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Sometimes you have a duty to hide your true intentions
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in front of the outside world because people can only
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judge your actions, but the intentions of your heart will
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be judged only by God.
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When Jesus is brought up on the mountain and he's
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given those temptations, that's essentially what the Vatican said. Yeah,
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we will rule with you. And then eventually it's like, Jesus,
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you're kind of in the way of our project.
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Vatican is a peace representative. Sounds way better as a, sorry,
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CIA director is a peace representative. Just even from PR perspective.
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And then you connect it and then you use it.
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Congratulations.
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Okay, welcome back.
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I don't honestly remember what's the number of the episode
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we are recording, but I remember the topic. So in
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the last part, we talked a lot about technocrats and
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actually I thought it would be one of the most
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boring episodes. And despite not even mentioning Peter Thiel and Antichrist,
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we actually ended up doing pretty fascinating segues. So highly
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recommend you go back and check it if you're just
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joining for this episode. However, today in the center of
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our attention, is, as I said before, simultaneously old and
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new story. It is the story of the Vatican as
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a political player in this big game of power, its spirit,
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and in particular on American turf and global turf and
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like what kind of vision of the future and it
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tells how it relates to other big, let's say, tribes
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we've been talking about, what spirit it animates. And truth
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be told, this one I really think will be the
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episode I talk the least because I have maybe the
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best expert in the language universe who spends like, I
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don't know, several thousand hours publicly talking about this issue.
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So all hands to you, Jay. So what is Vatican,
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why it's politically relevant, and how it all came to be?
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I think the best place to start with, the Vatican
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is actually in the first thousand years in terms of forgeries.
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Well before America.
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Well before America. Because the problems with the Vatican are
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not really ultimately Rome or something like this. We share,
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of course, as Orthodox, many, many centuries of Orthodox popes.
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We think that they were on the right track and
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they were hallowed for their orthodoxy for many, many centuries.
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doubly apostolic peter and paul even when you go to
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rome still to this day they still honor peter and
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paul and most of the basilicas up front and that
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you see them equal which is ironic because that equality
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ends up being lost over time and the reason i
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point to the forgeries is that we see the original
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impetus when these forgeries begin to appear in the 600s
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and the 700s they don't really gain prominence for another
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couple centuries but they're initially about Worldly political power. Forgeries
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that are backing up, most famously, the donation of Constantine.
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Later on, we have Isidorean forgeries, Samocian forgeries. And then
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when we get to the 11th century, we have the
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Gregorian reforms, where essentially the papacy, now admitted by the Vatican,
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by the way, most of their theologians in the 20th
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century have admitted that there's a revolution in the church
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in the 11th century. And you have essentially Teutonic-Germanic kings
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Frankish kings exerting tremendous amounts of influence, essentially installing the
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bishops of Rome for almost a century. And so it
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becomes kind of a pet political project for certain worldly,
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greedy kings and rulers to take this religious office and
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turn it into a tool for expanding their own.
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Desires.
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And this, I would say, ultimately what ends up happening
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is for many centuries, the Bishop of Rome ends up
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kind of being this sort of like pimped out office
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that you want to control because it's not just a
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spiritual power, but by the 11th, 12th, and
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13th centuries,
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it's a worldly power also that grows to eventually say, basically,
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if you don't acknowledge the temporal power, as well as
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the spiritual power and headship of the entire church, you
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are damned. If you do not fight for the Pope,
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if he tells you to, with your armies as a king,
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you are damned. And so by between the 11th century
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to the 13, I think 1380s with Pope Boniface's Unum Sanctum,
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you have this evolution of a doctrine that salvation is
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now contingent upon not just accepting the universal spiritual headship
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of the papacy, but also his geopolitical temporal power as
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necessary for salvation. So this is a huge change. There's
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nothing like that in the first thousand years. Even the
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donation of Constantine doesn't make salvation dependent upon also recognizing
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that the Pope is the quesatatorac, to use the Dune terminology.
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So this is clearly an evolution of doctrine. And ironically,
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the Vatican to this day has kind of conceded this
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with most of their historians and theologians. But what's funny
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is that the, you know, if you go back to
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the time of Vatican I, when the most famous papal
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historian and theologian of that time, Ignaz von Dollinger, Dollinger
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wrote a book that I'm reading right now called The
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Pope and the Council. And it's discussing his own reservations
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about why he had such a hard time accepting Vatican I,
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which is the council which stated papal infallibility and the
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universal headship and authority of the Roman pontiff. for their dogma,
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for their church. And so he lists all of these reasons,
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and he says one of the strongest problems with this
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position is that Pope Gregory VII in the 11th century
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called a council in Rome, I think in 1080, and
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he says, he uses Matthew 16 about the keys and
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binding and loosing, not just about the bishop of Rome,
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but about worldly power. And if the bishop of Rome
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decides he needs your army or your kingdom, you give
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it to him or you're damned. And he says this
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to me is just unheard of in the first thousand
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years of the church. In fact, you have canons at
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Chalcedon and other ecumenical, Trollo, other what are considered ecumenical
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for Orthodox especially. The idea that you cannot be in
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a civil office if you're a religious leader. So a
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bishop can't be a king. He can't be a duke.
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Not supposed to. That has happened sometimes. But ironically, the
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entire papacy from the 11th to 14th, all the weapons
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of Vatican I, because they still had the temporal supremacy
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doctrine as necessary, even at the time of Vatican I,
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it's mentioned in the syllabus of errors of Pius IX,
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which is part of Vatican I. It's essentially a worldly,
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a conflating of the two heads of the eagle. You
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have the Byzantine eagle, one body of the people, But
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there's a temporal sphere and there's a spiritual sphere, two heads.
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Eternity and history.
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It's one body of the people. But this is essentially
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to conflate the two into a, it's a making of
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the church a state. And when you do this, you
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begin to erode the order that I believe was already
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normative and established and sort of divine. Essentially, it's a
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Protestantizing before the Protestants.
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St.
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Justin Popovich says the papacy is the first Protestant. And
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I think that's accurate because the fracturing that many Roman Catholics,
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and they're very angry about the Reformation, you couldn't have
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had that had you not had the Reformation in the
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11th century of the papacy. So all of that's necessary
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to understand why. And of course it's possible, and many bishoprics, patriarchates,
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have been co-opted by politics, have been, you know, you've.
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Had- Just let's say to Byzantium, the story of Byzantium,
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the amount of really ugly stuff happening between an emperor
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and a patriarch is astonishing.
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So I
want to be clear that we're not saying
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that in the Orthodox world and in the history of
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the Orthodox Church that we're free from that. We're not
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saying that at all. We're saying that similar problems. And
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the difference is that Rome- dogmatizes this problem as orthodox
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and good it is now good that the papacy and
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of course the argument is well we want to be
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above the temporal ruler so the temporal ruler can't interfere
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with the church but that doesn't stop the temporal ruler
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from interfering with the church as we see in the
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11th century because the german kings install for 70 years
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german kings or they're It's a sort of nepotism to
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control the opposite papacy.
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And then there was the famous Avignon.
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We have the papacy moving to France for 70 years.
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We have the Great Western Schism where we get three
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rival popes claiming to be the true pope. And then
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what ends up solving this is the Council of Constance,
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which puts out a document called Hac Sancta, which is
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admitted by today's papal canonists and lawyers to be the
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actual product of the council. It's not a forgery. And
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the council says the council has determined it will be
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the pope. Well, that's contrary to Vatican I because Vatican
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I says there is no council above the pope. No
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council will determine or tell the popes anything. The pope
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tells the council what to do. So it's a problem
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for the papacy in terms of Vatican I with Hox Sancta.
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And by the way, Dollinger admits all these things. And
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at the end of the day, when Dollinger was told,
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you know, what are you going to do? He says, well,
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I can't support Vatican I. And they said, well, then
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we'll actually communicate you. So he was forced into supporting
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Vatican I. So I think this is a great example
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of like, when we say what's the problem with the papacy,
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it's not, uh, one particular Pope, one particular point in time,
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it's many centuries of sort of innovation stacked upon, stacked upon,
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stacked upon many, many forgeries, uh, many, many instances of nepotism,
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you know, by the time of the Renaissance papacy is
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probably the worst. You get Alexander the sixth, who's essentially,
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he has a whore. He has essentially an entire whorehouse
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that he runs next to the Vatican. Uh, so, uh,
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And a standing army, et cetera.
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I just wanted to say it's important, specifically because we're
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talking about this kind of big power play. Individually speaking,
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the emphasis is definitely not on the individual's fault. Even
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from our perspective, the most perfect people would still end
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up doing mistakes following the principles which laid in the
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foundation of this let's say church because before we talked
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about guys with pretty radical esoteric stuff clearly you don't
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expect when we talk about Vatican on the same field
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and I would say that yes from the beginning it's
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not exactly the same field Vatican comes from a different
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source it comes from this unique different interpretation from orthodoxy
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of this binding and loosing principle. It's interpreting binding and
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loosing essentially, not just, obviously, it's still on a daily
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practice and regular Catholic life, it's still kind of the
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same spiritual matter, but it also adds to it, if
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you want to call it geopolitical binding and loosing. It
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basically brings it to an idea that essentially in the
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vision of, ideal vision of the future would be all
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the people united under the banner of the Pope, spiritual
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banner of the Pope, and all of the earth's sovereigns
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would be accountable to him one way or the other.
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The way might differ. Again, it follows from this interpretation
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that that's what binding and loosing mean, and it kind
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of makes sense. You could even say that, again, if
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I'm providing a charitable reading, which I think is important,
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look in a history. History is pretty messy. Petty squabbles,
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this wild beast's tribe, even like these demonic forces running around,
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somebody needs to take responsibility, somebody needs to become the
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true point of universal reference. Right. And that's, I would say,
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something internal people appeal stands on, and it is actually
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very strong. You can definitely see, even if we talk
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about different.
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Religious denominations, and yes, unfortunately, many Orthodox churches have this
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weird respect towards this Roman principles. And we won't lie, historically,
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multiple times Orthodox patriarchs kind of wanted to be the
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pope of themselves. There is absolutely understandable huge temptation. Just
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historically speaking, the Rome as a city, the seat of
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Rome started to do it really early, build it up
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a lot of experience, a lot of strength, a lot
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of capacities and still pretty loyal to this i would
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say vision which becomes very flexible we will go into
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a bit into later the consequences which follow from this
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idea but please just correct me if i'm wrong again
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i trust your expertise like did i sum it up
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more or less correctly so the idea so if you
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were to reframe it as a positive view so because
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we're trying to understand what is this kind of driving
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force inside, which is because people don't follow bad things.
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They need to believe that things are good.
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So why would to steel man, the position, the argument
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would be, we have this long track record in history
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of Kings and emperors involving themselves in the church and
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trying to control it. So it's a legitimate problem. Just
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like with, uh, Curtis Yarvin and the cathedral would agree
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with many of his criticisms. We do live in this
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sort of falsely erected, you know, essentially religious world that,
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you know, has all these problems, but does he have
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the right solutions? Same with the papacy. The idea is that, yes,
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we've got essentially, you know, Rome falls around 400. There's
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no political power in the West. And so the papacy
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as a sort of cultural influence and cohesive unit steps
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in to fill that role. So you could, we could
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still man it by saying that it's understandable that the
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papacy would sort of inadvertently begin to accrue political power,
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and you have the papal states, etc. When the empire
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has moved to Constantinople, the center of the empire is
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not in Rome anymore.
