A Pale Imitation of God

An exploration of the secular state religion, referencing the great book Christian Patriot by Dr Taylor Marshall.  This episode looks at the key tenets of what Dr Marshall deems the New Secular Religion, and how they tie in with the decay of our society.

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Oh, good afternoon. Welcome back to the Flat Cap Nationalist Podcast. This is episode number 18, a continuation of the perversion of the state series. This will be the last one. I'm calling this one a pale imitation of God. So before we get into the meat of this episode, I want to thank you all once again for listening. My apologies for not getting an episode out to you last week. I did the Tough Mudder on Saturday with my brother and my best mate raising some money for a cancer charity. And uh yeah, Sunday I was just absolutely dead. So um there was no episode then. Feeling a lot better this week, recovered well, and uh yeah, ready to get back to it. I also wanted to just acknowledge the tragic death of Anne Whiticum. Looks like um it was murder. She was a very good, conservative Catholic lady, very faithful. She held true to her principles. She was one of the few politicians of recent times that actually had a backbone. And yeah, to see her go out, you know, she's 78 years old, to see her go out in such a brutal way is absolutely devastating. And the usual suspects on the left are of course celebrating this violent tape seems to be a murder, and they're celebrating it as if you know she was some kind of witch that deserved it, and that's absolutely disgusting. So I don't want to speculate too much on the motivation, you know, of whoever did this. I just wanted to acknowledge her passing and may God rest her soul. It's probably also worth addressing right at the beginning the clown show surrounding Nigel Ferraj at the moment. As many of you will know, I'm not a great fan of Ferage. I don't particularly like him, I certainly don't trust him, and I think ultimately he is one of the biggest blockages that's preventing unification of the British right. The circus around him at the minute is largely predicated on donations that he received from a crypto billionaire, you know, gave him five million quid that he didn't declare. That's what it boils down to. The rule state he's supposed to declare this money. And Firoge didn't declare it, you know, it's okay, he he didn't necessarily know that he was going to be running as an MP until very, very late on in the process, just before the 2024 election. And I believe there is a stipulation in the rules that you don't necessarily have to declare money that was given for personal reasons, but um it's quite hard to argue that it wasn't politically motivated, uh, as he has said that it was basically a thank you for getting Brexit, you know, for his role in uh getting Brexit across the line, clearly political. He's also said it's for protection, which that's definitely within the realm of politics, isn't it? You know, no, I don't begrudge him receiving this money, you know, if it's for protection or whatever it is, but um effectively should have been declared, wasn't declared, and instead of facing the investigation, he's decided to stand down as an MP and re-run in a by-election. Er I can see that being quite a cunning, quite a savvy move to make. You know, effectively putting it in the hands of the people of Clacton, uh, even though this this doesn't address the nature of you know why he's actually under investigation, having a by-election now, you know, the people of Clacton, the good people of Essex, they're going to re-elect him, of course they are. And then if the uh the authorities try to force another by-election after the outcome of this investigation, they're gonna look like they're targeting him. It's gonna be a very, very bad look. So they're probably not gonna go ahead with forcing a second by-election. Uh, however, the rest of the major parties have declined to stand in the election. So it's effectively gonna be Nigel Farage versus Count Binface. Yeah, so for from the other parties, this was a swift move to basically castrate Billy Big Bollocks on his uh grandstanding tour. And it's it's effectively made him he's back to him into a corner where he's he's got a campaign against a bloke dressed as a bin. Now I I think it's ridiculous, these uh comedy candidates they call them. You know, Count Bin face. Oh, he's for he's poking a jab at the establishment. It's funny. Well, it's it's not funny, is it? It's another establishment clown making a mockery of our democracy, making a mockery of our politics. You know, I'm just not here for it. I think it's ridiculous, and blatant, you know, blatant uh spoof candidates like this shouldn't be allowed to run. You know, I I we're living in very serious times and this bloke is fundamentally unserious. And I know there are people out there saying, yes, that is the point. It's not gone over my head, it's not escaped my notice that the entire point of candidates like Count Binface is to poke the jab and have a bit of fun at the expense of you know the the electorate and the political process. But when we're living in such serious and ultimately destiny-determining times, comedy candidates like this should just stay in the hole that they came from. So, like I say, I I don't like Nigel Farage, and I think he is a big obstacle to unification on the right, which is going to be necessary at some point. However, I I think for that to happen, Farage has to leave reform along with Yusuf and Tyson, all the others that uh backstabbed Rupert Lowe and threw his supporters under the bus, tried to distance themselves from you know Tommy Robinson and his crowd, and yeah, the basically the people that caused the division in the first place, they need to go before any unification can take place. Because as I always point out to people, you know, that say restore a split in the vote, it's like, well, actually, we were we were in reform until we were unceremoniously kicked out at the behest of Farage and Zia Youssef on some trumped-up grounds of you know threats and uh uh threats of violence, basically. So uh it's very hard to make peace with people that have treated you that way, and people that ever since that happened have smeared you with names like fascist, racist, Nazi, you know, the kind of names that people like Anne Whittackb were called, yeah, that ultimately led, presumably, to her murder. So until these people have gone, there can be no unification. But uh Ferrarge is gonna beat Count Bin