Dead Men Walking Podcast #137 Alexsy Felix: Totalitarianism & America's Future

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Well, hello, everyone, welcome back to another episode of Dead Men Walking Podcast. Thanks for coming along on the ride.

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Cool. Now that we got the business out of the way, I'm excited. We've got a guest on here.

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I absolutely love his podcast. He has a podcast called Chaos in Christ. You can find it at chaosinchrist .com

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or anywhere you get your podcasts. Check him out on Instagram as well at chaosinchrist. It is Mr.

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Alexi Felix. How are you, sir? I'm good, I'm good. Hey, thank you so much for being here today, man. I've been listening to your stuff and I know when

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I reached out to you on Instagram, I was like, man, I hope he responds because I think we can have a really good conversation today.

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I agree, I agree. So why don't you tell the people a little bit about yourself that might not know you.

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Just give us a couple minute bio, who you are, where you come from and what your podcast is all about. Absolutely. One, thank you for inviting me.

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I'm actually a fan of the show, so it was quite an honor. I appreciate it. My name is Alexi. I live in Chicago, born and raised.

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I'm a father to a four -year -old girl and I'm a salesman. That's my full -time gig and that's what

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I do. And then, yes, on my part -time basis, I dedicate time and devotion to Chaos in Christ podcast.

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And really, it is just about the chaos of culture, politics, how that influences everything.

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And my desire is just to point people back to Christ. And really, that should sum up who I am.

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I am a Christian, I love Christ and that's what my life is dedicated to. And such a great title too, because it seems like, just like you said, we have so much chaos swirling around, even not only in the secular culture, but also in the

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Christian culture as well of how we interpret and rightly know and understand God. We've seen a huge rise in progressive

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Christianity and liberal Christianity, which I would go as far as to say, sometimes that isn't even

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Christianity at all. If you're looking at creeds and orthodoxy and things like that, correct? And I know you touch on some of that stuff on your podcast.

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And then when I reached out to you, you said, man, I'm just fighting totalitarianism.

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Like that's a broad subject, but let's get into that. So I love that word. I think we kind of do the same thing on this podcast.

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Sometimes we do it from the 50 ,000 foot view. I know on some of your podcast episodes, you really get down into some specifics on things going on, but let's get into that because you could start anywhere in this country right now with that.

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I mean, are we, first of all, let's kind of define it. So when you talk about those types of things on your podcast, how are you defining that word?

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Totalitarianism has, you know, it's been involving on me and I've been learning more and more. I don't consider myself some sort of expert, but a student, a willing student.

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And what I've learned is really totalitarianism is an extreme form of government, which basically has tentacles of control all over society.

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And that is down to math. I mean, math, media, literature, music.

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They have a total control over production. They are basically it.

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And they almost have a sort of a religious cult to them where they have a central ideology that they're constantly promoting.

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There's always some sort of enemy that they're trying to go after as well. Whatever that enemy is, it's out there. We got to fight it.

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And then it's really that central person. Now, typically that means there's a dictator behind it, but there's different forms.

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There's been different styles of how totalitarianism can arise. And some might even argue, we never really seen something really as totalitarian or at least not until the 20th century.

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But yeah, for the most part, they're just a government that loves to play God. That's my opinion.

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Cool, well, we teased that out. So before we jump into it wholeheartedly, do you mind sticking around here and doing a little newsy news with us?

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Oh, let's go. All right, here we go. News, the news, the newsy newsy news, the news, the news, the newsy newsy news.

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News, we got some news. All right, first one up on the cutting block here.

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It says exclusive. We actually shared this video, I'd say about a week ago. And it looks like Breitbart just picked this up.

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Attorney Preston Moore says, I was offered $400 to create fake news video about Trump.

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He said, they wanted me to use FAIR to manipulate people. So says attorney and legal commentator, Preston Moore, who posted a video

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Saturday saying he was offered and rejected $400 by the Good Information Foundation to make a video to attack

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Donald Trump. Moore, who graduated from Harvard Law School and practices for the Georgia -based Beasley Allen Law Firm, posts daily at TikTok account.

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He has about 89 ,000 followers. So he began to build this kind of presence on TikTok where people would come to him for legal kind of advice and news and things like that.

