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190: Kennedy - The Gospel deals with all of life, because it comes to heal the whole man Jan 26, 2021

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Featured text: "Communism and the Churches" — Gerald Kennedy

Keep it Spiritual, Keep it Safe. In this episode, the conclusion to our discussion of Gerald Kennedy's sermon, Communism in the Churches. Should churches mind their own business in regards to social and cultural matters? What happens when churches and Christian organizations avoid controversy in order to maintain the status quo? Does the Gospel have any power outside our churches' walls?

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Gerald Kennedy - Communism in the Churches https://wallbuilders.com/sermon-communism-churches-c-1960/#

How Are Socialism and Communism Different? https://www.history.com/news/socialism-communism-differences

Kulak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulak

George Soros https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros

Fight Club & Nietzsche: Overcoming Emasculation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpxHFNvlUmU

Murray Rothboard - The Progressive Era https://mises.org/library/progressive-era-0

The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity - Douglas Murray https://amzn.to/2LTujdV

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast - Season 4 Episode 3: Douglas Murray https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_RrYz85E1A

77: William McRaven – Stand up to The Bullies https://thewarriorpriestpodcast.wordpress.com/2021/01/24/77-william-mcraven-stand-up-to-the-bullies/

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189: Kennedy - A Christian stands for truth even when it hurts the most Jan 19, 2021

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Featured text: "Communism and the Churches" — Gerald Kennedy

White Bread with Bologna and Propaganda Spread. In this episode, we continue reading a sermon preached by Bishop Gerald Kennedy, on Communism in Churches (c. 1960). The discussion focuses on whether propaganda is more important than the truth.

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Gerald Kennedy - Communism in the Churches https://wallbuilders.com/sermon-communism-churches-c-1960/#

What Are the Seven Techniques of Propaganda? https://classroom.synonym.com/what-are-the-seven-techniques-of-propaganda-12080912.html

Yuri Bezmenov lectures https://bezmenov.net/lecture/

Military Joint Chiefs statement condemning 'sedition and insurrection' at US Capitol https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/12/politics/joint-chiefs-memo-capitol-insurrection/index.html

The Shadow Government - They Might Be Giants https://genius.com/They-might-be-giants-the-shadow-government-lyrics

Raised by Wolves (American TV series) https://www.hbomax.com/series/urn:hbo:series:GX0WFcAlf5r5cuAEAAADu

Brazil (1985) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/

Radiolab: Dispatch 4: Six Feet https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/dispatch-4-six-feet

Live Not By Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents https://www.amazon.com/Live-Not-Lies-Christian-Dissidents/dp/0593087399

Live Not By Lies - Alexander Solzhenitsyn http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles/SolhenitsynLies.php

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast - Season 4 Episode 2: Gregg Hurwitz: Build a Better Democrat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw34J5mnkTs

Operation Northwoods https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods

Cultivating Heroic Manhood Part 1 – Psychological Regression: The Greatest Danger to Man https://academyofideas.com/2019/10/cultivating-heroic-manhood-part-1-psychological-regression-intro/

Rhonda Patrick https://www.foundmyfitness.com

Restoring Constitutional Secularism and Patriotic Pluralism in the White House https://seculardems.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/SecularDemocratsofAmerica_Blueprint_BidenHarrisTransition_11-30-20_FINAL.pdf

BANNED BOOKS: "Pilgrim's Progress" https://www.1517.org/podcasts/pilgrims-progress

Jocko Podcast 263: DO NOT Take Freedom For Granted. We HAVE TO Preserve it. Understanding 1984 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtVyxGW7Qzs&feature=emb_title

Two Examples of Propaganda:

https://thekylebecker.substack.com/p/capitol-riots-exposed-stunning-footage

https://twitter.com/JordanSchachtel/status/1350994626157703172

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188: Kennedy - This communist doctrine that God is something we can take or leave Jan 17, 2021

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Featured text: "Communism and the Churches" — Gerald Kennedy

Religion is Extra Important. In this episode, is religion an extra? How has the communist doctrine on religion influenced our society and the churches? When is it time for churches to preach against society, and to what end?

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Gerald Kennedy - Communism in the Churches https://wallbuilders.com/sermon-communism-churches-c-1960/#

How to Watch TV News - Neil Postman (1992) https://amzn.to/35IPjdR

1917 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8579674/

Dark Docs https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl3SuH2Ue044b7ACX1syk4A

CFW Walther Critique of Communism https://steadfastlutherans.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Walther-Communism-and-Socialism.pdf

Project Veritas - PBS Principal Counsel Lays Out Violent Radical Agenda https://www.projectveritas.com/news/pbs-principal-counsel-lays-out-violent-radical-agenda-says-americans-are-f/

Monty Python - Right to Self Determination https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8bqQ-C1PSE

The Club of Rome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_of_Rome

The Expanse (Amazon) https://amzn.to/39FhNpX

World Economic Forum - Great Reset https://www.weforum.org/great-reset

Former baseball star Schilling's insurance canceled after social posts supporting Capitol breach https://justthenews.com/nation/culture/curt-schillings-insurance-cancelled-due-social-media-posts

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187: Gerald Kennedy - Contentiousness is not listed as Christian virtue Jan 07, 2021

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Featured text: "Communism and the Churches" — Gerald Kennedy

Red Dawn in the Church. In this episode, a sermon by Bishop Gerald Kennedy on communism in the churches. What did it mean in 1960, and what does it mean today that religion is an opiate? Also, we start with a debrief highlighting our brief hiatus.