Face, of course he is, you know, and uh maybe that'll be the end of that. But if if a second by-election is held, I firmly believe Restore should run and give the people another option. Now that that's out of the way, I want to get into the meat of the episode. So a lot a lot of this comes from a book called Christian Patriot by Dr. Taylor Marshall, who um is a very prominent Catholic thinker over in the States, and he's written this book on how we can formulate society to reflect Christian values and to be patriotically Christian. And I think it's a good thing. You know, I think uh I've said before Christianity has been the the greatest force for good in the history of the world, and uh I I firmly believe that, and I'll never stop believing that, despite many of the protestations of the establishment and the rewriting of history that's taken place, to make it seem that, for example, uh the era in which Europe converted to Christianity and was led by Christianity was some kind of dark ages where everybody was backwards and you know no rational thought could take place. Yeah, I I think that's a gross rewriting of history, and I firmly believe that what made nations like Spain, France, Great Britain, and the United States of America what made them so great was Christianity. So I wanted to dive into this book because I think it sheds quite a bit of good light on this topic as a whole, particularly when it comes to what Taylor Marshall describes as the new secular religion, and I'm sure a lot of this will resonate with you guys because we can see it around us everywhere we look. So let's dive into that. So on page 18 of his book, under the heading of the new secular religion, Taylor Marshall says if the greatest trick of the devil was to convince the world he didn't exist, the second greatest trick was to persuade everyone that his new secular religion isn't really a religion. And I think that's very true. You know, a little bit further down he says that the secularists, you know, and we'll we've been swarmed with secularists, you know, these these people that basically believe in nothing, you know, no greater force, no greater power other than the state itself. But these people argue that no religion can publicly influence or direct political discourse or policy. Yet these secularists establish their religion while asserting our worldview is not a religion. So what Taylor Marshall does here is he dives into some of the things, you know, some of the defining characteristics of this secular society that would in fact imply some kind of religious element to it. For example, he says what we used to know as excommunication has been relabeled as cancelled. Well, that kind of holds true, doesn't it? You you get accused of thinking or saying the wrong thing, and you're not allowed to speak anymore. You've been cancelled, you've been excommunicated. The dogma of religion is interpreted as the infallible collection of woke ideologies to which one must believe for employment or inclusion? Well, we've seen that play out many, many times, have we not? How many people lost jobs for you know declining to believe that there are more than two genders? Yeah, or how many people have been excluded from society or or taken to court for refusing to, you know, like we mentioned before, the Christian baker that didn't want to make a gay wedding cake. Oh suddenly they're in a legal fight for their own, you know, financial economic survival. Yeah, the sacraments of this new secular religion are the rituals that must be guarded and funded by the state, such as abortion, transgender surgeries and the like. You know, I I I really do think there's a good case there now. During the 2024 US presidential election, you might remember some of the Democrat conventions, some of the rallies they were holding, what they had outside, parked outside, was a mobile abortion clinic where anybody could go at any term during pregnancy and receive an abortion, just like that. And this is clearly a departure from what was initially, you know, uh expected to be performed rarely, you know, safe, rare, and legal. Those were the conditions for abortion. Whereas now we've rapidly advanced to this point where you could go to a political rally at any stage of your pregnancy again abortion carried out. They've deified the institution of abortion. Yeah, even UK law now, they've decriminalized abortion up to the day of birth. And there are even some states in America, I think Minnesota was one of them, where if a baby has been born after a failed abortion, there's no longer any duty of care to that baby, you just let it die. You know, it's barbaric, but this is one of the sacraments, one of the sacraments of the new state religion. Yeah, a seminary is now all publicly funded schools and colleges that are required to teach the dogmas and ethics of the new secular religion. Again, is this not true? You know, we have we have laws in place now, even for homeschooling, where you have to stick to a particular curriculum, right? If it's found that you are not teaching adequately about gay stuff, transgenderism, and you're not putting a you know a suitable emphasis on the role of Africans in the development of the world, that uh yeah, you can be fined and even imprisoned. Yeah, I was reading a case the other day, I think it was from Brazil, where a couple of very traditional parents were homeschooling their kids, and they were fined and I think facing a custodial sentence because they weren't teaching their children about homosexuality, transgenderism, Afro-Caribbeanism or whatever it was, you know, and its vital role in the development of the country of Brazil. Never mind the fact that these kids could speak like four or five languages and they could play multiple musical instruments, and every year they were reading, you know, 30 classical texts, 30 classic books, a much, much higher standard of education and attainment, achievement than they would have got in a public school. But because they weren't learning the dogmas of the new secular religion, they have to be persecuted. The clergy of the church have been replaced by the ordained leaders, this is Taylor Marshall speaking, of the non-governmental organisations, the archbishops are those who can ascend to public office or to the boards and executive offices of major corporations. Once they ascend, they must teach, enforce, and police that the dogma is accepted. Yeah, how many times have we seen this? How it started in HR departments and it's gone all the way up through every level of the education system, every