January 24, 2025 • 34 mins
What if the very institutions meant to guide and protect us are the ones leading us astray? Join me, Richard Ravenbrook, as I challenge the status quo by exposing the troubling disconnect between the true teachings of Christianity and the practices of some modern believers. With a heart rooted in paganism, I speak candidly about respecting all positive religions while confronting the hypocrisy within certain Christian circles. This episode of "Finding Our Way Home" is a call for introspection and truth-seeking, urging listeners to look beyond traditional texts and trust their inner wisdom, especially when tackling issues as pressing as immigration and the treatment of those born on U.S. soil.
Let's journey through the turbulent intersection of spirituality, equality, and social justice, and confront the ignorance that stems from inadequate education systems and manipulated religious narratives. Drawing poignant parallels to the Dark Ages, this episode underscores the urgent need for compassion and unity in a world rife with violence and hypocrisy. We explore how intertwining politics with religious rhetoric can provoke oppression and challenge the freedom of future generations. Together, we can create a world where love and understanding prevail, standing as a united front against injustice and envisioning a brighter, more compassionate future.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Merry, meet and welcome.
Welcome back to another episodeof Finding Our Way Home.
I am Richard Ravenbrook.
I know it's been a while sinceI made a podcast.
I've been working on the booksand things and exploring options
that kind of help get themessage out a little bit better.
But I thank everybody that hastuned in to this podcast and I'm
(00:25):
going to keep going, keepcreating.
I want to get some guests onthe podcast, if I can spit that
out.
My spirit Spirit has really laidon my heart today.
You know, I know some of thethings that are going on in
politics and I know a lot ofpeople just don't like to talk
(00:46):
about politics okay, but rightnow we have some serious,
serious things going on in ourcountry and they're not all good
.
We got a lot of people thinkingthey're doing a lot of good
things when in actuality theyare doing horrific things.
(01:08):
You know, and the people thatlisten to my podcast and read my
books and things of that nature, they know that I stand for
equality.
They know that I stand forwomen to have free choice and
for equality for LGBTQ and youknow things of just equality and
(01:34):
justice for everybody.
Though I may be a straightmarried man.
I still can support everyoneelse's choice in this life.
I don't have to understand it,sometimes I don't even have to
agree with, but I support anduplift you being able to choose
(02:00):
for yourself as you wish to liveand I honor that and that then
that's it.
But for some reason we've gotfolks in this country that feel
that they have to play God, thatthey have to play the role of
(02:20):
the enforcer, that they have toenforce a certain way of living
because their God says so, buttheir God can't seem to do it on
their own without them doing it.
You know what?
I don't mean to soundblasphemous to what many in the
(02:43):
Christian Church wouldn't say,because that's not what I'm
doing here.
You know, people know that I'ma deconstructed minister with a
pagan heart and an Aministmindset, that I know the truth
is not just found in one place,but I still have respect for all
(03:03):
religions place.
But I still have respect forall religions.
I still have dignity and apositive mannerism towards all
religions that are positive andthat help bring forth the
balance.
But sometimes it really getsdifficult when you see people
(03:25):
that profess to hold a label andthen honestly have no clue of
what that label even pertains.
They have no idea what it is.
We got people out there rightnow claiming and screaming that
they're devout Christians thatyet are ridiculing and
(03:47):
belittling a bishop that simplyasked President Trump to have
mercy.
She even did this so in her ownchurch.
In church people, you know thevery thing that the one that
they call Jesus would have donehimself.
(04:08):
If you have an issue with aperson of God asking for mercy,
then you have no idea what Godis in the first place.
Asking for mercy is not askingfor things not to take place at
all.
She wasn't asking for Trump tonot do anything that pertained
(04:33):
to his plans.
What she asked was if you'regoing to do, let them have
dignity, do so with wisdom andunderstanding, because President
(04:53):
Trump wants to claim that Godput him there.
For those of us who knowanything about the God that he
says put him there, it's notfitting and I'm not gonna go
into a whole line of preachingand things of that nature.
But he says the Christian Godput him where he is.
(05:15):
If that's true, he will bearthe fruits of the Spirit.
He will bear the fruit of love,wisdom, compassion, kindness,
mercy.
These are the things that makea person identify with Christ
(05:37):
consciousness and that they areone with the divine.
I don't see that.
I don't see that in the church.
I see more of God in pagans.
