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Episode 2: Being a humble servant while boldly standing for the truth · The Uncensored Catholic

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Hey, y'all, welcome to today's show. This is the second podcast of
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The Uncensored Catholic, and I'm still in the kind of introductory phase. I
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think it's very important that we sort of lay down our guideposts. We talk
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about our founding principles, so you know where I'm coming from, and everything
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else just falls into place. You know, I don't believe in coincidence.
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I actually really do believe everything happens for a reason. And last week when
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I wrote the gospel reflection for Mizzi O Day, it was last Thursday.
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In fact, I had not even thought of doing this podcast. In fact,
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this podcast was not my idea. I was actually working hard on other
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projects. And my mother says to me, you know, you really ought
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to do a Catholic podcast. And I was like, I am too busy.
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I've got I'm writing two books at this point, I'm finishing up publishing
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on them, doing all my other work. And she said, no,
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you really need to do a Catholic podcast. So I prayed about my slept
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on it, and by the next day I agreed. And isn't it interesting
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that just a few days earlier just made four or five days earlier I had
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written an article, and I pulled a little excerpt from two of the Daily
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Master readings. The first one was from Acts thirteen, and it states John
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heralded his coming by proclaiming a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.
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And as John was completing his course, he would say, what do
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you suppose that I am? I am not he behold, one is coming
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after me, and I am not worthy to unfasten the sandals of his feet.
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The same message was reflected in the Gospel for the Day, which comes
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from John thirteen. When Jesus had washed the feet of his disciples, he
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said to them, Amen, Amen, I say to you, no slave
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is greater than his master, nor any messenger greater than the one who sent
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him. If you understand this, said, are you? If you do
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it? And it hit me what a stark contrast those two short little verses,
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passages I guess are too modern culture. You know, in our modern
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culture we are taught well the opposite of being a servant. We're taught self
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actualization is the most important. When I was a child, I remember the
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big movement, and it was taught in the classrooms, and it was in
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all the after school specials, and it was a theme and many of the
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sitcoms of the day and the talk shows. I mean, you know,
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Donna Hue and all that garbage. Haralda. He probably even worse than Donna
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Hue. It was that all the ills of society, especially among young people,
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were caused by lack of self esteem. They blamed teen suicide, suicide
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in general, obviously, teen pregnancy, drug use, crime, etc.
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On lack of self esteem. And there was a really big pushback then to
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bring in more school counselors and more psychological care. And of course, you
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know that was a reflection the I'm okay, You're okay mindset of the nineteen
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seventies and eighties. Who was a doctor, Dwayne Dyer. I believe he
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wrote the book I'm Okay, You're Okay. And you know what it really
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comes down to, nothing's wrong with you because nothing's wrong. There's no right
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or wrong. All morals if there are any or subjective what you believe is
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what's important. If he feels good, do it. The individual's actualization was
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the most important thing. Now, this was very much a part of the
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feminist and gay movement of the seventies and eighties. It was taking away the
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idea of what you are doing is wrong. What you feel is what matters.
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If it makes you happy, do it well? You know what did
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that bring? What did it bring? Well? Now suicide rates are at
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an all time high. Teen suicide rates are through the roof. They say
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TikTok has a lot to do with that, that the TikTok app may actually
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be encouraging suicide. I think all the psychological medications these kids are being put
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on. I mean, you got ADHD meds from an early age than it's
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meds for anxiety and depression, antipsychotics, etc. Etc. Etc. May
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have a lot to do with Social media is definitely probably the bigger problem.
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Well maybe not the bigger problem, but social media is a huge problem.
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We got a lot of our veterans committing suicide. We got, you know,
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especially during the COVID lockdowns. A lot of people got depressed, and
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a lot of people got hopeless, and a lot of people committed suicide.
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The social structures were no longer in place and are no longer in place that
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were there just a few decades ago. Illegitimacy is at all time high actually
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because of the legacies at all time high. Divorce rates have actually fallen a
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little bit because people don't even bother to get married in the first place.
