The Michael Knowles Show - April 09, 2026


Ep. 1949 - Christianity Is NOT Compatible With Socialism


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A sitting member of Congress claims the U.S. would be unglued and the world on fire if we knew what the government knows about UFOs. And that Congressman is coming on this show momentarily. Tucker s latest guest claims that Christianity is actually socialist. And a Canadian member of parliament drops a weird sex initialism.

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00:00:57.720 A sitting member of Congress claims the U.S. would be unglued and the world on fire if we
00:01:05.180 knew what the government knows about UFOs. And that congressman is coming on this show
00:01:09.760 momentarily. Tucker's latest guest claims that Christianity is actually socialist.
00:01:16.540 And a Canadian member of parliament drops a new weird sex initialism.
00:01:19.860 LGBTQIA plus is out. MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA plus is in. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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00:03:13.980 that is donewithdebt.com today. You know, of all those crazy things I just named,
00:03:21.180 the idea that we have human extraterrestrial breeding programs would rock the whole world
00:03:28.780 if we knew about it, or the MMLGBQLP, whatever the new sex acronym is in Canada, and the idea 0.55
00:03:36.860 that Christianity is socialist. Of all three of those, I think the craziest one is the idea that 0.74
00:03:41.680 Christianity is socialist. So anyway, we'll get to that claim in a moment. First of all, I am so 0.87
00:03:45.420 pleased to be joined by Tim Burchett, Congressman and man of the hour, a very popular US congressman,
00:03:55.280 but also one of the congressmen who's focused on some of these UFO, UAP extraterrestrial claims.
00:04:03.480 First of all, Congressman Burchett, thank you very much for making time to come on the show.
00:04:07.080 thank you for two things one having me on the show and two for saying my name right you will
00:04:13.220 not make my highlight film on people that have said my name wrong so you know congressman i
00:04:19.060 have noticed for for 10 years now i go on tv shows podcasts whatever and people cannot pronounce my
00:04:26.280 name either they say there's a michael no it's like they have marbles in their mouth so i totally
00:04:30.820 empathize. And I'm glad that I was able to articulate your name properly. I, Congressman,
00:04:38.900 I've been watching all of your clips, all of these interviews you've been doing. I'm pals with some
00:04:43.560 of your colleagues on the UFO panel in the House of Representatives. I've been following this for
00:04:49.580 a long time. And then your former colleague, Matt Gaetz, came out and he said that there is a human
00:04:56.200 extraterrestrial hybrid breeding program. And I said, you know what? Look, I've gotten along
00:05:02.280 great with Matt Gaetz over the years, but this is completely bonkers. I don't buy it. I don't
00:05:07.560 believe in aliens. No way, no how. But then you've been making the rounds saying some of these claims
00:05:14.520 are not as crazy as they might appear. That's true. Matt was actually briefed by a member of
00:05:21.260 our military in uniform on that subject. But, you know, I've heard a lot of wild things. I've been
00:05:30.020 in, let's just say, I've been briefed by a lot of high-ranking officials. And the thing I want
00:05:38.360 to warn people about is there's a word called PSYOP, or two words, I guess. And these agencies,
00:05:45.960 A lot of them were just chasing dollars, and they would laugh at me when I would talk to them about UFOs or UAPs, which is a complete distraction.
00:05:55.280 I just go UFOs.
00:05:57.600 And now they've seen that the polling population of this great country believes that we are not alone, and there is something extra out there.
00:06:09.360 And so now they see dollars.
00:06:11.320 and so now all of a sudden a lot of these alphabet agencies are putting stuff out i would warn people
00:06:17.820 if you don't see it with your own dadgum eyes don't believe it and it's and to me it's not
00:06:22.720 about little green man or flying saucers it's about what are we spending tens of millions if
00:06:28.800 not billions of dollars researching something and why do they say they don't exist but yet every
00:06:35.260 dadgum department except the irs maybe they do i don't know but um i don't want to get the irs
00:06:41.240 ticked off at me just yet. It's getting close. Why are they all investigating this object that
00:06:50.000 doesn't exist? And why do I sit in a secure briefing and this little punk with a man bun 0.99
00:06:55.400 comes in and tells me that he has no data points on something? I said, well, Dad Gummits,
00:07:00.740 let me give you an example. And I gave him an example of a nuclear facility that shut down
00:07:05.880 literally after they saw these UFOs flying over it.
00:07:09.520 It's a documented case.
00:07:11.420 You can go on news reports.
00:07:13.480 I mean, legitimate news people have talked about it.
00:07:16.620 So, you know, it's a phenomena
00:07:19.500 and we need to get to the bottom of it.
00:07:21.300 I've talked to the president about it.
00:07:23.660 And, you know, and also one other thing that ought to,
00:07:26.260 it's kind of a chilling effect to me
00:07:28.160 is when I'm talking to one of these
00:07:29.960 little gutless bureaucrats that's not elected
00:07:32.180 and they tell me the president
00:07:34.160 is on a need-to-know basis.
00:07:35.880 And that should scare you right there.
00:07:39.300 But I have seen some things and talked to some people about this issue that would keep you awake at night.
00:07:49.400 Congressman, you mentioned the IRS here.
00:07:51.500 I guess one of the greatest arguments against the existence of extraterrestrial aliens is if they exist, the IRS would find a way to tax them.
00:07:59.020 So that's one mark against the aliens.
00:08:01.200 On the point, though, of these unidentified objects, obviously, there are unidentified flying objects.
00:08:08.420 There's no question about that.
00:08:09.440 And it seems to me that speculation falls into three camps.
00:08:13.540 Your colleague, Anna Paulina Luna, said in an interview that she thinks that these beings are not necessarily physical.
00:08:21.940 So that would seem to fall into the camp that I find myself in, that the vice president apparently finds himself in, as he said in an interview to Benny Johnson.