I see more of the divine inthose that label themselves as
(06:05):
druids or Norse pagans orwhatever else.
I see more divinity withinthese people than I've seen in
all the churches in my life,because all I see within the
church is a bunch ofauthoritarians trying to exert
authority that they do not have.
(06:28):
They want to bring about justthis book, the 66 books that are
found in the King James Versionof the Bible or whatever
version that they particularlyare going to use.
The fact that we have multipleversions of the bible should say
right there that you know theremust be an issue with truth
(06:49):
when you have so many versionsof the bible.
But do you know that the biblehas had over 30 000 alterations,
that words have changed, thingshave been put in and things
have been taken out?
But when you address thoseissues to a Christian, they
automatically deflect and gosomewhere else.
I want to talk about somethingdifferent, because I'm not
(07:13):
saying that there is not truthin the Bible.
There is a lot of truth withinthe Bible, within those 66 books
.
But if anybody is reallylistening to my podcast, they
know that I tell them to don'tlimit yourself with that,
because you're only going tofind about five to eight percent
(07:36):
of the truth within those books, because that's all they want
you to know.
You have to seek in order tofind, you have to look, you have
to venture out, you have totrust within yourself, you have
to trust within that voice thatis within you to do more than
just sit in a pew and tellpeople what to do right now.
(08:02):
We've got.
You know what I understand.
I understand the debate onimmigration.
I agree that we need a good,secure border with real
immigration policies, but I alsoagree that to become a US
(08:23):
citizen today for manyimmigrants is way beyond
understanding that.
I know that many of us thathave lived here our whole life
couldn't pass a citizenship testand we need to make some
(08:44):
changes.
We've got people.
We've had children and babiesthat were born here, but the
Trump administration trying tosay that they have no right to
be here, when the 14th amendmentclearly says that anyone born
on US soil is a citizen of thiscountry.
They're even trying to say thatNative Americans may not be
(09:07):
real Americans and people.
We've got to stand against this.
I believed in President Trumpfor a long time.
I did in some ways.
I still believe that somewherein that heart of his he's gonna
(09:29):
make changes.
But he is surrounded by peopleright now that are empowering
him, the people that open thedoor to where he is, and these
are not good people.
They are powerful, wickedpeople in bad places, and they
are not here to help Americancitizens, but they're here to
(09:50):
enslave you.
They're here to make the richricher and the poor poor, to
create an environment where youare forced to work even harder
than you are.
You know, the American dreamsays that if you work hard,
(10:10):
don't work hard, work smart.
I don't know if anybody's toldyou this, but you'll never have
the American dream working forsomeone else.
You've got to find somethingwithin yourself.
You've got to rise up and bethe person that you know you are
.
Yes, we have to work forsomebody, sometimes in order to
build the bricks that get us towhere we need to go.
(10:32):
Believe in yourself.
Right now, we've got some reallybad things going on and, like I
said, I don't want to getreally political in this, but
Spirit has told me, sat me downand said no, you need to talk
about this, richard, an eyeawakening epiphany to understand
(11:18):
that what we believed was goingto happen is not going to
happen, but in fact the opposite.
I tried to tell people aboutproject 2025.
Many people ridiculed me,laughed at me, said that that
was just a joke, that that wasnever, that was never going to
happen.
But yet we've seen 80 of italready taken place in the first
week after the inauguration.
(11:42):
We hear so many.
There's a a bill in Mississippiright now, bill 1484.
That talks about permanentimprisonment for illegal aliens,
basically, an enslavementpolicy With no parole.
(12:04):
You realize what that means.
It means if you're an illegalalien in Mississippi, they can
arrest you and put you to workfor the state for the rest of
your life and there's nothingyou can do about it.
These things are crazy Abortion, anti-abortion laws that say,
(12:25):
even if a woman is raped or if achild is raped, that they have
to go through this whole legalprocess and prove that they were
raped before they can ever getanything to end the pregnancy,
even if it means their life.
Where have we come as a nationwhen people no longer have a
(12:51):
choice when women don't have achoice.
You know we have come so far inthe last 100 to 200 years.
We've made many strides.
We had common sense, we endedslavery, we gave equality, for
(13:12):
the most part to women.
There's still a lot out therethat you know.
I have nothing.
We need masculinity.
We need femininity, if I couldspit that out.
But you know, equality.
