June 21, 2024 • 27 mins
Why is one religion given preferential treatment in our public schools, and what does it mean for a multi-religious society? This episode tackles the urgent issue of religious liberties with a sharp focus on Louisiana's recent mandate to display the Ten Commandments in public schools. We argue that education should remain secular, ensuring that all faiths or none at all are equally represented. The erosion of true religious freedom is at stake, and we make a compelling case for keeping religious indoctrination out of our public institutions, allowing families the freedom to guide their own religious teachings without governmental interference.
Beyond the legislative critique, we dive into the hypocrisy often seen within religious communities, particularly when advocating for religious symbols in schools while neglecting pressing social issues like child hunger and homelessness. True spiritual values should prioritize compassion and meaningful action over rigid doctrines. Our discussion calls for a more inclusive and compassionate approach, advocating for individual rights to practice one's religion or none without imposing on others. We share our intentions to run for Senate or pursue leadership roles to champion these values. Join us in challenging divisive religious practices and promoting a unified, compassionate society.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome everyone, welcome back, welcome back to
another episode on thisspiritual journey Today.
Today, I just want to ask whatis wrong with our country?
What is wrong with people notunderstanding religious
(00:22):
liberties, civil rights?
Why is it that Christiannationals are determined that
this country is going to be runby the church and only by the
church, that the idea ofseparation between church and
(00:46):
state doesn't exist?
And I speak to Louisiana rightnow, because representative
Republican Governor JeffLaundrie signed into law
Wednesday that requires aposter-sized Laundry Laundry, if
I'm pronouncing that right, I'msorry.
Signed into law Wednesday thatrequires a poster-sized display
(01:15):
of the Ten Commandments on everyschool wall.
How, how is this going to betolerated?
Going to be tolerated?
You know, this isn't a criticismof any particular religion, but
what it is is an anger over thedenial of the other religions.
(01:39):
Why is our government promotingone religion while denying
others the same privilege?
You know, in these episodes ofworking to deconstruct and to
walk away from the corruption ofmainstream religion, the
(02:02):
corruption of mainstreamreligion, the corruption of what
we've seen in our country,because those that say they
follow God, that follow theChrist, follow all of these
things.
The majority have no idea whatthey are following where they
are going, having no idea ofanything outside the 66 books
(02:29):
that were chosen by the councilto put in the Bible.
But yet we have politiciansthat want to push now, whether
they're trying to give votes onthe Christian side or what I'm
sure, but regardless, arepresentative, a senator, any
(02:54):
politician, a president, cannotput his or her religion in the
decisions they make.
For a country of multireligions, the United States, is
not a Christian nation, nor hasit ever been a Christian nation
.
Christian nationalists havetried to wipe out every faith,
(03:19):
every tradition and everycountry that has existed, and
they still work to do that today.
(03:40):
They send missionaries to chinaand places that aren't
accepting of Christianitybecause they have their own
traditions and they don'trealize that they're going in
and destroying entire cultures,destroying entire traditions
(04:02):
that have gone on for thousandsof years, all in the name of
well, this is our God's will, orwhat they want to say is this
is the God's will becausethere's only one God, when we
know for a fact that is not true, because scripture itself says
it's not true.
(04:23):
But yet we battled this inbattle, this in battle, this in
a land that is supposed to havereligious liberty, religious
freedom.
But, as I've said in many otherpodcasts and other episodes
that you can see just by drivingdown the street that there is a
(04:43):
privilege to one religion thatis not granted to other
religions.
And now, with being legallyrequired to put the Ten
Commandments in our publicschools, what about the students
that have parents that are notChristian?
(05:03):
Are you going to destroy theirtraditions too?
Are you going to destroy theircultures that their parents come
from another country?
Maybe they're Muslim, maybethey're Buddhist, maybe they're
Muslim, maybe they're Buddhist,maybe they're Hindu and we start
pushing Christian aspectswithin our public schools when
(05:24):
religion has no place in school,because school is supposed to
be where we learn things likemathematics, reading the basic
essentials of survival in thiscountry and basically knowing
how to live and breathe in thiscountry.
