June 15, 2016 Show with Scott Lively PLUS David Kupelian on “The Snapping of the American Mind: Healing a Nation Broken by a Lawless Government & Godless Culture”
PLUS
DAVID KUPELIAN author of “The SNAPPING of the AMERICAN MIND: Healing a Nation Broken by a Lawless Government & Godless Culture”
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This is Chris Ornson, your host of Iron Sharpens Iron, wishing you all a happy Wednesday on this
15th day of June 2016 and I'm delighted to have back on the program
Dr. Scott Lively for the first hour.
He is founder and director of Abiding Truth Ministries.
He is probably most well known for his very controversial book co -authored with an Orthodox Jew
named Kevin Abrams titled The Pink Swastika, Homosexuality in the
Nazi Party and today we are going to be discussing more
in the aftermath on the Orlando massacre where over 50
lives were taken and over 50 more were wounded seriously in a nightclub
featuring or should I say frequented by those heavily
involved in homosexual activity and also those who support that
lifestyle who just join those who were identified as
homosexuals in dancing and leisure time and
celebration and all that kind of thing and in addition to that the nightclub where
this tragedy took place is also according to many reporters
on the secular news is a hub or a headquarters in Orlando
for leaders within homosexual activism.
So we're going to be talking more about that in the aftermath of that horrific event
with Scott Lively and it's my honor and privilege to welcome you back Dr. Scott Lively.
It's great to be back with you Chris and I'm speaking with you from Brasov,
Romania where I'm on a fact -finding, you know, personal fact -finding
tour of Eastern
Europe.
Well that's fascinating.
I gotta have you back on when you return to the states after that trip
but why don't you, if you could, just give us a little bit more description about exactly what that is you're
doing.
Scott, hello Dr. Lively.
Yes, hello, you can hear me?
Yes, now I can.
We broke up there for a minute.
Can you just give us a little bit more of a.
Description about what you're doing there in Romania?
Yes, well, as most people are aware, there is
involved
an open border strata
promotion of
people.
Actually, it's been
triggered
in eastern
Trump
in
the
United
States.
And why
don't
you
tell our
listeners also
about the letter you.
Recently wrote to the Prime Minister of Hungary, which I reposted on my own Facebook page.
Yes, well,
Prime
Minister
in
2011, he led a,
and
then more
recently, he has stood up to the open borders of his country,
is where, is
not, just not going to go back to
me and any of
the elitists called
a hate monger like they do with anybody.
Tremendous courage.
And then a couple of weeks ago, Bill Clinton,
Hungary and Poland, we
Americans shed blood in
Europe and maintain the Cold War to liberate your country.
And I guess democracy is too much trouble for you.
And so, and much of my letter to the Prime Minister saying, you know, don't listen
to none of these people have the generation of Americans that
are here in Europe because, and
they did not shed their blood
in order to, and
it was...
Yes, when you use the
phrase, a buzz, I
was reminded
that
I
failed
to.
Introduce you to my co -host, Reverend Buzz Taylor.
Why don't you greet our guest, Scott Lively.
Well, he was trying to get me introduced, see Chris.
Very good to be on the show with you.
Yeah, I'm with you, Buzz.
And that's an interesting name.
That could have been my nickname years ago.
I spent a long time smoking pot.
Well, I hear more people who think that's.
The reason I got the name, but actually I got it as a child because
my middle name is Busby, B -U -S -B -Y, an old English name.
And they called my father, John, they called me Buzzy.
Well, we had a neighbor, a neighbor named Buzzy Palmer.
I remember back in those days, nobody knew that that meant anything other than just a nice guy.
Of course, you're giving away your age too now.
Yeah, well, you know, I'm actually probably older than that even, but still.
Well, our listeners could probably see that letter that you wrote to the Hungarian Prime Minister at
defendthefamily .com, I'm assuming, your website.
Yeah, that's there.
And also, WorldMedDaily, you're going
to have that.
Yes.
June 15th, you know, 12 -15, when
the foundation of institutional law, really, human rights
grounded in that document.
And this is the anniversary.
And I did a, on that,
liberation of England from the European Union, which is another example
that, that's
the most, it's the most
important aspect, second most
European Union, and the European Union is
model for the one world government.
It's the, it basically, it's, they've been creating the framework.
It's going
to be the
freedom that we, that we have.
Great.
Well, let's, before we even get into the main discussion that we intended you to
address, why don't you let our listeners know something about Abiding Truth Ministries and
defendthefamily .com?
Well, I started Abiding Truth, well, defendthefamily .com is just the name of the website, and I use the name
Defend the Family International when I travel outside the U .S., but Abiding Truth Ministries is a pro
-family organization that I started while I was in law school.
I considered myself to be a missionary to the global pro
for a quarter of a century, and abiding
through
my newsletter to be able to do travels like I am right now, and to
just go wherever the Holy Spirit opens the doors, to do whatever it is the work is that needs
to be done, to help to encourage, and really,
I've had some tremendous, that
this marks, actually, Romania marks the fifth, and I'm
here in the dining
room, which is also
really
pale.
