Globalist Dreams, Roman Catholic Claims, Todd Erzen Challenge

Well greens, welcome to the dividing line. We're back in the big studio just because Rich is enjoying being in the back in the big studio. He's put a lot of work into it and doesn't want to move everything back to the studio.

So that's really the only reason I'm sitting here. It's actually easier to sit. This chair is very hard to get into. Normally I'd sort of move around and stuff like that, but no. Once you're in here, you're pretty much in here the rest of the time or you look like a complete idiot trying to get into it.

So that's how it works. Anyways, it's a beautiful day in the neighborhood. It really was. I think it got down to like 60 or something this morning, which for most of you would be like during the summer.

But for us, it's the beginning of fall. It's getting toward the end of October. Hey, we've had 103 degrees on Halloween. So things could still get bad, but the weather prognostication seems to indicate that getting to the point where I might break the coogies out.

Yeah, they need to get aired out and dusted off and stuff like that and get back out into the real world. No fun guest today, like Wes Hough was. Glad that he was able to join us and talk about a strange, strange...

I mean, boy, I don't think anyone ever would have heard of that man outside of the age we live in now. Social media, even though I was just sitting here reading a post on X about the suppression of the continued suppression of free speech on X.

I think Elon has gone on to other things. And almost anyone that you're going to hire in Silicon Valley is going to have a strongly leftist worldview. And they're going to... They think they're doing God's bidding to suppress the other perspective, suppress the other side.

That's their thing. That's what they do. And Cauldron Pool, a group down in Australia, news organization, Christian news organization, asked Grok to analyze their data. And Grok said there was an 85 to 90 chance that the algorithm was specifically seeking to throttle their reach.

And I've certainly noticed that with a lot of stuff as well. I think that's still definitely out there. You can't... It doesn't matter if these folks lose elections or anything else. They're going to still do this kind of stuff.

That's just how they are. And there's really nothing to be done about it. I think Matt Walsh pointed to the graph on the screen and said that the transgender movement is dead. I am not convinced of that.

But you probably saw this, and it came out just a few days ago, where a couple of studies, Andover, Fire, and Brown, share of students not identifying as male or female 2016 to 2025. And of course, two of them didn't even start till 2020 and 2021.

But you see the reaches its height between 2022 and 2023. And then there has been a precipitous decline in the numbers. And they're still... Look, transgenderism is mythology. I would like to think that there will be some day that history will look back upon our time period and go, what was wrong with those people?

How was there such a collective explosion of utter insanity? We're not talking about intersex people. It's never been about any of the syndromes, any of the genetic issues that have been well-known for many years.

We're talking about granting to people the autonomous power to deny their biological reality and claim that they're a woman caught in a man's body or a man caught in a woman's body. And that they can, quote unquote, transition, which has never happened and never will.

You can mutilate a body all you want. You can make someone a permanent patient of the medical system. You can shorten their lives. Isn't it amazing that for years and years and years, we had study after study after study about how smoking impacted the length of your life, how many years a pack of cigarettes would take off of your life and stuff like that.

When was the last time you saw a peer-reviewed, widely disseminated study on the impact of transgenderism on lifespan? Now, someone would say, well, you can't because there isn't enough data yet because it just hasn't been going on all that long.

Okay, how about on fundamental health, on disease, numbers of days in the hospital, numbers of days sick, number of drugs you have to take just to keep functioning. You're not going to hear any of that because, cha-ching, it's all money.

It's all money. The Hippocratic Oath is gone, has been gone for a long time. The medical world does what makes money, and they promote what makes them money. That doesn't mean your health. They don't want you healthy.

They want you on Ozempic, and they want you on statins, and they want you on this, and they want you on that. That's how the system feeds upon itself and uses us. It's a little bit like the Matrix. We're in those pods, and they're getting their energy out of us, except their energy is money.

That's just how it works. I hate to have to say that. In many ways, there's astonishing things that the medical community can do today, but just because you can do something doesn't mean that you should do something.

