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00:00:26.800His final woe to the scribes and Pharisees is that they erect elaborate monuments for the prophets and say, if they had been around in our father's days, we would not have killed them.
00:00:38.780There's a great application today within the church.
00:00:41.480Many of the very same men who hold conferences and publish books honoring the reformers will go out of their way to destroy anyone who holds the same political and cultural views.
00:00:51.380Men who honor Calvin and Luther, who put busts of them in their offices and proudly display their every word that they ever wrote on their bookshelves, will dox and drive men out of their churches who believe the same things Calvin and Luther did.
00:01:07.340If we were around in the Reformation, we wouldn't have burned the Reformers at the stake.
00:01:21.380All right, so this, I think, pairs up nicely with one of the chief texts that we will be using from
00:01:41.600the Gospel of Matthew for this particular episode, which is? What's the text, the reference?
00:01:46.420The reference is, yeah, Matthew chapter 23.
00:02:13.320Right. And so, this idea of, you know, we wouldn't have killed the prophets. Our fathers did that, but we'll build tombs to the prophets. But then you kill Jesus. And this is the same thing that we see going on today. Like, oh, I love John Knox. No, brother, you would have excommunicated John Knox.
00:02:31.420Yeah. What did you think about the trumpet blast of John Knox?
00:02:35.100Right. Exactly. You hate John Knox because you're a feminist deep down inside.
00:18:06.400We have to just call it as we see it rather than pretending that something else is going on.
00:18:12.860That it's, you know, so many people are wrapped up in, you know, the post-war consensus.
00:18:18.220And, you know, at the conference that we did here in Texas with Stephen and CJ and Paul Gottfried, who is Jewish, by the way.
00:18:25.840We did this conference and we talked a lot about the post-war consensus.
00:18:29.800This is something that people, right, the people that attack us, all these guys do is talk about the post-war consensus.
00:18:36.080But, you know, the way we summarized it, I was telling Stephen Wolf this, like, how would you, we were talking, like, how do you describe it in, like, one sentence?
00:18:44.720And I said, all right, what's the post-war consensus?0.80
00:18:48.500It's that everybody and everything I don't like is Hitler.0.76
00:18:55.380And so our entire moral framework is based around 1930 and 1940. And every bad thing is Hitler. Every failure to confront the bad thing is Neville Chamberlain. And Saddam Hussein, Hitler. Vladimir Putin, Hitler. Donald Trump, Hitler.0.94
00:19:13.440Right? That's the only moral framework that we have that is operable. And so, if you dispense
00:19:19.700with that, if you adopt the moral framework of our forefathers and of Christians before the 20th0.97
00:19:27.280century, you can look at these things and say, all right, here's a group of people that are not0.73
00:19:32.320Christians. Some of them might be very hostile to the Christian faith. We have to be wary of them.
00:19:40.220We have to not allow them to have power in our culture and destroy Christian culture.0.99
00:19:46.380But that also doesn't mean, therefore, that we have to treat them as this existential threat that our enemies.0.99
00:19:52.840They're just other people that are not like us.
00:26:58.040Yeah, why isn't it everybody we don't like is Stalin?
00:27:00.480right exactly but why hitler specifically yeah and so one it's because um and people begin you
00:27:07.700know naturally modern modern you know americans think that way they you know they think uh don't
00:27:14.240be hitler yeah he was bad i heard you know i have it on good authority hitler drink water you know
00:27:19.220don't drink water you know anything you know i don't want any any similarity any tie to hitler
00:27:24.300and you know i've thought about that and i've thought like okay so we have been very indoctrinated
00:27:28.860into the evils that Hitler and so I want to break this down a little bit uh one I think uh because
00:27:34.180a big thing that shapes Americans is entertainment and media yeah and entertainment and media has a0.87
00:27:40.020very disproportional you know representation of Jews who really you know for decent reason0.91
00:27:46.680don't like Hitler makes sense yeah I can see why so that's so that's part of it that makes sense
00:27:51.140but let's just you know quickly move past that because I think there's that's not my my big0.52
00:27:55.180point is not to say that Hollywood is owned by the Jews and blah, blah, blah. That's really not
00:27:59.400my big point. We can save it for another episode. There's a lot of truth in it. But anyways, that's
00:28:05.160not my main point. My main point is to say the post-war sentiment, aka everything I don't like0.74
00:28:11.920is Hitler. Okay, but why Hitler and not Stalin? Because Hitler historically is the bad guy on the0.75
00:28:20.120right. See that, that's the issue. So, so just, you know, just a spoiler alert here.0.92
00:28:26.860Totalitarian, authoritarian on the right.