That's why I like the NorsePagan.
Norse Pagans were equal totheir women and their women were
(13:35):
equal to their men.
They even fought in battles,stood side by side with their
men, and for some reasonChristianity wants to lower what
women can be.
They want to keep them asservants, and you know that.
(14:01):
Just think it grieves thespirit to know that we have
somebody in office or peoplearound him that would want to
fall back.
So many years, so many stridestowards understanding that we're
all linked together in thisworld, that we're all one and
(14:28):
just because we're a differentsex, or even if you identify as
something entirely different,that that doesn't have to affect
me or my life or my family,that you can be or do whatever
it is you choose to be and do,and I can too, but for some
(14:49):
reason we live in a free countrythat's not free, because if any
religion tries to enforce acertain path, then they're also
denying someone else of theirpath, because freedom means that
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everyone is free to choosewhatever path is within them,
whatever path calls to them.
You know people will say that,well, the United States is the
greatest nation in the worldbecause of freedom.
But we realize that a majorityof the countries around the
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world, they all have freedom too.
In fact, a lot of them havemore freedom than we do.
They have free health care.
They have mount.
Just the ignorance of manypeople because they don't want
to teach it.
They don't teach it in theirschools, they want to brainwash
(15:53):
people and believe that we arethe best, but when we get to
really thinking about it,looking into it, we're almost
the bottom of the educationscale.
We are high in murder rates anddivorce rates.
We are high in murder rates anddivorce rates.
(16:14):
And you know and everybodywants to what all the Christians
anyway want to focus back andbe what?
Because we fell away from God.
No, that's not the reasoning.
We had a time when the churchruled everything.
It was called the Dark Ages.
A time when the church ruledeverything.
It was called the dark ages, atime when women were burnt alive
and people were slain in thestreets because of a man or a
(16:39):
church saying it was God's willthat these people be destroyed.
And sadly, it seems like we'regoing back to that, that we just
keep falling back to the samehypocritical, violent.
I mean, have you read the bible?
(16:59):
Have you seen the violencethroughout the bible?
The only thing not violentwithin the Bible was the man
that they called Jesus.
Everything else in the Biblewas violent.
Today's church, or followers ofPaul, not Yeshua, they don't
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have a clue of what, who Yeshuais, because the book only shows
three years of his life.
He lived 33 years.
How do you serve someone andworship someone?
How do you call someone Lordwhen you have no idea how they
(17:42):
lived, where they went, whatthey believed?
Well, we know he went to theyou know the temples, that he
studied the Torah and stuff likethat.
You know for a while, oh yeah,because that's where he was
raised, but he wasn't.
The Torah is from Jewishreligion, you know, and
(18:04):
Christianity kind of stole thatpart and kind of implemented it
in with a few books that theyhave in order to try to make it
all sound legit BecauseChristianity has stolen so many
of fundamental truths from somany different religions.
(18:35):
Different religions out of paganrituals and pagan traditions
were put into Christianity alldifferent types of religions is
what made Christianity.
Because they only knew threeyears of his life, but we have
evidence all over the place ofall 33 years.
But most people have no courageto venture out and to read and
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to know and to study.
They have no belief inthemselves or belief in security
within themselves.
That spirit will lead them intotruth if they are seeking truth
.
That, in fact, when my heart istrue and I am seeking that
(19:21):
which is true, spirit will leadme to such truth.
Do you believe that today?
Today, I want everybody to juststop and look around.
Stop and look around.
Look at what is happening inour politics, in our schools and
(19:43):
our churches.
A bishop merely asked for mercyand is being defamed all over
the country by christians.
But we understand.
Yeshua was not put on the crossby those outside of the church.
(20:03):
He was put there by people inthe church.
So when these people comeagainst her and everyone else
that tries to cry for mercy orcry for an intervention or a
different plan, the church comesagainst them, just like they
did him.
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And we know the truth becausewe can see it by the fruits.
I don't see the fruits.
I seen the fruits in her.
I seen the fruits of compassionand mercy and kindness, but not
in the others.
And I understand, when you'retalking about things of a
(20:47):
country, that there's thingsthat sometimes you have to do to
be firm and to create securityand safety.
I understand that.
But asking for mercy doesn'tdeter that you can do everything
(21:07):
that you need to do and stilldo it mercifully.
