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01:04:33.900Well, I do want to bring some attention to, as we just talked about.
01:04:40.040Well, for one, let's start with this because we have this libertarian and Christianity kind of conversation that you can say one more thing about it.
01:04:52.380So I have this quote, render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's and unto God the things that are God's, which is what Jesus said.
01:05:00.780I don't know exactly who he said that to, but it sounds like he's saying pay your fucking taxes and just deal with God, you know.
01:05:08.760And going down, you could see that it's been interpreted by everyone in so many different ways.
01:05:16.360You know, the tax resistance people or the tax resistors interpreted in their own way that he's like preaching about how godly things are more important.
01:05:30.040And then people who are, I guess, more statist are saying that he's saying that, yeah, give your money to the state because the state is ordained by God in some capacity in order to keep people in line.
01:05:44.260Obviously, to stop murders, rapes, thefts, whatever is going on.
01:05:52.020Yeah, my thoughts are basically that Jesus says this as more of a, he says, give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God.
01:06:18.080Well, if Caesar gave us money and he expects taxes for it or something like that, or we're in a system, then you give Caesar what he's due, I guess.
01:06:25.240So it's more of a reminder of you're in the world.
01:06:28.080So you still take part in those worldly things.
01:06:30.960But as soon as something comes against you and God, you have to judge.
01:06:34.400Is this what I give God or is this what I give Caesar?
01:06:38.120Am I obedient to Caesar or am I being obedient to God?
01:06:41.080And if Caesar tells you to do something that is godly, then you can say, okay, Caesar, obviously this is something that God would agree with.
01:08:05.120But my understanding is that if something is against God's will and it's being promoted by your government, then you don't support that government.
01:08:14.360One way to do that is by not voting for that party, sure.
01:08:17.920But the other thing is that this government's in power using tax money to support these types of initiatives.
01:17:48.120And he even did that with what he was planning to replace the church with, the Reich Church.
01:17:52.980And kind of what Himmler was doing in the SS with some of his more mythological fashioning of a religion that he was trying to promote himself.
01:18:04.440And that's what he wanted to do, 100%.
01:18:07.160So he was also creating a religion that would be more state-oriented at the time.
01:19:01.380So basically what they wanted to do is replace the entire church with their own religion.
01:19:07.960And yeah, so that would be a heresy completely.
01:19:11.200If you're going to take the Christian church and basically eradicate it by superimposing your own religion on top of it,
01:19:17.560which is what they started to do in 1933.
01:19:19.640And by like 1939, they already had like right churches established.
01:19:24.200But it was like a failed project because the confessing church who were German Christians formed and they were the dissident church.
01:19:32.360And they started to cause a lot of problems for Germany in 1939.
01:19:35.940So he rounded up a bunch of priests and had them sent away.
01:19:39.000Okay, so I know we talked briefly before about how Hitler, he used Christianity as something that he could wield political power with, right?
01:19:58.060And he did not necessarily believe in Christianity at all.
01:20:01.920In fact, he had quite disdain for it, as we could see in those table talks.
01:20:06.280So, thinking about how, yes, people do need religion.
01:20:13.640They do need some kind of higher power.
01:20:16.180And Christianity has been the thing that has held together, in many ways, for better or for worse, European civilization for the last two millennium.
01:20:28.360Is there something good about that, even if people don't necessarily all believe it, or even if the leader themselves are just using it as something to instill good moral values in their people?
01:20:42.620I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
01:20:45.040And I think that's kind of the preferred way to go about it, really.
01:20:47.960And that's what we should all be kind of striving for.
01:20:51.720And it also doesn't scare everybody away, being like, we're coming to convert you.
01:20:56.400And if you don't, we're going to burn you at the stake kind of thing.
01:20:59.320Because there's a time when that seemed relatively reasonable.
01:21:02.480But nowadays, you can't really go around and burn people on stakes and then just happen to Christian society.
01:21:07.260So, are you making everybody crypto-Christians, then?
01:21:10.560And is this similar to how the Jews like to infiltrate things and make people cryptos, like, say, it was Spain in the 1600s?
01:21:18.640We have to subvert society with good morals, apparently.
01:21:43.100Hitler feared the collapse of the pact with churches, leading to conversion to atheism, which he equates to the state of the animal.
01:21:54.160So, as much of disdain or kind of, like, dismissiveness that he put upon the metaphysical realities of Christianity and, you know, some of the ways that they have turned the other cheek as a philosophy, right?
01:22:11.800He did not like atheism, nonetheless, you know, which seems like the counterpoint to it.
01:22:18.220So, he definitely had some spirituality to him.
01:22:21.500I think at the basis, and maybe we'll get into this later when we touch on other things, like around his Catholic roots and stuff like that.
01:22:29.780I think at the basis of Hitler, he did believe in a God.
01:22:36.060I don't think it was the Christian God, is my opinion, because you can see that even when he, there's lots of letters that are in between this guy named Mueller, who starts up the Reich Church.
01:22:46.960He talks about, like, how he wants there to be a God, and basically what happens later is Himmler changes it to the old German God, or G-O-T-T, Gott.
01:22:57.240And you can find total writings of Hitler and Himmler having, like, discussions about this shit.
01:23:02.620So, I think he believed in a God, and I think this has to do with his occult beliefs.
01:23:07.820So, he wants there to be something that is the value basis, and he wants it to be that God.
01:23:17.040So, he believes that atheism is wrong because there's no moral tenets, and there's no higher power that has the, like, wants your well-being.
01:23:25.720You can even see that in the Reich Church when they talk about certain things that are very much still about the well-being of the people, and it being something that is affecting their well-being.
01:23:34.680Maybe more in a nationalistic Nazi slant, but it's, the purpose is that it's a well-being thing, because they recognize that Christianity, I believe.
01:23:45.020Okay, well, I would say that going from the 1800s to the 1900s, you have the introduction of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
01:23:56.540Now, it may not be perfect, but I think that throughout the past two millenniums, or even for time immemorial, like, as far back as human history goes,
01:24:09.160that religious thinking makes sense to you in your own locality, right?
01:24:14.520So, any Christian, why would they not think that they are correct in their beliefs, right?
01:24:23.400Like, their religious experience is very localized, and there's no proof otherwise to the mysteries of life.
01:24:30.520There is no evolution, there is no understanding of biology, of world history, and, you know, the history of archaeology, or any of this other stuff.
01:24:42.140But going into the 1800s and 1900s, now you have Charles Darwin putting forth the theory of evolution,
01:24:49.360and supposedly he was very scared about what the implications were with his religious faith,
01:24:56.820and how it might damn him, potentially.
01:25:00.100Him, I don't know exactly how that all played out with his religious beliefs and how he felt,
02:19:43.660and he was sent to earth to elucidate the
02:19:46.720way that we should be what like if another
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