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#708 A Zombie Is a Wounded and Lost Brother or Sister: Be Willing to Proclaim the Gospel to Them · Claymore: Become Who You Are

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SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Claymore Become Who You Are podcast, a production of the John Paul 2 Renewal Center.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm Jack Rigertz, your host.
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SPEAKER_00: So glad you're with me today.
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SPEAKER_00: Today's episode, it's called A Zombie is a Wounded and Lost Brother or Sister.
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SPEAKER_00: In the gospel we hear, someone must be willing to proclaim the gospel to them.
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SPEAKER_00: And to Timothy, I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season.
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SPEAKER_00: Man, do we have to hear the word today?
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SPEAKER_00: Delectiamici, John Paul's apostolic letter to young people, means dear friends.
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SPEAKER_00: And when I think back on how we started Claymore and the journey we've been on, what a journey, huh?
0:45
SPEAKER_00: We've been sharing months that turned into really years of walking together in faith, prayer, and discovery.
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SPEAKER_00: And as Saint Paul writes, we are no longer strangers and sojourners, but fellow citizens, and with the saints and the members of the household of God built upon the foundation of the apostles and the prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure is joined together and grows into a holy temple of the Lord.
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SPEAKER_00: That's from Ephesians chapter two.
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SPEAKER_00: So we begin today where we left off in a previous episode, addressing love and truth.
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SPEAKER_00: And we invite you to join us to bring the gospel of love and truth to young people who are growing up without hope so often in this twisted, distorted, toxic culture.
1:30
SPEAKER_00: They are repeatedly misled about the meaning of marriage and the family, about authentic love, about the true meaning of sex and sexuality, and this confusion leaves so many of them anxious, depressed, even tempted toward despair.
1:45
SPEAKER_00: How many lives might be saved if we were not afraid to speak the truth to them?
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SPEAKER_00: Saint John Paul II urged us to go to them.
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SPEAKER_00: He said the more the world deprives young people of what's true, good, and beautiful, the more earnestly they will yearn for it.
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SPEAKER_00: The vacuum of modern secularism is actually a fragrant invitation for young people to rediscover the sacred in a world so full of darkness.
2:11
SPEAKER_00: I'm going to mention some more dark things here.
2:14
SPEAKER_00: Just to contrast, to see the spiritual battle we are in.
2:17
SPEAKER_00: The Epstein Files, a short name referring to a huge phenomenon, and it's so much bigger than any one player.
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SPEAKER_00: The disclosures mandated by the Epstein Files Transparency Act expose a fraction of the global network of evil, if you've been following it, right?
2:35
SPEAKER_00: Satanism, child abduction, and child sacrifice, and even more monstrous acts committed by very powerful people at the heads of nations and industries.
2:44
SPEAKER_00: And it's everywhere.
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SPEAKER_00: It's practically in the air we breathe, the evil going on, that the power, always the world elites, and many of the other people that are cooperating with them.
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SPEAKER_00: The average person on the street still seeks power, money control, sex, and sex, not in the beauty of the way we think about it in a marriage, but as seeing another person as an object and then using them without love, right?
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SPEAKER_00: So overwhelmingly, how could so much seemingly coordinated evil be all around us?
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SPEAKER_00: That's what people ask me all the time.
3:18
SPEAKER_00: How come so many people don't see it?
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SPEAKER_00: Is the other question.
3:21
SPEAKER_00: The first step, and what all this depends, is you have to turn off the mainstream media, like you would run from a cloud of poison gas, somebody wrote uh just recently, and said, I'm not exaggerating.
3:33
SPEAKER_00: You may think that they're only lying about Trump or ICE or partisan matters.
3:38
SPEAKER_00: You may think that it's safe to listen to them on other topics.
3:42
SPEAKER_00: No.
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SPEAKER_00: It's a worldview they've been dispersing for a long time, a mental blueprint meant to direct our thinking in ways we won't even notice.
3:51
SPEAKER_00: When you your eyes start to be open, your ears start to hear, you watch mainstream news and it's just propaganda after propaganda after propaganda, and you just get immersed in that.
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SPEAKER_00: You can no longer think.
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SPEAKER_00: You only start to see it once you're disengaged.
