G3 and Friends - Things Are Much Worse Than I Thought

The Origin of the Channel and Early Woke Church Pushback

Alright guys, alright, we'll start this one with a little story about how the AD Robla's YouTube channel got started. Some of you know this story, some of you probably don't. You know, I would put my little thoughts out there, you know, a long time ago, I was one of the first people talking about this Woke Church stuff, not the first, and nothing special, just, you know, I'd put a Facebook post every now and then, or things like that, a small video, things like that.

And you know, nobody cared because nobody knew who I was, and this wasn't on anyone's radar at the time, it just, nobody really cared. But I would get pushback every now and then from people that would say, that would insinuate that I was, you know, racist, or white privilege, whatever the case may be, but you know, usually it was people that didn't really know me.

But I'll never forget when I realized this was a real big deal. And this is, this person gets a lot of credit for creating the AD Robla's that you see before you today. He was a, he's a D-lister on Big Eva, you know, he's a known quantity, he gets, you know, the greatest speaking gigs, but he gets speaking gigs.

And we were having a discussion about public schools, I don't remember the exact issue, but he told me, you know, AD, the only reason you're believing that is because of your white privilege. And I wasn't offended by that, but I found it amazing because I knew for a fact that this guy knew I was Latino, knew a little bit about my background and how I grew up, and knew that wasn't true, what he had just said to me, he knew that that wasn't true.

So I realized at that moment that there was something that, that, that it's like a mind virus that overrides your logic, your reason, your, your normal personality, and it just triggers you into saying something like that.

And it's, it's probably a mixture of propaganda and just, you know, I mean, obviously it's a mixture of sin as well, but, um, I knew I was, I knew that this was a big problem at that moment, at that moment, when someone told me that, um, I believe something only because of my white privilege, knowing full well that I wasn't white or didn't have privilege.

Why Christian Nationalists Should Not Be Labeled Racists

Anyway, um, so fast forward to yesterday, history is repeating itself and I can't even freaking believe it. You know, I, nobody can say that I haven't tried to stop this from happening. You know, I've, I've, I've put out some content, I've, I've been tweeting about it.

I've been asking, begging, pleading, having conversations. And I've, I've been saying, look, guys, don't do what the woke church did. It doesn't do you any good. If you're against Christian nationalism, it, you know, this is probably the last strategy you want to use to call people racist or ethnocentrist or whatever term you want to use.

It's like, it's not going to go well for you. You know what I mean? It's not going to go well for you. This has been tried and it doesn't work. You're going to end up looking like a gospel coalition before long.

This is what's going to happen. I've been trying and nobody can say I haven't tried. In fact, there are some people that are totally against my Christian nationalist beliefs. They are against it. They're so against it that they used to be, you know, more friendly with me and now they're not as friendly with me and maybe even they're against me.

And they reached out to me about that video and you said, you know, that was a good video. That was a good warning. You know, we should keep our heads about us. Right. I was talking to my son this morning, you know, we were talking about throwing a baseball and you know, he's in little league and he's, and he's doing well, you know, we're practicing and you know, it doesn't come naturally necessarily to everybody how to throw a baseball and he's doing really well, but I can see him so often overthinking it.

Right. And I'll, and I told him, I said, just said this morning, I said, look, sometimes I'll throw at a chain link fence, you know, the little, the little pole that holds up a chain link fence and I'll try to hit the little pole from a distance and I'll just throw it and I'll hit the pole and then I'll try to do it again.

And the second time I overthink it, I try to make sure my angle's right just so I can make sure to hit it the second time. And I almost never hit it the second time. Sometimes you just got to rely on muscle memory.

Not everything's like that though. Not everything's like that. And I think that when you, when you're well-practiced and good at something like I am at throwing a baseball, muscle memory is better than overthinking it.

A lot of the time when you're not good at something like identifying racists, like when you were woke like five minutes ago, you're probably not good at identifying racists and don't try, you know what I mean?

Take some time, think it over, consider the nuance, consider the arguments, consider maybe some of your blind spots because we all have them. And just cool it. I've, I've been begging people to do this, but it doesn't look like it's going to happen.

I had a conversation yesterday with someone and I just asked him about this, like, like, why do you think this is going to be good for you? You know, you've got this whole group of Christian nationalists, which, which let's just be honest.

We're dominating the discussion here, completely dominating, maybe not in the ivory towers, but with the man in the pews, like the people that actually count. We're dominating the discussion. If you wanted to stop Christian nationalism, the absolute worst thing you could do is to try to go the, you're a racist route because everybody already knows that's mostly a scam.