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It's in Constantinople.
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And so Rome fills a vacuum. And then because of
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its apostolic pedigree, being doubly apostolic, again, you get this
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sort of evolving idea throughout the councils and the disputes
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of those first thousand years that Well, maybe we are
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also given temporal supremacy, and this can solve so many
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of these problems. One of the reasons that Gregory was
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successful in the 11th century with his papal revolution is
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because of what's called the investiture controversy.
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And this is the.
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Idea that who's going to really be the authority in
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the church? Is it a Christian king or is it
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a patriarch or the pope? And ultimately, Rome decides that
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the solution is just simply to defer to the pope.
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And there's an admitted revolution in that century, again, by
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all the modern Catholic historians and theologians, that the 11th
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century is an ecclesiological revolution to the extent that now
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all bishops in the world will be confirmed by the pope.
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And, of course, you can see why, if you're the pope,
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that would ensure that you've got men on your side, right?
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So there's not going to be any rebellious, you know.
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people that don't agree with the papacy. But this ends
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up schisming the church between four patriarchs and one patriarch, right,
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in Rome versus the others. And so we have essentially
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now a giant divide in Christendom, and both go in
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the trajectory that you might expect. Rome continues to evolve
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in the direction that it evolves. Thus, we've begun the
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principle of innovation and revolution. This is so crucial because
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I agree with, uh, you know, our saints that you
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really couldn't have these later reformations and revolutions had you
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not had the papal revolution first, it prepares the way.
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Another thing it does, for example, is create, it's sort
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of a secularizing of the church is the key point.
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It creates for the first time ever monastic military orders.
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We've never seen this before. This is a huge criticism
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that Papa, uh, Papa Doc is in my indoors making
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their excellent book on the 1400s. Um, And so you
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can clearly.
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But still manic it. It makes sense. So you need
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a military force, not to pettish squabbles of like kings
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fighting over who inherits what and fights for something actually important.
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see how this sounds in a messy world, very appealing.
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It does, but the problem is, yeah, so, you know,
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we already have kind of a providential canonical norm in
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the first thousand years of the relationship between church and state,
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you have the business in imperium, you have the patriarchates,
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et cetera. And then you get the idea that, well,
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what if we set up a rival Western emperor? And
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so you get Charlemagne in 800, you get, uh, and,
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and to be fair to the Pope of that time, um,
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even when Charlemagne began in his Carolinian court, they began to, uh,
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enact certain teachings that were heterodox. For example, they didn't,
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they didn't believe in, and they didn't believe in the
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seventh ecumenical council. And to the credit of the Pope
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at that time, the Pope was pro-Seventh Council against the Carolinians.
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But you begin to see this era of devolution, right?
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And then St.
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Photius, for example, in his letters, he complains that the
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Frankish missionaries had sent filioquist Latinizers into areas of Bulgaria
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and Orthodox countries. So even in the 800s, this problem
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is beginning to arise between the two churches. But it
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doesn't come to full fruition until, again, many centuries later
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when you get this full divide. I think it's more
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accurate to say that orthodoxy continues the model of the
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first millennium. And then what you get in the West
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is more of a Franco-Papal model.
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Of what the church is.
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And I think that's exactly what happened.
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On secularism, important just as an image, why it's happening
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naturally within this context, and it's relevant nowadays. So as
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I mentioned, an idea of a garden, and a garden
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needs a gardener. And there is nothing better exactly in it.
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We are all like from Christian perspective are called to
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be a gardener, etc. Eden was a gardener. However, what's
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this imperative to secularizing? It happens exactly against the background
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of this eschatological anxiety. Well, there is this like seculum space, basically.
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It's a space before first and second coming of Christ,
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and we need to kind of do something to make
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this seculum place as sorry, nice, and possible. And it's
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all messy around. Everybody's illiterate. We need to change this.
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We need to improve morals here. We need, like, the
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idea of improving morals again as a conscious social effort
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becomes necessary Actually, the very language of later reforms and revolutions,
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many ways starting to appear back then, like in the
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Gregorian Revolution. Often it's considered exactly as a sacred duty.
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So if I want to understand the spirit behind Vatican,
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so why it makes really strong player so legitimately, it has,
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especially openly, the best possible foundation, the truth of Jesus Christ,
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the rock of Peter, which supposedly stand on, It's a
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huge moral imperative to perform your duty as a shepherd
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over the chaotic, over the chaos of a secular life.
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Without going into all of this church history and without
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understanding all of these levels why it is wrong, if
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you just stop here, it is very appealing. I can
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definitely give it to this. It's quite easy to defend
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this position. That's why it stands so long despite, let's say,
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other tribe opening up and it seems like, oh, they
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will become irrelevant. And you still see that papacy keeps
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being very relevant in almost anywhere and anything globally from
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this millennia ago to 2026 right now. Context of war
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in Ukraine, who is now in this post-secular Europe, ended
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up being the representative of the European Brussels globalist position,
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the papal representatives, the Cardinal Gallagher, the Giuseppe, I think,
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the other guy who is coming again. But for Vatican
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is not even, I would say, they would be offended
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if it says that it's just the power grab move
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or they want the power. No, it's the duty of
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a shepherd, something like this.
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But I think what's misunderstood is spheres of authority.
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And this is what had already been outlined canonically in,
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and I'm reading a book right now on the history
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of the canons of the church. And there's pretty clearly
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a delineation, you know, between what's proper for members of
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the clergy versus what's proper for members of the state.
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And they do have overlap. And certainly spiritually speaking, we
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think that the spiritual authority is above the temporal, but
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we don't conclude from that, that everything that the temporal
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has is therefore what the spiritual has. And that's the
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first false move of the Gregorian era is that, well,
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Logically speaking, you can see this in Dictatus Pape. The
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argumentation is, well, if I have the authority spiritually and
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the spiritual above the temporal, then I also logically also
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have
the sword above all the kings, the temporal sword.
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So the idea that the church deals with the spiritual,
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the soul of man, the state deals with the body,
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the physical side of man, that's fine. And that was
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a common first millennium idea. The problem becomes when the
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spiritual then says, I am above all of the other
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spiritual brethren, and I also have the temporal sword above
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all of the kings. So there is no easy solution
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to a real problem. But again, much like with technocrats,
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they might see real problems, but that doesn't mean that
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they have the right solution. And it's the same way
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as like, do we really want, you know, one guy
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over there in Rome with standing armies to at will
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be able to essentially... damn and excommunicate entire kingdoms. It
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seems absurd because you have in the first thousand years
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canonical jurisdictional principles where bishops are many times in councils
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castigated for going outside of their jurisdictions and meddling in
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other jurisdictions, including patriarchates. And that's always been a squabble.
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But again, the fact that there's that real problem, it
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doesn't follow that this is the solution to that squabble.
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And the problem is, as other Orthodox theologians later highlight,
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And pay attention to what I'm saying, because this is
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a very often missed critique. People misunderstand what I'm saying.
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If we are correct in this critique, then what this
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actually does is it actually desacralizes the secular temporal sphere.
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I'm just saying that that's what we call the realm
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that's not directly dealing with religious affairs, right? So we
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talk about the polis or, you know, the government. We
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already had a pretty clear idea that there is Christian governance.
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When a society is Christianized, there's a Christian emperor, there
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are Christian kings. They have duties to God. They're not
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identical to the duties of the priesthood and the bishops,
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but the Byzantine emperor is a diakonos. He sits behind
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the iconostasis. He has a role, like a deacon almost,
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but not fully sacerdotal, but almost, kind of. So there
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is this sacred duty, and the political... temporal realm is
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still sacred. But if you take the spiritual domain, identify
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it as essentially a geopolitical power structure, what you've actually
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done is secularized the state without knowing it. And that's
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what actually, as many saints have said this, that's actually
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what prepares the way for a secular society. Because what
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happens is you get this revolution against And this is
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what happens in the Reformation. It's not just about Luther's
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theology of justification. Luther gets the German princes on his
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side to support him because they're tired of the pope
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meddling in affairs thousands of miles away, right? A hundred
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miles away, whatever. But the same idea applies. It's sort
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of like, yes, we can understand the problem of the
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kings interfering in the church and why the papacy would
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say we are the solution to that problem. But conversely,
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we can also then begin to say, well, wait a minute.
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What if the papacy becomes corrupt, acts like a tyrannical king?
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We have the same problem, although it now is worse
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because now we have this priest king who is essentially
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doing the same thing the kings were doing. And then
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you get the reformers and their state magistrates supporting the reform,
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probably not even out of theological, but out of get
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the pope out of our affairs.
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I think, yeah, I think in the long term, It
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really paves the way to, our generous viewer might say,
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it sounds way older from the perspective of what we
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did before, but actually what you described right now in
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many ways paves the way for everything we talked in
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the previous episodes. What I mean, you end up in
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this weird situation when everything politically open becomes desacretized. It's
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just about rationality, pragmatism, supposedly.
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Yes.
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Everything openly spiritually moves into the private.
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Matters of the heart.
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Or, as we know in the common people, well, you
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can believe in whatever you want to believe in, your
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own home, you can be this denomination, this denomination, but
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there is no space for it in a big public sphere,
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which later becomes what is called autonomy of human conscience,
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basically your own moral principle for which you are accountable to.
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But on the third level, because... By nature, everything is meaning-laden.
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Everything is theological. By nature, it has a theological element.
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So this split cannot hold unless you will do a
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third shift, which will move the real theological meaning into
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this hidden, let's say, behind-the-scenes areas. It esoterizes, I think.
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So the only spiritual becomes, again, esoteric. And that's kind
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of the move from which modernity erupts. And yes, later
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you have power groups. And what is more, and I
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think that what comes like a real big unintended consequences
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for papacy and why, for example, I don't put Orthodox
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patriarchs in the same group. Well, one of them, they're
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not that present in America, but other is once you
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made this move and you already understand yourself as a
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shepherd responsible also for worldly, very much worldly power geopolitical affairs,
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you actually end up having to mimic this esoteric structure
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to just be able to compete.
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To compete. A great point. Great, great point.
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Exactly.
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That's essentially what I meant by the secularizing, meaning that
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it essentially becomes like any other geopolitical world power using
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all the same techniques of espionage, banking. And that's why
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I want to move up to, you know, to make
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this more relevant to where we are now, because what
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happens is you know, the Papal States is a land group,
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a land mass for a time, and it begins to
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lose dominion, lose power. Up into the 1800s, they begin to, again, lose.
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And as you get Garibaldi, you get Masonic revolutions in Italy,
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they lose more and more of their lands and their holdings.
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I mean, and it's important, like, when we talk about
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Masons historically, to understand that important historical context, but for
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several millennia, the two biggest intelligence service opponents of each
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other were Jesuits on the one hand and MI6 on
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the other or British Secret Service on the other so
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British Secret Service was specifically established by Queen Elizabeth as
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an alternative which will later develop into Rothstein project but
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they were literally developed to counter Vatican influence in Britain
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which Again, I don't likely need to defend either, but
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you can see how this reaction, counter-reaction starts, these wheels
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are starting to simply work around. So because you're in
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this game, and you already created this esotericism, hidden meanings,
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hidden place, you end up having to fight. Basically, fight
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between Masons on Vatican, like it's kind of one of
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the biggest hidden, not that hidden in plain sight, you
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can say, but.
