10 Reasons America Is Turning Orthodox (And No One Can Stop It)

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Speaker 1 (00:16):
So with all that being said, now let me get
into my arguments for why America will be Orthodox and
why this isn't a trend but a true reaction against
the failures of modernity general. So number one reason, as
you guys could guess, the number one reason why orthodox

(00:39):
is going to continue to grow in America is the
failure of modern Western Christianity. And so, as you guys
already know, and I've already made this case multiple times,
and if you've listened to some of the previous streams,
I mentioned this that even during my PhD defense, one
of the scholars, she is a philosopher out of the
Tomistic tradition. She's expert on Aristotle, and she her scholarship

(01:02):
focuses on neuroscience, you know, philosophy of mind, philosophy of
person and brain, that type of stuff. And when she
read my book, I'm making the case in my book
very explicitly that Orthodoxy is the only pre modern alternative

(01:22):
Christian alternative in America. And I make the case, and
I try to actually present that in chapter three, that
even the Catholic Church is pre is still modern. And
so she actually questioned me during the defense of my
dissertation and said, you know, the Catholic Church is also
pre moderate, and then I brought up Vatican one, Vatican

(01:42):
two aspects that are coming out of the Vatican, you know,
Pope Frank now Pope Leo, and she conceded that, Yeah,
I guess you're right. The Catholic Church has modernized in
many ways. And so if modernity is the problem, a
pre modern solution is the only answer. And so modern
Christianity is filled with modernism. Modern Christianity is filled with

(02:05):
liberal theology. And so this liberalness again, neoliberalism, it's part
of modernity itself, is that modernity is built on this
idea of progress. And you don't think, yeah, you may
think that progress is just technological or scientific or material.
That is the case. As we've said, the five pillars
of modernity are rationalism, individualism, scientism, technological progress, and democracy. Right,

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it's these five pillars that define the modern age. And
that's what is meant by modernism. And that's what the
postmodernists are rejecting, right, They're rejecting that paradigm as a
fulfilling structure that will ultimately lead to utopia. And I
agree with the post modern it's not going to lead
to utopia. And with the liberal theology, we've seen that
this sentimentality towards progress has also meant changing the entire

(02:58):
theology of Christianity. You've seen the angling in church want
to take out male pronouns for God. How the hell
do you get there? You know? And now they have
like an Archbishop of Canterbury as some liberal woman. Well
what man dealing with the problems of this of modernity,
the existential crisis we're talking about if you're in Europe,

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Muslim stabbings about every day, we're talking about immigrants coming
to your community and mocking you, killing you, and then
getting paid by your government from your taxpayer money to
do it. And then if you speak out against it
in the case of England or Germany online, the police
will come and arrest you for it. And you want

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people to find refuge and a liberalized Christianity where the
Archbishop of Canterbury welcomes Muslim graffiti on their churches as
a form of multi cultural, semiotic expression. What what That's
not going to work. That's not going to work at all.
And so the liberal theology, the relativism which has emerged,

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that's why you know, the Methodist Church has split between
the Global Methodists, which is really, you know, a sort
of maintaining of some type of conservative Protestantism just because
they don't want to marry Gaze. The United Methodist Church
had to split from them because it's so liberalized. And
so how can you, as a Christian pastor with some

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woman who has a multi rainbow colored you know, vestment
on tell you, oh, well, you need to abide by
scripture when scripture says she shouldn't even be in the pulpit,
tells you that men and well, men should not be
sleeping with men and women shouldn't be sleeping with women.
That this is a bastardization and a diminution of the

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image of man, moving back to a sort of beastial mentality,
somebody who's totally possessed by sexual passions. And yet these
same churches are trying to codify as part of their
doctrines and essentially it's it's almost their dogma, right because
if you go against it, you're a homophobe, you're a transphobe,
as if we have some irrational fear of it. Right.
That's why I hate the phobia lingua. We do not

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have an irrational fear. We are just against the idea
of men sodomizing men, and somehow that's equal to me
and my wife sacramental marriage. It's not the same thing. Sorry, sorry,
that's just the case. And so you have liberal theology,
relativistic epistemology, relativistic morality. Is there is no unifying characteristic

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to Western Christianity, there's no unifying characteristic to Catholicism. Accept
some sort of remnant submission to the papacy. I mean,
what is it that unites the set of a contest
from the super you know, neoliberal or super liberal, progressive
novels orto priests and parishioners that they both have some

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type type of fidelity to the papacy. That's about it?
Is that true unity? Is that a true theology? And
so this is why in Protestantism specifically, But we're seeing
this in the Catholic Church too, I mean with the
I mean even in the Vatican you're seeing circus performers
try to present the fit. I mean remember with Pope France.

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You guys see the videos right where Pope Francis is
sitting there watching these male circus performers and it has
this weird erotic vibe to it, and you're like, what
the hell is going on here? Well, worship has become
entertainment in the West, and so because of the failed theology,

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because of the failed epistemology and morality, what do you get?
You get a sense of sort of gratification through an
entertainment type of worship. Thereby no longer delineating your worship
on Sunday from UC sitting down and watching a Netflix documentary.
Later that day, you can sip your chi latte. You know,

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you get the lights, you get the music, you get
the electric drum set on stage, you get the feel
good sermon. Or maybe it's more of a let's say
it's a more reformed conservative sermon, Okay, but it's still
all entertainment, Like people are going to churches to be entertained,

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when in history is that the purpose of the church.
So my point here is that modern Western Christianity has
entirely failed. I truly believe, and I talked about this
with cleve to Antiquity on his channel. I mean, is
it going to exist in two hundred years? Is it
going to exist in one hundred years? Certainly not at

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a substantial demographic level. It can't. Protestantism is going to
be washed away with the times because there's nothing for
it to hold on to because they don't have the
unified ethnic and religious communities they once had, and now
they can't even deal with the precepts of modernity and
the failing of the American project. So what are they

(08:11):
going to do. It's going away, guys. We talked about
with the average age of attendee. It's going away. I mean.
The only Christian forms that will probably truly be present
in America if America still exists in one hundred to
two hundred, three hundred years, maybe some type of Pentecostalism
because that is still growing like wildfire, and Central and

(08:32):
South America. In Africa, especially Sub Saharan Africa, because they
can mix the ecstaticism of Pentecostalism with their own Afro
pagan you know, animistic religions, so so Pentecostalism may still
be here. I mean, I suspect Mormonism will still be here.

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Mormons aren't Christian, of course, but it's going to be
Catholicism and Orthodoxy, and I don't see you know, I'm
me just looking and from gnosticating into the future, I
don't see Catholicism really going to stand the test of time.
You know. It's just is it really base to be
Catholic anymore? I mean, they have to defend the things

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coming out of the papacy like every other day. Is
Catholicism really trad I mean, but Pope Leo is trying
to make some type of you know, trying to extend
some type of olive brand to the trad Catholics. But
Pope Francis was quite clear he didn't want them in
the church. So to me, Catholicism, western Christianity in general

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has failed, and it offers no doubt to the existential
crisis of modernity because all of them are modernist projects.
You can say that the Catholic Church in origin was
pre modern, but with the influence of Renaissance humanism, with
the influence of the Enlightenment scientists, the Vatican one, Vatican two,

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the Nobles Ordo Mass like, this is not a pre
modern faith anymore. This is entirely within the confines of modernity.
And so number one reason why America will be Orthodox
is that Western Christianity has failed it's failed, it's over,
it's it's you know, it's not it's not winning any

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future battle. The only thing that I would say is
maybe all these the opposing this Western Christianity, one possibility
in the future is that it will sort of amalgamate
itself into some sort of unified entity, which will set
the stage for people to bow their need to the
Antichrist because it's already filled with all the worldlyism. I mean,

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you know, on half the Protestants are Zionists, and they're
literally aiding in a betting the coming of the Antichrist
because they have a false theology. Again, because it's already failed.
They have a false theology, the theology, the theological foundations
of their systems themselves have failed. So number one the
failure of modern christian Number two, my second reason why

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America will be Orthodox is there is a hunger for
transcendence in a secular age. This is the whole principle
for my book Return to Babylon, is that in our
secular age and what I refer to as the post
secular age, meaning that secular ideologies no longer function as
something distinct from a religious ideology or theology. That now

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in our postmodern, post secular state, they are operating on
equal footing that communism can be viewed as a religious
orientation just as much as Buddhism can be, because they
fulfill the totalizing meta narrative of meaning within people's lives
and become the foundational lens in which all things are

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perceived by. So, from that perspective, what are going to
be the two battling narratives for human transcendents? Because that's
what people are yutering for when they're watching Star Wars,
when they're watching the modern Marvel superhero movie. What is
the premise behind all of it? It's the idea that

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we can transcend our limitations. And really there's only going
to be two options. There's going to be transhumanism, where
through material amalgamation you will transcend your biological limitations. And
and their false promise, their demonic promise. They're going to
say that you'll be more than you've ever been. You know,

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you'll be a cyborg that will be on omniscient, you'll
be immortal. You know, you'll be able to heal yourself,
you'll be able to do all things. Maybe you'll even
be spacefaring. So it's just this appeal that the transcendence
is just transcending the confines of your mortal biological entity.
That's the transhuman transcendence. But my argument is that's going

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to continue to grow. Transhumanism is on the rise, you know,
despite what people think. You know, there's so many people
out there criticizing transhumanism, this transition, and I'm one of them.
But one of the things people don't appreciate is that
it is a compelling narrative for people. If you adopt
the presets of secularism, transhumanism is a compelling narrative for