But people, especially whenthey're screaming that we need
to put God back in society, weneed to put God back in school
and everything else, but yetwhen, when God speaks at the
pulpit, they deny it, ridiculeit and attack it.
(21:31):
Today, understand that what yousee happening in politics, not
God, it is not divine, it is theopposite.
And unless we stand, there willbe many things destroyed.
(21:54):
Freedom for many people will beripped away, their security
will be gone, the security ofchildren, the health and
well-being of families.
These things will behorrifically changed and our
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country will never look the same.
When I say stand and rise, whenI say stand against these tides
of oppression, do so.
Stand in every way that you can.
The best way to defeat thesystem is not to participate in
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the system.
That's step one.
I've never been one to call forviolence.
I don't particularly likeviolence, but I understand that
there is a time.
There is a time when men andwomen must stand up for their
(23:05):
children, that we must stand upfor our elderly when they can't
stand for themselves, that wemust stand for the people that
are weak or that are low innumber, the people that are
oppressed and attacked.
(23:29):
We don't have to agree witheverything they do, but we can
stand as a wall around them.
We can lift them up and say Idon't care that they're
different.
They are my brother, they aremy sister, they are, as me, a
part of this world, and if theydo things in this life that are
(23:51):
wrong, then let that judgment bebetween them and the divine,
not me, not you.
Let us just live withcompassion and love for each
other and leave the judgmentsfor a later time, for the things
(24:12):
that we don't even know thatcome, because we can make all
the insinuations and guesses andtheories and theological, but
we, honestly, we don't know whatcomes.
We all have different beliefs.
We know there's something elsebeyond this.
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Most of us believe that, and sodo I, but I think what matters
the most in this life is how welived it.
Did you show compassion?
Did you show kindness?
Did you live a life that wasfull of love for people?
(24:55):
I'm not saying we all makemistakes, we all screw up,
sometimes we all bottom out andsometimes we're a total failure
of what we did.
But throughout your life as awhole, did you try your best to
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be the best person that youcould be?
Did you feel sorrow for thepains that you caused?
Do you remember the joy thatyou brought to others?
Did you show love every chancethat you could, mercy when you
could?
These are the things that Ibelieve take us into the next
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step, into that invisible veil.
Will we go back to where we come?
Take some time, consider thesethings, whatever particular
religion that you are and I knowsome of us some of us have a
(26:08):
built-in rage, have an anger,and we just want to quench that
for just a short time.
Your day may rise soon, but fornow, let us seek a peaceful way
(26:28):
.
Let us seek a way of handlingthese situations without raising
the sword.
Let us manifest this change,let us focus that manifestation
(26:49):
around our tent.
All of us together, let us seea world that is joined together,
a country that is joinedtogether, united in a common
interest, just being freedom,love and compassion exploration.
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No more you have to live thisway or that way, but may you
live the way you choose to livethat in the land of the free,
the land of the brave.
May you be brave and may you befree no-transcript.
Merry, meet and welcome.
Welcome back to another episodeof Finding Our Way Home.
I am Richard Ravenbrook.
I know it's been a while sinceI made a podcast.
I've been working on the booksand things and exploring options
that kind of help get themessage out a little bit better.
But I thank everybody that hastuned in to this podcast and I'm
(00:25):
going to keep going, keepcreating.
I want to get some guests onthe podcast, if I can spit that
out.
My spirit Spirit has really laidon my heart today.
You know, I know some of thethings that are going on in
politics and I know a lot ofpeople just don't like to talk
(00:46):
about politics okay, but rightnow we have some serious,
serious things going on in ourcountry and they're not all good
.
We got a lot of people thinkingthey're doing a lot of good
things when in actuality theyare doing horrific things.
(01:08):
You know, and the people thatlisten to my podcast and read my
books and things of that nature, they know that I stand for
equality.
They know that I stand forwomen to have free choice and
for equality for LGBTQ and youknow things of just equality and
(01:34):
justice for everybody.
Though I may be a straightmarried man.
I still can support everyoneelse's choice in this life.
I don't have to understand it,sometimes I don't even have to
agree with, but I support anduplift you being able to choose
(02:00):
for yourself as you wish to liveand I honor that and that then
that's it.
But for some reason we've gotfolks in this country that feel
that they have to play God, thatthey have to play the role of
(02:20):
the enforcer, that they have toenforce a certain way of living
because their God says so, buttheir God can't seem to do it on
their own without them doing it.