But religion is to always beseparated from that.
(05:51):
Religion is for home, religionis for the parents to decide to
teach and to mentor.
But when the schools starttaking it upon themselves, when
politicians begin to use publicschools for their indoctrination
, they have crossed the line andwe must fight back.
(06:16):
And, as I've said, said this isnot against Christianity when
I'm speaking about the TenCommandments.
Every Christian has the rightto have their Ten Commandments.
But if we're going to put thosethings in a public setting, you
must also have all of the otherreligions.
(06:38):
We must have all religions orno religion.
And it keeps on this journey ofdeconstruction, of leaving this
mainstream legion, because wecan see its corruption.
We see it even in this idea ofpushing the Ten Commandments in
(07:00):
schools, that the idea of realreligious freedom, real
religious liberty, doesn't existin this country.
It seems like it only exists ifyou're a Christian and it
grants you privilege.
But if you're a pagan, if youare someone that follows
(07:22):
witchcraft, if you are a Muslimor Buddhist or Hindu or many of
the other religions that are outthere, many Japanese religions
and Chinese religions are wegoing to display all these?
Are we going to adequately andequally distribute the knowledge
(07:45):
of all these religions to givethat element of choice, or are
we only going to do one religionand push that one religion?
Anybody saying that's notunconstitutional is un-American
and has no idea what theConstitution is even about.
(08:09):
Because religious freedom canalso mean freedom from religion,
that you have the right tobelieve what it is that you
believe.
You have the right to live asyour religion dictates for you
to live, but you do not have theright to tell someone else how
(08:32):
to live or that they must liveaccording to your religion or
how you feel that life should belived, because it removes all
elements of freedom.
Is America the land of the free?
The more I look, the more I seeof churches.
(08:55):
I see that the greatest enemyof peace in this world are
religions like Christianity,religions that absolutely will
not coexist with other religionsbut feel that they have to
(09:15):
convert or destroy or remove.
You know, I've heard differentreligious figures in different
workplaces and I've heard themsay things like well, we'll just
pray them out of this jobbecause they just don't quite
(09:36):
fit in here, knowing thatthey're very good workers and
they do their jobs very well,but their mindsets and their
mentalities of religious aspectsand philosophies don't match up
to theirs, so they want themout.
What kind of country do we livein?
(09:58):
What kind of a spirituality areyou when you think everyone has
to be like you, evenChristianity?
You know, the Bible talks aboutchoice.
In fact, one scripture comes inmind when it says Choose you
(10:21):
this day who you will serve.
A lot of Christians just wantto say Well, that's saying that
you need to follow.
Read it again.
If you have to Choose, choose.
The whole element ofspirituality is choice.
You cannot dictate how peoplelive, you cannot dictate what
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people believe and you mostcertainly cannot force religion
upon children in schools.
I remember, even as a child inmy day, where they would come
and hand out Bibles and in thosedays people thought that was
good.
Well, we need this.
We need that, until arevelation hit, an epiphany hit,
(11:08):
that it isn't what we need.
It's what we don't need.
We need to offer our childrenthe element of choice.
If the only thing they're everpresented in life is one
religion or one belief or onephilosophy, have they made a
(11:30):
choice or have they only takenthe only thing that they know?
There has to be an element ofchoice for someone to say that I
choose you, I choose thisreligion, I choose to walk this
Because you haven't choseanything when nothing else was
in front of you.
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You've merely taken what, theonly thing that was offered to
you, when there's so much moreand I tell Christians all the
time on these podcasts and I'veeven mentioned it you know, in
my days of the church, you knowthat the 66 books is only like
(12:12):
5% of scriptures.
It's only like 5% of scriptures.
Do you really believe that theonly thing there is to know
about divinity is in that Bible,that nothing else exists in
this world?