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What he said was it became really clear that they wanted me to use the most graphic images possible to talk about the insurrection air quotes.

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And some of the bullet points that they gave him was say criminal conspiracy, not attempted coup or treason, say

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Trump Republicans, not Trump and his allies, say things like January 6th investigation, not a hearing or trial, call this an attack on our country or an attack on America or Americans and not a criminal conspiracy and try to talk about MAGA Republicans as much as possible.

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So this piqued my interest, whether you are a Trump supporter or not, it's just yet another example of kind of what we're gonna be talking about in this episode where the tentacles of totalitarianism are even seeping into these supposed nonpartisan journalists that are reaching out to a gentleman who is not a

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Trump supporter. He came out and said, hey, I didn't vote for him, I don't support him, and I was happy to talk about facts.

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When I pressed them, and you can look up the article, when I pressed them on the actual facts, because they said, oh,

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Trump and his minions spent millions of dollars in this coup on January 6th, and he said, well, where's the proof for that?

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And I'll definitely report on it. And they just kept ignoring the question and saying, no, we don't, didn't have it, but please use this wording.

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So very, it's the same thing of certain groups having an agenda and trying to control the narrative.

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And like I said, I just randomly came across it on a TikTok account, posted it, and now a week later, it's making national headlines with Fox and Breitbart and CNN.

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So, I mean, what do you think about that, Alexi? Is this like par for the course, or are you seeing this a lot too? Actually, it's funny that you mentioned that specific piece.

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I just saw that, I think, yesterday on TikTok, the very same thing. It was, it just proves the point.

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This is the point that I've been trying to make and argue for. There is a narrative control, and this is what totalitarian entities do.

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They are doing their best to influence media. And considering the time and age that we're living in, podcast,

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TikTok, Instagram, of course, that is the best way to get your message across with influencers, people that have a following.

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But it was very interesting because he was constantly responding, okay,

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I get that, but what is the basis of that claim? Like, why are you saying that? And their response is always, let me know if this works for you.

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Let me know if you can do this, let me get this done. You don't have to do it if you don't want, but say this instead. Exactly. Never answering the question, yeah.

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And the guy's like, no, I really wanna know because maybe I can get behind it if you have an actual claim. Again, he's not a

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Trump supporter, so great, right? Like, he wants to know the truth, and they cannot provide that. And so it just goes to show that there is a narrative, there is an agenda, and it's to paint a certain group of people.

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They typically have an enemy, which I'm not gonna say that's what they're saying, but it sounds like MAGA Republicans, and Trumpers, and all that, that's the enemy.

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That's what they wanna do to influence a population. So again, it just proves exactly what we're talking about.

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It's just very frustrating too, because it comes from a place of a 5013C that claims to be nonpartisan and not have an agenda, and then very,

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I mean, very clearly, they have a specific agenda. And I think that's why most

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Americans, and they did Pew polls on this as well too, that it doesn't matter if you're conservative or liberal or somewhere in the middle of independence, most

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Americans have lost faith in the media institutions. And I think we're gonna get it, we'll get into this a little bit later in the episode, but I also think it's a real battle right now for the gatekeepers with so much information out there.

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You're out there talking, I'm out there talking, for whatever little space we have, you've got the Joe Rogans, and the

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Jordan Petersons, and those guys. You have pastors that are very influential that have podcasts and sermons that are online, and YouTube, and all this information, and it's very hard to control and be totalitarian when you have this disbursement of information everywhere.

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And I think that's why we've seen a rise of distrust in media, just because the wizard has been behind the machine, and Wizard of Oz has been pulled away.

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We know who it is now. Yeah, exactly. Moving on to the second story here, this is what I found interesting. I always like to include some type of poll or something like that.

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Gallup just came out with a poll, 2022. It says, what is your, and this is the question asked, what is your religious preference?

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Are you Protestant, Roman Catholic, Mormon, Jewish, Muslim, or another religion, or no religion?

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And not a lot of change in the Jewish, Mormon, or other, but we saw some shifts in Protestant and Catholic.

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So from 2018, 19, 20, and 21, Protestant has remained between 35 and 37%.

