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Welcome to ChristiTutionalist Politics podcast aka CTP in association with TheLibertyBeacon.com and I am your host Joseph M Lenard and that's L E N A R D   CTP is your no muss no fuss just me you And occasional guest type podcast as Graham Norton would say let's get on with the show 

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JOSEPH M LENARD:  Welcome back everybody, the face on the screen, if you're looking at the BitShoot, probably on Rumble or YouTube behind the scenes, should be familiar. It's Peter's S-E-R-E-F-I-N-E, but pronounce Sarah Fiend. Welcome back. Thanks for having me back. Glad to have a follow up with what's going on. I hadn't had the chance to see if Google's still trying to block access to your website or not yet. Has that been cleared
PETER SEREFINE (Liberty-Lighthouse):  up as far as you know? I don't know. That was the website for my book. My most recent book, Trust Shatter.com was the website in question and yeah, I don't know if it ever worked or not,
JOSEPH M LENARD (Host):  I didn't get a whole lot of sales, I'll tell you that. Well, today, your back is kind of a follow up. I already now talked about Trust Shatter. People can of course go back into the CTP show archives, find the episode on that. Oh, there it is for those looking behind the scenes. There's the cover for the benefit of the transcript. Peter held up the book, but this is more or less what the heck are you up to now, but for those who hadn't seen the first one, so they don't have to pause this and run back to the other one. Tell us who you are, where you are, that kind of thing
PETER SEREFINE (Liberty-Lighthouse):  again. My name is Peter Serafine. I am in the middle of the great state of Independence, Pennsylvania. I'm an author. I'm a Patriot Academy Constitution coach. I'm an instructor for Institute on the Constitution. I'm a constitutional originalist who has created the brand Liberty Lighthouse, and Liberty Lighthouse is guiding our way back to constitutional principles. So everything I do is aimed at trying to get us, me, the people back to learning and understanding the Constitution as
JOSEPH M LENARD (Host):  our founders intended it. And the big part of what this show is about too, which is why I'm happy to have you on again. So now we got that nitty-gritty stuff out of the way again. What indeed is your
PETER SEREFINE (Liberty-Lighthouse):  current project? My most recent project is probably the thing I am most proud of. It was the idea I had for my fifth book, but once I started outlining it, I realized it was going to be a mammoth encyclopedia of a book that nobody would ever read. And I call it the founders' Constitution. And the idea is to go through the Constitution and highlight all the key phrases and the clauses and all the things that people get caught up on and explain what they meant by our founding fathers. But I don't want anybody to ever take my word for anything. So I was going to include in this book the Federalist Papers and the Anti-Federalist Papers and the ratification debates. And this was going to be probably 2,000 pages long by the time it was done,
JOSEPH M LENARD (Host):  something that nobody'd ever read. Something that would be likely too expensive for most to buy
PETER SEREFINE (Liberty-Lighthouse):  right. So I turned it into a free resource. And the founders' Constitution is now a page of liberty-whitehouse.com, my homepage, liberty-whitehouse.com. I have it pulled up if you will allow me to
JOSEPH M LENARD (Host):  share my screen. You'll have to describe it all. Of course I will. Go ahead and try and share.