You know, even if you're just aChristian and you want to be
(12:34):
just a Christian, do you thinkthat's all there is, that that's
all Jesus ever said, that's allPaul ever said, or Timothy,
that's all they ever said?
You're fooling yourself.
There's so much more out thereand if you read those things and
you study those things just asmuch as you do the 66 books, you
(12:57):
will begin to see thesimilarities in the other
religions and you'll begin tosee the commonalities and that
there isn't this magnificent orgrand division between all these
religions, but in itsfoundation, many of them are
just alike, that they followedthe same things, they believed
(13:23):
the same things.
They may perceive them or havea persona that they envisioned
them differently, but in essencethey are the same, they are
equal to each other.
We cannot allow this to happenin our country to our children.
(13:44):
We've got things going on allover this world right now and
what we want to do is we want tobe able to deconstruct from
this, because we see, we see theevidence.
We see the evidence in thechurch.
We see the things that themultiple doctrines and the
(14:07):
multiple teachings.
We see that Christians are okaywith genocide, that they're
okay with genocide, that they'reokay with denying children
school lunches.
Because we do realize, correct,that the same people that
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demand the Ten Commandments inschool also refuse to offer
children free school lunches.
These are the sameconservatives that do this stuff
.
Where do we draw the line?
Where is your To the Christiansor to the churches of today's
(14:52):
America?
I would ask, where is yourheart?
Where is your godliness, thatholiness that you're talking
about, that?
We can look down the street andwe can see homeless walking
down the street, homeless peoplegoing hungry, starving to death
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and dying in the streets.
Children hungry in schoolbecause they're forced to go to
school or their parents go tojail.
You know, we're forced.
Can you not see the evidencethat this is not divine For the
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people that keep saying, well,we need to put God back in
America.
No, what we need to do is forpeople to act like the divine
that they are, the godlinessthat they are, the godliness
that they are, that each of us,man and woman, walk in our
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godliness as we are and be allthat we can be within that
divine essence of ourselves.
Stop arguing about foolishdoctrines and do what we know is
right.
We see things everywhere thataren't right.
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The church wants to give acertain percentage to the
homeless or to the hungry.
The rest goes for padded pewsand stained windows, fancy sound
systems, buses, but yet peoplego hungry down the street.
(16:44):
Well, we give a portion to that.
I think you need to read yourBible one more time, because it
doesn't say to give a portion,it says to give it all.
A portion, it says to give itall.
That is your mission in thisworld is to help people, to
guide people, to nurture people.
It isn't just to take people'smoney and build a membership or
this organization, this business.
(17:08):
While you let things happen likethe genocide of almost 20,000
Palestinian children, while youlet things happen like the
genocide of almost 20,000Palestinian children, while you
sit back and say that you stillsupport Israel, even though it's
been found guilty of war crimes, of extermination.
You know, if God granted thesepeople this land of Israel, you
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say well, they didn't colonizeit, they own it.
Then why are they having tomurder for it?
Why are they having to killbabies to obtain it, and I'm
saying these kind of things.
God, I want to show you whyyou're deconstructing, why you
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are wanting to leave thatmainstream religion.
Because you can still believein God, you can still believe in
the Christ, you can stillbelieve in some of the words the
disciples said.
But you have to take it andreplace it where it's supposed
to be, reorganize it the wayit's supposed to be, not the way
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the council put it to fit theirnarrative, and then also go out
and read the other things,study the other things, sit
under different mentors, listento them, take it with a grain of
salt, discern it.
This world needs spiritualpeople, real spiritual people,
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not religious people.
It's religious people that wantto put the Ten Commandments
back in the public schools.
They want everybody to be onereligion, because that empowers
them, because everyone believesone thing.
They're following one thing,and the key word there is
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following.
It ends leaders and createsfollowers.
This world, this country, needsleaders.
We don't need God back in thiscountry.
God has already done everythingthat needs to be done.