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SPEAKER_00: So if you're unwilling to even try living without their script, then you're lost.
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SPEAKER_00: But if you turn them off, you can start to get your heart back again and sit in silence, sit in prayer.
4:18
SPEAKER_00: You discover a whole other world.
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SPEAKER_00: Who do you think is powerful enough and intelligent enough to coordinate this all over?
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SPEAKER_00: You know, through your phones, social media, Hollywood, Madison Avenue.
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SPEAKER_00: When you think about these world elites and the Epstein files, all of this garbage coming in.
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SPEAKER_00: Who do you think's powerful enough to coordinate that?
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SPEAKER_00: There's only one person, Satan, huh?
4:42
SPEAKER_00: This is a spiritual war, and anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear knows it.
4:47
SPEAKER_00: But most people are like the walking dead, zombies.
4:51
SPEAKER_00: Zombies are bodies who have lost their souls, huh?
4:55
SPEAKER_00: Today Satan marches unmasked in public.
4:59
SPEAKER_00: Evil is clearly not hiding, yet so many are oblivious to the evil around them, and you have to ask why.
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SPEAKER_00: You know, we've really reached a stage, and this gets very dangerous when the majority of people have no idea their identity, their meaning and purpose in life.
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SPEAKER_00: They don't even see the evil around them.
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SPEAKER_00: We've reached a stage, especially in the West, where we have a critical mass of people who are what?
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SPEAKER_00: Separated from any knowledge of God.
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SPEAKER_00: This creates a vacuum, you know, with no spiritual armor.
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SPEAKER_00: The battle is lost in their own hearts.
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SPEAKER_00: We think we came into a neutral world when we were born.
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SPEAKER_00: This is a battle between good and evil, between Satan and our Lord.
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SPEAKER_00: So this threatens and poisons the whole society when we take God out.
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SPEAKER_00: We see that.
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SPEAKER_00: We can no longer discern or even see the intense war that's going on.
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SPEAKER_00: We can't even define this battle between good and evil anymore.
5:50
SPEAKER_00: It's amazing conversations.
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SPEAKER_00: You know, I try to get out of them as soon as I can when I see somebody's really, really lost that's their heart's not open because I just can't take the vitral and stuff.
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SPEAKER_00: I I'd I'd much rather talk with somebody that's at least open, you know, and bring the gospel to them because it really is a spiritual battle.
6:09
SPEAKER_00: I wonder if people already forget what happened just during COVID.
6:12
SPEAKER_00: Astonishing how so-called governments that uh uh of the democratic West forced what tyrannical lockdowns, force citizens to cover their faces with those with those uh masks and make a sign, a sacrifice to the rulers of this present darkness.
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SPEAKER_00: What was the sign, huh?
6:29
SPEAKER_00: Just take the jab.
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SPEAKER_00: Just take this vaccine that neither prevented or infection or transmitted, so it was no vaccine at all, and you can go about your life.
6:39
SPEAKER_00: Just take it.
6:40
SPEAKER_00: Well, why should I take it?
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SPEAKER_00: It doesn't work.
6:42
SPEAKER_00: Well, you just take it because if you do not, you're going to be marked as a leper and kept away from the rest of society.
6:48
SPEAKER_00: You'll no it longer be able to work to receive medical treatment, and your voice will be silenced.
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SPEAKER_00: We really felt this.
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SPEAKER_00: I have family members during COVID who were upset with me that I wouldn't wear a mask and I would go out all day long while they were afraid to even open a window in their own homes.
7:05
SPEAKER_00: You know that people are still wearing masks in their own cars, and the masks are ineffective.
7:12
SPEAKER_00: They have Trump derangement syndrome and think he's mean for closing down Biden's open borders, relatives even of mine, condemning the work of ICE agents to deport criminals in their own communities.
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SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's amazing.
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SPEAKER_00: All the while supporting the LGBTQIAS plus gender cult cult that they're pushing on their own children in these schools.
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SPEAKER_00: They have no clue that they're serving as pawns of Satan in this game of human destruction.
7:43
SPEAKER_00: I finally told one, I you know, you just run out of patience.
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SPEAKER_00: I said, please stop with naive, childish games.
7:50
SPEAKER_00: This is no game.