you know, I mean, I I work in a construction adjacent industry, you know, I drive trucks, delivering building materials and collecting the muck from foundations, things like that. So I pull up to a building site, you know, and the developer is Taylor Wimpy, and every Taylor Wimpy site has a massive, you know, you know, the uh the trans pride flag, the one that's uh it's got the devil's rainbow on it, and it's got the chevron on it to, you know, support Muslims, it's got the black and brown stripes on it to support black and brown people, and this fly is outside Taylor Wimpy sites year-round. What's where's the need for that? You know, where where's the call for that on a building site? You know, the majority of people involved in the construction industry are going to be gruff, hardy ground workers, builders, labourers, plumbers, plasterers, electricians. Yeah, these these are not people that give a f, frankly, about going to work and make and and seeing a trans inclusion, a trans pride flag flying outside the building site. Yeah, it's nonsense. But then you realise, oh, but then all the all the female stuff on these sites, and you see them walking around with a little clipboards, never done a day's labour in their life, and you know this by the fact that they've got you know three-inch fingernails, you know, painted and heavily made up faces, this, that, and the other. But what they do, you know, in the interest of ensuring um gender equality, yeah, they they're given positions where they'll be paid inordinate amounts to to walk around with a clipboard and just check that the men are doing their job correctly. Yeah, and the HR departments of these building developers, they ensure that this trans shit is pushed through. And it really does warm me up because you you never see, you never see these developers flying the national flag. Yeah, you'll you'll never see that. But you will see pride flags, you will see trans flags, and I've just never understood the need for it. And this is in you know, very blue-collar working class kind of industry where most of the blokes have got no interest in it whatsoever. You know, they're more bothered about the football, but equally, you know, the the apathy that has set in is most of them probably don't even know what that flag stands for. And if they do, well, it's just part and parcel, you know, of living in 21st century Britain, you just have to accept seeing this disgusting flag all over the place. Yeah, and this has been brought about by what Taylor Marshall deems the new clergy, yeah, the new missionaries, they're the actors, the influencers, non-profit leaders who work tirelessly to convert all people to their dogma. So think about, you know, even down to things like uh Hollywood, you know, and their never-ending affirmation of transgender people, and the fact that, you know, all the major movie studios now, if you want a movie to get greenlit, you have to have prominent gay characters, even if it's you know completely superfluous to the story, it doesn't add anything. You have to have them in there. Yeah, you got this uh what is it now, the Odyssey coming out. Has it just come out or is it uh on the verge of coming out as of the time of recording? And you know, all the the the usual race swaps that you just have to accept. Yeah, yeah. Helen of Troy, most beautiful woman in the world, being played by an African woman who honestly she she looks like the wrong end of the dog. Yeah, she's certainly not the face that launched a thousand ships. Yeah, and they've they've got uh what's it what's her name? Ellen Page, previously Ellen Page, now Elliot Page, tiny little you know, waf of a of a girl playing some kind of legendary warrior from the Inead. Yeah, and we're supposed to accept, oh, this is actually a man now, you know. No, no, she's not, she never will be, she never can be. And you know, frankly, it it's completely unbelievable to imagine her in any battle scene whatsoever. A tiny, tiny little woman looks about, I don't know, eight stone wet through with a concrete necklace. Uh it's completely unbelievable and it breaks the immersion, yeah, and consequently ruins the movie view and experience. I mean, when was the last genuinely good movie that you watched that hasn't been touched by all this woke nonsense? But you know, the missionaries, as Taylor Marshall says, the actors, the influencers, they have to work constantly to convert people to believe in their dogma. Yeah. The Inquisition is redefined as the media that monitors all institutions and private citizens 24-7 for deviations from the dogmas. Yeah, and we know this is true. So how how many times, even somebody like J.K. Rowling, who's far too woke for my liking, uh, she's pretty radical feminist, and uh I I think it's fair to say I'd agree, I'd sorry, I'd disagree with her on most political points. However, because she doesn't believe that trans women are real women, yeah, the Inquisition found her guilty, did it not? And there's been a non-stop campaign against her for years now, trying to ruin her, trying to drag her name through the mud, trying to sue her and drive her out of any kind of public engagement, yeah, trying to disenfranchise her from her own franchise, which vastly overrated anyway, you know, the Harry Potter series in general, you you can pick a million holes in it, but uh generally entertaining, but they're trying to wrest that away from her now because she's been found guilty by the Inquisition of the Woke of not believing that men dressed as women are actually women, even if they've gone to the trouble of chopping their cock off. Yeah, justice is no longer the pursuit of righteousness and giving each his due, but the forced global redistribution of all material goods. Well, that's yeah, very pressured. That's something we see all the time, isn't it? Yeah, we've got these endless calls from people that were never slaves for reparations from people who never owned slaves. Yeah, and no, just a quick aside. Recently, uh Rupert Lowe went on the Joe Rogan podcast, and a Labour politician from somewhere up Greater Manchester way has reported him to the you know the Committee for Standards uh for Islamophobic comments that he made, Afsal Khan. So no vested interest, obviously. And he's uh effectively called the Pakistani Muslim rape gangs a far right trope. And I'll interject here and say, once again, most most tropes and stereotypes exist for a reason. Yep, so if uh a far right trope is that Muslims are incredibly rapey and paedophilic, there's probably a very good reason for