Some people already know that, you know,
bulwarks against the Islamic invasion into Europe, this line that we're on.
Well, actually, I was in Hungary before, and now I'm here in Romania.
This is
Christians
all that stood,
and they
did that.
Yeah, let me just apologize to our listener that our guest Scott Lively is cutting in and out on occasion, but he is calling from
Romania, so we can cut him some slack in that regard.
And he is, Vlad the Impaler is still revered by many people in Romania, is he not?
Well,
it's,
you know,
we visited
Brian Castle, tremendous
historian.
Yes, I have had Bill on about three times, yes.
And he's done some tremendous work on all this.
He did a piece regarding Vlad.
He said, and I got this from him, that Vlad the Impaler
learned the tactics that he used, and that
the countries of
Europe had to pay him a tribute every year, and part of that tribute was 500 boys that
were given to the sultan for homosexual sodomy, and they were essentially
male sexual slaves of Islam,
and I don't know if he was one of the 500, but he was in their
prisons during that time period, and that he witnessed the Muslims
using impaling as a method of torture, and then when he escaped later, he
became a warlord, and he used that,
and he impaled something like 30 ,000 captives, Muslim
captives, for miles and miles along
the road, and then the
sultan eventually turned back.
It was overwhelming even for him.
Okay, well, the main topic that we wanted to discuss with you today
is in light of the horrific events that took place in
Orlando this past Sunday morning, where a nightclub frequented by
those involved in homosexual activity.
In fact, it's, I believe, designed specifically for people of that
inclination, and in fact, as I was mentioning earlier, news
reporters have even called it a primary hub or headquarters
of homosexual activists, and we had obviously a man -claiming
connection with ISIS, who murdered in cold blood over 50 of these people,
injured more, and was himself shot to death, and the
secular society around us will
attack Christians, evangelical Christians, for both our opposition
to Muslim terrorists by bringing into question
a religion that has helped spawn that kind of atmosphere, in addition
to the victims of this crime, and they will try
to perpetuate a lie that we, by opposing,
radically opposing, homosexual activity, that we hate these people and delight in their death.
Now, it doesn't help matters when you have very evil
people like Stephen Anderson and others who profess to be Christians and are actually pastors of churches,
and of course, we all know about the Westboro Baptist Church and so on, the God Hates Fags group, but
that doesn't help matters.
There are obviously charlatans, not only within Christianity, but within every other group,
but that doesn't help matters for us, so we are left with a very delicate situation when
we publicly speak as Christians in the aftermath of such a horrific event.
I don't think it's, Chris, I don't think it's all that delicate, really.
I mean, this is, let's just speak plainly about what's really going on.
This was a gay -on -gay it's come out
that Omar Mateen was himself on
people on a gay dating site.
He asked out his high school classmates romantically, his ex -wife talked about his
homosexual inclinations, and he had gone to this nightclub on numerous occasions.
He was a guy who was himself struggling with homosexuality,
and that this is not uncommon at all.
In fact, the latest, if you actually just look in the news,
that homosexuals who have been murdered, news stories, the
secular media will treat this as a homophobic hate crime, hoping that it's going to turn
out to be some Christian activist or something, and it almost always turns out to be another homosexual
who's done it, gay -on -gay violence, and we're reminded that Matthew Shepard, who is
the symbol, in fact, he's named that the hate
crimes act.
Ten years after the fact, gay journalists,
former sex partners, and the, you know, this is one after another.
The person, the leader of sexual minorities Uganda in Africa,
part of the lawsuit that
I'm out of
New York, the key
point in
their
suit is that
no
one
deserves,
demons are real, but they can possess human beings.
I agree with
you a hundred
percent,.
And I guess perhaps I've misspoken the way I phrased that we have a delicate situation.
What I mean is that we have to be careful in the way we speak publicly,
because there are obviously those encircled around us ready to
pounce and twist our words and so on.
We have to be very clear what we mean when we speak.
And you know they're going to do that anyway.
Yes, that is.
True.
And they
don't care
what
the facts
are.
We do not support
agenda.
Yes, and it is a
shame.
That even, I mean, when I watch Fox News on occasion,
it even appears that some of those pundits and so on on Fox News, who
are coming from allegedly a conservative worldview, they even
seem to uphold the victims in this horrific tragedy
as some kind of heroic figures.
I mean, we obviously want to have compassion
with not only the surviving victims of this attack, but also the families who are
grieving deeply.
We may have many brethren in Christ who are grieving deeply over the slaughter of their
children, or their siblings, or their parents even.
But it is a tragedy, a
double tragedy, when wickedness is upheld as some kind of a noble, heroic
virtue in the aftermath of something like this.
That's exactly right, and that point is.
Very important to recognize.
That analogy to that is what happened in France,
and all over the
world.
Heptomagazine, and then all of a sudden all of
a sudden Charlie.
Charlie Heptomagazine was an
obnoxiously
atheistic
and
profane
magazine
that
they
want everybody to.