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In 2018, 35, 2019, 35, 2020, 37, jumped a little bit, 2021, 35, and we're at 35 in 2022.

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Catholic has remained steady at 22 % of respondents from 2018. Now you juxtapose, you know, you kind of compare that, excuse me, from 1948 to 1955,

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Protestantism was at 69 to 72%. So if you go back to the fifties, you're having about 70 % of Americans saying they're

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Protestant, to now it's ranging right around 35%, and we've actually seen a dip in Catholic.

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So in that same time, Catholics were around 25 to 26%.

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So over the last 60 years, you've seen Catholicism decreased by two or 3%. You've seen

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Protestantism decreased by almost 35%. I don't know, what do you make of that?

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Is that, I guess to the numbers say that non -denominational or non -religious at all has risen.

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So we see people leaving Protestantism and saying, oh no, I'm just not anything. I don't, you know,

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I don't identify as anything. That kind of feels on par for what I've been seeing in my community and greater community.

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What do you think, Alexi? Yeah, so that's another reason why I'm very passionate about doing what

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I'm doing. It's because, you know, we didn't just in 2020, wake up to, oh my gosh,

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I think we're in totalitarianism and I think things are just flipped over because of, you know, the virus word.

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But what I realize is I think that there's been something underneath underlying our noses for a very, very long time.

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It's an ideology that has been surfacing our institutions, our schools and our churches.

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Theology matters. It matters so significantly. And so if your theology is off, then your view of God is off.

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And then how you move about this world, your worldview is being influenced by your teachers, your parents and whatever that ideology, how it's coming.

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That's what's going to happen. And so this decrease in Protestantism, you know, my apologies, but yeah, man,

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I think that's an obvious thing, right? Like what we are seeing is a lot of families being broken down.

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They don't have that structure. They don't have that foundation. The churches are losing their doctrinal positions and they're given into something else, something that is completely contradictory to scripture, to the gospel, to who

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Christ is. So it doesn't really surprise me. This is the reason why we need to get out there and start speaking about these things.

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Yeah, absolutely. I totally agree. All right, let's move into the last story and this will take us into our subject here. I always find this fun to go to NPR or CNN, just to kind of see how the people that I agree with 0 % are actually kind of thinking.

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And you can see the spin on this article. It says at least 50 groups in the US, this is from CNN, at least 50 groups in the

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US advocated to ban books in the past year. And it says at least 50 groups have recently played a role in the evolving movement to have books removed from schools.

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A new PEN America analysis shows PEN America, a literary and free expression advocacy organization released

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Monday, its latest analysis of bans on school library books and class curriculum that have occurred in 2021 and 2022.

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They go on to say, while we think a book on bans is a part of work of an individual concerned citizen, our report demonstrates that today's waves of bans represent a coordinated campaign to banish books being waged by sophisticated, ideological and well -resourced advocacy organizations.

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One of those groups are Moms for Liberty and they go on to say it's conservative group that together last year, you know, fought for parental rights in Florida, blah, blah, blah.

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And essentially they're spinning it as in, hey man, all these conservative groups are wanting to ban these books on CRT and transgenderism and all these things.

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And that got me thinking, first of all, what are your thoughts on that? Do you ban books in a totalitarian government or do you have, or should conservative

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Christians be fighting to say, hey, I don't really need an illustrated transgender book given to my second grader.

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I have some right here in my community, at my community library. You should see if you go to the pride section in the public library that I pay taxes for, some of the pornographic things that are being handed out to first, second and third graders.

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Do we ban those? Do we not? Is that totalitarianism? I mean, where do you land on that? Cause that's a fun question.

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That is a very, that's a very fun gray area sort of questions. One, obviously banning books is almost equivalent to censoring speech and free thought.

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So that's a very dangerous, slippery slope for any party, any side of the coin. But as far as what we know is inherently true, right?

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And right, pornographic novels and teachings and things of that nature, we're talking about our children here, right?

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Now we understand that we're entering into a place of indoctrination. So there are some things that we should probably say, well, this can't be allowed, right?

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Like this can't be good. You know, what good comes out of this? And is this a moral situation?