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But most kids are now raised without an intact family, Fewer brothers and sisters,
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fewer siblings, little contact with extended family. A lot of kids barely
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know their grandparents, certainly not their aunts and uncles and cousins. Communities are
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broken up. People are scattered all over the country, and hardly anybody's going
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to church anymore. The institutions that made people not feel alone, the institutions
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that gave people a structure, have been almost entirely destroyed since about nineteen seventy.
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It's really even getting worse than that. I mean, last year,
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over one hundred thousand people United States overdosed and died from ventinyl alone. And
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it's probably gonna be more now because the Biden administration is opened the borders China.
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It wants to destroy America and is pouring sentinel across the border through our
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Mexican border, and the drug car tails are getting wealthy off of it,
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and the Biden administration and yes, Catholic charities seems to be aiding the car
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tails and human trafficking and drug trafficking. The homelessness is rampant. The violent
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crime in most cities is worse than ever. It got really bad. In
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the nineteen seventies, things kind of turned around. You know, we had
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a President Reagan in there, and we had Pope John Paul the Second,
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and we had some really good evangelical leaders, doctor Jerry Folwell, doctor Charles
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Stanley, Billy Graham. I mean there was actually Pat Robertson, you know.
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There there's actually a movement of let's bring America back to morals in God
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in the nineteen eighties. Well, by the nineteen nineties with the Clinton administration,
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that was out the window, that was gone. Anybody remember when Mother
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Teresa got right in Bill Clinton's face and challenged him over his stance on abortion.
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Have you noticed very few and none of our public Catholic leaders have had
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the guts to do that with Joe Biden. Yeah, the priest down in
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Florence, South Carolina. What a brave man who denied him communion? What
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his archbishop or bishop of Kansas City, he called him out publicly. Pope
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John Paul the Second would have done that. Pope Benedict would have done that
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Pope Francis, No, No, Pope Francis has tacitly endorsed just about the
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worst elements of the Biden administration for reasons I cannot understand, because actually,
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when he was, you know, a priest and a bishop and such,
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he was adamantly opposed to abortion. He has least spoken out on some of
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the issues towards transgenderism, the transgender movement. Maybe he just doesn't have the
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ability to issue a clear statement to the faithful, but he has really sown
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a lot of confusion in the Church, in my opinion, and I don't
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really understand why. Maybe you do. If you do, maybe you can
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inform me on it. But I think he seems to be a very kind,
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nice man. But his animosity towards traditional Catholics in the Latin Mass and
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traditional Christian conservative values in large part is very very troubling to me, very
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very troubling. Well, actually, things have gotten so bad in America right
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now that our life's expectancy has begun to drop for the first time in American
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history. I mean, it had been at least since the Industrial Revolution.
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Each generation was living a little bit longer than their ancestors. Now it's going
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in the other direction, and you can you know, some of that has
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to do a COVID, but then COVID really hit the elderly worse than it
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did the young. Right, some of it may have to do with the
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COVID vaccine, which seems like it's going to kill as many people as COVID,
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if not more. All I know is, before all this self esteem
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and self actualization, we didn't have a lot of school shootings. Now it's
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a frequent it's almost commonplace. These kids, I don't think any one of
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them has ever been in a two parent home. I don't think any one
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of them has done it, has ever been a church coer. They all
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seem to have been on AHD, add meds, atidepressed and sa andy,
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psychoics, and who knows what illegal drugs they were on, Obsessed with violent
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video games, obsessed with comic books and such. Completely isolated, cut off.
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Yeah, usually bullied because they didn't fit in. But you know,
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instead of a school counsel or someone trying to help them fit in, help
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them become more normalized, they're actually encouraged to be more isolated through this self
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actualization society. And then they go and just shoot up at school and kill
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a bunch of kids. And of course we blame the guns and not the
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kid, or better yet, the parents, because it's up to the parent
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to raise the kid. It does not take a village to raise a child.