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Nerves of, let's say, last 400 years, maybe until very recently.
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And the key point here is that it is precisely
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the Vatican that loses this battle.
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Yeah.
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Because they've stepped into this domain of a kind of,
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as Dostoevsky presents it, sort of deal with the devil,
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you could say, when you have the Inquisitor, you know,
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and Grand Inquisitor. And they've realized that in order to
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maintain the Vatican empire that we have, we will have
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to be more and more and more like the things
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that we're supposedly fighting.
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Yeah.
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And so what happens, and I'm glad you pointed out
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the British imperial
struggles, because you're absolutely right that, you know,
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initially the Jesuits are this sort of fringe order that's
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eventually sort of regularized. And there are these squabbles back
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and forth for some time between being, you know, banned
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and then allowed back. And But eventually what happens is
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the Jesuits themselves, according to recent, extremely well-documented geopolitical texts,
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they eventually succumb to the Western power structure.
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What's the name of it? Yeah, so, and I.
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Meant to bring all the books, but I didn't think
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to bring them. So there's a great famous Catholic scholar
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and lawyer. His name is David Wimhoff, and he wrote
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a big 800-page book sort of detailing the history of
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the 20th century. from a geopolitics perspective of the Vatican
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and Vatican II. And what he demonstrates is some of
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the key Jesuits that were major players at Vatican II
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were 100% openly working with the CIA. So essentially the
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Western intelligence structure, maybe not the British Empire, but essentially
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the Pax Americana, were able to eventually step in and
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say to the Vatican, look, we're not gonna maybe be
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able to get you right now to affirm every technocratic
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or antinatalist position, but we're going to want you to
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move in the direction of Americanism at Vatican II. And
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so the thesis of the book is essentially that what
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the Vatican had only a few decades earlier condemned as Americanism,
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the idea of liberty, equality, capitalism as the summum bonum
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of human life, that's not true. And that Catholicism in
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America was being supplanted with Americanism first, Catholicism second.
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Yeah.
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And this has always been within American, all the way
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back to the founding of the country with the Carroll family.
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This has been a struggle for Roman Catholicism in America. Well,
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let's move to that. Well, this is important, though, because
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it gets up to where we're with the Papal States,
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the Vatican Bank, because are we more allegiant to the papacy?
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Yeah.
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Or are we more allegiant to our nation? And that's
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a constant problem. Like, I brought Masons because, for example,
543
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this is the I don't know, claim Catholics always had
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to defend themselves, basically, when they, especially in America.
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Right.
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I mean, you don't know, but for the first.
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Let's say, 100 years, there was a super strong anti-Catholic
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sentiment in America, and there were lots of caricatures seeing
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them exactly as all of them as the Pope's agents
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and traitors. But, like, the question, double loyalty question. So,
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are you loyal to the Pope or are you loyal
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to America? Like, let's say, are you loyal to us
553
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Masons or are you loyal to the Pope? So, that
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would be It's a big conflict playing.
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And at the same time, throughout these centuries, again, so
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you got geopolitical stuff with the papacy losing temporal power,
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the papal states, their land holdings, et cetera, being reduced. Essentially,
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Pius IX, the Pope of Vatican I, he ends up
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walled up in the Vatican with all the Masons and
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revolutionaries outside holding him. He's under house arrest. So that
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prompted him to be more in line with the the
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idea of having Vatican I because he thought that would
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sort of shore up the power of the papacy. But
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here's what I'm getting to. This is the big picture here.
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What happens is in the 1830s, you begin to have
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significant Rothschild loans to the Vatican. The Vatican needs these
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loans because they're already indebted and they're losing land. I
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think they lost significant portions, actually two other members of
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the Rothschild clan that were sent to the various countries.
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So now they're indebted and they end up taking out
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multiple loans. And so this puts them in significant amounts
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of debt. And the Rottos actually become the official Vatican
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bankers for a long time. And I think this is
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the key point of when we can begin to see
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this sort of downfall. At the same time as that's
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happening on the monetary side of the Vatican's problems, they're
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also ideologically losing a lot of ground to the Protestant Reformation, obviously,
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but also they're beginning to lose ground to liberalism. Liberalism
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theologically had crept into many, many Catholic universities in the 1890s.
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And so you have the papacy beginning to release encyclical
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after encyclical.
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Condemning.
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Condemning, masonry, liberalism, naturalism, on and on, modernism. The sainted pope, right,
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Pius X, his most famous encyclical, Pacendi, is this giant
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refutation of, Everything from ecumenism to modernism to socialism, communism,
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everything is being condemned because they're sort of in panic
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mode because they're losing massively. And then the Wim Hof book,
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I think, is a key point to go beyond just
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the theological issues to the American Western oligarchical power structure,
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which had been trying to get the Vatican to change
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its stances on abortion, contraception. these moral issues, which it
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would not do, even up to Paul VI, they had
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caved a little bit. But at Vatican II, what you
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have is Jesuits coming in, admittedly, most famously John Courtney Murray,
595
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who worked with the CIA on what was called the
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Doctrinal Warfare Program. This was run by a guy named C.D. Jackson,
597
00:35:55.289 --> 00:35:57.989
who worked with Henry Luce of Time Magazine. And the
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whole project was essentially, number one, to get the Vatican
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on board with ecumenism, using the Vatican and the apparatus
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of the church as a form of soft power for Americanism,
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that's why the CIA was so interested in this, against
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00:36:13.570 --> 00:36:17.050
the Cold War, against the Soviets, against the communists. It
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becomes a form of soft power. The Vatican can announce ecumenism,
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and this is very important to understand because people don't
605
00:36:23.530 --> 00:36:31.219
understand this. Ecumenism is the religious application of Americanism. That's
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the thesis of the Wim Hof book. All of the
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early OSS guys, the guys that are going out and
608
00:36:37.329 --> 00:36:40.530
doing their operations with Bill Donovan, they were rabid ecumenists.
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The early recruits that the CIA had, even amongst people
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in the Vatican, were people like Father Felix Morleone, who
611
00:36:49.460 --> 00:36:53.880
was a famous Dominican ecumenist. Jacques Maritain comes in, and
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00:36:53.920 --> 00:36:58.199
he's a key figure to influence Vatican II theology to
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move towards dechristianization of Christian states towards a secular pluralism.
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You have the Jesuits are even more radical as secular pluralists.
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So the idea is we can revamp and reform the
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image of Catholicism in the Vatican by now taking up
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the Reformation positions of radical religious liberty and religious pluralism.
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But the problem is that this church has already undergone
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several revolutions to fit with the times. And as Vatican
620
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I argued that we need to have a strong papal
621
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stance to fight the spirit of the times, the problem
622
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is that if your church is already acclimatized to a giornamento,
623
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as they call it, there's no reason why it can't
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go in a liberal direction. In other words, if you
625
00:37:53.590 --> 00:37:59.429
can renovate and innovate, there's no logic that dictates it
626
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has to be in a conservative direction. It can renovate
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in a liberal direction. And so that's why you see
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the swing at the time of Leo XIII with his
629
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strict traditional anti-Masonic, anti-communist dictates. Pius X basically the same.
630
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Pius XI still holds to this. But ironically, the one
631
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guy that's kind of forgotten in there, Benedict XV, he
632
00:38:24.730 --> 00:38:27.780
was a liberal. Benedict XV supported League of Nations. He
633
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was pro-Fabian Socialist. Then you have this, so they got scared.
634
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Then you have this swing back with Pius XI towards,
635
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he bans ecumenism. He bans interfaith gatherings because he sees
636
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that in his encyclical, Mortalium Animus in 1928, as a
637
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surrendering of the faith. Then suddenly after Pius XII, the
638
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sort of last holdout of so-called conservatism, we get John XXIII,
639
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whom they called the Pink Pope. because he wrote Pacem
640
00:38:54.000 --> 00:38:56.860
in Terris, this encyclical that we need world government. You've
641
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never seen this from a Pope before. Almost night and
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day with what the ones before him had said. There
643
00:39:02.389 --> 00:39:05.329
was a lot of rumors that John XXIII was a
644
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Mason or a Rosicrucian. We don't know if that's verified,
645
00:39:08.449 --> 00:39:13.409
but it's a rumor. And then you get Paul VI,
646
00:39:13.650 --> 00:39:17.809
who is more explicitly, openly, who the CIA wanted, because
647
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they thought, we don't want another John XXIII. He wants
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to meet with the Soviets. He wants to bring the Soviets.
649
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He had these meetings, right? In fact, John XXIII was
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00:39:27.309 --> 00:39:31.389
the first to bring Baptists into prayer ecumenical meetings in
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the Vatican, before Vatican II. So you already have with
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00:39:34.150 --> 00:39:37.570
John XXIII a radical shift. And then with Paul VI,
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the idea is not a return to conservatism. It's an
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American-friendly pope, the most American-friendly pope. And so he represents
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a shift away from the pink pope to the CIA pope. explicitly.
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I just wanted to say, I guess to me, the
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story I want to share is this. It's actually happened
658
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in the movie. I remember this about the recent movie,
659
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I think it's from Coppola, about the Jesuit missionary in Japan.
660
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Have you seen it?
661
00:40:07.690 --> 00:40:09.070
I'm familiar with it, I've not seen it. I heard
662
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it's good, but yeah.
663
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It's pretty good, but it actually represents the ethos from
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the internal logic why these moves are possible. Uh, Because
665
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to me, I think the key principle is since you
666
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have to shepherd and since you have to govern all
667
00:40:26.280 --> 00:40:30.150
of this messy area of power play, let me put
668
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it this way, which is, as we discussed, is inherently
669
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demonic in many ways. So like one way is Cybele, Isis, Gevestus,
670
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et cetera, et cetera. You might go through the periods
671
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where you accumulate more power. You can come through the
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periods when you accumulate less power.
673
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You.
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more successful, you're less successful. But you can definitely build
675
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yourself an argument. So you are preserving in yourself. So
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adapting to those periods of time. So you are preserving
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this core, this tiny wooden cross. So basically the gist
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of the movie, so this is a Portuguese missionary, he
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comes into Japan, and Japanese Christians are heavily prosecuted, and
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there is a whole story, and he is looking for
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his spiritual teacher who apparently became a heretical and now
682
00:41:14.309 --> 00:41:17.320
works for Japanese government, and he keeps looking and looking,
683
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he finally meets him, and he confirms, yes, it is happening,
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and he says that the soil of this land is
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not good for Christianity, and all we are doing is
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we are basically... making these people suffer for nothing that's
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kind of the story and then the hero goes through
688
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crisis that being witnessing his the last let's say the
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church he's been preaching to members executed he just basically
690
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surrenders and then become a Japanese agent helping to absolutely
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he's looking for any form of hidden Christian goods smuggled
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into Japan and he's like spending most of his life
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like this he like, marries a Japanese woman. Basically, he's
694
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going all over. And then he's buried. And then in
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the final scene, he has this, basically, a tiny wooden
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cross in his hands like this when he's buried, which
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you can read as many symbols. But I think the
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symbol is he basically, in his way, keeps his face,
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but he's been doing the right things in this moment
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in a secular time. And why I think it's relevant
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to your story, because basically you can see how from
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this point.