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SPEAKER_00: Pick a side and realize that either way right now, our life is about to change.
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SPEAKER_00: It's order or chaos, it's culture of life or culture of death.
8:01
SPEAKER_00: You have to decide which side you want to leave your legacy on.
8:06
SPEAKER_00: Atheism or freedom?
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SPEAKER_00: Which one do you choose?
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SPEAKER_00: Because when you choose atheism, you're enslaved and you don't even know it.
8:12
SPEAKER_00: Think about what are the T in the Q and LBGTQ gender ideologies?
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SPEAKER_00: The T is one that's just like that jab.
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SPEAKER_00: Kneel and accept the lie that a man could become a woman and you can go about your life.
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SPEAKER_00: The Q means to disrupt everything that's that's traditional.
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SPEAKER_00: You have the new world order, you know, the one world church, huh?
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SPEAKER_00: That destroys all that's true, good, and beautiful about human flourishing.
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SPEAKER_00: Early Christians were told just make a public sacrificial offering to Caesar, and then you can go home and pray and do whatever you want.
8:46
SPEAKER_00: But they wouldn't do it.
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SPEAKER_00: And they paid the ultimate price for it, suffering horrified deaths sometimes.
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SPEAKER_00: But they knew that life was eternal, and the choices we make here in this temporal space have eternal consequences.
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SPEAKER_00: In the trans instance, it's even more that it's okay to render confused children sterile for life, to mutilate their very bodies.
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SPEAKER_00: The attack on the most innocent, which are our children, is vicious.
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SPEAKER_00: Abortion, if they escape the womb, gender ideologies that will render them sterile, mutilate, mutilate their bodies.
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SPEAKER_00: They go into a corrupt school system that robs them of their innocence, along with, again, social media, the phones, Hollywood, Madison Avenue.
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SPEAKER_00: You wonder how they can even wake up.
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SPEAKER_00: Some of them are though.
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SPEAKER_00: So many people, though, are left clueless.
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SPEAKER_00: They don't see the disaster right in front of them and believe that life will just be continue to be normal.
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SPEAKER_00: We are not in a normal life.
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SPEAKER_00: You think it's normal because you've normalized the fall.
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SPEAKER_00: But even in the in the face of this significant evidence to the contrary, they don't see it.
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SPEAKER_00: These are not normal times.
9:55
SPEAKER_00: Did we already forget what I was talking about in 2020?
9:58
SPEAKER_00: And people say, yeah, Jack, right.
10:00
SPEAKER_00: You think the whole world's going to be shut down by this fear of this virus, uh by people who seek control and power.
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SPEAKER_00: This is for our safety and our own good.
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SPEAKER_00: This is why the government's doing this.
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SPEAKER_00: Here, just take this jab, put this mask on, and go along with the flow.
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SPEAKER_00: You know, too, Timothy, Saint Paul writes, but understand this in the last days there will come times of difficulty, he writes, for people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unpeasable, slanderous, without self control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power.
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SPEAKER_00: Avoid such people, he said.
10:52
SPEAKER_00: He said, For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and they'll turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.
11:07
SPEAKER_00: Since COVID, we have had repeatedly pointed out that we have entered a time in history like no other time, certainly no other time in the history of the United States.
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SPEAKER_00: We understand this by what Jesus said.
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SPEAKER_00: He said, Read the signs of the times.
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SPEAKER_00: And then he told the Pharisees, you are of your father, the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires.
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SPEAKER_00: He was a murderer from the beginning, has nothing to do with the truth.
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SPEAKER_00: What is the truth of things?
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SPEAKER_00: Can a man really become a woman?
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SPEAKER_00: Of course not.
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SPEAKER_00: Is the jab really effective?
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SPEAKER_00: No, of course not.
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SPEAKER_00: But there's no truth in him.
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SPEAKER_00: When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he's a liar and a father of lies.
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SPEAKER_00: The New World Order, the one world religion, power grabbed by the world elites.
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SPEAKER_00: People call it the deep state, the deep church, but they can't explain how this attack on human dignity and freedom was so coordinated.
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SPEAKER_00: It's Satan himself as the core uh the uh orchestra leader.
12:03
SPEAKER_00: You know, how about Pope Francis when he was sliding with you know siding with the globalists?