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Which I believe it is, it's a moral situation. You are telling your child that this is normal and this is something you should learn about.

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When prior years back, that would be an absurd notion. It would just be, it'd be completely laughed down.

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If anything, they're probably gonna look into you and figure out if you're suitable for being a parent or a teacher or whatnot. Yeah, it's very slippery slope, man.

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It's hard to say, cause I'm not one to say let's ban books. Cause I mean, that's the argument they're playing now.

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Oh, they're banning books. Yeah, that is very totalitarian. That is typically what communism and all that kind of issues out.

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But there is a level of, you know, there should be some restrictions here. This is not just some sort of free speech of information.

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This is explicit teachings and images of things that are corruptible. And we know as Christians, that is just unforgivable.

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It's sin, it's wickedness. And to do that to the children, there's a lot of implications in the future.

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So, I mean, yeah, very much a great area. Yeah, so I would also say we need to be aware and be wise and discerning as Christians when certain groups wanna play these type of word games.

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When they say ban a book, what we're talking about, and I think when I say we, I'm saying my thought, is restricting access to certain material.

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We do that all the time. And we've, as a society, we've said, hey, if that movie is rated R, that is banned from every person that's under the age of 17.

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They are not allowed in this movie theater. We're banning, right, air quotes, the violence or the sex or the language or the actions in that movie to a certain segment, age, group.

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So we've all come together on movies and streaming and having rating systems and things like that.

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So they use words like ban, when in fact, we're just saying, no, those need to be restricted. Do I believe that a book like that should be banned from being printed, distributed, or sold?

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No, absolutely. That'd be, like you said, that's blocking free speech when you start banning books. Should it be available to children under a certain age?

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Well, absolutely not. Even the moral code that's been written into our conscious, the Bible says, we know that it's not right, even as a secular society, because we have laws and rating systems and even things, like I said, for movies.

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So I'd be very wary or try to be attentive to the word games that leftists and liberals will play when they say, oh, you're trying to ban a book.

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Well, your rating system set up through Hollywood, which is very liberal, bans movies from all kinds of kids.

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So if you're gonna play that word game, we can play it right back. Let's correctly call it what it is and say, restricting for a certain age group, which

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I think is totally appropriate and I think is biblical. Yeah, absolutely. Or words like prohibition, right? We prohibit certain ages from buying cigarettes at a place.

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And yeah, that's okay. We don't want young people just going into a gas station, buying a pack of cigarettes.

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It's prohibited, not banned. Eventually they'll be able to buy it. Things like that. We've come collectively and said, of course, that makes sense.

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Now, yes, they play the word game. And that's what they always do. The definitions change.

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Things start to move further. The goalpost moves further. And all of a sudden, we don't even know what anyone means anymore.

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That's the dangerous part about that. Cool, well, that was the news, guys. That was the newsy news.

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Well, let's get into it, Alexi. So what do you think? Do we have totalitarianism in America today?

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Do you think we're seeing some, the starts of it, the remnants of it? No, not at all compared to other countries.

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Where do you think we're at? I would say that we are definitely seeing heavy hints of it. Maybe some would argue more authoritarian than anything else, considering that we see a lot of law enforcement agencies just blindly following a specific edict, whether that is from the president himself, which anyone who believes he's actually making some shots,

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I don't know, debatable. But - We can never let - Bernie's president. Yeah, right, like, come on now.

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But, you know, for the most part, I don't think we're there yet, right? Because we are still, we still have some freedoms here, and we are still being able to vote, and hopefully our voting is free and fair, and that's what we're praying for here.

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But I would say there's a lot of heavy hints. Like, for example, the censorship of certain individuals on social media platforms.

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Yeah. You know, you can't even talk about the election so much anymore. That's a dangerous sort of slippery slope you can get into.

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I actually had, I was on YouTube for a short bit. I got literally frustrated with it, and I just left it, because I had a video that they labeled medical misinformation.

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And all I did was read something from the CDC. Well, that is medical misinformation.

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Yeah, I mean, I guess they're being consistent, but I'm like, dude, I'm just reading from there. Yeah, your source.

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Yeah, you guys said that this is what we need to trust, and now I'm the one being penalized for it. So it's a very interesting time.