00:08:29.700 that he, to put it bluntly, he thinks the aliens are demons. And then there are some people like
00:08:35.220 my colleague, Matt Walsh, who thinks the aliens are little green men or Mars attacks or something
00:08:40.420 like that. And then there is a third camp, which says that the UFOs are either our own technology
00:08:46.880 or China or something, you know, a terrestrial adversary. And I was speaking to a member of
00:08:52.140 Congress and I said, you know, I'm not sure what's scarier, if the aliens are demons or if the aliens
00:08:57.080 or Chinese? Because if the Chinese have this kind of technology and we don't, 0.92
00:09:01.240 that's pretty scary to me. Can you weigh in on? Yeah, let's start at the top of the last one 0.67
00:09:07.940 there, the Chinese. If the Chinese or we had that, there wouldn't be an Iranian conflict right now 0.76
00:09:14.340 and China would own the world. I mean, they pretty much do. They own Congress because we're 0.98
00:09:19.240 a bunch of gutless people and we allow the K Street lobbyists to run our world, but I'm not
00:09:25.240 better. And if the Russians had it, Putin, he would fly a UFO down, land it on the front steps
00:09:35.280 of the White House and get out and wrestle a unicorn or something. And so I don't go that
00:09:43.980 route. And what I do think is it's a combination of things. I think, if you allow me to expound,
00:09:50.840 if that's okay.
00:09:51.740 Please, please do it.
00:09:53.280 Sorry, I'm jumping around here.
00:09:54.680 I'm in a car.
00:09:55.440 We got our time zones fixed up.
00:09:57.780 That's totally my fault.
00:09:58.960 So, but I have,
00:09:59.640 I'm going to a meeting.
00:10:00.740 You're a busy guy.
00:10:01.620 I appreciate it.
00:10:02.920 No, brother.
00:10:03.680 It's an honor being on with you.
00:10:06.020 Now, in the spiritual realm,
00:10:10.060 I don't really have a grasp on that.
00:10:12.600 I'm a Christian.
00:10:13.280 I'm a born again Christian.
00:10:14.820 I'm a very imperfect one though.
00:10:16.620 I mean, I'm on the forgiveness
00:10:18.340 end of the scale.
00:10:19.160 I always tell my buddies.
00:10:20.060 Well, when all my buddies get to heaven, they're going to look over in the corner and they say,
00:10:24.560 Dad, how did the person get in here?
00:10:26.280 God must have lowered his standards.
00:10:28.100 But anyway, and I'm not worried about that because as a Christian, I don't mess with the demonic element,
00:10:35.400 but I do know that I'm protected because I am a Christian.
00:10:40.200 And as far as all the other goes, I think we've got something in one of these labs.
00:10:47.140 And what they've done is they put it in a, and it's not FOIA-able, and it's Freedom of Information Act, because they put it in a non-government corporation.
00:11:01.860 Because as a congressman, I can FOIA anybody, but they don't have to come.
00:11:05.620 I can only FOIA government or government, more or less government-associated entities.
00:11:11.200 So like Ford Boater Company, I want to find out, you know, why are they going on something else?
00:11:17.420 You know, why are they doing electricity?
00:11:18.640 I could pull you, but they're not going to respond.
00:11:20.700 They don't have to respond.
00:11:21.980 But say the FBI or somebody else, they generally have to respond at some point.
00:11:27.220 So what they've done is they've gotten this material or a craft or a humanoid or whatever it is,
00:11:34.460 and they put it off on these government contractors.
00:11:37.620 So there's probably five or six of them that we know.
00:11:40.820 So they're, you know, they're the major, the big boys.
00:11:44.240 Raytheon, that sort of thing.
00:11:45.600 Yeah, the war pimps, the industrial war complex, or I call them war pimps, which they don't like it when I do that. 0.58
00:11:52.940 So I'm calling them war pimps because I don't care.
00:11:55.840 I'm over it.
00:11:57.120 They're all a bunch of portfolio warriors.
00:11:59.160 And I got an 18-year-old daughter and I don't want to see her going overseas fighting any dadgum war.
00:12:03.780 But they do this and it's so compartmentalized that nobody really knows what the other one's doing.
00:12:10.820 Case in point, I knock on doors.
00:12:13.080 That's how Tim Burchett gets elected.
00:12:14.900 The big boys don't shower me with money to get elected.
00:12:18.600 They always support me the day after the election, you know? 0.84
00:12:21.540 And I get $25 in a Bible verse from a sweet little lady.
00:12:25.740 That's the people that elect Tim Burchett, and I dig that.
00:12:28.880 So I'm knocking on doors.
00:12:30.760 That's how I get elected.
00:12:31.800 And I'm out in the Farragut community, which is west of Knoxville in Knox County.
00:12:40.820 And this guy comes to the door and he's got his flag out.
00:12:43.180 I said, were you a veteran?
00:12:44.200 And he kind of said, no, no, I really wasn't.
00:12:46.360 And I said, and he was sort of acted like he was almost ashamed.
00:12:49.640 And I said, is it really what?
00:12:51.140 Because you're an older gentleman.
00:12:52.320 I said, what'd you do during the war?
00:12:53.600 And he said, well, actually I worked at Oak Ridge.
00:12:56.320 And I said, you know, my daddy was on Okinawa
00:12:59.220 when they thought they were going to invade.
00:13:01.420 Daddy fought on Peleliu and Okinawa.
00:13:03.240 He's in the Marine Corps.
00:13:04.220 He said they thought they were going to have to invade Japan.
00:13:08.680 I said, and if he were here, he'd hug your neck and thank you.
00:13:13.740 And the guy said, you know, the funny thing is, and this is what I go back to the UFO thing.
00:13:17.980 He says, my wife worked with me at Oak Ridge as well on the nuclear project.