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Banking rothschilds cia mi6 world government you kind of can
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really easily build an argument okay first position i'm strong
705
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enough so i can just fight it openly and i
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can prevent it from
happening openly i have princes i
707
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command i have armies i command i have all of
708
00:42:42.760 --> 00:42:44.800
the things i can command and we can do it
709
00:42:44.840 --> 00:42:48.000
as long as we can but we're moving later and
710
00:42:48.079 --> 00:42:51.289
yes in this power struggle we'll Suffering defeats.
711
00:42:51.469 --> 00:42:52.989
Brits, huge defeats.
712
00:42:53.070 --> 00:42:56.409
And Masons in France, the favorite daughter of the church
713
00:42:56.429 --> 00:43:02.280
is becoming basically this horrible Masonic revolutionary hellscape and et cetera.
714
00:43:02.300 --> 00:43:04.820
Then revolution in Italy. Then we are losing. Like we've
715
00:43:04.840 --> 00:43:07.159
already been in a banking, but we'll say some success,
716
00:43:07.179 --> 00:43:11.929
some unsuccessful like this, Rochelle. So what is the next
717
00:43:12.010 --> 00:43:14.949
back step if you can't fight something directly?
718
00:43:15.849 --> 00:43:16.409
You have a choice.
719
00:43:16.429 --> 00:43:20.260
You can either stand outside and just keep losing. Like,
720
00:43:20.320 --> 00:43:24.639
but trying to keep this purity of faith and open
721
00:43:24.679 --> 00:43:29.800
purity of faith. Or you can do basically the trick
722
00:43:30.400 --> 00:43:34.690
because your intentions are good. And this hidden trick is
723
00:43:34.949 --> 00:43:36.949
you actually is now starting to be want a part
724
00:43:36.969 --> 00:43:39.809
of every tribe. Now you want to hatch your bets.
725
00:43:39.889 --> 00:43:45.219
Now you want to basically get inside of every single Rothschild, CIA, MS,
726
00:43:45.320 --> 00:43:50.440
like technocrats. Mm-hmm. as we will see recently, world government,
727
00:43:50.480 --> 00:43:53.230
et cetera. Because basically, if you cannot defeat it, lead it.
728
00:43:54.070 --> 00:43:54.800
That's very.
729
00:43:54.860 --> 00:43:59.789
Yeah, in fact, and there are even writers, intellectuals from
730
00:43:59.929 --> 00:44:04.650
within that Vatican sphere who have said this. They've said essentially, well,
731
00:44:04.730 --> 00:44:09.010
what we're at is this nitty-gritty battle for control of
732
00:44:09.030 --> 00:44:12.170
the new world order, so to speak. Whatever that emerging
733
00:44:12.190 --> 00:44:15.829
world order is, we are going to have to adapt to...
734
00:44:16.500 --> 00:44:19.239
to run it yeah so absolutely and that's why.
735
00:44:19.070 --> 00:44:21.489
Because who else run it so you can surrender your
736
00:44:21.530 --> 00:44:25.369
responsibility which you've been carrying for thousands of years or
737
00:44:25.389 --> 00:44:28.769
you have to adapt to if anything that's why I
738
00:44:28.789 --> 00:44:31.610
brought the film because it kind of it looks like
739
00:44:31.650 --> 00:44:34.139
a tragedy from an outsider but we already brought an
740
00:44:34.179 --> 00:44:38.659
esoteric element but esoterically speaking in a certain way it's
741
00:44:38.699 --> 00:44:41.699
a very heroic noble act and you still keep your
742
00:44:41.739 --> 00:44:44.659
face you still keep it like it's still this hidden
743
00:44:44.699 --> 00:44:48.389
in your But you're just going through the suffering of
744
00:44:48.469 --> 00:44:51.469
this period of time, so later something good might come
745
00:44:51.570 --> 00:44:54.190
out of it. And you can easily see how this
746
00:44:54.489 --> 00:44:59.659
problem of double influence starts becoming inescapable and even desirable.
747
00:44:59.739 --> 00:45:01.920
So you now want to be part of it. So
748
00:45:01.960 --> 00:45:05.940
to gain your resources back, okay. So the direct fight
749
00:45:05.960 --> 00:45:10.269
with masons led to depleting our resources. Well, now let's
750
00:45:10.329 --> 00:45:14.550
blend together. Let's take control from the insects. Might have worked,
751
00:45:14.570 --> 00:45:17.800
might have not, but within this logic, it doesn't sound
752
00:45:17.900 --> 00:45:20.960
crazy to try. And it doesn't sound evil to try.
753
00:45:20.980 --> 00:45:26.579
What I'm saying is it is the 11th century geopolitical
754
00:45:26.679 --> 00:45:29.320
realpolitik just updated.
755
00:45:29.860 --> 00:45:30.500
Exactly.
756
00:45:30.679 --> 00:45:32.840
That's what I'm saying. I'm showing how this logic, which
757
00:45:32.860 --> 00:45:35.260
you would say, what connects 11th century with the 20th.
758
00:45:35.599 --> 00:45:39.070
But logic actually stays the same. Context changes. And yes,
759
00:45:39.119 --> 00:45:43.050
what looks... And that's why... actually, and I agree with
760
00:45:43.070 --> 00:45:47.090
you here, the position is consistent. It's context differs, and
761
00:45:47.130 --> 00:45:51.769
that's why it looks differently. But the core position actually
762
00:45:51.809 --> 00:45:55.090
stays consistent from back then till now. And that's what's
763
00:45:55.159 --> 00:45:58.119
kind of, I think, is Vatican justification. And then all
764
00:45:58.139 --> 00:46:01.619
of the strengths of the Vatican are still there. It's
765
00:46:02.079 --> 00:46:07.610
ultimately the biggest network ever exists. Like, network of priests, monasteries,
766
00:46:07.650 --> 00:46:11.309
for every possible way of life. Like, and For example,
767
00:46:11.570 --> 00:46:14.429
I actually learned recently that, I forgot the name, but
768
00:46:14.469 --> 00:46:18.929
apparently Jesuits are kind of becoming old, spent 400 years
769
00:46:18.969 --> 00:46:21.469
being up front. But for example, there is now all
770
00:46:21.550 --> 00:46:24.679
new different religious orders which are kind of integrating or
771
00:46:24.739 --> 00:46:30.840
proselytizing among hippies or proselytizing among, let's say, specific social
772
00:46:30.860 --> 00:46:33.559
groups in different places of, let's say, Latin America or etc.
773
00:46:33.579 --> 00:46:37.119
But basically, you can easily adapt. The structure is very adaptable.
774
00:46:37.159
--> 00:46:39.500
You can basically have a group of missionaries who will
775
00:46:39.559 --> 00:46:43.110
proselytize among let's say CIA, yes, and it will almost
776
00:46:43.150 --> 00:46:46.449
look indistinguishable by CIA, but within this logic, it's still
777
00:46:47.789 --> 00:46:51.429
an action of control and care and operation and ultimately
778
00:46:51.449 --> 00:46:54.670
for the greater good. And ultimately, there is nobody to judge.
779
00:46:55.150 --> 00:46:59.460
I think Russian author Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin in his famous
780
00:46:59.699 --> 00:47:04.219
Boris Godunov play, he actually gives this Jesuit internal logic.
781
00:47:04.679 --> 00:47:06.699
In my opinion, it's one of the most eloquent ways
782
00:47:06.739 --> 00:47:11.980
of showing the internal monologue. An internal monologue is something
783
00:47:12.159 --> 00:47:15.159
like this in English, and then I will quote it
784
00:47:15.219 --> 00:47:20.320
in Russian. So in English it sounds like, sometimes you
785
00:47:20.360 --> 00:47:24.269
have a duty to hide your true intentions in front
786
00:47:24.309 --> 00:47:28.789
of the outside world, because people can only judge your actions,
787
00:47:29.230 --> 00:47:32.289
but the intentions of your heart will be judged only
788
00:47:32.329 --> 00:47:35.699
by God. And you see how it justifies this duplicity.
789
00:47:35.760 --> 00:47:38.889
So you can do many different things. Basically, it justifies, like,
790
00:47:38.929 --> 00:47:42.909
multiple ethical systems, in fact. But it is consistent in itself.
791
00:47:42.989 --> 00:47:45.969
And in Russian, it's like... So we have a sacred
792
00:47:45.989 --> 00:47:48.090
duty sometimes to carry masks in front of the audiences.
793
00:47:48.659 --> 00:47:50.579
That's kind of the... So it's a sacred duty to
794
00:47:50.599 --> 00:48:07.260
be an actor in front of the outsiders... your intentions
795
00:48:07.280 --> 00:48:10.380
will be judged by God. And that justifies anything you're
796
00:48:10.400 --> 00:48:11.000
going to do later.
797
00:48:11.280 --> 00:48:15.280
Yeah, that's actually very, it's very Jesuit. It's also, you
798
00:48:15.320 --> 00:48:20.190
have within the Roman Catholic tradition, in fact, with people
799
00:48:20.230 --> 00:48:23.570
like Alphonsus Liguori, they even got to the point where
800
00:48:23.630 --> 00:48:27.349
they could, they had a whole list of exclusions that
801
00:48:27.389 --> 00:48:30.289
would allow you to lie. So you could actually lie
802
00:48:30.329 --> 00:48:34.929
in many cases with various ends justify the means based
803
00:48:35.150 --> 00:48:39.539
on the scenario, the situation, et cetera. But, you know, the,
804
00:48:39.599 --> 00:48:41.659
the criticism is that, well, this ultimately is a sort
805
00:48:41.679 --> 00:48:45.250
of a Pandora's box of Kazustry to essentially, uh, almost
806
00:48:45.289 --> 00:48:48.130
like the Pharisees, you can then justify any of your
807
00:48:48.250 --> 00:48:51.710
actions conceivably. So any bad action could be justified by
808
00:48:51.769 --> 00:48:53.650
some potential, like exclusionary principle.
809
00:48:53.670 --> 00:48:56.110
And remember before, like, then that's why was this story,
810
00:48:56.130 --> 00:48:58.800
this old story of the split with the councils matters
811
00:48:58.880 --> 00:49:01.159
so much because there is no authority above you. There
812
00:49:01.199 --> 00:49:04.590
is no equal, even in theory. Which can hold you
813
00:49:04.630 --> 00:49:05.809
to true accountability.
814
00:49:05.849 --> 00:49:06.199
Exactly.
815
00:49:06.699 --> 00:49:09.119
But here's the problem, though, is that that wedding to,
816
00:49:09.420 --> 00:49:14.980
you know, worldly geopolitical machinations and intrigues eventually ends up
817
00:49:15.059 --> 00:49:19.739
making you a sort of, you are essentially pimped out.
818
00:49:20.050 --> 00:49:20.380
Right?
819
00:49:20.409 --> 00:49:24.239
You're essentially a whore to whichever power structure is able
820
00:49:24.300 --> 00:49:25.559
to control and subvert you.
821
00:49:25.719 --> 00:49:28.639
And that's what we actually- Well, I think people will,
822
00:49:29.219 --> 00:49:31.260
who pimps out who? I think that's what would be
823
00:49:31.280 --> 00:49:31.639
the difference.