You know what?
I don't mean to soundblasphemous to what many in the
(02:43):
Christian Church wouldn't say,because that's not what I'm
doing here.
You know, people know that I'ma deconstructed minister with a
pagan heart and an Aministmindset, that I know the truth
is not just found in one place,but I still have respect for all
(03:03):
religions place.
But I still have respect forall religions.
I still have dignity and apositive mannerism towards all
religions that are positive andthat help bring forth the
balance.
But sometimes it really getsdifficult when you see people
(03:25):
that profess to hold a label andthen honestly have no clue of
what that label even pertains.
They have no idea what it is.
We got people out there rightnow claiming and screaming that
they're devout Christians thatyet are ridiculing and
(03:47):
belittling a bishop that simplyasked President Trump to have
mercy.
She even did this so in her ownchurch.
In church people, you know thevery thing that the one that
they call Jesus would have donehimself.
(04:08):
If you have an issue with aperson of God asking for mercy,
then you have no idea what Godis in the first place.
Asking for mercy is not askingfor things not to take place at
all.
She wasn't asking for Trump tonot do anything that pertained
(04:33):
to his plans.
What she asked was if you'regoing to do, let them have
dignity, do so with wisdom andunderstanding, because President
(04:53):
Trump wants to claim that Godput him there.
For those of us who knowanything about the God that he
says put him there, it's notfitting and I'm not gonna go
into a whole line of preachingand things of that nature.
But he says the Christian Godput him where he is.
(05:15):
If that's true, he will bearthe fruits of the Spirit.
He will bear the fruit of love,wisdom, compassion, kindness,
mercy.
These are the things that makea person identify with Christ
(05:37):
consciousness and that they areone with the divine.
I don't see that.
I don't see that in the church.
I see more of God in pagans.
I see more of the divine inthose that label themselves as
(06:05):
druids or Norse pagans orwhatever else.
I see more divinity withinthese people than I've seen in
all the churches in my life,because all I see within the
church is a bunch ofauthoritarians trying to exert
authority that they do not have.
(06:28):
They want to bring about justthis book, the 66 books that are
found in the King James Versionof the Bible or whatever
version that they particularlyare going to use.
The fact that we have multipleversions of the bible should say
right there that you know theremust be an issue with truth
(06:49):
when you have so many versionsof the bible.
But do you know that the biblehas had over 30 000 alterations,
that words have changed, thingshave been put in and things
have been taken out?
But when you address thoseissues to a Christian, they
automatically deflect and gosomewhere else.
I want to talk about somethingdifferent, because I'm not
(07:13):
saying that there is not truthin the Bible.
There is a lot of truth withinthe Bible, within those 66 books
.
But if anybody is reallylistening to my podcast, they
know that I tell them to don'tlimit yourself with that,
because you're only going tofind about five to eight percent
(07:36):
of the truth within those books, because that's all they want
you to know.
You have to seek in order tofind, you have to look, you have
to venture out, you have totrust within yourself, you have
to trust within that voice thatis within you to do more than
just sit in a pew and tellpeople what to do right now.
(08:02):
We've got.
You know what I understand.
I understand the debate onimmigration.
I agree that we need a good,secure border with real
immigration policies, but I alsoagree that to become a US
(08:23):
citizen today for manyimmigrants is way beyond
understanding that.
I know that many of us thathave lived here our whole life
couldn't pass a citizenship testand we need to make some
(08:44):
changes.
We've got people.
We've had children and babiesthat were born here, but the
Trump administration trying tosay that they have no right to
be here, when the 14th amendmentclearly says that anyone born
on US soil is a citizen of thiscountry.
They're even trying to say thatNative Americans may not be
(09:07):
real Americans and people.
We've got to stand against this.
I believed in President Trumpfor a long time.
I did in some ways.
I still believe that somewherein that heart of his he's gonna
(09:29):
make changes.
But he is surrounded by peopleright now that are empowering
him, the people that open thedoor to where he is, and these
are not good people.
They are powerful, wickedpeople in bad places, and they
are not here to help Americancitizens, but they're here to
(09:50):
enslave you.
They're here to make the richricher and the poor poor, to
create an environment where youare forced to work even harder
than you are.
You know, the American dreamsays that if you work hard,
(10:10):
don't work hard, work smart.
