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Episode 14: Memorial Day - Be worthy of their sacrifice · The Uncensored Catholic

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Hey, y'all, welcome to day's show. You've had a very good Pentecost
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Sunday and Feast of Mary, the Mother of the Church, and are recognizing
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Memorial Day. Memorial Day has become a holiday of course the United States,
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and a lot of people use it for vacations and enjoying spending time with their
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family and friends. That's a good thing. It's a very good thing.
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Also very important to remember that this is not a day for This isn't Veteran's
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Day, you know, this is a day we remember our honored dead,
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those who died for us, those who died so we could have freedom.
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You know. A few years ago, I was walking my dog in my
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mother's neighborhood and an old man called to me from his front porch, called
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me over and started talking to me. He told me that to see I
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kind of wear my hair in an old fashioned style, I mean kind of
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nineteen forties, you know. And he called me every and he said he
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I looked just like his friend that he was in the service with. And
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turned out mister Vernon Haslip was his name. He was in his nineties and
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he's a great guy, a wonderful person. Catholic, by the way,
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and he said he had started smoking cigars when he turned eighty, and when
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he turned ninety, he decided he could drink as earlier the day as he
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wanted. So he was about eleven o'clock and he offered me a scotch and
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a cigar, you know, and we we started talking. And what a
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great guy he was. I remind him of his friend. They stormed the
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beaches at Omaha together, and it was the hair that caught his attention.
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His friend was kind in half by machine gun fire, and he reached down
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in the water and pulled him up by his hair, and they said goodbye.
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That's what Memorial days. It's a tough one. That's what Memorial Days
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about. And I think it is important that we remember on Memorial Day what
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they fought for, because, let's be an honesty, all were blown it
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my generation. I'm Generation X. I think probably the last year of Generation
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X, born in seventy seven, the same year that punk rock was created
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and or really became popular. Actually was around a little bit before then,
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but you can go back to the velvet underground of the standals and all that.
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But anyway, guy had called himself Richard Held. He was with the
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band Television before then, and he started playing with Johnny Thunders. He did
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a song called I Belonged the Blank Generation. I guess that was about nineteen
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eighty and that's kind of what defines Generation X. The Baby Boomers basically destroyed
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America. Sorry, if you're a Boomer, I mean literally, and the
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Millennials and the Generation Why and all that. Y'all, we're going in a
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bad direction. I mean, with all this transgendered stuff and transhumanism stuff,
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I mean, we're destroying the family. I mean, the borders wide open,
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the fentnyl deaths are just massive. I think we're on track. If
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I remember the last the last numbers, we're on track to reach three hundred
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thousand overdoses in this year alone. I think it was one hundred thousand last
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year. So if I'm right, if I if I heard correctly, we're
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on track to reach three hundred thousand ventnel overdoses this year alone. The family's
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destroyed. We spend more for education than any country on Earth, and with
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the worst results. Kids graduating high school today cannot do basic math or write
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or read. You know, these are these are going really bad. And
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we need to be the people that men like mister Hassler fought for. And
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I think it's very important to realize what they fought against and the great betrayal
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of our leaders, and some of that is our is to this day our
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church leadership. You know, I was talking to my friend Frank Selvado the
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other day. If you don't know Frank show, it's Underground USA. He's
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on sub Stack. He has a great podcast. He used to be on
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Bill O'Reilly show all the time. Really great guys. It's not a lot
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to help me, and I'm very grateful to him. We were talking not
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long ago about Wilson and FDR and the rise of the progressive movement. You
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know, FDR was a natural ally to Hitler and to Mussolini. Mussolini and
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he actually worked like penpalas Mussolini would write fan letters saying what a great job
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he was doing in America. Seriously, I mean, I'm serious. The
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FDR was a communist essentially, and had he not been so closely aligned with
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England, we probably wouldn't have ended up fighting against those guys. But mainly
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the reason we ended up fighting against Hitler and Mussolini and all them was because
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Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and Japan had a basically a secret treaty with Hitler that
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said if they went to war with someone, Germany went to war as an
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ally, and so FDR was really on their side. He was very very
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anti Catholic, very anti Catholic, and very much a communist, very much
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a fascist. When our young men went and died by the tens of thousands
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in World War Two to save the world from Nazis, which were the National
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Socialist Party, from Mussolini's Fascist government, which was socialist, we had people
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in our own state department that clutched I guess you would say was the phrase
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clutched defeat from the jaws of victory. We could have taken out Stalin,
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we could have taken out the Soviet Empire. We could have absolutely prevented Mao
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from taking over China. China was ground up in World War Two. I
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mean they sacrifice millions, so did Russia millions to defeat the Japanese specifically with
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China, and it was an easy takeover for Mao's communists. The country was
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just in horrible condition. There is a book who was one of the first
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books I think William F. Buckley's first book with Brent Bozelle's senior was Man
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and God at El still an excellent book, and if you really want to
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learn about how the progressive movement took over our universities, start with William F.
