Road Trip Dividing Line: Lots Of Topics!

From the road once again. Actually, I'm going to get home a day early. The stuff in New Mexico didn't work out, so I'm going to do a whopper of a drive on Thursday, get home on Friday. That may make Thursday tough to do a program.

We'll see. When I first started doing this, I did the audio stuff, and that was a lot of work. That was more work than I probably needed to have done. Anyways, we'll see. We'll do the best we can. We'll try to give you a good program here.

This afternoon, we've got a lot of stuff to get to, so I might as well get to it. But I'm outside of Colorado Springs right now. Doesn't look like we're going to get hit with much tonight. It got cold last night.

Oh my goodness. I left the windows open, and man, in the middle of the night, I'm running around closing windows and finding blankets and almost pulled the heaters out. It was 54 degrees with about a 20-mile-per-hour wind this morning when I went out for a two-kilometer walk.

Yeah, I'm not going to feel that again for a while. Phoenix, we've had a few 94, 95 lows I've seen while I've been gone. Anyway, so I guess I should enjoy that nice cold walk this morning. I've been watching a conversation that I have not been involved with, which is unusual.

Oh, yes, I know, I know, I know. I've got to turn the AC off. I've got the fan going in the other room, so I should be all right. And it's only 75 degrees outside, so the sun's hitting this window, so it'll warm up.

But anyway, good old Bishop Jacksey, our Roman Catholic fellow who has no ears to hear, and so he just repeats errors over and over again, but is worthwhile responding to, not for him, but for the people who will hear, posted something that said, the Bible says scripture is profitable, all caps, for teaching, reproof, correction, and training righteousness that the man of God may be complete and equipped.

Scripture's Sufficiency for Every Good Work

So why do Protestants replace profitable with sufficient? Well, read the sentence again. If you can be complete and equipped, I mean, it just reminds me of that Moron missionary that the Lord saved out of Mormonism, and he went back and he looked at the Bible that he carried as a Mormon missionary.

He saw the stuff that he marked, and he saw the stuff that he never saw before, because he had no spiritual eyes. And that's what this is. It's spiritual. I mean, it's right there in front of you, big blinking lights, you can't see it.

Why do they insist insert alone when the text never says scripture alone makes anyone complete? So, that the man of God may be complete and equipped because of the nature of scripture, but there needs to be something else, you know, that would require proof, argumentation is an assertion.

Sola Scriptura is so thoroughly biblical that its defenders have to rewrite scripture to make it appear in the text. Well, of course, again, just in case anyone's confused, my goodness, I addressed this in The Fatal Flaw, Answers to Catholic Claims, that was 1989 -1990.

And we've gone over this 10 ,000 times before, and you have to keep going over it because people don't have ears to hear, and people aren't being introduced to these things, and so they need to have the information given to them.

But again, remember what the apostle Paul said, and I'm going to be brief here, we've covered this, you can find hours on this text in the archives of this program. But when Paul writes Timothy, last letter, he knows this will be the last letter he's writing to Timothy, he says, but you continue the things you learned and became convinced of, knowing from whom you learned them, and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to make you wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

I just have to ask, couldn't they get around that too? Are they really able without an infallible magisterium, without a pope? Are they really able? I mean, come on, seriously, see, I mean that's, and every group can ask that question, but that's what Paul said to Timothy, the sacred writings, which were the Old Testament, are able to make you wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

You either believe that or you don't. Most groups do not, in reality. Then you have, all scripture is theanoustos, it is God-breathed. There is nothing else that is God-breathed. If you say there is something else that is God-breathed, prove it with something other than your own self-aggrandizing assertions.

Prove it. What is it? Prove it. All scripture is God-breathed and profitable, yes, for what? Teaching. So do you need something else for teaching? Reproof? Church discipline? Correction? Same thing. Training in righteousness?

Sanctification? Okay, what else do you need? So the man of God may be equipped, having been thoroughly equipped for every good work, every good work. Remember I asked Patrick Madrid, 1993, is teaching that the Bishop of Rome is infallible a good work?

Show me how the Bible equips you to do it. You can't. You can't. So you don't really follow this. So the point is not that there is no church. The point is not that there is no communion of the saints, and of course we mean something different than that than they generally do.

The point is not that the Bible exists in isolation. That's what people like Bishop Jackson dishonestly want to try to do. And unfortunately, very often, we fall into that trap. We try to defend the idea that the Bible exists unto itself outside of the purpose of God in the church.