Now, you know, we're all
going to fly the
rainbow flag.
It's a great tragedy that does
not deserve to be shot in
that day.
We're going to
use your
deaths as a
way.
Yes, and we're
going to be
going.
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Welcome back.
This is Chris Arns.
And if you just tuned us in, our guest today for the first hour is Dr. Scott Lively, who is
the founder and director of Abiding Truth Ministries.
And then on the second hour, we are going to be joined by David Kapelian.
And he is going to be discussing the snapping of the American mind, healing a nation broken by a
lawless government and godless culture.
And that will be from 5 to 6 p .m. Eastern Time.
But right now we have a Dr. Lively on through 5 p .m.
And we apologize that the phone connection isn't as clear as we would like, but he is calling from Romania.
So I want you to keep that in mind.
And we thank him so much for taking the time out of his busy schedule in Romania to call,
especially since it's very late at night there.
Let me get my co -host's question before I go to a listener.
Reverend Buzz Taylor.
Just to put this in perspective, Scott, you talked about how it's demonic,
the behavior and so forth of trying to take tragedies like this and
use it for your political agenda and all.
And I was thinking of the name of your ministry, Abiding Truth Ministries.
And I just think we ought to throw this in perspective that truth is more powerful
than error.
And we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, powers and spiritual
wickedness and high places and all those things that we're told about.
And we understand that Satan is the father of lies.
Would you at least address the fact that just because Satan is the father of lies doesn't mean that lies are more.
Powerful than the truth?
Well, you know, unfortunately for us, we
know how the end of the book comes out.
But unfortunately, you know, the devil is the prince of this world until the Lord comes back and
claims his throne.
And we have to,
we exist in a spiritual realm and demons actually exist.
Angels can take human form and walk among us, the scripture says, but demons can't do that.
They can influence and in some cases possess human beings, like ride them like a
horse and that happens.
And anyone who doesn't attack him, in fact, I had a Romanian
cab driver the other day that coming back from the train station and it was
in broken English talking about how much he likes and
in new age and all that.
And I know he wouldn't, didn't understand very well.
So I just want to very simply
spiritual realm, you know, that
this day and age with Christianity sort of being so material, materialistic and, and not focused on
spiritual things that sounds, you know, sort of old world, archaic,
the Bible, and that's the truth.
And when people open that
someone like
this, you
know,
Omar
Mateen,
a wonderful
belong
to
Christ.
And if
your nation doesn't belong to Christ, then you better get
ready.
Yeah.
I mean, people often wonder how a,.
An entire nation like Germany in the early part of the 20th century could have been
captivated and hypnotized by somebody like Hitler.
But I think that the demonic realm is the perfect explanation of how a whole,
whole community of people, a whole nation of people could,.
Could follow, you know, I'm about to publish a prophecy book.
I wasn't going to get off into this, but, but a big part of it is about the history of the antichrist
and society.
A small portion of it deals with the fact that Germany excavated
the seat of
Satan
in part, he
started to clear and, and
introduced that whole demonic philosophy into Germany.
And then, and then from that point forward, Germany was just captivated by a demonic influence.
And, and, and actually, and still today, and I've actually, I actually received a, a personal
by Colonel Eugene Byrd, who had been the commandant of Spandau prison where the Nazi war criminals were kept
after the Nuremberg trials.
And he took me to that, to the Pergamon museum where the seat of Satan and
the, the Isis, the, the Isis gate from
Babylon, there's 37 dragon figures on it, the,
the gematria of
that is
the, in
Germany, in
all of
human, would be able to,
unless your mind is completely clouded,
spiritual warnings of the Bible are true,
and take appropriate action, the appropriate act on the
dead.
He's the only one who
has the authority over the demonic realm.
And, and so, you know, that should be, that should be the lesson from the
Orlando slaughter.
Every single person that survived that, every single family member that's mourning the loss
should be waking up and, and, and saying, I will turn from my
secular false thinking, I will receive Jesus Christ as my Savior, and I will ask for
him to come back into authority into the United States of America, so we can have the kind of security
and prosperity that we used to.
Have when we were a Christian nation.
We do have a listener in Mastic Beach, Long Island, New York, Tyler, who says, would you say
that the waving of the rainbow flags in the embassies across the world is also a
violation of the political relationships we have with other nations who do not agree
with their agenda?
And I'm assuming when he says, do not agree with their agenda, the agenda of the rainbow flag, I'm assuming
that's what he.
Means by that.
Yeah.
Yeah, well, there's two problems with the rainbow flag.
First of all, it doesn't belong to them.
The rainbow belongs to God.
The rainbow is the symbol of the authority and presence of God.
It places in Scripture, of course, where
God, you know, uses it as the promise of his covenant, and then in Ezekiel 128,
where it is identifying
that, and then in Revelation 3, the
rainbow emanates from the throne of God.
So it's intimately associated with the
purpose for people who are engaging in practices that God
initiated, and that he incinerated Sodom and Gomorrah over.
