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.