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SPEAKER_00: He used this opportunity to shut down the ch church, to shut down masses all over the world for the first time in history.
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SPEAKER_00: Push the jab.
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SPEAKER_00: He pushed the one world order, open borders.
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SPEAKER_00: He backed Biden, a pro-abortion Catholic who pushed abortion and transgender ideology on our nation.
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SPEAKER_00: Did the open border system, the one world order, huh?
12:29
SPEAKER_00: It's really pathetic.
12:31
SPEAKER_00: Why?
12:31
SPEAKER_00: Because they all knew Trump did not owe his loyalty to the New World Order, that he's a populist movement, not Democrat or Republican, but we, the people, Christians, who can see what's going on in the world, who love God, their family, and this nation.
12:48
SPEAKER_00: This is what TDS, Trump derangement syndrome's all about.
12:52
SPEAKER_00: What did we see?
12:54
SPEAKER_00: We see this attack, we see this attack on Trump constantly.
12:57
SPEAKER_00: They can't even explain why.
12:59
SPEAKER_00: While all the rest of us are out building careers, tending to our families, worshiping God, paying our bills, the people far above us, we see them now so clearly, to whom we granted power, were gleefully taking everything they could from us, and then flinging themselves over a cliff into a holy cause of pure evil, leading us all to hell on earth and for eternity.
13:25
SPEAKER_00: Now that Satan marches unmasked in public, the evil is clearly not hiding.
13:30
SPEAKER_00: Yet so many of people are oblivious to this.
13:33
SPEAKER_00: I want to uh show you just a clip from Tucker Carlson and Ian Kirl.
13:37
SPEAKER_00: They were discussing the Epstein files.
13:39
SPEAKER_00: I'll link that in the show notes if you want to watch that.
13:42
SPEAKER_00: But I want to pick up when it's almost done, when they're almost done speaking about the Epstein Files.
13:47
SPEAKER_00: And I want you just to hear them, and especially Ian Kirill's uh, I think he said he's 33 in this clip, and he just wants to build a family.
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SPEAKER_00: He wants to have a chance of the world.
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SPEAKER_00: He's a smart guy.
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SPEAKER_00: He's he's a he's uh he's he's big in social media.
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SPEAKER_00: And uh what he has to understand too, and what we all have to understand, this is really a battle between good and evil.
14:10
SPEAKER_00: You have to always start the the the battle on your knees, and then you have to go out and try to change try to change the world, right?
14:17
SPEAKER_00: But you have to do it through per let me share this clip with you.
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SPEAKER_01: For tearing it all down, but I I just I'm starting to wonder like, can any of this keep going now that we know a lot of the truth?
14:30
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that is the million dollar question.
14:32
SPEAKER_02: And think, um, so I'm 33 years old right now, and I'm sort of of the 9-11 generation.
14:39
SPEAKER_02: And um I shudder to imagine how a 21-year-old must feel today, or a 15-year-old must feel today.
14:47
SPEAKER_02: Because even at my age, um, as sort of like a still younger kind of adult, um, moving into like my generation is supposed to be moving into leadership roles and moving into positions of of taking on the mantle of like leading our country in the next, you know, five to ten years.
15:03
SPEAKER_02: And we all grew up in this world where the first thing we knew as like young thinking adults was 9-11.
15:11
SPEAKER_02: And every event since then has felt like a facade.
15:14
SPEAKER_02: It's all felt like lies, it's all felt like deception, and it's culminated in this moment where we get this massive dump of information that just explicitly tells us that all the way back to Bill Clinton's presidency and even before, in a lot of ways, um, our government has been blackmailed on behalf of a foreign, maligned, malignant sort of an interest that then when we all we all see in 2019 that this guy gets charged, they get all this evidence.
15:47
SPEAKER_02: It is now 2026.
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SPEAKER_02: That is seven years of the American government doing absolutely nothing with this with this case, not prosecuting anyone except for Golane, a little bit, not not asking any questions, no investigations, no way we're like we're told that this is America, we're told that this is you know the greatest country on earth.
16:09
SPEAKER_02: And what what you would expect then from any decent country or any decent person if you shrunk this down to a smaller kind of a frame of reference, is you would expect that you deal with it.
