RLL 68: Kyle Rittenhouse and His Lying Critics

You're listening to Radio Looks Loose and I'm your host Steve Matthews. Thanks for joining me for episode 68. The title of this episode is Kyle Rittenhouse and his line critics. So that's be an interesting subject to talk about but before we get into that you know what I wanted to say just wanted to welcome everybody is to the live stream into the podcast.

It's great to have you here. You know this is getting into one of my favorite times a year and especially you know this week coming up it's going to be Thanksgiving this coming Thursday and that that's always been one of my favorite holidays of the year.

I don't think there's any question about it. It's always it's always really enjoyable. It's a fun time but more than that and really most importantly it's a very Christian holiday. It's a it's a very Christian day.

I mean it has its origins as as most people know it with the the Puritans and in New England and you know they were giving thanks to God for his his providential care over them and helping them to get through some very difficult times.

And it's it's almost one day where where everybody is is a Calvinist. One day of the year when everybody's a Calvinist. Now of course there's another benefit to that too I suppose and and that is that in recent years it's tended to trigger some of the the woke folks.

And I have to admit I kind of do take some guilty pleasure in watching them you know the all the weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth when it comes to Thanksgiving. You know one of one of the the the big wokesters out there of course is Colin Kaepernick.

Certainly one of the most famous famous ones the the former NFL quarterback. And he always does this thing where he and some buddies of his I guess they go out to some it's actually out to Alcatraz Island in San Francisco and they celebrate something called unthanksgiving.

And I guess they all get together and I don't know they talk about how miserable their lives are and how horrible the country is and in all of this kind of thing. And I guess you know as far as I'm concerned if Colin Kaepernick and his buddies think that's a great time and think that's a lot of fun and want to go do that you know I see more power to him.

Go for it. But you know for me I'd rather actually celebrate Thanksgiving and I'm going to and I wish you all in advance a blessed Thanksgiving. I hope you have a great time with your families and have a great dinner.

But most importantly that you give thanks to God and that you remember the reason for that day. And we have so much to be thankful for you know in in this country. And even now I mean with all of the the horrible things going on all of the the evil policies that are being put forth from the from the Biden regime you know there's still much to be thankful for and God's providence is still with us.

And if you are called by the name of Jesus Christ you have every reason to rejoice even in some of the some of the difficulties. And these are difficult times you know these are difficult times to go through.

It's hard to watch the news. It's hard to to watch the things going on. It's upsetting to me. And you know I'm someone that has has been interested in politics and political philosophy and in economics my whole life.

And I see policies being put in place that quite frankly I think the most likely explanation is is the people that are putting them in place deliberately want to crash the country. That seems to be what's going on.

And we'll talk a little bit about that perhaps as we go through the this this podcast. So I don't want to get too far ahead of myself. Apparently though too we're also getting officially into the Christmas season.

And I say that because the Christmas lights are starting to burst out all over the place. I saw some on my way home. I went out bike riding today and I saw some. And our neighbor too is is getting ready with the Christmas lights.

And our neighbor next-door neighbor here has one of the bigger light displays that I've seen. And this year I think they're going to add something really huge. Over the summer I was out walking around the block and I looked up and I was a ways off I saw this giant white thing.

I didn't know what it was. And it was in the evening and and it was this big giant white thing was glowing. And as I got closer I realized what it was. It was a the biggest inflatable I had ever seen.

You know these inflatable figures that people put in their yards for Christmas or other holidays. And this particular thing it was the it was this huge Frosty the Snowman. And I tell you this literally it was two stories tall.

It was the biggest at least in my own experience inflatable I've ever seen. The thing was crazy. And I don't know I didn't see it out there today at least didn't appear to be in prep. So I don't know I'm gonna keep an eye on this.

If they put that thing up I'm gonna go get a picture. I'm gonna show you what I'm talking about because you're not gonna believe this. This thing is just ridiculous. So anyway yeah it's it's always we can we can tell it's it's getting close to Christmas season just by by the Christmas lights.

Kyle Rittenhouse, Thanksgiving, and the Coming Holiday Season

Well anyway I've got a few things I'm going to be talking of course about Kyle Rittenhouse and some of the issues that were going on with his his trial. Of course as you probably know or you may have heard the jury found him not guilty yesterday.

This is being recorded on Saturday November the 20th. It was on Friday November 19th 2021 that he was found not guilty on on all five all five counts. And you know there's been a lot of a lot of heads exploding.