00:13:23.220 And because, you know, the nukes, if we hadn't dropped the nuclear bomb, we would have, the nuclear bombs, we would have had to invade Japan.
00:13:28.800 And my dad probably would have died. 0.70
00:13:31.480 And so, and my life would be totally different now.
00:13:34.060 But my point in this is that his wife, who worked with him at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, he was married to at the time.
00:13:44.020 He did not know what she did.
00:13:46.180 It was that compartmentalized.
00:13:48.520 And that is exactly what you're seeing now.
00:13:50.320 But now everybody's got a book, going to do a book deal.
00:13:53.820 They got a computer, they got a web page or something, and they leak it out.
00:13:57.080 So what's happened is Roswell, New Mexico, whether you argue something did or didn't, I tend to believe something did happen there.
00:14:06.560 I don't, I think I have a general idea.
00:14:08.740 But anyway, the information they gathered there then has been put, farmed out to one of these corporations.
00:14:17.420 And anybody that had any association with it now is dead.
00:14:20.920 And that is the best compartmentalization you can have.
00:14:24.060 They've got stuff.
00:14:25.260 They don't know where it came from.
00:14:27.080 or who brought it to them but they've got it and so this it and and the technology is so advanced
00:14:34.360 in my opinion from what i've heard it would be like and i'm a motorcycle guy so if you brought
00:14:38.840 somebody a brand new indian chief or a big harley fat boy or something and you dropped it on the
00:14:45.000 people that that came over here on the mayflower it'd just be a bright shiny object dude they might
00:14:51.720 they might one day figure out how to start it they're probably not going to get the fuel
00:14:56.200 because the octane they sure as heck couldn't clean the injectors um you know they they wouldn't know
00:15:01.720 how to change a spark plug any of that and that is exactly what i think has happened to us with
00:15:07.400 this stuff now is it interdimensional or these there's a law of um and i always forget which
00:15:14.440 one it is it's a it's a it's a scientific law that it's just basically if something about
00:15:20.280 I've been over here, over there, been proven, and all your scientific people will be texting 0.97
00:15:30.440 and saying, that idiot is such and such, and I just can't remember what it is. 0.99
00:15:33.940 But I always want to write it down. 1.00
00:15:35.800 I tell my folks in D.C., remember what this is.
00:15:37.780 But anyway, and to me, that proves there's a God, because science proves a God, because
00:15:43.260 it can be here and instantaneously be over here.
00:15:46.060 And so if that is a capability that something can travel like that, that would prove, you know, light years, if something travels light years, it's just not possible that you could survive.
00:15:59.700 You would need nourishment.
00:16:01.620 You know, the closest planets are, you know, 1,000 light years.
00:16:06.340 It travels at the speed of light, takes 1,000 years to get here.
00:16:09.500 It's just the friction and all that is not possible for us as we know it.
00:16:13.740 So, all that combined, to me, I just think that there's a lot of confusion and there's a lot of misinformation out there.
00:16:23.280 And the only dadgum person that's going to be able to put this out is Donald J. Trump.
00:16:28.660 And he has to, because you're not going to get the scientific, you're not going to get these bureaucrats that are know-it-alls.
00:16:36.340 and everybody's, and, and, and there's a, uh, uh, uh, economic component to it. And there's also
00:16:45.400 an arrogance component, which is what Washington, uh, Washington's about power, control and money.
00:16:51.880 Right. So I had a disclosure bill. It was two pages long. You can tell I'm not much into all
00:16:58.300 the BS. I don't need a bunch of weather fours. And, you know, and when I go into questioning, 0.93
00:17:03.600 I don't talk about what a great day it is and how this person is this.
00:17:07.740 I just go straight for the juggler.
00:17:10.000 And so my bill for disclosure was two pages.
00:17:14.140 Well, the UFO community and everybody and all the bureaucrats
00:17:17.700 love the Senate version by Chuck Schumer.
00:17:20.400 Oh, Chuck Schumer's on board.
00:17:22.040 He was the ranked, the number one most powerful member of the Senate.
00:17:25.660 And he couldn't get the bill, but I'm throwing up air quotes.
00:17:28.900 He couldn't pass it.
00:17:30.680 He couldn't pass.
00:17:31.520 And that's total BS.
00:17:33.600 you know, he can make it rain and we can make it rain right now.
00:17:38.060 So it's only the president really who could get this done. Two last questions before I let you go.
00:17:44.680 One, do you think that we will have disclosure of whatever information we have regarding the UFOs?
00:17:50.020 And two, just something you mentioned just now, what do you think happened at Roswell?
00:17:56.140 No, we will not have disclosure. I don't think so. I just don't. I think it's too deep and I
00:18:02.940 think it's too it's too strong and they're going to claim military intelligence you know it's like
00:18:09.980 it weakens our military which is what the Schumer bill did and so anyway no okay no we're not gonna
00:18:17.160 ever get it they don't want it out and I don't think I'll have it on this side of eternity maybe 0.99
00:18:22.160 my daughter's generation will hear something but I I just don't I'm gonna keep busting their ass on 0.91
00:18:27.520 it though don't get me wrong I'm gonna keep fighting I'm a flagrant fence swinger dude I 0.91
00:18:32.220 swing for the fan every dadgum time and i'm sorry what was your second question brother well you
00:18:36.980 mentioned you you think you have an idea of what happened at roswell probably the most famous
00:18:41.220 incident of ufos do you uh what do you think happened and i'll tell you how i got it i was
00:18:47.320 um i used to have a truck and trailer business and i was putting this guy's uh trailer hitch on
00:18:52.960 and um and i remember he had a jeep and this was probably i don't know 20 years ago and he was and
00:18:59.980 he was out in the shop. He was smoking a cigarette. And I looked at his license plate and it said New
00:19:04.680 Mexico. I was a state senator in Tennessee. This was years ago. And I said, hey, New Mexico. I go,
00:19:11.560 you ever heard of Roswell? And he said, yeah. And he goes, my dad was in the Army Air Corps.