I don't know if anybody's toldyou this, but you'll never have
the American dream working forsomeone else.
You've got to find somethingwithin yourself.
You've got to rise up and bethe person that you know you are
.
Yes, we have to work forsomebody, sometimes in order to
build the bricks that get us towhere we need to go.
(10:32):
Believe in yourself.
Right now, we've got some reallybad things going on and, like I
said, I don't want to getreally political in this, but
Spirit has told me, sat me downand said no, you need to talk
about this, richard, an eyeawakening epiphany to understand
(11:18):
that what we believed was goingto happen is not going to
happen, but in fact the opposite.
I tried to tell people aboutproject 2025.
Many people ridiculed me,laughed at me, said that that
was just a joke, that that wasnever, that was never going to
happen.
But yet we've seen 80 of italready taken place in the first
week after the inauguration.
(11:42):
We hear so many.
There's a a bill in Mississippiright now, bill 1484.
That talks about permanentimprisonment for illegal aliens,
basically, an enslavementpolicy With no parole.
(12:04):
You realize what that means.
It means if you're an illegalalien in Mississippi, they can
arrest you and put you to workfor the state for the rest of
your life and there's nothingyou can do about it.
These things are crazy Abortion, anti-abortion laws that say,
(12:25):
even if a woman is raped or if achild is raped, that they have
to go through this whole legalprocess and prove that they were
raped before they can ever getanything to end the pregnancy,
even if it means their life.
Where have we come as a nationwhen people no longer have a
(12:51):
choice when women don't have achoice.
You know we have come so far inthe last 100 to 200 years.
We've made many strides.
We had common sense, we endedslavery, we gave equality, for
(13:12):
the most part to women.
There's still a lot out therethat you know.
I have nothing.
We need masculinity.
We need femininity, if I couldspit that out.
But you know, equality.
That's why I like the NorsePagan.
Norse Pagans were equal totheir women and their women were
(13:35):
equal to their men.
They even fought in battles,stood side by side with their
men, and for some reasonChristianity wants to lower what
women can be.
They want to keep them asservants, and you know that.
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Just think it grieves thespirit to know that we have
somebody in office or peoplearound him that would want to
fall back.
So many years, so many stridestowards understanding that we're
all linked together in thisworld, that we're all one and
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just because we're a differentsex, or even if you identify as
something entirely different,that that doesn't have to affect
me or my life or my family,that you can be or do whatever
it is you choose to be and do,and I can too, but for some
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reason we live in a free countrythat's not free, because if any
religion tries to enforce acertain path, then they're also
denying someone else of theirpath, because freedom means that
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everyone is free to choosewhatever path is within them,
whatever path calls to them.
You know people will say that,well, the United States is the
greatest nation in the worldbecause of freedom.
But we realize that a majorityof the countries around the
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world, they all have freedom too.
In fact, a lot of them havemore freedom than we do.
They have free health care.
They have mount.
Just the ignorance of manypeople because they don't want
to teach it.
They don't teach it in theirschools, they want to brainwash
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people and believe that we arethe best, but when we get to
really thinking about it,looking into it, we're almost
the bottom of the educationscale.
We are high in murder rates anddivorce rates.
We are high in murder rates anddivorce rates.
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And you know and everybodywants to what all the Christians
anyway want to focus back andbe what?
Because we fell away from God.
No, that's not the reasoning.
We had a time when the churchruled everything.
It was called the Dark Ages.
A time when the church ruledeverything.
It was called the dark ages, atime when women were burnt alive
and people were slain in thestreets because of a man or a
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church saying it was God's willthat these people be destroyed.
And sadly, it seems like we'regoing back to that, that we just
keep falling back to the samehypocritical, violent.
I mean, have you read the bible?
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Have you seen the violencethroughout the bible?
The only thing not violentwithin the Bible was the man
that they called Jesus.
Everything else in the Biblewas violent.
Today's church, or followers ofPaul, not Yeshua, they don't
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have a clue of what, who Yeshuais, because the book only shows
three years of his life.
He lived 33 years.
How do you serve someone andworship someone?
How do you call someone Lordwhen you have no idea how they
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lived, where they went, whatthey believed?
Well, we know he went to theyou know the temples, that he
studied the Torah and stuff likethat.
You know for a while, oh yeah,because that's where he was
raised, but he wasn't.