16:19
SPEAKER_02: You you you deal with it.
16:21
SPEAKER_02: You don't let people abuse children, you don't let people blackmail your politicians, you don't let people control your financial networks through coercion and bribery and and control like this.
16:31
SPEAKER_02: And so when people in their 20s and 30s and and everyone of every age sees that for decades now, our nation has been co-opted from the inside.
16:45
SPEAKER_02: And then when they find that co option, and then still nothing is done.
16:50
SPEAKER_02: In fact, it's actually actively covered up um for almost 20 years now since the initial uh sweetheart deal.
17:00
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I don't know how you um I don't know how you come back from that.
17:04
SPEAKER_02: Um it's it's I I I kind of shudder to to think this part of it all through, but it really does make me feel like like it's almost like we've been cast from worth being controlled to now just being subverted.
17:21
SPEAKER_02: Because when you've been that deeply compromised for that long, it's it's almost reminds me of like the man that has let his values slip for so long, that has been lost in the bottle for so long, or has been cheating for so long, that that once the lies all come out, once the you know the pain all comes out, it's like there's there's no man left.
17:41
SPEAKER_02: There's no, which is is like that's an unacceptable state of being.
17:45
SPEAKER_02: That's an unacceptable answer.
17:47
SPEAKER_02: I'm trying to raise a family in this country.
17:49
SPEAKER_02: I'm trying to, you know, raise children, I'm trying to have a future.
17:53
SPEAKER_02: And so so there like I think there's people at all different stages of grief with this thing and and rage with this thing.
18:02
SPEAKER_02: Um, and I think that maybe people that skew older maybe skew more towards like trying to ignore it.
18:10
SPEAKER_02: Um, and I think that people that skew younger maybe also like like giving up about it, but but I'm somewhere in the middle where it's like rage because this is like I'm we're supposed to have a future here.
18:25
SPEAKER_02: And and I'm I'm of the generation that's supposed to be here to do something about it.
18:29
SPEAKER_02: And everyone in you know, from my generation up to like Cash Patel's generation, for example, everyone in power is seems to be just complicit or weak and spineless or unwilling to do something, unable to do something.
18:45
SPEAKER_02: Um so I don't know what the solution is, but it's just it's unacceptable to me that there isn't one.
18:52
SPEAKER_01: Well that's right, but you also like in at the end of what you just said, you said people younger than you just accept it.
19:01
SPEAKER_01: I mean older people can't deal with it.
19:03
SPEAKER_01: It's too much, it's too different from what they previously believed.
19:06
SPEAKER_01: I and I understand they they're tormented by it.
19:08
SPEAKER_01: Like, I I don't believe this, it's all crazy.
19:11
SPEAKER_01: And by the way, I'm probably closer to that generation.
19:13
SPEAKER_01: I'm I am closer than you are, and I kind of felt that way.
19:16
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, this is too crazy.
19:17
SPEAKER_01: I this can't be real.
19:18
SPEAKER_01: I took my kids to Brunch Common Pizza, I know the guys who own it, but like there's no way this can be real, right?
19:24
SPEAKER_01: I mean, I'll just admit it, I felt that way.
19:26
SPEAKER_01: I was wrong, obviously.
19:27
SPEAKER_01: So, but I get that.
19:28
SPEAKER_01: But much more disturbing is not just that boomers are you know out of it.
19:34
SPEAKER_01: We knew that, but that young people are just like so basically have been made let's just be quick honest, so decadent in their thinking that they're just like, yeah, of course, you know, like of course we're ruled by satanic pedophiles.
19:48
SPEAKER_01: Like how terrible is that that people are growing up in this country just assuming that the most grotesque crimes are the way things are.
19:59
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna stop there.
20:01
SPEAKER_00: It's it's a good interview.
20:03
SPEAKER_00: The only way Ian and and the rest of us are gonna have a future is to bring Jesus Christ back into the lives of Gen Z.
20:12
SPEAKER_00: There's no other way.
20:12
SPEAKER_00: You could just see that, like he said, you know, how could we see all this evil and nobody does anything?
20:17
SPEAKER_00: Evil is out there, it's controlling all this.
20:20
SPEAKER_00: The only people that can do anything, you have to start again on your knees.