And I said to this guy, what's the deal? Like, don't you want to actually help? We let's work together. There's evil out there. Let's work together. I've been begging people. We can do this. We can work together.

We do not have to destroy our brothers. We don't have to do it. And the response I got completely blew me away. I could not believe it. I got a wall of text and the wall of text started with an explanation of why racism is bad.

He didn't get it. His brain was overrided by this, this, this, this reflex. And I just can't believe it because he knows a little bit about my perspective. I mean, I'm sure he doesn't know everything I believe, and I'm sure he doesn't watch every video, but, but he knows what I believe.

And he decided to lecture me about why, you know, you know, it's, it's racism is bad. And then, you know, you, you, you, you can't have a white identity, you know, something or other, like just this whole thing of stuff that, and I, and I, and I just, I couldn't believe it.

The Gospel Versus Strategy in the Christian Nationalist Debate

Right. I couldn't believe that's the route he went. And I said, you know, it doesn't have to be this way. You know, I want it. We, we should work together. We, we, we have, we have a job to do here. And he, and he said, this is, I don't understand why you're talking strategy, AD.

This is, this is a matter of the gospel, the gospel. And to him, of course it's about the gospel. But the thing is like, and I said this on Twitter the other day, if literally all you do is preach the gospel, you are in sin.

There are many other jobs we have to do that aren't preach the gospel. Does the scripture apply to every job? Yes, it does. But not every job is preach the gospel. There are plenty of other jobs out there that need doing, and they need doing Christianly.

But the thing is this man, and this is, again, this is, I'm not going to name him. I'm not going to tell you who it was. That's not, it doesn't matter, but just know that it was a known person. It's someone who is a leader who, if I named him, you'd know him instantly.

And to him, this is a holy war. This is a matter of purity. If anything even stinks, has the stench of a little bit of racism, and I'm not even talking legitimate racism, just like it doesn't sound like something that he would be comfortable talking about.

It's like that scene in Seinfeld when they're talking about, is Elaine's boyfriend a mixed race? Is he half black, half white? And George, it's like they're turned into George, and George is so, I don't even know if we're supposed to be talking about this.

And it's like, it's obviously not racist to wonder in your head, hey, is that guy half black, half white? That's obviously not racist. It's a completely legitimate thought. But the point is, if you even have a conversation like that, these people turn into George.

It's a purity test for them. It's a holy war. And you know what I mean by a holy war, a purity test? This man legitimately thinks, and this is what I mean by history repeating itself. This man I talked to, he knows a little bit about me.

He knows, you know, I'm pretty sure he knows my ethnicity. I'm pretty sure he knows a little bit about my beliefs on diversity and the church and things like that. He told me, because I did not condemn Stephen Wolf's tweet, the one about white evangelical voters, because I didn't think that was a big deal.

He didn't say that he thinks I'm an ethnocentrist, you know, racist, whatever. But he worries. He worries that I might be denying the gospel because I didn't think Stephen Wolf's tweet was a big deal.

Stephen Wolfe, Virgil Walker, and the Coming Purity Test

It's way worse than I thought, guys. This situation is way worse than I thought. This is the same insanity, insanity that I saw at the beginning of the woke church movement. And it's the same strategies that they're using too.

I've been pointing them out on Twitter. If you want to follow me on Twitter, I've been pointing out how each strategy that these people are using is the exact same. I can't believe this is happening, guys.

Every time I say it, I just can't believe it a little bit more. They're using the same tactics, the same strategies as Big Eva used, the entire woke church movement, and still uses to this day. Now they're using it against Christian nationalism.

It's unbelievable. I can't even believe it. So my point is that I want you guys to prepare, because here's the strategy I think that they're going to be attempting, right? They're going to be attempting this strategy.

This is my opinion. I think that I have a good enough reputation that you might think that this is, you know, I'm not saying this is definitely going to happen. I'm not a prophet or anything like that.

But you may want to prepare for something like this. You know what I mean? And it doesn't hurt to prepare for it anyway. This is what the strategy is going to be. They think that Stephen Wolfe is a racist.

That's what they think. They think he's, you know, David Duke or whoever it is. I forget the name. It doesn't matter. They think he's in the KKK. Let's just put it that way. And so they're going to attack Christian nationalism at what they perceive to be the weak link.

And they perceive Stephen Wolfe to be the weak link. And so they're going to pivot. And they're going to start to say things that sound pretty Christian nationalist. They're going to start to talk about, you know, God, you know, is the standard.

