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Show 62: God is not nationalistic · The Uncensored Catholic

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Y'all welcome today's show. Let's jump right in, and, as we usually
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do, start with a couple of questions and answers from the classic book.
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Radio replies, this questioner has been, we shall say, contemplating or questioning
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free will, the nature of free will? He asks, it is necessary
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then that we should be on earth? That's actually a question. He's saying,
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is it necessary that we should be on earth? And they say it
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is necessary the presence, or I should say, it is necessary insofar as
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God has decided that we should be here. It is not absolutely necessary for
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any being to exist except for God. All other beings depend upon God's will.
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But God has willed that we should have our opportunity to praise, love
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and serve Him in this life and be happy with Him forever and the rest
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in the next. Surely a great destiny. The secret of life is summed
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up in three words. I come from God, I must live for God,
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and I shall go back to God. The person continues, You constantly
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speak of some kind of relationship between God and man, and the answer,
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I do. A personal God exists. Intelligent human beings exist. Those human
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beings owe all they have to the personal God. Who made them, and
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being intelligent, are able to recognize this fact. Reason demands that they do
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so and render a suitable practical acknowledgement of the fact to God. He asked,
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what form will that practical acknowledgement take, And they say it must be
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expressed in the duties of religion, which will imply reverence for God's person and
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obedience to such instructions as He pleases to issue in our regard from very important
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points. In fact, I was just contemplating today of her a passage in
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the Bible. You may remember when Jesus went to the temple on the Sabbath
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day and there was a crippled man, and he said for him to take
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up his bed and walk, told him he was killed. And of course,
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the religious Jews at the time that the temple officials were outraged that Jesus
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had healed someone on the Sabbath. According to their very narrow and myopic,
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literalistic tempt interpretation of the Mosaic law, the tooral law, no work was
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to be done on the Sabbath, and that included healing the sick. Well,
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it's really interesting when you think about him throughout the history of the Jewish
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religion, it was understood that sin was the concept that death and sickness were
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the consequence of sin. We believe this also, of course, in the
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Christian religion. It's taught by the Catholic Church that through the original sin of
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our first parents Adam and Eve, a sickness and death degeneration entered the world,
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not only for all of humanity, but all plants and animals, and
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even the universe itself became bound essentially to linear time, which has a beginning
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and an end. Before the fall of man, the natural state of all
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existence was eternity, just as God exists in heaven. After the fall of
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man, sickness and death entered the world through that act of disobedience. So,
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in the traditional Jewish understanding, again which was very literalistic, if they
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encountered a sick person, a deformed person, a lame person, a blind
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person, and they even know asset in the New Testament, for whose sin
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you know, is this man blind or sick, or a leper, or
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whatever his own personal sin or that of his parents. You know, they
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firmly believed and taught that all the lepers that were unclean and unable to participate
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in the temple were had leprosy because of sin, and if a child was
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born crippled or blind from birth, they would say that sin was the sin
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of the parents. And so in that understanding, you know, when we
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think about it, we can almost begin to begin to understand why they seemed
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so hardhearted, you know, why they seemed to lack mercy. Here were
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you know, sick and lame and blind people around the temple begging for am
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begging for help, and Jesus, in his mercy, kills them, and
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instead of celebrating it, they condemned it. Well, they're an attitude of
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you're to blame for your sickness. You know, there is a fault that's
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caused. This would cause them to be less merciful than one would simply looking
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at someone and realizing their suffering. Well, Jesus, being God and having
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all knowledge, knew full well they couldn't comprehend that just as the original sin
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of our first parents essentially infected all of mankind and will until the end of
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time, making us subject to all manner of sufferings from our own weak wheels
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are lack of knowledge, our yes, sickness, yes, death, etc.
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That the sickness of an individual was very likely not due to an individual
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sin committed by that individual, or by a sin committed by one or both
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of his parents or her parents. The idea that you know, sickness and
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death are the penalty of sin is more broad. You know, it's not
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necessarily an individual sin that person committed. Now, sometimes it may be.