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a religious mythos inside your paradigm. What is the alternative
methodology for individual or collective transcendence. It's theosis, It's Orthodoxy.
And so moving forward in America, the narratives about transcendence,
spiritual transcendence, I truly believe are going to be the

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orthodox doctrine of theosis and transhumanism, because transcendence and spiritual
deification are not central cores of Western Christianity, which I
already began with has already failed. So Western Christianity is
kind of out on the ends, and the two narratives
then that are going to compete about what it means
to be, what it means to transcend. Is going to

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be Orthodox theosis, which says your biological entity, Yes, it's
going to die, Yes it's going to age. But that
is part of spiritual growth. You don't get you you
cannot pass through the door of eternity without dying, because
that's what Christ did, and we follow Christ. And that
is a totally different perspective than doing anything and everything

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you can to not die. You know, in our drama Alert,
that was the last, very last topic that we discussed
was Brian Johnson, you know, the transhumanist, the guy who
looks like he's mid twenties. He's in his forties. He's
a multi multimillionaire, and he's he said, I have a
new moral philosophy. It's called don't die. Wow, who thought

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of that? I bet? Did you pull that out of
the out of the Greek tradition? Where'd you find that
really deep moral philosophy? His whole thing is that we
just need to supplant the myths of religion with a
new myth of telling people to not die. But guys,

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look at his following, like a ton, thousands and thousands
of people are part of this. So this is the irony.
As orthodoxy grows, transhumanism grows. And so my point then
is that transcendence is not transgression. Transcendence in the Orthodox
framework is not about transgressing boundaries. We've talked about this before,

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about psychedelics, about you know, how they dissolve boundaries, and
that all the boundaries in our contemporary world are being transgressed.
You know, no border, no wall, no USA at all,
national boundaries, dissolved boundaries between man and machine, dissolved boundaries
between man and animal. Really, you can put your point,

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your finger towards Darwin dissolved boundaries between men and women,
dissolved what boundaries are there that exist? I mean, you
can't even for some people, obviously this is common knowledge,
obviously the to just common sense. But for a vast
majority of people, you can't even say that men can

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do certain things that women can't do, or that women
can do things that men can't do. Now, usually there's
less pushback on that. You say, yeah, but women can
give birth, I can't give birth. Usually there's less pushback
on that. But if you say, yeah, women can't, you know,
they can't work the oil rig they can't do the
dangerous jobs. They can't keep society running the way men can.

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They are not as physically strong, they are not as
rational on average. Those are just facts, but you'll get
pushedback on that common common sense. And so America, I argue,
is defined by consumerism, materialism, secularism, relativism, and individualism. Modern
modern America, twenty first century America. You consume your identity.

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What is your identity? Well, it's not your ethnic especially
if you're white. You're not allowed to say that. So
you can't say I am European, I'm a European, or
I'm a European. You can't can't use your ethnic identity
unless you're a minority, of course then you can. But
you consume your identity. It's the bro it's the clothing
brands you wear, right, I wear Adulta and Gavana. I

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wear Louis Vauton, gay, very gay. But much of America
consumes their identity. It's consumerism, materialism, secularism, relativism, individualism. It's
only orthodoxy that offers real transcendence, a replacement with it
for the individual, with with community. And that doesn't mean

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that we're anti individual I mean there's so many books
written about how Christianity in general, right in general, Christianity
is already promoting a novel understanding of the individual within
history because a singular person, Jesus Christ entered into historic time.
I ean individual right, a singular person, and that we

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then are to carry our cross and follow him. We
are not, you know, a total collectivist mindset. There is
obviously a role of the individual, and our orthodox framework
begins with our subjective experience with God. Theosis, mystical encounters,
the sacraments. Those aren't definable by science. They can't do measure,

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measurement and averages to try to analyze exactly the mystery
that's happening in the Eucharist or the sacrament of marriage. No,
it's beyond those categories. But community is huge, and as
I just said, America doesn't have communities. How do you
get a community in America? You have a video game
you like to play and you meet up with other

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people that like to play it online. Is that community?
Is that a self sacrificial community? Is that a community
that's going to withstand actual trauma and persecution in the world.
Absolutely not, I mean legitimately, I mean this is the
whole premise of the book Bowling Alone, If you guys
are famili which is documenting bowling leagues and America and

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how few people actually And it's a sociological commentary, not
just on bowling, right, it's not about bowling. It's using
bowling as a singular, specific metric to view communal activity
and essentially the collapse of it of America and how
Americans do We no longer do things collectively very rarely.

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I mean, you ask gen Z, It's the most isolated
generation of all time. The amount of people who regularly
go and spend time with a group of friends is
at a historic low. And so you know, rewind to
the nineteen seventies, nineteen eighties, it was still common for
groups of people to go do things together as groups.

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Where where is that in modern America? Again, it's the
digital isolation that we're under. In the digital isolation feeds
upon the individual and which is a core ideal of
the American mind. Orthodoxy is the only thing that offers
true transcendence, community, beauty, divine order, tradition, mysticism, and liturgical

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depth and so in as this number two point is
highlighting hunger for transcendence in a secular stage is the
reason why so many young men are looking for Orthodoxy.
And it's only Orthodoxy that provides the correct prescription to
the descriptive destruction that we've already outlined of America. And

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so that's why the second point why America is going
to be orthodox. Orthodoxy is the only one that offers
true transcendence. It's that narrative is going to compete with transhumanism.
It's the only one that offers a community where you
actually are responsible to other people, guys, And I'm going
to come back to the community one. It's the only
one that offers a true return back to esthetic beauty,

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and I'm going to return back to that. And at
another point, divine order, hierarchy, authority. Men actually have specific
roles that women do not engage in. Right, Just that
it sounds so simplistic, but point to me anywhere in
American society where you can say men do this, women

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do not do this, they do this, and men do
not do that. Well, just anything. It's so general, But
just tell me anything in American American society where that's
the case. So with that being the background, the fact
that we have an all male hierarchy and clergy. That
is huge. That is huge. So we have true order,

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we have true tradition, right, we have the true Apostolic tradition.
We don't have all the novelties of Catholicism for example.
I mean, Catholicism you could say, is arguably the biggest
competitor to East Orthodoxy, but it's constantly shooting itself in
the foot. I mean, as much as the Catholic apologist

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and trad caths online want to try to defend this
sort of idealized crusading spirit of the Catholic Church that
does not exist, my brothers and sisters, but it doesn't
exist the Catholic Church. Really. You see that as standing
up against globalism. You see Krislam, you see you see

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Krislam and Abu Dhabi standing up against globalism. Your church
literally says, you worship the same God as Muslims. Good luck,
good luck defending your Western Catholic nation. When your church says,
oh yeah, welcome the Muslims, we worship the same God. Meanwhile,
Muhammad just raped your daughter and stabbed her. Yeah, not

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really gonna find the appeal. So it's only Orthodoxy that
still has the true mysticism, the tr addition in the
liturgical depth. Number three, the number third reason why America
will be Orthodox is the sacred aesthetics. Obviously, obviously look
at and we talked about this in the think tank,

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look at modern American aesthetics. Look at the buildings, look
at the infrastructure. You know, at least I was talking
with the members in the Logos Academy. You know, somebody asked, like,
what is the aesthetic of American I would say, well,
you know, if we're talking about the late nineteenth century,
early twentieth century, it's like Art Deco. And I don't
hate Art Deco. I think our Deco. You know, it

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does have an aesthetic beauty. It's not the Orthodox Church.
But in twenty first century America, what is the esthetic?
I mean, can you really see an aesthetic difference between
you know, the USSR and their blocky square buildings to
try to get as many people in an allocated space
as possible with modern America. No, it's the exact same thing.

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It's the minimalist, utilitary an approach to aesthetics and architecture
that is America. That was the USSR. It's the same
damn thing there is no beauty in America right now,
show me show me where that is. And so worship.
We worship with all five senses, you know, taste, touch, smell, hearing, taste, touch, smell, hearing.

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What's the fifth one? Feeling touching, No, taste, smell, hearing, seeing.
Oh my God, I'm an idiot. God forgive me. So
third one is because of the aesthetic, and because of

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our understanding, we actually engage in God with all five senses.
We actually participate in the full esthetic and resanctification of
the human figure of the Amago day. We have the incense,
we have the chanting, we have the iconography, we have
the vestments, we have the historic continuity. Now, some people,

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and this is really aimed at the Protestants, is that
is a form of aesthetic Believe it or not your ecclesiology.
I mean, this is the death blow to Protestantism. If
you're doing a debate, if you're doing a debate, the
ultimate death blow. You can debate sola scriptura, you know,
interpretive authority, all this different stuff. But show me the

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Protestant Church that existed in the first century. Show me
the ecclesiology of modern Protestant church. Choose one that existed.
I don't care if you choose High Lutheranism or Anglicanism.
Show me the Protestant Church that their ecclesiology was president
in the first century. It doesn't exist. It doesn't exist.