That's not what we believe. That's not what soul scripture teaches. So be careful. Don't defend something that we are not actually saying. And I've warned about this. I warned about this in regards to Carl Keating and Catholicism and Fundamentalism back, and that book was written in the 80s.

This is how they will attack sola scriptura, is they will get you to defend something that you shouldn't be defending. Well, you know, what was the eye color of the apostle? See, the Bible doesn't tell you.

And that's not what soul scripture says. The Bible does not exist in some kind of a vacuum outside the church. Outside the spirit, outside of elders, outside of what God wants the scripture to function as.

I mean, all these things, for example, reproof. Reproof in the context of the church. So none of that matters. What does matter is that which is theanustas, God breathe, is sufficient to thoroughly equip you for every good work.

And Rome says, no, it's not. No, it's not. You need sacred tradition. You need the magisterium. You need these other things. Paul just forgot to tell Timothy that day. That's not what they say, but that's functionally what they have to be saying.

So that's what the text is about. Okay. I didn't maximize it so we could put it up. Sorry about that. But that's what's going on. So some folks in our channel pushed back. And Ken Powers said, complete and equip for what?

Every good work. Why didn't you quote that part? And Bishop Jackson says, which part of the verse says scripture alone makes a man complete and equipped? Now, again, what is he saying? What's he doing here?

He's twisting scripture. Bishop Jackson is a scripture twister. I'd like to think that he is such because of blind devotion to tradition, but it may be purposeful. So if scripture is able to equip, thoroughly equip, Timothy for every good work, then where does Paul tell Timothy that he also needs sacred tradition?

That he also needs the papacy? That he also needs all the other stuff that Rome says you need? Where is it? Well, we don't need to show where it is because we don't believe in the souls who turn in the first place.

But the point is that in his final communication with his beloved disciple, his beloved son, Paul directs him to what will thoroughly equip him. Paul's not going to be around any longer. So where do you turn, Timothy?

To that which is the honest stuff. That which is God-breathed. And it will give you what you need. For what? Every good work. Teaching. Teach the Marian dogmas of Roman Catholicism simply from scripture.

You can't. You can't. And the people who try to make such a hash out of it, it's unbelievable. It's embarrassing. Well, as we see here in this image over here and you look at the Old Testament wow, you could make it teach space aliens or space gods from Kolob like the Mormons do.

You can make it say anything, but you can't engage in serious exegesis and do any of those things. And I'll bet you there's not a single person on the papal biblical commission that would believe that you can go to scripture and teach those doctrines.

I bet you there's not a single one. Anyway, so people start going back and forth. Ken said, it doesn't need to say alone. If scripture makes a man of God complete, equipped for every good work, what additional infallible rule is lacking?

The burden is on you to show what's still needed. Well, exactly. And then there was a guy came up a little bit later. I thought, yeah, C. Wilson says, Catholics believe every single word of 2 Timothy 3, 16 through 17.

Well, it's easy to say that. We just don't pretend Paul said something he never said. Paul says scripture is profitable and that it can make the man of God complete and equipped. Okay. He never says that is the only sufficient authority.

Well, what do you mean sufficient for what to be equipped? Yeah, it's exactly what he says. I mean, those, those are actually his words. I'm just, just direct in the context of an apostle speaking to an elder in the church in doing the things of the church, including teaching and correcting, disciplining every good work.

This is sufficient to do it. It's right there. Well, he didn't actually say that. Yes, he did. The reason you can't hear it is because you won't hear it. Equipping for every good work does not mean needs nothing else.

Needs nothing else to equip them. Yes. What we're not saying is that that means that there's no church, that there are no elders, that there's no fellowship. There's none of those things. There's no studying.

We're not saying any of those things. We are saying that if you're going to do a good work in the church, there is one source that will thoroughly equip you to do that. That's what it says. You can't get around the words.

They have meaning. That is the issue. Oh, and then a soldier can be fully equipped with weapons and still need a commander in training. Paul's not teaching soul scriptura. You're forcing it into a verse that doesn't say it.

Notice the illustration. Okay. And that's similar to what we talked about in 1993 in San Diego in that debate. A soldier can be fully equipped with weapons and still need a commander in training. Okay.

Put that into Paul's context. Timothy, that which is God-breathed will thoroughly equip you. Isn't that training? Isn't that giving you direction? Of course it is. To do every good work in the church.

They just don't believe it. And so they just can't see it. It's just like, well, I don't see it in the verse anywhere. Can you see it in the verse anywhere? I can't see it. Excellent example of the blindness that tradition produces in the mind.