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Sometimes God does well, Jesus said he were. You know, it's like
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a refiner's fire. He causes us to suffer to help us, to help
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free us from our sins, to help us be more repentant, to be
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more devoted, to correct our bad behaviors. He will do that, he
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says. He disciplines us as a father would his children. But certainly,
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when an innocent child enters this world with a childhood disease like a cancer that
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leads to death, certainly nothing the fault of the child. And to look
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at the parents and blame them is really pretty ridiculous. You know, generally
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speaking, that's not how God, how would I say, refines a person,
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raises them up, makes them more holy, and leads them to salvation
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by you know, giving their child a horrible disease. I mean, that's
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not how God works. But that's what the Jews of Jesus's time believed.
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So when this man was healed, far from celebrating, they were, you
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know, shocked and and not happy at all that he had been healed.
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You know, to them, he had done something, or his parents had
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done something, and that punishment was deserved. That you know, the law
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of Moses, the toral law, is a law of consequences. There's a
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punishment for everything done wrong. You know. Saint Paul wrote a great length
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about how the law was a punishment and a penalty and made one, you
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know, guilty of these sins. And Jesus came and freed us from that
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law. So even in you know, the Old Testament where we see,
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you know, people's punished for the decision of their leader, or plagues and
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locusts and all that, Jesus freed us from that we're no longer under those
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penalties of the law of Jesus said, follow the ten commandments, obviously,
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and follow my commandments, you know, do what's right. But the heart
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of the law was to love God with all your heart and to love your
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neighbors yourself. And he said, if you understood this, you would have
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understood the words I desire not sacrifice, but mercy. These sa prifices this,
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you know, for the sins of the people, were supposed to be
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in the reparation for the sins they had done. Right, they would take
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their valuable livestock and the priest would slaughter it and offer it up to God,
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and that was, you know, a sacrifice on that person's part.
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Well, that's not what God wanted. He just wanted people to treat each
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other fairly and to worship Him in the way he demanded. It was only
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because of the constant rebellion of the Jewish people in the desert following Moses that
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the toral law was even required. You know, had they just done as
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God asks, worshiped him alone and not other idols and demons and all that,
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and follow the simple basic ten commandments, there would have been no need
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for all that law. Our early church father was going to great detail that
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it was never God's will to impose all those like dietary restrictions and such,
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or the elaborate handwashing rituals, and that the Jewish people came to follow.
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It was done as it gradually as punishments for their rebellious and rebellion and sin.
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You know, Jesus came and took away all that. He freed us.
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He freed us from the penalty of the law, the wages of sin
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or death, and he took that death upon himself. Now, of course,
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we still have sickness in this world, and we will still have death
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in this world until the end of time, when He comes again and makes
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all things new. The entire universe would then be freed from linear time and
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exist as heaven and Earth together combined as one. Well, you know,
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it's interesting in that passage, the man didn't even know who it was who
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healed him. The temple authorities accosted him and said, who healed you?
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He said, I don't even know. You know, Jesus sought the man
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out and spoke with him and told him, go sin no more, that
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nothing worse may befall you. What would be worse than being crippled from birth?
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Right, well, what would be worse would be sins that would be
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mortal sins that could you know, damn him for all eternity to hell.
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So Jesus very much became that man's personal savior. When we think about,
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you know, about what the priests were just saying in that last question.
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Let me see if I can read it again. A personal God exists.
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Intelligent human beings exist. Those human beings owe all they have to the personal
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God who made them, and being intelligent, are able to recognize that fact.