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And so people find a beauty in the historic continuity
of tradition. And I think this is why we're getting
so many Catholic converts as well. It's not that Catholics
don't have their own aesthetic beauty, because they do. You know,
I myself like the Gothic architecture. I like the Gothic vibe.
I've been to Europe. I like you know, the Catholic

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churches that you know that have've it's very, very beautiful. However,
look at the Catholic Church now, you know, look at
what it's doing in the world, and look how it's
breaking from the historical continuity of its own of its
own foundation, that has its own sort of failure, of
a sort of intellectual aesthetic orthodoxy has it. We have

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an historic continuity, and beauty is sacramental and mystical in
our faith. Beauty is a way in which we can
directly engage in God. And it's something that each one
of us are called to to produce. We produce beauty
in our families, We produce virtue in ourselves, which is
beautiful for the world. We are we are called to

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produce beauty in the world. And that's a huge difference
that that that focus of beauty actually being sacramental. Right
we we don't want a pastor with his new Jordans on,
with his blue jeans and his new you know, Louis
Vetan T shirt on with the gold chain. That is

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not beautiful, that is not harmony, that is not true esthetics.
That is a modernity. And so because of these sacred aesthetics,
to exactly John Hammond's point, art is an opportunity right now.
If you have if you are a craftsman, if you
are good at word working, if you are an architect,
if you are a painter or an artist or a drawler,

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or whatever thing you do, if it is an artistic expression,
you need to develop that skill because we need you.
We need you because as we talked about, you've heard
me say this a thousand different times. This, this sociological
theory called the sacred canopy by Peter Berger's in this
book right here, the sacred canopy, and to boil this

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whole book down for you, the elements of a sociological
theory of religion is he's arguing that there is a
process called legitimation, and it builds what he refers to
as the sacred canopy, a canopy in which people under
any nation live within. And it is the legitimizing process

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in which we externalize ideas, concepts, heroes, folklore, myths, religion, theology.
It becomes objectified and then other people can see it
as an object in our culture, and then they internalize it,
and then they themselves externalize it. And this feedback loop,
this process of externalizing, objectifying, and internalizing, is the thing

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that builds a shared canopy of society. Well, we get
to compete in the construction of a new canopy because
the American experiment is done right. There is no shared
canopy in this country. There is no reconciling our differences
with people like mom, Mom, donni even you know, you
can make an argument of why it's you know, it's

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logical why people voted for him regarding the failures of
the Republican and Democratic Party. Okay, that aside, people who
hate you as being a white Christian in America. There
is very little space for reconciliation at this point. I mean,
when people are chanting no border, no wall, no USAT,

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it's very difficult for reconciliation to find a middle point.
The sacred canopy is totally torn. And so if you
are artistic, you can again be inspired by the beauty
of the Church and then re externalize this to the
world as a part of your own evangelism. Right, you

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don't have to do debates to evangelize Orthodoxy. In fact,
Orthodoxy number one doesn't even it doesn't even spread by debates.
It spreads by encounter of people being Orthodox, right, which
it may be. A good Orthodox man is in a debate,
and then people are interested in his ideas or why
he's the way he is. But generally speaking, and I

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know in our modern age, debate is huge, right, All
these online debates are huge for getting people exposed to Orthodoxy.
But the thing that really converts a person is them
actually engaging with an Orthodox Christian and seeing who they are,
especially men. So this is an opportunity if you're an artist.
We have the most beautiful form of Christianity we do.

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I will take a beautiful Byzantine Orthodox cathedral with a
Byzantine style icnography, and maybe you prefer Russian and whatever
we choose, whichever you know, flavor of Orthodox aesthetics you prefer,
and compare that with a modern Catholic Church or a
modern Protestant church. We win, guys, we win. We have

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the beauty, and beauty is an uncreated energy of God.
So that's my third point is we are the most
beautiful option out of all the Christian options. And when
you become Orthodox, you need to take that inspiration and
if you are artistic, express it and use that as
your own evangelism, all right. Number four, the theological and

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philosophical coherence. This is where the debates come in, and
this is why the debates are important. The number fourth
reason why America will be Orthodox is because on an
even playing field of ideology, again, we win. We win
by being the only pre modern option. That was point
number one. We win by being the only true Christian

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transcendent option. Number two, We win by being the most
beautiful option. Number three and number four, we win because
we are the most compelling philosophical and theological option on
the market as well. And this is why the debates
are are so important in changing people minds because you
don't change the mind of your debate opponent. Rarely, rarely

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has that occurred in any debates that I've seen or
participated in. But what you do is you you change
the perception of the of the viewer who's kind of
just sitting there. Maybe they don't have a strong opinion,
you know, Like when I do a debate, obviously, and

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the and the debates that I've done, and I know
this is true for Jay and a lot of our
Orthodox brothers. You have a significant swath of the chat
who's already Orthodox, you know, and they're they're already on
the same page with you. They're on your team. But
whenever you do abate, there's a handful of people that
really aren't on any team. Those are the people you're
trying to get in a debate. It's the it's the

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it's just the the average watcher who really isn't polarized
to one side or the other. And in that in
that battlefield, on that playing ground, again, we win. We
win on our historic arguments, we've went on our theological arguments,
we win on our esthetic arguments, and we can even

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win in a philosophical argument. So my point here is
that Orthodoxy is the only one that's truly intellectually satisfying.
And I think for most people who are kind of heads.
And I've talked with so many people, I myself in
one of those, I know FDA. Shout out to FDA
in the chat, he's ahead. You know, ahead is just

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a term for somebody who like, he's a thinker. They're
in their head a lot. They like to read, they
like to learn, they like to connect dots. You know.
That's why people say psychedelics are often for heads, because
people are already in their heads, and so they take
psychedelics because it alters the internal experience, the mental experience.

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But I would argue that the theological and philosophical coherence
of Orthodoxy is so intellectually satisfying, and that that was
for me what shifted everything. Right, I saw the beauty,
I knew parts of the history. I was a non believer. Right,
I'm a non believer taking a course on orthodox theology

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and history. What convinced me? And this is why for
some of us we are so Western and rational, myself included,
I was too rational. So what did God do? He
met me where I needed to be met. Through providence,
I end up in a course learning about Orthodoxy as
a total non believer. I'm not even Christian, not even Protestant,
nothing regarding christian I'm a psychoonot, I'm pro psychedelics. I'm perennial.

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And the intellectual beauty and coherence of the Orthodox parent,
what we referred to as the both and paradigm, was
so satisfying to me, even as a non believer. I
remember leaving that course saying, you know, I'd never be religious,
I never be part of a tradition of men, you know,

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But if I was my god, Eastern Orthodoxy is I've
never heard Christianity articulated in such depth and such sophistication,
and such nuance and such coherence. Man, if I was
going to be Christian, if I was going to be religious,
no matter what religion, it would definitely be Orthodoxy. And

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because that resonated so deeply within me, it eventually brought
me to you know what I gotta do it I
got to become Orthodox. I gotta start going to an
Orthodox church. Because even before I went to a church,
even when I was done with the cores, that's when
I read Saint Maximus the Confessor on the Cosmic Mystory
of Jesus Christ. I hadn't read that book yet, but again,
reading that book with all the with all the presuppositions

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that I had formed, I thought, oh my god, this
is incredible. This is exactly what I want. This is
exactly what I'm looking for. And so it's only orthodoxy
that preserves the true Amago day of Man and his
calling for Theosis. As I said, yes, there's kind of
these doctrines of sanctification in Western Christianity. It's not Theosis. Guys.

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I'm tired of people, you know. I get Catholics on
videos talking about Theosis. They're like, yeah, well we believe
in sanctification too, dude, it's the same thing. No, it's
not the same thing. You don't have the essence energy distinction.
You don't have the theology of the uncreated energy. Stop
just stop right there. Yes, you have some notion of sanctification.
It's not the same thing as Theosis. Stop stop. It's

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just dumb. It makes you look uninformed and ignorant. These
are different. These are may be subtle to you, but
importantly distinct paradigms, distinct theological systems, okay, And so it's
only Orthodoxy that truly preserves the understanding that you and

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I are made in the image of God, with the tilos,
with the potential, with the purpose to become like God
through grace and participate in divinity and eternity as a
consequent and of our willful participation with God. So it's
you know, it's Orthodoxy that understands what it means to
be fully human, to unite body, soul and use with Christ.

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You know, it's only Orthodoxy that can actually give you
a full articulation of spiritual warfare, saying, hey, you know
those weird thoughts you keep getting, you know, how you
do X y z, and then you start thinking X
y z, And then all of a sudden you start
doing the thing that you said you weren't going to do.
You know allah. You know Paul in the Epistles, I
do the thing I wish I that I don't do,
and I don't do the thing that I wish I

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do do. That's us. But the spiritual battlefields in the mind,
it's the imagination. Where's the imagination? Where are your noetic faculties?
Are they within space and time? Do they exist after
you perish, where where? How do you contact angels and demons?
You see, it's the anthropology. It's the philosophical, theological coherence

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of orthod that puts everything in place. And this is
why so many people, I guarantee you people in the Chat.
Let me know, people in the Chat. When you became Orthodox?
Did everything begin to fall into place? Did everything begin
to fall into place? That's the that's the beauty of

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the paradigm. It's just everything could be conspiracies, could be,
you know, cultural aspects. But once you're Orthodox, it's like
you have the correct categories to perceive everything. Could be
spiritual warfare, could be your salvation, could be the transgender cults,
or the LGBTQ mafia, or the ecumenism that's spreading around

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all forms of religion. Now you have the rubric to
see what's exactly going on. So so number four, the
whole point is that theologically and philosophically, it's Orthodoxy that
wins again, and it's in it's coherens. This is why
the tag argument, you know, is one of the preferred
apologetic methods of myself FDA dire because if you actually

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know the state of contemporary philosophy. It's the tag argument
that's actually dealing with why philosophy has died. And then
orthodoxy is the one that actually provides you an ability
to defend against all the other traditions. Could be secular
or religious, doesn't matter. So that's number four. Number five.