It's wow. It is truly astonishing. Okay. This is really interesting. This is really, really interesting. Let me see if I can pull this up. Let's see how I can do this. How do I get this to, there we go.

Orthodox Social-Media Conduct and Clerical Accountability

Okay. ROCOR is the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia. And I do not claim expertise on all the different groups. I'm working on other aspects of orthodoxy, more theological and historical than current this group, that group, all that.

There's a lot of divisions whether they want to admit it or not. There's a lot of divisions. For the one ancient church, it's the same thing you get with Roman Catholicism. We're the one ancient church, you know.

We'll be looking at something like that in a moment. But ROCOR diocese adopts social media policy for clergy. I find this really, really interesting the Eastern American diocese. Hold on a second. See, I can't drag that.

I can show it here, but I can't show it on the screen that I need to show it on without doing this. I don't want to mess things up here, but all right. I'm going to try this if you're ready to, once I expand it here.

All right. This is a minute 41, but I think this is interesting. Listen carefully. This is from an orthodox website. This is their discussion of this, not a commentary or anything like that. Here we go.

The Eastern American diocese of the Russian.

Orthodox Church outside of Russia has adopted a comprehensive social media and digital conduct policy calling on clergy and other church workers to exercise restraint, humility, and pastoral responsibility in their online activity.

In a July 24th letter to diocesan clergy, Metropolitan Nicholas of Eastern America in New York said the policy was developed in response to the growing influence of social media and the unique responsibilities borne by clergy and those serving in positions of trust.

The document applies to bishops, priests, deacons, readers, subdeacons, and lay employees and volunteers acting on behalf of the diocese or its institutions. It also encourages Orthodox Christians to prioritize personal interaction, prayer, charitable work, and parish life over excessive engagement with digital platforms.

The policy emphasizes that online conduct should reflect the church's teachings, avoid scandal, and preserve the church's public witness. It cautions against contentious online debates, excessive self-disclosure, sharing confidential information, and presenting personal opinions as official church positions without authorization.

The guidelines also encourage clergy to use digital media primarily to direct people toward participation in parish life rather than developing long-term online pastoral relationships, noting that confession and spiritual guidance should ordinarily take place in person.

The document establishes a process for addressing concerns about digital conduct through diocesan leadership with the stated goal of pastoral correction rather than punishment. It also outlines possible disciplinary consequences for clergy or church workers who refuse to comply with lawful directives issued under the policy while stressing that accountability should be exercised discreetly and in a spirit of humility and ecclesial unity.

Uh he he doesn't fall under any of those guidelines anything. Um talked about scandalizing behavior. Uh it's it's what his entire online persona is about. Um and the ortho bros in general i mean that's a shot across the bow.

Uh excessive online participation. Uh i mean that's that's big time. I mean some of these guys i'm thinking this one guy if he does less than eight hours a week and it's probably more than that i'd be surprised.

I mean you're just spending every bit of free time. And you know maybe you don't have a job. I don't maybe you only have to work for 10 hours a week. I don't know i wouldn't have time to tell you that uh at least not producing any kind of meaningful material.

Like you know you actually had to do some research for it or something like that. Um and man this stuff about you know personal attacks and stuff like that. These these uh videos have done been done recently hours and hours and hours long accusing people of rape and and and just just the most astonishing stuff i said last time.

We ain't gonna have anything to do with any of that stuff. It's it's completely inappropriate. It's battery acid to the soul. The people that are doing it will destroy themselves. They will not be doing apologetics 10 years from now.

Or they won't be in the same religion 10 years from now. Um and so it's like wow yeah um you just have to agree with the vast majority of what was said there. Um you really do. And i think a lot of other churches would be wise to put something similar to that in place.

God's Sovereignty in Scripture

Um because the online stuff has gotten really bad. Uh really really really bad so um yeah there you go. Um oh i couldn't. Where did i put that. Um drat. Hey guys in channel. Um chris posted a text box from the fatal flaw sometime within the past couple days.

I tried i think i tried to save it but i don't know that i was able to. It was hard to read because it was sort of gray text on a black background so it really wasn't white. Unfortunately i'm scanning for it real quick here.

Um but it was written. It was one of the i was first from my first part i found it nevermind. Oh that's small. Oh yeah. Yeah this is from the fatal flaw. So you can get this in kindle. I want to read this.

Um i think it would be really good to. I'm gonna try to remember to take this or somebody else do this for me guys. Um it's the sovereignty of god section from the fatal flaw. And again it's gonna be hard to read.

