AAC: 12 Jun 2026 (Q&A)

[mahler (Corey J. Mahler)]

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• Date: 2026-06(Jun)-12(Fri)
• Number: e0032

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Topics Covered

1. Opinion on invasive plant species
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2. Plunder or theft?
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3. CSA Anti-German Sentiment
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4. How would you recommend a young man temper his political radicalism?
   • Part of me wants to forget about politics, find a wife, and be a normal family man.
   • Another part of me wants to go guns blazing against my enemies that seek to destroy my people. Forsaking all else.
   • What (should I) do?
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5. I think we need a new confession created for our times regarding race, Jews, and interracial marriage.
   • I know of wicked men and groups performing such a task from the opposite of a Biblical viewpoint who will make such statements mandatory in our denominations soon if they aren’t already.
   • Would such an official document/confession be appropriate for our guys and side to make, and if so, who do you think those men should be?
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6. a) I have a very young nephew who probably has genius level IQ, any tips on properly raising such young boys to become soldiers of Christ? b) If you don’t mind sharing, what is your IQ? Just curious.
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7. Could you please explain the teaching in Luke 6 to love your enemies? Are these personal enemies only, as opposed to our public enemies who are enemies of God?
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8. I just can’t understand the fall. How did it affect the animals physical mortality? What did it mean to “realize they are naked”? (What was the nature of the fruit?) Does SC cover this?
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9. You have implied that the national debt is a triviality. Could you elaborate on that?
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10. Do you believe Catholics like myself are true Christians and can be saved according to Lutheran theology
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11. how do we as Christians justify violence like what we’re seeing in Belfast. At what point is it justified? When the government is so irredeemably corrupt?
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12. Do you have any advice/recommendations for making likeminded friends as a young man out of college? I was homeschooled so I don’t really have any friends and not really sure how to find/make any
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13. Are you able to give any insight on the chinese and any major cultural reasons why it’s a bad idea for a white girl to marry a chinese man? My sister was not interested in my biblical arguments
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14. how can you forgive someone who stole all your money and caused you to lose your home, life, gf etc
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15. What position will America have towards Canada under a future Christian prince? Would it be annexed, get a puppet ruler or would the status quo be maintained?
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16. Can you deny Christ to save your family from the axe-murderer?
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17. Would it not be impermissible for the Japanese woman to marry the missionary?

[mahler (Corey J. Mahler)]

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It is the 12th of June, 2026.

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I am Corey J.

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Mahler, and this is At Any Cost.

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And all of the levels and everything look good.

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So I think that I am ready to go, and we are not having any issues with OBS.

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The chat is working, so I guess I should expect to be struck by lightning at some point during this episode.

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At any rate, it’s episode 32, and this is a Q&A episode, just copying over some of the questions coming in from the chat.

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And I will get into the questions here in just a minute.

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Just don’t want to miss these questions for later.

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So, question one for today is a nice, easy question to start off, as it were, I guess.

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As soon as the question loads here.

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What is your opinion on invasive species of plants in America, specifically, but not limited to the yellow iris, native to Europe, purple irises are native to North America.

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We are trying to beautify the property and are wondering if we should stick to more native North American plants like echinacea, et cetera.

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So, generally speaking, I would say stick with native plants.

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That comes with sort of an enormous caveat, and that would be some non-native plants aren’t a problem, right?

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Some are, some aren’t.

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I have non-native plants.

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Most of my non-natives, in fact, I think all of my non-natives, other than obviously some crops, some things in the garden, are houseplants, right?

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I have tropical houseplants.

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I have peace lily and divanbaki, various other things that are not native to this area, but they’re houseplants.

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They’re in a pot.

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They’re not going to go anywhere.

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They’re not a problem.

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And so they can’t become invasive, right?

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Something that has the potential to become actually invasive and start spreading and cause problems, right?

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I’m in the south.

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Kudzu is everywhere.

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That’s an enormous problem.

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Eucalyptus is a problem in California.

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Things like that probably don’t import those.

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In fact, I’m going to just go ahead and say straight, do not import and plant those things.

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And unfortunately, they’re still sold at many stores, and you can buy them online.

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And we have very poor regulation, and certainly poor enforcement when it comes to these things.

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And it causes massive problems all over the place, because it’s not just the issue of you have the non-native, the invasive plant basically pushing out the native plant that has additional knock-on effects for the food chain, right?

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There are animals that rely on the native plant, the native plant gets pushed out, maybe it goes extinct.

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And then there are animals that rely on that animal, and so on and so forth.

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So generally speaking, use native plants.

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You can find great resources online for plants that are native to your area.

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And there are probably plants that look like what you want that are native, instead of just going to the big box store and getting the easy non-native option, right?

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And you can also check with, at least in most states, whatever the agricultural or environmental authority is for your state, it’s going to vary by state.

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They all have different names.

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They usually have a list of plants that they consider particularly problematic and a particular invasive issue.

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Don’t plant those.

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So, Tennessee has that, California certainly had that.

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I would say, check that list, and then make a wisdom call based on the nature of the plant.

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If it’s something that literally just, particularly if it’s, you know, an annual or something, if it grows up, dies, and that’s it, okay, fine, that one’s not a problem.

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If it’s something that spreads thousands and thousands of seeds, probably don’t go for that one.

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So, it’s a wisdom call, but definitely lean toward native plants, because a lot of the problems we have are due to the importation of non-native species, whether they are plant or animal.

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Question two is tangentially related.

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The West, formerly Christendom, is heading into a racial war, already certainly starting in Ireland.

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Where do Christian men draw the line between theft and rightful plunder during the conquest of God’s enemies?

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Are there guidelines for when Christians should commit treasure and livestock to destruction, as is sometimes been instructed?

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So I think in the case of that kind of war, certainly, a war of annihilation, let’s just not be, let’s be blunt about it.

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In that kind of war, I think that theft is not even on the table, it’s not even a consideration.

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Unless you’re harming your own people, don’t do that.

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Don’t raid your own people.

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But I don’t think theft is a concern.

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The question that’s sort of the live question here is about devotion to destruction, and should we do that, and when should we do that?

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I don’t think that we’re bound to do that with regard to, you know, livestock and things like that.

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Enemies, religious sites, giant monkey statues, things like that, those should be devoted to destruction.

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But livestock, gold, silver, all that stuff, I don’t think that we have to do that.

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That was sort of a special command for just the degree and the pervasiveness of the wickedness of the Canaanites.

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So maybe that would be a concern if we were dealing with some particularly nasty pagan area that had been pagan for a very long time, and these were ritual objects.

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Then sure, devote those to destruction as at least a show of loyalty to God, right?

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I don’t think that we are absolutely required to do it, but I think it’s probably good praxis in certain circumstances.

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With regard to retaking the West, I don’t think it’s really a concern.

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I don’t think we have places that are that bad, except for obviously, as Christians, under those conditions, yes, we would be required to destroy religious sites that are contrary to Christianity.

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Those should be devoted to destruction.

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That’s very clearly required by God in this sort of warfare.

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Going to copy a few more questions from the chat so that I do not miss them.