824
00:49:31.659 --> 00:49:34.179
No, I'm saying that there could be periods when the papacy,
825
00:49:34.340 --> 00:49:36.400
but what I'm saying is in the 11th century, the
826
00:49:36.420 --> 00:49:38.719
papacy is the tool of German kings.
827
00:49:38.739 --> 00:49:38.820
Yes.
828
00:49:39.519 --> 00:49:42.179
And I'm saying that's not the case now. But what
829
00:49:42.239 --> 00:49:45.639
happens is that because of the rise of the banking
830
00:49:45.699 --> 00:49:49.739
power in the 1800s, particularly the Rothschild banking power, and
831
00:49:49.800 --> 00:49:53.820
that's essentially who's behind the British Empire eventually. So they're
832
00:49:53.840 --> 00:49:55.039
sort of running the Bank of England.
833
00:49:55.079 --> 00:49:57.659
And that's why Vatican ends up losing. Exactly. That's what
834
00:49:57.679 --> 00:49:57.969
I'm saying.
835
00:49:58.010 --> 00:50:01.289
But in this defeat, they're kind of rising up. They
836
00:50:01.309 --> 00:50:03.289
would say, but now we are rising up like a phoenix.
837
00:50:03.369 --> 00:50:05.150
Look at, for example, who are the judges of the
838
00:50:05.190 --> 00:50:06.469
Supreme Court in America?
839
00:50:06.920 --> 00:50:07.679
Catholics. Okay.
840
00:50:07.699 --> 00:50:12.619
But I mean, I understand the pragmatic reasoning, but the
841
00:50:12.659 --> 00:50:18.789
problem is that from the Orthodox standpoint, this pragmatism is self-defeating.
842
00:50:18.829 --> 00:50:19.150
Of course.
843
00:50:19.190 --> 00:50:22.429
Because it's really no different than the pragmatism of the technocrat.
844
00:50:21.949 --> 00:50:22.630
Or anyone else.
845
00:50:22.690 --> 00:50:26.039
And that's why you see the Vatican beginning to, it
846
00:50:26.059 --> 00:50:29.880
already begins with, now the liberalism and the Masonic, you know,
847
00:50:30.079 --> 00:50:32.619
infiltration and all that, that's warned about all the way
848
00:50:32.639 --> 00:50:36.510
in the 1800s. It's warned about early on in the 19,
849
00:50:36.510 --> 00:50:41.460
you know, early encyclicals in the 1900s. And then it
850
00:50:41.500 --> 00:50:45.199
becomes the liberalism in the Catholic universities and the schools
851
00:50:45.239 --> 00:50:48.510
that's warned about. But what happens is that simultaneously to
852
00:50:48.530 --> 00:50:51.610
all these external attacks, there is from within an internal
853
00:50:51.690 --> 00:50:58.559
subversion that results in dogmatizing the new reforms.
854
00:50:58.579 --> 00:50:58.650
Yes.
855
00:50:59.650 --> 00:51:02.190
And everyone focuses on, and they should be focused on,
856
00:51:02.210 --> 00:51:06.679
you know, Nostra Aetate is the sort of American, you know,
857
00:51:06.719 --> 00:51:09.960
freedom of choice buffet of religions approach to, well, we're
858
00:51:10.019 --> 00:51:13.840
all worshiping the same God, but in different degrees. And
859
00:51:13.880 --> 00:51:15.800
so you get sort of the model of the Pope
860
00:51:15.860 --> 00:51:19.079
is now not just a head of Christendom, but he's
861
00:51:19.159 --> 00:51:22.119
actually kind of the head of all the world religions. Yeah.
862
00:51:22.199 --> 00:51:25.219
Because they're all in degrees of communion with Rome. So
863
00:51:25.260 --> 00:51:28.559
the move of degrees of communion is, with Orthodox and
864
00:51:28.619 --> 00:51:32.760
Protestants and the ecumenist movement expanded to actually all the
865
00:51:32.800 --> 00:51:34.219
world religions are, you know.
866
00:51:34.239 --> 00:51:35.940
In some way, a little bit.
867
00:51:36.300 --> 00:51:40.409
Muslims are maybe 20% in communion with us. Protestants, 50,
868
00:51:40.409 --> 00:51:44.030
60% communion. Orthodox, 80, 90% communion. So you see the
869
00:51:44.090 --> 00:51:46.289
logic of it. And the Pope will then be this
870
00:51:46.349 --> 00:51:48.489
sort of unifying world figure.
871
00:51:48.949 --> 00:51:52.750
Which works great with us for what we were talking
872
00:51:52.769 --> 00:51:57.239
about with pragmatic power and I'm sure the Vatican would say, well,
873
00:51:57.300 --> 00:51:58.179
we're forced into this position.
874
00:51:58.199 --> 00:52:00.039
That's what we have to do. But here's the thing.
875
00:52:00.059 --> 00:52:04.460
At Vatican II, you don't just have these Nostra Aetate
876
00:52:04.840 --> 00:52:08.179
III and Lumen Gentium XVI statements about world religions. You
877
00:52:08.199 --> 00:52:10.860
have another document that everybody overlooks called Gaudium et Spes.
878
00:52:11.050 --> 00:52:15.309
And Gaudium et Spes is the Vatican II geopolitical stance.
879
00:52:15.409 --> 00:52:17.989
It's their official statement on, okay, where do we stand
880
00:52:18.010 --> 00:52:20.989
in relationship to the United Nations, in relationship to nationalism,
881
00:52:21.010 --> 00:52:24.210
in relationship to disarmament, in relationship to migration? And it
882
00:52:24.250 --> 00:52:27.679
essentially adopts the United Nations-UNESCO approach.
883
00:52:27.800 --> 00:52:30.829
It says basically- Written by Huxley. Ironically, how these guys
884
00:52:30.909 --> 00:52:32.889
are connected. Well, that's how it.
885
00:52:32.809 --> 00:52:36.130
Gets- And Gaudium et Spes says, we support UNESCO. We
886
00:52:36.150 --> 00:52:37.530
support the United Nations approach.
887
00:52:37.590 --> 00:52:40.050
And that's why now our voice will be heard matters
888
00:52:40.150 --> 00:52:41.610
and we can actually now- We have a seat.
889
00:52:41.489 --> 00:52:42.530
At the table again. Yeah.
890
00:52:42.860 --> 00:52:44.820
We used to be a power. Now we're going to
891
00:52:44.860 --> 00:52:46.119
be a power again because we're going to have a
892
00:52:46.119 --> 00:52:48.219
seat at the table. So again, it's just a sort
893
00:52:48.239 --> 00:52:52.719
of worship of sort of pragmatic power, which again, ironically,
894
00:52:52.760 --> 00:52:55.590
in the long run, if the Vatican had kept its
895
00:52:56.170 --> 00:53:00.849
traditional stances, they would outlast these things rather than taking
896
00:53:00.909 --> 00:53:04.369
the compromise, we have to work together with the world approach.
897
00:53:04.550 --> 00:53:10.619
But I think that's the temptation that Dostoevsky highlights, that
898
00:53:10.659 --> 00:53:14.440
the Vatican was tempted with when Jesus was brought up
899
00:53:14.480 --> 00:53:17.599
on the mountain and he's given those temptations. That's essentially
900
00:53:17.619 --> 00:53:19.659
what the Vatican said, yeah, we will rule with you.
901
00:53:19.940 --> 00:53:21.960
And then eventually it's like, Jesus, you're kind of in
902
00:53:21.980 --> 00:53:23.630
the way of, our project.
903
00:53:23.849 --> 00:53:26.869
I mean, because, I mean, and again, that's a big problem, like,
904
00:53:26.889 --> 00:53:31.679
within Christian logic, this whole salvation has had a logical anxiety,
905
00:53:31.820 --> 00:53:35.320
because that's kind of the whole spirit of reform is
906
00:53:35.539 --> 00:53:37.699
based upon, because we don't know when the second coming
907
00:53:37.739 --> 00:53:39.820
will be, and all the different attempts to say no,
908
00:53:40.079 --> 00:53:43.739
you know, every century there is some group which says,
909
00:53:43.860 --> 00:53:45.880
I know for sure it's happening right here, right now,
910
00:53:46.360 --> 00:53:48.519
then it keeps falling and falling and falling, but the
911
00:53:48.539 --> 00:53:52.719
problems are still there, and basically we you can definitely
912
00:53:52.760 --> 00:53:55.940
build a pragmatic argument. We need to work with what
913
00:53:55.980 --> 00:53:58.699
we have. And in many ways, I
can even see,
914
00:53:58.719 --> 00:54:01.840
for example, when an Orthodox priest is working with me
915
00:54:01.860 --> 00:54:04.099
as a sinner, it's effectively the same argument. Well, I
916
00:54:04.119 --> 00:54:06.960
can't work for you when you're a saint. We need
917
00:54:07.000 --> 00:54:09.699
to take you as a, let's say, sick sinner, and
918
00:54:09.739 --> 00:54:12.510
we will work together as a healing person. Hopefully, Jesus
919
00:54:12.550 --> 00:54:15.050
Christ heals you. Like, you know, it will happen. And
920
00:54:15.550 --> 00:54:19.710
kind of ironically mirroring this principle on a geopolitical arena is,
921
00:54:20.000 --> 00:54:22.360
That's kind of what you can say what it is doing. Okay, well,
922
00:54:22.400 --> 00:54:24.980
we can't wait for this final perfect state of the
923
00:54:25.019 --> 00:54:27.559
earthly power. We need to work with what we have.
924
00:54:28.000 --> 00:54:31.639
So we're coming down, we're taking how it is, what
925
00:54:31.679 --> 00:54:35.820
we have, and trying from, again, still meaning, and trying
926
00:54:35.940 --> 00:54:39.699
to move it to something better, maybe even something more Christ-like.
927
00:54:39.719 --> 00:54:42.139
They can say, well, with more love and care and
928
00:54:42.219 --> 00:54:45.150
empathy and all of this kind of Christian virtues.
929
00:54:45.510 --> 00:54:46.909
Yeah, but again.
930
00:54:46.969 --> 00:54:51.969
But in the end, Basically, the problem is while trying
931
00:54:52.010 --> 00:54:53.829
to subvert them, you yourself become subvert.
932
00:54:53.869 --> 00:54:54.309
Exactly.
933
00:54:55.110 --> 00:54:57.449
It just isn't going to work because, for one, you've
934
00:54:57.489 --> 00:55:01.940
already had a thousand years of a specific just insanely,
935
00:55:02.320 --> 00:55:06.530
you know, I mean, you've said for a thousand years
936
00:55:06.570 --> 00:55:08.769
that you have to believe in the Pope's temporal supremacy
937
00:55:08.789 --> 00:55:09.329
to be saved.
938
00:55:09.650 --> 00:55:09.769
Yeah.
939
00:55:10.289 --> 00:55:11.929
And now you're saying post-Vatican II.
940
00:55:11.949 --> 00:55:15.210
Luckily, people are literal, so consistency is not something which
941
00:55:15.469 --> 00:55:17.409
actually is in huge demand right now.