00:19:18.760 And see, the Army Air Corps preceded the Air Force. And in 47, when Roswell, I think, occurred,
00:19:24.360 we still had an army air corps and uh and i then i then my ears perked up because i realized this
00:19:30.960 guy knew what he was talking about because i knew a lot as studied military that is in the pacific
00:19:36.160 my mama flew an airplane during the second world war so i knew a little bit about the air corps
00:19:40.280 and um and he said i said i said yeah i said you ever heard about that ufo thing he goes
00:19:47.400 as a matter of fact my dad worked at that base i was an arm uh you know army brat whatever you
00:19:53.060 call it air army air corps brat and he i said really he said yeah he said we always thought
00:19:59.840 that it was what we'd heard and saw was it there was an explosion in the air so apparently
00:20:07.120 two craft hit each other and there's a documented case of a very similar in a time in that time
00:20:14.660 period of a crash somewhere else in the world maybe russia or something else and i can't remember all
00:20:20.260 the details, but it was a long distance away. So you'd think something traveling at supersonic
00:20:25.140 speeds, you know, it'd be over there pretty quick. And he said, and that was it. And he said,
00:20:30.060 all the other stuff was, was a big cover up, you know, and they had this Air Force officer. I
00:20:35.920 remember in the nineties or something, and it was like case closed and he was a smart aleck and he
00:20:41.360 was fat and he was doing this press conference. And I remember my daddy and I were watching it.
00:20:46.340 Daddy said, yeah, I don't buy that.
00:20:48.820 I don't buy that at all. 1.00
00:20:50.220 That guy was an arrogant jerk. 1.00
00:20:52.660 And so, yeah, I think there was a mid-air collision. 1.00
00:20:56.040 I think there was a cover-up.
00:20:57.580 I mean, the press, the Army put out, saucer recovered.
00:21:02.300 Now, how do you go from a hot air balloon to saucer recovered?
00:21:06.520 And they're saying, oh, we were covering up because we didn't want the Russians to know we had this dadgum hot air balloon. 0.72
00:21:14.720 I mean, give me a freaking break. 0.53
00:21:16.340 you know, a hotter, are you kidding me? They were, they knew we had, uh, when, when Truman was,
00:21:22.160 was that, um, uh, was it Potsdam or wherever it was? Um, when, and after Roosevelt had died and
00:21:28.960 Stalin was there and Stalin knew we'd already detonated an atomic bomb because they had people 0.51
00:21:35.840 on the ground there. Listen, it's saying, do not believe the government, do not trust them.
00:21:41.180 I don't care what they, I don't care if it's that. I'm with you, Congressman. That is my,
00:21:45.180 I would say that is my political gut instinct, is when the government seems to really want me
00:21:51.260 to believe something, I say, there's got to be a lot more to the story. Congressman, I greatly
00:21:56.260 appreciate your making the time, especially on the road amid everything else. And we'll see what
00:22:03.640 happens. I think you're probably right on disclosure, but who knows? Maybe they will
00:22:07.640 disclose it. The world will become unglued, and we won't sleep it ever again. Good to see you,
00:22:13.460 It's an honor, brother. It's a real pleasure being on with you. What kind of cigars do you
00:22:19.180 smoke? This is providential, Congressman. This is my very own cigar, Mayflower cigars.
00:22:24.880 You just mentioned the Mayflower. I think that that coincidence has to do with even more cosmic
00:22:33.080 forces than the aliens. I think it goes up even higher than that. But we'll have to get you some,
00:22:37.060 Congressman. I would very much look forward to a cigar and hearing more about the things that
00:22:41.480 you won't say on air. For next time. Thank you, brother. I'd love to talk to you. See you back.
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00:24:13.780 The congressman mentions Mayflower. I'm smoking a Mayflower cigar right here.
00:24:17.480 I'm smoking this Mayflower Dawn Churchill because today is Winston Churchill Day.
00:24:22.040 Today in 1963, President Kennedy and the Congress gave Winston Churchill honorary
00:24:26.860 American citizenship. So I'm sitting in the makeup room preparing to light my Mayflower
00:24:31.140 Dawn Churchill. And I said, wait a second, Churchill, his mother was American. And I'm
00:24:35.860 pretty sure I remember reading that Churchill was a descendant of the Mayflower. That's a kind of
00:24:40.700 funny coincidence. Hey, let me just Google who his ancestor was. I find out moments before I
00:24:47.960 light up my Mayflower Dawn Churchill on Winston Churchill Day, that Winston Churchill is my cousin.
00:24:55.560 You can see the resemblance. Churchill and I both descend from Dr. Samuel Fuller on the Mayflower.
00:25:02.300 So I'm smoking a Churchill Mayflower cigar, a cigar named both after him and our shared family.
00:25:08.720 Okay, I'm going to table the UFO stuff for a second and get back to more spiritual matters 0.74
00:25:14.040 because I think the aliens are demons anyway. There's a guest who just went on Tucker's show
00:25:19.580 and went completely viral all over the internet. This guy's name is Nathan Apfel.
00:25:25.120 And he made a claim that I find much more shocking, preposterous, and disturbing than any of the UFO claims.
00:25:35.520 This guy claimed that Christianity at its core is socialist.
00:25:42.400 And I would actually argue, and this is a bold statement, the Democratic Republic is the greatest government experiment in the history of humanity.
00:25:51.620 I would say that.
00:25:52.500 I've enjoyed it.
00:25:53.240 You've enjoyed it?
00:25:53.780 Yeah, so we enjoy it.
00:25:54.600 I love America.
00:25:56.100 You love America.
00:25:56.980 I do. 0.87
00:25:58.480 Capitalism should not be anywhere near Christianity. 0.68
00:26:02.000 You think?