I'm having to expand it here but it'd be really good to take this section and uh either provide it to me and i'll post it on twitter or something. Uh maybe put it in my little micro blog that i hardly ever do anything with anymore because i'm too busy to.

But this was my first published collation of biblical texts on the sovereignty of god. And in fact um i was talking i had dinner last evening with um dr jason lyle and a friend of his. Um and this subject came up.

And i thought of this section at one point because it was exactly what we were talking about. Um but here's what it says. The psalmist could say our god is in heaven. He does whatever pleases him. Psalm 115 3.

Modern men often laugh at such a view of god. But it would seem well you know what. Um can i do that. Hold on a second. I can't see signal right now. Um it's gonna look a little jiggly because i have to do it this way.

But if you can if that works uh then then go ahead and do that. Um let me see here. Yeah wesley posted it too. Uh thanks wesley. Um yeah. So there it is. So that's what i'm reading if you want to if you don't put it up there it is um.

Modern men often laugh at such a view of god but it would seem that they will find themselves the object of his laughter in the final analysis. The unanimous testimony of sacred scripture is that god is sovereign.

He is in control of all it takes place in his creation. Everything which pleases yahweh he does in the heavens on earth and the seas and all their depths. Psalm 135 6. This was the faith of israel. God is creator of all that exists must then rule over the works of his hands.

And that with wisdom and justice the universe does not spin about directed only by fate rather is directed by the hand of god himself. And you are my witnesses says yahweh that i am god even from eternity.

I am he who can deliver out of my hand. I act and who can reverse it. Isaiah 43 12 to 13. I make light and create darkness. I make peace and create disaster. I yahweh do all these things. Isaiah 45 7.

I make known the end from the beginning from ancient times. And what is yet to come. I say my purpose will stand and i will do all that i desire. Isaiah 46 10. It is readily admitted that such high views of god and his providence in the world are rare in much of what calls itself christianity.

Many are fearful of openly confessing such a belief in god. For to do so surely in results in a view of man that is not popular. A god such as the one who speaks through isaiah is not wanted when men look to themselves as the center of the universe the most important beings in existence.

As long as man thinks himself independent of god the message of god's absolute sovereignty will not be welcome. But the scriptures present man is existing under the guiding hand of god. This is directly stated more than once by the writer of proverbs.

Many of the plans in the heart of a man. But it is yahweh's purpose that will prevail. Proverbs 19 21. From yahweh are the steps of a man. How can man understand his way. Proverbs 2024. Like a water course in the hand of yahweh is the king's heart.

He directs it where he pleases. Proverbs 21 1. But we are not limited to proverbs for our basis is truth. Did not god tell abimelech that he the lord had kept him from sinning in the matter of sarah. In genesis 26 20 verse 6.

How can god keep a man from sinning if it is not in his power to do so. And if he could keep abimelech from sinning could he not also keep everyone from sinning if it were his will. God's control even over the desires of man can be seen in the promise to the israelites in exodus 34 24.

Here the law commands that three times a year the men of the nation are to appear before the lord. But how could this be. Does god. Does not god know that the israelis israelites are surrounded on every side by pagan peoples who wish only to destroy them.

How could the men leave their families and lands unprotected. A promise is given along with the commandment. A promise which demands a very high view of god. Yahweh says. And no one will covet desire let your land when you go up three times to appear before yahweh your god.

That men's hearts are not restricted from the rulership of god can be seen in many other instances as well. Judah me 230 tells us that with reference to the king of heshbon god made his spirit stubborn in his heart hard or obstinate.

And for what reason. So that the lord could deliver him in the hands of the israelites. A similar action on god's part is to be found in joshua 11 20. Many centuries later god would use the assyrians as the rod of my anger against the sinful israelites though that surely was not what the assyrians had in mind.

Isaiah 10 5 through 7. They were doing what they were doing simply because it was their evil nature to do so. Yet god was so using their evil desires to accomplish his own holy will. So it goes on from there.

Uh i don't have the rest. I quote that's what. Uh that's what was quoted. Um but we can take that down. Um but uh i was i was it was cool to see that. I mean that was my first published book. I remember i remember when that package arrived.

Uh and i i ripped open that uh that box and there were those red covered. Um that sound didn't go through the atem. Oh okay i just now saw this and i know why. Uh because it wasn't supposed to go through the atem.

Now it will go to the atem. Okay even though i don't know that. That's i'm gonna play anything else. Chat says they heard it. Fine. Well that's good. But uh yeah it would have sounded better if it was supposed to go through the atem but it wasn't going through the atem all right.