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It takes two parents to raise a child, and in the absence of
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one of those parents, it takes one extremely good parent. I am a
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product of a single parent household. My dad was not involved in my life,
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and I was blessed am steward this day, blessed to have a very
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good mother. Every child needs at least one good parent, or one good
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grandparent, or one good aunt or uncle who actually take a legitimate interest,
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a legitimate loving interest to care for that child. Struck them in what is
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right? You know, Don't let them, don't let them play the violent
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video games, don't let them watch the dark movies. Don't let them have
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a bunch of guns and illegal drugs. I mean, what's up with that?
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If your kids on drugs, don't let them have a gun. I
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mean I am all four firearms. I mean I love to shoot. I
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mean I have a woodsman. I'm an outdoorsman. You know, if I
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had a kid who was psycho. I wouldn't give them a gun, But
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you know, that just seems like common sense to me. Maybe it's over
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the head of most people these days, but that perhaps most indicative of this
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trend was a poll that came out a couple of weeks ago showing that about
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twenty five percent about a quarter of all high school students believe themselves now to
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be either gay, transgendered, or something else so called non binary. Apparently
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they can't look between their legs and figure out what sex they are, go
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figure This was unheard of just a few years ago. This is literally a
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trend that just has happened in the past couple of years. This is basically
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a mass psychosis, is what it is. I mean, for the whole
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of human history, homosexuals have been less than five percent of the population,
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and most people would estimate less than two percent of the population. And there
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has been no such thing as transgender. Yeah, you've had people like cross
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dress and whatever, which was considered a mental disorder until yes, just a
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few years ago, and now it's normative. Now it's if you feel that
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way, And kids are being encouraged by teachers and school counselors and psychologists to
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do it. And at the root of it, I think is what I
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call the medical industrial complex that are going to make a fortune off these sex
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change operations and all the hormones and all the treatments and all the psychological counseling
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that those kids would need for the rest of their lives. For the rest
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of their lives, each one of these sex changes, which is usually taxpayer
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funded, is going to make the mental industry millions of dollars at least hundreds
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of thousands, probably millions of dollars over the lifetime of the child, depending
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on how long they live. And now twenty five. Look, if that
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keeps this way, our country is imploding. We will not have a birth
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rate that can sustain a country. We will not have people to serve in
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the military, we will not have people to work the jobs that our economy
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will fall. Everything will crash, and our churches will be abandoned. There'll
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be no one in them. So you know, it comes down to we
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now live in a world where there's no judgment, there no rules, there
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no morals, and there's no normal. The only people condemned are those who
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try to hold faster traditional Christian morals and doctrine. Individuality and self actualization or
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what they call living by one's own truth has become the norm, and you're
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supposed to celebrate it. You're never supposed to say anything wrong about it,
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right, you know? Is there any coincidence that just again, about two
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weeks ago, Satanists held a convention in Boston, the open ceremony, including
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the shredding of a Bible. And now there are Satanic clubs showing up in
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elementary schools across the country, even in my own state of North Carolina,
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in what they used to call the Bible Belt Protestant South, they're now Satanist
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clubs in elementary and middle schools. They won't let there be Bible studies,
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they won't let there be prayer at a classroom, but they're Satanist clubs.
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Now there are after school Christian groups and some people say, well, the
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Satanists are just trying to drive them out by threatening. Well, but no,
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there are actually Satanist clubs. And the thing is about Satanists, they
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generally claim that they don't worship Satan, they worship themselves. You have to
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remember that the devil was cast out of heaven because he rebelled against God.
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He wanted to set himself up as his own God. The devil worships himself.
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Satanists worshiped themselves. The entire self esteem, self actualization movement that began
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in the nineteen seventies has earn Americans and especially the youngest in our society,
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into those who worship themselves and the culture that like people like them have created,
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which is getting more deviant and more violent and more dangerous and disgusting by
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the day. You know, you should would think, you would think the
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churches would stand against us, You really would. But what you see in
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most mainline Protestant churches is the prosperity doctrine. You know, perhaps not unsurprisingly,
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people don't really want to hear or that Jesus said that those who followed
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him would suffer. We have to take up our cross and follow him.