PETER SEREFINE (Liberty-Lighthouse):  All right, just a second. You have a great page. So the founders' Constitution, you go to liberty-whitehouse.com and then you click on the page of Constitution. And it pulls up the founders' Constitution. In the founders' Constitution, it is the full text of the original Constitution before any amendments were made. And I think that's important because by reading into the amendments, we kind of overlook some of the original. And some of our amendments, quite frankly,
JOSEPH M LENARD (Host):  just go completely against original. Like the seventeenth amendment that I keep crying about
PETER SEREFINE (Liberty-Lighthouse):  needs to be repealed. Yes. The seventeenth and seventeenth both go against the original and ten of our fathers. For those that aren't aware, the sixteenth is federal income tax and the seventeenth is the election of senators. So my founders' Constitution, it's the original Constitution before any amendments. And it's written out and it's broken down into the seven articles. And you can click on any one particular article if you like and jump to that part. But I'm going to use for the example here. We're just going to read the preamble. Everybody knows the preamble, right? We the people of the United States in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and prosperity to ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. Now, there's eight or nine different things, adjusting that free preamble, better underlying those are hyperlinks. So let's take the general welfare clause. Another thing that I braille about
JOSEPH M LENARD (Host):  has been indeed bastardized, promoting the general welfare means something that benefits virtually everybody. It doesn't mean individual welfare checks. That is a complete distortion of promote
PETER SEREFINE (Liberty-Lighthouse):  the general welfare clause. Right. What you're describing is individual welfare, not general welfare. So let's click on that promote the general welfare in the preamble. It opens up a little pop up window in that pop up window. It says promote the general welfare explanation. Now, this exultateism, but my word says this phrase means that the government should work to support the well-being of all of its citizens. It does not grant unlimited power is intended to provide for the common good through specific enumerated powers. Now, where did I get my definition? That's the important part of this. There are three sources list, Federalist Paper Number 41, Madison's letter to Edmund Pendleton in 1792, and Madison's speech to the House of Representatives also in 1792. And those are all hyperlink. If you click those, like for example, Federalist 41, it says, James Madison explains that the general welfare clause is not a grant of unlimited power, but must be understood in the context of the enumerated powers that follow. Well, again, don't take my word for it. So you click on Federalist 41, and it then opens up the full text of Federalist Paper Number 41, not from my website where I could have manipulated it from the Library of Congress website. Yes, that's an important distinction. So that is the Founders Constitution. And of course, the whole Constitution is there. We all know the original Constitution is only like 4,500 words. Well, this is about 2000 lines of HTML and JavaScript. You know, it's about 2000 lines of code. I am not a computer programmer. So that's a massive, massive project for me. But I think it's a fantastic tool that anybody can use to understand what our founders meant about anything.
JOSEPH M LENARD (Host):  So few understand what's in there. They only hear a line or two. They know the First Amendment, right? They don't pay any attention to it, but they know it. And they know the Second Amendment, also at the same time, they try to undermine it. But a lot of the other sections, indeed, a lot of people do not know is even there. Well, I would argue that the people you said people
PETER SEREFINE (Liberty-Lighthouse):  know the First Amendment, I would argue they don't even know the First Amendment correctly. The Establishment Clause, for example, Congress shall not establish a state religion. Well, at the time that they did that, at the time the First Amendment passed, three of the 13 original states had state sanctioned religions. And that was not considered a violation of the First Amendment. First Amendment only applied to Congress. The Federal could not mandate a specific state religion. Correct. John, I'm glad you brought that up,
JOSEPH M LENARD (Host):  because being a Christian show, I get into arguments all the time of, and this is why they don't want history taught in schools to know these things that indeed, I think Massachusetts was one of those three that had an official state church. And you bring that up to people and their eyes glaze over because they don't know, as I say, about the left, they don't know, they don't want to know, because they know enough that if they knew their feelings based delusional bubble would be burst.
PETER SEREFINE (Liberty-Lighthouse):  That's another thing I've worked on. No, I'm not a terribly religious person. But the more I have studied the Constitution and our founding fathers over the last 10 years, the more faithful I've become. These men wove faith into everything that they did. The separation of church and state is a myth, a lie, a bastardization of an individual line extracted from a letter and from Jefferson taken completely out of context. I've designed a one hour lecture presentation, whatever you want to call it, that explains that no, our churches need to be involved in politics. So I made this course, this lecture, this presentation, whatever you want to call this thing, it's roughly an hour long. And I've made it with religious leaders in mind, want them to understand, you know, the Johnson Amendment has been completely twisted out of well beyond what it was originally meant to be. The Johnson Amendment to the IRS code says that nonprofit organizations, including churches, can't be partisan. Doesn't say they can't talk about politics, it's just they can't be partisan. They can endorse an individual party or an individual candidate. But they can talk about the issues they can get from the Bible.