The problem is we won't step upand do what we're supposed to do
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.
We won't step up Whether we'reafraid, or church or another
organization or anotherreligious institution says that
we're not ready or we're notqualified.
Don't listen to that people.
If you feel within your heart,if you feel the Spirit telling
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you to move forward intosomething has given you the
power and the drive to dosomething, then do it.
I hear this all the time.
Well, how do I get started?
Just start, start somewhere,start small, whether it's just
talking to people on socialmedia, building a website,
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opening a store, doing differentthings that you can get
involved with people, to havethat chance to interact and just
bless people and love peopleand bring people together.
Spirituality that's what itdoes.
Religion divides.
We see that all over the world.
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Religion is tearing this worldapart and now they keep wanting
to throw it back into schools.
Pretty soon we're going to wantprayer back in school, when
prayer has never been outlawed.
Anybody can pray in school, butthey want to put christian
prayer.
But when they do that, theyalways exclude all of the other
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religions.
And then if that religion popsup and says, well, what about us
?
Oh, we can't have that now, wedon't believe in that.
And do you realize that it'snot for you to believe?
It's not your religion, nor isit nor your place to say that
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that has no place, because in aland of the free, in a land of
religious liberty, it does haveplace, because in this country,
in my mindset, you are free topractice your religion openly
and without fear of persecution,without fear or how do I want
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to say it?
Without that fear of beingridiculed and put down, that I
understand that you can bedifferent than me, I can be
different than you, we canbelieve in different
spiritualities, but we can stillwork together in a community
and we can help feed the hungryBecause, no matter what religion
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you are, we all have the samedesires to help people, to
nurture people, to empowerpeople, to bring our gifts and
our our blessings together andcreate better community.
It's not about religion.
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Two thousand years religion hashad its chance and 2,000 years
later all we've got is division,war, destroyed cultures,
destroyed traditions.
We have religious trauma allover the place.
We've got people so scared, soemotionally distraught that you
(22:50):
almost can't get into theirheart because they've been
destroyed by religion, by peoplewith good intentions but not so
good hearts, because they justdon't understand.
I hope this podcast has made alot of sense, because I know
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this has me Me very Not onlyupset, but very Encouraged to do
more in this country.
Yes, we still have to focus onthe things outside this country
and the needs, but let's notforget what we also have right
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here Elections coming up.
A lot of people know that evenme that I'm running for US
Senate for Indiana.
You know I've never gone intopolitics.
I probably don't stand a realbig chance this time, but
nonetheless I am running for USSenate.
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Take a chance or not take achance, well, okay, yeah, you
can take a chance, but take theopportunity to look into this
podcast.
Look into what it is that I'mtrying to do and what others are
trying to do in this world.
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We can't go two miles down theroad without seeing a church,
but we don't see anything elsewithout seeing a church, but we
don't see anything else.
What other religions do you seewhen you go down the street?
You don't see any, but youcan't see the privilege of the
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one.
In a country that says we arefree, we are not free.
A Christian business that'sworth billions a year, that
doesn't even pay taxes but yetrefuses to do what it is
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supposed to do According totheir own religion and I know
I've kind of gone all over theplace.
A lot of people will say, well,if you're running for Senate,
then you, you know you can'treally put the politics in just
like you're saying.
And I think if you reallylisten to the words that I'm
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saying, you'll understand thatthat's what I would not do.
I believe everybody has theright to be their own self,
their own religion, their ownculture, and that's what this
podcast is mainly about.
It's not about just being angryat one particular culture or
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one religion, at one particularculture or one religion.
That it's about being angrythat the others don't have the
same privilege, and I want togive them that privilege.
I want to open the door foreveryone to be able to practice
openly or not to practiceanything at all.
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You may be one that wants yourchild to go to school and not
have to be pounded by religionat all, and you have that right.
You have the right to not haveto worry about what your child
is being indoctrinated into,because a lot of times they'll
say well, the student asked, soI had to tell them.