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We have to serve. We will be rejected, we will be hated.
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They want to hear that God wants them to be rich and happy. All
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right. You know, I'd be really easy to blame this on the Protestants,
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right, but far too many Catholics, far too many Catholics are equivating,
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equivocating on social issues, saying God wants you to be happy. Mind
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that you know, all sin and selfishness carries with it the promise of temporary
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happiness or pleasure. It's if you feel good, if it feels good to
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do it, if you want it, have it. You can lie,
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you can cheat, still sleep around, have extramarital affairs, be gay,
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be other, be proud, always be proud, Be proud. Who's the
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proudest entity in the universe. It's the devil. Christians are supposed to be
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humble. I mean, guess God gives us talents and we should feel a
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certain self worth in those talents, a certain pride. But we know they
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don't come from us. They're given to us by God. We cultivate what
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is given to us. This pride is not only unhealthy, but of course
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you know, Catholic doctrine teaches that pride is a sin. Pride is really
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like the original sin before the Garden of Eden. Original sin. Pride and
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envy are so interrelated that they are essentially the root of all evil. So
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obviously, things going on this way, it's gonna it could lead to the
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end of Christianity, at least, you know. Mainline Christianity. I don't
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even think America has a Christian culture anymore. You know, I'm not,
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like I said, this is not a chicken. Little sky is falling.
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We know how the story ends. Those who endure to the end will be
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saved. But this humanist mindset is plunging in this world into chaos. And
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unfortunately, many, if not most Christians of all denominations, Catholic, Protestant,
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and any you know related. I mean, like I don't know,
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Jehovah's witnesses don't believe that Jesus is Lord and Savior. They don't believe that
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Jesus is God. But we can we consider them, we consider them part
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of Christian culture at least. Even Mormons are starting to cheer this stuff on
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it. I mean, if there's a Pride parade, you better believe the
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Christians are going to run out there and lead it. And uh yeah,
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a lot of are gonna be a Catholic like Nancy Pelosi and and and U
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Joe Biden, and you know, as unfortunates that is. I mean,
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we really are taught a very false dichotomy in this country. We're taught that,
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you know, all Republicans are conservative all all liberals or democrat. Uh
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well, you know, i'man to say, well, actually, there are
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very There are no essentially conservative democrats. Left liberalism is essentially a mental disorder,
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and a liberal is a liberal first. Okay, we'll get into that
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another day. That's a big topic. There are, actually, though,
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a lot of liberal Republicans. I mean, look, the Bushes were not
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conservative on these social issues, okay, and on a lot of other stuff.
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I mean they spent like drunken sailors, except drunken sailors at least spend
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their own money. When I was involved in politics in college and I was
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communicating with some of the bigger names, you would be surprised some of the
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people who tried to discourage me from being active in politics, from writing,
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from speaking. Do the names cal Thomas and Britt humoring a belle? They
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actually, each of them told me, in two different ways, we don't
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want any more Christians in the Republican Party. We don't want anyone whose politics
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are shaped by their religious values. We have too many already, and they're
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the problem. You're gonna hear that a lot today, you see. You
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know, Fox News has totally abandoned the conservative movement and President Trump. They
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blame the fact that we finally got Roe v. Wade overturned. It took
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lifetimes to get it done, or they're blaming that as the reason we're losing
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elections. Never mind that the big money liberal Republicans have cut off all the
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money to the candidates and the candidates are being outspent one hundred to one in
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most races. Anyway, he just really struck me that in this Gospel reflection
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for last Thursday, the message of the Bible is toward humility and not pride.