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My fifth reason why America will be orthodox is the
crisis of meaning and identity. We've kind of already touched
on this, but I haven't spoken specifically on it. It's
that modern progress has not delivered peace in utopia, but
moral and psychological exhaustion. That's what I believe is that,

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as I said, the point of modernity was that it
was going to every generation was going to get better.
Do you, if you're a Millennia orgen Z, do you
think you're in a better position than your parents? Do
you think they were in a better position than their grandparents.
You could kind of make the argument that the boomers
were in a better position than their parents, but it
definitely ended with the boomers, and the irony is that's

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when we had the technological exponential growth that should be
the boomers forward, should be the utopia that should be
way better than the boomers but it's not. And the
resulting of the world from the Boomers forward has been
the meaning crisis, the identity crisis, and so, you know,
our entire world is being eroded. Your ethnic identity is

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being eroded, your national identity is being eroded, Your familial
identity is being eroded through divorce, through you know, the
sexualization of our society. The intactness and the sanctity of
family itself is being eroded. So, if you are an American,
where do you find your identity? Where is it? What
is it? That's a difficult question for a lot of

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people to answer. There isn't really anything there. There isn't
really anything there, And that's why you wear supreme. You
buy you know, you buy low quality food or low
quality commodities, is what I'm looking at, low quality commodities
with brand names to identify who you think you are,

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because you have no identity. And if you have no identity,
there's nothing for you to die for. And that means
you are incredibly malleable because as long as your necessary
needs are met, meaning maybe food and shelter, maybe a
little bit of extra spending cash for entertainment, you will

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not resist because you have no foundation to resist from.
Don't you see that this is part of the This
is part of the problem. This is part of the
progress of our society and where we're at. And so modernity,
I argue, equals his historic alienation. Why is that? Because

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none of your ancestors ever lived in history with the
presuppositions of modernity like you and I do, like our
entire world does. And so because of that, we are
historically alienated from our own people. We are historically alienated
from the human experience of the pre modern world, in
which we actually believed in mystical realities, We witnessed miracles occur,

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we saw God work in the world. In the modern
American doesn't live in that reality anymore. The rational modernity
has sort of Clint really, I wouldn't say Clint's it's
almost the detritus has taken over the lens in which
they perceive reality, and they don't see mystery in the

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world anymore. And if there is, you know, we're told
science is going to uncover it, it's going to explain it. Well,
now we are literally ethnically and nationally and religiously alienated
from our ancestors. Where the hell do you get identity. Typically,
your identity was given to you. You know, if you
existed in a pre modern world, your identity is given

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Where were you born, Oh, you're born in Serbia. What
language do you speak, Oh you speak Serbian. What religious
are Oh you you're Serbian Orthodox. That's your identity. Doesn't matter.
Where you go in the world, doesn't matter. If you
move to China and get Chinese citizenship, You're not Chinese. Right,

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So we live in a country in America and England.
You know, I just saw it was going viral today
in England that there was a war a veteran war
hero who is crying on live television because he said
the England that I fought for, uh no longer exists.
That this is worse. Essentially, this is worse than the

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potential outcome of him not fighting in the Second World War.
And then you have all these people, you know, these
Indians and Asians and all these people saying, well, I'm English,
I'm English, I'm English. No, you're not. You can say
you have English citizenship, you have UK citizenship or something,
You're not English. And every time immigrant communities come into

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a predominantly let's just be factual here, it's mostly white
European nations or formerly white European nations in the case
of American Canada, but immigrants come there and because of
our magic dirt theory, they are equal identity is you,
even though they themselves will say no, I'm Indian, I'm Hindu. No,
we we throw you know, we celebrate the celebration of

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lights in Dwali and fireworks going off, like no, no,
that's not the same thing as me. I'm not gonna
you know, we can't allow for immigrants to again take
the little bit of identity we even have left, which
is just secular nationalism, right, That's all we're saying, is
that maybe ethnic or secular. In America, it's more secular nationalism,

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you know, sort of a white identity majority. But in
the case of Europe, they have real ethnic concerns. You know,
there's a thing called a German, and a German has
an actual you know, a sequence of their DNA that's
identifies them as German. All the Turks and the Pakistanis
and the Afghanis that are in German. You're not German.
I don't care if you're fluent in German. I don't

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care if you were born there. It's not the same thing.
And so we exist in a state of a crisis
of meaning and identity. And so Orthodoxy is the only
thing that offers, as I said, a pre modern continuity
with the Apostles, our church fathers, and our European ancestors,
because at one point, even if they were Catholic or Western,

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they existed in a pre modern world. They perceive the
world in pre modern terms. And so Orthodoxy, I argue,
is a coming home. That's why we tell people welcome home,
welcome home, welcome to the church. You know, hey, I
just got baptism. Glory to God, brother, welcome home. What
do we mean by that that it truly is a
welcoming of home. It's a realigning, as I said with

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Cleaves Antiquary, it's a realigning of our ancestral lineage. That's
how I felt when I converted to Orthodoxy, is that
my family is mostly of English, Irish, some German background. Okay,
that's my ancestral familial line. They were Protestants. I have
multiple Protestant pastors in my dad's family tree. A couple

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of them got thhds, one person had a PhD. All
of them Methodists, all of them very explicitly Methodists and
promoted Methodist Protestant Christianity. Well, when I converted to Orthodoxy,
I truly believe what I've done is realigned my family tree.
And that's why for me it was essential that I
had an Orthodox wife, because by me, it's not just me,

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you know, casually aligning myself with my family tree and
then saying, oh well it's on can my wife's just
nominally Christian. It's okay, no, no, no, we're gonna have We're
gonna have Orthodox Christian babies. We're gonna be an Orthodox
Christian family. My goal is that in three generations when
I'm when I'm dead, for you know, a generation or two,

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I want so many Orthodox Christians in America that have
DNA ties back to me and my wife that we did.
That that's something money can't buy. That's how you win
the culture war. That's how you establish identity. And that's
why Orthodoxy why Americans will be Orthodoxes, because it actually
gives them identity. What does it mean to be American?

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It means absolutely nothing. It means absolutely nothing right now.
And so if you become Orthodox, at least you have
now a historic identity America itself. Even if you just
accepted this nominal identity of being an American today, which
means nothing, how long has that identity lasted? Not even

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three hundred years? Not even three hundred years. We're talking
about a two thousand year old tradition and the nation
state of America hasn't even existed for three hundred years.
So what you get as an Orthodox Christian is the

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ability to reconstruct your identity. That first and foremost, you're
an Orthodox Christian. What that means is, now you have
an historic lineage that connects you back to your European ancestors,
or your ancestors wherever. Your ancestors, you know, could be anywhere.
The same thing could be true no matter where you
come from. But two, it allows you to nou perceive

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what a true transformation of America would look like. That
we need to make more Americans Orthodox so that we
can have an Orthodox nation. We don't just take a
whole of the power structure and declare it Orthodox Christian.
That would never work. There's too many non Orthodox Christians
in America. The way we win is converting the hearts

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and minds of Americans, giving them a sense of identity
and giving them a reason for the resanctification of the
nation and what the purpose of the nation is. The
purpose of the nation is to reflect the will of
God in the world. That's not what America is now.
And so with Orthodoxy too. In addition to all the
meaning and the identity, the true meaning then is not

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just the I've talked a lot about the sort of
worldly stuff in regards to identity and meaning, but the
foundation of it is true mysticism. You see, Orthodoxy actually
provides a true mystical encounter with God. You don't believe me,
then do it. That's why so people are scared to convert,

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you know, that's why so many people are so scared
to convert, because it's real. It's real. And if you
actually take this journey seriously, when you're getting ready to
be baptized into the church, you'll see it's real. You'll
see all the straight shit that happens. You'll see the
spiritual warfare. You'll see the people that begin to attack you,
the people closest to you, because they're just conduits. They're

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susceptible to the temptations and the passions and demons are
triggering people to attack you. That's just one example. But
you'll see it. You don't think you don't think the
mystery is real. Didn't do it? I challenge you do it.
Do it. Then you'll see this isn't fake, This isn't

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some placebo effect. Right, spirituality is real. There is a
real spiritual warfare that is taking place all around us.
And if you want to actually deal with that, you
actually want to be on the right side of that fight.
It's Orthodox Christianity that's going to give it to you.
It's Orthodox Christianity that's going to give you the opportunity
to re sanctify American give it a correct tels. You

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know that. I've talked with so many young men that
are intellectually convinced of Orthodoxy but don't don't go to
a church, Uh, don'tit in liturgy and really aren't even
on a timeline to convert. And you and you really
you get down to it, whether whether they'll consciously say
it or not, is they're scared to death. They're scared

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of what their family may think, They're scared of who
they may become. Right, I've thought about this, you know,
all the problems and maybe the sinful appetites or temptations
we struggle with. Maybe they've already corrupted you to make
you falsely think that that's your identity, because that's what
we have in America, right You you like to sodomize men, well,

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your identity now as you're a homosexual. Everything has to
be filtered through that premise, through that prism. Orthodox Christianity
actually gets you out of that and the mysticism. The
fact that this shit is real actually provides true meaning

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to your daily life. Now, it doesn't mean it's easy.
Doesn't mean it's easy to do your morning prayers, doesn't
mean it's easy to read scripture, doesn't mean it's easy
to do your evening prayers and attend liturgy and do
the fast and participate in your parish community. It's not easy.
But the point was never for it to be easy.
The point was never for it to be easy. And

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that's actually then leads into my sixth point here of
why America will be Orthodox is because it forms boys
into Christian men, because it's not easy, and being a
man is a recognition that the world isn't about pleasure,
hedonism and everything just being easy and at our fingertips

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that actually prevents you from being a man. Being a
man is tied with discipline. Being a man is tied
with having some sense of work ethic and a purpose
and a larger vision, and being a protector and a
provider and a leader for your people and especially for
your family. We live in a nation where everybody's a boy.

