The writers on this season of America are getting heavy-handed, getting a little on the nose. You see, in this season that we re all living through, the libs are no longer only implicitly worshiping Satan, they are overtly, explicitly worship Satan.
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00:02:16.320I don't remember Chinese spy balloons before Biden.
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00:05:21.920Yeah, 2023, a major television network, not cable, not satellite, not internet, major TV network, says we are ready to worship Satan tonight on the show.
00:05:39.740Back in 1952, when I Love Lucy was on CBS, and Lucy got pregnant, the network did not want her to appear pregnant on air.
00:05:53.980They finally caved in because I Love Lucy was so popular.
00:05:56.760But they said, you can never use the word pregnant.
00:05:59.620This is why there's that famous episode, the Lucy pregnancy episode, which is said, Lucy is enceinte.
00:06:07.000They use the French because they don't want to use the English because CBS said it was too scandalous to utter the word pregnant back in 1952.
00:06:16.720In 2023, CBS News will publicly bellow, hail Satan.
00:06:22.400But in 1952, you can't even use the word pregnant.
00:06:27.460Seems like things have changed a little bit.
00:06:29.220Seems like the culture has gotten a little more vulgar, a little more crass, a little bit more evil, more than a little bit more evil.
00:06:51.360Well, I think a lot of people honestly have kind of labeled what I stand for and what Sam stands for as religiously not cool.
00:07:05.440And I personally grew up wondering about religion and wanting to be a part of it, but then slowly realizing it doesn't want me to be a part of it.
00:07:13.660And so, yeah, it's a take on not being able to choose religion and not being able to, you know, live the way that people might want you to live.
00:07:23.880Because, you know, as a trans person, I'm kind of already not wanted in religion.
00:07:30.060So we were doing a take on that and it was kind of hellkeeper, Kim.
00:07:36.380But, yeah, it was so incredible that Madonna introduced it because Madonna is such a provocative and groundbreaking artist.
00:07:44.880And I think Sam and I definitely felt very inspired by Madonna in this one.
00:08:00.580The things that we do here in the physical world represent things in the metaphysical world.
00:08:04.920And so when you dance around pretending to have given yourself over to the devil, that is a symbol of something that's going on in the metaphysical world.
00:08:12.540And he says, Petrus says, I was always interested in religion, but religion didn't want me.
00:08:20.660I'm not surprised to hear him say that.
00:08:21.980Of course he's interested in religion.
00:08:23.860Of course the people who are the most ardent atheists are very, very interested in religion.
00:08:28.720Of course the people who are the most ardent, even more than atheists, Satanists or hedonists, are very interested in religion.
00:08:35.620You don't spend a lot of your time reacting against something that you don't care about.
00:10:13.140What you want is to behave exactly on your terms and force all of reality and force God himself to bend to your disordered perception of the world.
00:10:25.540And so you can't say, well, I'm a man, I think that I'm a woman, and if you don't affirm that I'm a woman, then you just don't want me in your religion.
00:10:34.500No, you're saying something that isn't true.
00:10:37.480And if religion is to have any merit at all, it has to be true.
00:10:42.360And so you can't make a demand that the truth itself become falsehood just to accommodate your disordered desires.
00:10:50.900In Paradise Lost, this is how Milton depicts Satan, is Satan says, well, the mind is its own place and can make a hell of heaven or heaven a hell.
00:10:59.520And Milton's Satan says, I would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
00:11:05.320And that's the very point that Petrus is making.
00:11:07.420And it sounds, I assume Petrus and Sam Smith think this is really novel and edgy and cool.
00:11:13.240Well, this is the oldest trick in the book.
00:11:17.300I mean, this is what happened in the Garden of Eden when Adam fell and said, oh, no, I'm going to disobey.
00:11:23.380I'm going to follow my own desires rather than God's desires.