20:23
SPEAKER_00: You have to bring that power of Christ into your heart.
20:26
SPEAKER_00: And you can go out and do something.
20:27
SPEAKER_00: This this is a battle that has to be fought first on your knees into your own heart, and then we can go out.
20:33
SPEAKER_00: Otherwise, we go out and we we can't make it.
20:35
SPEAKER_00: It's it's it's the mysterium inequitatis, the mystery of evil.
20:39
SPEAKER_00: So, what do we want to do?
20:40
SPEAKER_00: We want to bring the gospel of love to young people who are growing up without hope in this very twisted, distorted, and toxic culture.
20:46
SPEAKER_00: And again, like John Paul said, they're repeatedly misled about the meaning of marriage and the family, authentic love, about the true meaning of sex and sexuality.
20:56
SPEAKER_00: And this confusion leaves many of them anxious, depressed, and even tempted toward despair.
21:01
SPEAKER_00: How many lives would be saved if we were not afraid to speak the truth?
21:06
SPEAKER_00: And John Paul urged us to go to them.
21:09
SPEAKER_00: The moral the world deprives young people of what's true, good, and beautiful, the more earnestly they will yearn for it in their hearts, but they have to hear the truth, right?
21:18
SPEAKER_00: That that vacuum of modern secularism just leaves a vacuum, a void in the heart, and it becomes a fragrant invitation.
21:25
SPEAKER_00: If you bring the gospel to them, they see it, they smell it, they taste it, and they go, ooh, there must be something to that.
21:31
SPEAKER_00: But somebody must be willing to proclaim the gospel to them.
21:34
SPEAKER_00: I remember a business trip, and this gets to my zombie story.
21:38
SPEAKER_00: I remember a business trip in Seattle.
21:40
SPEAKER_00: After a long day of meetings, I had time before dinner, and I wandered up a hill to a small cafe table beneath an umbrella.
21:47
SPEAKER_00: And from there I could see the street below me.
21:50
SPEAKER_00: And a troubled woman out to my left was speaking aloud to herself while she was splashing in this public fountain, climbing out periodically to scrub what had been.
22:00
SPEAKER_00: Appeared to be a star of David from a retaining wall, then she'd go back into this pool again.
22:05
SPEAKER_00: Below me, young people drifted past, and I could see them going up and down on the street, eyes fixed on these glowing screens of their little phones, right?
22:13
SPEAKER_00: Oblivious to the surroundings and to one another.
22:16
SPEAKER_00: And it and they were just walking like zombies, just passing each other, and the chill ran through me.
22:22
SPEAKER_00: Bodies moved, but souls seemed absent.
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SPEAKER_00: It felt like stepping into a scene from the twilight zone, a city of the living dead, human shells without the breath of life.
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SPEAKER_00: You know, brothers and sisters, if you watch people long enough today, you will see it too.
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SPEAKER_00: Satan hardly needs to labor.
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SPEAKER_00: By choosing to live as though God does not exist, many have done his work for him, constructing a counterfeit world, a purity of creation.
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SPEAKER_00: Lives rush forward without purpose.
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SPEAKER_00: Pleasure is chaste, but happiness remains elusive.
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SPEAKER_00: They drift without roots, without meaning, without truth.
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SPEAKER_00: That wide gate promises freedom, but it leads to nowhere.
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SPEAKER_00: Jesus warns, enter by the narrow gate, for the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those that enter it are many.
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SPEAKER_00: The wide gate is an illusion, though, guys.
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SPEAKER_00: Life without grace becomes existence without direction, and it leaves the human person, body and soul trapped in sin and death.
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SPEAKER_00: You know, the default position of a human being without God, without grace is sin and death.
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SPEAKER_00: Look around you.
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SPEAKER_00: This is the forces that are around us.
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SPEAKER_00: So grace, this wa, this very breath of the Spirit is what restores life and freedom to us.
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SPEAKER_00: What our anxious brothers and sisters most need is liberation from what?
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SPEAKER_00: From sin.
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SPEAKER_00: That's the number liber number one liberation we need.
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SPEAKER_00: Grace flows from that pierced heart of Christ, where water and blood, you know, we we have that image of the divine mercy, water and blood when Jesus got hit with the lance.