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Censorship is part of totalitarianism. And then let's talk about media or art, right?

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Movies, the Aunt Jemima situation, that blew my mind. You know, I grew up on the syrup with Aunt Jemima.

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To take that off, that was a big heavy hit for me back in 2020. That was telling me a lot, you know, from that standpoint.

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Things like, goodness, I mean, there's just so many things that we can see right now. Well, I mean, even 2020 taught us that too, going through COVID and seeing that we had to have a complete and total trust in a state, in a government.

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You're locked down. And, you know, I was telling people in March and April of 2020, if the government can shut down your business at any time for any reason, then who really owns that business?

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When you're walking around going, I'm a small business owner. Are you really? Because if you don't pay your taxes, they take your land.

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And if they don't feel that you should go outside, they tell you to stay in. And if they don't feel your door should be open, they shut you down.

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And I mean, I think that was a test run, I would say, of how compliant can we make people in the name of safety or out of fear?

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And I think that's where you had a lot of pushback by a lot of people, a lot of conservative Christians too. And a lot of people that I knew that weren't even believers that just went on the premise of this, this is wrong.

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So I think we saw kind of a foundation being led because here's the thing, I'm an elected official and I've worked in politics for 15 years and I work with lobbyists and I'm at my state

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Capitol. I've ran congressional campaigns and what politicians and what government likes to do is just take an inch and then use that as precedent, kind of like how you do in the legal sense, right?

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So they'll say, oh, well, in 1972, we did this. So now we can build on that. Oh, in 1994, we did this.

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So now we build on that. And this is going to be, I'm telling you right now for anyone listening, looking back our kids, 25 years from now, they're going to reference rules and laws and things they did in 2020 to grab that much more power and that much more authority.

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And it might be against Christians and other people groups, but I looked at it and saw, okay, this is a precedent being set.

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What do you think about that? Oh, a hundred percent. There was something I saw Jordan Peterson say and I have to agree.

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It's all they're doing is small encroachments on your liberty, just small enough for you to be like, whoa, what are you doing?

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What are you doing? And then they back up a little bit, but you don't realize you've just been moved back maybe two inches and now you're in a new position without realizing that you've just moved.

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Then they do it again. Then they do it again. And before you know it, you are now at the whims of something greater, of an entity that you have to have permission for in order to operate as a free individual.

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That's an extreme thought, but it takes that little step forward and forward where our kids or our grandkids are going to look back and they're going to say, yeah, that's what they allowed.

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And look at where we're at now, which is my biggest thing about all this.

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It's when do we actually stop? Because we saw a lot of Christians say, well, Romans 12 or 13, was it?

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Yeah, you gotta give honor to the government. You gotta listen.

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You gotta do all that, which is fine and dandy. There's a level of that, right? I think about Daniel. I think about them. I see what they did, but then there's a specific line that Christians especially, which is my biggest thing too is, hey, there are levels that they're not allowed to actually usurp.

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There are things that they're not allowed to actually cross the line on, but we're giving it to them. What does that mean in the future?

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That's just the small increments. And I mean, and they're looking for that. I believe that's what they're attempting. I believe everything that's being happened has been a trial run and they saw that they can get away with a lot.

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And that is very unfortunate. Yeah, and they did. It's kind of like you were saying, like Jordan Peterson was saying, I always call it the smoker's dilemma, right?

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Now I'm not a smoker. Oh, I have a cigar and a pipe now and then, but I'm not a cigarette smoker, but that's what they did with them, right?

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You could just go inside, smoke inside a restaurant and they went, hey guys, can we just move you to this section over here?

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Just get in there. Okay, fine, we'll do that. Then 20 years later, hey guys, can you actually just go outside when you smoke?

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Okay, fine. 10 years later, hey, you need to be like 100 foot down the way. Okay, and now it's like, hey, don't even go outside and smoke.

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So it's like, whether you like to smoke or not, that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying it's that frog in the hot water type thing, right?

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Small increments. And the people who stand up, maybe like you and I who go, absolutely not. This is where we're taking a stand.

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You get belittled and say conspiracy theorist and rebel and things like that. But you gotta realize

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Romans 13 is talking about godly government set up to protect the righteous and to bring justice to evildoers.