You know, he sets the standard. And it's going to be very vague and not specific on the details. Like they'll say things like the civil governing authority should be implementing justice according to God's standard.

But they'll never say, oh, yeah, and we should probably ban sodomy. You know what I mean? Or something like that, or use the full weight of the law to suppress LGBT plus and all that kind of stuff. They won't get specific, but they'll say general things that'll sound pretty Christian nationalistic.

And they're trying to make a division between Stephen Wolfe and what they're essentially retreating from the main argument in Christian nationalism. And so they're going to pick apart Stephen Wolfe. And Virgil Walker's article starts to do this.

This is the beginning. I think that Virgil's article is the beginning of a litany of content. We're going to get a tsunami of content that's all essentially saying the same thing. That Stephen Wolfe's brand of Christian nationalism is racist.

That's what they're going to say. They might use a different word because I think they might know that racist just doesn't have the power that it used to. But that's what they're going to do. They're going to attack where they feel like we are weak.

And then they're going to try to cast shade on everybody that does not explicitly disavow Stephen Wolfe. If you don't cast Stephen Wolfe into outer darkness, then now you might be one of them. You might be one of those KKK, ethno, whatever kinds of things.

Nuance, Ethne, and the Meaning of a Nation

And I read Virgil's article, and I'm not going to comment on it here. There's a number of things I could say. But there's no way to There's a dear sister in the Lord, Patriarchy Hannah, I think is her name, that I always see her tweets online.

I don't even know if I follow her, but I always see her tweets. And she was talking about something in her own life, because she gets a lot of flack from feminists and stuff like that. And I just commented on it.

There's literally no amount of detail or nuance that you can provide that will be good enough for people who don't like you. If someone doesn't like you, they can find fault with literally anything. You can nuance it, or you can not nuance it.

You could provide detail, or you could not provide detail. And in Virgil Walker's article, he actually identifies some of the good points of Stephen's book, where he explains what he means by ethne and nationalism, and how the ethne and the national

We got to figure out what it is to be a nation. There is something to a nation. It's not just an imaginary construct. There's something to it. We should talk about what that is. And in many nations, it's very clearly an ethnic nation.

Japan is a Japanese nation. It's very clear that every custom is Japanese, and the people are Japanese, and stuff like that. And so, do you have to have one ethnicity only in the country, like a Japan, for example, to be a nation?

Well, these are the questions that we ought to explore, but you see, this is the point. When you start to explore these questions, and Stephen Wolfe, let me just be honest, I find Stephen Wolfe's book hard to read at times.

And it's not a knock, necessarily, on Stephen. It's that he's going into so much detail, and so much nuance, that a regular Joe like me finds it hard to follow sometimes. And he's doing that because he knows full well that there are people that are going to try to brand him as a racist, literally no matter what.

And so, he's giving them every excuse not to do that, but they're going to do it freaking anyway, because that's the mind virus that we've all been propagandized for years at this point. And listen, I have sympathy for all of you, I do.

So anyway, but what happens is, if you even try to have a discussion about that, what is a nation? And you don't bring your modern presuppositions to it, or if you try to step outside of your modern presuppositions, if you even attempt to do that, it starts to sniff to them like wrong think, and you find yourself at the table of monks cafe, and your George Costanza saying, I don't even know if we're supposed to be talking about this.

These are completely legitimate conversations, and I've talked about this for almost my entire time on YouTube. A lot of people think I've changed. You've changed, AD, you've changed. I don't think so.

I don't think so. There was an early video that I put out, very early, and it was, I was going through an article about, it was an article about why black sisters feel like, I don't know, like they don't belong, or something like that.

It was a horrible article. It was a horrible article by Isaac Adam, it was a Nine Marks article. It was one of my first pieces of content, maybe my first 10. And I told the story, and I said, you know, one of the points of the article was like, white brothers don't want to date them, so they feel like they're ugly, or something like that.

And I remember the video, I used to have a big heart. I still do. I'm just, that's a joke. I used to be a warm guy, and I said, man, that makes me feel really sad for these black sisters. But not because the white guys are racist, but because like, that's a horrible feeling, and there's obviously a pastoral issue there, where they're getting their identity, their worth, their self-value, their self-esteem from white people where they shouldn't be.

There's literally nothing wrong with white people not dating a black person. There's nothing wrong with it. And I told the story about myself, where I asked a girl out, this was when I lived in New York.