that. But uh he essentially holds that, yeah, well, a few might have done this, a few, you know, Muslims might be rapey and paedophilic, but um you can't use that to to discredit all of us, you know. You can't slander all of us based on the actions of a few. So, okay, but it's more than a few, isn't it? And it's everywhere they go. As soon as they get there, these are the kind of actions that they engage in. Alright. And uh also I'm yet to see hordes of Muslims calling out the so-called few that are actually guilty of perpetrating these crimes. But uh I just find that quite interesting. That uh it's people of Afzal Khan's ilk, you know, it's people of his political persuasion that will try constantly, ceaselessly, to hold all white people, all European people, guilty of the crimes of what were actually very, very few people. Yeah, the vast, vast majority of British people, European people, Americans, the vast majority of them never owned slaves, never had any engagement in the slave trade, but we were all to be held collectively responsible for this. But it never goes the other way, does it? You know, never never works in our favour as well. We will be judged by our own actions. No, no, no, we have to be judged collectively for the sins of very few people. And this doesn't even acknowledge the fact that Africans were engaging in the slave trade long before we turned up on the scene. Yeah, it was a universal practice, near universal, anywhere in the world you went, you'd find slavery. It just so happens we were better at it than the Africans were, no surprise there. I seen a video the other day, it was a train ride through the Congo, and my word, what a place that is. Yeah, it's unbelievable. Without intervention, I mean it's a miracle that Africa's got as far as it's got. And it's only by the grace of European and American people, yeah, the white devil, it's only by our grace that they have succeeded insofar as they have. Without our intervention, it'd be a million times worse. But there's never gratitude there. Yeah, and they'll try and rewrite things so that we we are now brainwashed to believe that Africans and dysgenic Indians actually built our entire country, our entire civilizations. I've said it before, and I'll say that again. They didn't even build their own civilizations. Yeah, so I'm not gonna give them any credit for building ours when their only contributions, as far as I can see, to our society have been negative ones. But as we get back to it. So the ninth point, Taylor Marshall's new secular religion, is that God is redefined as the collective of woke individuals, and gods are redefined as the individuals themselves. And this is something I've heard many people talk about. Yeah, people like Matt Walsh has spoken about this, where effectively the the the purpose of today's society is to almost exclusively empower the individual to you know, you you can't say no. There are no limits to a a person's potential, you know, what what they can be, what they can do. So you know, you you might be born a woman, but you can be a man if you want to be. Yeah, you you can you can even swap day to day or multiple times a day between them. You know, it's we we've seen this with again with abortion. You know, if you you don't want responsibility for the life growing inside you, you can just do away with it. Have an abortion, even if you're only a day or two away from giving birth. Well, because no takes away an individual's power, apparently. Well, and these are the same principles that have seen the justice system collapse. Yeah, and people are at the same time as being completely empowered, they're also completely lacking in agency. So, you might have committed a horrific crime, but have you considered the trauma, you know, the multi-generational trauma? Because hundreds of years ago you might be related to a slave. Therefore, now in the present day, despite these, you know, 30 or so arrests that you've got, we're still not going to sentence you to prison. And it's a kind of weird they they want to have the cake and eat it too, you know. They they they want to believe that the individual, there is no limit to what an individual can and cannot be, can and cannot do, while also stating and trying to enforce that people don't have agency, people cannot make their own decisions, it's always at you know the behest of forces out of their control, even though they will admit that there are no higher powers, there are no higher forces in play. If a chosen individual, an adherent to the woke ideology, a follower of the new secular religion, or a god, as defined here by Dr. Taylor Marshall, if a god steps outside of what is acceptable, you know, to broader society, not just the new secular religion, but broader society, so they've committed a rape or a murder, there must be mitigating factors that mean it is beyond this God's control, yeah, this individual God's control. It's ludicrous. It really, you know, it's a hard thing to articulate because it makes so little sense. Yeah, but this is the nature of the warped ideology that infests our society, is it not? You know. Point 10. Satan is redefined as the evil Christians who once enslaved and raped the world under the force of their dogmas. I find this one particularly interesting because as I mentioned right at the beginning, there's been a significant rewriting of history to make it seem that the Christian ages of Europe were some kind of backwards, you know, repressed dark age in which you know no advancements were made and information was willingly, you know, withheld from the wider populace to ensure their compliance with Christianity. You know, you even hear this with regards to the proliferation of the Bibles. You know, oh how come the churches were the only ones that had Bibles? People didn't have individual Bibles, therefore they had to rely solely on the church for you know divine messaging. So, well, this is just this is just a matter of reality, of availability. You know, back then it was incredibly expensive and time-consuming, laborious work to have a copy of the Bible made, translated, and written down, you know, by candlelight. It took a very, very long time. It's not just hit, you know, print a thousand copies on a on a printer and within a couple of hours, hey, you've got a thousand Bibles. No, it took years and years and years, and therefore the value of these things was incredibly high, and they had to be protected. Because if you lost or damaged your Bible, yeah, the church's Bible, could be years before you get another copy. And what