Ep. 837 - The Satanic Temple Comes To Democrats' Rescue
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Summary
In Texas, Democrats are turning to the Satanic Temple to help them strike down a law that limits the number of babies who can legally be killed through abortion. In California, education officials are instructing students to chant prayers to the demon gods of the Aztec gods who also practiced child sacrifice. In Washington D.C., Joe Biden himself has fully changed his views on abortion, coming out in favor of infanticide and effectively renouncing his Catholic faith.
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In Texas, Democrats are turning to the Satanic Temple to help them strike down a law that limits the number of babies who can legally be killed through abortion.
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In California, education officials are instructing students to chant prayers to the demon gods of the Aztecs, who also practiced child sacrifice.
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In Washington, D.C., Joe Biden himself has fully changed his views on abortion, coming out in favor of infanticide and effectively renouncing his Catholic faith.
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A lot of Americans want to keep religion out of politics, but that is not possible because every single political issue ultimately boils down to religion.
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The divide is less about right and left than it is about right and wrong.
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And the craziest part of all of it is that the libs can't see it.
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They are right now, at this very moment, siding with literal Satanists and Aztec demon gods.
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They are making the defense of literal child sacrifice their top political priority.
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And they don't even realize they're doing it because the devil's finest trick is to convince people that he doesn't exist.
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We need to begin with the child sacrifice stuff.
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That's a sentence I didn't, I never thought I would say.
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It is crazy because the left knows not what it does.
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But if you're outside of that bubble, if you're outside of the liberal establishment,
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you look at this and you think, guys, you are actually siding with real full-on Satanists and Aztec demon gods.
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And you don't, and they say, no, you don't get it.
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It's not really Satanists that we're siding with, except it is.
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So here's a representative article in the Hopping and Post.
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Satanic temple floats devilishly clever strategy to dodge the Texas abortion law.
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They're going to say that taking an abortion drug is an important part of their religious ritual.
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Quote, a lawyer for the Massachusetts-based temple sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration earlier this week to request that the church be allowed access without prescription to the abortion-inducing drugs,
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nifepristone and misoprostol, as part of its sacramental abortion ritual.
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He compared employing the drugs to the use of peyote in certain Native American rituals under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
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For the temple, bodily autonomy and science are sacrosanct.
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And the abortion ritual is an important expression of those beliefs, explained temple co-founder Lucian Greaves.
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What the Satanists are saying is that abortion is their central sacrament.
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Just like we've been saying for decades, for decades.
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Peter Kreeft, who's a wonderful theologian and philosopher, Peter Kreeft put it very well a long time ago.
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He said, quote, abortion is the Antichrist's demonic parody of the Eucharist.
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This is my body with the blasphemously opposite meaning.
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In the Christian communion, the priest holds up the Eucharist and says, this is my body, which will be given up for you, quoting Christ.
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Even though it isn't the woman's body, it's a little baby.
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So now, oh, what a devilishly, it's not clever.
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And a lot of people have seen this for a long time.
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And even as you are now openly siding with Satanists, you don't understand what you're doing.
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A single doctor, doctor, quote unquote, a murderer in Texas who has a medical degree,
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as this law was going into effect, performed 67 abortions in 17 hours.
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Because the law was about to go into effect and Moloch was very hungry and they needed to feed these demons the souls and bodies of innocent children.
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So for 17 hours, a doctor in his or her 80s is being reported, performed 67 abortions.
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67 people killed in 17 hours just to get that rush in before the law goes into effect.
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Over this, it seems to me, relatively minor issue.
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It's the people of Texas, through their democratic process, through their representatives saying, you know, we don't want to kill as many babies as we've been doing.
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In this one state, it's not going into your state, just in this state.
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And the left is focusing on this because it is their central sacrament, the sacrament of the Antichrist.
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They're focusing on this as though this is the single gravest threat to their entire political project.
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Eli Mestal, who is some talking head on MSNBC, he is now suggesting that Joe Biden create an army of federal physicians to go invade Texas to kill more babies.
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If I was on top of my roof kind of looking for help, I would expect the cavalry to be coming directly, right?
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And in fact, when it happened in Katrina, the failure of the federal government to go get people was viewed as one of the biggest failures of George W. Bush's presidency.
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Similarly, we need to go and get women in Texas and protect their constitutionally protected medical rights.