(26:30):
Well, they asked because youput it on the wall, you
introduced that indoctrinationto that child and now the parent
has to deal with that situation, and if they are of a different
religion, then you could havecompletely complicated their
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entire family dynamics.
You could ultimately evendestroy their family.
Take some time.
Please share this podcast,share this episode, share the
fact that, yes, I am running forSenate or I will run for
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whatever spirit in the futureleads to.
I just felt like I needed to dosomething.
I needed to do more.
Be blessed everybody andblessed be.
Welcome everyone, welcome back, welcome back to
another episode on thisspiritual journey Today.
Today, I just want to ask whatis wrong with our country?
What is wrong with people notunderstanding religious
(00:22):
liberties, civil rights?
Why is it that Christiannationals are determined that
this country is going to be runby the church and only by the
church, that the idea ofseparation between church and
(00:46):
state doesn't exist?
And I speak to Louisiana rightnow, because representative
Republican Governor JeffLaundrie signed into law
Wednesday that requires aposter-sized Laundry Laundry, if
I'm pronouncing that right, I'msorry.
Signed into law Wednesday thatrequires a poster-sized display
(01:15):
of the Ten Commandments on everyschool wall.
How, how is this going to betolerated?
Going to be tolerated?
You know, this isn't a criticismof any particular religion, but
what it is is an anger over thedenial of the other religions.
(01:39):
Why is our government promotingone religion while denying
others the same privilege?
You know, in these episodes ofworking to deconstruct and to
walk away from the corruption ofmainstream religion, the
(02:02):
corruption of mainstreamreligion, the corruption of what
we've seen in our country,because those that say they
follow God, that follow theChrist, follow all of these
things.
The majority have no idea whatthey are following where they
are going, having no idea ofanything outside the 66 books
(02:29):
that were chosen by the councilto put in the Bible.
But yet we have politiciansthat want to push now, whether
they're trying to give votes onthe Christian side or what I'm
sure, but regardless, arepresentative, a senator, any
(02:54):
politician, a president, cannotput his or her religion in the
decisions they make.
For a country of multireligions, the United States, is
not a Christian nation, nor hasit ever been a Christian nation
.
Christian nationalists havetried to wipe out every faith,
(03:19):
every tradition and everycountry that has existed, and
they still work to do that today.
(03:40):
They send missionaries to chinaand places that aren't
accepting of Christianitybecause they have their own
traditions and they don'trealize that they're going in
and destroying entire cultures,destroying entire traditions
(04:02):
that have gone on for thousandsof years, all in the name of
well, this is our God's will, orwhat they want to say is this
is the God's will becausethere's only one God, when we
know for a fact that is not true, because scripture itself says
it's not true.
(04:23):
But yet we battled this inbattle, this in battle, this in
a land that is supposed to havereligious liberty, religious
freedom.
But, as I've said in many otherpodcasts and other episodes
that you can see just by drivingdown the street that there is a
(04:43):
privilege to one religion thatis not granted to other
religions.
And now, with being legallyrequired to put the Ten
Commandments in our publicschools, what about the students
that have parents that are notChristian?
(05:03):
Are you going to destroy theirtraditions too?
Are you going to destroy theircultures that their parents come
from another country?
Maybe they're Muslim, maybethey're Buddhist, maybe they're
Muslim, maybe they're Buddhist,maybe they're Hindu and we start
pushing Christian aspectswithin our public schools when
(05:24):
religion has no place in school,because school is supposed to
be where we learn things likemathematics, reading the basic
essentials of survival in thiscountry and basically knowing
how to live and breathe in thiscountry.
But religion is to always beseparated from that.
(05:51):
Religion is for home, religionis for the parents to decide to
teach and to mentor.
But when the schools starttaking it upon themselves, when
politicians begin to use publicschools for their indoctrination
, they have crossed the line andwe must fight back.
