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Brought to you in part by the
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International fellowship of christians and jews.
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Russell, great to see you.
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Thanks for being here. i so lovely to see you.
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So i have so much to talk about here.
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Are you carrying around a bible?
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That's my bible.
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In one year for my daily readings.
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And i thought it was
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Very apposite that today we've transitioned out of acts
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And into romans one,
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Because on our previous conversation, which was in
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Milwaukee at the rnc, you said to me that romans
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Is the christian constitution.
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This is from my friend john.
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I like it's old and new testament.
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It's very easy to carry around and read.
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These are just some of my notes in preparation
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For the interview.
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Note one ensure guantanamo go to prison in front row.
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This will distract charlie.
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No, there's just like
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Lots of actually notes about rome itself
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From caravaggio and stuff like that.
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So yeah, i carry two bibles, which i reckon recognizes
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Quite cumbersome, but i've not been christian very long.
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So what do you expect?
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And so, russell, you have a phenomenal story.
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And thank you for taking time
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To, to travel to this conference.
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It's it's terrific.
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Thanks for paying me to come. yeah. no, absolutely.
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So thank you for gladly accepting.
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So you were in public.
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Are you still are in a non-christian lifestyle?
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Is that fair to say,
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Almost anti-christian in some ways.
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Walk us through the journey
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As you're comfortable sharing from that lifestyle
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To now giving your life to jesus christ.
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Well, you know, in a sense, we have no choice
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But to worship something.
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And my devout ness and devotion was effortlessly directed
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By the culture and by my conditions,
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I mean familial and psychological as well as social
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Towards worship and reverence of the individual,
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Which i see as being the nexus of false idolatry.
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Really,
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As long as you're trapped
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In self worshiping yourself, aspects of yourself,
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Self-aggrandizement, pursuit of personal glory,
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You're very easily contained by the culture.
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In a sense, i've started to recognize that
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The culture once is in a state of self-centered bewilderment.
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When you're in that state,
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You're very easy to manage and manipulate.
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I really felt that i was autonomous
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And had a great deal of personal authority.
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In fact,
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I would have believed in the kind of rags
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To riches idea that i bought come from a pretty modest
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Background, and through success and endeavor and hard work,
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And through personal excellence and ability and charm.
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Moxie, call it what you will.
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I fought against the odds
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To become a hollywood star and marry, katy perry
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And be on red carpets all over the place.
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For a brief while i lived with the guantanamo ghetto.
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It was a complicated era.
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That's how i would have characterized it.
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Charlie. i missed that one. yeah, and i kept it.
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I was embarrassed,
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I would have characterized it as a sort of a story
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Of personal success.
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I didn't know.
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This is how i came to realize this.
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I was looking at the work of yuval
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Noah harari, the writer of sapiens,
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Which i found perfectly
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Enjoyable until it became clear to me
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It was an atheistic trope
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That was geared towards directing people, towards
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Surrender and subjugation, towards ai, false idols.
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But it was it was, wasn't it?
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And i thought, the reason this guy is such a, popular
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And accredited
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Intellectual is because his message
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And agenda fits very neatly into the agenda
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Of powerful elites who determine
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Which cultural artifacts get celebrated and popularized.
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I didn't realize at first,
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And then i thought, i wonder if you were that.
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I wonder if there was something about your success, russell,
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That was telling the culture a story they wanted to hear.
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And i thought about it for a while
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Because it is,
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After all, my favorite subject, me
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And what i was thinking about that for.
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Oh, yeah, it was my personal hedonism,
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And my sense of myself is,
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Self-actualization through excess.
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That's a story the culture likes to tell itself.
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So really, you were just a useful sort of vessel or an
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Or expression of a particular set of cultural ideas.
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I came to christ the way that some people do,
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Who don't have the benefit of christianity in early life,
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That we haven't obviously at the perfect time
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For a variety of collapses
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In my private and public life, of a personal difficulty
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With the birth of my son, who's beautiful and incredible
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And and doing very doing, doing very well.
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But certainly was a crisis in our family for a minute
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And through false allegations of sexual misconduct,
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Which gave me great pause for reflection on the way
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That i'd lived for a lot of time
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And the impact of that lifestyle.
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And i suppose in the midst of all that confusion,
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The clarity of christ came in
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A way that sort of still difficult to describe.
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But most recently, i felt charlie, when reading,
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I was looking at acts and it talked about the meeting
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Of paul and peter.