00:26:03.720 Christianity is more, and I don't like the word socialist with the weight it carries, 0.79
00:26:09.900 but Christianity is socialism at its core.
00:26:13.320 Non-authoritarian.
00:26:16.040 It's the marker to build social capital.
00:26:19.280 You look at that early Church of Acts and it transformed Rome within a couple hundred years.
00:26:23.680 the greatest superpower of its time to where Constantine was like, I'm a Christian hanging
00:26:27.480 out with these dudes. They had no money. They had no buildings, but somehow the love of their
00:26:32.760 neighbor transformed the greatest superpower of its time. That's dangerous. Okay. So what this
00:26:39.480 guy just said is completely, totally, unequivocally, without exception, wrong, totally wrong and crazy.
00:26:51.520 Now, look, he's not a theologian.
00:26:53.020 He's a filmmaker.
00:26:54.600 So I don't know how seriously he takes religion.
00:26:57.780 I don't know how much he's thought about this.
00:26:59.200 But in any case, he's made an egregious error by saying that Christianity is socialist. 0.93
00:27:04.920 And it's tragic because he could have made a good point.
00:27:08.160 There is a good point that he could have made, but he didn't.
00:27:11.980 The way I know that Christianity is not socialist is on the one hand,
00:27:15.760 we have this guy, Nathan Apfel, who says Christianity at its core is socialist.
00:27:19.820 On the other hand, we have blessed Pope Pius IX, who describes socialism as a wicked theory that
00:27:25.600 would, quote, overthrow the entire order of human affairs. Pope Leo XIII calls socialism a hideous
00:27:31.460 deformity of the civil society of men and almost its ruin, calls socialists a seditious society.
00:27:37.360 Pope Pius XI says that socialism is fundamentally contrary to Christian truth,
00:27:42.540 says that socialism is based nevertheless on a theory of human society peculiar to itself and
00:27:47.680 irreconcilable with true Christianity. Religious socialism, Christian socialism are contradictory
00:27:55.200 terms. No one can be at the same time a good Catholic and a true socialist.
00:28:00.680 Pope John XXIII, who's actually a pretty liberal pope, unlike Pius IX, who started out liberal,
00:28:07.000 became very, very conservative. Pope Leo XIII, who was kind of, he appeals to both the left and
00:28:13.720 the right, but he's more of a conservative figure. Then Pope Pius XI, very conservative.
00:28:19.640 Pope John XXIII is considered a more liberal pope. He said in no uncertain terms,
00:28:23.780 no Catholic could subscribe even to moderate socialism.
00:28:28.280 Socialism is anathema from the Christian perspective. I could go on. I could quote 0.61
00:28:32.620 Pope Paul, St. Paul VI, St. John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI. You get the point.
00:28:38.580 No, Christianity is not in any sense socialist.
00:28:44.000 It is a major theological and historical misunderstanding that would lead anyone to say that.
00:28:52.340 Now, the point that Tucker's guest could have made that is worth pointing out is that
00:28:58.460 there are problems with capitalism too.
00:29:02.420 It's not that we say Christianity is not socialist, therefore it is entirely capitalist.
00:29:06.740 That is not the case. There is an important aspect of capitalism for Christianity.
00:29:15.980 You see this in the writings of Pope Leo XIII. You see this reaffirmed by John Paul II in
00:29:21.240 Centesimus Annus on the 100th anniversary of Pope Leo XIII's encyclical, Rerum Novarum.
00:29:28.220 Capitalism, which is just to say private property and markets, can be a good thing.
00:29:33.220 John Paul II said that free markets are the most efficient way to allocate goods around society.
00:29:38.700 And Pope Leo XIII went further to say that people have a right to their private property.
00:29:45.380 The socialists and the communists say you have no right whatsoever to your private property.
00:29:49.480 Leo XIII says, no, you do have a right to private property. However, this is the crucial part.
00:29:54.840 It is not an absolute right because of something that Christians call the universal destination of
00:30:01.360 goods. That is to say that created goods are for ultimately humanity. However, it is important as
00:30:09.180 a matter of dignity, as a matter of the efficient allocation of resources, as a matter of
00:30:15.560 functioning societies, that we have private property. But it's a conditional right. It's
00:30:23.800 conditioned on the notion that there is, in fact, a universal destination of goods.
00:30:28.200 So what we would say is not three cheers for capitalism.
00:30:32.320 We would say two cheers for capitalism.
00:30:34.720 Capitalism is good, but we don't want the tail to wag the dog.
00:30:38.780 We're not a society.
00:30:40.140 We're not human beings living in service of an economic market.
00:30:44.440 However, the economy is to be arranged in such a way that is conducive to human flourishing.
00:30:51.120 Socialism gets no cheers. 0.94
00:30:52.760 Socialism is wicked, evil, totally contrary to the Christian faith.
00:30:57.360 People who think Christianity is socialist just don't get it.
00:31:00.360 You know, they're not going to make it.
00:31:01.760 However, there are critiques of pure capitalism, laissez-faire capitalism,
00:31:07.120 hyper-individualist capitalism that are legitimate from a Christian perspective.
00:31:11.540 But folks, let's not be so contrarian that we're going to pretend that socialism goes
00:31:16.280 along with Christianity.
00:31:17.700 Quite the opposite.
00:31:18.940 Socialism and communism, arising from false premises about human nature, have been enemies
00:31:23.860 of the church from day one.
00:31:26.140 Okay, speaking of Christianity, great news. 0.94
00:31:28.840 Conversions way, way up, and the libs fighting Christians tooth and nail. 0.94
00:31:35.320 Catholic nuns now being punished.
00:31:38.940 Catholic nuns who are caring for terminally ill, poor people being punished 0.96
00:31:43.040 because they won't accept transgenderism. 0.77
00:31:46.180 And a new trans initialism comes out in Canada.