There was a girl that I like, and we felt like we got along, she was Jamaican. And I asked her out, and she said no. And she didn't come out and say this, but there are indications, and I'm pretty sure that the reason she didn't say yes is not because she didn't like me, but because she only dated black guys.

And there's nothing wrong with that! There's nothing wrong with that! She wanted to start a family with a black guy, and she wanted to, probably a Jamaican, I'm pretty sure she only dated Jamaicans too.

And it was probably important to her to have a Jamaican husband, so she could have a Jamaican family and pass on her Jamaican tradition. I don't know what Jamaican traditions are, but I'm sure they're awesome.

From an early stage, I've been talking about stuff like this. There's nothing wrong with it. That's a natural thing. That's a natural thing. I mean, people tend to live in groups of other people that are like them, and they tend to like that and operate well like that.

There's no reason to force diversity. There's no reason. Not even a gospel-centered one. Yes, we understand partiality is a sin, but we also look at reality and say, hmm, these people tend to, you know, white people tend to marry other white people, and black people tend to marry other black people, and that's interesting.

Let's talk about that. Let's talk about that. And can we do it without losing our heads? Can we? And this is the thing. This is a brother, right? This is a brother in the Lord. I can understand if you see some pagan, like a guy who posts pagan images of Thor and stuff like that, and he's talking like a psychopathic racist, because there are people like that.

There are people like that. Maybe don't give him the benefit of the doubt. He worships Thor, for goodness sake. I don't necessarily think you need to give someone who worships Thor the benefit of the doubt.

But this is a brother in the Lord, and so he says a few things that, you know, it doesn't sound right to you, and again, I'm not saying that they're wrong or right. I'm just saying it doesn't sound right to you.

Why can't you just take a deep breath? Let him give the context. Let him explain himself. Let him talk, because here's the thing, guys. This is advice. I'm giving you advice, and yes, this is strategic advice.

You think you're just taking down Stephen Wolfe, right? If you guys go this route, if you want to cast him out into outer darkness, and you think that's the strategy to browbeat people, because they don't want to be labeled a racist like Stephen, to submit to your, whatever it is, I don't know what you're trying to do.

I'm not going to put words in your mouth. Obviously, you want to destroy Stephen's perspective. I get it. You think you're just destroying Stephen, but it's going to go exactly like the thing with the tweet did, because there are going to be tons of people that see what he has said, and they're going to say, there's nothing wrong with that, and they're going to look at you and say, why are you trying to brand me with the scarlet R?

They're going to be pissed, and they're going to be right, and you are going to become the new gospel coalition. That's what's going to happen. I don't want that to happen, but I think you guys know me well enough to know that if that's what happens, then so be it.

I'm okay being out there, even if I was all alone out there saying this, because I've done it before. I don't want to be all alone, and this time I won't be, and again, I'm not saying I was the first one.

You hear me? I'm just talking hyperbolically. This time I won't be, guys, because so many of us understand this game now. Too many of us understand this game now. I urge you to pump the brakes, guys. Pump the brakes and talk to these people.

Talk to these people and bring them your concerns before you launch them into outer darkness. Your purity comes from the Lord, right? You get that. Your purity comes from Christ. You get that. If you're seen on being soft on a potential, you know, maybe he's a racist, maybe.

If you're seen as, who cares? You're still pure. You don't have to do a performance to show how pure you are. Let me show you what I mean by performance. This is Owen Strawn. Owen Strawn was woke five minutes ago.

He was woke five minutes ago. That's an exaggeration. But in 2018, this guy was woke. I remember that. I remember it, Owen. I was there. I knew who you were at the time and you were woke. But then you changed your ways.

And I, for one, was very grateful for that. And I remember people telling me, Owen, I remember people telling me, you got to watch out for that because he looks like he's being very opportunistic. And I would deny that every time and say, look, you got to give credit where credit is due.

You got to believe love believes all things. You know, when people change their mind, and I was operating on the impression that lots of people were going to change their mind. I was right. A lot of people did change their mind, but it's like, you can't just like, okay, sure.

Maybe you don't put them out in front of every, you know, you don't make them the leader of everything. Sure. But, but you gotta encourage people. And, and, and Owen, you know, you know, for a fact that I have reached out to you and encouraged you in, in your, in your non-woke awakening.

And I was very grateful for that, but Owen, like you were woke. You're not very good at spotting the racist. This is not a knock on you, Owen, none of us are good at spotting the racist because we've been programmed to spot one everywhere.

This is the performance though. He wants you to know how pure he is. This is a, this is a holy war. This is a purity test. And he is out here and he, he is five seconds away from going caps lock. And he stands here and this is, this is a real LARP.