942
00:55:17.429 --> 00:55:19.610
Well, but at Vatican II, you're essentially saying, you know, okay, fine,
943
00:55:19.650 --> 00:55:23.780
the Reformation was right, religious liberty, which was already condemned
944
00:55:23.800 --> 00:55:27.260
heresy for centuries by the papacy. Now we're admitting, okay, fine,
945
00:55:27.280 --> 00:55:30.440
you can have religious liberty, that's actually a virtue. I mean, multiple,
946
00:55:30.460 --> 00:55:35.510
I mean, Dignitatis Humanae, multiple Vatican II documents. are all
947
00:55:35.570 --> 00:55:38.570
about the dignity of the individual. And actually, John Paul II,
948
00:55:38.590 --> 00:55:40.630
who's another one of these, very close to the CIA
949
00:55:41.829 --> 00:55:44.929
pope openly, because he played a key role symbolically in
950
00:55:44.949 --> 00:55:50.070
the Cold War. You know, his whole ethos was humanism.
951
00:55:50.269 --> 00:55:50.510
Yes.
952
00:55:50.570 --> 00:55:52.050
But he called it Christian humanism.
953
00:55:52.090 --> 00:55:53.429
Christian humanism, yeah.
954
00:55:53.630 --> 00:55:55.840
But he thought, well, this will be the way to
955
00:55:55.860 --> 00:55:57.880
kind of speak to the modern world because the modern
956
00:55:57.889 --> 00:56:01.019
world worships man. And so we'll just use this focal
957
00:56:01.059 --> 00:56:03.260
point of man worship to kind of point them to
958
00:56:03.670 --> 00:56:06.739
Jesus as some sort of like, you know, Superman or whatever.
959
00:56:07.480 --> 00:56:07.960
Ideal man.
960
00:56:08.079 --> 00:56:08.519
Ideal man.
961
00:56:08.579 --> 00:56:14.619
Yeah. But again, what happens, though, is that the geopolitical
962
00:56:14.719 --> 00:56:19.239
stances that are admitted at Vatican II, they don't change.
963
00:56:19.280 --> 00:56:22.360
They become essentially the pattern for all that the Vatican
964
00:56:22.380 --> 00:56:24.929
has done since Vatican II for the last 70 plus
965
00:56:24.949 --> 00:56:30.469
years or 70-ish years to where now you have just–
966
00:56:30.909 --> 00:56:35.599
a degrading from John Paul to, you know, Benedict was
967
00:56:35.639 --> 00:56:40.460
this sort of pseudo-trade period. He abdicates. Then we get
968
00:56:40.699 --> 00:56:44.460
just radical next level with Francis to the point where
969
00:56:45.059 --> 00:56:49.010
even very basic moral ideas are now beginning to evolve
970
00:56:49.190 --> 00:56:50.110
to where, well.
971
00:56:50.250 --> 00:56:55.530
Evolving is not bad, again, within... From the Christian orthodox perspective,
972
00:56:55.550 --> 00:56:57.630
it would be a bad statement. From a perspective of
973
00:56:57.670 --> 00:57:01.789
a power play, of this Again, esoteric, versely power play,
974
00:57:02.110 --> 00:57:02.550
it's all right.
975
00:57:02.650 --> 00:57:04.250
Well, but I was going to say, it's not just
976
00:57:04.289 --> 00:57:07.869
evolving of the theology. Now natural law can evolve.
977
00:57:08.030 --> 00:57:08.489
Of course, yeah.
978
00:57:08.750 --> 00:57:11.780
Because what was, for example, the death penalty for many,
979
00:57:11.800 --> 00:57:16.039
many centuries was considered part of natural justice in Roman theology.
980
00:57:16.739 --> 00:57:19.400
Now that is contrary to the gospel. And now the
981
00:57:19.440 --> 00:57:23.219
papacy can even say, even natural law kind of has
982
00:57:23.260 --> 00:57:23.980
to change a bit.
983
00:57:24.360 --> 00:57:24.519
Okay.
984
00:57:24.539 --> 00:57:27.179
Because the death penalty is now unjust. But if our
985
00:57:27.260 --> 00:57:29.380
goal is, if the head point we are working for is,
986
00:57:30.190 --> 00:57:33.219
to take this top
seat at this table, final big
987
00:57:33.260 --> 00:57:34.059
table of the world.
988
00:57:34.079 --> 00:57:36.860
Well, that's just idolatry because your goal is not to
989
00:57:36.909 --> 00:57:39.090
be at the power, at the seat of the kings.
990
00:57:39.969 --> 00:57:41.289
That's not the goal of the church.
991
00:57:41.610 --> 00:57:41.989
I agree.
992
00:57:42.309 --> 00:57:44.449
All I'm saying is, Jay, I just want to be
993
00:57:44.469 --> 00:57:46.949
clear with our audience because I think this episode is
994
00:57:46.969 --> 00:57:49.679
slightly different from our previous one. So if we're judging
995
00:57:49.699 --> 00:57:52.800
the story by the same scale of the stories of
996
00:57:52.860 --> 00:57:56.340
our previous episodes, it all makes sense. But just simultaneously,
997
00:57:56.360 --> 00:57:58.420
as well as being orthodox, we cannot help.
998
00:57:58.440 --> 00:58:01.909
Well, really, the only debate from this vantage point of
999
00:58:01.929 --> 00:58:06.420
the Vatican side of it is, are we completely subverted
1000
00:58:06.559 --> 00:58:09.800
or are we influenced by other powers? And I think
1001
00:58:09.840 --> 00:58:14.000
that what you've seen with Francis to Leo is basically
1002
00:58:14.019 --> 00:58:18.880
a little bit of divergence on, you know, Ukraine war
1003
00:58:19.179 --> 00:58:20.860
or Middle Eastern war.
1004
00:58:20.880 --> 00:58:22.000
I don't see it as a divergence.
1005
00:58:22.119 --> 00:58:25.280
Well, no, I'm saying it diverges in the sense of criticisms.
1006
00:58:25.940 --> 00:58:28.699
But other than that, even if you look into this story, like,
1007
00:58:28.719 --> 00:58:30.500
you know, it's absolutely consistent. If you look in the
1008
00:58:30.579 --> 00:58:33.760
Ukraine war, come on, Ukraine war wouldn't be possible without.
1009
00:58:36.539 --> 00:58:39.119
The uniates helped facilitate that. But what I'm saying is
1010
00:58:39.400 --> 00:58:43.400
the papacy in terms of its open stances, which might
1011
00:58:43.840 --> 00:58:46.659
be totally different from what they actually do, which is
1012
00:58:46.719 --> 00:58:51.719
just classic bureaucratic politics. But I'm saying you have public
1013
00:58:51.900 --> 00:58:56.400
criticism of Trump's war on Iran, but that's about it.
1014
00:58:57.119 --> 00:58:59.880
But that's important because it fits well.
1015
00:58:59.940 --> 00:59:00.420
Okay, fine.
1016
00:59:00.440 --> 00:59:05.070
I can absolutely say because the Trump policy is... Again, remember,
1017
00:59:05.090 --> 00:59:08.480
he's influenced by... Is there a couple other tracks?
1018
00:59:08.500 --> 00:59:08.739
I know.
1019
00:59:08.760 --> 00:59:11.360
He's influenced by the Zionists. But what I'm saying is
1020
00:59:11.400 --> 00:59:17.539
that the Vatican stance isn't even criticism of the Trump
1021
00:59:17.679 --> 00:59:22.809
moves from some sort of traditional moral principles. It's criticism
1022
00:59:22.949 --> 00:59:25.070
from a modern sort of leftist position.
1023
00:59:25.130 --> 00:59:28.590
It's exactly because... I would say the closest alliance since
1024
00:59:28.630 --> 00:59:31.570
Vatican II actually was between... You can say that Fabians
1025
00:59:31.659 --> 00:59:34.820
and Vatican became really just close together. They realized they
1026
00:59:34.880 --> 00:59:38.739
can achieve way more by collaborating. Plus, add to this
1027
00:59:38.760 --> 00:59:41.179
the whole Council for Inclusive Capitalism. Yep.
1028
00:59:41.860 --> 00:59:45.480
Fabian. Fabian. Rothschild. Yes. So, and.
1029
00:59:45.940 --> 00:59:49.500
I mean, Trump himself is many things, but he's really anti-Fabian.
1030
00:59:49.820 --> 00:59:52.199
He has personal antipathy. So it makes this kind of
1031
00:59:52.280 --> 00:59:56.829
personal level of personal tactical criticism makes total sense. But strategically,
1032
00:59:56.869 --> 00:59:59.610
for example, if we're looking into conflict, like, again, the
1033
00:59:59.650 --> 01:00:06.210
whole story of, like, CIA, like, basically using Constantinople to
1034
01:00:06.250 --> 01:00:09.780
split Ukraine charge, who is the final benefit?
1035
01:00:09.920 --> 01:00:11.099
Well, ultimately, Vatican.
1036
01:00:11.139 --> 01:00:13.900
If you look, for example, in Belarus, through this kind
1037
01:00:13.940 --> 01:00:18.090
of subtle process, it's orthodox. countries still, but the number
1038
01:00:18.130 --> 01:00:20.409
of Catholics in it increased over the course of the
1039
01:00:20.449 --> 01:00:22.090
last 330 years.
1040
01:00:22.989 --> 01:00:25.789
The Jesuits did the same thing to Russia. The Jesuits
1041
01:00:25.809 --> 01:00:28.380
were constantly trying to missionize back to.
1042
01:00:28.409 --> 01:00:30.679
And the same process is happening, and that's why you
1043
01:00:30.739 --> 01:00:32.960
see the missionaries. So, like, it's still working. And it's
1044
01:00:32.980 --> 01:00:35.800
just the language is to advocate for peace. And to
1045
01:00:35.860 --> 01:00:37.940
advocate for peace, we all know the power groups who
1046
01:00:38.409 --> 01:00:41.559
openly advocate for peace. The argument for peace fits well
1047
01:00:41.579 --> 01:00:41.860
with the.
1048
01:00:41.820 --> 01:00:47.079
Whole world government. But the craziest example of this is the,
1049
01:00:47.099 --> 01:00:50.820
you know, from Francis to Leo, there's been a consistent
1050
01:00:50.860 --> 01:00:55.929
stance that Europe needs to accept all of the Muslim migrants.
1051
01:00:56.309 --> 01:00:58.969
And they have to. That's the Christian position, which is
1052
01:00:58.989 --> 01:01:04.789
so crazy with the crusade attitude of the papacy calling crusades.
1053
01:01:05.250 --> 01:01:07.360
Because we've been limiting ourselves. And that's what I think
1054
01:01:07.389 --> 01:01:11.110
you're it's really important to understand that this ecumenism is
1055
01:01:11.150 --> 01:01:13.869
not theological. And that's why when you criticize it,
like
1056
01:01:14.050 --> 01:01:17.070
obviously it's theological, it cannot not be theological, but the motivation,
1057
01:01:17.130 --> 01:01:21.000
the motivations are not, is geopolitical because I, like I'm
1058
01:01:21.019 --> 01:01:23.900
responsible for everybody. Then of course we need to take
1059
01:01:23.940 --> 01:01:24.239
them in.