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Need a producer to do this for me in the background instead of doing it myself.

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However, question three is tangentially related to two, actually.

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Germans have been a part of America since before the Revolution, and I know you’re quite fond of them for obvious reasons.

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Given I’m German, I don’t necessarily have a choice in that, but I agree with your stance that Germans today are a part of the American founding stock.

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What I’m curious about is your thoughts on the huge German immigration boom in the 1800s and how most of them joined the Union.

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Were the southern states justified in having anti-German sentiment, especially during the war, when they were on opposite sides of the battlefield?

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This is sort of a complex question with regard to how you view your enemy in warfare, and I think that a lot of times the anti-German sentiment, and also anti-Irish and some other things as well, and this war obviously largely anti-German, I think it goes overboard because it gets into verging on what we would call genocidal, which it’s not to say genocide is always morally impermissible, because it’s not.

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But this sort of war is not a genocidal war.

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You are not authorized to erase your enemy in that kind of conflict.

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That conflict shouldn’t have happened, discussion for another time.

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But I think the anti-German sentiment was just convenient.

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It was a way to gin up the soldiers against the northerners, which they were invading.

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I mean, I think most northerners would have met that as well.

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I’m a Californian, right?

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So in a certain sense, I don’t have a dog in the fight because I wasn’t born in the south.

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I wasn’t born in the north.

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I was born in California.

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California sent some soldiers to fight for the south.

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Not very many.

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They didn’t do that much.

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So I don’t have the same sort of entrenched connection that some people have where, you know, their family’s been in the south for 400 years.

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Mine has, but I had that sort of sojourn, as it were, in California.

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So it’s a different sort of relationship to it.

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But at the same time, I think that it was largely a matter of convenience, right?

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You can pick out something about the opposing forces that is different from your people, and so latch on to that and attack them for that.

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And so you had more recent immigrants in the northern military, and particularly Germans, and some others as well.

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But I think that they probably would have done the same thing if it had been any other group, because it was a way to gin up war propaganda and to get people to go out and fight, right?

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You say they’re bringing in foreigners to conquer us, despite the fact that how foreign are Germans to Americans, not particularly.

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They probably would have done the same thing.

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It would have been a little more awkward, but I think they would have done the same thing if the North had brought in, you know, history being otherwise than it was, if they had brought in a lot of English soldiers, or even Scottish soldiers, right?

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Did the Scottish there, but I think they would have done the same thing, because they would have said, these are recent immigrants, and so they’re not American, they’re Scottish instead, or they’re English instead, and they’re bringing in these foreigners to boost their numbers and come conquer us.

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They would have done the same thing.

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It just happened to be that it was Germans.

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Now, the other aspect of this that’s worth mentioning, obviously, is that you had, not necessarily right at this time, but a little bit later, some of the Germans who came over were revolutionary leftists.

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And that’s a problem later on in later decades.

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Not because they’re German.

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A handful of them were Jews.

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Not all of them were Jews.

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Some of them were German communists.

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So, that’s a problem Germany had.

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Germany essentially solved it, and then some of them fled.

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Unfortunately, they let them flee, but things sometimes happened that way.

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That was a separate problem.

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They were enemies because they were communists, they were leftists, not because they were German, right?

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If they had been anything, if they’d been English communists, they would still be problems.

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They would still have the same problems.

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The only difference would be they would have been able to read the literature.

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It’s one of the reasons that Lutherans responded to communism more early on and more quickly than almost anyone else.

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Because Lutherans in the US context could see what was coming from Germany, had been reading the papers and spoke German.

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So they could read the materials.

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They could read the materials published by the Marxists as they were being published.

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That’s one of the reasons Walter, one of the the founder essentially of the LCMS, responded to this stuff because he was paying attention to it.

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He could read the newspapers.

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He knew what was happening.

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So that language barrier did add a certain layer to that, a certain element, but I think it was largely just war propaganda.

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We should be careful not to go overboard in our war propaganda when, unfortunately, we’re fighting a war against our brothers.

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It’s a different thing when we’re fighting a war against truly alien hostile people, but we should not dehumanize and engage in basically genocidal war propaganda, atrocity propaganda against our brothers.

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So we shouldn’t do that to the English, shouldn’t do it to the Scottish, shouldn’t do it to the Germans, shouldn’t do it to any Europeans.

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Apparently, the chat integration does not let me like comments, so I’ll just say thank you to the person who said the next Feinzachse is on him.

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The challenge is finding one here in the South, but I’m sure I can find one.

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It’s very odd to me, as sort of an aside, that the South didn’t adopt more German cuisine.

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I know there used to be more German restaurants and things, but it’s weird that it didn’t take hold.

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Southerners love fried pork, and Germans love fried pork.

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That’s what schnitzel is, and Schweinshaxe is just pork knuckle that’s cooked in beer if it’s done right.

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So hard not to like that.

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But question four.

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How would you recommend a young man temper his political radicalism?

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Part of me wants to forget about politics, find a wife, and be a normal family man.

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Another part of me wants to go guns blazing against my enemies that seek to destroy my people, forsaking all else.

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What should I do?

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This is a question that comes up a lot, and I’ve answered it many times.

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Not necessarily on here, but I’ve answered it in person many times.

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So the short answer, and sort of the overarching answer, the outline, as it were, is live a normal life, but prepare for the worst.

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Not in the sense of become a crazy prepper.

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You’re not Bert Gummer or something like that.

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Don’t do that, but maybe a little bit of it, just to be safe.

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But the thing that I would say is go to the gym.

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That’s always a top recommendation for particularly young men, but all men.

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Older men should also be going to the gym.

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It’s great for you as you age.

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You’ll age more gracefully, and it’s often been said that you’re only as old as your back.

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Going to the gym and working out will help you not have back issues, as long as you’re doing it right.

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If you don’t know how to do it, then get some help.

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But find a wife, have children, and probably before you do that, just because of practical considerations, find a group of like-minded men and work with them on whatever it happens.

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It doesn’t even matter that much what it is.

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If you’re doing activism stuff, great.

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If you’re just playing poker one night a week and going hiking one night a week, that’s also great.

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Men need to have men’s clubs and have that sort of camaraderie, vitally important.

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But then yes, find a wife, have children, do all the normal things you’re supposed to do.

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Because ultimately, all of this is in God’s hands, right?

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We’re relying on God.

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And so in having a wife and children and normal life, you’re telling God, I trust in you to see me through this regardless of what comes.

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And there’s also the practical consideration of when we win, and I believe that we will win, we need future generations, so our people need to be having children.

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That’s not an option, right?

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That’s not an optional thing.

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You can’t go, well, we won’t have children to win the war.

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Then why are you winning?

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And what have you won when you do?

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You need to continue to have children.

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That’s an important thing to do.

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So definitely don’t forsake that.

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But at the same time, do prepare for things because we can see where things are heading.

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And look at Ireland, that stuff is coming here as well.

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So don’t let it discourage you from living a normal life, normal as it were.

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But don’t fall into the trap of normalcy bias.