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00:33:00.620 Pure Talk. We've seen percolations of this story coming up for months, even years, that
00:33:07.960 conversions, baptisms, Christianity, and Catholicism specifically, way, way up.
00:33:14.500 Well, now we have the numbers after Easter Sunday, after a lot of people received into the church.
00:33:18.100 In the United States, adult conversions were up 38%, 38% after 2025 in which conversions were
00:33:28.920 already way, way up. There is something happening. It is happening broadly to religion. New atheism
00:33:36.100 deader than disco. Religious faith is back because new atheism is dumb and indefensible, 1.00
00:33:41.960 and it's not even as good as the old atheism, which is also dumb and indefensible. 0.99
00:33:45.740 whereas religion speaks to the eternal questions and the eternal longings of man and eternal truths. 0.80
00:33:52.180 And Catholicism in particular is way, way up. Why is Catholicism in particular way, way up?
00:33:57.800 I've mentioned on the show before, Alexei de Tocqueville, who wrote Democracy in America, 0.61
00:34:01.240 the greatest analysis of American democracy ever. He writes it around 1830. Alexei de Tocqueville
00:34:07.300 predicted that even though America is a Protestant country, it would tend in two directions as time
00:34:12.500 went on. It would tend toward atheism on the one hand and toward Catholicism on the other.
00:34:17.460 And the reason, Tocqueville said, is because in democracies, you heard Tucker's guest actually
00:34:24.880 say that democratic Republican government is the greatest form of government ever.
00:34:28.580 That's in itself a dubious claim, but we'll leave that for another time.
00:34:32.440 Tocqueville observed that if you're going to have democracy, people under democracy are going to
00:34:36.100 want to throw off all authority, including religious authority, so they're going to become
00:34:39.660 atheists. However, if they are going to accept religious authority at all, because man is a
00:34:44.500 religious creature, you can't get away from those eternal questions. If he's going to accept
00:34:47.680 religious authority, he wants it to be uniform and universal, which is what you get in Catholicism.
00:34:53.520 There's a distinction between the clergy and the laity, perhaps, but among the laity,
00:34:58.660 everybody's equal. And so he saw, not just because of migration, not just because there
00:35:03.360 were Irish coming into America and Germans coming into America, those mass waves of
00:35:07.280 immigration actually didn't happen for years after Tocqueville published Democracy in America.
00:35:12.800 What Tocqueville was seeing was something intrinsic to, in the nature of American democracy,
00:35:18.540 democracy generally, that would tend toward Catholicism. That's one reason. The other 0.66
00:35:24.040 reason is that man is a liturgical creature. And a lot of modern Protestantism, not high church
00:35:29.400 Protestantism, not the Presbyterians and the Anglicans and the Episcopalians, but more of the
00:35:34.620 the low church, evangelical, Baptist, non-denominational, capital N, capital D,
00:35:39.640 that kind of Protestantism is less liturgical. They don't have rites and rituals. They often
00:35:45.300 don't have icons. It's much more personalist. It's much more emotivist. And some people like
00:35:51.280 that. I'm not even knocking your tastes or your preferences. I'm just pointing out, man,
00:35:56.540 because we're embodied creatures, we're liturgical creatures. We're creatures of habit.
00:36:01.360 we do things with our bodies, and we do things in patterns, and we do things in cycles and in
00:36:08.800 habits. And so liturgical religion is going to speak to that. We've neglected our physicality
00:36:14.900 for so long. You saw that peak, I think, during the transgender moment where we said our bodies 0.90
00:36:18.860 have nothing to do with who we really are. And I think it's no coincidence that that year was the 0.99
00:36:23.700 turning point. And after that madness had passed, you saw a huge tick up, specifically in liturgical
00:36:30.440 religion. And then the other reason is that subjectivism is exhausted. We've been quoting
00:36:34.200 a lot of popes today. Pope Benedict XVI talked about the poison of subjectivism,
00:36:40.420 this tyranny of subjectivism that had overtaken the West, where we don't really know if anything's
00:36:44.960 true or false. And it doesn't just go back to the 1960s. It goes back much earlier. Really,
00:36:48.900 it goes back to Descartes, Rene Descartes, who said, I think therefore I am. And what he concluded
00:36:54.580 was that the only thing that we can really know for certain is that we think things. In other words,
00:36:59.700 the only certain knowledge that we have is what's banging around in our own head,
00:37:03.380 that we don't necessarily interact with reality as such. That was a major break from the scholastics 1.00
00:37:09.120 of the Middle Ages, from antiquity. And it, in my view, marked the beginning of the end 0.94
00:37:14.240 of a stable civilization. So that trend has been building for hundreds and hundreds of years.
