism
00:46:39.520 of Jesus himself
00:46:40.940 in the gospel
00:46:41.520 he died at 27
00:46:43.080 Jimmy Hendricks
00:46:44.300 died of an overdose
00:46:45.200 at 27
00:46:46.480 Kurt Cobain
00:46:47.780 died of an overdose
00:46:49.020 at
00:46:49.600 I'm sorry
00:46:50.160 of suicide
00:46:50.840 he shot himself
00:46:51.720 at 27
00:46:53.060 in 27
00:46:53.540 for whatever reason
00:46:54.760 some sort of
00:46:55.680 dark numerology
00:46:57.120 some dark mysticism
00:46:58.900 running through
00:46:59.580 the dead rock star
00:47:00.920 or rock star
00:47:02.100 martyr series
00:47:03.420 maybe more impactful
00:47:06.420 was John Lennon
00:47:07.740 John Lennon
00:47:08.360 was very much
00:47:08.900 a political figure
00:47:09.660 he was gunned down
00:47:10.280 in 1980
00:47:10.920 by seemingly
00:47:12.240 a schizophrenic
00:47:13.320 and the same
00:47:15.880 sort of theme
00:47:17.720 with Tupac Shakur
00:47:19.080 this album cover
00:47:20.540 you see here
00:47:21.000 with him on the cross
00:47:22.180 it was done
00:47:23.840 under the alias
00:47:24.780 Machiavelli
00:47:25.540 the Don Columinati
00:47:27.000 is the title
00:47:27.960 and it was
00:47:29.360 made before he died
00:47:30.520 he approved it
00:47:31.220 and then after he died
00:47:32.600 of course
00:47:33.040 he was in some sense
00:47:34.280 in the media
00:47:34.740 resurrected
00:47:35.340 even among some stars
00:47:37.200 who don't die early
00:47:38.660 such as Marilyn Manson
00:47:40.000 you see clearly
00:47:41.000 an inversion
00:47:42.360 a perversion
00:47:43.160 of the crucifixion
00:47:44.460 and the theme
00:47:45.280 of this album
00:47:45.900 Holywood
00:47:46.580 that's
00:47:46.940 Holywood is in the cross
00:47:48.180 and also Holywood
00:47:49.420 is in Hollywood
00:47:50.140 the theme of this
00:47:51.240 is mass shooting
00:47:53.720 it basically
00:47:54.540 inverts martyrdom
00:47:56.000 and turns it
00:47:56.680 into murder
00:47:57.940 this also has
00:47:59.200 a political element
00:48:00.100 right
00:48:00.380 the use of
00:48:01.340 the images of Jesus
00:48:02.220 this is a painting
00:48:03.220 of Obama
00:48:03.680 that hung in a museum
00:48:04.600 in Boston
00:48:05.280 outraging many
00:48:06.760 you have
00:48:08.320 of course
00:48:09.220 the painting
00:48:10.000 the infamous
00:48:10.860 painting
00:48:11.480 of George Floyd
00:48:12.560 as Jesus
00:48:13.400 that hung
00:48:14.660 in a Catholic
00:48:16.280 University of America
00:48:17.760 in Washington D.C.
00:48:20.100 even Donald Trump
00:48:21.880 while Donald Trump
00:48:23.200 has never claimed
00:48:23.980 to be Jesus
00:48:24.700 there are some elements
00:48:27.020 among the MAGA movement
00:48:28.080 who I would say
00:48:29.360 perhaps project
00:48:30.360 images of Jesus
00:48:31.420 onto him
00:48:32.220 that are
00:48:33.080 that strain
00:48:35.740 the imagination
00:48:36.880 Kanye West
00:48:38.300 of course
00:48:38.840 for all of his
00:48:40.380 foibles
00:48:40.760 always resting
00:48:42.260 on this
00:48:43.040 image of Jesus
00:48:44.080 and this image
00:48:45.200 of devotion
00:48:46.060 to Jesus
00:48:46.780 even as he
00:48:48.180 engages
00:48:49.540 in all sorts
00:48:49.980 of bizarre behavior
00:48:50.860 but I bring
00:48:52.040 this one up
00:48:52.700 for two reasons
00:48:54.220 you see here
00:48:55.160 rail
00:48:55.540 rail is a cult
00:48:56.520 leader
00:48:56.800 a UFO cult
00:48:57.980 the symbol
00:48:59.380 was posted
00:49:00.140 by Kanye West
00:49:01.060 on Twitter
00:49:01.840 just after
00:49:02.860 Elon Musk
00:49:03.380 purchased it
00:49:04.100 it's a combination
00:49:04.780 of a swastika
00:49:05.720 and a star
00:49:07.060 of David
00:49:07.820 he was banned
00:49:09.000 from Twitter
00:49:09.400 for this
00:49:10.020 I don't know
00:49:10.520 if he knew
00:49:11.020 that it was
00:49:11.420 a symbol
00:49:11.720 of a UFO cult
00:49:12.660 but the
00:49:13.660 railians
00:49:14.200 this UFO cult
00:49:15.100 believe that
00:49:15.920 Jesus was
00:49:16.600 in fact
00:49:16.940 an extraterrestrial
00:49:18.420 and that
00:49:19.760 salvation
00:49:20.980 consists
00:49:21.880 of using
00:49:23.320 alien technology
00:49:24.240 to get saved
00:49:25.260 this is very common
00:49:26.480 you have it
00:49:26.920 in the Urantia
00:49:27.580 society
00:49:28.180 you have it
00:49:28.680 in the Etheria