For people who identify with that lifestyle to be using the rainbow is absolutely blasphemous
and wrong.
So one problem.
But then the second problem is that the fact that it is associated with sodomy
in the minds of most people of the world now, for the U .S. embassies and other people,
it's in contradiction to the values of the countries.
You know, it's interesting how much of society
believes that they are not violating
or promoting, I should say.
They're not promoting a religion or violating anyone else's religion
when they, for instance, in a secular news broadcast, will
affirm homosexuality as a completely
acceptable lifestyle, if not a wonderful lifestyle, not only to be tolerated but to celebrate.
But whenever you have someone in any role of the secular society taking a
posture like that, there really aren't they teaching a religion because
they are saying, they're teaching the tenets of a religion because they're saying that
Christianity is wrong about that.
So if you're saying that a religion such as Christianity or even Orthodox Judaism
or even Islam, if you are saying that all these collective
religions who have stood against homosexuality for centuries are wrong about this issue, you are
taking a religious.
Position, aren't
you?
Khan Law Professor Booksy had us read was
titled The Myth of Religion.
That
is by
nature
recognized
the founding fathers society that
they gave us,
society that
they called it secular and it wasn't denominational.
Yes, and in fact I was even having a discussion with somebody on the internet who was saying
in light of the events in Orlando that all religions are messed up and he
didn't use the phrase messed up and I responded to him that he
had his own religion because he is taking a specific theological position on
God that God does not exist and therefore people
are wrong for even assembling and gathering around something they believe to be
religiously or theologically or doctrinally true.
That is a doctrinal and theological position.
So it is and that is actually secular humanism is really I think the
better rather than atheism secular humanism is really the better definition of
what
they're.
I
actually
think Thomas
Jefferson's metaphor a
constitutional still isn't today but the court adopted
and said that all religions have to be
treated equally by United States government and what they did effectively
itself
declare odd and everything worshipped as God
and said that all these religions are
now equal and equally subservient
to in America
the legal
power to go
to be found and
to drive them out of public life using the
courts.
That was you know
they were sending me hate
mails all day
that
is that's
hateful.
They want to fit
radicals as a way to
Christianity
and
it is ironic because if.
This nation that we live in were to become an Islamic theocracy with Sharia law the liberals would
have their heads on the chopping block before anybody.
The first ones right maybe the.
First ones killed right and then actually that's and they are in a lot of these places.
Where are.
Now of course not all liberals or atheists or agnostics are in
favor of that kind of agenda.
You even have people as much as I despise much of what Bill Maher has to say.
He is openly critical of Islam and actually mocks.
He mocks his liberal colleagues and friends for being protective of them
while being critical of Christians.
And then of course you know you have people like the late Christopher Hitchens and others that were would never be in favor of
any kind of Islamic overrun of.
The country but I guess it comes down to whose ox is being gored.
I think Bill Maher has
Islamic radicalism and other lefties but he's he is.
He's being a hypocrite completely inconsistent in and
you know being against Christianity when Christianity has protected the world from wherever it has
prevailed and
humanism is in.
Yeah and of course you have people like Bill Maher who.
Are so much invest.
Have so much invested in the freedom of speech that even a liberal like him
despises the thought police controlling every word that is spoken in the public arena.
So you do.
You do occasionally have.
You know there's also there's also just one more thing Chris on that point is that there is actually a fair amount
of overlap and you see this with the Trump Sanders phenomenon going on there that
there is on both the left and the right there is
rebellion
predatory corporatism and then in that I stand shoulder to shoulder with a lot of hard leftists
and and there are other things where we
have in fact I
think
the poll keep them so they couldn't organize.
I think the population of America is divided.
Right.
Left
globalists
will all.
Yeah.
And in
Romania and this man
out in the middle we
weren't even talking politics and he said Hillary
Clinton is a communist.
This is a man who lived under communism.
Yeah you know.
But.
But.
So.
But Clinton is it.
Clinton is a well well
elicited comment.
Yeah.
Well Hillary
Clinton herself.
In especially when the the race was closer between her and the
openly socialist Bernie Sanders she wasn't saying how can you American
citizens even consider voting for a socialist.
She wasn't saying that.
She was saying oh there is not much difference between us at all.
She kept saying that over and over again.
In fact still does uh so well you know she was a student of uh Saul Alinsky and.
Rules
for
rather
than
world
history
in Germany
well I
just
am
thankful that
I believe
in a.
Sovereign God and I'm not to put my trust in princes.
And no matter what the outcome is as a Christian I know that Romans 8 28 will still be in effect
for amen for those of us who love the Lord.
Well I want to repeat your website it is defend the family .com.
Defend the family .com.
Thank you so much for taking time out of your schedule and calling us all the way from Romania during your trip there and I
pray that you safely return here to the states.
Brother thank you God.
Bless you both and all your listeners and we'll talk to you next time all right.
Well God bless.
You and once again we apologize to our listeners that our phone connection with Dr.