happens then? Nobody's got access to it. Yeah, but no no no, we're we're now supposed to believe that yeah, the the dastardly church just held on to this knowledge, this book, to hide it from people. And that has always been you know against the mission statement of the church who wants people to have access to God's word. But this is you know the kind of rewriting that's been done. And even down to things like the Spanish Inquisition. The Spanish Inquisition is held to be you know one of the great evils that the church has ever you know carried out. And numbers vary, but uh it's estimated over a 300-year period between 15,000 and 50,000 people were executed at the behest of the Spanish Inquisition. Now this was after years and years of barbaric Muslim rule of Spain. And after the reconquest, the Reconquista, the Jews and Muslims were given the option convert, leave, or die. And well, certainly by today's standards, that is barbaric. This was fairly standard at the time. But you contrast this with a place like Nigeria, you know, a place where Western nations are uh seemingly so eager to accept migrants from these days. Nigeria, just since 2010, has killed an estimated 50,000 Christians. Now these people weren't given the option of converting or leaving, they were just murdered in their churches, burnt down, you know, villages raided in the night and everybody executed. 50,000. So the the upper you know estimate of the number of victims of the Spanish Inquisition have been killed in just Nigeria alone in the past 16 years. Not a word said about that. Because again, it it's about redefining Satan as evil Christians. It's not you you cannot believe that any barbarism takes place on the sacred continent of Africa, you know, the the place where the majority of the worst parts of the human condition originate, you know, the AIDS and uh all these different viruses and diseases and barbaric practices. And even now, you know, in London, quite often they'll they'll find dismembered remains of babies in the River Thames that have been some kind of human sacrifice from tribal African religions practicing their barbarism in our civilized nation. Not a word about this because it doesn't fit with the pattern of redefining Satan as evil Christianity. And the final part of this is salvation. Salvation is redefined as liberating the oppressed from the evil Christians who held the world in captivity. And once again, I'll reiterate, I firmly believe Christianity has been the greatest force for good in the history of the world. Yeah, and can you imagine the level of psy-op needed to redefine that? You know, all the progress made on Christianity, all the charitable works carried out, all the advances in technology and science and medicine, you know, obtained by the Christian world that wanted to explore, explore the reality of the universe that God created for us, to redefine that as evil and the destruction of that as salvation. That's some pretty barbaric mental gymnastics. Yeah. But once again, the second greatest trick of the devil was to persuade everyone that his new secular religion isn't really a religion. I would also add into that that it it seems it seeks, you know, this current system that we live under seeks to completely rework the basis of a religious society. And what I mean by this is fundamentally, and this has been you know stated by great scholars of the past, uh, I believe Thomas Aquinas, St. Thomas Aquinas had some great writings on the the family being the building block of society, being the the bedrock on which you know a successful Christian society is founded. Now think about the warfare conducted against the family unit over the last, what, sixty, seventy, eighty years? I mean, for one, you've got the proliferation of divorce. And the fact that, you know, in many places now it's possible to obtain a divorce, a no-fault divorce, which is effectively saying, yeah, this is uh just a matter of convenience. Uh there's there's not been any abuse or or uh infidelity or anything like that, no adultery, no domestic violence. But um no, we just don't want to be married anymore, you know, and they'll cite irreconcilable differences, and this is just seen as hey, good enough for me. You don't need a reason now to break apart the family unit. You know, this in conjunction with welfare laws that invariably favour women, you know, it's now seen, and again, not all women, not all women, but a lot of women will see it's possible to marry somebody, have a child with them, divorce them, and then they will be forced to support you economically, you know, you and your child. And I don't want to see children going without, absolutely not, but it's difficult to argue that this doesn't provide an incentive to women to break up a marriage, you know, when they can essentially obtain money for 18, 20 years from their previous partner, their previous husband, marry somebody else, and hey, maybe pull the same trick on them as well. And before you know it, their entire lifestyle is funded by men that they've married, yeah, and and divorced, and now they don't have to work. You know, the economic incentives are are there. You know, we have a welfare system that's incredibly favourable to women, and uh a lot of this stems from the days when the majority of women didn't work. But now that they do, is it not time to revisit some of these laws? And I mean I'd be in favour of revoking no fault divorce because I think fundamentally, you know, a marriage, it's not a civic union. I know a lot there'll be a lot of people that disagree with this, you know, I'll probably have some listeners that aren't religious. But uh marriage is not a civic union, it's not a political union. You know, it's it it's a union between man and woman, and man and woman leave their families and they become a new family together, yeah, and two become one, and you cannot set these two apart once they've been joined, yeah, by the divine. Yeah, let let no man put asunder what God has united, I think the saying goes. So I I'd be completely in favour of reversing the secularisation of marriage, you know, if if it doesn't involve God, if it isn't held in a Catholic Church, a Christian church, Christian union, is it really a marriage? Or is it just a photo opportunity and a chance to obtain different legal rights that you have no intention of following through to their conclusion? Because without the divine element, you know, what does a marriage really mean? What does it really mean? I mean I I'm getting married in October, you know, and uh I'll be very