(06:16):
And, as I've said, said this isnot against Christianity when
I'm speaking about the TenCommandments.
Every Christian has the rightto have their Ten Commandments.
But if we're going to put thosethings in a public setting, you
must also have all of the otherreligions.
(06:38):
We must have all religions orno religion.
And it keeps on this journey ofdeconstruction, of leaving this
mainstream legion, because wecan see its corruption.
We see it even in this idea ofpushing the Ten Commandments in
(07:00):
schools, that the idea of realreligious freedom, real
religious liberty, doesn't existin this country.
It seems like it only exists ifyou're a Christian and it
grants you privilege.
But if you're a pagan, if youare someone that follows
(07:22):
witchcraft, if you are a Muslimor Buddhist or Hindu or many of
the other religions that are outthere, many Japanese religions
and Chinese religions are wegoing to display all these?
Are we going to adequately andequally distribute the knowledge
(07:45):
of all these religions to givethat element of choice, or are
we only going to do one religionand push that one religion?
Anybody saying that's notunconstitutional is un-American
and has no idea what theConstitution is even about.
(08:09):
Because religious freedom canalso mean freedom from religion,
that you have the right tobelieve what it is that you
believe.
You have the right to live asyour religion dictates for you
to live, but you do not have theright to tell someone else how
(08:32):
to live or that they must liveaccording to your religion or
how you feel that life should belived, because it removes all
elements of freedom.
Is America the land of the free?
The more I look, the more I seeof churches.
(08:55):
I see that the greatest enemyof peace in this world are
religions like Christianity,religions that absolutely will
not coexist with other religionsbut feel that they have to
(09:15):
convert or destroy or remove.
You know, I've heard differentreligious figures in different
workplaces and I've heard themsay things like well, we'll just
pray them out of this jobbecause they just don't quite
(09:36):
fit in here, knowing thatthey're very good workers and
they do their jobs very well,but their mindsets and their
mentalities of religious aspectsand philosophies don't match up
to theirs, so they want themout.
What kind of country do we livein?
(09:58):
What kind of a spirituality areyou when you think everyone has
to be like you, evenChristianity?
You know, the Bible talks aboutchoice.
In fact, one scripture comes inmind when it says Choose you
(10:21):
this day who you will serve.
A lot of Christians just wantto say Well, that's saying that
you need to follow.
Read it again.
If you have to Choose, choose.
The whole element ofspirituality is choice.
You cannot dictate how peoplelive, you cannot dictate what
(10:44):
people believe and you mostcertainly cannot force religion
upon children in schools.
I remember, even as a child inmy day, where they would come
and hand out Bibles and in thosedays people thought that was
good.
Well, we need this.
We need that, until arevelation hit, an epiphany hit,
(11:08):
that it isn't what we need.
It's what we don't need.
We need to offer our childrenthe element of choice.
If the only thing they're everpresented in life is one
religion or one belief or onephilosophy, have they made a
(11:30):
choice or have they only takenthe only thing that they know?
There has to be an element ofchoice for someone to say that I
choose you, I choose thisreligion, I choose to walk this
Because you haven't choseanything when nothing else was
in front of you.
(11:50):
You've merely taken what, theonly thing that was offered to
you, when there's so much moreand I tell Christians all the
time on these podcasts and I'veeven mentioned it you know, in
my days of the church, you knowthat the 66 books is only like
(12:12):
5% of scriptures.
It's only like 5% of scriptures.
Do you really believe that theonly thing there is to know
about divinity is in that Bible,that nothing else exists in
this world?
You know, even if you're just aChristian and you want to be
(12:34):
just a Christian, do you thinkthat's all there is, that that's
all Jesus ever said, that's allPaul ever said, or Timothy,
that's all they ever said?
You're fooling yourself.
There's so much more out thereand if you read those things and
you study those things just asmuch as you do the 66 books, you
(12:57):
will begin to see thesimilarities in the other
religions and you'll begin tosee the commonalities and that
there isn't this magnificent orgrand division between all these
religions, but in itsfoundation, many of them are
just alike, that they followedthe same things, they believed
(13:23):
the same things.
