Pro-life songwriter explains how prayer helped him create 'Dear Mom,' LifeSite's first music video
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A few months ago, we had an incredibly powerful pro-life song that was seen by thousands of you. We wanted to give you a glimpse into the artist behind the song. He s got an incredible story, a conversion story, and a story of his inspiration to bring this great, inspiring music to us. His name is Paul Lubansky.
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LifeSite News was so pleased to bring you artworks every once in a while.
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And just recently, a few months ago, we had an incredibly powerful pro-life song
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We wanted to give you a glimpse into the artist behind the song.
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He's got an incredible story, a conversion story,
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a story of his inspiration to bring this great pro-life, inspiring music to us.
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His name's Paul Lubansky. You're going to want to stay tuned.
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Let's begin, as we always do, with the sign of the cross.
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In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
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I'm just so happy to be here and to be able to tell you a little bit about the song and my story.
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That's awesome. We thank you for it. It was a beautiful, beautiful song.
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We get a lot of stuff sent to us, and sometimes it's good, and sometimes it's great,
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I think it moved many, many hearts. Thank you so much for that.
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Well, you and I talked a little bit before about my background, and it's a deep faith, okay?
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I was a raised Polish Catholic in a mostly Jewish community, if you can believe that.
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I was the minority, but created altar boy, all those things.
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So really connected to my faith, but just like a lot of people, as I got older, I strayed.
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I strayed a little bit and decided that, wait, maybe there's more to this life,
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and maybe I need to get back to God and the faith and the Holy Spirit and the power.
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So I started to do that with the help of my mom before she passed away, and then the music aspect
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And this concept of dear mom as I was in prayer and meditation came into my head.
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There was no plans for any of this, other than the fact that I was getting back to my faith,
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I think that God was asking me to do this, and all power and grace.
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I'm not taking credit for it because I think you probably agree that,
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and I know you probably, we all have an ego, but God's gift to you is whatever that gift is,
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creativity, but your gift back is to use that in a positive way.
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So dear God came, I mean, dear mom came into my mind, and I'm fortunate to collaborate with some
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incredibly talented studio musicians who are partners of mine and a team, and it's outside
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of Atlanta, and we have done a couple songs, and all my songs are meant to be inspirational.
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But when I approached, when I had this concept, there's another story in itself, how I connected
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with these people, because I was just teaching myself how to play, and I always wrote, I have
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a history of, I've written children's books, et cetera, and I said, I have to try to write
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They are men of faith, as deep as you can be, outside of Atlanta.
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And so when I introduced the concept that, of course we'll do this, of course we'll do
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dear mom, and dig this, the person, this beautiful young lady who sings the song is actually the
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And she was 19 at the time, when she did the song, and we kept her name out of it, as
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I think, you know, that may change, but it was just out of fear.
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You know, there's just so much going on in the world.
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But when the song came to me, and I wrote it in about 10 minutes, but listen to this,
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Within two weeks, it was written, recorded, and done a couple years ago.
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You know, I was on National Catholic Radio, et cetera.
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But for her to sing it the way she did, so beautifully, so eloquently, so, such a young
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age to get it, you feel it when you hear the song, right?
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And, you know, we did some simple, you know, piano, and then we added the strings later.
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I mean, I hope it's made a difference, and I think it has.
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And if it's saved one or two lives, you know, how many people can say that?
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I'm saying, I'm happy that the message came to me, passed through me, and everything was
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Paul, tell us a little bit about your story, where you went to, how you got there.
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So, you were raised in a devout Polish Catholic home.
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Where did you go from there, and how'd you come back?
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Well, you know, as I said, it was really amazing, because it's a Jewish community, right?
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So, it was 90% Jewish, and then it was very liberal-minded at the time.
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You know what busing is, where they, you know, where the government decided that the kids
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from the inner city would come and go to school with us, which was great.
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But yeah, this little Polish parish called Our Lady of Fatima is where I went.
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So, I actually married a beautiful Jewish woman.
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One of my children, one of my youngest sons actually went to College of the Holy Cross
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in Massachusetts, although he technically was Jewish, because we raised the kids Jewish.
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If you asked me about how I kind of got away from the Catholic faith, specifically, not
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from God, but the Catholic faith, and those teachings in general, it's because that's the
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So, what happened was, yeah, I got away from it.
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I mean, if you don't mind, I can read you something really quickly, and it'll explain.