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You have a government that's upside down and now protecting evildoers and bringing evilness to the righteous.

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Well, then we have an issue here, right? A big issue. It's a huge issue. And that's the thing. Government has a role.

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God has established it. Government is the wielding sword for the Lord and he uses government as a means to punish the wicked, make sure the laws are kept.

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And yes, like the things that are important, making sure that there are no foreign invasions, the laws are kept, great.

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That's it. That's all they're really meant to do, right? Yeah. Problem we get is because we have different spheres.

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We have civil society. We have different spheres where we have business, the family, and then the church, and then the government.

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When something starts to go wrong in the other spheres, we're falling. So yes, business can go corrupt.

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Families could implode within themselves. When the government says, I need to fix that, that's when

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I think the problems start to occur. And that's where we as Christians should be very wary of when a government decides to be the answer to a problem.

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That's a very scary thing because that's where tyranny tends to get birth from. And so, yeah,

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I digress. Well, you know, TJ Sumner of Cross Politics was on the show right in the middle of COVID.

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I think it was probably like, I don't know, probably August or September of 2020. And he said something that has stuck with me for the last couple of years.

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He goes, look, when you remove God from a country, it doesn't create a vacuum. Something has to fill that space.

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And even for most believers, it has now become the state. That is the religion. That's what we worship.

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Oh, you know what I mean? How do you protect us? How do you feed us? How do you provide for us? Oh, great state.

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When in fact, when I read through the scriptures, both Old and New Testament, you see a very, and we've covered this on the podcast before, but you see a very strong current of you don't work, you don't eat.

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You see a very strong current in parables of, hey, there is no minimum wage. You agreed to a payment. Don't be jealous because I paid one guy more and he worked for less, right?

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There's this very strong current of providing for your worker and the worker being, you know, being okay with what they're being paid.

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Things like that, like free market stuff. And we've seen even within Christianity, where now we're skewing towards this, like totalitarianism, authoritarianism, fascism.

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And the state is the ultimate God, which I fear is, I mean, if we get the majority of Christians on board with that, we're gonna be in a very sad state, not only in this country, but globally.

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And that's what you're dealing with on your podcast a lot of times, the chaos of this culture. So what does that mean biblically?

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Basically what I'm saying is what's our response then? Like, what do we do as Christians? I mean, we can all do a podcast and we can all love our neighbor and all that stuff, but like, what are some real world things that we need to do then to wake people up?

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You know, that was a part of my journey with this. And I'll be honest with you, just kind of going back and I don't mean to like talk about my own personal thing, but in 2020, it was weird.

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I was kind of going through my own little personal thing in life, but when everything happened, it was an instantaneous, this is sort of communist thing.

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Like literally those were the words out of my head. And I'm trying to convey this to my friends and I know they thought I was probably crazy.

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And even I thought I was probably crazy, but I had a panic attack. And I literally had to run out of my house because I realized what was happening in our country and what that meant in the future.

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Now I'm a father, so I look at my little girl and I'm like, that means her future. I literally thought the walls were closing in on me.

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I ran outside and the sun was beating on me. This is a lockdown, so I lost my position at the gym.

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I wasn't working no more for a little bit until I found something. And I was out there thinking, God, what the heck is gonna happen?

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Seriously, like I am angry and fearful all at the same time. I'm just, there's just so much emotion that I felt like I was having a panic attack.

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And I just tried to look for an answer. And not just recently,

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I came across Psalms chapter 37 and I believe that there is something there that we can really look into, peek into scripture and realize what we're meant to do.

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And I don't mean to kind of read over everything, but there are some things that we can do. And I would encourage anyone, take some time, go to Psalms 37, chew it, dissect it.

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But the main thing is be faithful. Remain in the land. There is no place we can run.

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There really isn't. This is a global thing, by the way. This is not just the United States. There's a great initiative known as the

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World Economic Forum and what they got going on. Call it a conspiracy, whatever you like. It is out there in the open.

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You should probably look at that. Just take a look at that. But so there's nowhere to run. There's nothing you can really do.

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We're not gonna go pick up arms and just try to take over, start our own revolution. So what can we do?