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See the Stone Quire episode on that.

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Don’t fall into that trap because we do not live in normal times, and there are problems ahead.

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But that doesn’t mean that you don’t marry and have a wife and children, all those things.

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Do all of these things at once.

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It’s not an either or situation, it’s a both and.

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Question 5.

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I think we need a new confession created for our time regarding race, Jews, and interracial marriage.

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I know of wicked men and groups performing such a task from the opposite of a biblical viewpoint.

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There have been many of those, basically not one of them has gained traction, but they’ve been there, who will make such statements mandatory in our denominations soon, if they are not already.

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They basically are in some cases, unfortunately.

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Would such an official document or confession be appropriate for our guys inside to make?

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And if so, who do you think these men should be?

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This is something that absolutely should be done.

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It is something that needs to be undertaken.

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There are only a handful of men who can really do this and get it done correctly.

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And I will just be blunt and say, I need to be involved in it.

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And I’m not saying I need to be the sole author of it, and I kind of would prefer not to be the sole author of it, but I do need to block out the time and work toward that and see which other men can helpfully contribute.

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I know some other men who are good on these issues, who have done the necessary reading and thinking and could contribute to this in a useful way.

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Woe obviously would also be involved in some capacity.

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I don’t know that he would want to be necessarily publicly involved.

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I’ll let him comment on that.

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That’s his decision.

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But yes, that’s something that I should dedicate more time to, which it’s the same as everyone else.

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I only have so many hours in the day and a thousand different things dragging me in different directions.

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But no, I need to prioritize that, and it needs to be done.

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It’s not just something that’s appropriate.

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It’s something that’s necessary.

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We need it.

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I am now getting into some of the questions from the chat here at the beginning.

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It’s a two-part question.

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I have a very young nephew who probably has genius level IQ.

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Any tips on properly raising such young boys to become soldiers for Christ?

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Then part two, if you don’t mind sharing, what is your IQ?

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Just curious.

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So I will answer these in reverse order.

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We usually don’t give a number.

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Woe actually did in one of our episodes, but he gave the number combined with a tweet.

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And so people had to be paying attention both to his Twitter, I think it was still Twitter at the time, his ex as it were now, and the episode in order to get that number.

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It’s not that hard to find.

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His estimate was accurate enough, so I’m not going to quibble with it.

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I will comment that on IQ, and I’ve mentioned this before a number of other places, and you can find this really anywhere.

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This is not contentious.

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I’m not giving you novel information, any sense here.

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Above about 160, the tests become decreasingly reliable.

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So the greater you are, or the farther you are beyond 160, or I guess further, it’s more metaphysical than physical.

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The further you are beyond 160, the less accurate the test is going to be.

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And so at that point, it starts to have more fudge factor.

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So if someone says that he has an IQ of 185, okay, he has a high IQ, assuming it was a valid test conducted validly, but he doesn’t know that it’s exactly 185, because again, that’s too far above 160.

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Standard deviation for whites is 50.

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That’s way too high above 160 to be reliable within one point.

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So, you know, Woh gave his number in the 160s.

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That’s one of those, it’s above 160 is enough, right?

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Certainly, you can say that there are many of IQs that are higher than that, but again, less and less reliable as you go.

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But to answer sort of the core question here, the more important question, the more reliable it is.

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Contrary to what Hollywood would have you believe, men with high IQs are not generally socially maladjusted, they don’t generally have more mental problems or anything like that.

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If anything, they may develop a tendency to be more focused on the inner world as it were, more reserved after dealing with people for a long period of time.

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It is a learned behavior, a learned response, instead of something that is necessarily native to those with high IQ.

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I do think that introversion versus extroversion does correlate with high IQ, but at the same time, it’s not always the case.

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Which is to say that he’s going to be a normal boy.

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Generally speaking, he will have friends, he’ll have hobbies, he’ll have interests, he will like girls, all these various things, going to be by and large normal, but he will be more capable than his peers.

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He will get bored in school, he will get through the material faster, he will find it trivially easy, he will find it to be maddening that he is kept at the same pace as others.

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Take that into account.

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Now, obviously, this is your nephew, so you don’t have total control over raising him, but suggest very strongly to your brother, sister, whomever it happens to be, teach him a second language, and maybe a third, and pick one that’s truly useful, even Latin, German, French, anything like that.

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A structured language with the proper grammar, get him to learn that very early on, should already be starting probably.

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Teach him an instrument, probably piano, generally one of the best ones for someone like that, and then also a good basis for learning other things in the future.

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These are things that he will maybe bristle out a little bit initially, but he will thank you later in life.

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So, other than that, he’s going to have hobbies and interests, and just help them with those.

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Buy materials, whatever it happens to be for him, so he can do that kind of thing, because he’s going to be bored going at the same pace as others, because he doesn’t need to go at their pace.

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He will have already finished all the work for the year in school in the first semester, that sort of thing, so take that into account.

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Don’t let the system that is designed to destroy men who are exceptional, destroy him in that way.

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But other than that, he’s going to be just another functional person.

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He’s just going to understand more things than most men.

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Question seven, could you explain the teaching in Luke 6 to love your enemies?

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Are these personal enemies only as opposed to our public enemies who are enemies of God?

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I’ve explained this one before, but it’s worth going over again because it’s sort of relevant right now.

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So let me pull up Logos, since…

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Let me pull up the correct Logos.

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Just read the relevant…

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Don’t read the second paragraph, just read the first paragraph, since that’s really the core of it.

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Obviously, everyone knows this one, right?

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This is very well known.

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But I say to you who hear, love your enemies.

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Do good to those who hate you.

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Bless those who curse you.

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Pray for those who abuse you.

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To one who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also.

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And from one who takes away your cloak, do not withhold your tunic either.

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Give to everyone who begs from you.

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And from one who takes away your goods, do not demand them back.

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And as you wish, that others would do to you, do so to them.

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So the question about enemies, and obviously it’s a larger question about this entire section of teaching, and I’ll get into that another time.

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I don’t think I’ll do that right now.

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But it is about your personal enemies.

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This is not public enemies.

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And I pointed out an article on my site last week.

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In fact, I would say go and read that.

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In addition to my comments here, I will note for myself to put that in the show notes again.

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So, but at the same time, there are three kinds of enemies, right?

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You have personal enemies, you have public enemies, and then you have enemies of God.

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You don’t really have those, but they’re kind of your enemies as well, because they’re enemies of God, and you belong to God.

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You are to forgive your public, your private enemies, your personal enemies, whichever one you want to term, private, personal, same thing.

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You are to forgive those enemies.

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So, you know, don’t plan the downfall of someone you just particularly don’t like at work.

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Forgive that man, that man you forgive.

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If your country goes to war with another country, you are not in the office of the prince.

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It is not incumbent on you.

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In fact, you are not even permitted to forgive that enemy nation.

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It’s ridiculous even to say it, right?

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We can understand that’s insane, right?

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If we go to war, say, in the US., we go to war with Mexico, can you stand up and say, well, I’m a Christian, I forgive Mexico for these reasons that we went to war with them, and so, what now?