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It's a new song, but this song is called, Dear Lord, Can We Begin Again?
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So, just to, if you don't mind, here's how it goes.
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Dear Lord, your power and grace, so magnificent, a mere thought can heal the sick and protect
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As a child, I was part of your flock, Catholic school and altar boy around the clock, but
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I lost my way and strayed as I allowed heretics to have their say.
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Now I need to come back home, revert back to your throne.
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See, my soul longs to share your powerful and loving message, so real, so omnipresent.
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And now, now I bow on bended knee with clear eyes and a full heart, I humbly offer this
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refrain that asks you on behalf of billions of mere mortals currently toiling on here on
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earth's terrain, dear Lord, can we begin again?
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But I also have another song called, God Please, which I had shared before, which I think you
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would love, it's just, it's again, you know, asking God to come here and heal us.
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So, Dear Mom was the first, God Please was the second, and these are Christian worship
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And in addition to that, as you may know, I've done probably 28 or other 30 songs that
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we've released, but they're all positive and inspirational.
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They're none of the, you know, sort of the crazy stuff you see in the music today.
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Tell us quickly where people can access what you have, but then I want to pivot back to
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a little more in depth into your story, just into what actually brought you back.
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What was the, if you can tell us what the event was that, or the circumstances that brought
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Well, the, you know, as I told you, I was telling the team that, you know, Dear Mom, I
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It's too, it's too important and to, you know, such a difficult subject.
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And, but so, a song like that is on Amazon and iTunes, but you cannot make money today
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unless you're touring and, you know, whatever, which I would never do.
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And that's really, I'm not even that good, good enough to do that.
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My partner sings lead on most of the songs, but I create the songs and music.
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So on YouTube, just go to the search and anyone can find, they can find God, please.
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And obviously, Dear Mom can be located on LSN TV and YouTube itself, because we originally
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So, and by the way, I think, so to answer your question at YouTube, Paul Lubansky, search
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all the songs and all the music, but I do believe Dear Mom is being shadow banned.
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I mean, I just, I absolutely believe that in my heart.
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You saw all the views in a short period of time that we received, which is fantastic.
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But it was up before and it got to about 10, 10 or 11,000 in just a week and then stopped.
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So isn't that, isn't that a little bit strange?
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You know, you know, I believe that it's being shadow banned.
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It doesn't go along with, you know, a big tech and what they believe.
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What it's meant is, however, I do want to share it.
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And I, hopefully it's being shared even more than we know.
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And I hope this video also leads to that song being shared and, and your other stuff, because
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I think we are so lacking in really, truly inspirational, but also so professionally and
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And I, I pray that all of our viewers will have a look at it and share it with friends
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And actually a third song is called now I see now I see what the Lord has sent to me.
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So it's that woman is not in my life right now.
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I'm, you know, I'm single, but I wrote the song called now I see to hopefully be able to
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give to someone someday that I have that bond with again.
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Uh, so three songs are Christian oriented again, dear mom, uh, God, please.
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And now I see, I do mention God and a lot of the other songs as well.
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I, it's the process of living John Henry and raising a family and trying to create a corporate
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And, um, as you heard in the song, uh, or in the lyrics, I had written you.
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I went through a tremendous amount of healing and that involved prayer.
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So, you know, and it's, you know, one of the lines is, you know, don't put me on no pedestal.
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Well, I couldn't have done that until I heal, you know, too much ego, too much, um, you know,
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And, you know, find pleasure on my own versus giving back.
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I can tell you, I wasn't into, I was in my fifties, early fifties before I, I healed
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and started to understand that, um, that framework, that foundation that was given to me,
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my Polish Catholic upbringing, um, was still in me and it needed to be, it needed to come up.
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By the way, you told my dad, you know, as I mentioned, I'm not, it's not a braggadocio thing,
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but incredibly famous and see, he's the role model for me.
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This is a guy that knew Sinatra, you know, just, um, everybody knew who he was, but he
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He gave money that technically should have gone to the family, to the church, to build a
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new church when it built down, when it burned down.
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And my mom, the same too, Elizabeth Danielewski, you know, that was her Polish, the woman that
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I think it's healing and praying and just trying to be a good person.
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But, you know, quite frankly, I've got my demons too.