The worldview foundation behind what the medical world does is radically anti-Christian. The stuff that's going on now with genetic manipulation, I can just guarantee you there are already human beings walking around in China who have been genetically manipulated.

They're just not telling anybody about it. I'm just going to have to start taking my watch off and hiding it someplace because the chit-chat channel gets going. I don't know how to turn that thing off.

I need to find a way to tell that ignore signal because there's chit-chat going on. Everybody starts talking. Anyway, I can guarantee you that that's taking place. That's happening in China because China wants super soldiers.

China wants a way to control the world. These people want world domination, and they will do anything to get it, including risking global destruction in the process. They really will. But the worldview behind all this is a horrifically anti-God worldview.

What you're seeing is the clear demonstration of what was the name of that book? Irreparable Damage, something like that. It was the Shearer book that she wrote about the transgender movement and the destruction especially of young women a number of years ago.

I recommended it to everybody, and she pointed out that this wasn't happening before YouTube and TikTok and all these things. It wasn't happening before social media. You may have had cross dressers and a few things like that, but you didn't have this massive gender confusion.

It was hatched and promoted. These poor young women and men, boys and girls, were targeted and victimized. I think every single surgeon and doctor, counselor that was ever involved in injecting cross-sex hormones into young people, into mutilating their bodies, destroying their lives, I think every single one of them needs to have all their property confiscated, all their money confiscated, goes into one big pool to reimburse those people for their damage, and that they should have to work the rest of their lives on the subsistence level food and shelter and work to pay off the debt they owe these other people for having used them in this way.

I truly believe that. Just as I truly believe that the man who had been arrested, what was it, 33 times, 40-year criminal history that broke into an elderly couple's home recently, I think it was in Georgia, could have been someplace else, and burned the house, tried to set the house on fire, stabbed him, strangled the wife, took some things, oh this is in New York City, because he was arrested in Times Square, that's right, it was in New York.

If that is not the clearest illustration of the necessity of the death penalty, which should have been used earlier than this, I mean, 33 times, there comes a time where you have someone that clearly cannot live in society.

They are evil, and they love evil, and they're going to continue practicing evil, and you don't respect life if you do not take these people's lives. Now you can say, well, just lock them in a cage. Okay, so slavery, lock them in a cage, and then charge all the rest of us all the money to give them sex change operations too.

I guess that's how you do the whole thing here. And, you know what, I'm just going to have to, and slide power, I'm just going to have to turn the phone off, turn the watch off, because you know, that would just leave the group, that's what I have to do.

Yeah, irreversible damage, yeah. So, yeah, that was probably in there too, but I don't, I'm not watching the group, can't, making too much noise. So, anyway, what you've got here is clear documentation of the fact that there has been a social shift.

They overplayed their hands, they fired people. I have a friend right now who's very concerned that he's going to lose his job, and it's about transgenderism. It's about having a boss that all of a sudden decides they're not who they used to be, and they want to be called by different names, and different pronouns, and as a Christian, you're like, I can't lie about God's creation.

I can't do that. And so, it's still going on, and we may look at something like this and go, well, that's over with, you know, Matt Walsh thinks it's over with. You think if, you know, there's an economic issue or something like that to where some leftist nutball like Buttigieg or something like that is elected president.

Can you imagine President Mamdani? Yeah, there would be the end of the United States right then and there, an open, clear, obvious communist. You think that if that were to happen, and those people were to take over, that this is going to continue?

No, it's going to go right back up again, because that's what they want, until they accomplish their goal, which is the utter destruction of the society, the United States of America, bringing down the governmental structure, making us just a pawn of the globalist elites, and then they'll get rid of all that stuff, because they don't care about these people, they don't actually believe in any of this stuff themselves, it's just a convenient tool to use to accomplish their purposes.

So, you know, I can look at that and go, well, you know, that's great. What it proves to me is that transgenderism has been an external made-up fiction all along, and if it can go with social trends, then it has no connection inherently to the human being, it's the human being watching what's going on in society and reacting to it, that's all there is to it.