1060
01:01:24.360 --> 01:01:28.239
So like basically, that's why the Pope is basically saying, well,
1061
01:01:28.300 --> 01:01:32.599
since I am the, steward of all the world religions. Yeah,
1062
01:01:32.639 --> 01:01:34.489
maybe the Catholics are a little closer to me, but
1063
01:01:34.550 --> 01:01:37.289
I'm also the father to these Muslims because you can
1064
01:01:37.309 --> 01:01:39.670
go back to John Paul II. He was already beginning
1065
01:01:39.769 --> 01:01:42.929
to say things famously, like when I think it was
1066
01:01:42.969 --> 01:01:44.989
around 2001 or two, he went to Jordan and he
1067
01:01:45.030 --> 01:01:48.489
gave a sermon to the Muslims and said, may St.
1068
01:01:48.530 --> 01:01:53.289
John the Baptist protect Islam, not Islam. may St. John
1069
01:01:53.309 --> 01:01:58.320
the Baptist protect the Jordanian people, but Islam, the religion.
1070
01:01:59.000 --> 01:02:01.699
This is very important. And there's other homilies he gave
1071
01:02:02.179 --> 01:02:05.360
in Jordan as well, and other ones to other Muslim groups,
1072
01:02:05.420 --> 01:02:08.280
basically affirming this has never been done before.
1073
01:02:09.030 --> 01:02:09.289
Okay.
1074
01:02:09.489 --> 01:02:11.650
So it's very important, the language that's used. It's not
1075
01:02:11.710 --> 01:02:12.829
just simply saying.
1076
01:02:12.570 --> 01:02:15.250
That I want, you know, the saints to pray for
1077
01:02:15.269 --> 01:02:16.289
the people.
1078
01:02:16.449 --> 01:02:20.059
It's the false religion that, that is beginning to be
1079
01:02:20.119 --> 01:02:24.849
now seen as really just a lower gradation of Christianity.
1080
01:02:25.809 --> 01:02:28.449
And so they're part of our group. And if we
1081
01:02:28.469 --> 01:02:31.130
just sort of do this sort of dialogical process of
1082
01:02:31.210 --> 01:02:34.170
accepting everybody, we'll all kind of eventually arrive at the
1083
01:02:34.190 --> 01:02:35.769
same papal conclusion. That's the point.
1084
01:02:35.969 --> 01:02:39.210
Yeah. And so it's this weird, philosophically speaking, it's this
1085
01:02:39.269 --> 01:02:42.550
weird part of dilution. There is a temptation and dilution because,
1086
01:02:42.590 --> 01:02:44.409
I mean, even if you look, let's say, in any
1087
01:02:44.449 --> 01:02:47.360
form of liquid, when it's concentrated, it's a very small amount.
1088
01:02:47.420 --> 01:02:50.659
But if you dilute it you can really increase the
1089
01:02:51.119 --> 01:02:55.570
volume and this is very commonsensically geopolitical move which can
1090
01:02:55.730 --> 01:02:58.750
also have a further connection from the potential like how
1091
01:02:58.769 --> 01:03:00.869
to take place at this big table and how actually
1092
01:03:00.889 --> 01:03:04.269
to run it will become indispensable well with all you
1093
01:03:04.329 --> 01:03:06.989
with all of your craziest ideas how will you shepherd
1094
01:03:07.010 --> 01:03:09.630
people they will suspect you of evil intent they will
1095
01:03:09.650 --> 01:03:12.760
suspect you of basically there is all this crazy lunatics
1096
01:03:13.380 --> 01:03:16.519
accusing you and I'm a good shepherd.
1097
01:03:16.460 --> 01:03:17.719
And through me.
1098
01:03:19.800 --> 01:03:22.559
I mean, I can run and I can let you
1099
01:03:22.599 --> 01:03:25.780
do your things. Basically, it's a really strong move from.
1100
01:03:25.619 --> 01:03:26.820
This low-level play.
1101
01:03:26.860 --> 01:03:30.639
I'm not speaking from Morse's perspective, but from our series' perspective.
1102
01:03:31.550 --> 01:03:36.349
It's a really good play to, after the centuries of retreating,
1103
01:03:37.449 --> 01:03:40.070
it's actually, you know what, throughout our conversation, this Vatican
1104
01:03:40.090 --> 01:03:43.590
tool to be starting to make way more sense, actually.
1105
01:03:43.940 --> 01:03:46.719
It's evil genius, but it's kind of genius move to
1106
01:03:47.139 --> 01:03:50.119
at least worth betting upon to get back at the
1107
01:03:50.159 --> 01:03:55.619
table with this golden card or like golden, yeah, whatever
1108
01:03:55.659 --> 01:03:57.820
you call in the market economy. But so that's why
1109
01:03:57.860 --> 01:04:00.530
my voice is important. And that's why, for example, if
1110
01:04:00.550 --> 01:04:03.610
you look into recent statement on AI, it's kind of
1111
01:04:03.630 --> 01:04:07.369
the same principle, the recent encyclical. It says many important
1112
01:04:07.449 --> 01:04:10.769
right word, but what is the true geopolitical consequences? Well,
1113
01:04:11.469 --> 01:04:15.900
our voice, our representatives must be among the one who
1114
01:04:15.980 --> 01:04:19.170
will write the ethics for AI. So we need to
1115
01:04:19.210 --> 01:04:21.250
be the one who will do it. It's taking the
1116
01:04:21.269 --> 01:04:23.789
same thing. So we are not fighting the Silicon Valley.
1117
01:04:24.090 --> 01:04:27.280
We're not fighting the technocrats. We want to infiltrate it.
1118
01:04:27.550 --> 01:04:30.699
We want to, and then guide it. Infiltrating and guiding.
1119
01:04:30.760 --> 01:04:33.519
I think that's the biggest shift the Vatican made after
1120
01:04:33.820 --> 01:04:37.239
the hard position just ran out of resources.
1121
01:04:37.579 --> 01:04:40.260
Yeah, and I think you can see a parallel with
1122
01:04:40.300 --> 01:04:43.329
something that many Catholics and Catholic historians have pointed out
1123
01:04:43.389 --> 01:04:47.340
in America, which was You know, in American politics in
1124
01:04:47.380 --> 01:04:50.949
the 20th century, it was dominated by
WASP power and
1125
01:04:51.010 --> 01:04:54.250
WASP interests. And then you have the rise of the Kennedys.
1126
01:04:54.429 --> 01:04:58.610
And the idea is the Kennedys kind of were masters
1127
01:04:58.670 --> 01:05:02.250
at this approach of, I'm going to publicly as a
1128
01:05:02.309 --> 01:05:06.510
politician be fully secular in my approach. I'll be pro-abortion.
1129
01:05:06.530 --> 01:05:08.570
I'll be pro-whatever that doesn't line with... But I'm going
1130
01:05:08.590 --> 01:05:09.730
to privately be a Catholic.
1131
01:05:09.909 --> 01:05:10.590
Now, you.
1132
01:05:11.070 --> 01:05:13.230
In Catholic theology, you can't do that.
1133
01:05:13.510 --> 01:05:13.730
But.
1134
01:05:14.309 --> 01:05:18.139
The argument was, and this was, I think, the Kennedy stance,
1135
01:05:18.360 --> 01:05:20.659
and later Catholics said this, we want a seat at
1136
01:05:20.699 --> 01:05:23.659
the table. We're not at the table. Catholics are not
1137
01:05:23.739 --> 01:05:26.300
seen as part of the American political process. And if
1138
01:05:26.340 --> 01:05:28.889
you want a seat at the table, you've got to compromise.
1139
01:05:29.389 --> 01:05:29.570
Yes.
1140
01:05:30.230 --> 01:05:32.090
At the end, it will be worth it. At the end,
1141
01:05:32.150 --> 01:05:34.510
we will bring them back to Christ, even as I
1142
01:05:34.530 --> 01:05:37.150
can say. At the end, they might not understand him.
1143
01:05:37.610 --> 01:05:39.969
as a Christ is a name, but they will understand,
1144
01:05:40.210 --> 01:05:42.320
they will basically one way or the other will end
1145
01:05:42.380 --> 01:05:44.539
up being in a communion. And like, so the spiritual
1146
01:05:44.559 --> 01:05:47.300
strength is there. And from the perspective of other groups,
1147
01:05:48.000 --> 01:05:51.219
I mean, that's actually a very strong position of Vatican
1148
01:05:51.239 --> 01:05:55.300
because they themselves keep like, often like, I mean, history matters, sorry.
1149
01:05:55.619 --> 01:05:58.110
Vatican has hundreds of years of experience, as I said,
1150
01:05:58.150 --> 01:06:03.409
hundreds of years of connections, indispensable, still moral capital and reputation,
1151
01:06:03.590 --> 01:06:07.730
which is very important. Vatican as a peace representative, for example,
1152
01:06:08.010 --> 01:06:10.699
sounds way better as a, sorry, CIA director as a
1153
01:06:10.719 --> 01:06:15.380
peace representative, just even from PR perspective. And then you
1154
01:06:15.420 --> 01:06:16.599
connect it and then you use it.
1155
01:06:16.800 --> 01:06:22.519
Well, even propaganda itself, the whole idea of modernity, you know,
1156
01:06:22.539 --> 01:06:24.619
we think of Bernays and these people, but actually it
1157
01:06:24.659 --> 01:06:28.980
was the Vatican that had pioneered this many centuries earlier
1158
01:06:29.039 --> 01:06:31.840
with the Holy Office of Propaganda, right? The Holy Office
1159
01:06:31.860 --> 01:06:35.510
of the Inquisition essentially was a propaganda office. So, And
1160
01:06:35.670 --> 01:06:37.849
you're right to go back to Jesuits as sort of
1161
01:06:38.300 --> 01:06:41.579
long-term almost intelligence operatives, you could say. The Vatican is
1162
01:06:41.599 --> 01:06:47.219
the oldest intelligence agency in the world. But as we said,
1163
01:06:47.539 --> 01:06:49.820
even into the 20th century, they had begun to lose
1164
01:06:49.860 --> 01:06:51.989
a lot of that temporal power. So I think you're
1165
01:06:52.050 --> 01:06:55.159
right to say that the motivations are just to simply
1166
01:06:55.199 --> 01:06:56.960
get back to having a seat at the table. And
1167
01:06:56.980 --> 01:06:57.980
if that requires us.
1168
01:06:58.539 --> 01:07:01.340
Temporarily, for now, even you can say, like you can
1169
01:07:01.380 --> 01:07:03.400
even say, because we still, that's why this image, like
1170
01:07:03.440 --> 01:07:05.940
you can, you're still keeping it. It's still in your hands.
1171
01:07:05.980 --> 01:07:08.940
You're still in your heart, absolutely loyal. And Christ will
1172
01:07:10.079 --> 01:07:10.900
understand you when you.
1173
01:07:10.940 --> 01:07:12.739
Well, maybe for some of them, I don't think for
1174
01:07:12.760 --> 01:07:13.599
the people of the Vatican.
1175
01:07:13.719 --> 01:07:17.199
No, I honestly think, I mean, it makes way more sense,
1176
01:07:17.409 --> 01:07:19.449
this logic behind it. It's hard to be such a
1177
01:07:19.469 --> 01:07:23.230
hypocrite physically, so you need to find a good explanation, uh,
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within yourself so I think it's currently this is the
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age but actually look at what this age is giving
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us we can improve our missionary effort tremendously we can
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actually if you include everyone like that's kind of everyone
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is our mission and like we're simultaneously doing the job
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so and then who knows what will come in a
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hundred years and then okay AI comes okay we will
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imprint it with certain spirits let's say and we.