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So many people are boys. We talked about neotny. Neotny
is as a scientific term referring to the retention of
juvenile characteristics. Right, you take a pig and you put
it in a pin, and its skin is white, it's hairless,
it has no tusks. You take that same pen, you
open the gate, and you let it go in the wild.

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All of a sudden you find that it begins to
maturate in a way in which the skin gets darker,
the skin gets thicker, it gets hairer, it gets tusk
Because now the environment shapes the phenotypical expression. My argument
is that our environment just like the rat Utopia experiment
of the how easy things are, because how easy it

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is to get everything. You know through your smartphone, you
can order food, you can try to date, you can
you know your whole world is through your magic black
mirror here that that actually contributes to the retention of
juvenile characteristics into adulthood. We call that niotiny in animals.

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And we we have a population of boys that have
never gone up. And I'm talking about professional athletes, I'm
talking about men with millions of dollars. That does not
define you as a man. Right. How much money you
make does not define you as a man. The clothes
and brands you wear do not define you as a man.
And when you look at what we can what we
elevate as celebrities and the ideal people in our society,

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they have a lot of juvenile characteristics. There's a lot
of retention of juvenile characteristics. And so Orthodoxy is demanding.
It is a disciplined, heroic Christianity. We have a role
for warrior saints. This is not passivism, right, this is

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not your religion where everybody's a good person. That's what
the Methodist church that I grew up in. The last
time I went to it was like in twenty eighteen
or nineteen, I think we went to the Christmas Eve service.
I went with my parents because that was the church
I grew up in. And even though they were becoming

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disillusioned with the church because they brought in a female
pastor who allowed her golden retriever to walk up with
her to the you know, her pulpit, which is next
to an altar, a Protestant altar, not truly an altar.
But and then the dog would lay down. And even
some of the older people found that scandalous, and rightfully so,
rightfully so. But I attended that Christmas Eve service and

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what was it? Just be a good person? Right tells
you to be a good person. Well, how is that
going to appeal to young men? It doesn't, and that's
why men are leaving and droves the Protestant church. But
we have a heroic Christianity that when you take on
the cross of Orthodoxy and begin to carry that, your

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life has more meaning. Every day has a meaning. You
have a larger meta narrative for your life and the
role that it is taking place within the historic context.
You know, we prioritize asceticism, hierarchy, masculine hierarchy, spiritual warfare.
These things appealed to young men right going to a

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church where the woman up there is telling you nothing
about spiritual warfare, not condemning child transgenderism. Not condemning the
LGBTQ mafia. Now, just be a good that does not
appeal to young men. But a church that says, hey,
you need to get your act together. Hey you're addicted
to pornography, Then shut your damn phone. Dude, take some responsibility.

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You can't control yourself. How are you gonna be a man?
How are you gonna have a wife. How are you
gonna provide for a family. How are you gonna lead
people when somebody dies or something tragic happens. How are
you gonna deal with the world. Maybe you're not ready
for the Orthodox church? Right, that's actually appealing for young
men because they said, no, no, no, I want to

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be ready. Okay, well, then start, you know, do your fasts,
do your prayers, get your body in line. Right. We're
not here for a superficial celebration where everybody has to
have an IFBB pro you know, physique, but my God,
work out, make your body strong. Learn some jiu jitsu

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and some martial arts. Go go learn how to be
tactical with guns. Do something, do something. A man is
defined by what he does. You can say what you
believe all day long. What do you do. That's what
defines you an Orthodoxy, the fact that we have a

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male hierarchy, the fact that we have asceticism, which is
not an ext you know, it's not this extreme. Nobody's
calling you to be a monastic. Right, most of you,
like myself, are going to be lay Orthodox Christians and
we're gonna be married men. Our role for the church
is different. Our role for the churches to make money
so we can tithe. Our role for the churches to

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make babies so that they we have new parishioners so
the church grows. Our work for the church is to
make sure that we defend it from all the cultural
influence that may try to subvert it. That's our role.
That's our role as lay Orthodox men. That gives you
a purpose. Right, We actually have a boundary. I've talked
about this with multiple people I've done streams with. But

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imagine the Orthodox Church as a perimeter, and you as
a man, once you're catechized, once you're in the into
the Orthodox life, once you're doing the thing right becoming
a Christian man, you take your position on the perimeter
with the armor of God, and you take no steps back.
There is no compromising on abortion. There is no compromising

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on LGBTQ issues. There is no compromising on Zionism. These
are are antithetical to our faith. To our church. We
need you, We need young men, We need you to
become the best version of yourself so that we can't succeed.
This is powerful, This actually energizes young people. It's the

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Orthodox Church that provides that. And so uh the perish
and communal life too, right. Uh. I've talked with some
Orthodox young Orthodox guys. They get it mentally. They are
into the church, they're brought in, they're baptized. I ask,
are you part of the community? Do you are you?
Are you participating in the parish life? No? Not really? Well,

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then do it? They got a bake sale. They need
somebody there, do it. That's part especially if you're single,
if you're if you're a single man, what time demand
do you have right now? Sacrifice yourself for other people
and you will grow and return of that. The parish
in the communal life offers you an opportunity. As what

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we just talk about our communities. You know, our communities
are totally broken. There is no there is no place
to find your community now in America. Will go to
your church. Now you're in a community, Now offer yourself
back to that community. That's real value, that's real purpose.

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You know, our church advocates for the defense of the faith,
tradition and nation. Are most churches. Are most churches telling
young people that, hey, young men, you have a role.
Your role is to defend the faith. Make sure we
preserve the tradition. Because how does orthodoxy? How again, just

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thought experiment here? How okay, we believe that we have
inherited a faith from the Apostolic period forward. Now we
had the councils, we had things that elaborated and clarified
the tradition and the faith, of course, but it's the
same thing as the first millennial tradition. How did you

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get this in the twenty first century. It's because the
lay people and the clergy preserved it. But just like
the Council of Florence, the clergy were able to be
due to political and you know, cultural, military reasons, financial
economic reasons. They were willing to unite with Rome. They
were willing to concede on aspects of the faith for

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essentially political reasons. Now, why did the Council of Florence
not come to fruition because the people said, hell, no,
we're not united with the Athlics. Don't you know what
we believe? This is us, this is what we do,
and this is the opportunity for you and us, because
how the hell is the next generation going to get
Orthodoxy unless you and I defend it, preserve it, know it,

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and then pass it on to our children and they
can pass it on to their children. The only way
the church preserves itself is through Orthodox Christians, lay Orthodox Christians.
That's how we do it. That's our calling. That is purposeful,
that is purposeful. You know, you, as a lay man,

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have the have the incredible responsibility of preserving the faith
so it will be passed down to the next generation,
which thankfully all of our ancestors and some of our
ancestors in it, but at least the spiritual ancestors of
Orthodoxy have done for us. And so you know, moving

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from boy to man. Orthodoxy is famous for saying are
you going to be a monk? Are you going to
be married? Now? Obviously there's some spiritual grace for people
who are neither a monastic or never get married, but
generally speaking, that's for very very few people, and your
spiritual father is the one that's really going to make
that discretion regarding what you should or shouldn't do. But

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generally speaking, you have two options. You either marry Christ
and the Church and you become a monastic and you
go on the front lines of spiritual warfare, or you
become a married man and you go on the front
lines of worldly warfare for the church. That's what we're doing.
That is appealing for young men, and in those militaristic

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terms too, that is appealing for young men. And that's
not going to change. As I said, we're we're on
reason six why America is going to be Orthodox, and
none of these that we've listed are going to change
in the near future. This is why this is not
a trend. This is a true reaction to the failure
of the West. You know, our church has the perfect

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harm of the masculine and the feminine. You know, does
the Does the Catholic Church have the perfect harmony of
the masculine and the feminine? Does the Protestant Church? Obviously
the Protestant doesn't. They have women in pulpits. You know,
in a Protestant church you'll get you know, you'll get

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death glarees if you say, hey, men should only do
this and women should only do this, But Orthodoxy we
already have that and we're not changing that anytime soon.
So we have the perfect harmony between the masculine and
the feminine, and we our tradition promotes motherhood. How you
know what, our Protestant churches explicitly promoting motherhood in the

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same way like And I think this is why the
veneration of the Theotokos is so important, because we can
see that the human ideal obviously Christ is fully human,
fully God, but the Theotokos was not God. She was
just fully human, and she is the ideal. She is
the virgin mother. And so we support and promote the

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idea of a virtuous motherhood and that that is a
unique and privileged spiritual role for women in a world
in which our demographics are collapsing because people don't have children.
I think that is appealing for even young women. So
I'm this point number six is really focused on boys
being turned into Christian men. But notice that if you

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are a Christian man, our tradition then allows for a
place that sanctifies and promotes virtuous motherhood and true traditional femininity.
So all right, that's number six, number seven, and then
we'll get to some of these super chats. I apologize.
So if you have any questions or comments, feel free.

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use stream labs or dono chat, they take a lot
less than YouTube, I'd greatly appreciate it. Number seven, Number
seven reason why America will be Orthodox is digital evangelism.