JOSEPH M LENARD (Host):  As they should, the biblical aspects of our founding, I got two quotes in my CTP two book, John Adams, our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. And then his other facts are stubborn things and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. And you may lay out facts and evidence all day long that people just don't want to hear because it's inconvenient to their preferred narrative.
PETER SEREFINE (Liberty-Lighthouse):  They've twisted everything the whole, you know, the separation of church and state. That phrase came about from a line in a letter between Jefferson, I think it was Jefferson. It was for just a split second there. I thought maybe it was Madison, but it was a letter between Jefferson and the Danbury Baptist. And he says, you know, a great wall of separation. But if you read the whole thing, if you read that line in context, Jefferson is basically reassuring that the the Baptist have nothing to worry about as far as the government getting
JOSEPH M LENARD (Host):  that the federal government cannot intrude on the church. And the federal government could not whatever pick Presbyterian Methodist Lutheran Catholic cannot supplant a national church over your state church. Yeah, that's on the back of my original Christmas politics book about that. Yes, the bastardization of Jefferson's letter, as I say, they don't want separation of church and state as Jefferson was talking, they want separation from church to stake.
PETER SEREFINE (Liberty-Lighthouse):  Right. I mean, clearly our founding fathers wanted faithful people involved in government. They put the 10 commandments on the doors of the Supreme Court. They opened every day and every session of Congress, even today, since the beginning, every session of Congress opens with a prayer. Every session of the Supreme Court opens with prayer. They don't. They did not design a government to be secular and devoid of faith. They designed a government that was restricted
JOSEPH M LENARD (Host):  enough that it would not interfere with faith. Exactly. And I often mention pen of pen and teller. You don't have to be religious to understand it's just being a good citizen to treat each other well. And these pen has no problem with the 10 commandments on the scotus, because he agrees as an atheist, it's just being a good neighbor and no Tim Walz. Socialism stealing from a neighbor to give to another is not biblical community that is false doctrine communism. But yeah, Pence says, I got no right to take someone else's life or their mind. Same with stealing. I have no right to your stuff. You have no right to my stuff. You don't have to base that in the Bible. But that is indeed what it was like self defense. Exodus 22 to if a thief in the night is dealt the fatal blow, you're not guilty of murder. And that's why we've really screwed up the 10 commandments. It is thou shalt not murder innocence, not thou shalt not kill because the Bible lays out several places where killing is okay. And you're not guilty of
PETER SEREFINE (Liberty-Lighthouse):  murder. Don't shout do no murder. It's not the same as thou shalt not kill. Correct. Absolutely.
JOSEPH M LENARD (Host):  And there are so many supposed fellow Christians that don't grasp that because when they were translated from the early Aramaic, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, they were messed up. And then every subsequent quarter of a century, more Bible versions came out that then further twisted it by wrong definitions or misapplication of the original text. Just very few of them went back to the
PETER SEREFINE (Liberty-Lighthouse):  original text. Most of them relied on somebody else's translation. Right. So you've got a bad
JOSEPH M LENARD (Host):  translation on a bad translation on a bad translation. Right. If you want it, you want to have real
PETER SEREFINE (Liberty-Lighthouse):  fun. The first widely available English translation of the Bible is known as the Geneva Bible. That's the Bible that our founding fathers would have had. That's the Bible that Oh, by the way, stoked the flames of liberty in the pulpits in the for the American Revolution. This is a Bible that talks about liberty and freedom, standing against tyranny. Yeah, the Bible. Yeah, the Black
JOSEPH M LENARD (Host):  Grove Regiment. As I've spoken on many times and indeed, I'm going to repeat it. Community versus communism. Community is by choice, free will, voluntary. And it's about charity from our own blood and treasure to help our brothers and sisters. Not communism. Jesus was not a socialist. He did not say steal from one neighbor to give to another. That is a panic worldly communism. It is communism, community, voluntary communism, force, community, charity, communism, theft and
PETER SEREFINE (Liberty-Lighthouse):  redistribution. Yeah, it's and that's all I mean, compare the the planks of the communist manifesto to our current government. And we're one tiny little step away. We're almost there now. There's so much of it has already been instituted in the supposedly free Republic of the United States. For the last 150 years, ish, we've started to ignore the intentions of our fathers, the goal of liberty, the purpose of government, the purpose of government was laid out in plain language by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence to secure these rights. Governments are instituting amongst men to secure our rights is the purpose of government not to provide stuff, not to provision
JOSEPH M LENARD (Host):  the poor as as Madison would say. This is not directly related to government. But you know, Matthew seven is really condemned not less he be condemned. Final judgment is for the Lord. There are 12 plus other scriptures that tell you to judge biblically, you know, remove the log from your own eye. The same set of biblical standards, no hypocrisy, but where I was going to go, as in thou shalt not murder instance, the sin of pride, it's really the sin of hubris. There is a difference. I can be proud of my children doing well in school all day long. That's not a sin. I can be prideful of a work well done at my job. Hubris, when everything is only and ever about you and what do you get out of anything and everything hubris is the sin.