So that's that. Real quickly, I don't want to spend too much time on this, but I was just watching this, and we've talked about Harari before. Okay, let's try it this way then. You don't want to go that way?

I hate touchpads. We need to get a mouse in here, then just leave it here. That'd probably disappear. But Yuval Harari, big guy in the WEF, written a number of books, we've talked about these books and the evil worldview that he represents.

It is, it's an anti-human, anti-Christian worldview that he represents, but this is one of the primary voices of the global elites that are out there, that are influencing, I mean, are just focused upon purposefully influencing governmental leaders.

If you wonder why Europe is committing open, obvious self-immolation, self-suicide, it's because of people like this. This is where this is coming from. And you've got to listen to what this guy has to say if you're going to understand what's happening and why the worldview that understood that there are transcendent values, that man has value in and of himself, and why people, and sadly, Elon Musk is one of the people that want to create this world where machine and man are interfaced.

And eventually the machine is ruling over the man, the man is secondary. Harari is a good person to listen to here. Listen to some of the stuff he has to say. In order to collaborate on a large scale, you need to convince everybody.

To believe in the same story. What's really the engine of history is stories, and they don't even need to be true. Some of the most powerful stories in history were fictions, but you need to get everybody, or at least a significant part of the population, to believe in the same story,.

Otherwise it doesn't work. Okay, I don't know if you saw that, but even, and it's not done, but it just fades out there for a second, even the subtitling that they provided, when it said the same story, there was a graphic underneath of a bible.

And that's true, that's what they're saying. What he would be saying is that the Christian religion in Europe for over a thousand years was the story. And if you get everybody believing the same story, then you can control them.

And there is a sense in which that is true in regards to the papacy. When you can convince people that Mary's house was carried by angels to Italy, and they'll do pilgrimages and get indulgences, and splinters of the true cross, and all this kind of stuff.

Yeah, it demonstrates that you've got everybody on the same page, you can control them, whether there's much truth to what you're saying or not. That's one of the greatest damaging things about Rome and about the accretions in both East Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism.

These accretions, these non-apostolic additions, which so often muddy, muddle, and in many instances just directly contradict the apostolic teaching, are some of the main things that bring the greatest disrespect upon the faith.

I'm not saying that the world gets to judge those things. I mean, obviously, the world hates what the Bible says about the roles of men and women, the fact that God made men and women different, and they have different roles, and they're going to find happiness and fulfillment in different ways.

The world hates that stuff, too. But you don't have to add to what the world's going to hate by engaging in the kind of stuff that has happened with the Marian stuff. I saw some priest just this morning in a video carrying around this sealed thing that allegedly has the blood of some saint that will not coagulate, and it's the word blessing people, and there's nothing coming out of it, obviously, but it's just being around it.

Carrying around dead bodies and skulls and femurs and big toes, and we played the thing, washing water over a relic foot, and then everybody's grabbing the water. This kind of stuff does not in any way, shape, or form add to the coherence and truth value of the Christian faith because it's not true, and the apostles never taught any of it and never gave any foundation for it to develop from what they taught either.

So that's just how that is. Anyway, we'll get more into some of that stuff in a moment. So here you have the idea of stories.

From Harari. Science is not really, at least this is my view as a historian, science is not really about truth. It's about power. The real aim of science as a project, as an establishment, is not truth.

It's power. Particular individuals, particular scientists may be very interested in the truth personally, but as an institution, the real aim of science is power. Well, I appreciate.

The honesty, and I'm not necessarily saying that in the current context that he's wrong, that he's lying. We recognize that science has been made a religion in the secular world, that we are taught to trust science even if we don't really know what science is.

And for many of the global elites today, we go back to genetic manipulation. If it can be done, it should be done. It doesn't matter that you have all the Jurassic Park movies. It really, you've got to admit, it's so weird that there are so many movies out there that warn about the very things we're doing right now and they came out 50 years earlier.

It is a little bit on the weird side, but there are some people who see where the trends are going. And once you remove science from the lordship of Christ and meaningful science developed in Europe, not that the Chinese didn't have sciences like that, but being able to see how everything fits together requires that kind of a worldview.