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The war is over?

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That’s not how it works.

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The enemy gets a vote.

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So you’re public enemies, you can’t forgive because you’re not the one in charge of the state.

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You’re not the Christian prince, you’re not the rightful ruler, you don’t get to forgive public enemies.

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Okay, what about God’s enemies?

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Well, you can’t forgive God’s enemies because only God can forgive God’s enemies, right?

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That’s what sinners are.

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Sinners are God’s enemy.

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Can you forgive your own sins?

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No, God had to do that.

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And so, the extreme example that I like to use here, because it drives home the point, sometimes even with those who want to use this, not necessarily maliciously, because those who are malicious will never change, but very foolishly will say, could you forgive Satan?

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The answer is no, right?

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You can’t say, I forgive Satan, and suddenly he springs out of his chains, and he’s no longer damned for all eternity, right?

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You can’t do that.

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You can’t forgive God’s enemies.

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And so, right off the bat, we know it cannot possibly apply to all enemies.

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So the question is, to which enemies does it apply?

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It applies to your personal enemies.

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The only ones that you can forgive in any meaningful way, and trying to exercise a power you don’t have, say, to forgive Satan, is actually sin, is wrongful.

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So, forgive your enemies, your personal, your private enemies.

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Don’t say that you can’t go to war as a Christian, because in other parts of scripture, what do they tell soldiers?

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Do your duty.

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Well, if soldiers are told to do their duty, then Christianity is not a pacifist religion, and you don’t forgive your public enemies.

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Also, it calls the emperor supreme.

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That is another place that kind of flows from that, right?

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But yes, it’s your private enemies.

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It’s not your public enemies, and certainly not the enemies of God.

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You don’t forgive the Muslims for worshipping a false god.

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That’s not your place to do that.

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That’s God’s place, and he doesn’t do that unless they repent.

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Let’s see.

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Question eight.

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I think I’ll move this next one down one question.

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I just cannot understand the fall.

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How did it affect the animals’ physical mortality?

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What did it mean to realize they are naked?

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What was the nature of the fruit?

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Does Stone Quire cover this?

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We cover this in bits and pieces here and there, but not really in full.

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However, we do answer in full, we answered in full the question about the fall affecting everything, right?

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You can go and listen to the episode on Headship for that, primarily the episode on Headship.

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It’s elsewhere as well.

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But that’s the issue.

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Adam is the federal head of humanity.

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Adam is the head of all creation.

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Everything fell in Adam because everything follows the head, right?

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Where your head goes, your body follows.

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And you can say, well, my head’s following the body.

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That’s not really what’s happening, because your head’s the one directing the body.

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So where your head goes, your body follows.

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It’s the same thing for all of creation.

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That’s how it functions everywhere.

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That’s one of the reasons that you will have corporate punishment in scripture.

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And I know that we try to say, that’s wrongful now in our modern laws with regard to laws of war and things like that.

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But God engages in corporate punishment.

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You can think about the rebellion in the desert against Moses and Aaron.

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He destroyed those men, their wives, their children, their livestock, their goods.

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So headship is a vitally important part of, and a fundamentally important part of understanding how God’s system works.

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If you don’t understand headship, you’re going to miss a lot of things.

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And so the reason that everything fell in the fall is because Adam was the head of everything.

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And that is essentially what is happening when you are joined with Christ.

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Christ is your new head.

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And so instead of having fallen Adam as your head, you have the risen Christ as your head.

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And so being in Christ, having Christ as your head, you are then part of the new creation.

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You have the newness of life, you have the forgiveness of sins, all these other things.

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It’s headship.

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Headship is the core concept that you must understand.

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And so all of creation fell with Adam.

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It’s not just the animals.

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It’s the physical world.

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It’s the planets.

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It’s the stars.

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It’s literally everything fell.

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And that’s why it says creation is groaning together for the restoration of all things.

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It’s not just man.

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It’s not just the animals.

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It’s everything in creation.

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So you can think of why stars eventually run out of fuel and run down and burn out.

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That’s because of the fall.

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Everything slowly winding down, coming to a close, is because of the fall.

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Yes, God’s going to draw it to a close before the stars burn out.

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But all of that degradation, everything running down, is because of the fall.

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And it affects everything.

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It affects us, it affects animals, it affects the natural world.

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But the question of realize they were naked is a difficult one to interpret fully, because scripture doesn’t tell us everything about that.

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But from the context, you can take sort of the core important points to take away.

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And by realizing they were naked, essentially, it is them realizing not just the vulnerability, right, because they now have a separation from God and a growing antagonism with the nature that is going to be at odds with them, because before man was at peace with all the animals, right, we’re no longer at peace with bears, as anyone who goes hiking knows full well.

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Usually, not at peace with bears.

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Some people try to pet them, and some people succeed.

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Don’t try.

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But realizing they’re naked is going from that state of innocence and having no awareness of sin, of fallenness, of imperfection, of any of these things, to the fallen state and recognizing all that comes along with that, including that loss of innocence.

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And so, you can think of the loss of innocence as part of the core of this.

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It is the fall from original righteousness into original sin.

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Not in the sense that it replaced our nature, because our nature is still made by God, our nature is still good.

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But in the sense that it’s so corrupted our nature that it is only Christ’s sacrifice that can restore that, and it is only ultimately restored in the resurrection of the just, the final resurrection on the last day.

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So that’s essentially the core of realizing that they were naked.

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That’s the takeaway from that.

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It’s what you want to read when you see that phrase.

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The nature of the fruit is just that God told them not to eat it.

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The fruit probably was not special in any particular way.

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The only thing that made it special was the attachment of God’s commandment to it.

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It’s the same as baptism.

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The water in baptism isn’t special.

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It’s just clean water.

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That’s it.

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That’s all it is.

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If it’s flowing water, maybe that’s a little better, doesn’t have to be, right?

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Doesn’t have to be a certain quantity of water.

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It just has to be enough water, as it were, for baptism to fulfill the fact that water is a requirement.

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And so, the water is not special.

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That’s why Luther says that without the word, it may as well be a bathkeeper’s baptism, which is to say a bath.

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It is the water plus the word that makes it a sacrament, that makes it something special.

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In the case of baptism, it works forgiveness of sins, and all that follows from that.

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In the case of the fruit, because God said, do not eat this, it works damnation, it works the fall, it works corruption, all these other things.

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And so, is it the fruit that does it, or is it God’s word?

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The answer is yes, because it is the two of them together.

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The same as, is it the water that works forgiveness of sins, or is it the word that works forgiveness of sins in baptism?

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Yes, because it is water and word together that make the sacrament.

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The same thing, sort of in reverse, as it were, for the fruit.

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So, you know, we don’t know what fruit it was.

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Is it a pomegranate?

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Is it an apple?

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Is it some fruit that no longer exists?

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That’s not the point.

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It doesn’t matter.

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The point is, they were told not to eat it, and part of their worship of God was to obey what God had told them.

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This was how they worshiped God, part of how they worshiped God.

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They decided not to do that.

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They decided to worship themselves.