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Gerald Kennedy - Communism in the Churches https://wallbuilders.com/sermon-communism-churches-c-1960/#

The Book of We https://www.gutenberg.org/files/61963/61963-h/61963-h.htm

Metropolis critique https://youtu.be/DJjbfaEtPN0

Doctor Zhivago (1965) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059113/

The Cultural Revolution - Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the decade of upheaval in China under Mao's revolt within his own party, led at first by the Red Guards, from 1966 until his death in 1976. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000q9b6

Monsanto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto

Moralistic therapeutic deism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moralistic_therapeutic_deism

SOCIAL MEDIA, TECHNOLOGY, & CULTURAL DECLINE - Has smartphone technology changed the way we live and relate to others? Is there a relationship between social media usage and increased suicide rates among teens and preteens? How do images and short video clips affect the way we think about news stories and the world around us? On this program Shane Rosenthal discusses these questions and more with T. David Gordon, who teaches a course on "media ecology" at Grove City College in Pennsylvania. https://whitehorseinn.org/resource-library/shows/social-media-technology-cultural-decline/

184: Bowler - Christmas in Nazi Germany https://www.1517.org/podcasts/banned-books/184-bowler

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186: Christmas During the Civil War Dec 17, 2020

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Featured text: "Christmas During the Civil War"

Can We Just Have A Civil Christmas? In the episode, what was Christmas like during the Civil War? Puritans, holiday traditions, and why the Church is an incarnate Church.

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Christmas During the Civil War https://civilwarsaga.com/christmas-during-the-civil-war/

Children of Men (2006) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Men

How War-Torn Savannah Celebrated Christmas 1864 https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121933069

General Sherman's Christmas in Savannah https://emergingcivilwar.com/2018/12/25/general-shermans-christmas-in-savannah/

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185: Christmas after the Enlightenment Dec 11, 2020

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Featured text: "What was the Enlightenment, and what impact did it have on Christianity?"

Have Yourself A Very Enlightened Christmas. In this episode, an examination of the impact of the Enlightenment on the Church, especially the preaching and traditions of Advent and Christmas.

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What was the Enlightenment, and what impact did it have on Christianity? https://www.gotquestions.org/Enlightenment-Christianity.html

Bette Midler - From A Distance (Official Music Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN4AcFzxtdE

Songbird (2020) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12592252/

Jesus Seminar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Seminar

ONscript: Conversations on current Biblical scholarship https://onscript.study

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184: Bowler - Christmas in Nazi Germany Dec 03, 2020

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Featured text: "Christmas in Nazi Germany" — Kate Bowler

It's Christmas in Germany for Hitler. In this episode, a historical examination of Christmas in Germany during the Nazi regime, including new hymns, advent calendars, the emergence of Wotan, and Hitler's Silent Night.

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Christmas in Nazi Germany - Bowler https://blog.oup.com/2016/09/christmas-in-nazi-germany/

Masquerade ball https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masquerade_ball

Christmas in Nazi Germany (wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_in_Nazi_Germany

Christmas in the Crosshairs: Two Thousand Years of Denouncing and Defending the World's Most Celebrated Holiday https://amzn.to/36jOvgj

Horst-Wessel-Lied https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst-Wessel-Lied

Two Who Survived; Keeping Hope Alive While Surviving the Holocaust https://amzn.to/39uhjo8

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183: Sasse - The secular and the spiritual are indeed to be dearly distinguished Nov 23, 2020

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Featured text: "The Social Doctrine of the Augsburg Confession and its Significance for the Present" — Hermann Sasse

A shelter from pigs on the wing... In this episode, how do Christians interface with a godless state, love our neighbors without being complicit in promoting sin, and maintain the tension between the two kingdoms?

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The Social Doctrine of the Augsburg Confession and its Significance for the Present — In this essay, Hermann Sasse describes the theology of the "two regimens" (more commonly called "two kingdoms") of the state and the church. Sasse addresses the widespread misunderstanding of the kingdom of God.

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182: Sasse - The office of the governing authority belongs to God's created order Nov 20, 2020

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Featured text: "The Social Doctrine of the Augsburg Confession and its Significance for the Present" — Hermann Sasse

You Know Who Else Misunderstood The Kingdom of God? Hitler! In this episode, we read Herman Sasse's 1930 essay on The Social Doctrine of the Augsburg Confession and its Significance for the Present. We discuss the two kingdoms doctrine, peoples' station in life, and the need for public discussions of natural law.

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181: Chesterton - Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God Nov 17, 2020

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Featured text: "Collected Works: Vol. XX" — G.K. Chesterton

Chairman Mao Loves Ice Cream. In this episode, G.K. Chesterton on what happens when we abolish God, and the government becomes the god. We discuss "unalienable rights endowed by the Creator." The language of freedom and rights belongs to the law. And we finish with Chesterton's prompt to consider fraud.

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Collected Works: Vol. XX https://www.chesterton.org/shop/vol-xx

THE HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR - By Thucydides 431 BC https://www.gutenberg.org/files/7142/7142-h/7142-h.htm

Lecture 65: Christendom in Dublin https://www.chesterton.org/lecture-65/

Bourbons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Bourbon

Bolsheviks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolsheviks

Never Forget What Joe Biden Did to Clarence Thomas https://rumble.com/vaz2r1-never-forget-what-joe-biden-did-to-clarence-thomas.html

Crowder gun show video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq-UElS4U7I

156: Pastoral Debrief on Civil Disobedience and the Christian https://www.1517.org/podcasts/banned-books/156-debrief

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