It has been elevated now with the denial of the lordship of Christ, resurrection, things like that, centrality of Christ to the world itself. It has become a religion to itself and with its high priests and its conclusions cannot be questioned.

And so, yeah, it is pretty much about power. Those who own the data really own the future.

We are reaching a point in human history that we have enough biological knowledge and we have enough computing power and all you need in order to systematically hack millions of people is just data. To hack people means to know people better than they know themselves.

Somebody in San Francisco, in Beijing knows you, knows more about you than you know about yourself, about your medical condition, about your mental weaknesses, things that you did five years ago, 20 years ago, you completely forgot about them, they know it.

This is something we never faced before. Not even the KGB could do it. And we are already beginning to see the emergence of such total surveillance regimes in places like Xinjiang, in places like in my own home country in Israel, we have this big laboratory of surveillance called the Occupied Territories where you have 2 .5 million guinea pigs of how to completely survey and control a population with very few soldiers.

I mean, when you look at the numbers, it's amazing how few soldiers you need to control millions of people if you have their data. In order to collaborate...

Okay, that restarted. Okay. Two things there. Hacking people. You know, when I first started hearing about stuff like this, I didn't really think a whole lot about it. But yeah, you know what? So much of our personal information...

Well, look, think about this. You know, last year was a rough year for me. I had to be in the hospital a bunch of times, kidney stones, primarily. And there's no longer a clipboard hanging at the end of your bed with papers hanging on it.

It's all electronic. Your records are all electronic. When the lady comes in to collect the bill and stuff like that, she's pushing a computer terminal, a mobile computer terminal that's going from room to room.

All your data is there. And somebody has it. Now, you know, there's supposed to be laws and all this stuff. Yeah, okay, whatever. I really trust all that. Somebody's got that. And they... You know, I had to take a blood test recently.

And the results were forwarded to me electronically. Somebody's probably got that. And they probably got the last one. And so they can see what they know what the trends are, and all the rest of this kind of stuff.

And you're sort of like, hmm, very, very, very interesting how this is working. And so, yeah, if they've got all that information, they've got stuff from 20, 30 years ago, that you've forgotten about.

That's what he's talking about when he talks about hacking someone and controlling them in that way. You're controlling them because they're ignorant of their own person, basically. And that doesn't mean that there isn't another kind of hacking that Elon Musk is involved with in the human electronic interface, which, you know, it's always so that people can do things they couldn't do otherwise.

You know, people have been in a car accident, but now they can do this. Okay, yeah, you know, if that was combined with the Christian worldview where there were meaningful restraints, that would be one thing.

But when it's connected to a secular worldview, that's just the entrance. Again, we've had movies that have warned about this. Minority Report, you know? Now, that had the weird stuff about being able to see the future and stuff like that, or possible futures.

Okay, that's one thing. But what did they do once you were convicted? They haloed you. And they put this thing on your head, and you just, you become a zombie. And you're stuck in a tube, and you're just left there, dreaming, I guess.

You're not executed like you should be. But hey, if they're only paying to run a motor and a few things like that, you know, what does it really matter? Same type of thing. So yeah, the hacking stuff, very, this is what the global elites want.

And one last thing, and boy, this would get me in a lot of trouble, but he mentioned, you know, he's from Israel, and he talked about the total surveillance state. And he mentioned the occupied territories.

Interesting that he would use that language. But as soon as I heard that, the thought that crossed my head, that unfortunately has crossed my head a lot recently, was basically, I'm still completely lost as to how October 7th ever took place.

And there's gotta be a lot of other people that think the exact same thing. You tell me that the country that pulled off the Hezbollah-Pedro thing, I mean, that has got to be the most amazing, brilliant, counterintelligence, take out your enemies thing that's ever been done by anybody.

I mean, Israel is the ultimate surveillance state, just like China. And you're telling me that Hamas managed to amass all those people, and gliders, and all the rest of this kind of stuff, and take out the surveillance towers, and did all that so they could get in and wreak the havoc that they wreaked.