clear, there's there's no way out of that for me. You know, I'm a Catholic, and I'm certainly not going to uh abuse the future Mrs. F flat cap. I'm not gonna cheat on her, I'm not gonna be violent towards her, because ultimately our aim is to help each other get to heaven. Alright, and we've uh we've thought long and hard about it, and we've we've chosen each other. And once we have children together, you know, that that's our family unit, and that will be the bedrock of the society that we want to build. Yeah, so i if we weren't religious, it's just a case of well, we'll we'll have this wedding and we'll take a load of photos and we'll spend a load of money and we'll get drunk and we'll all wear nice clothes and we'll we'll take a you know, we'll rent out a nice car to take us from the church to where we're having the reception and everybody'll have a grand old time and maybe they'll remember it for years to come, like, oh you you remember, you remember that wedding? Yeah, oh let's have a look through the photos. But these are superficial things, there's so much more to it than that. And I I'm in the fortunate position of having you know parents that are still married, and future Mrs. Flatcap, you know, lady flatcap, her parents still married. My friends are married, their parents still married. So I've got many examples around me of what a marriage should and should not be, and I feel very fortunate for that, you know, very grateful. But marriage is a true sacrament given to us by God for a specific purpose. Yeah, and and nobody, nobody seems to speak so much about the damage that no-fault divorce has on children. You know, it's incredibly detrimental to them. And the whole purpose of marriage and having a family, you know, it it's not predicated on I'm I'm gonna rip this family apart for economic gain and for you know to get props from my from my friends for how many marriages I I've I've been through and I'm still standing at the end of it. No, you you're supposed to be there with your spouse, and I'm not saying you know, there aren't some terrible spouses out there, but this just puts the onus on us. Does it not choose better? Yeah, I don't know. I'm getting off into the weeds a little bit on this one, but um yeah, I if essentially I would be in favour of only allowing marriage within a religious setting. Secular marriages, they're built on nothing, there's no foundation for a secular marriage. You know, God is the foundation on which a marriage is built. God is the glue that holds a marriage together. You know, and and for this purpose, you know, you you have children and they will be raised to believe in God, to give God his glory and his due. This is what it's about. But um no, in this new secular religion, the the there's no onus or any of us to choose wisely and to help each other get to ultimately get to heaven, right? And the damage done to kids is just collateral damage, it's just what you've got to do because you in your own right are a god, and don't let anybody tell you that you can't divorce this person, you've got to stay with this person forever. No, don't let anybody tell you that. Yeah. I'm getting off into the weeds on this one, but it it really does bother me. The ease with which people will throw away supposedly sacred vows, and if you remove the sacred element from it, what is a marriage? So in the uh in the book City of God by Saint Augustine, he wrote that the household is the beginning or element of the city, and every beginning is directed to some end of its own kind. Thus the well ordered household is the foundation of the well ordered city. Now with that in mind, we can see the family's harmony, this in Taylor Marshall's book, rooted in love and justice, scales upward into the nation. A disordered home marked by vice or neglect breeds a disordered society. It ties this to divine order. The peace of the household is the peace of the city, and the peace of all is the peace of God. Now think about the way that families have been destabilized, and how younger members of the family in particular, you know, through the education system, through university and the media that they consume, have been propagandized against their own family. How many families have been, you know, just standard, you know, not even necessarily religious families or conservative families, but just normal, go to work, you know, earn my money, pay my taxes, come home, pay the mortgage, put food on the table, we'll have a meal as a family, and if we're lucky, we can get to go on holiday. And they're just living their lives day to day. And those families have been destroyed by one of the younger members coming back with some crazy ideas about you know the the the evils of patriarchy and you know and capitalism and generations have turned against generations, you know. How much hatred is out there for the boomers, for example? You know, it's based on resentment and envy. How many families have been destroyed by this kind of ideology? How many, you know, concerned parents have tried to steer children away from transgenderism as a social fad, only to, you know, years later find that their their son now believes he's a daughter and has had you know mutilating surgeries and has chemically castrated themselves and things like this. You know, the the family unit has been under attack. So not even within the households that have stayed together, you know, that haven't had their secular marriages dissolved. Even within those family units, you know, generation is turned against generation, you know, or or siblings, you know, one sibling goes down the blue-haired nose ring route, and the other, you know, learns a trade and goes to work. The destruction of the family unit, you know, it's from all sides. And we all, yeah, we're under attack. We're deliberately being separated from the people that came before us, the people that raised us, and instilled values. Well, those values are being perverted and subverted. And the younger generations are coming up with a whole new set of values. Not all of them, obviously. There are some very level headed, right thinking young people that see through the bullshit that's been thrust upon them by the established. By the education system and by the media. It's incredibly difficult for young people. I'm not jealous of young people today. You know, the minefield they have to go through to reach any kind of truth. And they're bombarded by lies from day one. You know, right from the earliest days of the education system now, they are taught things that are designed to alienate them