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Reason demands that they do so and render a suitable practical acknowledgement of the
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fact of God. It must be expressed in the duties of religion, which
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will imply reverence for God's person obedience to such instruction as He pleases to issue
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in our regard. You see, the God of the ancient Jews was not
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really a personal god. He was the God of a nation. Prophets would
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be picked out by God and filled with the Holy Spirit, and they would
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be his messengers. We can go back to is it Chronicles. I'm thinking
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it may be Chronicles that tells the story of the destruction of Jerusalem and the
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capture of the people being made slaves in Babylon. Starts out God saying,
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I sent prophets, I sent my representatives. You mocked them, you scorned
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them, you ignored them. You set up false gods, and the temple
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you just desecrated for the holy places. You turn your backs on me on
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God, after everything I had done for you, leading you out of Egypt
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and all this, and so I'm giving you over to destruction. For the
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time that was, you know, there were probably very many good people in
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Israel at the time, devout Jews, but because it was a nation of
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people, the people of God, the sins of their leaders were so great
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and so vile that the nation was essentially destroyed and taken into slavery, you
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know, to come back rejoicing and the temples rebuild after the Persians took over,
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and God gives him a second chance, and that's when he says that
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there's going to be a new world, Heaven and earth would be known more,
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and Israel essentially is going to be a beacon, a messenger all people,
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and everyone's going to worship the God of Israel. Well, you know,
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that's why they thought that Jesus would becoming as you know, the Messiah,
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as a nationalistic leader. They had a full belief that, you know,
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he was going to be a great earthly king, that Israel and the
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Jewish people would rule all the earth, and that all peoples of the earth
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would follow the Jewish religion. That's not how Jesus did it. He came
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as a messiah, and for all the Jews who would believe in him,
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they were part of a new covenant and a new religion. And for all
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Gentiles they were adopted in that would believe in Jesus and are baptized and confirmed
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into His church. Are now heirs adopted into the salvation he promised to the
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Jews, and not under the law that the Jewish people had to suffer under.
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It's very wrong for some of the adventists toward observant Christians, to etc.
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To insist that Christians must obey Jewish law. It's actually refuted like a
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hundred times in the New Testament. I mean, just like start with Acts
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and start reading forward, and you're going to see that totally refuted and debunked
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and condemned. But it's also an affront an insult to the salvific work of
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Christ. He took the penalty of death upon himself, taking the penalty of
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the law, all the all the penalty for all the sins of all mankind
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from the beginning of time to the end time, and suffered and died for
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us, and then rose again on the third Day as a new man on
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Sunday with a new Church and a new covenant and a new law which has
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nothing to do with the Torah. You know, it's the Ten Commandments,
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and it's the teachings of Jesus Christ through the words in the Bible and sacred
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tradition of the Catholic Church, which he founded for the salvation of all mankind.
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So let's think about you know, Jesus there in the temple, he
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heals this man because he's he's merciful, and he's kind, and he cares
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for each of us individually, not as a nation. Yeah, sure,
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Jesus cares for nations as well. You know, the Book of Revelations explains
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that. I think I think it's for revelations or is it Daniel. I'm
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gonna have to go back and check it. But each you know, each
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nation has an angel that is assigned to it. You know, angels are
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messengers, communicants between heaven and earth. And he so he does care for
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nations as a whole. But the difference between the God of the Old Testament
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the God of Islam, uh, you know, which same god basically with
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two different interpretations and understandings. You know, it's the same god of Abraham,
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the gods of ancient Greece and Rome, the gods of ancient Babylon and
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Egypt, you know, which were false gods, but they were nationalistic,
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and they were associated with a place and a people. You think about.
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Oh, I cannot remember the name of the official of the king. It's
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a history in the Old Testament. He has leprosy, and I think it
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was the prophet, was the prophet in Naham. Anyway, he goes to
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him because he's been told that he can clear cure him of his leprosy.
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And he says to him to go bathe in the river Jordan three times,
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and he says, but the rivers here are just same as the rivers in
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our nation. In fact, you know, our rivers are better. And
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he's offended, right, but someone convinces him, one of his servants,
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to just do it, just try it. You know, it's not gonna
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cost anything. He comes out and he's cured of his leprosy. Well,
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he goes back and he thanks the prophet. And the first thing he asked,
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could he dig up some of the soil there in Israel and take it
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home to his native land because the belief in the ancient world was that every
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region had its own gods, and every people who were native to those regions
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had their own god or gods. The Jewish people were very unique because they
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were not necessarily tied to one place. They were wanderers, you know,
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they were oh, there's a word for it, you know, nomadic people.