Lively was breaking in and out but he was calling as I kept repeating from
Romania and that probably had something to do with it.
I think he was using a cell phone so we apologize for that.
But coming up right now we are going to have uh David Kapilian.
Join us to discuss his new book hot off the press the snapping of the American mind
healing a nation broken by a lawless government and a godless culture.
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This is chris arnson and our guest for the next hour is david kapelian an award -winning
journalist vice president and managing editor of world net daily an editor of whistleblower
magazine and widely read columnist.
He is also the best -selling author of the marketing of evil which i interviewed
david on a number of years ago.
And today we are going to be discussing the snapping of the american mind.
And i'm very excited to discuss this book.
The subtitle is healing a uh healing a broken healing and i'm sorry healing a
nation broken by a lawless government and godless culture.
And let me just read a couple of the endorsements that this book has received by people that
most of you probably have uh heard of.
Uh.
Sean hannity top -rated radio and television host and author says david kapelian is one of the most
thought -provoking and iconoclastic writers i know.
Agree or disagree david is a must read if you really want to understand the world we live
in and where it's headed.
Dinesh d'souza who is another individual that many of us recognize.
David kapelian's the snapping of the american mind chronicles the decline and fall of america and
shows that it is no accident but rather a direct result of progressive
misrule an eye -opening scary and galvanizing book.
And finally david barton historian author and founder of wall builders says many writers have
chronicled the far left's destructive influence on america her culture institutions and government.
But in the snapping of the american mind david kapelian makes it crystal clear that the left's first
and ultimate target is none other than the american mind itself in an era
when our nation's judah judeo -christian foundation is coming under increasingly open and brutal
attack.
Kapelian's powerful and redemptive book couldn't have come at a better time.
Well with uh all those accolades this is obviously a uh a book that is well worth our
attention.
And we welcome you back after a long absence to iron sharpens.
Iron david kapelian.
Hey chris good to be with you.
Yeah sorry i'm a little tongue -tied today but uh hopefully that will be ironed out during the
midst of the rest of the program and uh my co -host that i'd like to introduce you to at this time
is the reverend buzz taylor greet our guest david kapelian.
Buzz.
Greetings david.
Good to have you on the show.
Hey buzz.
Good to be with you and before we even go.
Into the main subject of the snapping of the american mind.
Tell us about world net daily.
For those of our listeners who are discovering you for the first time in the world net daily.
Organization.
Well the most interesting thing maybe for your audience about world net daily which now
kind of like kentucky fried chicken is now kfc everything is the
quirk.
Wnd is action
content
site in the world.
Wow uh more than any ministry more than any other uh news
site.
Uh it has got a huge traffic on it and even though it does not say you know you're a christian source for
news pretty much everybody here is uh a christian a lot of homeschoolers among
the staffers here and uh the the forms
cnn at msnbc
all people that were around pegs increasingly
crazy.
Um uh you know media new york times this morning came out with an editorial saying
that possible for you
know a
problem with the press in this country.
So you have fortunately a this
is mostly the internet and talk radio uh you can put fox news in there if you like.
I do i think anything else on on tv.
But uh wid in particular has been out there as long as the drudge report since you
know 20 years basically 1970 uh 1997.
Um and uh it's uh you know founded by joseph farah
well -known mainstream journalist.
But and a
and a terrific the founder.
I'm the vice president and managing editor.
And uh we've been doing this and trying to save the country for for 20 years
and uh continue pedaling as fast as we can.
Well uh this book that is hot off the press the snapping of the.
American mind healing a nation broken by a lawless government and godless culture.
The the title itself is very self -explanatory but if you could anyway
give our listeners uh your motivation behind writing this book in light of the fact that you
have addressed this main theme here before even in the marketing of evil and so
on if you could do what what makes this book unique.
Well chris i.
Mean i'm i'm in my 60s i
remember vividly i mean i was i was in the news media during the reagan years.
I i i remember uh vividly what was strongest most
christian nation in the history of the
reagan was president.
We're not talking about something like in the civil war era and this nation has
changed over the years and and the marketing of evil i basically show how we
were sold on all these uh wild uh changes that have really just
destroyed they destroyed the family marriage our country our culture our economy everything
um and how evil works was the following snapping of the american mind
is really focusing on the kind of the end game of what the
left has done and is doing to america.
And we have to understand when we say the left the right these are really code words.
You know what does this mean.
The left it's just a four -letter word.
And what what is encompassed in that.
It's almost like you know i'm driving down the road i turn right i turn left.
It's like a moral equivalent.
Some people believe this some people believe that.
And wrong right.
The um that went fairly
cannot operate cannot even exist without constantly violating.
And i went through the ten commandments one by one and i
showed them thou shalt
not kill the same number of people that died
on 9 11 unfolding.
And now
we get
you know the most important thing
sexual revolution which is completely a creature of the left.
Okay that is basically adultery on the
sex is sex is sacred
and is confined to marriage between a man and a woman.
That's the core morality.
It's really what it's
about.