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SPEAKER_00: Baptism and confession is the water nourishing us in the blood, it is the Eucharist that received the Mass.
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SPEAKER_00: Through the incarnation, Christ united our humanity to his divinity.
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SPEAKER_00: That's what's was that's what's hanging on the cross, a union of our humanity and his divinity.
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SPEAKER_00: And then through his passion and death, Christ pours this out, this new life to us to make us a new creation.
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SPEAKER_00: St.
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SPEAKER_00: Paul writes that God put forward Christ as an expiation by his blood to be received by faith, and that in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, from 2 Corinthians.
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SPEAKER_00: When one enters the narrow gate and receives redemption, he encounters a new equation, a body and a soul plus grace now gives me the potential for human freedom and flourishing.
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SPEAKER_00: And what activates this potential in me?
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SPEAKER_00: My actions.
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SPEAKER_00: Saint John Paul II explains, by acting in this way, I become good.
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SPEAKER_00: I myself am good.
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SPEAKER_00: I am good as a human person.
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SPEAKER_00: The opposite would be taking an action not in accord with my conscience, a morally evil, evil action.
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SPEAKER_00: I actually become evil.
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SPEAKER_00: I am evil as a human being.
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SPEAKER_00: This is what you're seeing around me.
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SPEAKER_00: You know, I'm an old backpacker.
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SPEAKER_00: Before setting out on a backpacking journey, I always check my make sure I have my map and my review it.
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SPEAKER_00: John Paul II called the self-education, learning who we are, discovering the narrow path that leads to truth, goodness, and love, the crisis of our ages and identity crisis.
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SPEAKER_00: Humanity forgets God, loses sight of the link between moral good and des and our destiny.
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SPEAKER_00: And John Paul wrote this.
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SPEAKER_00: He said, How many young people succumbing to the fascination of deceptive mirages give themselves up to the uncontrolled power of their instincts, or venture on to pass what seems full of promises, but in reality are lacking in genuinely human, genuinely human prospects.
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SPEAKER_00: I feel the need to repeat what I wrote, he said, in the message which I dedicated precisely to you, young people, in the world day of peace.
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SPEAKER_00: Some of you, he said, may be tempted to take flight from responsibility.
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SPEAKER_00: In the fantasy worlds of alcohol, drugs, we got gaming, addictions, video games today, in short-lived sexual experiences.
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SPEAKER_00: Look at this porn and this hookup culture, without commitment to marriage and family, to indifference, cynicism, and even in violence.
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SPEAKER_00: Put yourselves on guard against the fraud of the world that wants to exploit or misdirect your energetic and powerful search for happiness and meaning.
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SPEAKER_00: He said we all face decisions.
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SPEAKER_00: You know, which mountains to climb, which schools to attend, whether to marry, how to live, how to understand sex itself.
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SPEAKER_00: Is sex just feelings and emotions?
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SPEAKER_00: We don't even know today.
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SPEAKER_00: John Paul II wrote, It's an illusion to think that we can build a true culture of human life if we do not help the young to accept and experience their very sexuality and love and the whole of life according to their true meaning and their close interconnection.
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SPEAKER_00: Our sexuality, which enriches the whole person, manifests its inmost meaning and leading the person to a gift of self in love.
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SPEAKER_00: Our whole sexuality is about being filled with divine life and then becoming a self-gift in the world.
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SPEAKER_00: This is what the gender ideologies is twist and distort.
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SPEAKER_00: The trivialization of our sexuality with no meaning and purpose, he said, is among the principal factors with which are led which have led to contempt for new life.
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SPEAKER_00: Think about that.
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SPEAKER_00: Why abortion?
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SPEAKER_00: Why these gender ideologies?
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SPEAKER_00: We don't even see that, the wonder of that human person that comes out of that sexual union anymore.
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SPEAKER_00: Only a true love is able to protect life.
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SPEAKER_00: There can be no avoiding the duty to offer, especially to adolescents and young adults, an authentic education in sexuality and in love.
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SPEAKER_00: An education which involves training in chastity as a virtue, which fosters personal maturity and makes one capable of respecting the spousal meaning of the body expressed in love.
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SPEAKER_00: Feelings without a map and compass get you killed in the wilderness.