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There were nomadic people. They were herdsman. You know, they had
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to take their flocks of sheeps and goats and all that. Sheep and goats
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and all that and oxen and anything that grazes had to be moved from pasture
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to pasture, especially in dessert areas. So they were constantly following the seasons
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and wandering and living in tents. That is a very unique aspect in the
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history of humanity because God shows as his chosen people, not a people that
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was rooted and associated with a certain piece of land, a certain piece of
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real estate. There were. God was a god of their people and not
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of their place. God gave to them the chosen land, and every time
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they disobeyed and he took it away from him. So, you know,
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he made very clear that he was not a god of a place, but
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a god of the people. That was one of the main mistakes they made
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in later Judaism towards the time of Christ, was essentially worshiping the temple and
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the place and the letter of the law instead of the God who was supposed
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to dwell there and who had given them the law. So when the word
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of God appeared in human form before them, they couldn't see it. And
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when he exercised compassion as God, they couldn't understand it. And when he
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went him further and forgave people's sins, they believed he was a blasphemer,
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and under the law he had to be killed. The penalty under the law
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for a man to claim the power and the authority of God was death,
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and that's what led to Jesus's crucifixion. He violated the Sabbath, he forgave
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sins, He under the Jewish law, because they looked at the letter of
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the law and not the spirit of the law, had to be put to
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death. They did not recognize a mean, humble man from a poor family
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without formal education, that he could be God incarnate in human form. They
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thought that was insane. The Messiah they expected was this king that was going
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to make them rulers of the world and bring peace and prosperity for all time.
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They did not see the rest of the story. And I mean,
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we are so very blessed to have both the Old and New Testament, and
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the sacred tradition has passed down from the Apostles through the Catholic Church, so
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we know how the story ends. But it's very important to remember that our
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God is not a nationalistic god. I you know, as a Southerner,
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it offends me to hear what they call the Battle Hymn of the Republic anyway,
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because it's a nationalistic him that was used to just by the slaughter,
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starvation, rape, pillaging of the South by those who march center that banner.
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And I'm not talking anything to do with slavery. Slavery, of course,
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is wrong, but those were There were a lot of war crimes committed
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in the Civil War by the North against the South, the purposeful targeting of
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civilians, burning people's homes and crops, slaughtering and raping women and children,
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you know, trying to starve people to death, and they starve white and
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black alike. I mean they were, trust me, those Union soldiers were
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not saying, oh wait, a minute. We got black people over here,
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we need to make sure they have enough food and shelter. We're just
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going to target the white people now. Sherman's troops went in and just laid
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waste to the point that Sherman's troops believe Sherman to be a demon possessed because
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he was cruel and insane. So I have a personal strong aversion to the
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battle him of the Republic, but it also makes a huge mistake. Remember,
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God is not nationalistic. It's a myth that America was chosen as the
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Promised Land. I mean, that's just you know, America was founded mostly
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by Protestant, mostly by Freemasons, but almost all but one of our founding
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followers was Protestant, and there was a lot of language saying, you know,
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this was the Promised Land, this was the shining city set up on
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the hill, this was the new Jerusalem. It sounds good. It's motivational.
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I am very patriotic. I think it's it's Patriotism is a good thing.
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And God has used America wonderfully to stop you know, communists from taking
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over the world in the Cold War, the rise of Nazism and imperial Japan
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and fascism in World War Two. You know, America, it has certainly
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been a force for good. But we also have to recognize God doesn't need
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America. America needs God. Americans no longer most Americans no longer go to
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church. Most Americans still identify as Christian, but most Americans are no longer
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practicing Christians. And America has never been a nation that embraced or respected the
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Catholic Church, which is the church that Jesus founded. The idea even used
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by one of my favorite presidents, Ronald Reagan. He said America was a
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shining city set upon the hill. No, it's not. America was found
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in seventeen seventy six. The shining city set upon the hill, visible to
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all ages, that the gates of Hell will not prevail against, is the
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one Holy Apostolic and Catholic Church founded by Jesus that has existed from the very
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day he said to Peter, You're the Rock, and will exist until He
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comes again at the end of the world. No other human institution has lasted
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that long. America did not exist two twenty three years ago, the Catholic
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Church did. The governments of Italy have risen and fallen. The governments of
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France and England have changed several times since then, only the Catholic Church has
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existed, and then America will very likely fall because we are no longer good.