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Buckley and Brent Bozzelle's book. I believe the second book was McCarthy and
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his Enemies. It tells a real story of McCarthy and tells the real story
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of what happened at the Pentagon when our allies in China we're saying we need
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your help or the Communists are going to take over under MAO, the Pentagon
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officials actually prevented the President of the United States from knowing that until it was
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too late they were communists. If you want a more modern book, and
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Culture did a couple of really good books on this in what early two thousands
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kid The names of them don't come to me right now, but it's documented.
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These were wire transfers going back and forth where our leadership, our military
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industrial complex, our Pentagon propped out the Soviet Union, allowed Stalin to create
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what became the Soviet Empire, when we could have liberated Russia very easily at
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that point they had been defeated by Germany, essentially an allied with Germany,
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and we had every reason to roll those tanks right into Moscow, Stalingrad,
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whatever, and China did not have to fall. The result of that was
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over two hundred million deaths we rightfully grieve, you know, six million Jews
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and Gypsies and such in Catholics, many many Catholics actually killed by Hitler and
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the Nazis, the National Socialist Workers Party of Germany, which was at its
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core anti Catholic. Instead, we didn't, and we've allowed the Communists to
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write the history that actually blames the Catholic Church for the Holocaust and not the
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Socialists. If you don't believe me, ask any anti Catholic Protestant and they
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will tell you all kinds of fairy tales about how the Church was behind the
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Holocaust, when actually the Church was so influential in trying to save Jews from
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being executed that the chief Rabbi of Rome converted to Catholicism. You can read
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his biography. I think ten books sells it. I know a couple of
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booksellers sell it. The Catholics were the only ones helping the Jews yes,
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there are have been strong anti Semitic sentiments in the Catholic Church essentially since day
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one. I mean, the Jews in early Christianity did everything they could to
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exterminate Christianity, and so there's you know, there were some bad blood between
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them and it continued from centuries. But the Catholic Church did more to save
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Jews than any other entity on earth. And that was recognized by the Chief
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Rabbi of Rome, who came from a prominent Jewish family. And you know,
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for Judah, convert to Christianity means being erased from Judaism. You lose
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your family, you lose your friends, you lose your entire history as a
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Jew. It's a big deal. I mean really, for a Judah,
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convert to Christianity is the probably the hardest conversion to make. And we have
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so many well, I have many Jewish friends who have converted to Christianity is
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specifically Catholicism, and a lot of times real history is what drove them to
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do that. We were betrayed. Our young men went into that war and
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died in large parts due to the actions of our own president and political leaders.
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We were then betrayed with the you know then propping up the Soviet Union
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in Cuba and China for decades. The Venona Papers came out and after the
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fall of Soviet Union, and it showed wire communications between the KGB and I'm
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just going by memory here and if I'm not completely accurate, look it up.
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This was well documented one of End Culture's books. I believe it was
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Ted Kennedy and other members of the Kennedy family and they were actively working to
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undermine President's Reagan. President Reagan's attempt to end communism in the Soviet Union.
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They were on the side of the communists. This is, you know,
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far worse than like the Rosenbergs and such. You were Soviet spies who were
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executed. Our actual senators and congressmen, and the heads of our military,
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the colonels and the generals. I mean, they were actively working on behalf
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of communism. And right now to this day, we have socialists working in
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the Catholic Church undermining freedom, humanity, and Christianity in our government and in
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our church. Look at the treaty that was recently signed between the Vatican and
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China. I don't understand it. I can't explain it, but it we
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will lead to has likely already led to the deaths of actual Christians, actual
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Catholics, who were working in the underground church in China. What China fears
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most is Christianity, and especially the Catholic Church, and our leadership is sold
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out to them because they share the same ideology, and that is unacceptable.