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SPEAKER_00: Life demands training, discipline, sacrifice.
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SPEAKER_00: Eyes fixed on those little screens and you miss the vistas found at higher elevations where you can just see.
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SPEAKER_00: Freedom only comes when idols are abandoned, including pride itself.
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SPEAKER_00: Adventure requires preparation, knowledge of terrain, the weather, equipment.
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SPEAKER_00: So to venture forth without truth is reckless.
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SPEAKER_00: No seasoned explorer would ever attempt such a hiking expedition or a climb.
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SPEAKER_00: Put yourselves then on guard against the fraud of a world that wants to exploit or misdirect your energy and powerful search for happiness and meaning.
28:53
SPEAKER_00: Christ warns those who corrupt the young.
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SPEAKER_00: Woe to him by whom temptations to sin come.
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SPEAKER_00: It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he would be cast into the sea, then he should cause one of these little ones to sin.
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SPEAKER_00: Think about how many people are headed for hell.
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SPEAKER_00: Even educators in our school systems right now.
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SPEAKER_00: Brave words, huh?
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SPEAKER_00: Spoken by love himself, God himself.
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SPEAKER_00: They echo Christ's conversation with the rich young man, whose question was not about rules, but about the meaning of life.
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SPEAKER_00: In him we recognize every soul who senses that moral good and destiny are moral good and our destiny.
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SPEAKER_00: They're inseparable.
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SPEAKER_00: In the gospel, then someone came up to him, it reads, Teacher, this young man says, What good must I do?
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SPEAKER_00: In the young man whom Matthew's gospel does not name, we can recognize every person who consciously or not approaches Christ the Redeemer of Man and questions him about morality.
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SPEAKER_00: For the young man the question is not so much about rules to be followed, but what about the meaning of life?
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SPEAKER_00: The question which the rich young man puts to Jesus of Nazareth is one which rises from the depths of his heart.
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SPEAKER_00: It's an essential and unavoidable question for the life of every man, for it is about the moral good which must be done and about our eternal life.
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SPEAKER_00: The young man senses that there's a connection between moral good and the fulfillment of his own destiny.
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SPEAKER_00: I close with a reflection on Charlie Kirk.
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SPEAKER_00: Self educated in the faith, he found his map and compass in the gospel and went out to share that treasure with young people, were called to do the same.
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SPEAKER_00: And yet, you see the powers of evil, they would assassinate him when they saw the good that he was doing with young people.
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SPEAKER_00: They tried to assassinate Donald Trump twice.
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SPEAKER_00: Again, you know, they this is not about Democrat or Republican.
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SPEAKER_00: This is that evil pushing in, and this is the evil force.
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SPEAKER_00: A zombie, then, these young people that are walking around in zombie land, they're not your enemy.
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SPEAKER_00: The enemy is Satan.
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SPEAKER_00: A zombie is simply a wounded and lost brother or sister.
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SPEAKER_00: Bring them home.
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SPEAKER_00: I charge you, Saint Paul wrote, in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season.
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SPEAKER_00: So how can we help wake up young people, especially young men?
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SPEAKER_00: That's what Claymore is all about.
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SPEAKER_00: To make it simple for you to do that.
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SPEAKER_00: Download the Claymore battle plan outline, it'll be in the show notes, and begin that Claymore 10-minute morning ritual today.
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SPEAKER_00: And every day it will change your life.
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SPEAKER_00: Number two, email me.
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SPEAKER_00: I'll get you in touch with the Claymore leadership uh team.
31:36
SPEAKER_00: We're holding regular Zoom meetings to train you.
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SPEAKER_00: We have the Claymore uh handbook, Spiritual Battle for Young Men.
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SPEAKER_00: It's coming out uh in just a couple of weeks, and it goes along with that outline that you can download.
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SPEAKER_00: And it's this is not time consuming.
31:52
SPEAKER_00: It's a way to simply and easily help form these young people without a lot of time, without a lot of effort.
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SPEAKER_00: So join us.
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SPEAKER_00: See the latest podcast on Claymore and why I pray that I just did in the last few weeks, and you'll understand more.
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SPEAKER_00: Hey, thank you so much.
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SPEAKER_00: Talk to you again soon, everybody.
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SPEAKER_00: Bye bye.