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So i went to check it in galatians, the same encounter.
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And i thought in that encounter between paul and peter,
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You've got someone who knew christ while alive and met
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The resurrected christ, as well as paul, who has this
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Profound, incredible vision, really encounter with him.
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And and i had that
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Kind of visceral wave of the reality and truth
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Of the historical christ,
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Not just the mythic christ that we need to use
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As a sort of an inner constellation
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For personal guidance.
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But, oh my god, it actually happened.
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It actually happened.
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And when i feel that it brings me
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Out of the humdrum,
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It brings me out of the sensual,
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And it puts me in the supernatural,
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Where i believe
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We must, to some degree, live in the world. yes.
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And so i'm sure you tried buddhism or you
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Experiment with eastern stuff.
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What made christianity different?
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The reason i was repulsed by christianity
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Initially was because i felt like
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This is the religion of like,
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You know, like any ordinary american
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Or my grandmother or my wife is accessible to everyone.
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I must have something
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A little more esoteric, a little rarer,
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A little more hard, little more gnostic,
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A little more gnostic, and a little less conformist.
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I felt that, you know, christianity.
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And maybe there's an argument that could be, had about
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Whether institutional christian christianity, is used
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As a kind of panacea to prevent people
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Being the radical revolutionaries
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That i believe our lord would have us be.
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And and i, when i like
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With things like buddhism and, sufism.
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Not that i'm claiming to have had a deep
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Understanding of these faith, just an auto didactic
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Perusal of the books of sufism
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And hinduism and buddhism and philosophy.
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A lo there were many, many truths
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That were discovered in them.
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Texts at the center of those truths.
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Charlie.
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There i was still trapped in self
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When i surrendered kind of voluntarily.
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Yeah.
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Exhausted to the man christ, the flesh christ.
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I realized, oh, i wanted to be jesus.
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I wanted to be the center, the son of god, the apex.
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Yeah.
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I can't do miracles.
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I'm not willing to be crucified now, since
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It's surrendering to him, accepting him, bowing
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At the foot of his cross, on my knees,
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Shoulder to shoulder with any one of you
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That accepts jesus alongside me, i feel relieved,
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I feel unburdened, i feel empowered,
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And i realize that the person i used to be
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Was not an error or a mistake, but part of the unfolding.
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Why, as the early christians called it.
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And i find it interesting that a lot of these ideas
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That i investigated, dear charlie, like daoism say,
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Have embodied in them even semantically notions
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That can be discovered in christianity.
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And when his holiness
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The dalai lama gave his recent 90th birthday speech,
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As i sort of read, at least,
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You know, he posted on social media,
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I read through that, charlie and i noted that
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Most of his significant points about buddhism,
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I could, even with just a year in scripture, match
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With something from the gospel, every aspect.
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It was like, this is all in christ.
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This is all available to us in jesus.
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There is no need for anything other than jesus christ.
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There is no need for anything but jesus
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It's right over israel's border.
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There are thousands of christians and druze
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Who are being targeted and killed.
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I'm going to close the door.
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Your vision.
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But for us, the fellowship cannot stand by and watch.
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We are sending aid in.
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Most of the world is oblivious to what's happened
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To thousands of people who have lost their lives.
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No food, no medicine.
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We're standing in the middle of america
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Who will be in the hands of jews and christians alike.
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I'm proud of the international fellowship of christians
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And jews to reach inside these most hostile territories
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And save human lives, wherever it's needed.
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We will continue to save lives of our brothers and sisters.
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We will continue to give hope.
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To learn more, please go to ifc.org.
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To learn more, please go to ifc.org.
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We're told all religions
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Are the same. yes.
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You really like.
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No, i'm actually amazing.
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It's delicious.
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It's tasty.
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Right, charlie?
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No wonder you can speak for 14 hours.
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No wonder you can get gavin gruesome newsom to admit
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That there are different genders.
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You're powered by lozenges.
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That's right.
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He's the only one ever to mention the lozenges.
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No one else has ever.
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I would expect nothing less.
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So not all religions are the same.
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That's what i thought. that. do what?
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What do you what you what you say? oh, yeah.
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Though all we're told, all religions are the same.
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What is the differentiator
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That you want the rest of the world to know
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About jesus christ, about
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Self you mentioned, i mean, for example, buddhism.
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Call me if i'm wrong.
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Russell is a very self centric religion.