PETER SEREFINE (Liberty-Lighthouse):  Again, mistranslations have been and twisting to fit a narrative. That's it's what society does today. But the fucking thing about this is what government has always done
JOSEPH M LENARD (Host):  and our founding fathers knew that. Yeah, as Glenn Beck would say, the Overton window, we were the first society really to move the window back towards freedom. And the Bible talks about free will. We are supposed to be free people. The Overton window, the natural flow, is back towards a ruling elite class, lording over all others.
PETER SEREFINE (Liberty-Lighthouse):  And that happened largely because we flipped the flow of money in our country with the 16th Amendment and gave the federal government the power to reach down and take money straight from citizens rather than going through the check and balance of the state like they were originally supposed to do. And what happens, we all know, with money comes power. So once you reverse the flow of money, you also reverse the flow of power in our country. There's a lot of simple things that people don't understand that it all goes back to John Jay. I opened the book with a quote from John Jay. And this is a quote that kind of guides everything that I do. Every member of a state diligently to read and study the Constitution of his country and teach the rising generation to be free by knowing their rights, they will sooner proceed when they are violated and be better prepared to defend and assert them.
JOSEPH M LENARD (Host):  And I know every election somebody says, this is the most important election ever. I think this one might actually be that we are on the precipice of being lost forever. I coined the hashtag roar, R O A R right roar. I'm not talking Katie Perry music video. I'm talking restore our American Republic. This is our last chance or it's gone.
PETER SEREFINE (Liberty-Lighthouse):  Well, I wrote an article in my my my substack not too long ago. I that I referred to this election as is one of the most divisive and quite possibly one of the most telling elections of my lifetime in that we have the most liberal progressive representative in one party. And we have quite possibly the one of the most. I don't even know how to say is right wing people of the other party in decades. And there's there's very little commonality between them. These are two very polarizing presidential candidates. And it's going to be very telling to us as a country because if it turns out that the popular vote is is still really close, that means that we really are a divided republic. And if it ends out being a landslide one way or another, then that shows that the populace has you know, expressed their will and will see where we are. Yeah, I I fear I've had on
JOSEPH M LENARD (Host):  William R. Douglas in his book Civil War 2.0. Because if indeed things could turn hot and we could have another all out civil war. And it would be very different than the last one because you're not going to have these set of states against those set of states. It's going to be intra within every state people fighting at each other in states and against other states at the same. It would be the most bloody mess you have ever seen. Yeah, it will would be terrible will be
PETER SEREFINE (Liberty-Lighthouse):  terrible. But there's a lot of things that we can do that people just don't pay attention to. People don't because they didn't read and study the Constitution. They don't understand the way things were supposed to work. We the people had the power to stop government from ever getting this bad. We chose not to use it. We we had the power to stand up when the 17th Amendment passed and said no, no, no, no, no, no, that those senators are a check. Those those senators being appointed by my state are a check of the rights and power of my state. Yes. And we could have stood up and revolted against the the well, whatever, we have greater than 2% income tax that started in 1913. If you do the math and you figure out like how much money you had to make and all that, if you made less than $7,500,000 a year in today's money, then you didn't have to pay an income tax at all. And if you made that much, then you paid 1%. And and if you were Henry Ford or Dale Carnegie, okay, maybe you paid a little more like it was three, four, five, six percent. I think seven was
JOSEPH M LENARD (Host):  the highest it went 7%. And then though at the time of JFK, the top bracket was I 75 or 90%. Whatever was either number way too high. Absolutely. My heart, I've always thought, you know,
PETER SEREFINE (Liberty-Lighthouse):  God demands a tie, which was a 10th. If 10% is good enough for God, 10% should be good enough for man. So maybe we make a 10% tax that gets divided and the feds get five cents and the state gets three cents and your local government gets two cents. And look, there's 10 cents.