Common sense says we would eliminate all kinds of horrible
problems.
And said you know what
these judeo -christian morals that have done america very well for hundreds of years and
western civilization for thousands of years.
What i'm
saying in
the snapping of the
american mind basically just
about oh well we're breaking our traditional
same -sex weddings and so forth.
I'm saying that tens of millions of americans
altering mood altering drugs.
Let me put a number of that 50 million america there's 330 million americans men women and
children are dependent on mind altering
psychiatric drugs.
And another 25 million are
60 million 110 million million not
thousand 110 million with sexually transmitted diseases.
I mean it sounds like all the grown -ups
are are
addicted
or keep hearing about
middle class the white middle class not just the headlines we've been hearing for months
and i'm here to say it's not just people are suddenly going crazy for
no reason at all.
They are being driven by the the fundamental transformation
quote -unquote of america by the hard left which
has given us the right and wrong you can screw around
with anything that moves.
You can basically live like an animal.
And and we and but and we do have a contact
when we break is written
one sentence the left is literally what
you see in the
headline.
And i go and i point i may sound like i'm ranting right now but this is a serious
prosecutorial indictment with you know 400 end notes full of peer -reviewed studies.
Uh in the that basically show proof i will use the word proof.
And the sanity and the happiness of regular.
Americans we do have tyler again in mastic beach long island.
He has been very uh faithful in and sending in questions every day.
Practically uh tyler in mastic beach long island new york says.
Would you say that the consequence of our modern society being dependent on the thoughts of
fallen men in adam is the result of our ignorance of truth and biblical
literacy.
Well yeah the the.
You know who is it.
Um some of the famous scientists like newton and
galileo.
Testimony to god in basically two places.
In in in nature we have it in the re
the holy scripture.
But you know god himself and the bible says i
you know look
the ten commandments
of western uh traditions
morality
law.
Right away.
The idea of don't.
There goes social.
Ten commandments.
Partly it's biblical.
The understanding of really we.
We call it common sense.
I wish it were more common.
But common sense is the conscience is a gift from
god.
Even if your parents.
Some way.
Oh there it says right there thou shalt not steal.
I thought it was fine until i saw
that.
Okay so we have a
knowing of right wrong.
That's why machines work.
When we lie it registers in our body.
Quran
says
it's
something
in us that says
questions.
And romans.
One basically said that all men know the truth but suppress it.
Uh so we right.
There's no excuse because we we we do have a testimony to truth.
We know right from wrong within us.
Arguably.
Even if we never had a bible.
Okay.
Uh that not many bibles and evidence.
But still being led by god.
And eventually they get led out of
that.
And not just
yeah.
Well that's.
Where the the gospel is clearly stated and it's uh it is uh inerrant and and
god breathed and so on.
And uh we do have a listener.
Uh who.
Uh.
This is jeff in clinton township michigan.
I am currently reading mark jones book on antinomianism and its
increase in popularity.
I'd like to know if you think this general trend of lawlessness both within the
church in our society will lead to the apostasy apostasy mentioned in second
thessalonians.
I don't know if you have an eschatological view on that but that's just what jeff from clinton township michigan asked.
Yeah i i'm sorry that's over my head.
Okay i don't know i don't know how to answer that one.
I'm just a poor.
Uh uh i'm a journalist who's a christian and i i look at the world.
I'm i'm not as and and
many of the.
Uh you you have the
bible and then you have what men
and we have hundreds of
have not just
you know is
are we going
to hear on the
earth.
We go when we die go somewhere and pass go and
collect two hundred dollars.
My i guess my view
repent of our
sins
to forgive.
I mean it says in the
we're meant
to live or
not
we're not
resenting and hating other people.
We're living in
romania.
Let's see.
I'm not
really a
student of it.
I appreciate it.
Um and with wnd
books we probably we
do have uh harrison in mechanicsburg pennsylvania who says i
know a number of friends.
Who have ceased to call themselves conservative not because they've become liberal
but because they believe that the term is inadequate and in fact no longer relevant
or correct.
Even if the book that we are discussing today the snapping of the american mind healing a nation
broken by a lawless government and godless culture what is there really to conserve.
Isn't this an oxymoron.
Well i'm not using the word.
In fact.
Wnd world
net daily.
Other people do because it's sane.
It's not left -wing liberal it's not blaming donald trump and republicans
for the orlando.
Okay conservative is not my favorite word.
It does sound a little contractive.
You're basically serving.
What's good.
Explain it.
It's not my favorite word but you know you sometimes you have to use words because conservative
talk radio and we
have to go to
a.
Break right now.
If you'd like to join us on the air with a question of your own our email address is chris arnzen at gmail .com.
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And we do have arnie in perry county pennsylvania who asked.
At times it seems that this nation has drifted so far to the left
that it is irretrievable from leftism socialism marxism
and a perverse disaster heading our way even more grotesque than
we've already experienced.
I cannot see america being rescued from this trend other than a
miracle of god himself.
Can your guest comment on that.
Well i it's a great question and i think had the the
answer there at the end.