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And on this Memorial Day, I decided I would go back and read a
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little bit of what Father Sparago wrote in his exhaustive Explanation of the Catechism,
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which I believe was published around eighteen ninety, so very prescient. He said,
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in our own day, a large proportion of the so called socialists or
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social democrats aim at depriving their fellow men of their private property by unjust means.
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He starts with the history of socialism, with Marx and all that.
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We don't need to cover that. Then he gets into the heart of what
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they believe, okay, and why it's incompatible with Catholicism and Christianity and general
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our socialist father Flager and other priests and bishops should be excommunicated. The object
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of the socialist is this. They want all private property to be confiscated by
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the state, and capital and labor equally distributed among members of the state.
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Moreover, many of them would do away with religion, authority, social order,
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and family life. The fundamental principle of socialism is all property has been
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unjustly acquired. Consequently, in the new republic, no one is to possess
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personal property, but is to be provided for out of the public funds.
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In the new republic of the extreme socialists, there is to be neither the
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ordinances for religion or the institutions of law. These men openly declare themselves to
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be atheists and republicans. They say religion concerns the individual one. The intercourse
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of man and woman is to take the place of wedlock, the children to
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belong not to their parents but to the state, to be educated at the
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public expense. A public kitchen is to supersede the domestic hearth. Prisons will
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not be needed, for there will be no criminals, since all crime comes
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from the possession of private property. These principles have spread chiefly among the irreligious,
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who care only for their gratification and their appetites, and the lower orders.
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The proletariat. In the division of property have nothing to lose and all
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to gain. They are mostly held by certain ones of the laboring class who
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have been thrown by pecure circumstances into socialism. While Sparago was very kind in
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saying that most socialists, at least in his time, were poor people who
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didn't like being poor. Actually they tend to usually be the most wealthy among
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us. And why are they the most melody among us? Well, because
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through the fascist side of socialism, they can mandate purchases, they can mandate
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commerce, They give to the government, they support the government. The government
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says you have to buy this, you have to do that. If you
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don't believe me, just look at vaccine mandates or insurance laws. You know
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you have to have insurance according to the state. Right, I'll call it
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the medical industrial complex has made a great deal of money off of turning America
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into a fascist government. He goes on to say some of the socialistic theories
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could not possibly be realized. Others might indeed be carried out, but they
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would be attended by fatal consequences. You have to remember Marx and Ingles were
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doing their thing in like the eighteen forties. This is barely fifty years later,
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and I'm going to show you how prescient fathers farrago was he could almost
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see the future. The universal equality which socialists proposed to bring about is utterly
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impracticable. Is an utterly impracticable idea, especial actually in regard to the property.
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For if the state of portion to everyone the exact amount required for his
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livelihood, what more probable than that one would spend it all and another party
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put part. By this old writing, he's saying, one person is going
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to spend their money, the other's going to save a little bit. Right,
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Thus an inequality would be immediate, would immediately arise, and to enforce
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the surrender of man's savings would be sheer tyranny. The same endless variety which
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we see in nature exists among mankind. Differences in age, of sex,
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of health, of physical power, and mental endowments, above all of character,
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of manners cannot be effaced. And from these differences of position and of
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possessions are inseparable. Just as in an army, all the soldiers cannot be
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all officers nor all privates, so all members of society cannot stand on the
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same level. Some must manage the business of the state, or occupy themselves
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military affairs, and they must naturally hold a higher rank than other members of
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the state because they work more exclusively for the common will. The happiness the
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socialist dreams of is not attainable upon earth. Whatever the exertions that may be
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made to ameliorate the lot of man here below, none can succeed the eliminating
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from suffering, sickness and death. Sorrow and suffering are portions of mankind.
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A life of peace and enjoyment is not of this world. True happiness is
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not found in sensual pleasures, but in God. While the whole world lasts
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crime, vice, poverty cannot be banished from it. Our Lord says the
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poor you have with you always. And in regard to the proposed absorption of
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individual property by the state, this could not be accomplished without serious disturbances,
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for who would be willing to surrender his property without struggle? And where community
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of goods once introduced, tranquility not to tent not be attained. The oppressed
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minority, out of revenge, commit fearful outrages. Besides, laborious and industrious
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individuals would not be content as they would gain nothing for their industry. Thus,
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the working classes would lose instead of gaining socialistic theories could only be realized
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if men were like the lower animals, destitute of love, of liberty and
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desire for improvement. Socialism would cast a blight upon culture and destroy all stimulus,
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all motive for the exercise of inventive genius. Few would exert themselves to
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make progress and aim at perfection if they knew their achievements would bring them no
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reward, and the socialistic republic all would be slaves. No man would exert
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himself to do better than another if he knew all was provided for him.