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Yeah, it is.
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I mean, like is this is sorry.
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You know, sometimes when you're
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A professional comedian, you realize that you do things
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That are funny, that you where you're not trying to be funny.
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This is one of them.
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I'm not even actually trying to be funny.
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For me, it seems normal that you would take the lozenge
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In and out like a cigaret.
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Well, charlie.
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Your father and i,
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We used to lozenge together at harvard.
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George bush and i were in the skull and bones club.
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We would lozenge together at bohemian grove.
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Then who's that?
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Under the privet.
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It's alex jones
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After my black robes.
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Was jones after my black robes, was he.
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No. i mean yeah
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Like buddhism is self buddhism is self centered.
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If you like.
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I reckon the reason, the thing that i resisted about
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Jesus was the very thing
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That i needed to yield and surrender to, didn't like
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I was messianic, infatuated with myself
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As the kind of center of the world.
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And the culture also gives you that offering.
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It's appealing that your personal identity can be
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The old, of false idolatry, i.e.
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Your sexuality, your race, or your gender.
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All of those things are in our
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Glorious creations of our lord.
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But when you make them the focus of your spiritual
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Attention, of your devotion, they can't hold it.
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I look at the instructions in scripture now,
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Not just as edicts to be obeyed,
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But simply as suggestions
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That if you follow them, you will have a better time.
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If you turn sex into a type of god
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You're going to, you're in for a rough ride.
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If you turn your personal identity
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Into a kind of god, you're living in an illusion.
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Die on the cross with him.
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The conversation i refer to between paul
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And peter, the as rendered in galatians, leads to paul
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Saying, i lived by a certain law and i live by certain law.
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The idea of self, the idea that do as well.
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Indeed, one of the edicts of satanism as espoused by alice
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The crowd is do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the law,
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That what you want to do
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Is god, that your own desires are god.
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That that by, truncating, curtailing,
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And the ceasing
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Of your desires, you're somehow being not true to yourself
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That you should be who you are now.
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Consumerism and commerce benefit
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If people
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Want to fulfill their desires all the time,
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Every single purchase is undergirded,
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Even by necessity, not desire.
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But what i have been shown by our lord is not
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The perennial ideas of all this,
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That all religions are the same,
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Or this the compelling ideas of the heroes with a thousand
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Mask, or jung's ideas about archetypes are not untrue.
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There are truths
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Present in themselves again and again through culture,
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But there is,
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I believe, for some of us, maybe not for everyone.
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Who would i?
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How am i, after like 14 months of christianity,
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To tell
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Everyone that they have to do immediately what i couldn't do
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15 months ago.
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But it seems to me that the way of the cross,
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The way of the son, the father and the holy spirit
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Is a way of bypassing and navigating your way
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Through the terrible
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Trenches of bewilderment strewn by a culture
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That wants you ignorant, bewildered, and delirious.
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You need only glance at the parisian olympics
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To be aware that what they want to do
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Is surpass and supplant the values of christ
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With the values of a culture
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That want you sick, ill, and weak.
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There's an attack
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On all categories that empower people,
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Whether that's the category of woman or the category of man.
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These are empowering and holy roles that we might play.
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I know since living in florida that there's an attack
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On excellence, on expertise, on competence and capability,
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They don't want men and women that are awakened
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And armed and capable of taking care of themselves.
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They want us all
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Like hopeless
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Blobs and parasites hooked onto their system of ignorance
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That tells you there is no god,
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And then tells you that it is the very god that denies
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The existence of a omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent
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One in complete control through surveillance and data
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Capture and observation, and ultimately wants you
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To submit to it's false idols as false idols.
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Lozenge.
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Over the years, i've been clear about this.
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I'm not just pro birth.
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I'm pro-life.
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And being pro-life means standing with mothers
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Not only before the baby is born, but long after.
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That's exactly why i partner with preborn.
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Preborn doesn't just save babies,
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They make motherhood abundantly possible.
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They provide free ultrasounds and share
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The truth, the gospel, with women in crisis.
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And then they stay with real practical help,
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Including financial support for up to two years after
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The baby is born.
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This is what true, christ centered compassion looks like,
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Not just for the baby, but for the mother too.
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And here's where you can make a difference.
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Just $28 provides a free, life saving ultrasound.
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One chance for a mother to see her baby
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When when she does, she's twice as likely to choose life.
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So don't just say you're pro-life.