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You know, as the Talgral said, America is great because she is
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good. When America's no longer great, she would no longer be good.
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I you know, the world will probably still be standing a thousand years from
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now, if the world is, if the end times have not come.
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You know, the Catholic Church will certainly be standing a thousand years from now.
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I have no belief that America would be standing a thousand years from now.
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So when I say God is not nationalistic, what I mean is,
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yeah, he can do without America. He can do without wherever he wants.
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He can do with out England. He does not need England or America
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to accomplish his will. But each individual person in each individual country needs God.
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And God has an individual relationship with each individual person in each individual country,
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if that person will accept it, believe, trust in have faith in
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God, and follow his commandments the teachings he gave us. And he made
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his teachings very clear, I mean through his words in the Bible and the
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words of the Apostles in the Bible, and the sacred tradition of the Catholic
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Church handed down through the Apostles. It's not a mystery. And just as
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he sought out that man in that temple who did not even know who,
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healed him, and said to him, now that you're healed, you know,
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go reform your life. Don't let anything else bad happen to you,
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And in so doing exposed himself as the healer of this man. And it
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said in that same passage it was at this time they began to conspire against
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him because he had healed on the Sabbath. So Jesus not only sought the
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man out after healing him. Well, let's say, Jesus not only healed
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him just out of pure mercy and love. He sought him out out of
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genuine individual concern for the person, and in so doing began the horrendous torture
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and crucifixion and death that he would endure for each individual person. He didn't
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do it for the nation of Israel. He didn't do it for the nation
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of Greece. He didn't do it for the nation of wherever you happen to
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be he did it for you individually. Throughout the history of the Jewish religion,
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that healing, because it was believed to be due to personal sin,
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was an incredible sign of God's mercy. And in that one passage, so
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much is wrapped up mercy, forgiveness of sin, God interacting with man,
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the individual relationship between man and his savior, and God's willingness to sacrifice and
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do anything for that one lost sheep, and the rejection of God due to
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nationalistic ideas is something we need to think a lot about. One thing I
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try to make clear when I talk to people about politics. Politics can be
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a rival ideology to religion. Politics has its own story, right, It
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has its story of the fallen redemption. Well, except the fallen redemption isn't
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religious. So you're not gonna be redeemed by a savior. You're going to
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be aemed through a political party or a politician. It has its good guys
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and it's bad guys. It says it's heroes at saints, it has it's
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you know, it's It can be a rival to pol to religion, and
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it should not be. It becomes dangerous whenever it is obviously Liberalism progressivism,
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communism, Nazism, socialism, fascism, that all those related ideologies have been
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the greatest force of evil this world has probably seen in human form. I
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mean, killing over two hundred million people by communist governments, and then the
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slaughter of countless millions of infants through abortion thanks to the progressives and liberals in
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this country, and the crime and the fentinal deaths and the you know,
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that's a huge force of evil. But the people who are liberals, they
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think they can save the world through their ideology, and they think they're good
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people because they believe it. If if you fall into the trap of thinking,
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you know, okay, let's see how you're on the other side of
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the aisle, and you think Democrats are bad, well, I agree democrats
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are bad. But if you think every Republican's good, you're on the same
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wrong path. You're on the same wrong path. There are really bad Republicans
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of the Republican Party. One of them, who I who is considers himself
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to be incredibly pious and just such a wonderful religious person, I would say,
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is Mike Pence. Mike Pence, who turned his back on the Catholic
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faith, sold out the president sold out the country. I think he's a
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real awful person and should never be entrusted with political office again. But if
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and if his name's on a ballot, I'm not voting for him. Yeah,
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I would say that about a lot of them. You know, are
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some are mistakens, some are good, some are bad. Some are really
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really corrupt, really really super corrupt. I've worked in politics. I have
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seen Republicans who stole millions of dollars through their office the same way Biden has
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enriched himself or the Biden family has enriched themselves, really bad people. And
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they go in and say, you got to vote for me because I'm a
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Republican and I championed this cause, and I champion this cause. And then
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they go into Congress, Well, look at Mitch McConnell, look at Lindsey
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Graham. They sell you out on every instance. They're not good just because
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they have an R by their dame. I mean, I love the Atlanta
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Braves. I'm a huge baseball fan. Sometimes the Braves have a great team
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and they win every game, like this year, it's fantastic, right,
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Sometimes they're the worst team in baseball. I'm not going to go in and
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say the Braves are always going to win because they're going to be the best
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team every year. I mean knowledge sometimes they're really wealsy, right, Sometimes
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Republicans are really lousy nine nine point nine nine percent of the time Democrats are
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pure evil. But always remember lay that down and look at what the teachers
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of the church are. Does the church say this warrior about to get involved
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in is moral and just if not, you have no business supporting it.