00:28:28.980Just so that everyone can lean back in their chair and not freak out and feel at ease. This
00:28:33.840is not going to be, neither Andrew or I are Hitler apologists. So this is not going to be
00:28:39.080Adolf Hitler's The Last Christian Prince episode. We're not doing that.
00:28:42.900The more I hear about that guy, the more I don't care for him.
00:28:45.960Right. I think that Hitler was a bad guy. Andrew thinks that Hitler was a bad guy. But here's the point, and it does matter. We both think that he was a bad guy, but we don't think that he was the worst bad guy.0.92
00:28:58.240And yet, since 1945, you would think so. I mean, if aliens had been monitoring the planet, you know, for the last, you know, 80 years.
00:29:09.960There's only one bad person that ever existed.
00:29:11.800I mean, you know, if they were looking from the outside in and watching, you know, the media and watching entertainment, every film made and every, you know, museum and every historical lesson taught in schools, they would think that all of human history, they have only had one nemesis, Adolf Hitler, you know, only one true nemesis.
00:29:30.780I remember being a child or a teenager in junior high school and, you know, when you're 12 or 13 years old, like you get obsessed with World War II.
00:29:42.740Like Joel here, I don't know if the camera can see it.
00:29:44.820Like he has this time-life series of World War II.
00:30:36.840And I remember discovering that as a child, and just discovering the fact that Stalin, this guy who we're allied to, killed tens of millions of people.
00:38:30.760Yeah, and the danger in all of this is that many young men have noticed this psyop that's being played on them, and they swing right into the other ditch and say, oh, actually, he was good.
00:38:47.460Part of the reason they swing into the other ditch, to be fair, is because there is, on this issue, honestly, on this issue of Israel and alleged anti-Semitism, just to be frank, there are no mature leaders who are on what we would consider to be the correct side of the aisle, but holding a reasonable position.
00:39:14.340Exactly. So the moment that a young man crosses the aisle and the don't believe your lying eyes rhetoric doesn't work any longer, and he's just noticed too much because it really is that blatantly obvious.
00:39:27.100And he crosses the aisle. Well, the moment he crosses the aisle, there's no reasonable, wise, mature leader over there.
00:39:32.120So my point is to say that one of the ways to stop that, that you always have useful idiots, but you don't have to have useful idiots by the millions, I'd like to think.1.00
00:39:42.000And you don't want your guys to be idiots.1.00
00:39:44.000Yes. So one of the ways to stop an unnecessary surplus of useless idiots on the right1.00
00:39:49.620is to get some wise and mature men on the right. But what happens if all the wise and mature men1.00
00:39:56.800also happen to be cowardly men? And on some issues, they're on the right, and thank God for it.
00:40:03.440But on this issue, for whatever reason, they're like, no, Judeo-Christian is the line in the sand.
00:40:11.100Yeah, because I don't want to be called Hitler.
00:40:12.300it's a deal breaker i will not you know i don't want to be called a nazi for i mean or just all
00:40:17.740the political issues that are are quintessentially rightist uh that are finally coming back into
00:40:23.800prominence whether it's borders or whether it's you know family uh family values things things
00:40:28.120of this nature um we the reason they haven't been the reason we've lost is because they could run
00:40:36.060this play on us constantly right and men like you said are afraid yeah they're afraid of these things
00:40:41.540But you have this large glut of young, especially young men who are rejecting the caricatured history that we've been given, rejecting all of these.
00:40:52.840They're noticing certain patterns in society.
00:40:56.540And they have nobody, like you're saying, they have nobody to look to to say, hey, just tell me the truth.
00:41:04.020I don't – I feel like I'm going crazy.
00:41:06.280I feel like I'm going to be a social pariah if I believe these things.
00:41:10.520Tell me the truth and then also tell me
00:41:12.200how in a righteous Christian way, how to respond.
00:42:32.320and there's ways to respond to this in a godly way.
00:42:35.120And you know how you respond to it in a godly way?0.98
00:42:36.780Whether it's, well, but it seems like more Jews disproportionately are involved with pornography or more black people are committing crimes.0.99
00:46:15.540But I feel like we are presenting the reasonable course of action for young Christian men on the right so they don't go down the dark paths.
00:46:50.180Don't look at the big elephant in the room, right?
00:46:53.780No, we should address it because if they don't go to us, if they don't get leadership from pastors and men that care about their souls, they'll go to men that do not care about their souls and do not care about righteousness.