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And the way you do that is that you deputize doctors, you federalize doctors, you create through an executive order an army of federal doctors who are going to go into Texas and protect the Constitution by giving women, by consulting women about their privacy rights and their medical history.
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That, by federalizing the doctor force, that would protect those abortion providers from the Texas law.
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MSNBC and the host, Joy Reid, nodding along, yes, wow, yes, yes.
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Suggesting that Joe Biden create a federal kill force to invade a state strictly for the purpose of getting, he says getting the women really means getting the babies.
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He says there's a constitutionally protected right to abortion.
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He's suggesting, as the left is suggesting now, that this is settled law.
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That's why the pro-life movement has gained ground almost without ceasing since Roe versus Wade.
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He is saying we need to upend the entire constitutional order creating this federal police force of physicians just to protect the central sacrament of the faith, of leftism, of the anti-Christian faith.
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Our devout Catholic president, the most devout Catholic, how dare you criticize or question his devotion.
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He has effectively renounced his Catholic faith over this issue.
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He had been playing it a little bit cagey until this Texas issue where he is now in formal heresy and in a break with the Catholic Church.
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In 2012, Joe Biden was asked, what's your feeling on abortion?
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He said, look, I personally, as I'm a Catholic, I'm pro-life.
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And I've been a practicing Catholic my whole life.
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And it has particularly informed my social doctrine.
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Catholic social doctrine talks about taking care of those who can't take care of themselves.
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With regard to abortion, I accept my church's position on abortion as a, what we call, de fide doctrine.
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Until last week, when Joe Biden came out and said, I do not agree with that.
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The church says that life begins at conception.
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He says, my religion, my faith defines my public life.
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Joe Biden in 2012 said, I agree with my church.
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I believe that life begins at the moment of conception.
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I'm prepared to accept a fide doctrine on a whole range of issues as a Catholic.
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Even though, as you know, Aquinas argued about, in Summa Theologic, about human life
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and being when it occurs, I'm prepared to accept as a matter of faith, my wife and I
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But what I'm not prepared to do is impose a rigid view, precise view, rigid sounds pejorative,
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a precise view that is born out of my faith on other people who are equally God-fearing,
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equally as committed to life, equally as committed to the sanctity of life.
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And I'm prepared to accept that the moment of conception is human life and being.
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But I'm not prepared to say that to other God-fearing, non-God-fearing people that have
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Now, this argument never made any sense because he's saying, I believe, I, Joe Biden, using
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all the faculties that I have at my disposal, I believe that life begins at conception.
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And if you commit an abortion, you are committing murder and you're murdering innocent people.
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I believe it's tantamount to murder if you commit an abortion.
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And this, this began with Mario Cuomo, Andrew Cuomo's father, when he was governor of New York.
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And he was nominally a Catholic, but he had to go along with his new faith, which is leftism.
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And he had to create a way for, for Democrats to have both sides of the issue.
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And so what he decided was the way to do it is to say, I'm personally against abortion,
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but as a political matter, I would never impose my faith.
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Well, no, you are, you're, to have legal abortion, you're imposing your new faith,
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leftism on many Christians and Jews and Muslims and other people who oppose abortion.
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You, you, there is no neutrality here and you're making a decision.
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Last week, he came out and said, I do not agree with the position that life begins at conception.
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I do not agree with the position of the Catholic church because frankly, I think that the whole
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leftist argument of I'm personally against abortion, but politically I'm for abortion never made any
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You're either lying to yourself or you're lying to the public.
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If you hold those contradictory views at the same time.
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So now he renounces the faith that we are told he's devoted to, and he accepts the real faith.
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The thing we have to remember about all this is, and then we'll move on to demon gods.
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I don't want to focus too much on the Satanists.
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I also, we have to get to the demon gods that the California students are now being told to worship.
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But not, that's not an exaggeration, but it is worth pointing out human sacrifice is not just
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some weird thing that happened in a few places a long time ago.
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It has happened virtually at all, at all times with very few exceptions.
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And one of those exceptions is the Christian West.
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You see this in the Old Testament, in the Hebrew Bible, the Israelites come into territories
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In Christianity, when Christianity has spread to other places and other cultures, they've put
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But the reason that there is human sacrifice, I mean, there are lots of writings about this.