JOSEPH M LENARD (Host):  We certainly need an overhaul. I am always on. I I oppose the value added tax and those who support the fair tax say, well, it won't be that. What planet do you live on? Have you not what you think it is and what it will be are two different things.
PETER SEREFINE (Liberty-Lighthouse):  I actually the fair tax. I kind of like it. And I like it for a couple of reasons. But I
JOSEPH M LENARD (Host):  understand you're arguing. I only be constitutional amendment. If we repeal and replace the 16th,
PETER SEREFINE (Liberty-Lighthouse):  I would agree. That's in the bill. Yeah, in the bill. Yeah, the fair tax bill says that the fair tax passes and they have one year or two years or something like that to repeal the 17th.
JOSEPH M LENARD (Host):  That if it doesn't happen, then fair tax goes away. It's fine. One Congress cannot impose on another. If you really believe that'll happen, I got a bridge to sell you. Because immediately two years later, that repeal part will just be ignored or taken out of the bill. Yeah, they'll just extend it. Yeah. No, you must repeal and replace the 16th by constitutional amendment at the same time. Mostly they don't have to do. No, thank you. They don't have to replace
PETER SEREFINE (Liberty-Lighthouse):  the 16th amendment. They just need to repeal it. All the provisions for earning money by the federal government are already in the Constitution, repeal the 16th amendment and they have to go back to doing it the old way, which was they do it through import tariffs and excise taxes. And if they needed anything else, they had to go to the states and build the states apportioned by population. So every person was responsible for the same amount of tax. And your state got to decide how to pay that tax, which is why some states have an income tax and some states don't. Some states have sales tax and some states don't. Some states have, you know,
JOSEPH M LENARD (Host):  giant taxes on hotels. Yeah, well, I don't ever see a repeal of the 16th, except for maybe a convention of states. So I oppose the fair tax for that reason. I am in Detroit right across the river from Canada, where they've got property tax, governmental sales tax, providential sales tax. That if no one understands that that will be the end result of the fair tax, they're living
PETER SEREFINE (Liberty-Lighthouse):  on Pluto. Right. And I know I wouldn't doubt that the fair tax folks have had done what they can to make one go away when the other with, you know, one replace the other. But I agree, a constitutional amendment is the best way to go about it. And I was just a few weeks ago recruited to be a state content writer for the convention of states project era. I'm sorry, it's that's a consent convention of states action group here in Pennsylvania. We're not supposed to say convention of states project anymore. That was that's what I remember it as because that was the first time I heard about it, you know, 10 years ago. That's what it was then. But now it's convention of states action. And yeah, I now write articles for them to.
JOSEPH M LENARD (Host):  Yeah. So again, to be clear, I could support a fair tax. But only if the 16th is gone. Then you go first, right? I'm tired of the, oh, we'll promise to do this. If you let us do that,
PETER SEREFINE (Liberty-Lighthouse):  no, you go first. This time. Last time that that worked was probably the bill of rights when Madison told the, you know, Virginia and a couple of the other states. Okay, look, if you if you ratify the Constitution, I promise the first thing we'll do is a bill of rights. And by golly, he did it.