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Digital evangelism that through online content, millions have been exposed
to Orthodoxy for the first time. That's just a fact.
That's a fact. I mean, I've noticed since when I
first became Orthodox, when you said Orthodox, people immediately said
are you Jewish. Now when you say Orthodox, people say, oh, yeah,

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that's Eastern Orthodoxy, right we I mean, as of the
latest Pew research poll that I've seen says that we
are one percent of the US population now that just
a few years ago is zero point seven percent. Now
we are growing at a phenomenal rate. Despite whatever news

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source tries to tell you otherwise, we are. It just
asks the anecdotal evidence from every priest that has been
on this YouTube channel, has said, our church is growing
very rapidly, and it's mostly young men, but also some
young women and families. Those are the people that are converting.
It's not old people, right, It's not like we're getting
a bunch of sixty year old people converting to Orthodoxy. No,

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it's the youth. It's the hardest demographic to get and advertising.
It's the key demographic. Right. The key demographic is young
people because they are going to be potential buyers or
consumers moving forward. It's not the old people. Protestantism has
the old people. Orthodoxy has the young people. That means

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we have a future. They do not. But through digital
evangelism we have for the first time. Orthodoxy is spreading
to so many people. And how is it spreading. Yes,
it's through debates and stuff like that, but often often
it's through authentic testimony. It's through Orthodox Christians talking about

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their journeys. I've had so many people talk to me
or sign up for one on ones because they were
into the New Age. They were into psychedelics, just like
I was deeply embedded into psychedelics. Did all the psychedelics,
did all the things that Terrence McKinnon requested, took all
the drugs, went to the ahuasca ceremonies, and eventually I said, yeah,
that's not it. It's actually Orthodox Christianity. Here's why I'm Orthodox. Now,

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that's why I created this YouTube channel. And I'm not
here to talk about me, but I mean all the youth,
often most of the YouTube channels. It's through authentic testimony
of individuals who have converted. This is not some institutional
marketing like scientology or Mormonism. Right, Mormonism, you get these

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weird commercials. You watch one Mormon video. Say you want
a debate of Mormon. You watch one Mormon video, and
all of a sudden, you're getting all these Mormon advertisements
on every video you watch. That is institutional marketing. Right,
same thing with you know, send your money to the
homeless people in Israel. Every Fox News or news and
Max Uh show you watch, that is institutional mark Orthodoxy

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does not have institutional marketing. How the hell is it
growing so fast. It's through digital evangelism, it's through people
articulating the faith. It's through authentic testimony and organic discovery,
which leads me back to again point number two, that
we are existing in a America that is hungry for
transcendence in the spiritual or the secular age. And so

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it's all it's organic discovery. People are looking for this
stuff online and finding it. That's not going to go away.
It's not gonna go away anytime soon. And this is
why again it's going to continue to grow. Point number
eight now, point number eight is disillusionment with ideological politics.

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So here here's one for you. Orthodoxy stands above ideological polarization.
And what do I mean by that, Well, if you're
an Orthodox Christian, it's very easy to be very critical
of both political parties, the Republicans. Number one, first and
foremost Zionism. You cannot be an Orthodox Christian be a Zionist.

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To be a Zionist is to worship a false religious
narrative which is actually aiding and abetting the Antichrist spirit
and bringing forth the Third Temple and the false Messiah
which the Jews believe is their true Messiah, which is
our Antichrist. You cannot be an Orthodox Christian be a Zionist.
That is just a cold fact. Can't do it. And

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so unlike Protestants, in many Catholics, although I would say
there's more anti Zionist Catholics than Protestants. Our tradition is explicit.
Our tradition is very explicit. I know Pope Francis, you know,
before he passed away, he called the Catholic churches there
in Goz every night and concerned about good for him,

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good for him. But our church is very explicit with
the fact that we are not some Judeo Christian tradition. Right,
you look in the Vatican and Dyers covered this multiple
multiple times. How isn't the official position of the Catholic
Church is that you're not too evangelized to Jews. So

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let me get that right. So many of the young
Catholic men who are America first, which we would agree on,
are anti Zionists, but the church that they're a part
of tells them they can't convert Jews. How do you
think that? How you think the Catholic Church is going

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to fare and the coming out? Obviously it's part of
the globalist multicultural infrastructure that is emerging. The Catholic Church
is not going to stand against the Third Temple, all right,
not gonna happen. And so same thing with the Democrats,
LGBTQ stuff. And this is something that you can level.

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Let both the Republicans and the Democrats. I mean, the
Republicans are no better at the LGBTQQ LGBTQ question. They're not.
I mean, you have Caitlyn Jenner literally going tomorrow lago
identifying as a woman, having a penis and only dating
women and referring to himself as heterosexual. How the hell

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do you figure that out? And that's considered conservative And
you had Republicans say we need to vote for Caitlyn
Jenner for governor of California. What what in the same
I mean you got, you know, on just Republics in general.
I mean there's a growing there's a growing sect swath

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of us that are critical of all LGBTQ stuff or
all homosexually going on, and it really has no place
in what we can call conservatism. But is the Is
the GOP aligned with that? Not? Really? Last time I
saw that the GOP believed that Dave Ruben was some

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type of Jewish paragon of virtue when him and his
husband are literally buying children, and I mean it was disgusting.
Did you see Jordan Peterson's recent interview with with I
just saw a clip of him and Dave Ruben, and
Jordan's like asking him about you know, you know what,
what what's the importance of motherhood? You know and children

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really really developed and they have a mother. And he's like, yeah, yeah,
my husband, he's he's obsessed about reading about skinned skin
contact and you know, in using formula and sort of
I guess creating a fake breast to breastfeed. So you know,
it's like that meme where the dad put a hole
in his shirt and puts the bottle through so the
baby will suck, confusing it with breastfeeding. What what? Jordan

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Peterson's literally defending gay marriage and child adoption with Dave
Rubin and his like latest interview. Dude, dude, And and
you know the GOP for example. You know, another criticism
because obviously at this point, you can't be a Democrat

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and be Orthodox. Now, you can be an Orthodox Christian
and be a Democrat by name, but you cannot be
living the Orthodox faith and vote for Democrat policies because
number one, you can't vote for abortion. Number two, you
can't vote for homosexuality and all the degeneracy that follows.
But with the conservative movement, I mean, this is where

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being Orthodox can actually give you a new perspective on GDP.
Go up nation good. No, it's not what. The health
of a nation is not determined by the GDP. Right.
This is one of my problems with like Donald Trump
and much of the Trump administration is they make this
false assumption that, oh, the stock market is that record

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highs right now, GDP is up, the nation's doing great well,
really because I'm seeing a lot of people struggling. I'm
seeing mass immigration, I'm seeing really low deportation numbers. I'm
seeing a lot of stuff that doesn't really seem like
America is in a great spot right now. And the
Republicans because of their religion of capitalism, right which again

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Orthodoxy stands again, we're not capitalists, we're not communists, we're
not socialists. We are the Orthodox Church. We believe in charity,
we believe in helping people. We also believe in meritocra. So, yeah,
capitalism and maybe a restricted sense not this. You know,
I'm a free market capital Have you played monopoly? Monopoly

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ends where communism begins? What are you talking about? Don't
you know that the capitalists of the West funded the
communist revolutions in the twentieth century. What are you talking about.
This isn't some a you know, team capitalism versus team communism.
These things go together. These are again part of modernity.
And and that's why like this religion of capitalism by

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the Republican Party. It's like as long as as long
as money goes up somehow, everything's fine. No it's not.
And that idea is the problem in and of itself.
The America is a people. America is not a stock market.
America is not a bank. Unfortunately, that's what it's become.

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It's a military bank. It's a bank with a ginormous
military attached to it. That's what America is right now.
But that but that's not a nation then, because no
nation is just a bank with people and the same thing.
You know. That's where you look at what mom Donnie
does in New York City. And then you got Trump

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and the the Trump administration telling you that they'll never
forgive student loan debt because you took it out, you
owe it what you So, let me get this straight.
The Trump administration tells us that the it tells us
that the universities are corrupted institutions, that they can't be trusted. Right,

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they claim that they're filled with anti Semitism, but they're
all leftists, right, they're woke. You can't trust the universities. Uh,
they don't even educate people. Okay, I'll agree with that.
I can get down on that. You know that the
US shouldn't you know, the government shouldn't subsidize educate. We
need to eliminate the Department of Education. Okay, I'm I'm
in for that. And then they turn around and say,

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you took out your student loan debt, you got to
pay it back, And it's like, wait, you just agreed
that the premise of the commodity I was purchasing wasn't
actually what I was purchasing. You agree that tuition is
inflated due to, you know, the guaranteeing of the student loans,
that the universities know they're going to make their money
based on the government backing of these loans, and then

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you can't file bankruptcy to get out of them. They're
essentially slavery. It's creating a feudal system on purpose. So
when the WEF says you will own nothing and you
will like it, they're talking about the fact that they've
already got you in the debt through your student loans,

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and we're supposed to be think that this is going
to save us as a country. No, that's why again,
Orthodoxy is above the political ideological polarization. And when you
become orthodox, I think it's so much find this freeing
ability to criticize both parties that when you're a Protestant,

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because there's this weird mentality where the Constitution is part
of like a religious doctrine for you, and that America
is divinely inspired nation by God, and that you and
I must devote our you know, we must pray for
Donald Trump, and I don't. I'm not even saying that
God doesn't give us the leaders that we deserve. I

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absolutely believe that's a very orthodox understanding. That's the reason
why we should have a monarchy. But okay, we got
Joe Biden, we got Donald Trump, we got Mam Donnie,
because God allowed it to occur. That it's a judgment
on us, it's a judgment on us. But for Protestants,
there's very little wiggle room to actually criticize the Republican

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Party because you think that that's your only outlet to salvation,
the only way we can save America is we got
to vote in more Republicans. Meanwhile, they literally criticized Lindsey
Graham and you know whatever neo conservative commentator. Uh, you know,
Mitch McConnell's no longer in the Senate, but you know

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whatever neo conservative they'll criticize, and then they tell you, oh,
we got to vote for more Republicans, we got to
vote for more REPO. How many times you got to
do this? It's like Charlie Brown and Lucy pulling the
football away. It's like a really going to fall for
this again and again and again and again. No orthodoxy
allows you to realize there is no political solution. Right.