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I'm particularly fond of those of René Girard, who I'm reading right now, who says that
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the sacrifice, mimetic violence is the term that he uses, is just, it's the only way that
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cultures can restore peace, that rivalries gin up, you know, in cultures, brothers killing
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brothers, Cain killing Abel, Romulus killing Remus, the people banding together against a scapegoat.
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And when you commit a sacrifice, initially human sacrifices, that in some cases replaced
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by animal sacrifices, and then in Christianity is replaced by the sacrifice of Christ, that
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This is why the Aztecs, actually, this is why indigenous American civilizations would slaughter
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At the consecration of Tenochtitlan, one of the temples in the Americas, in the Aztec Empire,
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that they would kill 80,000 people, sacrifice 80,000 people in the span of four days to appease
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They would rip out beating hearts, hold them up on knives, still beating, and then throw
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the bodies down the temple to the tune of 80,000 at a time.
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California students are being told to chant prayers to those gods.
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On August 26th, the Thomas More Society wrote a letter to the state superintendent of public
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instruction requesting that they remove an Aztec prayer from the state's curriculum.
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Now, the state refused to respond to this, so now the Thomas More Society has filed a lawsuit.
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California, in March of this year, introduced a new ethnic studies curriculum.
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Ethnic studies is a fake academic discipline for students who are too stupid to study real
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academic disciplines, but it's not just because some students are not intelligent or educated
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It's also because the left is trying to impose its own radical ideology on a whole generation
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of students, and they're doing that in the classrooms, not just at the universities, but
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also in high school and middle school and even further back.
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So, they introduced this new ethnic studies requirement, and it was promoted by a man
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who believes that one way to rectify colonialism is to support a, quote, counter-genocide of,
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He calls on students, quote, to challenge racist, bigoted, discriminatory, imperialist,
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colonial beliefs, and practices on multiple levels.
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And one way they're doing that is having students chant prayers to the Aztec gods Tezcatlipoca
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I'm, you know, not pronouncing these correctly, I would assume.
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This latter god is the god of war, among others, and a god to whom the Aztecs would sacrifice
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many, many people by stabbing them in the chest and ripping out their hearts while they were
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And now our students are chanting prayers to them.
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What the left is going to say is, oh, Michael, stop getting so hung up on this.
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It's just a fun thing to explore other cultures.
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It's just a fun thing to chant prayers to demon gods sometimes.
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But it's not, you're not really praying to the demon gods.
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It's, but you, you are, you are though, you are literally doing that.
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And when you perform rituals with your bodies, with your speech, with it, when you, when you
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You might think you're being really clever, just like the Huffington Post thinks they're
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However, it looks like we're partnering up with Satanists to preserve the sacrament, the
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antichrist sacrament of abortion, but we're not really doing that.
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We're just, we're just, you know, science promoters.
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If you, if you perform an activity or a ritual or a rite, ironically, forever and ever and
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ever, and you just keep doing it, it's no longer ironic.
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When you pray to demon gods, but it's ironically, but you, you just, you do it.
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You actually are doing it with your, you, you've actually done it.
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So the, the Thomas More Society, what they're trying to do is say, keep religion out of the
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We can't, we can't have this prayer to the Aztec demon gods, human sacrifice, because,
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you know, that, that would be imposing religion on schools and we're not allowed to do that.
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Whatever we got to do to get the demon god prayers out of schools, I guess that's a good
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But I don't think this line of attack of keep religion out of schools, I don't think it's
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I think we need to grapple with the much more difficult question, but ultimately more correct
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one, which is acknowledging that we will have a religion in schools.
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All education is oriented toward certain goals, certain ideals of ethics and morality, and
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yes, religion, metaphysics, a recognition of how the human person relates to the world.
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That's going to require certain religious premises.
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And ultimately, ultimately they need to be Christian.
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And so a lot of conservatives are really upset at Jay Leno.
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But I am going to defend Jay Leno because I also defend cancel culture.
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Not the terrible leftist cancel culture, but the idea of cancel culture in general.
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and you could make the raunchy sex jokes in New York,
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but there are going to be standards and taboos.
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what kind of things kids are going to be taught in schools,
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I think we've got to move past the shallow freedom slogans.
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But freedom doesn't just mean doing whatever you want at any given time.
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No serious person has ever thought that that's what freedom is.
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We need to dig in much more to these harder questions.
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What is it that our religious education is aiming at,
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What is it that is off limits even for comedians?
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he's like a flamboyant, gender-bending, fairy godfather mother.
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