This is real LARPing. If anyone is still wondering whether unwoke voices are going to be silent about genuine white ethnocentrism among professing Christians, allow me in all humility to clarify. Absolutely not.

No way, never over our dead bodies, tons of us. The gospel forbids it. God help us. If you can't see the LARP here, I got nothing for you, my friend. This is the same tactic that Big Eva tried back in the day.

You come out strong and bold where the battle was won decades ago. But you're pretending it hasn't been won. You're pretending people that quite frankly have bent over backwards to explain themselves so that you didn't make the stupid mistakes that you're making right now, but you're making them anyway.

And there's really not much I can do about it. I've come to realize that this is not a black pill, but for some of these guys, and I'm not saying Owen is one of them. He might be, he might not be, I don't know.

But for some of these guys, there is absolutely no stopping it. The mind virus has multiplied to such a degree, there's nothing that you can do. This is just, this is woke, you know, this is Owen 1 .0 rearing its head again.

And I'm begging you, don't go this route. Don't do it. Don't do it. It's okay just to wait it out. And when, you know, someone reveals themselves to be a true racist, I hate all Latinos, you can pounce on them and no one will criticize you for not pouncing earlier.

But the chances of that happening in some of these instances is so low. It's just, I can't believe this is happening. I really can't. This is, it's the same thing. It's happening again. It's happening again.

And it doesn't matter, like you can say anything. Like I was talking to Patriarchy Hannah, it's like you can literally nuance it no matter what. You can say, here's what I'm not doing. I'm not dividing up the church.

In other words, you know, when we come to the table, we come on the exact same standards, whether you're white, whether you're black, whether you're yellow, you're my brother in the Lord, and you know, we can worship God, and that's what Revelation 7's about, you know, we're all different tribes, tongues, and nations.

We're still different tribes, tongues, and nations. Maybe we ought to figure out what that means, number one. But we all put on the same robes, and we all worship the same lamb. And when you bring that mess into the church, then we will come against it.

I'm not doing that. That being said, we do need to figure out what a nation is. We do need to figure this out. And you know, we can recognize these categories when it comes to voting and politics and stuff like that.

This is legitimate to talk about. We don't have to turn into George Costanza. I don't know if we should be talking about this. I'm trying, guys. I'm trying. I still want to work with you guys. Virgil, I want to work with you.

Owen, I want to work with you. Scott, I want to work with you. You know, Josh, I want to work with you. All you guys. James, I want to work with you. We've got real demons to slay here, boys. We do. We've got big problems.

We've got a situation. And we can work together. We don't have to throw each other to the wolves for some pathetic purity test. Like, I just, it's pathetic, guys. It's pathetic. This kind of thing. It's pathetic.

I said that Owen almost went full caps lock. Well, the reality is he did go full caps lock. The gospel is way better than ethnocentrism. Read Virgil Walker's clarion warning about genuine ethnocentrism in some species of the Christian nationalist today.

This is not a drill. This is not a drill, guys. It's the real deal. It's David Duke. There he is. This is the tactic, boys. You've got to get ready for it. They are going to say, if you do not disavow, cast him into outer darkness, if you do not disavow and cast him into outer darkness, Stephen Wolfe and his brand of Christian nationalism, if you even dare to have conversations like the one he's attempting to have, then you might be denying the gospel.

In fact, I think they think you are denying the gospel. I think that the guy I was talking to does think I'm an unbeliever. He wouldn't say that, though, because, of course, he doesn't know me that well, so you shouldn't.

It's like in Dumb and Dumber. You don't kill someone you don't know. That's a rule. This is the tactic, guys. This is what they're going to do. They're attempting to divide us by pointing out what they think is a weakness.

They are not going to succeed. The reason I'm doing this video is I want to make sure that you're ready for it. Anyone who would withhold fellowship from you for not feeling the exact same way about a very innocuous tweet that could easily be interpreted numerous ways, but he provided context to make you interpret it in a certain way, anyone who would question your salvation, do you even understand the gospel if you don't understand how you must disavow and condemn this tweet because it's the worst thing in the world?

Anyone who would do that to you, they've got something going on on the side that is just their head's not right. It's just like when that person that was close to me told me that I was only saying what I was saying because of my white privilege.

Their mind isn't working correctly, in any case. I hope this didn't black pill you, but the divide is way worse, way deeper, and way more intense than I could have possibly imagined before this conversation.

Anyway, there it is. I hope you found this video helpful.