And so we're gonna we're gonna go ahead and we're gonna talk about that. But before we jump into that I've got a few other stories. There's also one clarification I wanted to offer. You know last week I was talking some about the the COVID jabs.

And I made the point I said well you can you can get one or you cannot get one and in either choice is okay. And what I want to clarify is is really what I was talking about. And what I wanted to say and I didn't say this very well I didn't say it very clearly is as Christians I think it's important that that we show grace to one another in this matter.

And here's why I bring this up. Because I have people who I know who are yeah I have every reason to believe are Christian people. And you say you say well how do you know they're Christian people? Well I mean they're people that you know I'm using the Presbyterian standard here for for judging whether someone's a Christian.

And that is they have a credible testimony. I mean these are people who are personally known to me. They are people who are of good character. I know they believe the gospel or at least they could certainly give a very fine account of the of the gospel of justification by faith alone.

And their lives testify of that as well. So I have every reason to believe they're Christians. Now I for myself in looking at what the scriptures have to say and in looking at the actions of the people who have promoted the whole COVID narrative and of course that includes all of the lockdowns, the mask mandates, the shutting down of supposedly non-essential businesses, and now also the vaccine mandates, vaccine passports, these types of things.

When I look at this whole COVID narrative I just see nothing but lies. And of course we're told to let each man speak the truth to his neighbor. We're told thou shalt not bear false witness. And yet I've seen just nothing but almost non-stop false witness out of the proponents of the COVID narrative, including those people who have promoted the vaccines.

And I think there are major problems with that. And as a Christian when I look at those things I think this is all lies. This is not a good thing. We know who the father of lies is. And it's deeply disturbing to see what's going on.

And based upon that, based upon the just out-and-out dishonesty that I have seen in the narrative that has been created by public officials, by the news media, by the many people in the medical community, not all but many, I don't want anything to do with the vaccine.

I do not trust them. They have violated trust. They have done it multiple times. They have done it egregiously. And just based on that alone, you know, and I'm not even digging into the science here, but when I see somebody telling obvious lies, that is a giant red flag.

And there are other reasons as well why I believe as a Christian you should not get this. Now that is the jab, the COVID jabs, any of them, any of them. One of the things, and I had a friend bring this up to me in a comment, made a point, of course, that the testing process of these vaccines, the COVID vaccines, is done with fetal cells.

And that is a big moral problem. I mean, if you believe, as I do, that abortion is murder, how is it that it's okay to run scientific tests based on fetal cells that were derived from an abortion? You know, that presents, I think, an unsolvable and separable moral problem for Christians.

So, I mean, that right there is on its face. That's another reason not to be involved with this stuff. And, you know, and I have to say that the way the whole medical community, from Fauci on down, and again, I know this is not true of all doctors, and I don't want to put them all in the same group, because there are people of different opinions.

I mean, there are doctors, there are nurses that have refused to take the COVID shot for various reasons, and don't agree with the narrative. There are scientists, highly qualified scientists, people are immunologists and such like, that have refused to take part in this.

So, I mean, I don't want to say this about doctors just generally, but I think one thing has happened, and I do believe that the medical community has seriously damaged its own credibility in this entire attempt to force what is, I think very clearly, a false COVID narrative on the American people, and not just the American people, but really worldwide.

I mean, you see the same thing going on in Europe, you see the same thing going on in Australia. I have a dear brother that I know in Australia, and has been right at the the epicenter of some of the worst COVID lockdowns in the world.

It's horrible what has been done to the people of Australia. I pray for them. I pray that the Lord would, in particular, preserve this brother and his family, because it's a terrible thing that they're having to undergo.

I mean, things have been not always so great, you know, here where I am, but I have to say, you know, right now, at least as things stand at this moment here in Ohio, things are actually pretty normal, and really have been since June.

So, we've had almost a blessed early June. So, I mean, it's almost been been six months now where things have been really pretty normal. And I pray that that continues, but of course there are some challenges that are out there on the horizon as well, and we'll talk some about that.

But the whole reason that I brought up, I mean, kind of getting back to my main issue here, and that is talking about Christians and our attitude toward other Christians, you know, who maybe don't agree with us.

Because I think very clearly that Christians ought to reject the COVID jabs. But that's not the case with everyone. There are, as I said, there are Christian people who, for various reasons, I mean, they have taken them, and they defend them.

And I think they are making a mistake in doing so. But, you know, I'm not going to make that, and I don't think we ought to make that a test of fellowship. You know, I'm not going to say, I'm not gonna have anything to do with you because we disagree on this issue.