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They decided to rebel, hence the fall.

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The next question, I have to pull up the wording here, because it was a previous question.

[mahler (Corey J. Mahler)]

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There we go.

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Take a sip of my drink first.

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The challenge of staying hydrated in the south during a heat wave.

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Question nine, you have implied that the national debt is a triviality.

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Could you elaborate on that?

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I think that is, it’s a two-part question, but I think I’ll take them separately.

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So I’ll use that one and save the second one on insurance for a future episode.

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So the issue with the national debt is simultaneously complex and simple, right?

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Think of it in analogous terms to an individual or a household.

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An individual can declare bankruptcy and discharge, with the exception of student loans, his debts in that bankruptcy, modulo some government control.

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And so, what happens then is it destroys his credit, he has to climb out of a hole, but he doesn’t have the debt, he doesn’t have to pay back the debt.

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And as a side note, there are times where, yes, it’s permissible to declare bankruptcy as a Christian, certainly, so don’t think that you are prohibited from doing that as a Christian because of the command to pay back your debts, generally speaking.

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Our system is set up in such a way that many debts are extremely wicked and should not be collectible under any just law.

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A tangential issue, though.

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For the national debt, a state can do effectively the same thing.

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The way that a state usually does it, instead of just the state saying, I declare bankruptcy, right, that sometimes that works, sometimes it doesn’t.

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If you’re a small state, probably not going to work, you’ll probably get invaded.

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But if you are the United States, who’s coming to collect?

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Just as a practical matter, realpolitik.

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Who’s coming to collect if the US says, we’re not paying that?

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No one.

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China is not going to wage a war against us because we decide not to pay our national debt.

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China would just stop selling stuff to us.

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And so are there considerations?

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Absolutely.

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You are going to damage your standing in the world, to some degree, with certain parties.

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You are going to lose access to certain markets and certain goods, which is a very real concern with regard to China, particularly if they retake Taiwan, which they certainly will do, because of the percentage of the chip manufacture that is done in Taiwan.

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That’s a very real concern at least for national security, even if you don’t consider, you know, consumer products to be as important as national security, which they’re not.

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So, the question is sort of to part, can it be done?

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Yes, very easily.

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And I was going to get to, before I went on that little tangent there, how it’s usually done by a nation state.

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By a nation state, it’s usually you have one government is deposed, and a new government, the next government is instituted.

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That government says, I don’t recognize the debts of the previous government.

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Those were their debts, go collect from them.

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They no longer exist.

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You’ve effectively abolished the national debt by doing that.

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Now, that’s happened in history, and you can see what happens a lot of times.

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A lot of times they get attacked, they get invaded.

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But because the US is still effectively as close as you can be under present conditions to a hegemon in the system, no one can come collect from us.

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So all it would do, again, is harm our standing with certain parties.

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But what you can also do is, as that new government say, I do not recognize the debts of the previous government blanket statement.

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However, due to the historical relationship of this state with us, whatever it happens to be, due to the historical relationship between the American nation and the British nation, we will honor our debts to the British nation.

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We will honor our debts to the French nation.

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We will honor our debts to the German nation, right?

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Whichever groups you want.

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So you honor those debts, continue trading with them, continue your international and your economic relationship with those parties, but wipe the slate clean with others.

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Again, does it come at a cost?

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Absolutely.

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But can it be done?

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The answer is yes.

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And so I think that it is something that a nationalist government should absolutely do.

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We should simply say we’re not paying the national debt with regard to most parties, and certainly abolish certain institutions that should not exist, and stop paying various sums to foreign parties.

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So obviously, a big part of that would be instituting a new currency, right?

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You can’t do this sort of thing and expect the existing currency not to have some very serious repercussions, which is to say probably a collapse, hyperinflation, whatever it happened, however it happens to play out, probably hyperinflation.

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So you institute new currency as well, but combining these methods, you can basically wipe the slate essentially clean, except for the nations with whom you would still like to deal.

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So it’s sort of a two-for-one from a nationalist perspective, right?

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Obviously, you get sort of the libertarian perspective.

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It sounds like I’ve said something that’s absolutely insane, but libertarian, so…

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I’m going to scroll through the chat now to pull out some additional questions here.

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Someone asked about the national debt question, because it had been sitting in the queue, as it were, for a while, the pending questions, and Musk has achieved the status of a trillionaire, so, you know, he hasn’t really personally achieved it, but we all know what he…

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what it’s meant.

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Someone asked about Luther’s views on Mary.

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I would want to look at his writings more before answering that, because I don’t want to say something that is not accurate to what he wrote and said.

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So I will save that one for the future, and I will save it before I move on so that I don’t forget it.

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Doesn’t get lost in my copy history, copy and paste history.

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A related question, an easy one, so I will answer this one as soon as I copy it over so that it’s in the show notes.

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Question ten.

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Do you believe Catholics like myself are true Christians and can be saved according to Lutheran theology?

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The answer is yes.

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Now, does it come with some caveats?

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Of course it does.

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What Lutherans would say this is, and I will put a link in the show notes to this because this one comes up a decent amount, and I’m sure many listening already know what I’m going to say.

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But what we call it is felicitous inconsistency.

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And so felicitous inconsistency essentially boils down to saying, despite the fact that this given church body, pick whichever one you don’t like, teaches things that are contrary to Scripture, ultimately, at the end of the day, in his heart of hearts, this believer relies on Christ.

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He trusts in Christ alone for his salvation.

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He doesn’t ultimately trust in the things that are taught contrary to Scripture, contrary to the truth, by his denomination, by his tradition.

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And so we say, we hope that these individuals are felicitously inconsistent.

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And I believe there are many in the Roman Catholic Churches, and I think plural is appropriate, because there are faithful parishes, and there are faithless parishes, just like almost every other Christian group on earth.

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I believe there are many Christians in those churches.

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Is what is taught by Rome Christian?

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To that, I have to say no, because Rome teaches things that are contrary to Scripture.

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Rome teaches semi-Pelagianism.

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Rome teaches a sort of work salvation, that is anathema, that is contrary to the clear word of God, because salvation is by faith alone.

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Your works are good, but your works are good because you are in Christ.

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Your works do not save you, your works cannot save you, because the debt of sin is infinite, and you can never pay an infinite debt with finite contributions, which is what your good works are.

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And so it took the infinite sacrifice of Christ on the cross and his perfect life, his perfect obedience, in order to pay that infinite debt.

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So, many things, not, I don’t want to say many necessarily, because many sounds, to most people’s ears, probably more extreme than what I mean, but there are a handful of things that are taught by Rome that are very clearly contrary to scripture.

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If you believe and rely on those things, I do not believe you are saved.

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But most Roman Catholics don’t.

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Talk to Roman Catholics about the things that Rome actually teaches, particularly some of the things you can pick out of the Roman Catholic catechism, saying that Muslims are included in the plan of salvation, which is obviously contrary to scripture.

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Most Roman Catholics don’t believe it.

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Ultimately, they believe in Jesus Christ, they go to church because they think the Roman Catholic Church has historical claims that are something to be addressed another time.

