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Love and Terror - The Big Picture with Jack Atherton · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Seven oh six at fifty five kr CE detalk station.
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  Speaker 1: Happy Wednesday. It's a great day to be tuned into
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  Speaker 1: fifty five Cassee Morning Show at the right time. It
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  Speaker 1: is time everyone's here at this moment, Big Picture with
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  Speaker 1: Jack Addan dak Avidan. It is great for you to
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  Speaker 1: be on the program from my perspective, but my listeners
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  Speaker 1: really enjoy your thoughts, comments and insight and intellect. And
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea what you're going to be talking
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  Speaker 1: about today, which is typically the case, but love and terror.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back. Jack, appreciate you coming on the show.
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  Speaker 2: I have no idea either, But happy holidays, my friend,
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  Speaker 2: right that guy you actually let's talk about this. Christians
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  Speaker 2: will soon celebrate Christmas, the birth of Jesus. Jews are
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  Speaker 2: about to break out menorah's and dredles to celebrate Hanukkah,
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  Speaker 2: the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem, and soon Muslims
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  Speaker 2: will be marking the miraculous nighttime journey of the prophet
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  Speaker 2: Mohammed from Mecca to Jerusalem and then up to Heaven
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  Speaker 2: where he met Adam, Moses, and Jesus. So who couldn't
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  Speaker 2: be filled with love this time of year?
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  Speaker 1: Here, let me. Look around me, Jack, at the multitude
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  Speaker 1: of articles that I see where people clearly are not
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  Speaker 1: in a festive holiday, love filled state of emotions.
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  Speaker 2: I know I've heard some of your SCC non compliance.
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  Speaker 1: I know, I know we all slipped.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, sadly, quite a few people who profess love
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  Speaker 2: preach hate, even terror in their quest to regain power,
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  Speaker 2: like many in your great audience. I'm a child of
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  Speaker 2: the sixties, when hippies flashed peace signs. Actually in places
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  Speaker 2: like hate Ashbury, they flashed a lot more than that.
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  Speaker 2: They flashed everything. The peace signs and peaceful sittings and
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  Speaker 2: songs like All You Need Is Love, stopped the Vietnam War,
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  Speaker 2: they forced Lyndon Johnson out of the White House, supported
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  Speaker 2: our new civil rights laws as well as women's and
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  Speaker 2: gay rights movements, and, perhaps most fun for teenagers like me,
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  Speaker 2: the sexties gave us the sexual Revolution, but lurking within
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  Speaker 2: the free love, free pot communes from Berkeley to Woodstock
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  Speaker 2: with something a lot more sinister, authoritarian, big government socialism.
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  Speaker 2: While everyone was singing Beatles tunes, a lot of kids
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  Speaker 2: like Hillary Clinton and a little later Barack Obama, were
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  Speaker 2: studying Herbert Marcusa. I don't know how many people remember him,
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  Speaker 2: but he was a disciple of Karl Marx, and they
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  Speaker 2: also studied Saul Alinsky, a disciple of Machiavelli, with his
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  Speaker 2: ruthless devotion to ends justifying the means. When it comes
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  Speaker 2: to securing power, the all you need is love. Hippie
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  Speaker 2: Revolution brought us Ivy League credentialed I don't say educated,
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  Speaker 2: just credentialed elite to talitarians now attacking the foundation of
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  Speaker 2: America limited decentralized government and Adam Smith capitalism based on
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  Speaker 2: free choice, not mandates, free enterprise, and free but fair markets.