Uh a miracle from god.
I mean look i honestly i don't mean to sound trite but
heart beating our lungs breathing every this brain working it's all ongoing.
God sustains this.
And really because things are possible how can i ever
get to the point of saying no there's no hope.
That's like giving up on god and thinking that he cannot this country.
And and it's easy to think on
some level.
You know if i were god i would give up on this country.
Just look at the abortion and the the uh we're you know look at the kind of people we elect and the kind of
laws and the immorality and the insanity and the corruption.
Uh but we're not god and we don't really know what
his plan is for us here.
And i guess in a sense it has to be okay either way.
We have uh many examples in the first century
where in
meaning of life also.
Paul.
Um but i do
think it's possible.
The fact is we have we have many millions of people in america right now there are
in this country.
And you and me and
probably most we
don't necessarily agree.
And there are so many even more to
the point there are so many people that are alive today that
return this country to anything like it's it's former.
I am in no way going to give up
around and
pagan.
And it
was more to give
up if you stop
fighting
for what's right.
You absolutely for sure are
we have christopher in suffolk county long island.
Who asked have you ever heard of the book.
After the ball and how the homosexuals the homosexual
agendas accomplishments for the cause of evil in this
nation were not by accident but specifically planned and designed.
Yeah as a matter.
Of fact you mentioned earlier my first book the marketing of evil.
Yes uh the first chapter a
1989 book written by two trained
marketers uh named uh marshall kirk and hunter madsen and uh
these guys and they basically said okay this is how we're
going to mainstream homosexuality which remember a generation ago almost
of america
right.
He constructed in the first chapter
and i did a whole lot of me 10 chapters on 10
different subjects streaming of
it how the
heck is
this happening.
And and uh it's the techniques one two three this is
what we're going to do and they explain it.
And you look at what's happened in the last 20 years the
marketing of.
Evil.
Yeah it seems that the one of the greatest tools that the left has is appealing
to the consciences of men and women uh that they are victims
and the uh the fact that the homosexual movement has
hijacked the civil rights movement.
They have virtually become identified in this day and age as an ethnic
group or a nationality or a race and it is amazing
that the how much of the christian community even has been it seems
brainwashed by this and they will even borrow from the language of the left and refer to
homosexuals as being a part of the gay community and things such as that.
So it's uh it's pretty remarkable how that has been.
You know you're.
Right it's it's total emotional jujitsu emotional uh um manipulation.
The uh the you know you you appeal to guilt we had slavery in
this country
certain national guilt or shame going
on
which.
Obama.
Of course.
And then when you get to the gay rights movement they say how do we make this.
We're going to superimpose our paradigm on top of martin luther king
and
but
you know.
But but now
the lgbtq
rst there are many
uh many blacks who say how dare you.
Yeah okay how dare you take your cause and use our cause which is real.
And you know he grew up in
bathrooms and there
was a
mind of segregation in one generation thanks to the civil rights movement and
martin luther king which which is universally everybody agrees.
You want to use that paradigm and you stick your thing.
Now we want to have men be able to go and shower with with teenage girls and not just bathrooms.
It's the locker rooms and the showers.
That's what obama's uh transgender edict from a few didn't know
go in and be able to shower with your teenage daughter at
school if i more identify with the women
they are saying the charlotte
observer or the you know what.
In the
shower room.
Because we went through a lot of other discomfort previously this
room where people
actually buying into this comparison uh and this hijacking of a
noble movement the civil rights movement of the that's one of the many
techniques that the lgbt movement has used to mainstream.
Yeah a lot of.
People in the media have been using the smokescreen that what's the big deal about
the unisex uh bathrooms because especially in a woman's room people are in
women are in stalls they're not getting undressed in front of everybody but as you just said this is more than just
that.
These.
Are showers and schools and so on.
Well if you heard about the aclu the head of was it georgia alabama.
Yes.
Yes.
Yeah who who quit her job because the aclu is at the forefront of pushing this.
This whole transgender bathroom shower room a locker room thing.
She said oh i have three daughters my two youngest daughters were in a bathroom and three men
all of them over six feet tall with deep male voices
anymore and this
is a a black woman lawyer democrat.
You know you're just a famous.
There are many there
are many feminist women who were anti -gun.
They got mugged literally mugged and they became.
And they sometimes like paxton quigley written books uh about the importance of women carrying guns and so
forth.
So it's not a metaphor it's it's a reality.
So here's a lady who in a sense my children were actually this is
crazy i cannot see.
The agenda is becoming
so it's getting to be no
gender dysphoria.
The whole thing of men thinking they're women women thinking they're men has been considered a mental illness forever in
the diagnostic of
the symptoms of yeah this is what you've got.
This is the drug you need
to take that got
taken by as many things you
have a little boy that doesn't want to fit some bloody
boring teacher.
Okay and put
something
where 43 percent of everybody who's a
time in their life many times after they've had the transgender surgery.
This is not well known.
Okay trillion
cells every
one of which is permanently and
you cannot change.