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They go there for various reasons, many times because of family reasons, and ultimately, they do rely on Christ.

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They like Mary a little too much.

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In a way, it’s a little weird, but I think they’re Christians.

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So I think that there are many Roman Catholics in paradise.

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I think there are many living today who will be there as well.

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I do wish that they had better theology on certain things, but I also wish the LCMS had better theology on certain things, so.

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Question 11, we’re going to ask the questions that require me to give careful answers so I don’t get banned tonight, I see.

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It’s going to be an ongoing thing.

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It has been for years.

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Question 11, how do we as Christians justify violence like what we are seeing in Belfast?

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At what point is it justified when the government is so irredeemably corrupt?

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So, if I had seen this in the chat, it came in the chat not before I started recording, I would have grabbed my copy of the Magdeburg Confession, which I think is on this bookshelf.

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I do not see it, though.

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I will put a link to that.

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You should go and read the Magdeburg Confession.

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That is sort of the Lutheran, the Protestant answer to it, and it is still sound for our time.

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We also did an episode on it for Stone Choir, so I would say go and listen to that.

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That is a fuller treatment of it that I am going to give here.

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But the basic fact of the matter is that Christians are not pacifists.

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Christianity is not a pacifist religion, right?

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Sell your cloak and buy a sword, and your cloak…

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Modern Christians, modern people, hear that, the modern ear hears it, and thinks, eh, sell your cloak, whatever.

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Your cloak was your most important possession in many cases, other than like your house.

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So your cloak is what you slept in, your cloak is what protected you from the elements.

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This was not like you went to your wardrobe and picked what coat you wanted to wear that day.

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This was a vitally important part of your everyday attire in that part of the world.

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It would be like selling your great coat in certain parts of Europe back when you only had one of them.

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So something that has greater import than what we necessarily hear as moderns when we hear, sell your cloak.

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This is something that is very important.

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It would be like, sell your house and buy a sword, almost to that level, not quite, but almost to that level.

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So Christianity is not a pacifist religion.

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Christianity has always been a religion that is willing to employ violence when it is moral to do so, and it is moral to do so under certain circumstances that are, again, discussed at length in the Magdeburg Confession and the episode that we did on this topic.

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So I would say go and listen to those, and I will put links to that in the show note, the show notes.

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But yes, what is happening in Ireland right now is morally justified and Christian, and it should continue.

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Question 12.

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Do you have any advice or recommendations for making like-minded friends as a young man out of college?

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I was homeschooled, so I don’t really have any friends and not really sure how to find or make any.

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So the easiest way to do that these days is probably going to be joining an active club or similar.

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That’s where you’re going to find like-minded men.

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And there’s probably one in your area.

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So, Patriot Front is a good option.

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That is in many parts of the country at this point.

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You can find a chapter near you.

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They’ll do vetting and things like that.

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So, that’s a good way to meet like-minded men.

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Other than that, you have some chance of finding them at church if you can find a good church near you.

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Even if you find a church that’s a little wobbly, there may be a group of younger men who are definitely our guys, definitely on-side, and just fly under the radar to stay at peace with their congregation.

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Not necessarily a bad thing to do.

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Sometimes that’s the way to go.

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Probably those are the two best places to go looking for like-minded individuals these days.

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Otherwise, it’s kind of difficult.

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You know, some men will say, try to find them online.

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That’s a little sketchy sometimes, a little difficult, but it works out occasionally.

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I won’t say it never does.

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But I think active clubs, things like that, and then church groups, probably your best bet.

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And then maybe get into a hobby that you enjoy in your local area, and you’ll probably meet some men who are more like-minded than you may expect.

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Whatever hobby it happens to be, right?

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If it’s, you know, collecting things or a certain game or gardening or anything like that, you’d be surprised where you’ll find men who are definitely our guys, very like-minded.

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I’ve certainly met them in some places where you wouldn’t necessarily expect to find them.

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Let’s see.

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Question 13.

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I guess I will address this one now.

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I was tempted to leave it for next week, but I’ll address it.

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Question 13.

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Are you able to give any insight on the Chinese and any major cultural reasons why it’s a bad idea for a white girl to marry a Chinese man?

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My sister was not interested in my biblical arguments.

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So you don’t see many pairings of Chinese men and white women, that’s pretty unusual.

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So that seems like she’s probably just rebelling for the sake of rebelling.

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So maybe try to address that as sort of an initial point, but insofar as cultural incompatibility is concerned, I’m sure you’ve already gone over some of the issues of genetic incompatibility and things like that.

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The fact that the children will have genetic issues, will be less likely to be able to receive donated blood or organs, will have all the various problems that go along with that.

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Fewer certainly than marrying a black.

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If you have a pairing of black and white or black and asian, the resulting offspring have significantly more genetic and other issues than usually the mixture of east asian and white.

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Usually causes fewer of those problems.

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Not zero, more than if you married within your own people like God intends for you to do.

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But I’m sure you’ve gone over that stuff with her as well.

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You should probably continue to do so because women should generally care about what happens to their children.

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Not always the case these days, but hopefully since she wants to get married and certainly probably considering children, maybe it’ll help.

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But insofar as cultural incompatibility goes, show her videos of how the Chinese behave in China.

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I think that’ll probably drive home the point better than necessarily arguing with her.

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Show her a Chinese wet market, right?

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Show her the food customs they have.

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Show various videos of them consuming live animals in restaurants.

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Their culture is deeply evil in many ways because it has been contrary to Christ for millennia.

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It is not as evil in the same sort of depraved ways as certainly African culture or Indian culture.

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But there’s sort of a almost banal or just every day sort of evil that perfuses Chinese culture.

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Cruelty everywhere you look in Chinese culture.

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They don’t come to the aid of people when someone is injured.

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You can find plenty of videos online of someone who gets injured in public in China, and no one comes to stand there and watch them die.

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The same thing has happened in Africa and India.

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So, you want to drive home that, and generally speaking, when you’re dealing with a woman, you’re going to want to try more emotional appeals, and video is more emotional than words, generally speaking.

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So, I think probably showing her those differences in culture that are extreme differences in culture, and ask her does she want her children to not only be half that, but be raised into that.

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The answer should be no.

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She should want to marry among her own people, and have children who look like her, and also drive home that point, right?

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You want your children to look like your parents, and your grandparents, and your great-grandparents.

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So, find a family album and show that you have that consistency across however many generations, where, you know, this is great-great-great-grandpa, whatever his name is, and he looks exactly like me when I was a child.

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I can do that.

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I’ve got family photo albums where I’ve got, you know, five, six generations back, whatever it happens to be.

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Some cases, you start getting back into paintings instead of pictures, but we look the same as children.

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There are times where I have had my siblings, in fact, have mistaken pictures of me as a child for pictures of my father or vice versa.

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That’s what happens when you do what God tells you to do, and you marry among your own people and reproduce according to kind, as God commanded us to do.

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But I think, generally speaking, go for that emotional appeal, probably going to help you more dealing with a woman.

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That’s just men and women are different.