00:49:29.320 society
00:49:29.760 many many
00:49:30.300 different UFO cults
00:49:31.940 that see Jesus
00:49:32.540 as supernatural
00:49:33.260 and of course
00:49:33.980 there's the
00:49:34.380 technological element
00:49:35.540 the transhumanist
00:49:36.480 religion
00:49:36.900 the techno cult
00:49:38.240 the techno religion
00:49:39.600 and this comes
00:49:41.240 from 2006
00:49:43.080 just before
00:49:43.780 the iPhone
00:49:44.260 was released
00:49:44.900 Gizmodo
00:49:45.780 responding to
00:49:46.500 Pope Benedict
00:49:47.260 16
00:49:48.120 who lamented
00:49:51.020 the way in which
00:49:51.900 technology had drawn
00:49:53.240 the faithful
00:49:54.020 away from the church
00:49:55.240 Gizmodo responded
00:49:56.820 with a snarky article
00:49:57.780 about the iPhone
00:49:58.540 being the Jesus phone
00:49:59.760 and this became
00:50:01.240 quite the meme
00:50:02.040 at the time
00:50:02.720 the Jesus phone
00:50:03.980 that you know
00:50:04.460 the Steve Jobs
00:50:05.640 apple was no longer
00:50:07.020 just a story
00:50:07.840 from Genesis
00:50:08.360 but perhaps
00:50:09.320 even a Gnostic symbol
00:50:10.640 in which Jesus
00:50:11.540 appears as the serpent
00:50:12.800 and tempts Eve
00:50:13.980 to eat the apple
00:50:15.000 as an act
00:50:15.980 of Gnosis
00:50:17.200 finally I just want
00:50:19.460 to highlight
00:50:20.180 the last in our series
00:50:22.060 a technological
00:50:23.300 religion
00:50:24.280 of the transhuman
00:50:26.040 religion
00:50:26.560 some of which
00:50:28.020 some transhumanists
00:50:29.700 as you see here
00:50:30.960 use images
00:50:31.880 images of Jesus
00:50:32.540 as a paradigm
00:50:34.160 for what they believe
00:50:35.640 will be
00:50:36.600 the God
00:50:39.080 in Silico
00:50:40.040 the AI
00:50:41.000 Jesus
00:50:41.720 and I want to
00:50:44.060 though
00:50:44.340 in the very short
00:50:45.280 time I have left
00:50:46.220 just return
00:50:47.260 to the gospel
00:50:48.020 image of Jesus
00:50:49.220 just before his crucifixion
00:50:50.620 we see Jesus
00:50:51.800 appear
00:50:52.820 before Pilate
00:50:53.920 and Pilate
00:50:54.800 asks him
00:50:55.520 point blank
00:50:56.420 he's being accused
00:50:57.240 by the Pharisees
00:50:58.140 of claiming
00:50:58.820 to be the Messiah
00:50:59.680 the Son of God
00:51:00.380 the King of the Jews
00:51:01.140 and Pilate
00:51:02.320 asks him
00:51:02.900 are you the King
00:51:04.400 of the Jews
00:51:05.260 and Jesus
00:51:06.580 in his
00:51:07.560 typical
00:51:08.780 clever way
00:51:09.620 responds
00:51:10.360 you have said so
00:51:12.140 and
00:51:14.060 Pilate
00:51:14.900 who's trying
00:51:15.500 to get
00:51:16.460 at the truth
00:51:17.360 asks him
00:51:18.620 the question
00:51:19.220 what is
00:51:20.560 truth
00:51:21.140 and Jesus
00:51:22.900 says nothing
00:51:23.940 he leaves
00:51:25.260 it hanging
00:51:25.800 and as we
00:51:27.580 move
00:51:27.980 through
00:51:28.440 Good Friday
00:51:29.280 into Easter
00:51:30.180 I hope
00:51:31.340 that you
00:51:31.860 yourself
00:51:32.500 are asking
00:51:33.120 the question
00:51:33.780 what is
00:51:35.140 truth
00:51:35.820 and I hope
00:51:37.560 that it arrives
00:51:38.720 not as
00:51:39.780 an inscrutable
00:51:40.420 mystery
00:51:40.860 but as
00:51:41.880 joy
00:51:42.580 joy among
00:51:43.720 your kinsmen
00:51:44.420 joy among
00:51:45.360 your family
00:51:46.020 and joy
00:51:47.020 with the
00:51:47.920 divine
00:51:48.460 thank you
00:51:48.900 very much
00:51:49.480 I hope
00:51:50.520 this was
00:51:51.120 more illuminating
00:51:52.260 than confusing
00:51:52.920 God bless
00:51:54.000 that's code
00:52:20.600 war room
00:52:21.220 at checkout
00:52:21.800 to save
00:52:22.200 67%
00:52:23.020 do it
00:52:23.420 again
00:52:23.640 war room
00:52:24.520 health
00:52:24.880 all one
00:52:25.380 word
00:52:25.660 war room
00:52:26.100 health
00:52:26.360 dot com
00:52:27.140 go there
00:52:28.280 today
00:52:28.700 you need
00:52:29.760 if you're
00:52:30.040 going to be
00:52:30.280 part of the
00:52:30.620 posse
00:52:31.000 you need
00:52:31.420 a strong
00:52:32.020 heart
00:52:32.300 you need
00:52:32.600 a lion's
00:52:33.240 heart
00:52:33.460 how we're
00:52:34.480 going to do
00:52:34.820 that is
00:52:35.240 with salty
00:52:35.880 go there
00:52:36.980 do it
00:52:37.300 today
00:52:37.580 check it
00:52:38.020 out