Anyway. Um that was a mistake on my part. I didn't change the audio. Uh because if i change it then i can't hear what i'm queuing up anyways. So that is one problem with the setup that we have right now.

Okay i'm not sure what thought brought me that. Um but um why i was looking at that particular thing. But let's look here. Okay next thing here i'm gonna bring this over here anyways. And yeah i guess we are going to play something um just real quickly because i pointed out this hypocrisy before this.

Traditionalist Catholic Criticism of Protestant Worship

Uh and this is this is a trad a trad catholic. So it's a traditionalist catholic. What's really hypocritical here. Uh about this traditionalist catholic is that here's another one of those situations where they post some sort of weird charismatic pentecostal you know slaying the spirit wackoism going on.

And what he writes is protestants catholic practices are unbiblical also protestants on sunday. And then you've got people getting slain the spirit and stuff like that. Now what's hypocritical here is these same traditionalist catholics complain all the time about the norvus ordo mass in in the vernacular rather than the latin mass.

And they post all the time these wild videos of ladies dancing down the aisle in mass and you know all this wild crazy stuff happening in masses and it happens all the time. But that's okay for them. But this is supposed to represent protestantism.

I mean i so here's here's the here's the thing here let me see if i can. Uh okay we're not getting on the screen for some reason i'm not sure why. Um do i need to do that. Um did i lose rich. Uh there we go there we go.

I caught him falling asleep. So here's here's what the guy posted. Okay so uh you gotta kill me. No no i don't. No no no you you you have to follow me. Okay this is this is professional webcasting. Okay you just gotta you just gotta you gotta be fast gotta be good.

You know you you once were fast enough to do this. Okay are you admitting that it's just it's getting too quick for you now. No i guess so um actually i think uh rich oh stop that i think rich was slaying the spirit uh but that guy throwing it around there rich does have that background so he's gotta admit it could happen um anyway um so this is oh stop it uh so this is what he's throwing out there and we can show the exact same kind of wild crazy stuff.

I feel like saying to him okay show me that in a reformed baptist church well that's just the reformed well you're just the traditional catholics uh it's so easy to do and they just won't admit that in reality roman catholicism has just as wide an expression of weird stuff.

Um but you guys like to pretend you're still one church you know with one head and all the rest of that stuff when it's just not true that's the the hypocrisy that i i just don't understand. They don't see.

Bart Ehrman's Criticism and Textual Scholarship

Um dj uh a fellow named dj online sent and i didn't see this until after simon sent it to me. Um so bart erman mentioned me briefly i'm not gonna spend any time on this. I was mentioned in passing um i looked at it um his the lady who obviously puts together his webcasts now he's sort of in retirement um and i forget how long ago it was he said he'd pretty much retired from textual critical stuff.

That's probably like 2005 no no 2015 i mean sorry that's 15 or so somewhere around there. Uh it's been a while and i think he's retired from teaching now too. But uh anyway um someone had sent a clip where i pointed out what i've pointed out for decades and that is there is a um a purposeful series of topics in his popular works that i believe are directly related to his basically defending his apostasy his leaving the christian faith giving reasons to disbelieve and he goes directions in his popular works.

He does not go in his scholarly works. He's much more reserved in scholarly works because he has to be because there's going to be scholars checking that and going oh wait a minute here's why this is wrong.

Here's why this is wrong. So on and so forth. Um but i've pointed this out for a long time that there's like two bart ermans and so what was interesting. I i saw this just before the program so i actually had downloaded it real quick threw it into mac whisper searched on my name so i could read.

And what was you know instead of trying to find stuff in the video which you don't have time to do. Um what was clear was he didn't listen what i said. So he's guessing at what my point is and see what you need to understand is i don't believe for a second bart erman has ever read a single word i've ever written.

He didn't read the king james only controversy forgotten trinity nothing like that. And i know his kind of person. They would consider taking the time to do that to be a fundamental compromise. It would be an admission on their part it would be a granting of credibility that they will not grant that would be beneath them.

Okay i know a lot of people like that. I have known over the years a lot of people like that and i'm thankful that. I'm thankful that as a young person i saw that in older people and i was like not going to go there.

Um as a as an older man i can learn from younger people. Now if those younger people don't give any evidence that they've actually done a serious study that's a different issue. But what he does. He attacks me.

And you know oh he's not a scholar. And he's never he's never done anything in sexual criticism despite the fact that my book on king james only ism is one of the most widely used introductions to the subject in the english speaking language.