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Remain faithful in the land that the Lord has placed you in. And whatever gifts and talents and work that you have before you, do it with excellence.

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I mean that, with excellence. And when you start to freak out and you start to see that enemy over there, and you're like, but I can still see them over there, you have to know that God is to be trusted.

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It's not like he woke up in 2020 like you and I and we're like, he's like, man, something went wrong down there.

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What's going on down there, yeah. Bro, I don't know. I'm gonna talk to the church people down there I created. Let me figure that out.

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It's like, no, we have to put our minds in the right place. He's a sovereign and he is king.

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And so there are things that we are not gonna be privy to, right? The secret things belong to the Lord. I don't know the whole scheme of things.

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I don't know how that's gonna be. I'm a pretty optimistic person, even though it doesn't sound like it.

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I am very optimistic. I don't think, I'm not a pre -millennialist, so I don't think we're about to be raptured out anytime soon, but I do believe that if we go through a period of darkness, which that's what sin does, and our denial of God brings us to this place, that's judgment, then those that are faithful and remain faithful and work their land, build their families, build businesses, do good things, the

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Lord will protect and honor that. Yeah. And I guess another heavy truth I would say is if your fear, if your ultimate fear is death, which

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I think that's what most people have, right? Yeah. COVID -19, death. You know, a totalitarian government, they're gonna put you in a gulag and then you're gonna die, right?

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Like, stuff like that. Well, if that's your fear, then you need some deeper soul -searching.

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Do you know who Christ is? Yeah. That would be my thing, at least. So that was, you bring up a good point, and I think we saw so many, even within Christianity, that was fearing death, and you're like, wait a minute, death has no power over us, right?

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And then two, you saw Christians not resting in the sovereignty of God, and I think that's decades and decades in the

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American church, Evangelical church, of not rightly preaching who God truly is. One of my favorite sayings is by Spurgeon that says, in times of trouble, the sovereignty of God is the soft pillow on which

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I rest my head, right? Amen. And I can say, and I've said this before, nothing really changed for us.

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I'm a real estate broker. I work from home. We homeschool all three of our children. Like, we didn't wear a mask.

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There was some county stuff that went on. As a county commissioner, I had wrote some ordinances that allowed us not to have the sheriff enforce those laws, so it was like, we had this little pocket within a very blue state, and Governor Whitmer up here is extremely liberal and locked down people and all this, but it was like, just the grace of God in resting in the sovereignty and going, well, not a whole lot changed for me and my family, but even if it did, it doesn't matter, right?

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It's like, Radshag Neshek and Abednego is like, my God will save me, he can save me, but even if he doesn't.

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Even if he doesn't. It's like, well, if he knew they were gonna save him, what's that, but even if he doesn't. I just love that because it's like, it doesn't matter.

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Yes, no, in between, maybe it's like, I rest in the sovereignty of God, and I believe the evangelical church and its leaders has done a disservice to a lot of church members to where they're just kind of in this immature space as Christians and not fully trusting in God.

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And then when you have like prosperity gospel and name it and claim it and word of faith and stuff, you're the God. So of course you have that view that you were saying,

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God's up there going, oh man, something's going on down there, I better react to this. And it's like, God doesn't react to anything.

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Right, right, it doesn't take it by surprise. It's not nothing new to him. He's decreed and declared all things that are to come to pass.

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And then guess what? We are living in this time for a specific reason. One, to glorify him, right?

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This is not about us, it's always about him. And it's always about advancing his word, the gospel and the kingdom, and the kingdom will spread.

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Jesus has all authority, which is something I spoke about recently on my podcast, where I think that, yes, be faithful, do what

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God has called you to do. But also, my brothers and sisters in Christ, don't be afraid to talk and get engaged with politics.

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I'm not saying you have to run for congressman and do all that. Honestly, I think we need to be more local than anything else.

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We're too enamored with the national news and the big things and is Ron gonna run?

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Is Trump coming back? Cool, that's cool. But what about your county commissioner?

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What do you know what they're up to? School board or city council or, yeah, drain commissioner, like, yeah.

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Yeah, like, do you know what they're doing? Do you have any idea what they're passing through? And it's like - Most don't, yeah. Most don't, most don't.