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There would be a premium upon slothfulness and negligence. Experience has shown the evils
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brought upon mankind by the examples of communities which have had their goods in common,
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and which have been noted for the crimes that have come to an ignominous
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end, and to bring it to a moral conclusion, All who endeavor,
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by unlawful means to deprive their neighbors of his personal property live in a state
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of mortal sin. The mere fact of coveting what belongs to another is sin.
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We know that all sin brings others into their trains, and this is
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no exception to that rule. Saint Paul says that in an ordinate desire of
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moneyous root of all evils, and the utterance of socialists at their gatherings prove
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this the truth of these words. Their speeches often abound with virulent attacks upon
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authority, on the pope, on priests and civil magistrates. Some go so
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far as to assert that perjury and a court of law is permissible if it
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furthers their own interests. We know the crimes of which the anarchists have been
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guilty, dynamite outrages and assassinations. Let it not be said in behalf of
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their principles that early Christians had all things in common. For voluntary sharing of
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goods is quite different to what the socialist proposed to enforce. The fundamental principle
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of Christian charity, which urges almsgiving, is this, brother, what is
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mine is thine? Whereas the socialist says, brother, what is thine is
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mine? So what does all this mean? What he's saying is socialism and
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its natural outgrowth. Communism is incompatible with Christian religion because it is based on
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envy, because it is based on covetous covetousness. What the very reason Woodrow
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Wilson got elected. Well, I will say, our first official socialist president,
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who was a member of the q Klux Klan and the Masonic Order,
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and all that was because the South had been so utterly destroyed in the Civil
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War and people were living in poverty. Reconstruction essentially took all the wealth out
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of the South. Now, I know historians will agree on that, and
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they'll say, oh, that's a Southern version of reconstruction. You only have
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to look at the amount of wealth in the South before reconstruction and afterward,
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the wealth of the South, the agricultural wealth, was exploited by the North,
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and into that vacuum came a leader of sorts, a very evil man
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who was able to convince the Democratic Party, just as they do today,
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that you are owed, you have a right to what has been taken from
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you, just as Mark said to the industrial poor. His political philosophy was
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based on envy, on covetousness, on saying I have a right to what
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another person has, and he then enacted through social programs and taxation, are
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taking from those who had to give to those who would vote for him,
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never enough to raise him above poverty, but to make them a little more
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comfortable than they had been before. When FDR comes along, he began a
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fascistic program, a nationalizing of industries. When FDR came along, he expanded
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these programs dramatically, and that's why he became a hero of Mussolini. He
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was a natural ally with the communist, socialists and fascists. By the time
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we get to LBJ and the Great Society, America had become a socialist nation.
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In the process, America became a very Unchristian nation. If we look
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at the America prior, we see stores closed on Sundays, some people going
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to church, prayer in schools, families staying together, peace and prosperity.
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What we see now is entitlement. We see that very situation that fathers Barago
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described, of lawlessness, of homelessness, of drug addiction, of despair.
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Because there is no quality, and we see a gradual reduction. People are
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not even living as long as they were length of life, Our lifespans are
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decreasing in America. Our quality of life is decreasing in America. My generation
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will not have the wealth and the opportunities to say when we hit sixty that
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our parents, the baby Bombers, had the millennials will have it even worse.
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They're essentially being sold out by our Democratic president and our Republican Speaker of
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the House who just signed this budget deal. They will be serfs, they
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will be subjects to the state. They will labor and be dependent on Social
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Security, Medicare, Medicaid simply for survival when they hit retirement age. We
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are seeing a decline in our quality of life, and along with that,
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arise in drug addiction, arise in you know, not just poverty but a
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crime, violent crime, and despair. We now have empty churches and that
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is what is well, That's that's what always happens, isn't it. I
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mean, you know, the wages of center death. When you embrace a
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political ideology, whether you call it socialism or democratic socialism or just being a
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liberal, and you tear down the institutions that have been there to raise people
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up, such as the churches. When you start teaching radical politics instead of
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teaching kids how to read and write and do math, you're encouraging despair.