But I think we can, you know, we can pray for them. You know, we can talk about it. We can continue to educate ourselves. We can continue to voice our views, you know, those of us who oppose the vaccinations, who oppose the jabs.

But I think we need to treat one another with grace as well. Because, you know, this is a very unusual circumstance that we're all dealing with. I mean, there's a lot of fear that's been intentionally whipped up by public officials.

And there's been a lot of propaganda. There's been a lot of fake news out there. And a lot, and some people have been deceived. You know, but I think to myself, you know, I've been deceived before about things.

I think probably, if we're honest, you know, probably most of us would say we've been deceived about things. You know, one thing I have to say for my own self is, you know, I really haven't paid all that much attention to the whole vaccine thing until the deal with COVID and all the stuff that's gone on over the past year.

I mean, I know that there have been people who have talked about this. You know, for myself, it just hasn't really been a main focus of any of my reading or research. But you know, maybe it should be.

Because quite frankly, the stance of the medical community on this particular issue is deeply concerning. You know, maybe I've been deceived, or at least at the very least, maybe I haven't paid close enough attention to something that I should have.

And you know, that's something that, Lord willing, I hope, I plan on paying closer attention to going forward. So I mean, we can all be fooled, or we can all just get busy with other things, or we can all, you know, have a, you know, there's an awful lot of stuff going on.

There's an awful lot of problems in the world. And, you know, it's easy to focus, you know, maybe not focus on some of the things that we ought to for one reason or another. So what I just really want to say is, I think as Christians, we need to show grace to other Christians, if they disagree with us on this particular issue.

So that's really all I have to say as far as that particular thing goes. I did want to talk a little bit, since we're talking about the whole COVID thing, I wanted to talk about a couple of interesting developments this past week.

There was a, well, let's, you know, what I didn't do is I didn't get my, didn't get my stuff ready here. Usually I have my, get all my links and things like that ready. So let's do this. Yeah, let's see here.

Bear with me just a moment. I apologize for not being prepared as I ought to. All right, there we go. Yeah. One of the big stories this past week, and this is, I pulled this one from the Hill, but you can find this in any number of newspapers.

This is from Thursday the 17th, but the headline is OSHA, Occupational Safety and Health Administration. OSHA suspends enforcement of COVID -19 vaccine mandate for businesses. So this is something that's of particular interest to me.

As you may well know, if you, at least if you live in the United States, if you look, I think it was about a couple months ago, you know, Joe, Joe Biden got up there and he unctuously lectured everyone said, we're losing patients, you know, and we're going to have a mandate.

And everybody who works for an employer with 100 or more employees, well, they're going to have all those employees are going to have to get vaccinated, or they're going to level all kinds of horrible fines on the businesses.

And you know, that, that are the sort of, of dollar amounts that would probably bankrupt most businesses. Yeah, obviously that's the intention. And this, of course, is something that hits home with me because, you know, I work for a business that has more than 100 employees.

And so this is a very serious issue. And I mean, it was originally supposed to take effect on January the 4th, but now OSHA has pushed that back. They suspended the enforcement of the COVID -19 vaccine mandate for businesses.

And just read a little bit of this here. It says the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, OSHA, is suspending enforcement of the Biden administration's COVID -19 vaccine mandate for the large private businesses after a federal appeals court upheld a stay on it last week.

OSHA said in a statement published on its website Friday night, that while it is confident in its power to protect workers amid the pandemic, it's suspending activities related to the mandate, citing pending litigation.

So it appears that we've got a little bit of a reprieve. If you read through the story here, it says, earlier this month the administration set January 4th as a deadline for qualifying private employers to start mandating the vaccine or require weekly testing.

The rule was developed by OSHA. Okay, so, you know, this is something that puts millions of Americans directly in the crosshairs. I know of several people personally known to me who are facing this problem.

People who believe, along the same lines that I do, they don't want to be vaccinated. They have significant objections to the vaccines. Really, they're not technically even vaccines. I mean, call them jabs, call them shots, whatever.

I guess we probably shouldn't even be calling them vaccines, although I guess that's the the common term for them. But they're really not. It's experimental gene therapy, is what it is. But this has put millions of people in the crosshairs.

And, I mean, this isn't a done deal yet. I mean, the Biden administration, Biden regime, they're gonna challenge this stuff in court. And it's probably gonna end up going to the Supreme Court. And I don't know how this is going to go.

And, you know, it's the kind of thing that has been very upsetting to me at times. And I'm sure it is to a lot of other people. Because, I mean, quite literally, I don't know if I'm going to have a job.