from their family. The result of this is weaker family units, you know, and if you're less dependent on the family, you're going to be more dependent on the state. You know, and this is why I believe, you know, the state is a pale imitation of God. It tries to replace a lot of the things that the church used to do. You know, the church used to be a fulcrum of society, used to be a meeting point, it used to be where people got their values and their traditions from. Whereas that's going away now. You know, and everybody has been atomized and individualised, and they all have their own little traditions. And the only sort of through line for all of them is the state. The state that has educated them, the state that funds the media, that propagandizes to them, the state that, you know, tells them daily through the news and through selected influences that, you know, everything is rigged against them by previous generations, and all you have to do is don't put your trust in God, put your trust in the state. You know, even down to charitable functions of the church. You know, for a long, long time. And I I always grew up believing this, you know, when uh when the Catholic Church sends a collection plate around, I always thought, you know, I was always taught that this is wrong. This is, you know, that is basically you're you're paying for God's favour. And this is this is not the case. You know, the the funds raised by the church are used to support people in need. They're obviously used for the upkeep of the church as well and the maintenance of the clergy. But um, they were always available to say help provide food and clothes for people that need them. Yeah, and and you're not obligated to put anything in the collection. You give from what you can. You know, there's there's no judgment if you can't afford to put anything in the collection tin. But this has gone away now. You know, a lot of this this stuff, charity is one of the fundamental parts of being a Christian. Being kind, being charitable, helping those in need. But instead, what what we find through you know ridiculous levels of taxation is people's ability to be genuinely charitable has been eroded. You know, people don't have the money anymore to support the family down the road that's struggling. He can't afford to, you know, spend a little bit more to make sure that they they have food and clothes and things like that, because all the money, the spare income, is being taken away by tax and given to people. It's is compelled charity. And if you have an issue with this, they'll hold it against you. Like, you know, you live in a nation of plenty. What why are you so against your taxes being given to you know the Rwandans to help them grow tea or or being sent abroad for whatever reason it might be? And on the face of it, you know, it's it's a hard thing to argue against, because yes, we we are a nation of plenty. We achieve greatness, again, mostly through Christian principles. But the fact that now, you know, the the the charity we provide is compelled. It just really doesn't sit right with me. I mean, look at look at uh charity adverts, for example, used to be you give whatever you can give. You know, you contact this number and you know, if you can give 50p, contact this number, if you can give a fiver, contact this number, you know, and and you you set the level of your donation. Whereas now it's uh, you know, some of them will have minimum contributions, like £15, £20, £30, you know, uh for a Christmas fund, £35 can pr provide two people with a Christmas dinner. So, okay, but because of the excesses of the state and the taxation of the state and and you know the taxes they impose upon everything, I can't actually afford to give that money to charity anymore. It's compelled charity for which there is no there is no grace. You know, there's there's no spiritual benefit. Because what it does, it breeds resentment. I mean, I got a letter yesterday, where the hell. Every time you think you're just starting to get ahead, I got a letter yesterday from the tax man saying, oh, you've not paid enough tax. Mate, I think I've paid more than enough tax, thank you very much. But uh yeah, you were us £415 quid or something. £414. Well, okay, so because you didn't do your job adequately, tax man, because you underestimated, now suddenly I've got to stump up £414. And that breeds resentment, particularly when I know of that £414, probably half of it is gonna be sent abroad or spent on the indolent and those who refuse to work and who insist on living at the expense of other people. And this was never what Christian charity was about. You know, yeah, you look after people, you look after the unfortunate and the sick and the the elderly, the lonely, the people that don't have for themselves. And even newcomers to your land, you look after them for a little bit. But when it becomes clear that they are just there to exist at your expense, it's no longer necessary to look after these people. But this is what compelled charity in the form of taxation does, and it breeds resentment. Because I'm very resentful of having to pay out this £414. Yeah, it's money that uh I might not necessarily have. You know, I'm not exactly flying economically. Nobody is in this system. Yeah, but uh I'm compelled to pay this, and it will not be used for the benefit of my community. You know, and this is this is money that could be given to the church, or it could be given to, you know, a homeless shelter in my area, a soup kitchen, something like that, but it won't be. It won't be. It'll go to you know, a bloke that broke into the country on a dinghy a few months ago, it'll pay for his hotel room for a few nights. You know, and this is not charity and it breeds resentment. And then I resent the resentment that I feel because I want to be charitable, I want to be good, I want to be kind. Yeah, but under the tenets of this new secular religion that that holds, you know, the state in the highest of authorities, the highest position of power, yeah, there's nothing I can do to not hand over this money to a state that's gonna waste it. Yeah, so the the the state itself is replacing some of the functions that the church used to serve, but in a way that's not constructive. You know, the old church would look after people, get them back on their feet, and then when they're up on their feet, they'll pay it forward, you know, they'll uh they'll help people when they need it. But this new form of compelled charity, well, so it's it's just gonna pay for a load of migrants to sit at home