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  Speaker 2: It's that's where tariffs come in. We'll talk about that
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  Speaker 2: some other time. We've seen this before, free love and
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  Speaker 2: the demand for free stuff giving way to dictatorship. Ancient
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  Speaker 2: Rome had what we'd now call proletarian rebellions. They led
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  Speaker 2: to military strong men and then emperors. The French Revolution
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  Speaker 2: started out with ordinary people demanding from aristocrats a place
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  Speaker 2: a seat in the National Assembly. The revolutionaries were called
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  Speaker 2: leftists because they took seats on the left side of
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  Speaker 2: the assembly and they addressed each other as citizen, which
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  Speaker 2: is ironic Brian since the last thing today's American leftists
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  Speaker 2: want to call their supporters is citizen. Today's leftists support
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  Speaker 2: non citizens who broke our laws getting here. They demand
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  Speaker 2: welfare and even voting rights In at least fourteen jurisdictions
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  Speaker 2: and counting. They demand welfare and even voting rights. And
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  Speaker 2: the highest title for today's leftists is not citizen. It's victim,
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  Speaker 2: as in I'm a victim of racism, sexism, transphobia, and
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  Speaker 2: common sense. The French revolutionaries try to replace Christianity with
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  Speaker 2: what they called a goddess of reason. It was an
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  Speaker 2: actual person. They found a beautiful woman and she became
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  Speaker 2: the goddess of reason. Then they replaced reason with the
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  Speaker 2: reign of terror. Following the Romans, the French next made
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  Speaker 2: Napoleon Bonaparte their emperor. His invasions cost Europe at least
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  Speaker 2: four million lives, but Napoleon was a peace nick compared
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  Speaker 2: with Joseph Stalin. His Soviet workers Paradise killed at least
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  Speaker 2: seven million people, some say triple that number. As with Napoleon's,
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  Speaker 2: Stalin did not immediately seize power when Russia rose up
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  Speaker 2: against the Czar. The Russian Revolution's first leader was a
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  Speaker 2: guy named Alexander Kerensky. If you don't remember him, folks,
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  Speaker 2: it's because Kerensky's Russian Republic lasted just three months. Communist
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  Speaker 2: revolutionaries then chased Kerensky to Paris, then New York, and
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  Speaker 2: ultimately to our West coast. The conservative Hoover Institution, which
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  Speaker 2: promotes liberty through limited government. Kerensky's successor of Vladimir Lenin,
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  Speaker 2: did not promote limited government, and Lenin's successor, Joseph Stalin,
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  Speaker 2: did not promote any limits at all on his own power. Now, Brian,
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  Speaker 2: there may be a few people listening who are now yelling,
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  Speaker 2: what about Donald Trump? Does he promote, does he tolerate?
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  Speaker 2: And he limits to his own power? The answer is yes.
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  Speaker 2: Put aside for the moment, t Trump's bombing of Sas
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  Speaker 2: state sponsored narco terrorist drug boats were all eager to
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  Speaker 2: hear in a few minutes from Congressman Thomas Massey and
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  Speaker 2: Judge Neapolitano about that. I would only note for now
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  Speaker 2: that whether it's Thomas Jefferson and the Barbary pirates, Reagan
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  Speaker 2: invading Grenada, or Trump destroying Iran's nuclear program, we've had
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  Speaker 2: lots of debates about when and how Congress ought to
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  Speaker 2: weigh in, But Democrats did not complain when Barack Obama's
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  Speaker 2: drones killed hundreds of foreigners without authorization, including women and
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  Speaker 2: children at weddings, even American citizens. Let's also consider a
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  Speaker 2: different but typical outrage from Joe Biden. The auto pen
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  Speaker 2: completely ignored the Supreme Court's ruling against the quote forgiveness
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  Speaker 2: of taxpayer funded student loans, and Democrats defended him to
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  Speaker 2: the hilt. By contrast, Donald Trump has submitted to courts everywhere,
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  Speaker 2: from fat Alvin Braggs New York and Fawnie Willis's Atlanta
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  Speaker 2: straight to the US Supreme Court. It's true Donald Trump
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  Speaker 2: does not preach peace and love for the tens of
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  Speaker 2: millions of illegal migrants that Joe Biden and his borders
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  Speaker 2: are Kamala Harris invited to invade the United States. But again,
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  Speaker 2: Trump is submitting his deportation plans to the courts, where
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  Speaker 2: he wins some and he loses some. Meantime, Trump has
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  Speaker 2: achieved peace through strength, as Ronald Reagan did peace from
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  Speaker 2: Africa to Cambodia, if we can keep it. Now he's
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  Speaker 2: trying to broke her peace in Ukraine, which never would
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  Speaker 2: have been invaded by Putin had Trump remained president in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty one. Trump is the real peace president, most
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  Speaker 2: important because he persuades nations to trade peacefully and fairly
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  Speaker 2: with the promise of economic growth. That's why is Arab
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  Speaker 2: neighbors are now willing to live peaceably. Growth. The promise
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  Speaker 2: of growth for all is Trump's gift to the world
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  Speaker 2: this holiday season, and God willing, even Trump's enemies will
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  Speaker 2: realize that constitutional republics, not socialistic tankerships, are the world's
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  Speaker 2: true blessing. What do you say, pal Well?
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  Speaker 1: First off, I must note that free love at least
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  Speaker 1: didn't involve the American taxpayer dollars. Second, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know parents and taxpayers they paid taxes to
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  Speaker 2: they supported those kids, and some of them still support
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  Speaker 2: those kids.
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  Speaker 1: No, I understand that component of it. I'm just saying,
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  Speaker 1: at least didn't cost us money to engage in free love, unless,
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  Speaker 1: of course, you look to the medical ramifications of free
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  Speaker 1: love and the fact that the American taxpayer dollars might
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  Speaker 1: have to end up paying for that, which in and
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  Speaker 1: of itself is a problem. But going back to my
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  Speaker 1: original thought, along those lines, you mentioned the various religions.