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It's a, it's a real note of hope though, that, you know, you were raised by incredibly faithful
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parents who had the faith and stuck with the faith through hard circumstances and, and
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perhaps not being so supported, but, um, you know, were your parents alive to see your conversion?
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Well, yes, my, I mean, my mom, well, my dad passed away in 2010.
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And, and as a matter of fact, uh, um, and my mom, you know, four, five, four years after,
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but she saw it, you know, I would spend, it was one of those things where I got back to
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You know, I was in that generation, very rebellious, you know, and, uh, oh, my parents didn't do
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And, uh, I finally realized after raising my own children, you know, how difficult that
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I had two brothers and two sisters, five kids, you know, that we have five kids in the
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family and my dad, you know, traveling and this and that, and also battling alcoholism
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You know, I, it was very dysfunctional and very difficult.
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She, she was the one, she gave me some verses, um, that, um, uh, I think, uh, I know
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I have it here, but she did, she was the one who did it and she did see that and she
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But, you know, as a child, you know, she took us to the seminary.
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You know, there's this place called Dunsconis, not far from people, credible seminary, you
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Um, and, um, you know, like you said, tons of adversity.
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My sister died of heroin abuse and I watched that happen, but my parents were right there
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Never, you know, even my dad had also had his issues, but stopped and he saved lives
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That's another inspiration after his addiction, he fought it and beat it.
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Um, then he dedicated his life to saving other lives.
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So that's another huge inspiration, but that was all, um, uh, because of his faith.
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He never lost it and he always was giving back.
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And, uh, you know, as famous he was, he didn't have a, uh, an ego like I do.
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Um, my mom was very happy about that, you know?
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And so, uh, it drove me and she didn't really see the music part.
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It's the greatest, it's the greatest joy, um, to have your children live the faith
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Give us a last word, Paul, if you could, about living your life for Christ, uh, in the midst
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Um, and in an industry, in, in the music industry, of course, is not very Catholic or Christian
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Well, let me just say this, as far as the music industry, you know, this is a sidelight.
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And, uh, um, so, uh, but I understand where they're coming from.
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I live in Detroit and I'm, I'm not trying to become, uh, famous or rich.
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It's, it's, it's impossible, um, uh, to do that.
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But you asked the question, you know, um, I, there, there is no doubt that unless we, um,
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as I mean, the, when you ask all these, you need to ask what's going, what's wrong with
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the world, I I'm one of these guys and I wrote for many years.
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I was also a coach and, you know, uh, I, so I taught and I taught and I taught in acronyms
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or to be simple, uh, you know, to try to answer these complex, uh, situations simply so that
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But here's what I would say, unless we, as a human species, as a race, uh, get back to
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the idea that there is a higher power, that there is this God, this divine creator of creators,
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and that there is a force far more powerful than us and to, uh, adhere and acquiesce and
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admit to that so that we have our foundation of our family again, and faith and all those
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things, which made this wonderful country, the most benevolent in the world, our constitutional
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So it's, uh, I would say, and so that's what I'm trying to do is just make people aware.
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Uh, Max Planck was this, uh, German physicist and, you know, uh, won the Nobel Peace Prize
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You talk about the hypocrisy of what's happening.
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What he did is essentially said that after all my studies and all my years, I have to
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admit that there's a force, a power greater than what we can understand that moves those
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Um, however, he was, um, he said there was no God, and especially there isn't a Christian
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How do we, you know, how do we convince people that the jab is, I mean, it's, it's out there
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and, um, the faith and the proof and look, we live in an incredibly beautiful divine universe.
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So I think that we need to get people to understand that, but it starts with acknowledging that there's
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a force so much greater than us and it's God, it's, it's, um, it was, it's what can guide
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us and what can lead us to, uh, um, you know, hopefully back to some concept of civilization,
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You know, I mean, it's, it's just obscene, uh, what's going on.
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So this is my little part, um, the music and everything else, but I am very passionate
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about, about that and so happy that I did come back and yes, there are aspects of, uh,
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what's going on in the Catholic world that, but in general, the people are good and the
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people like you and LifeSite News are what, what keeps me going.
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And I, it's all divine that we connected because I think it's, it's just fantastic.
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Well, we will be sure to feature other videos as well, because so inspiring.
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And I, I think, uh, a lot of people have benefited from it.
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Go check out the comments, uh, under the video, even those few thousand on YouTube, you'll
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Thank you for what you do and, uh, keep serving faithfully.
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