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Live it. help save babies and support mothers today.
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Go to preborn.com/charlie or call (855)█601-2229.
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That's preborn.com/charlie
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Or call (855)█601-2229 preborn.com/charlie.
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Or call (855)█601-2229 preborn.com/charlie.
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Are you going to try to start a ministry?
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I mean, the uk could could use firstly a revival.
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I'm really trying to surrender to whatever he wants.
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You know, i've always been
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I've been talking my whole life.
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So like, it would be immodest, false modesty for me to say.
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Oh, really, charlie,
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You know, i'm aware i hear myself talking.
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But when i'm not
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Sucking on a sweet, sweet lozenge of the lord,
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Like i do want to participate in his ministry and mission.
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But because i have a tendency to appoint myself
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And anoint myself in certain roles, i want to be sure
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That is the path he would have me walk.
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And i have pretty serious, challenges to surmount
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In the uk when it comes to my personal.
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Entire government is going after russell.
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They're going after russell
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Because he was so effective and vocal during covid.
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And he was against the entire covid narrative.
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Right.
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You were against lockdowns
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And you were against all that stuff.
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And your lawfare started simultaneously
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With all of that. is that correct?
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So it was so no, it was a little later,
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But i knew that i was
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It's been revealed that i was under observation
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From groups like logically, i and chris,
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Who are sort of online
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Organizations that often work
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With either government agencies or government carve outs.
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Your way of things
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Like the atlantic group and various, organized nations
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That were funded by usaid or other cia
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Carve out organizations.
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What seems to have taken place
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Is i provided a lot of raw material
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By living like an imbecile for a long, long while in a way
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That is not
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In at all, in accordance with the way that i've lived
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As a married man for the last
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Eight years, nine years, ten years,
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If god, that's not going to look good for my wife.
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Hold on, let me do some quick maps without carrie.
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The ones this is, when is that? baby dinners?
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I don't know, out of wedlock.
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Sorry, lord, i is, but with a with,
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My daughter will be nine at her next birthday.
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Like i
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While i was single and young, i live very promiscuously,
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Promiscuously.
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And when you live like that, i can see that it causes harm.
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To be selfish
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In your sexual conduct is essentially exploitative.
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But there's, in my view,
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A world of difference between that
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And forcing people to do things against their will.
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That is a very, very clear and atrocious crime.
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What i believe happened is that due to the popularity
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Of much of the broadcasting that was taking place
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At that time, which happened
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Sort of really organically and almost.
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Charlie kirk has a quirk of the,
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Technological advancements of that time.
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Like, you could exist outside of centralized media.
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And just as i was doing on youtube quickly garner
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A following of millions, we were talking every day
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About pfizer's lack of clinical trials
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And his relationship with the government,
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The inability to prove the efficacy of
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Those medicines, the likelihood that the covid vaccine,
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Excuse me, covid virus originated in a laboratory.
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This peculiar funding relationships
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Between different covid. anthony fauci's deception.
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He's peculiar visits with the cia.
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He's relationships with mark zuckerberg,
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Facebook, all sorts of stuff that was available.
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And charlie would have been reporting on the same stuff.
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And certainly joe rogan was
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I was talking about those kind of things,
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Using a variety of articles from people like matt taibbi
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And michael shellenberger, bringing together
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Sort of narratives.
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But i think hopefully we were able to
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Speak about it in a manner that was sort of funny.
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For example, one of the moderna,
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Booster shots was only ever tested on a mouse's.
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And i would say,
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You can't give a whole population
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A booster on the basis of something
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That's only been given to eight mouse is.
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And all the while i'm aware that people were going,
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But the plural for mouse mouse is mice.
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And like a little tricks like that help information
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To land with the.
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That's the most important part of the state's
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Absolutely vital focus
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On the pluralization of the word mouse.
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Good grammar messed up.
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You know, without grammar, where
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There's no point in being vaccinated,
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There's no point in surviving.
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Also, i hope that i was observing the
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The unspoken narrative of covid is this check it out.
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Life is so sacred and each of us
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So precious, the most vulnerable,
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No matter who you are or where you from,
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Life is a sacred gift from god.
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Therefore, if there's a virus that's a threat to anybody,
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We must all be locked in our homes.
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We must all wear masks.
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We must all obey these edicts.
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And if necessary, we must take these vaccines.
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And if you don't, you are lacking in compassion.
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You don't care about others.