A man can
become
a
woman
or
woman become
a man
that they got
their stage in homosexual behavior and you have a
conscience and even though you have temper you
i'm saying if
you're in this one
that same it feels like hate.
This is the biggest lie.
These christians are not full of hate.
That's what they've
done.
Let me let me
help you that
are i mean i get more death threats and more hateful email
from from harder than anybody else
of conscience.
So they have to force people
agenda is
it has no end to it.
Okay.
They have to put the light out in other people because otherwise that light still
god smiles
in our
country and says
okay uh we have.
Tyler back from mastic beach long island and he has a question.
Uh since the left has a tight clinch on our country do you think that we will
see more instances of church persecution like that of the openly homosexual
houston mayor demanding transcripts of pastors sermons
and um.
I think that uh sometimes uh we may exaggerate what
we are experiencing here in america as persecution because of we have brethren in other lands that are little
really being crucified and uh set on fire and so on.
But there is definitely a a more subtle form of persecution going on.
And if you could comment on what tyler has to say.
Yeah i think you put it.
Very well and i'm glad the fact that so
inflating the uh you know kim
you know
burned and i mean unspeakable things going on at the hands of uh of isis and other
islamic groups about you know africa
but yes the answer to his question is yes exclamation uh
more of this if you are going
black or gay equals that persecution
in blacks.
Or then what you're saying is that a bible believing
christian
all those day
if we're going on which witnesses will accept the
consequence of that is that if we had churches that get a that
a that get a excuse me a uh a tax exam and they are
if they were teaching are evil and
black people are evil you might well say i'm not even comfortable with them getting that's not even a
real church that that's an abuse.
It's like saying well i'm the church of satan i want my tax exemption you and i might say and i don't think so i don't
think that's what the founders had in mind that's not what the framers of the religious tax exemptions to go way back
had and that's where we're heading if we if it becomes
the law of the the culture and the law of the sensibility of the land that that any criticizing
uh anything lgbt we're going to
jail you know
there was the 30 days in
teaching against homosexuality in the pulpit in his church he was not on some
street corner or going to some other gay function okay in his own church it was finally
overturned by the supreme court of that country but before that happened he was actually a 70 year old preacher
was sentenced to 30 days in jail for what the bible says about homosexuality in
his church and that was years ago to
keep going the way
they are because look at it
this tragedy what's coming after that is there any chance
that we're not going to
have read the
legal arguments all
those arguments men and a wastebasket want to be
married consensual and that that is very much preacher
and you don't want to perform the ceremony kim
davis uh but um you know
that so that's where we're headed so
you you know appeasement there's something about appease name me
an instance when that actually happens yeah
and as
i've said before on this program
that uh people are pushing for the.
Rights so -called of children to make decisions on sexual
reassignment surgery and what would be very
fast on the heels of that to me is obvious pedophilia will be legalized because if
children can make a choice on what gender they are they can make a choice on who they have
sex with.
And sometimes it's going to be adults.
Oh that's absolutely true.
Because remember it used to be morality.
Morality has been replaced consensual.
It's okay.
Never mind morality.
Did you consent.
So that is going to be coming down down.
Whether it's sexual reassignment surgery which is the modern euphemism.
It's not
just my opinion.
Look
why
are we denying
children 10
years ago.
County maryland.
I grew up there.
Unbelievable.
No one is ever going to go for this.
Now it's like holy writ and it's coming from obama and all over the country.
And you are a bigot and a hater.
And shower.
And i mean
isis and their corruption.
Yes.
And what seems to
escape the attention of a lot of people.
Even a lot of conservatives in the media is that the homosexual activists are in
essence really saying that they are morally superior because if
heterosexuals had demanded access into women's rooms heterosexual men
had demanded access into ladies rooms they would be looked upon as perverts and the feminists would be the first
to say it.
But because it is homosexuals and transgendered people and on and on that somehow
changes the whole thing.
That it changes the the whole uh debate when if a if an
adult man wanted to take girl scouts out into the woods and sleep into the same tents with them that would
be obviously wrong uh.
But because it's a homosexual he should be allowed to have little boys in a tent with him because he would never do anything
wrong.
Of course.
Uh that's that's the uh message i'm getting from the left.
I don't know about you.
But that's the way.
Well yeah the left is full of contradictions and and double standards.
They align with islam that that hates women and pushes gays off of cliff.
It's the death penalty uh.
But.
But the thing is that with the hard left the real enemy is christianity.
Yes.
And and and that is if you if you can hang on to that and realize that then they're double standard and they're
contradictions.
And why don't the feminists care when this is happening to women.
And blah blah.
You know
when things become confusing
you have to look where.
Where does god we call it the left.
But that's that's really what it is and your website is wnd .com wnd
.com.
Thank you for being a guest again and i want everybody listening to always remember for the rest of their lives that jesus christ
is a far greater savior than you are a sinner.
Thank you for joining us again on iron sharpens iron and we look forward to your questions next time for our guests.
God bless.