The Torah is from Jewishreligion, you know, and
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Christianity kind of stole thatpart and kind of implemented it
in with a few books that theyhave in order to try to make it
all sound legit BecauseChristianity has stolen so many
of fundamental truths from somany different religions.
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Different religions out of paganrituals and pagan traditions
were put into Christianity alldifferent types of religions is
what made Christianity.
Because they only knew threeyears of his life, but we have
evidence all over the place ofall 33 years.
But most people have no courageto venture out and to read and
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to know and to study.
They have no belief inthemselves or belief in security
within themselves.
That spirit will lead them intotruth if they are seeking truth
.
That, in fact, when my heart istrue and I am seeking that
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which is true, spirit will leadme to such truth.
Do you believe that today?
Today, I want everybody to juststop and look around.
Stop and look around.
Look at what is happening inour politics, in our schools and
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our churches.
A bishop merely asked for mercyand is being defamed all over
the country by christians.
But we understand.
Yeshua was not put on the crossby those outside of the church.
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He was put there by people inthe church.
So when these people comeagainst her and everyone else
that tries to cry for mercy orcry for an intervention or a
different plan, the church comesagainst them, just like they
did him.
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And we know the truth becausewe can see it by the fruits.
I don't see the fruits.
I seen the fruits in her.
I seen the fruits of compassionand mercy and kindness, but not
in the others.
And I understand, when you'retalking about things of a
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country, that there's thingsthat sometimes you have to do to
be firm and to create securityand safety.
I understand that.
But asking for mercy doesn'tdeter that you can do everything
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that you need to do and stilldo it mercifully.
But people, especially whenthey're screaming that we need
to put God back in society, weneed to put God back in school
and everything else, but yetwhen, when God speaks at the
pulpit, they deny it, ridiculeit and attack it.
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Today, understand that what yousee happening in politics, not
God, it is not divine, it is theopposite.
And unless we stand, there willbe many things destroyed.
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Freedom for many people will beripped away, their security
will be gone, the security ofchildren, the health and
well-being of families.
These things will behorrifically changed and our
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country will never look the same.
When I say stand and rise, whenI say stand against these tides
of oppression, do so.
Stand in every way that you can.
The best way to defeat thesystem is not to participate in
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the system.
That's step one.
I've never been one to call forviolence.
I don't particularly likeviolence, but I understand that
there is a time.
There is a time when men andwomen must stand up for their
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children, that we must stand upfor our elderly when they can't
stand for themselves, that wemust stand for the people that
are weak or that are low innumber, the people that are
oppressed and attacked.
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We don't have to agree witheverything they do, but we can
stand as a wall around them.
We can lift them up and say Idon't care that they're
different.
They are my brother, they aremy sister, they are, as me, a
part of this world, and if theydo things in this life that are
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wrong, then let that judgment bebetween them and the divine,
not me, not you.
Let us just live withcompassion and love for each
other and leave the judgmentsfor a later time, for the things
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that we don't even know thatcome, because we can make all
the insinuations and guesses andtheories and theological, but
we, honestly, we don't know whatcomes.
We all have different beliefs.
We know there's something elsebeyond this.
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Most of us believe that, and sodo I, but I think what matters
the most in this life is how welived it.
Did you show compassion?
Did you show kindness?
Did you live a life that wasfull of love for people?
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I'm not saying we all makemistakes, we all screw up,
sometimes we all bottom out andsometimes we're a total failure
of what we did.
But throughout your life as awhole, did you try your best to
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be the best person that youcould be?
Did you feel sorrow for thepains that you caused?
Do you remember the joy thatyou brought to others?
Did you show love every chancethat you could, mercy when you
could?
These are the things that Ibelieve take us into the next
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step, into that invisible veil.
Will we go back to where we come?
Take some time, consider thesethings, whatever particular
religion that you are and I knowsome of us some of us have a
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built-in rage, have an anger,and we just want to quench that
for just a short time.
Your day may rise soon, but fornow, let us seek a peaceful way
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.
Let us seek a way of handlingthese situations without raising
the sword.
Let us manifest this change,let us focus that manifestation
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around our tent.
All of us together, let us seea world that is joined together,
a country that is joinedtogether, united in a common
interest, just being freedom,love and compassion exploration.
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No more you have to live thisway or that way, but may you
live the way you choose to livethat in the land of the free,
the land of the brave.
May you be brave and may you befree no-transcript.
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