They may perceive them or havea persona that they envisioned
them differently, but in essencethey are the same, they are
equal to each other.
We cannot allow this to happenin our country to our children.
(13:44):
We've got things going on allover this world right now and
what we want to do is we want tobe able to deconstruct from
this, because we see, we see theevidence.
We see the evidence in thechurch.
We see the things that themultiple doctrines and the
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multiple teachings.
We see that Christians are okaywith genocide, that they're
okay with genocide, that they'reokay with denying children
school lunches.
Because we do realize, correct,that the same people that
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demand the Ten Commandments inschool also refuse to offer
children free school lunches.
These are the sameconservatives that do this stuff
.
Where do we draw the line?
Where is your To the Christiansor to the churches of today's
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America?
I would ask, where is yourheart?
Where is your godliness, thatholiness that you're talking
about, that?
We can look down the street andwe can see homeless walking
down the street, homeless peoplegoing hungry, starving to death
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and dying in the streets.
Children hungry in schoolbecause they're forced to go to
school or their parents go tojail.
You know, we're forced.
Can you not see the evidencethat this is not divine For the
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people that keep saying, well,we need to put God back in
America.
No, what we need to do is forpeople to act like the divine
that they are, the godlinessthat they are, the godliness
that they are, that each of us,man and woman, walk in our
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godliness as we are and be allthat we can be within that
divine essence of ourselves.
Stop arguing about foolishdoctrines and do what we know is
right.
We see things everywhere thataren't right.
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The church wants to give acertain percentage to the
homeless or to the hungry.
The rest goes for padded pewsand stained windows, fancy sound
systems, buses, but yet peoplego hungry down the street.
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Well, we give a portion to that.
I think you need to read yourBible one more time, because it
doesn't say to give a portion,it says to give it all.
A portion, it says to give itall.
That is your mission in thisworld is to help people, to
guide people, to nurture people.
It isn't just to take people'smoney and build a membership or
this organization, this business.
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While you let things happen likethe genocide of almost 20,000
Palestinian children, while youlet things happen like the
genocide of almost 20,000Palestinian children, while you
sit back and say that you stillsupport Israel, even though it's
been found guilty of war crimes, of extermination.
You know, if God granted thesepeople this land of Israel, you
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say well, they didn't colonizeit, they own it.
Then why are they having tomurder for it?
Why are they having to killbabies to obtain it, and I'm
saying these kind of things.
God, I want to show you whyyou're deconstructing, why you
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are wanting to leave thatmainstream religion.
Because you can still believein God, you can still believe in
the Christ, you can stillbelieve in some of the words the
disciples said.
But you have to take it andreplace it where it's supposed
to be, reorganize it the wayit's supposed to be, not the way
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the council put it to fit theirnarrative, and then also go out
and read the other things,study the other things, sit
under different mentors, listento them, take it with a grain of
salt, discern it.
This world needs spiritualpeople, real spiritual people,
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not religious people.
It's religious people that wantto put the Ten Commandments
back in the public schools.
They want everybody to be onereligion, because that empowers
them, because everyone believesone thing.
They're following one thing,and the key word there is
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following.
It ends leaders and createsfollowers.
This world, this country, needsleaders.
We don't need God back in thiscountry.
God has already done everythingthat needs to be done.
The problem is we won't step upand do what we're supposed to do
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.
We won't step up Whether we'reafraid, or church or another
organization or anotherreligious institution says that
we're not ready or we're notqualified.
Don't listen to that people.
If you feel within your heart,if you feel the Spirit telling
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you to move forward intosomething has given you the
power and the drive to dosomething, then do it.
I hear this all the time.
Well, how do I get started?
Just start, start somewhere,start small, whether it's just
talking to people on socialmedia, building a website,
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opening a store, doing differentthings that you can get
involved with people, to havethat chance to interact and just
bless people and love peopleand bring people together.