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  Speaker 1: People are celebrating this time of year. Yes, and we
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  Speaker 1: all tend to embrace, at least from religious perspective, regardless
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  Speaker 1: of which religion you are idea that we need to
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  Speaker 1: engage in compassion and to help our brother man those
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  Speaker 1: are truly in need. But what bothers me, over and
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  Speaker 1: over and over again, the Marxists, the Leftists, the communists,
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  Speaker 1: the socialists all endeavor to use our respective faiths against us. Well,
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  Speaker 1: this is the Christian Judeo Christian ethic. You're supposed to
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  Speaker 1: help people in an effort to support some bloated government
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  Speaker 1: plan that we all find out is replete with fraud, waste,
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  Speaker 1: and abuse, which they don't seem to care about. That's
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  Speaker 1: the part that always angers me. And I've been on
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  Speaker 1: record many times saying if you're in a church or
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  Speaker 1: a synagogue or a mosque and someone in front of
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  Speaker 1: the room is saying you need to support some big
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  Speaker 1: blow to government program because Jesus or Mohammad or I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, it doesn't matter what would do that. That
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  Speaker 1: is your religious obligation. It belongs to the individual, not
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  Speaker 1: the state, and you're offloading the personal responsibility you have
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  Speaker 1: as a member of that particular religion to do it yourself.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't substitute your personal obligation. And yet that feeling
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  Speaker 1: of the need to help is used so often against
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  Speaker 1: people of faith to promote some bloated government program that
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  Speaker 1: really doesn't accomplish the goal of helping people who are
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  Speaker 1: truly in need.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we discussed this last week. Jesus was not about governments, right,
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  Speaker 2: and we began today talking about these major religions, not
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  Speaker 2: all of them in the world. They all began in love,
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  Speaker 2: but at some points in their history they had followers
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  Speaker 2: embracing terror. God loved his chosen people of Israel, but
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  Speaker 2: those sanctioned people asked for a king. They said, we
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  Speaker 2: want a king, like all the other nations. And inevitably,
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  Speaker 2: as with all other nations, kings proved to be power
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  Speaker 2: hungry and cruel. Just think of David and Bathsheba and
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  Speaker 2: Bathsheba's wrong husband Uriah. Jesus loved all people and refused
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  Speaker 2: Satan's offer to rule over them on earth. He did
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  Speaker 2: not want to be a king. But many other rulers,
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  Speaker 2: secular and ecclesiastical, have imposed tyranny in the name of Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: You're right and we discussed several months ago. Now whether
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  Speaker 2: Islam requires violent jihad the sort that al Qaeda demanded.
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  Speaker 2: Listeners can hear that discussion about history. It went all
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  Speaker 2: the way back to the prophet Mohammad.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: By scrolling down my podcast page, just search for the
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  Speaker 2: big picture with Jack Atherton, it's there all thanks to
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  Speaker 2: you and Joe, and I thank you both for that
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  Speaker 2: every day.
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  Speaker 1: It's a public service getting your message out, Jack Avident.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad Youse Strekker is producing your podcast, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: glad you're doing it, and I'm glad you show up
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  Speaker 1: in the morning. Should have these important conversations. At minimum,
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  Speaker 1: it gets the juices stirring intellectually. It causes people to
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  Speaker 1: stop and pause and think, hmm, maybe I should consider
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  Speaker 1: that in deciding whether or not we need to embrace
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  Speaker 1: some fat government program or more simplistic enough, whether we
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  Speaker 1: need to put our side our differences in this very
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  Speaker 1: festive time of year, which should be festive for many
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  Speaker 1: many people of all religions and for those who do
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  Speaker 1: not ascribe to a particular religion. Hey, joining the fun.
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  Speaker 1: We're all trying to be in a better mood this
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  Speaker 1: time of year. Why don't you put down your anger
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  Speaker 1: and enjoy the time of year along with the rest
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  Speaker 1: of us. We're all open for the collective celebration of
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  Speaker 1: well perhaps love.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Amen, Jack Athenan, God bless you, sir. Looking forward to
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  Speaker 1: another calendar year with you next year. Not that we're
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  Speaker 1: over for this year, but thanks again for your time,
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  Speaker 1: your efforts and your energy doing your podcast and this
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  Speaker 1: particular segment on the morning show and as always, best
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  Speaker 1: of health and much love to you.
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  Speaker 2: And Amesley and you and everybody listening.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. I agree. Thanks Jack seven nineteen fifty
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