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Will Yeah, we already do. I mean, the Catholics are
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already creating Catholic AIs that, you know, people are even
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trying to confess to them, which is absurd. But I mean,
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these ideas are already kind of being put out there.
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Not that the Vatican has totally approved of that, just
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saying that it's begun to be experimented with in the
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Protestant and the Catholic world. But yeah, I think that,
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you know, again, this is essentially what
John XXIII meant
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when he talked about aggiornamento. And he said that Vatican
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II would be the opening up of the doors of
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the church to the world. Because we're going to have
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to do that. We can't be this bastion medieval institution
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that's a fortress. His idea was we have to open
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up to the world and that's how we'll convert the world.
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So that was what at least the best charitable reading
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of Vatican II was supposed to be. What I'm saying
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is that you can see in the background with not
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conspiracy books, but with espionage history, with intelligence history, with
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01:08:46.310 --> 01:08:50.310
big geopolitical power and their books and their history, them saying,
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we will turn this organization into an engine of American
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soft power. That is what happened.
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I'd say globalist more than American.
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Again.
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You know what I'm saying? No, at the time of
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the Cold War, the argument was, the reason the OSS
1211
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and CIA wanted the Vatican was, if we can turn
1212
01:09:10.180 --> 01:09:14.460
this engine to a tool of American soft power, we'll
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win the Cold War.
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Okay.
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And they were ultimately successful utilizing John Paul II.
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Exactly.
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But that now puts, if you're the Vatican, now you're
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01:09:25.060 --> 01:09:27.779
kind of, you've got new masters, you see. And so
1219
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now you have to, and maybe you're right, maybe the
1220
01:09:30.979 --> 01:09:32.930
thought is, well, we'll play the long game and eventually
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we'll outlast the American.
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I definitely think it's a long game. I definitely, tactically,
1223
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it would be this particular American group. But let's say
1224
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this American group is splitting in itself.
1225
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Now in itself, it's.
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Fabians against Atlantuses through technocrats against Zionists, Zionists.
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Against all and all of these things.
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And now we are getting this nicely, quietly sit at
1229
01:09:52.560 --> 01:09:55.539
the table and like, you know, actually slowly moving.
1230
01:09:55.560 --> 01:09:58.520
Well, the problem is that I don't think the technocrats, well,
1231
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excuse me, I think that in terms of the Vatican,
1232
01:10:00.359 --> 01:10:02.149
I actually think that who will win out with the
1233
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Vatican will be the Zionists.
1234
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Go on. I'm curious.
1235
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Well, one of the elements that we overlook, and this
1236
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is detailed in the Wim Hof book, was The origins
1237
01:10:12.239 --> 01:10:19.380
of ecumenism are Rockefeller power, WASP power, and money and banking,
1238
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and also a Jewish banking element too. And some of
1239
01:10:25.020 --> 01:10:29.489
the first ecumenist meetings ever were chaired by rabbis.
1240
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It was a.
1241
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Rabbinical move because if you go back to Moses Hess
1242
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and he wrote Roman Jerusalem.
1243
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Mm-hmm.
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In the 1860s, and this is one of the first
1245
01:10:39.340 --> 01:10:44.359
works to ever mention Jewish Zionism. So way before 1917,
1246
01:10:44.359 --> 01:10:47.039
you have Roman Jerusalem, Moses Hess, who is the father
1247
01:10:47.060 --> 01:10:53.609
of utopian socialism. He says, through dialogical Hegelian and essentially
1248
01:10:53.710 --> 01:10:58.989
Spinoza pantheistic process, so understand that his philosophical influences are
1249
01:10:59.029 --> 01:11:01.829
Hegel and Spinoza. So he sees history as sort of
1250
01:11:01.970 --> 01:11:07.149
dialectical process culminating not in the Vatican or in America,
1251
01:11:07.210 --> 01:11:10.770
but in Jerusalem as the sort of focal point of
1252
01:11:10.949 --> 01:11:16.439
global socialism. He says that what we'll do also is
1253
01:11:17.760 --> 01:11:21.300
essentially use the Masonic lodges to bring about a Judaizing
1254
01:11:21.340 --> 01:11:24.500
of the nations. And although I don't know that he
1255
01:11:24.539 --> 01:11:27.579
specifically had an idea of Judaizing the Vatican, but what
1256
01:11:27.600 --> 01:11:30.560
happens at Vatican II is also a very strong Jewish
1257
01:11:30.619 --> 01:11:33.880
influence with, for example, writers who would write at the
1258
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Look Magazine, which is a famous Jewish magazine. After Vatican II,
1259
01:11:38.149 --> 01:11:40.529
they actually wrote in Look Magazine bragging that they had
1260
01:11:40.569 --> 01:11:43.109
won Vatican II because not only did they get the
1261
01:11:43.130 --> 01:11:46.890
statement in Nostra Aetate, hold on, where the Jews, Christians,
1262
01:11:46.930 --> 01:11:49.750
and Muslims all worship the same God, they also succeeded
1263
01:11:49.890 --> 01:11:53.470
in eventually getting the Roman Latin Mass and then the
1264
01:11:53.510 --> 01:11:56.430
Novus Ordo to remove the Good Friday prayers
talking about
1265
01:11:56.850 --> 01:12:00.109
how the Jews need to be converted and are perfidious
1266
01:12:00.270 --> 01:12:03.140
was the terminology that was used. So that's all removed.
1267
01:12:03.180 --> 01:12:06.640
That's a significant change. And then what happens is the
1268
01:12:06.760 --> 01:12:10.460
Vatican begins to gradually introduce ideas that the Jews are
1269
01:12:10.600 --> 01:12:14.300
still in a covenant with God. And the United States
1270
01:12:14.340 --> 01:12:16.920
Conference of Catholic Bishops put out a document, I want
1271
01:12:16.939 --> 01:12:19.859
to say in 2002 or 2003, and it dealt with
1272
01:12:20.520 --> 01:12:23.890
not converting Jews. Do not proselytize Jews. They still have
1273
01:12:23.899 --> 01:12:27.770
a relationship with God. Now, this is a huge move away, again,
1274
01:12:27.850 --> 01:12:31.729
from the Vatican's traditional stance here. And so- The reason
1275
01:12:31.770 --> 01:12:36.840
I'm saying that it's a Judaizing is that you're also
1276
01:12:36.939 --> 01:12:40.899
getting recently the Vatican making very strong statements that to
1277
01:12:40.939 --> 01:12:45.810
criticize Judaism is anti-Semitism. Now, they might not be openly
1278
01:12:45.869 --> 01:12:49.529
pro-Zionist per se, but they're still at this point focusing
1279
01:12:49.649 --> 01:12:53.689
on the religion of Judaism, rabbinic Judaism. But I think
1280
01:12:53.729 --> 01:12:56.989
that we're not very far away from the papacy moving
1281
01:12:57.090 --> 01:13:01.810
even further towards Judaism. If they've already given up the proselytizing,
1282
01:13:02.710 --> 01:13:06.109
we're only a few decades, maybe a decade away from
1283
01:13:06.170 --> 01:13:10.970
essentially acceptance of Judaism as perhaps the real.
1284
01:13:11.310 --> 01:13:12.130
The real salvation.
1285
01:13:13.470 --> 01:13:15.800
Well, actually, I don't know.
1286
01:13:15.880 --> 01:13:18.960
It's a perfect segue, actually, because one of the next
1287
01:13:19.000 --> 01:13:21.840
tribes we're going to talk about are Zionists and Judaism.
1288
01:13:22.039 --> 01:13:25.239
And You can always start talking about it. You devote
1289
01:13:25.279 --> 01:13:28.600
hundreds of hours talking about this topic. There are lots
1290
01:13:28.640 --> 01:13:31.199
of beautiful books written about it, which we will put
1291
01:13:31.260 --> 01:13:35.229
into the description for those who want to go further.
1292
01:13:35.310 --> 01:13:38.470
But essentially, I think the argument is covered like this.
1293
01:13:38.569 --> 01:13:41.649
What can be started as a charitable shepherd in contention
1294
01:13:41.789 --> 01:13:46.979
of worldly affairs now ended up into... this, yes, I
1295
01:13:47.520 --> 01:13:49.859
would still argue pretty strong position among all of the
1296
01:13:49.880 --> 01:13:53.319
other tribes we've been talking about, but from Christian perspective,
1297
01:13:54.260 --> 01:13:58.260
in the long run, it's making you indistinguishable.
1298
01:13:58.420 --> 01:14:01.930
One last point. This key document that really was so
1299
01:14:01.979 --> 01:14:05.489
revolutionary called Nostra Aetate, which is the Roman Catholic Church's
1300
01:14:05.529 --> 01:14:08.770
relationship to the world religions. This was actually drafted by
1301
01:14:08.789 --> 01:14:14.510
a Jewish guy who left the priesthood Because he was
1302
01:14:14.550 --> 01:14:18.750
a homosexual unbeliever now. But he had achieved what his
1303
01:14:18.789 --> 01:14:22.130
goal was, which was to essentially rewrite the Catholic theology
1304
01:14:23.170 --> 01:14:25.750
of the Vatican's relationship to Islam and Judaism.
1305
01:14:26.140 --> 01:14:26.479
Perfect.
1306
01:14:27.060 --> 01:14:29.199
And that's the price you kind of ended up having
1307
01:14:29.239 --> 01:14:29.579
to pay.
1308
01:14:29.899 --> 01:14:31.060
Gregory Baum is his name.
1309
01:14:31.079 --> 01:14:31.539
Gregory Baum.
1310
01:14:32.180 --> 01:14:33.920
So that's kind of a perfect example of the price
1311
01:14:33.939 --> 01:14:36.340
you had to pay in this process. However, now in 2026,
1312
01:14:36.319 --> 01:14:41.979
don't discount. absolutely big power player and I actually expect
1313
01:14:42.000 --> 01:14:44.960
to see way more of its influence on a global
1314
01:14:45.020 --> 01:14:48.840
arena in the coming years with other let's say forces
1315
01:14:48.899 --> 01:14:53.159
kind of a little bit attacking too much each other
1316
01:14:53.340 --> 01:14:55.729
and kind of weakening each other and now Vatican actually
1317
01:14:55.770 --> 01:14:59.069
might have a pretty strong several decades at least on
1318
01:14:59.090 --> 01:15:02.010
the surface but maybe there is a surface behind the
1319
01:15:02.029 --> 01:15:04.090
surface and that's what I guess we're going to talk
1320
01:15:04.130 --> 01:15:06.390
next see you next week.
1321
01:15:08.359 --> 01:15:09.270
That's the weirdest part.
1322
01:15:09.409 --> 01:15:14.720
Mass level secular Zionism becomes this weird understanding. Well, there
1323
01:15:14.739 --> 01:15:16.699
is no God, but we're kind of chosen by him.
1324
01:15:16.720 --> 01:15:18.770
Yeah, right. Exactly.
1325
01:15:19.130 --> 01:15:20.789
Why that land? Well, just because.