And it was just like, oh gosh, we had never thought about that. I really struggle with that. I really, really, it really makes me go, no, I haven't bought a used car recently, why? It's just, that just does not make a lick of sense to me.

And the way he's describing the surveillance of these places, I don't know, I claim no expertise in that area, but it is fascinating. He is a very, very interesting individual. There's no two ways about that, but a very frightening individual.

Oh, stop it. There you go. Just, it wouldn't let me touch the green thing to get rid of it. Okay, October 12th. Okay, on October 11th, let's just go back here. This wasn't very long ago. On October 11th, it does pixelate, but I guess, I don't know if it'll show, the screen looks fine, you can't see the pixelation.

On October 11th, I remember this tweet, amazingly enough. Notice what I've written here. Before you ask the obvious question, but the apostles never did this, never dreamed about doing this, remember, Jerome, that is irrelevant, that is made John Henry Carl Newman, a doctor of church.

And I was responding to a picture, one of these massively ornate altars, you know, 60 feet high and statues and angels and gold and all the priests are in their fancy golden robes and red robes and all the rest of this stuff.

And so, I had retweeted the picture and I had written what's being quoted here because of the fact that the standard evangelical response to seeing this kind of material is to go, well, where does the Bible teach anything like this?

And I'm thankful for that basic Christian impulse. I want to know where God said to do this. You know, I haven't refreshed this water. It makes me think about the movie Signs. I don't think any aliens are about to bust in and hopefully Rich hasn't put anything in this or somebody else because, you know, if I keel over, you'll know what happened.

I don't taste anything in particular, so we will, if I start spouting heresy here, we'll know what happened. Anyway, so what I took, I appreciated the standard response was going to be, where does the Bible say this?

But we need to go beyond that. I think I've mentioned to you that I certainly saw when X made the transition to AI algorithms on Twitter. A couple weeks ago, Elon Musk announced it probably around the beginning of October.

My feed changed radically. It changed radically. I see much less of the people that I've purposely followed. And what I see now is just a barrage of triumphalistic Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, and Mormons.

I guess there are no triumphalistic Jehovah's Witnesses for Unitarians. I just think they gave up on X. But it's just everywhere. I mean, every time I start looking at it, it's someone posted a picture, this is Scott Hahn's Bible, and it's all marked up, you know, and everything's marked.

You can't hardly even see the text. Now, I don't know if that's Scott Hahn's Bible or not, but I personally chuckle a lot at the sanctifying of Scott Hahn, given my own personal experience with the man 35 years ago now, around that time period.

And anyway, just so much of this kind of stuff that I'm seeing. And so if you're going to interact with these folks, you have to do so in such a fashion as to understand how modern Roman Catholicism, why it's such a mixture of things.

Why you can find, you know, the progressivist, there was a video I saw yesterday of Pope Leo telling American bishops they needed to do everything they could to resist ICE and the deportation of illegal aliens from the United States.

And the Pope of Rome does not believe the United States has the right to have borders. And laws. He lives in a walled city. There are no squatters. There are no tent cities in the Vatican. They ain't allowed in.

But there they sit on a massive pile of hypocrisy, telling everybody else how they're supposed to do things. And so here's the Pope, an American, American born anyways, telling American bishops that this is what they need to be doing.

They need to be, you know, the church needs to be doing everything it can to oppose Trump's deportation of illegal aliens from the United States. So anyway, you've got those types of folks. And then, man, you've got the Feniites and the Trads, the traditionalists.

And it does make me wonder, don't Roman Catholics ever sort of go, you know, we use the term Prots, Protestants. But we know that there is no singular Protestant church. There is no singular Protestant confession.

You like to throw the Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses in there. They're not even Trinitarians. One of those groups is polytheistic. The other is henotheistic. You like to do that, to contrast that against the supposed unity of the Roman church.