I'm going to continue to have a job. That may or may not be the case. But at least it looks like I'll have a job through, at least past January the 4th. And, you know, who knows when or if another date may be set.

It's certainly my prayer that that doesn't occur. So that's one thing that's going on. That's a bit of good news. We're certainly happy, you know, that the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the vaccine mandate and called it fatally flawed and ordered OSHA not to enforce the requirement, pending adequate judicial review of a motion for a permanent injunction.

So we can continue to pray as Christians that that happens. There's no question about it. I think that this is a disastrous rule. I think it is unchristian. I think it's unconstitutional. And the judge that wrote the opinion of the Fifth Circuit Court agrees that it is unconstitutional.

So we'll keep a close eye on that particular story. And again, continue to pray for people who are going to be affected by this. You know, there's a good chance you probably know some, because it's a very broad net.

Another report I had, this is a bit of COVID good news, and I don't know, I'm not sure about this story here. It's being reported by some people, and I hope it's true, but I think it's at least something that's worth talking about here.

Here's a particular headline from the Activist Post. The headline reads this, Austrian police army reportedly refusing to enforce health dictatorship or march and protest against it. And let's see, I'm having to remember my German here.

Nie wieder Faschismus. I think that's basically roughly translated, no more fascism or no fascism again. Something like that. So, you know, and this is being held up, it appears to be that it's being held up by a banner being supported by, they appear to be policemen.

So, you know, if that's the case, that's actually very encouraging, because Austria has done some really horrible things here over the past week. They, first of all, I guess it was about a week ago they instituted a lockdown for unvaccinated people only.

So if you're vaccinated, you're all, you know, you were cool, you could go about your business, but if you're unvaccinated, basically you're under house arrest. I think you're only allowed to go out for certain reasons, and it was, it really was, I mean, it was an Orwellian type of an order, and then they came around a few days later and they said, well, you know what, we're gonna lock everybody down.

And I guess that's because lockdowns have worked so well. I mean, they've just done such a great job of containing COVID that we keep having wave after wave after wave of COVID, supposedly. Then these things haven't worked.

You know, as Alex Berenson, who I think's done some really outstanding reporting on that, says, you know, a virus can a virus. You know, in all of these these measures that have done by government have done nothing to relieve it, including the jabs.

You know, in fact, one of the things that's pretty fascinating is the fact that the nations that have been most vaccinated are the ones we have the most COVID. You know, Israel is one of the major cases in point.

Great Britain is another. Gibraltar, you know, the, I guess, I don't know if it was a British colony, I guess. I don't know, you know, the the rock of Gibraltar. Apparently 100 of the population of Gibraltar has been vaccinated, and all the people that come from Spain to work on Gibraltar have also been vaccinated, and they've got cases shooting through the roof.

You know, and then, of course, you have to ask yourself the question, is the jab actually causing this? And I think it could very well be. But, I mean, this has been a consistent issue with the numbers regarding COVID.

The more vaxes, the more COVID. So, you know, what's going on there in Australia is, or Austria, excuse me, is there appears to be some pushback, not just from the people, but even also from, if this report is true, from the police and also the army.

And if that's the case, that's going to spell very serious problems for the government there, and for their ability to to continue to imprison people in their own homes. So let's hope that is true. It'll be interesting to watch and see what additional reports may come out here.

I did get a question from from Stu here. He's asking, he says, what's that mug? I think he's talking about this mug here. This is actually a very cool mug. It's one I picked up about a year ago. That was last summer in 2020.

I went to visit Fort Necessity in southwestern Pennsylvania. And the Fort Necessity, it was a fort that was built as part of the Battle of Great Meadows, which was the opening battle of the French-Indian War.

And there's an interesting family connection there to that. It was a battle between British forces, and they were fighting a combined French-Indian force. They were badly outnumbered. There was about about 400 British troops or so, and I think around 800 or so French and Indians who were fighting.

And in command of the the British forces there, and it wasn't just the British, there was also a group of Virginia militia that had come up to help out. And so there was the British regular troops, and then there were the Virginia militia.

And in command of this group was a rookie, right behind the ears, kid of a colonel by the name of George Washington. It was his very first command. And part of that particular group, the Virginians who came up, there were a couple of brothers.

There's William and Henry Bailey. And long story short, William Bailey is my, I think he would be my seven times great-grandfather. He was killed in that battle. And in fact when you go there, when there's a visitor center there, there's a plaque of the the men who died defending Fort Necessity.