00:37:22.980 I think that reached a tipping point also really with the transgender craze, where you say, 0.95
00:37:27.620 I can't even know what my sex is. You can't know what anyone's sex is. We can't know anything at 0.99
00:37:31.780 all. It tends toward almost a philosophical solipsism. And at that point, people said,
00:37:37.660 nah, you know what? I'm pretty sure there is truth. And I want to touch truth. And I want 0.93
00:37:40.620 to touch reality. And I want to be grounded in something real. And that would tend toward the
00:37:45.560 more mainline Protestant churches, the more liturgical churches, but then ultimately
00:37:48.940 toward the Catholic church, which is the only institution in the West that has survived since
00:37:53.240 antiquity. That's why it's up. Look, I also believe the reason it's up is because of the 0.99
00:37:57.720 moving of the Holy Spirit, and also because I think that the Catholic Church is divinely
00:38:01.340 instituted. So I obviously believe that, but I'm just observing the sociological reasons
00:38:06.400 why Catholicism in particular is having such a resurgence now. No one should be surprised by
00:38:11.460 that. This has been something 500 years in the making. Now, because of that, the libs are really
00:38:18.200 on the move, fighting Catholics in particular, Christians generally, religious people generally,
00:38:23.240 but Catholics in particular. There's this fight. Catholic nuns serving dying patients
00:38:29.580 are now being punished by New York legislators because New York legislators are insisting on a
00:38:35.280 transgender mandate for pronouns and for rooming. So you have these sisters in New York. It's the
00:38:40.540 Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne. We love our Dominican Sisters, one of the great religious
00:38:44.580 orders of all time. The Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne in New York are a 125-year-old
00:38:49.820 organization that has done one thing, taken care of poor dying people. All you have to do
00:38:57.800 to be taken care of by these sisters is show up, say, I have a terminal illness and no one can 0.99
00:39:02.440 take care of me and they will take care of you. This is as wonderful an organization as ever there
00:39:07.940 was. And the New York legislators are trying to punish them because they're saying, listen,
00:39:11.680 sisters, if a guy shows up and he's a man, but he says that he's a woman, you need to call him a
00:39:16.540 woman. You need to violate your conscience. You need to lie. You need to commit a mortal sin. 0.99
00:39:20.740 You need to deny reality. And furthermore, you need to room him with the women. 1.00
00:39:26.980 And the sisters say, well, we can't do that because that's a sin and that's a lie and it's
00:39:33.000 dangerous. And it's for a billion reasons, we can't do that. And the New York legislators are
00:39:37.300 saying, well, we're going to punish you. This reminds me of Joe Biden when he was vice president
00:39:40.580 in the, in the Joe Biden, nominally a Catholic. It's the Obama administration. What did they do?
00:39:46.200 they sued nuns. Nuns really are a specific type of religious sister, but colloquially,
00:39:54.160 we refer to all religious sisters as nuns, I guess. He was suing nuns. He was suing nuns,
00:40:00.040 the little sisters of the poor, because they wouldn't pay for abortions.
00:40:04.720 And I just think as a rule of thumb, this is hideous stuff, obviously. If you're in New York,
00:40:10.160 call your legislators. This is disgusting. More persecution of the church, Christianity being 0.83
00:40:14.560 the most persecuted religion in the world by the numbers not even close. But as a general rule of
00:40:20.440 thumb, you know me, I'm not the loftiest intellectual in the world. No false modesty.
00:40:26.060 I'm not. I'm not saying that I'm the deepest theologian or philosopher. I'm a simple man.
00:40:32.500 I'm a political creature, and I like rules of thumb, and I like shortcuts. And here's a political
00:40:36.220 shortcut for you. Whichever side of politics is suing nuns, that's the bad guys, and you should
00:40:44.760 be on the other side. Whether we're talking about New York state legislators, whether we're talking
00:40:50.200 about the Spanish Civil War, where the Republicans, the freedom fighters in the Spanish Civil War,
00:40:56.940 open up the war by shooting at a statue of Jesus and then attacking nuns and priests,
00:41:02.620 those aren't the good guys. Those are the bad guys. They were communists, by the way. They 0.64
00:41:05.960 were socialists and communists, a perfidious and wicked society that is contrary to the Christian 1.00
00:41:11.480 faith. Just a good rule of thumb. Whatever side is attacking the nuns, be on the other side. 1.00
00:41:16.940 Okay. Now, speaking of weird sexual identities, a Canadian member of parliament has dropped a new
00:41:22.860 initialism. LGBTQ is out. There's a new one. We'll get to that momentarily first, though.
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00:43:12.740 dailywire.com slash subscribe. Now, I did not pick the comment today. I was too excited to
00:43:17.680 discover that I am a cousin of Winston Churchill. We are specifically cousins through the Mayflower,
00:43:23.660 and I am smoking a Mayflower Dawn Churchill cigar today.
00:43:29.000 How glorious Providence is and you can get yours.
00:43:32.340 So I didn't pick the comment.
00:43:33.800 The producers picked the comment
00:43:34.820 and here's the comment they picked.
00:43:36.240 We'll see if I like it.
00:43:37.700 From Cole XN7NO,
00:43:39.740 as a certified person who's never worked in firefighting,
00:43:42.220 never spoken with a fire marshal,
00:43:43.900 please trim that candle wick
00:43:45.560 before it burns the place down.
00:43:47.000 Stay safe.
00:43:47.420 Okay, you know what?
00:43:48.040 Is this members of the makeup and wardrobe staff
00:43:52.640 writing to me right now?
00:43:53.600 because they tell me all that. They say, Michael, you got to trim your wick. I said, is that a
00:43:56.680 euphemism? They said, no, you have to, you get this thing. They gave me a thing. Did you know
00:44:01.120 this, men? I'm sure the women knew this in the audience. Did you know there's such a thing as a
00:44:05.080 wick trimmer and you're supposed to cut, you're supposed to clip with this little tool. It looks
00:44:09.700 like a medieval torture device. You're supposed to clip the wick on your candle. I'm a candle
00:44:14.800 mogul and I didn't know that for a very long time. Anyway, lots of combustibles on the table
00:44:19.960 today that I have produced, the candles and the Mayflower Dawn Churchill. A new initialism has
00:44:25.680 dropped just when you had learned the LGBTQ plus L-M-N-O-P, just when you learned that. That one's 1.00
00:44:33.020 out. He's a member of parliament in Canada, has a new one. Deal with the ongoing genocide of M-M-I-W-G-2-S-L-G-B-T-Q-Q-I-A
00:44:42.780 plus. This is abhorrent. Did you know there was a genocide going on? A genocide of M-M-I-W-G-2-L-G-B-T-Q-Q-I-A 0.78
00:44:59.560 plus people. I looked it up. That stands for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, 0.99
00:45:09.140 girls. And two-spirit, two-spirit, which is a term that they say it's an indigenous
00:45:16.160 native term going back centuries and millennia. It actually was invented by a lesbian activist
00:45:22.960 in 1990. And she said that the term came to her in a dream. So it has no connection really
00:45:30.240 whatsoever to ancient indigenous communities. Anyway, on top of that, lesbian, gay, bisexual, 0.97
00:45:35.840 transgender queer questioning intersex and asexual plus people. So the addition here,
00:45:41.260 it's not just the weird sex stuff, it's the missing and murdered part. Missing and murdered. 0.96
00:45:46.340 So not only have these people been oppressed by the bathroom laws and the girls volleyball team
00:45:51.640 rules, no, they're also now being murdered and kidnapped. The libs have taken this up,
00:45:58.200 some extreme libs like this member of parliament, and blamed colonialism for this. They've said,
00:46:03.520 you know, it's colonialism, it's racism, it's prejudice, it's the patriarchy that is attacking
00:46:10.440 the M-M-Q-P-L-B, whatever. But I looked it up because that didn't sound right to me. And it
00:46:16.980 turns out that when you try to figure out who is murdering these people, 80 to 86 percent of the
00:46:24.840 time, the people doing the murdering are intimate partners, spouses, family members, and acquaintances. 0.78
00:46:31.940 In other words, the people who are murdering the M-M-I-W-G-T-2-L-G-B-T-Q-Q-I-A people are the M-M-I-W-G-2-L-G-B-T-Q-Q-I-A people. 0.89
00:46:50.340 That's who's doing it, which has always been the case. 0.98
00:46:52.840 There was this meme some years ago, like three or four years ago, that said, you know, trans women of color are being murdered around this country. 1.00
00:47:01.440 And then you look who they're being murdered by, and they're being murdered by other LGBTQ, LMNOP people.