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Rational logical arguments are not always going to win as well with women as more emotional arguments.

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It is similar to how when a woman is telling you her problems, she wants you to listen, generally, not solve them.

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You can solve them later.

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But if you spend the whole time trying to solve them, you’re not doing what she wants, and she wants you to listen.

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So if there’s a woman you care about and a woman, to whom you have some sort of duty, your wife, mother, sister, whatever it happens to be, sometimes you just listen to the problem and commiserate.

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You can solve it later, but don’t necessarily do it right then in the moment.

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It’s not what she wants.

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Men and women are different.

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If your male friend comes to you and says, I have X problem and it’s due to these factors, he wants you to help him solve it.

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Men don’t usually want to commiserate.

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Men want to fix the issue.

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Fundamentally different.

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God made the sexes different.

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That’s just how it is.

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A follow-up question to the earlier question about forgiving your enemies.

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I think it’s a fair question.

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Question 14, how can you forgive someone who stole all your money and caused you to lose your home life, girlfriend, et cetera?

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It’s difficult.

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Excuse me.

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That’s obviously very difficult.

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And what you want to do is go read the parable of the unworthy servant, right?

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To make sure we all know which parable, that’s the one where you have the king, the master, forgives the one servant an enormous sum, a sum that is effectively infinite.

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This is God, right?

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This is God forgiving you your sin.

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And then the servant turns around and refuses to forgive his fellow servant a relatively trivial sum.

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Not trivial in the sense of pocket change, but trivial certainly compared to the sum that had been forgiven him by his master.

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That is the wicked servant, the unforgiving servant.

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You don’t want to be that man.

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God has forgiven you an infinite debt.

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And so, you turn around, and even when it is difficult, and particularly when it is difficult, you forgive others their debts against you.

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Even when they are indeed extreme.

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Now, that doesn’t mean that if someone, you know, stole all of your money, you are not allowed to go to the court and get your money back, because theft is still a crime, theft is still illegal.

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You are permitted to do that.

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Now, you can’t go to court and say, give me my girlfriend back.

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We don’t have laws to help you with that.

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But if someone actually stole your money, and you have a claim there, then yes, you should see an attorney and deal with that.

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You still forgive him.

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You don’t hold it against him in the sense of like, this man is my enemy, I want to destroy him, I want to harm him.

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You forgive him.

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But forgiving someone does not always erase the punishment, right?

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We know this, because you forgive someone who commits a crime, but it is still incumbent on the prince to punish him.

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You don’t get out of the punishment just because you’re forgiven.

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These are separate concepts.

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You get conflated all the time in modern culture for malicious reasons, because they want you to think that Christianity just lets murderers walk free.

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No, God commands that they should be put to death.

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You forgive them for their wickedness.

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You hope that they repent, but the executioner still has to do his job.

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So, yes, you do have to forgive those who have even done horrible things, but it doesn’t mean that you bring this person back into your life and trust this person again and forgo all sorts of remedies against him.

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Those are separate things.

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But it wouldn’t be a commandment, and it wouldn’t be a commandment worth issuing if it were always easy, right?

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Sometimes it’s going to be very difficult because some personal enemies have done great harm.

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Question 15.

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Guess I’ll do a few more questions here, try to get through most of the questions in the chat, at least.

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Question 15, what position will America have towards Canada under a future Christian prince?

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Would it be annexed, get a puppet ruler, or would the status quo be maintained?

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This is one of those questions that I almost should save it, because it gets into a lot of related things that are more expansive than the core question, right?

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The core question is easy, Canada should be annexed.

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Canada should never have been separate.

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The Canadian people and the American people are basically one nation, right?

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Yes, they have Quebec and they have more French, but we have Louisiana that has more French, right?

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So, they are by and large English, Scottish, German.

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We are by and large English, Scottish, German.

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We are basically the same nation, we’re just split into for essentially political reasons historically.

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So, international political reasons incidentally, but we should not be separate, we should be the same people.

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And I mean the actual Canadian people, not the invading brown horde that should be repulsed.

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The actual Canadian people are our brothers, and they should be part of our nation.

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Those who are of one stock should be under one government, should live together in peace and harmony.

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That’s how it should be.

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You can think of some things that happened in the past century related to that.

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So, they shouldn’t have a puppet governor or anything like that.

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I think that without getting too deeply necessarily into the issues right now, but I think that essentially the best system that we’ve come up with for dealing with the way that human beings actually are, the way that we will always be, because God made us this way, is to have an imperial power and then devolve certain things to the local level with princes or dukes or whatever you want to call them.

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The title doesn’t matter, right?

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So, Quebec should have its own ruler, because they are distinct enough that they should have their own ruler, but still be part of, whether we call it the American Empire or something else.

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I think that’s probably a fine name, but they should be part of that, and then have some local control.

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So you have a greater allegiance at the top level to this higher authority, to the emperor as supreme, to use the words of scripture.

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But then you also have your regional identity.

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And historically, it’s how it’s always been.

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I don’t think we can actually make it otherwise, because I think that we are so linked intimately, inextricably, and naturally to our geographical region that over a not very long period of time, we become distinct sub-peoples.

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We’re still part of the greater nation, but we’re a distinct subset of it.

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And you can think of that in the US context, right?

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Despite the fact that you’ve had a lot of modern moving around and shuffling and things, the South is still the South in some ways.

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The Northeast is still the Northeast, the Midwest, the Southwest, California is sort of its own thing, the Pacific Northwest.

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You have these different sub-regions that because of the nature of the region, the people are shaped according to it, right?

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We’re not just a spirit, we’re also body, we’re flesh, and it’s blood, soil, myth.

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You can’t ignore the second one.

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You can’t ignore soil.

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So, I think that inevitably, you’re going to have regional distinctions that develop over relatively short periods of time, and to account for that, you devolve some things to local control.

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For matters like defense of the larger entity, that should be at the national or the supranational, however you want to term it.

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It’s really national level.

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In this case, the imperial level.

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But other things than that should be regulated more locally.

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Insofar as it makes sense to do that.

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Because that’s just the way God made us, right?

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God made us to be tribal in a certain sense, and so some things should be devolved down to that almost, not quite, but almost tribal level.

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But yes, the Canadians are our brothers, and they should be part of this same nation.

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And I hope that we get things under control here soon enough and quickly enough that we can help them with the many problems they have up there, because I think they’re going to need help.

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I think I’ll answer two more questions here from the chat, and then call it for this week.

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Sort of related questions, not exactly follow-ups, but follow-ups to things previously.

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One is anyway.

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Question 16.

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Can you deny Christ to save your family from the axe murderer?

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The answer is no.

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I also don’t see how that hypothetical would necessarily play out.

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It’s almost one of those hypotheticals where it’s deliberately set up such to be a scenario that will never come to pass, and yet you have various philosophy professors and others who try to use it and think that they’ve discovered something unique about human psychology by setting up this impossible scenario.

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All you’ve done is create an impossible scenario and then try to get an answer.

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And so, some men would just say, well, I can’t answer that, that’s crazy.

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But in this case, we can’t answer it because you are never permitted to deny Christ.