JOSEPH M LENARD (Host):  But the people in power now are not them. And the interesting part about that is Madison was
PETER SEREFINE (Liberty-Lighthouse):  one of those individuals who didn't think that we needed a bill of rights. He thought that the Constitution itself, because of it was enumerated powers, that anything that wasn't enumerated, wasn't a power, why did you need a bill of rights? Exactly. And he still did the bill of rights,
JOSEPH M LENARD (Host):  because he promised to do the bill of rights. Because he was actually a man of this word and likes the people of today. But yeah, no, technically speaking, we didn't need the bill of rights. They were already identified as God given rights. But to further put it in writing, the government shall not do these things. And again, even if we send a repeal of the 16 to the state, that'll take decades to be ratified. And even if it is ratified, whatever is put in place to replace it, again, they can never be held to their words. That's why I want a repeal and replace at one time. So if they ignore the Constitution, or we wouldn't be having this conversation, right? So they could attempt to ignore that also. But at least we would have something a little more firm. It would take another constitutional amendment to replay, peel, replace, or change it, as opposed to every two years, the Congress, throw everything out. What we promised last year doesn't mean a thing.
PETER SEREFINE (Liberty-Lighthouse):  One of the things that I like about the Convention of States Action Group is they don't push or promote any individual amendment proposals. They are just pushing to have the Article 5 Convention of States, to have the discussion about, hey, what are some amendments that would work to do this? Now, one of the reasons, one of the I've gone back and forth about whether or not I thought an Article 5 Convention was a good idea for a long time. For the last 10 years, it's a great idea. I'm not sure. And when I was talking to him recently, the state content coordinator here in Pennsylvania, he says to me, he goes, well, why aren't you sure? I said, because the government ignores the Constitution now, what's another amendment going to do? Yeah. And he has a really good answer. The answer is, the government doesn't usually start to ignore amendments until they're about 100 years old. So even if they do ignore it, we'll be long dead by the time they start to ignore it.
JOSEPH M LENARD (Host):  Yeah. And the point being, it is much more elaborate a process. And people would likely know, so in our, or their lifetime, it would have occurred. And likely, then indeed, that time passing before they ignore it. And I don't, I'm standing with Mark Levin on Convention of States. I am all for it. I do not buy the people who I think are all Cenos, rhinos, or fasicrats that like the ruling establishment, deep state, status they have. So they throw out, it'll be a runaway convention. No,
PETER SEREFINE (Liberty-Lighthouse):  no, no, no, why anyway, the first convention wasn't a runaway convention. Once the delegates sat down and realized that there was no saving the Articles of Confederation. Everybody went back to their states and got permission to write a new constitution. It was not a runaway. They all were authorized to do what they did. And when they wrote the new constitution, it had to be ratified by the states because nobody was bound by it until they agreed to it. Exactly right.
JOSEPH M LENARD (Host):  You want to wait to it. If there would come a repeal of the Second Amendment in a convention of states, there would not be enough states to ratify it. Or to ever exist. The United States
PETER SEREFINE (Liberty-Lighthouse):  would have to ratify that. And I would not happen. Never, never not. You know, what's interesting about the article five convention of states, partial portion of the Constitution. In, in, you know, Madison was well known for being an extremely diligent note taker. And he wrote down every word that everybody said at every one of these meetings. And when George Mason stood up at the Constitutional Convention and said, wait a minute, we've only given government the power to restrain themselves. We've given the people no power to restrain the government. And we know government will never restrain itself. And he proposed that they be able to call conventions and have the states proposed amendments. And in Madison's notes, it was the Latin phrase I can't remember because I don't know Latin, but in Madison notes, it said basically no discussion in Latin. It was the one and only part of the seven articles of the Constitution that there was zero debate about. Everybody agreed. It was like Mason stood up and said this and everybody in the room went, oh, duh.
JOSEPH M LENARD (Host):  All right. Well, the time is flown by. It's grabbing things up. Is there anything else off of all that other stuff you want to mention or impart before we leave?