Uh probably more widely used than than his. Um i mean he. Okay he did the thing with uh his mentor. But that the only reason that got as far as because the previous editions had already been accepted as a standard work as far as actually getting people to enjoy the subject and learn the subject.

Uh you know he does not have any interest whatsoever in reading what anybody else has to say. He doesn't think anybody else has anything worthwhile to say. And he did make an interesting comment just in passing.

Um he he said he doesn't say much about sexual criticism anymore but he said something along the lines of i i probably have not sure if i still have the program up. Um he's not happy with a lot of what he's seeing.

And i'm not sure what that means but my my guess would be that he may have some issues with cbgm and the role that cbgm is playing. Um i could be wrong about that but i have no recollection of seeing anything written by bart ehrman on cbgm now.

Okay cbgm started really entering into the vocabulary. Right. The time he started retiring from doing new testament textual critical work anyways. So maybe that explains it. I don't know. But it does.

That would be interesting to know what what is it. He doesn't like. Um is there a conservative bent. Is it the fact that cbgm is pretty much verifying a more conservative view as we've had all along. I don't know.

I don't know. It was interesting. Um but yeah you know we we know that his best way that he has of responding to things is to well you're not a historian. Anyways you're not this. You're not that. Um okay two more things here.

SSPX Excommunication and Roman Catholic Authority

Um on this is a note from chris arnson. Uh iron sharpens iron an important upcoming program on iron sharpens iron with chris arnson. Mark your calendars for wednesday august 12th 4 to 6 p .m eastern time for my interview with father paul robinson prior at the sspx parish of saint isidore in watkins colorado.

On quote here's the title and sspx insiders response to the recent excommunication of their bishops by pope leo the 14. Um so you know uh i encouraged chris to pursue this. I'm definitely gonna be listening.

Um it's gonna be really interesting because there there is. I just don't think anyone can question the fact that rome today is willing to excommunicate a million people who are conservatives latin mass loving conservatives over an issue of authority.

Because that's what this is about you. You ordained bishops that we didn't allow you to ordain. We don't care if the communists do that. But you're not allowed to do that. Um i'm talking about in china.

Uh but at the same time they know that their bishops in germany are doing things they've been completely forbidden from doing in regards to same-sex unions. But they don't excommunicate them. Um you have to be blind deaf and dumb to not see the post francis leo direction of the roman hierarchy.

And the sspx is not blind deaf and dumb. They see it. There's a lot of traditionalist catholics that do i think there's some non-traditionalist catholics that are starting to see it finally. Um but it's just so obvious so i i'm looking forward to it.

It should be really really interesting. Um i think chris asked if i wanted to be on the program and i'm like i dude i just got so much going on. Um with the debate coming up and it's coming up fast so um yeah one last thing here um i think it's one last thing.

Immigration, Borders, and the Separation of Church and State

Let me scroll over here and see if i had something else down here. No i do have one other thing. Um we'll see how much time we got here. Um i mentioned i've mentioned a couple times now the uh what's happening in spain the in essence the invasion of that port town um across the water.

And i you know i could say i made the mistake. I'm not gonna say i've made the mistake. I was simply making an observation that was accurate. Other people have run with it with all sorts of wild and crazy stuff.

But as i mentioned i was assigned a reading assignment. I believe it's my junior year in high school which would have been 79 to 80 because my senior year is 80 81. So yeah 79 days somewhere in 1979 and early 1980 i was in an honors class and the teacher i remember exactly what he looked like his name just shaking me at the moment though i could find it fairly easily.

Um he was the uh the judge in the trial lee harvey oswald that we had my senior year as well. Um really interesting looking fellow. I would love to go back and talk to him now. But he's probably not around anymore anyway.

The “Camp of the Saints” Scenario and National Sovereignty

Um he assigned to us the book called camp of the saints gene. I think it's french written in 1973. I only know that because i've looked at him since then. Um if you can remember a whole lot of details of assigned books that you read uh from 46 years ago.

Congratulations. Um but the central activity of the book was an invasion of europe from people from north africa basically just coming across the mediterranean and the european nations had become so decadent and so self-loathing that they no longer had the will and ability to defend themselves.

And so european culture collapses and falls to a third world culture of violence and rape and murder and everything else which is exactly what's happening in europe and all over the place. And so i just simply said wow.

Um there are these books written back in the 70s that you know some of them like this perfect day or this one that we're talking about now camp of the saints tapped into trends that end up developing and taking place in in case the first one in 2021 and 2022 and of the camp of the saints in 2026.