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The entire premise is erroneous,
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Because where else do we see
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Our culture behaving as if life is sacred,
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As if we must sacrifice ourselves for one another?
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Indeed, don't they mock those very values?
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Don't they mock our savior?
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Don't they mock our church?
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Then they laugh at the idea
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That there's something more valuable
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Than the fulfillment of self and the adornment itself.
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Anyway, so during covid, i talked about it a lot.
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I was pretty loquacious and pretty nonstop about it.
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The videos were doing well, i was enjoying it,
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And i'm a kind of a naturally anti-establishment person.
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I suppose i didn't take the vaccine
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Because i don't like being told what to do.
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I didn't take it because they were telling me.
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In fact,
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If they wanted me to take that vaccine,
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All they would have had to have done is leave
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A couple of syringes in my bedroom
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And tell me under no circumstances should
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Do not touch that, no matter what, doesn't matter
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Who coughs or however quietly in whichever grocery store.
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Don't take those.
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Oh, you've already taken them.
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So i have taken 20 or 30 vaccines.
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I don't like being told what to do in this way.
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I'm a closer to the native mentality
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Of the people of your nation than my own.
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Because over in the uk, people are seem
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To have happily tumbled into obedience in the uk.
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Unbelievable obedience.
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I saw some of your appearances there on gb
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News and your debates there, and i thought you conducted
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Yourself marvelously. as always.
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But i am like you, concerned about what's happening
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In the united kingdom and however
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You want to carve that up
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From the left or from the right,
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From a materialist, rationalistic, atheistic
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Or christian perspective
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Is a country that is in very real danger of falling.
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It is.
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And so.
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So, russell, you brought something
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And i want to isolate it.
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You said you don't like being told what to do.
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That makes it even more incredible that you submitted
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To jesus christ and submitted to scripture.
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Yeah.
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Because that's that on the that's a surface contradiction.
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So yes. walk us through that.
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Well i think that might have been
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One of the initial obstacles because there's this sort of in
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Pantheon ism and pagan ism, there's this aggrandizement
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Or acceptance and celebration
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Of what you might call the humans
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Or the inner deities, your warlike aspect, your
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The aphrodite aspect, your sensuality.
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All of these things can be revered.
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And i didn't want to submit to christ.
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I didn't want to surrender to christ.
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And if i'm entirely honest, charlie, there are some
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They still where i don't want to bow down.
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In total submission
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And surrender and recognize that my self-will is my being.
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That's exactly right.
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The flesh, the world, and the and the mentality.
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I'm continually caught
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In a loop of fallibility around these things,
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But i can't believe that it's all in scripture.
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It's all in the word.
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But it was like the scripture coming to life somehow.
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Like i felt like it is finished.
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It is done. these words on the cross.
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I felt the compassion that is available
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Through the love of his mother, through his forgiveness
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Of us, through his acceptance of us, that the submission,
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I do believe the submission to a higher good.
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I believe now humility before honor,
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Before the idea of surrender, and still the idea
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Of surrendering or accepting any human authority as supreme.
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I find it kind of repulsive
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And i believe that there are significant institutional,
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If not constitutional changes coming to a country,
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Because i believe that there is a
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An appetite for more freedom.
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Yes, there is growing.
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Freedom cannot exist without virtue.
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And so freedom will come after.
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And it's happening right now.
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People go to church and give their life to god.
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You cannot have a free society if you do not have a society
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That that values god.
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Every day brings a new
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Headline questioning israel's right to defend herself.
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But behind the politics is simple truth.
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Israel security
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Is possibly the most complex anywhere in the world.
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On october 7th, we saw just how much depends
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On the brave men
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And women who are ready to act when every second counts.
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Israel's first responders are the heroes
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Who run towards danger, not away from it.
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And even now, nearly two years later,
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Israel is still under fire daily
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With rocket attacks, border threats and acts of terror.
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These frontline defenders
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Need our help through
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The international fellowship for christians and jews.
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You can provide lifesaving emergency gear
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That helps you keep them ready and protected.
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Armored security vehicles, trauma kits.
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Mobile bomb shelters. flak jackets.
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Your support delivers
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To help directly where it's needed most.
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I fully support the fellowship.
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It's one of a kind ministry that has my full support.
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Go to ifk jorg right now and stand with israel's heroes
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While they stand in the line of fire.
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Charlie Kirk: August 8, 2025 | Charlie Kirk Today

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