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And on this Memorial Day, I just have to ask you, do you
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think that's what your grandfather or great grandfather fought for? You know, I
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mean people my age, our parents were in Vietnam fighting for other people's freedom.
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You know, when America pulled out of Vietnam, the camer Rouge,
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the Vietcong, along with the Chinese, slaughtered so many people wholesale that they
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had to start rashing bullets. They would force someone to dig their own grave
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and then hit them in the head with a shovel because they were running out
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of bullets. Are we the people they fought for? And it's up to
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every one of us individually, And I'm going to tell you my belief,
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and I believe this strongly. Opt out, Opt out of the system.
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Figure out how not to live in debt, because as long as you live
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in debt, you're a slave of the system. Have your property, your
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house paid off, drive a used card no matter how bad it looks by
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generic I learn to mend your clothes if they get torn, so long as
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you don't have to use a credit card to go into debt, because when
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you're in debt, you're a slave as someone else. If you can learn
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to be self employed, as long as you're self employed, you were making
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your own choices, homeschool your kids. We cannot even trust Catholic schools anymore
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because our churches have been so infiltrated and infested with m communism, liberalism.
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Have community among your neighbors and your church, if at all possible, help
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each other out in times of disaster. Don't rely on the government, and
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don't get divorced. Mary once married for life, have kids, have a
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strong family. Encourage your family to stay together and in the same community so
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you can look out for each other and help each other. That's what people
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used to do. It may sound crazy now, but before in nineteen seventy
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or so, most families not only stayed together and didn't get divorced, they
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stay in the same community. And grandkids were there to help their grandparents out
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when they got old. Kids were there to help their parents out when they
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got old. When there was a fire or a flood or hurricane. Neighbors
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help neighbors. They were cousins. They were related. If they weren't,
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you know, cousins are related. They went to school together, they knew
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each other. Opt out of this disfunctional, disjointed, diseased modern culture.
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Get off the computer. I mean, I'm saying this is a podcaster,
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right, But you don't get out and enjoy nature, and enjoy being with
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your family and friends and actually talking with real human beings. We have to
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opt out and be the strong, independent people who are deserving of freedom that
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our ancestors fought for. I guarantee they did not die for us to have
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just added four trillion dollars to the national debt. Just be the people,
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Be the people deserving of their sacrifice. I guess that's all I got to
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say. As always, in the words of Saint Padre Pio, pray,
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hope and don't worry and remember something else. I believe it was at fatm
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Our Blessed Mother said that as we've been in the end times. Okay,
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first of all, we've been in the end times since the Resurrection. Okay,
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so when she says in the end times, I don't want anybody freak
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out and start thinking I'm talking apocalyptic. But she said, in the end
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times, the strongest attacks would be against the family. The stronger you can
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build your family, the better off we're going to be. Yeah, family,
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if it's your nuclear family, start there, your church, your community,
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those interpersonal human relationships. That's really the you know, Jesus said,
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the heart of the law is to love God, and love your neighbors yourself.
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The one thing we see the end result of communism, socialism, liberalism,
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fascism, etc. Being is the lack of love for neighbor. The
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two hundred million dead documented in the Black Communism, the hundreds of millions of
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babies aboarded in China and in America under a communist and a socialist democrat rule.
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That is the heart of everything. And that, you know, if
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you were to go back and ask my great grandfather, you know who served
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in World War One? What was he fighting for? Who is fame?
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For his family? He was fighting him there, so they didn't come here
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and attack his family. That would be the same. You know, of
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all, my family has served in Korea and Vietnam, and you know World
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War Two and the War of eighteen twelve and the Revolutionary War and the Civil
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War and all that. I mean again, you know myths of history.
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Most Southerners did not fight the Civil War to preserve slavery. They fought because
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suddenly Sherman's troops showed up in their backyard and started burning their house down.
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People fight for their family, and if you destroy the family, there's nothing
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left to fight for. So start by loving one another and building those strong
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relationships. If you've got living parents, go show them how much you care
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about them. If you've got kids, sacrifice everything so they'll have a better
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life, etc. Etc. Because I mean, looking at the statistics right
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now, our kids are not going to have it as good as we did,
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and we don't have it as good as our parents did. We're moving
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in the wrong direction. So on this Memorial Day, let's make our lives
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monuments to doing to fulfilling the mission that our ancestors died for. All Right,
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I'll talk to you next time.