00:47:07.240 Most of them are prostitutes and drug addicts who are being killed in criminal acts by other people of the same community. 1.00
00:47:15.500 It has nothing to do with the other communities. 0.98
00:47:18.520 That's who it is.
00:47:19.160 So anyway, my heart goes out to the MM, etc. people.
00:47:23.800 but if they are being emmed and emmed if they're if they're going missing and being murdered
00:47:29.360 then the people to blame most of the almost all the time are the other people in that community
00:47:35.520 and they should probably get their act together speaking of gender politics lawrence o'donnell
00:47:40.080 of msnbc is really upset with pete hegseth and with the trump administration specifically really
00:47:46.740 upset over that rescue mission in iran that got the downed pilot on easter sunday and you say well
00:47:52.180 how could he be upset? Because it was a complete success and there were no American casualties in
00:47:57.620 it. It was just this amazing rescue of a guy who seemed totally hopeless. And so what could
00:48:03.580 Lawrence O'Donnell possibly be upset about in that mission? Take a listen.
00:48:08.740 That brilliant rescue was described by the Secretary of Defense
00:48:12.380 and by General Dan Cain, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
00:48:16.400 as a long-standing American military rule
00:48:20.560 of never leaving anyone behind.
00:48:25.200 We leave no man behind.
00:48:28.460 That is, of course, the old-school version of the idea
00:48:32.520 back when only men flew American military planes.
00:48:37.780 General Dan Cain, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
00:48:41.500 put it this way.
00:48:44.140 We leave no one behind.
00:48:47.400 The general knows, unlike Pete Hegseth, that that could have been a woman
00:48:52.980 they were trying to rescue, and it might be a woman the next time. 0.96
00:48:59.780 Perfect, perfect. Love it. You can just imagine Lawrence O'Donnell stranded on a desert island. 0.96
00:49:06.580 Stranded on a desert island with his sister, his daughter. They're there on the island,
00:49:13.960 And when all hope is lost, someone shows up, says, hey, I've got a rescue boat, sir, ma'am.
00:49:21.120 I have a rescue boat. Did you just call my daughter, ma'am? Did you assume her gender?
00:49:31.260 How dare you? You're going to die. You're on the brink of death. Please get on the ship. 1.00
00:49:35.980 a tsunami is coming. Please. Did you just misgender? I'll stay right here. Thank you very
00:49:45.560 much. This is how you know. This is how you know that in spite of everything and the fallen nature
00:49:54.660 of the world and the fact that politics is always going to be kind of broken, there's always going
00:49:57.520 to be something to complain about. This is how you know the Trump administration is doing a great
00:50:02.400 job. This is how you know the administration is doing a great job. Even in something relatively
00:50:07.620 controversial like this operation in Iran, this is how you know they're doing a really bang up job
00:50:13.120 at the end of the day when all is said and done. You know how I know? Because the best thing that
00:50:19.380 Lawrence O'Donnell could find to criticize is Pete Hegseth saying, leave no man behind.
00:50:26.120 because man, by the way, is a gender neutral term, just as he is the gender neutral first
00:50:33.220 person. There's a third person singular pronoun. But if that's the best thing these guys have to
00:50:39.980 criticize, there's nothing to criticize. You know, they would love to criticize oil going to $150
00:50:47.280 or $200 a barrel, but oil actually just plunged after the announcement of the ceasefire to $90
00:50:52.620 a barrel. They would love to complain about rampant inflation elsewhere. Eggs hitting $10,
00:50:57.600 $11 a dozen as they did under Biden. But you know what? They can't. Eggs have declined 63%.
00:51:03.120 They would love to complain about crime surging around the country. They can't because Trump
00:51:10.240 tackled the crime. They would love to find some way to complain about immigration, even though
00:51:15.660 they're pro-mass migration, pro-illegal immigration, but they'd love to find a way to complain about it.
00:51:19.880 they can't really not right now they're complaining about the phrase leave no man they're complaining
00:51:29.220 that when the military pulled off the most amazing rescue probably ever in american history
00:51:35.600 with no casualties whatsoever they didn't use the politically correct noun it's a good mark for
00:51:44.000 trump okay so much more to get to i want to get to this cia crazy super weapon speaking of that
00:51:49.440 rescue, but I don't have time, so you're going to have to wait for tomorrow. Today's Theology
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