And his name is on there, William Bailey. But he was survived by the, he was survived by a son. He had at least one son, Josephus Bailey. And it's kind of interesting, about 20 years later, Josephus Bailey also fought under George Washington, although this time it was General George Washington of the Continental Army during the American Revolution.

And Josephus also died, I don't think he was probably in battle. He died, it was in February of 1777. We have the the records of that. And there probably wasn't, the army probably wasn't on campaign in February.

There's probably a good chance he may have died from, you know, who knows, probably some disease or maybe exposure to cold or some combination thereof. I'm just speculating, but I would think that's probably more likely than than being killed in a battle, given it was it was in February.

But he was survived by a daughter by the name of Marianne Bailey. And Marianne Bailey married John Matthews. And so John and Marianne Matthews, those are my five times great-grandparents. And so anyway, they kind of traced the family history back to the the Battle of the Great Meadows.

And so Stu, that's that's what that mug is. So it's actually, it's it's really, it's interesting to see somehow, sometimes when your your family history sort of intersects with with maybe something a little bigger in terms of the the history of the country.

So so anyway, I bought that and it's a it's actually a really nice mug. And it's big and I like that. And right now I have some some heated apple cider, some stuff that I make in the Keurig machines. It's really good too.

And it's, I always make a cup of this when I go and do a podcast. It's my favorite. So anyway, that's what that mug is. So let's see, what was I going to talk about next? Oh yeah, I was going to talk a little about Antichrist and immigration.

There was an interesting piece this last week and it was written by, let's get that up here, it's called Church Militants Not Church Milk Toast. It was written by Michelle Malkin. Now she's a pretty well known conservative columnist.

And the thing that's interesting about her is, or at least one thing is, is that she's a she's a Roman Catholic. But she's also been a very sharp critic of the Roman Catholic Church. And in particular their, the way they push for mass, mass migration, mass immigration, mass illegal, illegal immigration.

And it just goes to show you, I mean, they, you know, you can have people who are Roman Catholics and actually do understand just how corrupt, at least in certain respects, the Roman Catholic Church can be.

And I'll just read a little bit of this here. She says, I believe the same is true for the Catholic Church's deplorable racketeering for mass, uncontrolled immigration and shilling for big pharma's toxic and sinful enterprise.

Since 1986, when open borders lobbyists were hammering out the disastrous Reagan amnesty on Capitol Hill, Catholic leaders in the U .S. and abroad have moved from fighting against legislation that enhances American immigration enforcement to actively undermining enforcement and violating immigration laws.

Disgraceful leftist Cardinal Roger Mahoney, censured and banned for his role in covering up sexual abuse, was booted from his post in Los Angeles, yet continues to this day to advocate the Catholic clergy and other Americans brazenly defy deportation orders and harbor so-called dreamers in the name of charity and compassion.

These polities of rich cartels, traffickers, traffickers, smugglers, coyotes, and the vast network of left-wing nonprofits, while inducing the port-a-trapes across the desert, stuff themselves into cars, in car trunks, and cash in on their own children.

Is there any more obscene illustration of the need to drain the Catholic deep state and defund the creep state? And she goes on and talks about some sites and other bishops specifically for some of the things they do.

I'll go ahead and I'm going to put a link to this on the website. So I do appreciate the fact that she's actually very upfront and very sharp in her criticism, very pointed in her criticisms of the Roman Catholic Church, the Roman Church state, and the the way it undermines our country, the United States of America.

I mean, this is something that it does, and it does regularly. And what's amazing to me is how few people actually point that out. And so that's one of the reasons why I wanted to highlight Michele Malkin's comments.

Now, Michele Malkin is still a Roman Catholic, and so she doesn't come out, and I don't think she doesn't realize what Rome is. She doesn't realize that you're dealing with Antichrist. The Roman Catholic Church, that is Satan's masterpiece, and it's to be expected that they would be hostile to things that are right and true and just.

Yes, I would expect them to do that, and of course one of the things they try to do is continually try to undermine sovereign nations, the sovereignty of the United States of America and other nations.

And one of the ways they do this, one of the biggest weapons in their arsenal is mass migration, and they constantly promote this. But you know what, I mean, I don't want to sit here and be, you know, on the one hand, Michele Malkin's critique of the Roman Catholic Church doesn't go far enough, but on the other hand, I do appreciate it.

And you know, the Lord can use things like that. You know, the Lord can use those types of things to bring people out of Rome. You know, there are... let's see, I'm gonna stop to that here. There we go.