PETER SEREFINE (Liberty-Lighthouse):  Go to my website, liberty-lighthouse.com. And from there, you can find my weekly articles from sub stack. You can find all four of my books. You can find the founders Constitution, which I am immensely proud of. And please share that with everybody and share that share that with your crazy lefty relatives and your crazy right wing relatives. Care with everybody, because we the people need to understand our founding documents if we're ever going to get a
JOSEPH M LENARD (Host):  hold of our control of our government again. Yep, agreed. All right. Well, thank you for coming back, Peter. Really appreciate it. I knew this would be another great discussion. Thanks for having me back. Hello, everybody. I just saw another commercial and add for the quote. God bless the USA unquote branded Bible. Okay. Well, I should address it. Good, bad, indifferent. Well, the good, of course, obvious, if someone who does not have a Bible is indeed enticed to buy a copy of this Bible, that's a good thing. The potential bad thing is I don't have a copy of it. And frankly, don't intend to buy a copy of it. But they should voluntarily send Christitucia's politics podcast a copy so that they can avoid any future potential criticism from me. And the criticism is again, not having looked at it. Don't know, but the potential, the concern here is what is or is not what is added to making a quote God bless the USA unquote Bible. What might be removed to make it a God bless the USA Bible versus oh, then why shouldn't be on true don't in Canada struggling to hold power put out his propaganda version of God bless Canada Bible or God bless the UK Bible or Putin. The guy who's been involved in the politics and power and control over Russia since the late 1990s, who former KGB I call a fake Christian. And I say that why she's evil, not stupid. He's former KGB. He knows John Paul the second Reagan sacher that religion help bring down the Soviet Union. He's not going to make that mistake while he's trying to reconstitute through invasion and other undermining of other nations to try to have his uppet and control to reconstitute the Soviet Empire. He's not going to make that mistake. So, he allows the sense of more religious freedom in Russia. And of course, why wouldn't he? Why shouldn't he? It will surprise me if he doesn't come out with the God bless Russia quote unquote branded propaganda Bible. That's the issue. That's the point. And until we look at it and know what's been added, what's potentially been removed to make it that particular branded version of the Bible is it really a propaganda piece? Or is it indeed really truly the word of God and about Jesus Christ? So, I just wanted to take a brief moment to interject that. I don't know. I don't plan on buying a copy of it. They should send it to me because until such time, I indeed will continue to question and it will remain an open question. Did they add stuff? It's the God bless the USA Bible. Obviously, they've added that to the cover of the Bible. What else have they potentially added? What have they potentially maybe left out? Those questions and concerns will remain regarding the God bless America Bible version or a true don't plus Canada version a labor leftist mochis propaganda version for the UK or France or Germany or Italy as cultural Marxists try pushing them further and further into the commy-fashies. So, he's leftism of things more power more control for them and in order to do that, they must fool the people. So, of course, why wouldn't they release a propaganda version of the Bible? That's been changed adding things and omitting things. I'm not saying Lee Greenwood did that with this version of the Bible. I am just saying it is an obvious question to ask and must be answered regarding this and or any other branded version of a Bible and especially if other nations start following suit in this notion. What about the Commolunist while someone yells out, Jesus is Lord and a rally. You're at the wrong rally. The atheist party pretending to still be Christian the next day I had a black church. Oh, I'm a great Christian. Vote for me. Why wouldn't the Commolunist also come out with a propaganda version of her Bible? I know you can see here. It's like I've said on the show like on Trudy Beerman, PSI TV. You can find that on your Roku stick or channel Smart app on your smart TV. Self-reflection. Do not get upset. For me, by me, asking the questions that should be asked and us all needing to look in our mirror at ourselves and self-reflect what are the answers to these questions. Don't be upset by the questions. The only reason to be upset by the question is if there's something to hide and the answer would be inconvenient. So let's ask the questions. Let's seek the answers. Thank you all. Take care. God bless. 



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