The Michael Knowles Show - January 24, 2026


Attacks On Christian Churches EXPLAINED In 5 Mins


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5 minutes

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875

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48

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Misogyny

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A leftist mob attacked a church recently in the United States and forced Christians to leave. What does this have to do with Bitcoin? What does it have in common with the French Revolution and the Communist movement of the late 1800s and early 1900s?

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00:00:30.000 Recently, a leftist mob in Minneapolis invaded a church,
00:00:34.000 stopped the service, and harassed the Christian congregants
00:00:37.000 until they were forced to leave.
00:00:39.000 Many people were shocked by the antics.
00:00:42.000 The mob in this case said that they were protesting
00:00:45.000 the deportation of criminals
00:00:47.000 and the enforcement of federal immigration law.
00:00:50.000 So, why would they target a church?
00:00:53.000 The answer is simple.
00:00:55.000 Baptistists always target the church. 1.00
00:00:58.000 That has been true going all the way back
00:01:00.000 to the very origin of the political left
00:01:02.000 in the French Revolution.
00:01:04.000 The term first appeared in 1789
00:01:06.000 when members of the French National Assembly
00:01:08.000 divided themselves between the left
00:01:10.000 and the right of the hall.
00:01:12.000 As Baron de Goeville described,
00:01:14.000 we began to recognize each other.
00:01:16.000 Those who were loyal to religion and the king
00:01:19.000 took up position to the right of the chair
00:01:22.000 so as to avoid the shouts and oaths
00:01:25.000 and indecencies that enjoyed free reign in the opposing camp. 0.97
00:01:29.000 Almost a quarter millennium later, not much has changed.
00:01:33.000 After the leftists won the revolution,
00:01:35.000 they embarked on a campaign of de-Christianization, 0.57
00:01:38.000 destroying thousands of churches,
00:01:40.000 looting religious property,
00:01:42.000 and forcing priests and nuns to renounce their vows
00:01:45.000 when they weren't being murdered en masse.
00:01:47.000 When French socialists briefly overthrew the government again
00:01:50.000 and established the Paris Commune in 1871,
00:01:53.000 they quickly closed all churches in the city,
00:01:56.000 desecrated religious sites,
00:01:58.000 and executed the archbishop along with dozens of other clergy.
00:02:02.000 Churches fared even worse after the Russian Revolution
00:02:05.000 when the Bolsheviks implemented state atheism,
00:02:08.000 stole church property,
00:02:09.000 shuttered over 40,000 monasteries and churches,
00:02:12.000 and executed thousands of priests
00:02:14.000 through particularly sacrilegious methods
00:02:16.000 such as boiling in tar,
00:02:18.000 the consumption of melted lead in mock holy communion,
00:02:22.000 and crucifixion.
00:02:23.000 By that same time,
00:02:25.000 communists in Mexico had long sought to destroy the church
00:02:27.000 in that country.
00:02:29.000 And in 1921,
00:02:30.000 an employee of the president,
00:02:32.000 Luciano Perez Carpio,
00:02:34.000 infamously placed a bomb beneath the tilma
00:02:36.000 of Our Lady of Guadalupe,
00:02:38.000 a then 400-year-old garment
00:02:40.000 that had converted some 10 million natives to Christianity
00:02:44.000 thanks to what believers consider to be
00:02:46.000 a miraculous image of Mary.
00:02:48.000 The bomb exploded,
00:02:49.000 but the tilma,
00:02:51.000 which naturally ought to have disintegrated centuries earlier,
00:02:54.000 managed to survive intact,
00:02:57.000 even as the bomb destroyed the altar steps
00:03:00.000 and bent brass candlesticks.
00:03:02.000 After the smoke cleared,
00:03:03.000 a twisted brass crucifix was left appearing to hug the artifact,
00:03:09.000 as if to protect it.
00:03:10.000 Perhaps a second miracle.
00:03:12.000 Nonetheless,
00:03:13.000 Mexican leftists eventually did succeed at closing churches,
00:03:16.000 banning religious displays,
00:03:18.000 and executing hundreds of priests.
00:03:21.000 A few years later,
00:03:22.000 their communist cousins over in Spain
00:03:24.000 unleashed their own red terror against Christians, 0.94
00:03:27.000 destroying thousands of churches,
00:03:29.000 raping nuns, 0.83
00:03:30.000 and murdering upwards of 7,000 priests,
00:03:33.000 monks, and nuns,
00:03:34.000 often by burning them alive.
00:03:36.000 In the early days of the Spanish Civil War,
00:03:39.000 leftist regime supporters posed for a photograph
00:03:42.000 firing rifles at a statue of Jesus in a mock execution.
00:03:46.000 They blew up what remained of that monument with dynamite the following month.
00:03:51.000 From the end of World War II until the fall of the Berlin Wall,
00:03:54.000 leftists in Central and Eastern Europe imposed atheism,
00:03:57.000 sending tens of thousands of clergy to prisons and labor camps,
00:04:01.000 where they were frequently tortured and killed.
00:04:03.000 But all of that was child's play compared to the Chinese communists of the era, 0.80
00:04:08.000 who imprisoned and killed an estimated 700,000 Christians,
00:04:11.000 including tens of thousands of priests and pastors,
00:04:14.000 and publicly executed missionaries.
00:04:16.000 In North Korea during that time,
00:04:18.000 the Kim regime sent hundreds of thousands of Christians to labor camps
00:04:21.000 to be tortured and starved.
00:04:23.000 In Vietnam, communists shuttered churches and imprisoned clerics.
00:04:27.000 In Cambodia, communists under Pol Pot
00:04:29.000 endeavored to exterminate religion entirely, 0.99
00:04:32.000 as they claimed to reset history.
00:04:35.000 History which had previously been measured in the years A.D.
00:04:40.000 Anno Domini, the year of our Lord, resetting it to year zero.
00:04:46.000 The Cambodian communists borrowed the idea of setting the calendar to year zero
00:04:50.000 from the French revolutionaries,
00:04:52.000 who had abolished Christian dating and declared year one on the first Vendémire. 0.69
00:04:58.000 And how could the French left do otherwise?
00:05:01.000 For years, the French had been reading Diderot,
00:05:04.000 who proclaimed,
00:05:05.000 quote,
00:05:06.000 Man will only be free when the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
00:05:11.000 And Voltaire, who said of the church,
00:05:14.000 Crush the infamous thing. 0.98
00:05:16.000 And later, Jacques Hebert,
00:05:18.000 who demanded that the National Assembly, quote,
00:05:21.000 Declare openly that the priests are your enemies.
00:05:25.000 Hebert would go on to lose his head in the reign of terror that he had championed.
00:05:29.000 That's how leftist revolutions end if they're not stopped where they begin,
00:05:33.000 which always seems to be with a mob taking aim at a church.