and have families that we can't afford to have. Yeah, it's gonna be given to them, and instead of getting them back on their feet and then they help other people in the future, what's gonna happen is like that there was a case, I think it was a Cameroonian group. I sort of saw a story about this during the week. It was like 18 of them, 18 Cameroonians that were here living at our expense, and they were able to bring in roughly uh well effectively 180 or 280, something like that, fellow Cameroonians to also come and live at our expense because it's the charitable thing to do, you see, to let them have their family nearby. But they chose to come here, they chose to come here and live at our expense, and now they've chosen to invite a load more of their family over to come and live at our expense, and those family members have chosen to accept and come and live here at our expense, and they will never be up on their feet, they will never be contributing, they will never be helping. Yeah, and just by being here at our expense, they are actively making things worse because the debt incurred by supporting so many indolent people that never show any gratitude and never have any intention of getting themselves back up on their feet and helping other people, we cannot afford to keep paying things like this. But under the new secular religion, if you have an issue with this, this dogma that you know we we always have to be at all times charitable to every single person, and that everybody has a right to be here and to live a good life, a life that us the workers cannot necessarily afford to live ourselves. Yeah, that's one of the dogmas, and you go against it, you'll be excommunicated, you'll you'll be deemed unworthy by the new secular religion. Yeah, that's that's not trying to help you attain grace. This new secular religion isn't trying to better you as a person, it's trying to pervert your morals, it's trying to pervert all the things that made us a good people. Yeah, and it's crushing them down into nothing. Yeah, and this is all done to destabilise our society, yeah, to stick stick two fingers off at God and say, we don't need you anymore. Yeah, and why don't we need you? Well, because we have socialism, we have communism, we have the left and all its vitriolic tenets. That's what we believe in now as a society. And I'm sorry, I don't I don't agree. I don't consent to that. That's not my worldview. I will never accept that. I will never conform, you know, with with the vitriol and the violence and the the compelled charity of the state. I will never accept that as legitimate. Yeah, there's there's one legitimate authority, and that is Jesus Christ. And I will never, I will never accept the teachings of these godless leftists that seek to do nothing but destroy our society for their own political gains. Right? And I find it so disheartening. You know, I I'm not here to try and oppress you people. Uh I've said before, I find it cathartic doing these episodes because these thoughts rattle around in my head all day, every day. Yeah, so you know, shame on me for not being able to articulate them better, given the amount of time that I spend thinking about them. But I find it really disheartening the amount of people that still cannot see what is happening to us, they cannot see the scope of the collapse, that choose to not even look at it. You know, they think, well, things things are getting worse, but that's just what things do, you know, they always get worse. Not the case. Not the case at all. It doesn't have to be like that. Yeah, and I'll I'll go back to Taylor Marshall's book. The family is the bedrock of society, and God is the bedrock of the family. So we really want to start making a difference. Go to church, get married, have your family, educate them well, raise them well, raise them to reject this new secular religion, yeah, because it's gonna lead us all to hell. Now we're halfway there already, are we not? Yeah, so say stay strong, people, stay patriotic, stay Christian, say your prayers, and bring as many people along to the church as you can, because this is how we turn things around. I said before, and I'll say again, the further away from Christ that we get, the worse everything's got. And just look around and you'll see that to be true. Yeah. But don't buy into the narratives of the state that Christianity has been a repressive force and that it it led us into the darkness. No, no, no, no. We emerged from the darkness by the light of Jesus Christ. Yeah, and we keep following that light, and we can return to a good, healthy, god-fearing society. If we don't do that, well, we'll find ourselves in a sectarian nightmare, you know, where godless lefties and rage-filled Muslims lord it over us, yeah, and where African villagers keep sacrificing their children, and you know, Pakistani Muslims keep raping children and getting away with it for the most part. Yeah, while everything that we've worked to build up is taken away from us and given to people that don't deserve it, while we work our fingers to the bone so that other people that can't even speak our language sit in homes that we cannot afford to buy, eating food that we cannot afford to eat, all at our expense. Yeah, all while planning how they can bring more and more and more of their relatives over to take advantage of us. This is not Christian. Christianity is not weak. Christianity does not demand that we live like this, that we give over everything to the people that don't deserve it. You know, it simply does not demand that. You are allowed a home, you are allowed a nation, you are allowed, you know, to work for the betterment of your society, your community, the protection of your family. You are allowed all these things. In fact, the justice of the Lord demands these things. So take heart, people. Don't be disheartened by the ravages of the left and the encroachment of radical Islam, yeah, and the and the godless pagans of Africa. Don't be disheartened by these things, as difficult as that may be. Just keep fighting, keep going, keep attending church, keep praying. Um, stay faithful to the Lord, and you will not go wrong. Now I pray for each and every one of you. I appreciate your prayers in response because uh as I've said I can get disheartened, I can fall a little bit down the slope towards apathy. You know, and it's only by the grace of God that I can drag myself back up again and feel motivated. So um, yeah, take heart, people, and I will catch you all on the next one. Thank you for listening. God bless you all. Goodbye.