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Whatever the outcome, whatever you are going to suffer, you are required to affirm Christ.

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If you are going to be tortured to death, you are still required to say that Christ is your Lord, that he died on the cross for you, and that you believe in him.

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You are never given an out for that.

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To some degree, that should make you more comfortable, because as a Christian, it means that you certainly have at least one thing in your life that is absolutely certain.

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You know for an absolute fact that your only response when challenged to affirm Christ, to affirm that you are a Christian, is to do so, regardless of the outcome.

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You don’t even have to think about it.

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So, I also just don’t think that that’s very likely to happen, and the only scenario in which that generally happens, you can think of some things historically, when there have been things like that, it’s going to be under an anti-Christian, wicked government that is going to say, if you do not deny Christ, we’re going to execute your family.

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I have good news and bad news.

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The good news is, you may as well just affirm Christ, and don’t even consider the alternative, because the bad news is, they’re going to kill your family anyway.

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If the communists take over, they’re not going to give you real options.

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They’re going to give you false options.

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And also, realistically speaking, what’s better, denying Christ, and then setting that example for your family, and probably causing them to fall away, and so damning them, or just having them die?

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What’s better, death or eternal death?

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It’s not a very hard question, I don’t think.

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So, always affirm Christ.

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You have no other choice.

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Question 17 is a follow-on from something I’ve said previously about sort of an exception with regard to interracial marriages.

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Because the example that I gave previously was a white missionary moving to Japan, marrying a Japanese woman, and then all of his subsequent children generations marrying Japanese and essentially fading into the Japanese, disappearing into the Japanese population.

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It’s one of the instances where I think that it is morally permissible, and also probably something historically I would not even condemn.

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Today, I don’t think it’s necessary.

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So, as a live question, I don’t think it’s live, because there are Japanese Christians, and we can bring the Japanese here, or we can go there and train them, and then they can proselytize to their own people.

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They don’t need us to convert them.

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They may need us to help them with some stuff, but I don’t think they need us to be the ones doing all of the teaching and things.

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The Japanese are perfectly competent to do that themselves.

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But the question, would it not be impermissible for the Japanese woman to marry the missionary?

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I think today, it would generally be unwise.

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It should not be done.

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Historically speaking, I think that it was probably just fine to do that, because historically, that is the only way you would have been able to transmit the faith, because you would have had a man who would have gone over as a missionary.

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Basically, no men have the gift of celibacy, so he’s going to want a wife.

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If he brings his own wife with him, then all you’ve done is move the question one generation down, right?

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Okay, what would children do, right?

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So his option is to either return or to stay there.

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I think that historically, it was a morally permissible option to stay there and become part of that population over a number of generations, right?

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He’s never going to be Japanese.

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His children aren’t really Japanese, but his grandchildren are pretty much Japanese.

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So I think that is essentially the best way to break that down, the distinction between the historical and the present day.

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Present day, these issues aren’t live, right?

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Because present day, people like the Japanese are perfectly competent to train up their own teachers.

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Maybe they need our help with materials and things like that.

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We have a much longer history with regard to Christianity and all of the things that undergird it, right?

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So certainly, we can train those men and then send them back, and they can teach their own people the faith.

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I think that’s how it should be done today.

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But, so, I guess the edge case then would be historically, would it have been impermissible for the Japanese woman to consent to that marriage or for her father to consent to that marriage?

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I don’t think that it necessarily would have been.

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Would it be unwise given everything that we know today?

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I think the answer is yes.

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But, back then, they didn’t know about DNA.

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They didn’t know about all of these other issues that arise from these interracial pairings.

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And so, her father, because he’s really the truly concerned party, right?

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Here’s one that consents to the marriage.

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He would have only been able to act on knowing the cultural differences and the obvious racial differences, right?

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He would not have known all of the other things.

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And so, I think, given the information that he had at the time, he could have consented to it, I think, both morally and also according to wisdom, because I don’t think that he had enough information where it would have been unwise for him to veto it in all cases.

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So, but today, obviously, we have more information.

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And when you have more information, you are expected to employ that in making your decision.

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Scripture is abundantly clear on that, right?

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A man who is given much will have much demanded of him.

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So if God has given you great intelligence, great knowledge, whatever it happens to be, it’s not optional.

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You must employ that when making decisions, because God has given you the ability to do so.

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So the short answer, historically, morally fine, not necessarily unwise because they lacked the knowledge we have today.

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Today, don’t do it because it’s unwise, even without getting into the moral issue, which I think it would also be morally impermissible today because both the Japanese and the white race are in danger with regard to things like this, and it is turning your back on your people at a time when they most desperately need you.

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So I don’t want to see the Japanese disappear either.

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I certainly don’t want to see the white race disappear, but I don’t want to see the Japanese disappear.

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And so the Japanese need to marry Japanese to make more Japanese.

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That’s the only way that works.

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Just as earlier, your white sister needs to marry a white man to make white children, because God told us to reproduce according to kind, and that includes your race.

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As is made obvious by the many, many things that have been said many times about how God built that into the system, not least of all, you know, fertility being the peak around third cousin.

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Pretty obvious for anyone who recognizes the natural world is a source of genuine information of revelation from God to us.

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God made all of these things obvious.

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They’ve been subverted by false teachers and malicious actors over a period of centuries at this point.

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That’s the only reason we’re having to have these discussions now, because of what evil men have done.

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No one historically had to ask these questions, because people historically just knew, no, you marry your own people.

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You don’t go halfway around the world and pick up a random wife.

[mahler (Corey J. Mahler)]

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Like, the only men who did that were sailors, and they were looked down upon for doing it.

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And usually they picked up prostitutes, so.

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But I think that pretty much covers the answer to that topic and some tangentially related things.

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I think I covered all the questions from the chat.

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If I missed any questions in the chat, let me know.

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As always, I’m going to close it out here.

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I think that’s it for this week.

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So I try to go just about an hour, usually run a little bit over.

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But as always, thank you for contributing questions.

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There are multiple ways you can contribute questions.

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The easiest way for me and the best way, because I can link things together and people can find them, is to submit them on the forum.

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But you can, of course, always submit them via the chat, telegram, on X.

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If I do not notice it on X, then by all means, please tag me again.

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I get a lot of notifications.

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That is particularly true today because I posted something about, of all things, regulatory law and Papa John’s garlic sauce.

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And last I checked, it had nine million views.

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So my notifications are a bit of a dumpster fire right now.

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So if I do not notice your comment, please tag me again in a couple of days when things calm down.

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But at any rate, thank you for contributing your questions.

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I always like getting the opportunity to answer these.

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I do this on, it usually winds up being Fridays, but it’s Thursday or Friday depending on how my week goes.

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It is, of course, Friday this time as it usually is.

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But given that it’s Friday, I hope you all have a good weekend.

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Go out and do something fun, maybe go for a hike, take your dog for a hike if you happen to have a dog, and you probably should, it’s good to have a dog.

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Go to church on Sunday, and I will see you all next week, Thursday or Friday.

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Until then, God bless.