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Does the church say abortion is wrong? Well, if it does, then
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you cannot, as a Catholic support a politician who supports abortion. Yeah.
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How about another sell out, Sean Hannity, who recently turned his back on
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the Catholic faith, now says that Republicans have to campaign on allowing abortion.
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Moderate your position. It's okay to kill babies in some instances. Yeah,
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and up to a certain amount of time, you know, just because life
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is life and God made that person and says murders wrong. For political expediency,
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you have to let that go and embrace evil. Okay. I no
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longer have any use for Sean Hannity whatsoever. He's basically he's dead to me
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anyway. So always remember that sometimes your country and I don't care what country
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you're in is not on the right side of what the Church teaches and almost
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good and good and right. Nationality does not define morality. Morality kids revealed
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through God and the is insured in the teachings of the Catholic Church. So
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I'm sure I've offended some people. I'm sure there are a lot of people
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to say my country right or wrong. I'm with it one hundred percent,
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But no, I'm going to say if my country's wrong, I mean,
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yeah, I'd have been a gant slavery. If I had lived in the
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South of the Civil War, I'd have also been a gant. The invasion
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of the South by the North and the mass slaughter of civilians both were wrong.
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Both had their good points and bad points. And you know, you
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look at what we've accomplished in our foreign adventurism in the last few decades.
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I mean, we haven't one a war since World War Two. We usually
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just go in and make matters worse and leave thousands of people to be slaughtered
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when we pull out. I got some serious qualms with both parties. But
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the point of that, and that was just a huge tangent, is just
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always remember God is not a nationalistic god. He doesn't. He's not a
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god of America. He's not a god of England, he's not a god
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of China. He's a god of all people individually, and he will use
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nations to accomplish his will. But he doesn't play favorites because he cares for
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each person in each country. Too often we dehumanize people by not understanding that,
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and you know that's the very last thing Jesus wants us to do.
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So anyway, y'all. And and just to make perfectly clear, I'm by
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no means a pacifist. I believe war is very necessary sometimes when it's a
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moral and just war, and in defense of innocent lives, Okay, And
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you know that's Catholic teaching as well, you defend the innocent. We just
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have to make sure our country is led by moral, good people so we
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are on the innocent side, so we're not on the side of aggression and
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exploitation. And you know, we can't have bad people running this country,
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which is what we have now. I'll say it again. For all his
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faults, Donald Trump's the best president of my lifetime, and I hope and
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pray to God he gets back in office. By no means is he perfect,
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and by no means is he a deity or anything. But he was
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a darn good president, darn good president, better than Ronald Reagan. And
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I never thought I could say that about another president. So there is hope.
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There is hope, This bope can be turned around. This ship takes
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a long time turn a ship around, you know, But there is hope.
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So in the words of Saint Padre Pia, pray, hope and don't
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worry, and I'll talk to you next time.