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And I'll agree to that. Now, even I was very ignorant of that, because at first it was all about the national, right? I was really angry.

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I wanted Trump to win, you know? And that was just me. I've done a lot of growing up. I've done a lot of learning.

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The Lord has humbled me in a lot of ways. But now I'm realizing, guys, we have our communities that we, especially as men, men should get up, be men and go and subdue and take dominion and see what's happening in your local councils and attend those meetings.

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It is a sacrifice. You do have to, you know, maybe sacrifice the Netflix and whatnot, but it's worth it.

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Your children's future to think about that. And that's been heavy on me, which is why

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I'm even doing any of this, brother, so. So as we wrap this up here, you mentioned Psalm 37.

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I want to read the first couple of verses because that is such a good Psalm. And it kind of hits on what we're talking about.

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It says, Of David, fret not yourself because of evildoers. I think I'm in ESV here for anyone listening.

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Be not envious of wrongdoers, for they will soon fade like the grass and wither like the green herb.

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Trust in the Lord and do good. Dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.

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Oh man, isn't that powerful? They will soon pass like the green herb and like grass. And he says, just be friends to faithfulness.

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Stay faithful, my brothers. Exactly, which means being faithful is to live not by lies, to stand by the truth.

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You don't have to go fight. You don't have to go fighting something. Don't chase it. Just love your family, love your wife, love your kids, raise them right, go to church, build your business, be faithful and stand for the truth.

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That's it. That's what the Lord has called us to do. And this whole path, the whole chapter, again,

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I encourage your audience to really sit down with it and spend some time with the Lord. It will give you a comfort that nothing else can give you.

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There's no podcast, no conservative podcast that's gonna give you some sort of hope. I've tried, I've tried.

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It's God and his word. And Psalm 37 really just does it for me. And it has a lot of practicality behind it, you know, so.

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Yeah, absolutely. Cool, well, as we wrap this up, why don't you throw out social media for everyone one more time? Let them know where they can get ahold of you,

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Alexi, and check you out and hear your podcast. Absolutely, you can find me on Alexi Felix, that's at Alexi Felix, that's where I'm more active.

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There is an Instagram page at Chaos In Christ. By all means, follow that. Maybe I should be more active on it. But the podcast, you can find it on any podcast platform,

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Chaos In Christ, and then chaosinchrist .com. And that'd be it. All right, and one last thing we have to ask you.

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From Chicago, who's your sports team? Who are you rooting for? I'll be honest with you, man. I'm not even watching sports these days.

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I love it. I just, I don't want to be that guy and say, oh, Bears. You know, like, I don't even know what's going on with them.

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I don't know. I'm not, I used to be, but lately I just haven't really cared about it.

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So, but hey, man, you know, go Bears, if they can make it happen. But I have no idea who's lining up, who's starting.

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I'm not gonna lie. No, I love it. You know, I wasn't a big football fan, but then my seven -year -old last year got obsessed, and now he's doing his first year of tackle football, and it's like, hey, dad, how many yards did

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Brady have in 2002? And I'm like, oh my gosh, I gotta Google stuff, and look stuff up. So now I'm becoming, you know,

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I was a casual football fan, but now it's like every Sunday after church, he wants to watch football. I'm like, no, we're not gonna spend six hours today on the

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Lord's day watching football. You're playing it. That's good enough, so. All right, man. Alexi, we appreciate you coming on here, giving us your time.

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Everyone, make sure you go check out his podcast. We're gonna link everything up on the Podchasers and all that, and on YouTube, and give the links to your podcast so they can come check you out.

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I've really enjoyed listening to it. I appreciate your heart, brother. We need more voices like you, young guys that are speaking out on the word of God, you know, that are discerning, that use the word of God to justify their worldview.

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We don't have as much of that as I'd like to see in American Christianity. I feel we've really lost our way, and we need guys like you out there speaking the truth and standing on the word of God.

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So I appreciate you, brother, and thanks for coming on. Guys, thanks so much for joining us again for another episode of Dead Men Walking Podcast.

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As always, you can check us out at dmwpodcast .com, or come say hi to us at Fight Left Feast.

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