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We do not allow politics become to become the mystical
outlet of our Christian faith. That's what so many American
Protestants do is they think that voting in your election
is somehow sanctifying, that that voting and participating in civil
politics is is going to redeem the nation. Now, I'm
not saying that voting isn't important for especially for local politics.

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It is getting your sheriff, you know, getting the community
leaders in play that actually in some way mirror your values. Yeah,
that is important, and everybody who lived in a good
place during COVID and the lockdowns know that that's that's real.
Where I'm from, we had a really good sheriff. He
was Christian and he wasn't going to do and enforce

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any of the of the social distancing lockdown stuff. So
we were able to get away with stuff. But that
doesn't mean participating in in Uh. You know, the civic
society of America is somehow sanctifying, Like so many Protestants believe,
it's not going to happen. You cannot vote your way
out of this. The only way we get out of

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it is again is for men to become men and
that we reach a threshold in which the culture itself
reflects the people inside of it. Protestantism isn't going to
do that. And that's where I'm arguing that Americans often

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filter reality through a politicals I mean, you talk with
a Protestant and everything almost becomes political immediately, and we're
and you almost have to do that just to engage
in American society because people engaging with you are coming
at you through a political lens. You know, you wear
a you wear something that's pro America or American flag
or something that the leftist immediately knows. Oh god, oh

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they're a Republican. Everything in America is political. That's why
orthodoxy supplants it. It's above the ideological polarization, and that's
necessary to get us out of this. I mean, this
is why Republicans continue. One of the things that I
hate about Protestants. They again believe that the Constitution is

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divinely inspired. And then they will say, oh, the liberals,
the Democrats, that's unconstitutional. You can't do that. You can't
do that, that's unconstitutional. Okay, So you agree that they're
not playing by the rules of the Constitution. Yeah, they're
not playing by the same rules. Then why are you
playing by the rules the Constitution? Well, you know, it's

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the Constitution. You can't be American without the American You
just said, the people in power that you're frustrated with
are not abiding by the King. So move beyond the
rule brook because people aren't using the rule book anymore. Okay, like,
get over it, Get over it. It's not that we
can't still identify. Yes, you know, the Founding Fathers very

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unique men in history. It's incredible what they could do.
Most of them were in their twenties. It's amazing. It's
amazing as a historical phenomenon. But okay, that's where it ends. Right.
The Constitution is not inspired by God. It's a Masonic, Deist,
general Christian document for a democratic republic. That's not going

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to save you, and it's not going to save our
nation and it's only going to get worse because of that.
So that's number eight, is that disillusionment with ideological politics
is a huge thing that I think again, it's not
going to stop. The politics are going to become more polarized,
and in a sense that's a good thing because we're

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getting away from the mono party right, we're getting away
from the uniparty. The left is becoming more leftists, and
thank god, the right is becoming more right wing. Thank god,
at least what's emerging. This is why the tension between
Shapiro and Fwint tasks and those two camps, and all
the attacks on Tucker, that's why they're happening. Because the

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Mark Levins of the world, the zionis infrastructure of the
Republican and Democratic Party. They can feel it, they can
feel it slipping away. That's why Shapiro's literally crying in
his forty minute monologue that oh, I devoted my whole
life to Republican politics, and I'm not gonna let this
slip away. Well, what's slipping away, Ben? The only thing

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that's slipping away is support for Israel. Ben. But that's
a good thing. So I see the polarization generally speaking
as a good thing for America. But Orthodoxy prioritizes itself
and supplants politics, and it's above the polarization. I think
that gives you solace, right, It gives you and it eases

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the anxiety when you feel like everything has to be political.
Just look at Twitter, look at all the non Orthodox people,
and look how fervent they are and how anxious they
are about politics because they think every little every executive
you know, every executive decision, every every vote, this is
going to what's good? This is gonna make or break

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the nation. No, it's not, dude, like, get over it.
Get over it. Number nine, The ninth reason why America
will become Orthodox is that it's about community and not individualism.
Life is about community and not individual We are community entities.
God himself is three persons with one essence. It is

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about communion, that is the point of life. God created
humanity so that we, through free will, could choose God. Therefore,
if we could freely choose God with the Amago day,
being made in the image and having the same free
will that God has, then we can experience love because
love cannot be forced. If God loved humanity, he has

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to let humanity choose to love him, because that's the
only way that love could exist. Love has it presupposes
free will. And what we have now in America, as
we said, rugged individualism wasn't so bad at the early
you know, the early nineteenth century and the early eighteen
hundred wasn't so bad. You know, we went conquered territory

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when in you know, expanded into into the wilderness, discovered things, explored.
That was that rugged individualism. But now it's gone so far.
As I said, people live in digital isolation. That Orthodox
he centers around the parish and shared worship, feasts, fasting,
mutual aid. This is where meaning comes from. This is

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where relationships come from. Why are so many people socially
awkward the young men who come to the Orthodox Church
because they haven't been socialized. So many young men who
come to the Orthodox Church never hang out with like
adult men. They haven't been teased, they haven't been challenged,
they've never had to compete. These are just necessary things

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so that you become a socialized man. Right, is that men,
we naturally compete with each other. We naturally chastise and
mock and make fun of. That's actually how we show
we like each other. It's very ironic. But for so
many young people, they have no social history in a sense.

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They really just have never been a part of a
community outside of maybe their home. And for let's be honest,
for half of them, they don't even have ad and
we wonder why they're socially awkward. Well because the majority
of their social interactions are through a phone. I I.
You know, there's one guy in my logos academy shout
out to nubi Uh. Nuby is a world class powerlifter

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and strong man. He's in the top ten in his
division and strongman. He just competed at the World Strongman
Competition and Uh in Ireland and he was talking about
how he had a young man reach out to him
and wanted to learn about lifting. And he said on
the on the phone, through these text matches, this kid

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sounded so confident, so assertive, sounded like he was really
knowledgeable about everything, like he was a go getter. And
so he set up a time to go meet this
kid and train with him. And when they met in person,
he would hardly talk, never made eye contact, kept you know,
kept looking down. It was all the facade. And one
of the things that shows is just how confident people

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are through social media. And again I don't blame this
young man. My point is, look at the ways in
which people socialize. That's how he's socialized. He socialized through
social media, and so he's very confident when he's when
he's texting someone, or he's commenting on social media, or
or you know, doing something through some type of technological gadget.

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But when it comes to face to face interaction where
things actually matter, where the real world is right, We're
not living in a fantasy when we're face to face anymore.
This is real life. No confidence, no social skills, no
ability to communicate. This is a huge problem. How do
we overcome this. We get the people to involve themselves

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in the community of the parish and the church and
the men of that parish will begin to shape those
individuals we have to have compassion on them, but we
have to bring them into an environment where we can
reshape them into socialized confident That's how we win long term.
American society, as I said, is fragmented, digitally isolated. It's

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multi religious, it's multi religious and has no sheared sacred canopy.
As I said, so in that environment, where do you
find your people? Where are your people? Right? This is
where I take umbrage with the white, the white nationalists,
white supremacist is who would you rather live next to

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a devout Orthodox Christian that is I don't know from Ethiopia.
I'm not and I'm not saying Ethiopian Orthodox. I'm saying,
let's say, assume they're Eastern Orthodox. Would you rather live
next to an Ethiopian family that is Orthodox Christian or
an atheist, progressive, leftist white family next to you? Which

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one's more important? Is it the ethnic connection or is
it the spiritual connection? And clearly, in my opinion where
I fall on that is the spiritual connection. And if
that's the case, it's about the spiritual connection, well, then
the church is your people. The church is your people.
You got to get in the community and involve yourself

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with your people, because there's where else can you find
your people? Where else are your people? If you're in America,
who are your people? And where are they? Legitimately? Where
are your people? You know, it's your neighbors, it's your community,
but all that stuff has been destroyed. The majority of

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people do not talk to their neighbors, you know. And
I'm the same way my where I live, I have
seen only one of my neighbors, you know, And just
based on observation, there's going to be a lot of
differences between us, a lot of cultural and political, religious

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differences between us. So who are your people? Who's the
people that share your values? Who's the people are going
to help you when you're in need? Who's the people
are gonna come when a tragedy happens, your wife dies,
your children die, your parents die, Who's going to be
there to console you? You have to have a community.
And so the church is the place where you find

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your people. That's the place, and it doesn't And so
in my commentary about the spiritual can versus the ethnic can,
that's not to say that ethnicity isn't important. That's not
what I'm saying at all. Obviously, there's an agenda to
wipe out European ethnicity and identity in the world. Why

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is it that it's on the European nations that are
being flooded with third world people? Because it's a plan,
so obviously I'm aware of it. I'm not saying that
there is an attack on white identity. Clearly there is.
But when it comes down to community and meaning, who
are your people? And even in America, if you say

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it's white Americans, half those people are not going to
claim you as their people. But if you become an
Orthodox Christian, all of Orthodox Christians in America will say
you're one of us. Now you have your people, you
have your parish, you have your culture, you have your identity,
you have responsibilities to other people. This is valuable, this

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is meaningful, and so it allows for a social stability
that you cannot find anywhere else in America. Where do
you find social stability? Honestly, if I had to guess,
the majority of people find their social stability at work.
I'm not kidding. That's why there's so many affairs in
the workplace. Think about it. Your wife, let's say she

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works nine to five and again, and I'm not against
if women work, you know, preferably, I don't want my
wife to work, you know, God willing I can make
enough money where that can be a real possibility moving forward.
But let's say your wife works, so she's gone from

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nine to five. Let's say it's a basic nine to
five job. Who does she spend the majority of her
time with. Who does she spend the majority of her
socializing with? Who does she spend the majority of her
shared experiences with. It's basically split between you and her workplace.