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I think that's really really important. And you know, over the past
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decades we have literally normalized the worst sins possible, even the slaughter of innocent
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babies. And as Catholics, we must humbly serve by holding fast to the
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truth, standing boldly for the truth. The truth is given to us by
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God through his Church. That would be easy to say if our culture wasn't
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opposed to the Church obviously and opposed to the truth in general. But in
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all honestly, it would really be a lot easier for me and for us
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all to stand up boldly for the truth. That bold is very different than
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proud, have courage, and be out spoken, if our priests, bishops
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and cardinals would stand behind us, and frankly, if so many of our
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Catholic universities weren't teaching the exact opposite of Catholic doctrine, and really it would
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help a lot, a lot if Pope Francis would be a little more clear
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and orthodox and seem to be more on the side of the truth than on
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the side of the culture. But anyway, that's that's my opinion. But
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when it comes to how bad is it in terms of Catholics confusing people and
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teaching and promoting what's absolutely opposed to the Word of God, to Catholic doctrine,
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to Christian morals and traditions that have been with us for a good two
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thousand years or so. Have you heard what the Biden administration is doing through
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USAID. Usaid is where they take our tax dollars and do foreign aid around
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the world. It's really how America controls and pulls the strings in other countries.
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It's essentially a well. For many years, it was almost a bribery
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program to keep make poor countries side with US as opposed to the Soviet Union.
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Now they're using it to promote radical gender ideology as well as the overt
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sexualization of children and abortion and birth control. Yeah, that's what our Catholic
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president is doing. Our senile, demanded, desiccated, completely despicable, so
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called Catholic president. When he's not sniffing children and making millions off of backdoor
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deals with the Chinese, he is promoting this the good Catholic his rosary is
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doing. I learned this from Steve Cortez's daughter, Kingsley Cortes, who does
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a really great job. I think it was Renewing America project. I mean
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to get in this a little bit more later. She actually gave a lot
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of details that I don't have the time to discuss right now, so look
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forward to that tomorrow. I'll try to work into tomorrow's show. She's done
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some analysis of this ua USA us AID project, and it seems that the
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Biden administration is going out to African, Middle Eastern South American countries, countries
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that either have a very strong Catholic or a Muslim ideology, that don't believe
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in homosexuality, transgenderism, birth control, and they've actually taken a program that
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was designed and really funded and promoted by President Trump to stop human trafficking and
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forced marriages. You know, in some of these countries, little girls are
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forced to marry older men against their will. And the Trump administration was very
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opposed to that, you know, as as my mother always say, Trump's
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no choir boy. But he did what was right. Well. The Biden
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administration, yes, the Catholic Biden administration is absolutely not doing what is right.
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They want to promote, in the words of this program, those of
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lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender queer intersects plus community. That's actually in
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their the language of this program. Now, they want to educate. They're
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doing these education programs in the schools. They're targeting the youth just as they
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are in schools here in America, saying, you know, you may be
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of a different section way it appears to be, and we're going to support
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you in that, and we're going to put in a lot of money so
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you can self actualization. They also are promoting abortion and artificial birth control.
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They are trying to turn more traditional cultures into being just as degraded and perverse
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as America has become. And they're not just spending a little money on this.
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As we are facing the so called debt ceiling, and we are trillions
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of dollars in debt. They are pouring billions of dollars into these programs throughout
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the world. You have to wonder why we'd never seem to learn the list
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lessons of history, do we? I mean, we went through Hitler and
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eugenics. This is the anniversary of victory in Europe in World War Two when
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the Nazis were defeated. And here we are following leaders that are embracing policies
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that will essentially establish the same goals eradicate religion, reduce the population, embrace
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socialism. And that, my friends, is our Catholic president. And where's
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the popemon that have we heard a message from the Vatican about this? Why
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not have we heard the US Council of Catholic Bishops come out and speak boldly
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against the transgender movement and against spreading the so called family planning and reproductive health
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services throughout the world. We need some good, faithful, humble servants to
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speak boldly about the things that really matter. All right, y'all, have
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a good day, keep your head up and in the words of Saint Pio,
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pray, hope and don't worry. And I'll talk to you tomorrow