It's apples and oranges, obviously, to anybody who's trying to be honest anyway. And at the same time, you sit there, and especially you conservative traditionalists, you know what Francis did. You know the people he put in power.

You're so desperate that you're uber excited about the fact that I think, I think I saw this morning or yesterday, that they're going to allow the Latin mass to be said in the Vatican somewhere, one of the churches in Rome.

Because Francis had been deaf on the Latin mass. I mean, that was all there was for a long time. But now you're excited that it gets to be done once. And you don't stop and go, you know, there sure are a whole lot of different perspectives that go under the rubric of Roman Catholicism.

Yeah, there certainly are. You've got your charismatics, and your scholastics, and your monastics, and you've got all this kind of stuff going on. And at the same time, I am now, thanks to the algorithm, and I suppose in one sense this is actually good.

It's forcing me to see a wider spectrum of things than I was seeing before. The current leader of the Eastern Orthodox ain't no conservative. I don't know if this was still up. Did I, let me see here.

Oh, wait a minute. Hold on. Yeah, I'll get to that one in a second. Let me look over here under all bookmarks. Yeah, there it is. The ecumenical patriarch of the Orthodox Church said the following. The church, generally speaking, respects human life and the continuation of pregnancy, but the church also respects the liberty and freedom of all human persons and all Christian couples.

We are not allowed to enter the bedrooms of the Christian couples. We cannot generalize. There are many reasons for a couple to go toward abortion. Excuse me? What? And then I also saw, and I don't know, I don't think I saved it.

No, I didn't. I also saw a video of this fellow, and I don't know what the context was, but he was passing out what he called the Holy Quran. Now, I don't think that was in a class of how to respond to the false claims of the Quran about Jesus.

That didn't seem to be what the context was, but it does seem that the Orthodox don't get a free pass when it comes to having leaders that are not exactly, shall we say, in perfect harmony with their past traditions, which you know, at least Rome has, especially now with the elevation of John Henry Carl Newman to, Saint John Henry Carl Newman, to the office of doctor of the church, at least they've got their development hypothesis that they can run on, and it's so funny watching people today say, oh, that's always been the teaching, and the stuff they're, it is so sad to see these guys trying to grab stuff from, and again, it's taken stuff from patristic sources that had nothing to do with what they're talking about, and reading it into modern stuff, and so John Henry Carl Newman is now the doctor of the church, and oh, look, Augustine was saying the same thing.

No, Augustine was not saying the same thing. Newman's theories were controversial in his day, because they are an abandonment of the historical field of battle. That's not what Rome was teaching. It is now, just one of the many places.

This just helps you to have an excuse for why the changes take place. Rome has the development hypothesis, but you know, orthodoxy is significantly more fossilized. There is, Rome can, you know, like when you build buildings in an earthquake zone, you know, you don't build them so they can just sit still.

The way to keep a building from falling over in an earthquake is to allow it to move. Rome, with Newman, is giving itself more room to move, because it's moving. Anybody who thinks it's not is just living in a fantasy land and is delusional, but there is no orthodox Newman.

There may be some trying to do that, but that hasn't happened yet. And my description of so much of Eastern Orthodoxy is, it is fossilized. It is the crystallization of the 7th, 8th, 9th centuries, and the tradition that existed in the East at that time.

This is who we are, and that does not move much, you know. I mean, some of their biggest battles are over calendars. There's a reason for that, because there's not a whole lot of room to have battles when your walls are absolutely fixed.

It doesn't make it, doesn't make it apostolic. In fact, it keeps it from being truly apostolic, because once you say, this is what we are, and this is apostolic, and then you go back and look what came before then, you have to now interpret everything back there as supportive of this, just as Rome does in her own way.

So, it is fascinating that that's going on. Anyway, yeah, I just, I am seeing a lot of very, the algorithm has sent me a lot of really interesting quotes, and just in passing, since I was mentioning the Orthodox, Russian Orthodox priest and patristic scholar, Father Andrew Luth, quote, it would seem obvious to a historian that neither the 8th century doctrine of the necessity of making and venerating icons, Council of Nicaea, 2nd Council of Nicaea, 787, the necessity of making and venerating icons nor the 14th century Palamite distinction between essence and energies can really be found in the 4th century fathers, end quote.

