S2E14: Haitian Crusaders w/ Matt Marino

Cody, Michael, & returning guest, Matt Marino, engage in discussion on two chief topics: the dynamics of immigration and the metaphysics of historiography. Inspired by Matt's two articles: Who is the Sojourner? and The Lost Tools of Learning from History.

Highlights:

• Sojourner—defined and abused.


• Is America being deliberately destroyed through illegals?


• Abuses of Scripture to justify demographic warfare.


• Can we love humanity in general?


• Who is a neighbor?—can Wolfgang Musculus help us here?


• The imago Dei and immigration.


• How is our compassion exploited?


• Is the government required by God's law to remove illegals?


• Who is a native? Is C. Jay Engel's "Heritage American" helpful? Can Aristotle help? What place does race play? Culture?


• The "Anglo-Saxon supremacy" demanded by the VA Senate in 1905 + the NC and SC demands of immigrants of Celtic, Teutonic, and Saxon origins.


• Is America facing an identity crisis?


• Has the 1965 Hart-Celler Act radically redefined America?


• The failure of Blacks to assimilate into White America—real, important?


• Discussing race & politics without lighting our hair on fire.


• The reality of race as expressed in voting patterns.


• Hostiles vs. Hospitables.


• If the "immigrants" are in need, why are they all military-aged males?


• Natural law—does it require distinct nations and borders?


• The place of voting in these things.


• Political liars and gaslighters.


• Is the invasion of illegals a judgment of God?


• Gideon & Samson as lesser saviors of God's people while God was yet judging his people.


• The prophets on strangers as a judgment.


• Passivity and pacifism—besetting sins of our age and church?


• Is it a matter of natural law to defend your own people and place, even using violence if need be?


• How John Piper & James White fail here.


• Metaphysical thinking and the Crusades, the Civil War, and WW2.


• What place should the Civil War have in our thinking today?


• The South as one of the last holdouts of Christian orthodoxy; as a real opponent against egalitarianism, including upholding slavery; and as upholding racial superiority and inferiority.


• Are things that are not the gospel important?


• "Not the gospel" is deployed against political interests.


• Apolitical posture—idolatry?


• The punch right, kiss left spirit.


• Should "metaphysical thinking" be applied to WW2?


• The failure of piecemeal facts vs. the narrative.


• The place of shotgun facts in destroying the narrative.


• Proxy battles vs. substance, e.g. Romanists vs Protestants, the Crusades, etc.


• Can a syllogism convert the masses?


• The place of vibes and memes in sociopolitical renewal.


• The Holodomor, 10M Germans starved, Adolf Hitler & Christianity.


• Righteous deconstruction.


• Stephen Wolfe as a brilliant Twitter troll.


• Historiography as self-loathing and damning heroes.


• Dabney & Secession; Crusades & the present invasion of the West by Islam.


• The difference between how Crusades may have been used by Romanists in the past vs. how they are abused today against us.


• Responding effectively to the shibboleths and struggle sessions of words like racist, Nazi, white supremacist, and events like WW2, the Civil War, and Civil Rights.


• The danger of friendly fire & undue fear.


• Do not play the disavowal game.


• Purity spiraling & the failure of the Right to unite against a common enemy.


• Struggle sessions as opportunity for victory.


• The rationality of becoming white supremacist.