You know, there's a fellow that I follow, his name's Greg Hunter. I've followed his work for years. He's a, well, I was gonna say he was a YouTuber. He's actually a former YouTuber. He got booted off of YouTube.

He's got his own website now. It's called USA Watchdog. And he was a Roman Catholic, and I've heard him talk about being a Roman Catholic, but he's not anymore. I don't know what kind of a church he goes to, but he's some, I think, probably sort of broadly evangelical type of a church.

But he left Rome, and I never knew why until fairly recently. I don't know, within the last six months or so, he was talking on one of his videos about why he left Rome, and it had to do with Rome's treatment of all of the pedophilia, all the child abuse.

And not just the child abuse itself, but I guess the fact that they didn't address it when it became apparent that that was an issue. You know, they covered it up. And he left, and that was one of the things that drove him out of Rome.

I mean, the Lord uses things like that. You know, whether it's the egregious pedophilia that goes on, or the oppressive politics and economics that Rome advocates. You know, I was having a conversation one time with a Roman Catholic friend of mine, and I was telling him how Rome attacks private property.

And I talked to him about it, and he says, well, I don't believe those things. You know, and I'm sure he doesn't. You know, there are a lot of Roman Catholics that are very Americanized. And when I say Americanized, what I really am saying, I suppose, is there are a lot more Protestants than they're thinking, probably than what they realize.

You know, because they see limited government, they see capitalism work, they see these things, and they realize, you know, yeah, these are good things. But what they don't understand, in many cases, is that their own church is fighting against those things.

You know, it's not just a matter of going out and saying, well, you know, we have all these corrupt priests and bishops and nuns and cardinals, and popes, and all these other people who keep, you know, promoting all this mass migration, and what we need to do is we need to replace them all and bring in, you know, get rid of all the corrupt priests and bishops and monseignors and nuns and monks and all these other people.

Get rid of all them and bring in, bring in, you know, honest people that will do honest work. Well, no. I mean, that's, you cannot reform the Roman Catholic Church. It's irreformable. It is incorrigible.

That is, it cannot be corrected. You know, Martin Luther and some of the early Reformers, you know, they set out not to create a new church. They wanted to reform the Roman Catholic Church, and they realized they couldn't do it.

There was a guy, he was on and off sparring partner of Martin Luther, a very prominent scholar in Luther's day, a very brilliant fellow. His name was Desiderius Erasmus. He was Dutch. And Erasmus, like I said, he was a brilliant guy.

One thing that he did, you know, and if you are someone who loves the received text, you know, loves the King James Bible, he helped actually bring that about, believe it or not, because he was the one who published the first edition of the received text.

The received text, that's what's sometimes, that is the name that's given to the Greek text that underlies the the King James translation of the New Testament. And this, now's not the time to get into this.

There is an interview that I did with a gentleman by the name of Dr. Wilbur Pickering back in June. He is an expert on the Greek New Testament. It's on the Trinity Foundation YouTube channel, if you'd like.

Go check that out, because he talks about some of the issues with the Greek text in the New Testament and how it's been corrupted by unbelieving modern scholarship. Well, I'll just put that aside, but Erasmus, yeah, he helped put together at least the first edition of a sound Greek text.

So some of his work survives today in the King James translation. But the reason I bring up Erasmus is because he had that same problem that you see show up maybe in Michelle Malkin and in some other people, and that is, they had this idea, and what they do is they look at Rome and say, yeah, you know, Rome is corrupt, and there are serious problems, there are serious moral problems.

What we need to do is we need to get out, get rid of all the corrupt people, and we need to bring in people who are righteous and restore, you know, righteousness to the church and this type of thing.

But what they don't understand is that the whole system is corrupt, and you can't fix it. What you have to do is to leave. And this is something, you know, when I talk about Rome, when I discuss Roman Catholicism, I don't say these things because, oh, I hate Roman Catholics and I want to see terrible things happen to them.

No, far from it. I want them to know the gospel of justification by faith alone. You don't need all of that, all those accoutrements of the Roman Catholic Church, you know, whether it's masses and indulgences and purgatory and confession and all of this stuff.

You know, Jesus said it is finished. He fully paid for the sins of his people on the cross, and his resurrection shows that God accepted that sacrifice. And we put our faith in him. The righteousness that he earned, that Jesus earned by fully keeping the law, he never sinned.

That righteousness that he earned, God attributes to us. He credits it. He reckons it to us. He imputes it to us. You know, those are some different terms that people use. You know, he became sin for us that we might become the righteousness of God in him, wrote the Apostle Paul.