Spirituality that's what itdoes.
Religion divides.
We see that all over the world.
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Religion is tearing this worldapart and now they keep wanting
to throw it back into schools.
Pretty soon we're going to wantprayer back in school, when
prayer has never been outlawed.
Anybody can pray in school, butthey want to put christian
prayer.
But when they do that, theyalways exclude all of the other
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religions.
And then if that religion popsup and says, well, what about us
?
Oh, we can't have that now, wedon't believe in that.
And do you realize that it'snot for you to believe?
It's not your religion, nor isit nor your place to say that
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that has no place, because in aland of the free, in a land of
religious liberty, it does haveplace, because in this country,
in my mindset, you are free topractice your religion openly
and without fear of persecution,without fear or how do I want
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to say it?
Without that fear of beingridiculed and put down, that I
understand that you can bedifferent than me, I can be
different than you, we canbelieve in different
spiritualities, but we can stillwork together in a community
and we can help feed the hungryBecause, no matter what religion
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you are, we all have the samedesires to help people, to
nurture people, to empowerpeople, to bring our gifts and
our our blessings together andcreate better community.
It's not about religion.
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Two thousand years religion hashad its chance and 2,000 years
later all we've got is division,war, destroyed cultures,
destroyed traditions.
We have religious trauma allover the place.
We've got people so scared, soemotionally distraught that you
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almost can't get into theirheart because they've been
destroyed by religion, by peoplewith good intentions but not so
good hearts, because they justdon't understand.
I hope this podcast has made alot of sense, because I know
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this has me Me very Not onlyupset, but very Encouraged to do
more in this country.
Yes, we still have to focus onthe things outside this country
and the needs, but let's notforget what we also have right
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here Elections coming up.
A lot of people know that evenme that I'm running for US
Senate for Indiana.
You know I've never gone intopolitics.
I probably don't stand a realbig chance this time, but
nonetheless I am running for USSenate.
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Take a chance or not take achance, well, okay, yeah, you
can take a chance, but take theopportunity to look into this
podcast.
Look into what it is that I'mtrying to do and what others are
trying to do in this world.
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We can't go two miles down theroad without seeing a church,
but we don't see anything elsewithout seeing a church, but we
don't see anything else.
What other religions do you seewhen you go down the street?
You don't see any, but youcan't see the privilege of the
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one.
In a country that says we arefree, we are not free.
A Christian business that'sworth billions a year, that
doesn't even pay taxes but yetrefuses to do what it is
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supposed to do According totheir own religion and I know
I've kind of gone all over theplace.
A lot of people will say, well,if you're running for Senate,
then you, you know you can'treally put the politics in just
like you're saying.
And I think if you reallylisten to the words that I'm
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saying, you'll understand thatthat's what I would not do.
I believe everybody has theright to be their own self,
their own religion, their ownculture, and that's what this
podcast is mainly about.
It's not about just being angryat one particular culture or
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one religion, at one particularculture or one religion.
That it's about being angrythat the others don't have the
same privilege, and I want togive them that privilege.
I want to open the door foreveryone to be able to practice
openly or not to practiceanything at all.
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You may be one that wants yourchild to go to school and not
have to be pounded by religionat all, and you have that right.
You have the right to not haveto worry about what your child
is being indoctrinated into,because a lot of times they'll
say well, the student asked, soI had to tell them.
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Well, they asked because youput it on the wall, you
introduced that indoctrinationto that child and now the parent
has to deal with that situation, and if they are of a different
religion, then you could havecompletely complicated their
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entire family dynamics.
You could ultimately evendestroy their family.
Take some time.
Please share this podcast,share this episode, share the
fact that, yes, I am running forSenate or I will run for
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whatever spirit in the futureleads to.
I just felt like I needed to dosomething.
I needed to do more.
Be blessed everybody andblessed be.
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