Bannon's War Room - WarRoom Battleground EP 504： Communion And Crucifixion： An Iconic Panorama Of The Passion Pt. 2

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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

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00:01:08.180 three days save yourself if you're the son of God come down from the cross

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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. 0.99

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 0.79

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, 0.57

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, 0.99

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. 0.96

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. 0.84

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, 0.81

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! 0.96

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 0.95

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 0.71

00:41:26.800 on the cross

00:41:28.260 rather than

00:41:29.340 submission

00:41:30.100 to death 0.99

00:41:31.960 in order 0.99

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 0.80

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 0.80

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 0.99

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 1.00

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 1.00

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 0.70

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 0.99

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 0.96

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 0.60

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 0.57

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

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Bannon's War Room - March 30, 2024

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

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