Orthodoxy in Western Culture, St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 2005, page 47. It should be noted that the wider context is Father Luth specifically rejecting doctrinal development in the Catholic sense.

That's another one of the big conversations right now. Thanks to Newman, Orthodox and Roman Catholics are now having these conversations, and they need to have these conversations. There's no way to get around it.

It's fascinating stuff. All right, so back over here. So this is what my post was about. Finally getting back to this, sorry about that. This is what my post was about. So Todd Ertsen, who is Steve Deese's producer, that's my understanding, that's what I've been told, for the Steve Deese show.

And I've met Steve, we were at the Fight, Laugh, Feast thing last year. And we've been on some panels together, stuff like that, but I don't think we've ever had dinner or anything like that. We don't really know each other.

But this Todd fellow is a Roman Catholic. And you look at his timeline, Deese Online, all sorts of Marian stuff and papal stuff. He's a militant Roman Catholic. So I write this whole thing about development and how this has been seen over history.

And I don't think I mentioned George Salmon's book, but I could have. But it wasn't a small book, but it was one of those tweets that unfortunately most modern people would go, too long, didn't read wall of text, blah, blah, blah, blah.

In other words, you actually have to have an attention span to read it. Well, notice what Deese responds, bearing false witness is a sacrament, not a sin in James's church. Well, okay then. That's a pretty decent shot, I would say.

And so what I did is I went over there and found the tweet. And I replied with this. I said, care to document your allegation for what I said, or is this just another example of X slender? Now, I don't know why.

You guys can't see it on that screen. But this is not pixelated. The last one was. I'm not sure. I guess it's how big it is when I did the screenshot or something. That would make sense. Okay. Anyways, now since he didn't tag me, I didn't see this till today.

I actually went to his feed to try to track stuff down. You blaspheme the Catholic church daily, and yet you claim to care about slander when the primary evidence for your faith is that others don't have it.

Your narcissism has played you for the greatest of fools. Now, one of us wrote something of substance that had facts in it, argumentation, demonstrated we've read the other side, know something about the interactions like that.

And we ain't getting any of that from Todd. But we're getting a lot of emotion coming from Todd. And so I saw this just as the program started. And so I responded to this and wrote, balanced and fair people realize that I have engaged your leading apologist for decades in open scholarly debate.

You have to call that blasphemy. I wonder why that is. It's true. Why do you have to call it blasphemy? I guess you are declining to document your allegation, which does not surprise me. Would you like to join me on the dividing line to discuss your claims, Todd?

I have a strong feeling that you are far more bluster than you are substance. And the only responses to that have been somewhat humorous so far, all going, oh, oh. But yeah. So Todd, if you're going to say that lying is a sacrament in my church, say I'm blaspheming the Catholic Church, I'm calling you out.

You have clear access to high quality sets, cameras, everything. You've got it right there. So there is no reason whatsoever why you could not join us. Just as we had Wes Huff right over here. And we can do the same thing with you.

Or I can come on your program. Be happy to do that. And we can talk about early church history. We can talk about Irenaeus' rebuke of Victor over the court of decimum controversy. We can talk about the wisdom of Bishop Lightfoot.

Because I think I might have quoted Lightfoot in that. I'm not sure. I did to someone recently. Actually, I think that was Pope Respecter, now that I think about it. Where I quoted the quote from Bishop Lightfoot, where he points out that historically, the elevation of the church at Rome was based on the church at Rome, not the bishop of the church at Rome.

In other words, it was because Rome had more funding, was able to help other churches. All roads went to Rome. Therefore, there was more communication. The church at Rome took a leading role in the early decades at the end of the apostles' lives and into the next period.

It wasn't the bishop of Rome. And time would switch that. Time would invert that to where the emphasis became first upon the roles of Peter and Paul. But eventually, just Peter. Petrine, privileged, holy arch.