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And if that's the case, like that is for their
social stability, that is their outlet. No wonder women sleep
with the men and their bosses at work because that's
where they feel socially secure because the communities are all
broken down. That's why getting becoming orthodox and getting into

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the church, now you have a social stability that reinforces
your cultural values, your theological values, your moral principles, and
it will hold your wife to that as well. Right,
I mean, your wife can't just walk with you into
church wearing a mini skirt. Not gonna fly, at least
at my parish. Not gonna fly. I've heard, unfortunately, I've

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heard some parishes allowed they let women get away with more.
But typically you can't wear something above the knee. You
gotta cover your shoulders, and preferably you need to wear
wear a head covering. Not because we're subjugating you, but
because you, as a woman, and your body can inflame
the passions, and we're not here. It's not about you.

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We don't need eyeballs on the pretty lady at church.
We need eyeballs on the kinda stasis and the priest
and the chalice. And so you want, you want a
community that's gonna reinforce your values. Once you do find
a woman you need the church, You're gonna go to
your Protestant church where half of them are feminists, and
gonna and gonna tell her, oh, you know it, you know,

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it's it's okay, you can do this, you can do that.
You know, feminism is really not bad in this regard.
You know, is your husband, you know, if you're not
really really really really happy, if you're not just really
really really excited every day, you know, you may need
to divorce him. Do you want to bring your wife
in a community like that? Look at the divorce rates

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amongst the different religious traditions. You're gonna have to bring
her to an Orthodox community that revalidates and to use that,
to use that sociological term, so the sacred kid to
legitimate our values. We externalize, objectify, and internalize our value.

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Orthodox he's already creating. It's the alternate sacred canopy. Okay.
And that leads into my last and tenth point, and
then we'll get into the super chats and I'll respond
to everybody. The reason why America is going to become
Orthodox is because this is America's providence. This is America's providence.

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Protestantism has already had its chance and it failed. Catholicism,
you could make the argument it had its chance. Remember
when it had the the ability to limit what was
being seen through Hollywood. Right, it was able to exercise
its moral perspective and prescriptions for society and limit what

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degenerate content may be consumed through entertainment. But it's a
Catholic church. Really, a center focus of American life now
is the Protestant Church. And so Orthodoxy is the last
unbroken link to the Early Church. It just is America

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is at a spiritual crossroads. We'll just focus on Protestants,
but Protestantism has failed. The American Protestant experiment has failed.
The West is crumbling under moral collapse and spiritual confusion.
I mean that's why you look at England and you

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see people. I mean, let's even look at n Let's
look at New York City. Right. This was what blowed
me away is that women and then street interviews said, hey,
I feel unsafe in New York City. There's all these men.
You know, I was I a guy grabbed my button
breast the other day while I was walking down the
street in you know, mid mid Manhattan, in the middle

(01:38:35):
of the day. I feel unsafe in Chicago. And then
they got a I voted for mom Donnie's sticker on
their chest. What And that's the moral collapse. So our
culture is morally collapsing in the sense of how we
engage with each other, our crime, everything like that, the relativism.

(01:38:57):
But then we have people under again a spiritual confusion
that then vote for the things that are accentuating the
things that they're worried about. Now this is just a
problem with women voting in general. I mean, as we know,
but the West is falling apart. And I argue that

(01:39:17):
the two main pillars that are falling apart is the
spiritual confusion. So Christendom again really should be Orthodoxy, but
Christendom is spiritually confused. You literally have a female liberal
Archbishop of Canterbury. You really think Anglicanism is going to
go in the right direction, You think Anglicanism, the Church

(01:39:40):
of England is going to preserve the English people against
the hordes of Muslims in your country. Give me a break.
And that's why in the West people are searching for stuff.
They need something real, so they find psychedelics, they find occultism,
they find you know, the spiritual, not religious, the New
Age whatever it may be, anything anything, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam.

(01:40:03):
I mean, how many people are you seeing in England
like these, these white english people converting to Islam? How
is that happening? Well, one, they have no identity. The
identity of being English means absolutely nothing. They're not Christian anymore,
and so they really don't know what to do. So

(01:40:25):
instead of fighting the ward, they just, you know, join
the mob. Why don't we just become Muslims? Pretty easy,
pretty easy. You just have to make You just have
to state, you know, make your submission to Allah claim
that Muhammad is the prophet. Now you start going to

(01:40:46):
the mosque, start reading your Qur'an, your Muslim you think
that's going to preserve your nation. And the same thing's
true in America. Like we are literally at a spiritual crossroads.
And that's why Orthodoxy is so appealing. That's why so
many young men are flocking to the church to find refuge,

(01:41:08):
because we are the hospital, the hospital of the soul.
We are the ark of the Covenant. We are Noah's
ark in the flood. We are the refuge. And we
are now for the first time in American history, becoming mainstream.
Never before was Orthodoxy a mainstream thing in America. Yes,

(01:41:29):
we have the Greek Chapel of Saint Photius and Saint
Augustine from that, you know, small Greek community that immigrated
and unfortunately many passed away. Yes, we have the Russian
Orthodox Church that converted the Alludes and Alaska and the
Native Americans and made its way down the southern West coast,

(01:41:49):
you know, south down the West coast. But Orthodoxy's never
been mainstream in America. Well now it is. We had
Father Josiah try Trinam On Tucker Carlson's homage to Charlie
Kirk his memorial to Charlie Kirk that there was only
one Christian representative on that stream, and it was Fathered

(01:42:12):
Josiah Trinam. Orthodoxy is hitting the mainstream right now, and
it's it is because this is providence, Guys. I truly
believe that where America is right now is providential for
us to accept Orthodoxy. I mean, if orthodoxy became sort

(01:42:33):
of a main line, mainstream item in America fifty years ago,
sixty years, you think we would have had the converts
we have today. No, It's like God's providence brought the
church and allowed it to be glorified and allow it
to be seen in America right at the point in
which everything was crumbling apart, because this is the only

(01:42:57):
place where you can find shelter, and so God is
using this time, I argue, to reintroduce the old faith
in the new world. And in that sense, the new world,
if we continue through the glory of God, will reflect
the old world in the old faith of the old world.

(01:43:18):
And from that perspective, I don't see why there'd be
any pessimism from an Orthodox Christian perspective about America moving forward.
We are going to win. We are going to win.
We have God on our side. We have the sacraments,
we have the tradition, we have the history, we have

(01:43:39):
the theology. The only thing we need is you. The
only thing we need is the hearts and minds of
young individuals to join the church and take up the challenge.
And if there's anything that I think that out of
the americanum mind, the American mind that can appeal is

(01:44:01):
that we love a challenge and Americans love a fight.
And if you want to fight evil, you want to
fight the evil of this world, you want to fight
the coming of Antichrist. We're the only one church doing it.
We're the only one church that the gates of Hell
will not prevail against. So that is going to be

(01:44:25):
Those are my ten points. Went a little bit longer
than I expected, but sorry, I'm a bit verbose sometimes.
Those are my ten points of why America will be Orthodox.
And despite the videos of Gavin Ortland or all these
Catholic apologists, it's not going to make a bit of difference.
Protestantism is dead. People are not going back to Protestantism,

(01:44:47):
just not happening. The only other option is Catholicism. Orthodoxy
and Oriental Orthodox. Oriental Orthodox is way too ethnic. You know,
if they think the Greek Church, the Eastern the Greek
Orthodox Church is too ethnic, wait till you go to
an Oriental Church. That's going to be way more ethnic.
And plus they're not even you know, they're non Calcedonian,

(01:45:08):
they don't have the same theology. So in my mind,
the Oriental Church is not a threat. It's not a threat.
It's not going to expand, it's not going to grow
in the Western world. The only way it grows is
through mass immigration. And it's not like the Western power
is going to choose a bunch of Coptic or Oriental
Christians to immigrate, but Orthodoxy and Catholicism, and that choice

(01:45:30):
is becoming clearer and clearer by the day. And really
the only thing holding people to Catholicism is the ancestral
historical identity, right their parents were Catholic, they were Catholic.
You know, they want to be in the same faith
as their grandparents and their ancestors. I can get that,

(01:45:52):
but you know, only for a small swath of people.
Our theological arguments hurting people to Catholicism from Orthodoxy because
we have it we have it, so as long as
the playing field is equal, we will win. And that's
why we are winning now. It's not going to stop

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