How to MOVE Forward with Truth Courage and Faith

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Todd Hauff.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Greetings everybody, this is your humble host Chris Dunham, filling
him for my dear friend Todd Huff and the Todd
Huff Radio Show, the Home of Conservative Not Bitter. I
did another episode in this go around, and hopefully you'll
get a chance to listen to that. If that's played
before or after, it should be standalone and should be

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couraging unto itself. A little bit on my background, I've
always considered myself a marketplace evangelist, and my bio actually
says corporate evangelist and biblical or global philosopher of some kind.
Philosophy just being that art of putting everything in together
and trying to make some sense. But the corporate evangelist

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part has been trying to live out the Great Commandment
in the marketplace, and today that's where we as Christians,
as conservatives find ourselves ram routed against a wall because
we're constantly told that we can't share our faith or
can't talk about things because HR will complain. And for me,
HR just stands for Heaven's resources. So I'm going to
continue to fight that good fight. As an evangelist, I've

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traped the globe. I've been to about eighty countries on
six continents. I started in the marketplace, eventually began a
ministry that would take me to the depths of the
world and the length of this globe in different perspectives,
primarily to encourage the faithful shepherds, the frontline shepherds. See
pastors around the world are quite different. Their churches cannot

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support them, so they have Most of them are by
vocational and I've used my marketplace skills to encourage them
and prepare them for the week so that they can
earn a living and then when they can come back
over the weekend using God's good word to share and
shape lives. So that's my background again. My name is

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Chris Dunham. I'm currently the dean and provost of the
Patriot Academy at its campus in Fredericksburg, Texas, and check
out Patriot Academy dot com. We are an organization that
fulfills all the mandates of good old fashioned American living,
focus heavily on the First and Second Amendment, and we
participate in teaching the one room schoolhouse model where we

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teach people discipline in their studies and dignity in their labor.
So they work on campus for half a day or
somewhere our jobs, and then the other half day they
are in the class of some kind And depending on
whether it's fall or summer, we rotated depending on the
Texas heat and what it allows us to do. So
when they're needed to be an air condition, we put

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them in air condition, and when it's flexible enough for
them to go out and flex their muscles, we allow
them to do that too. I've been part of this
movement for about twenty five years, going and teaching at
Patriot Academy, things like biblical citizenship, worldview lectures, apologetics, American
church history, global church history, moral philosophies all the way

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from Aristotle and Socrates and Plato through the Enlightenment to postmodernism.
So that's just a big amount of verbiage I dumped
on you to give you a little bit of what
I get to do, not in any way except as
a passion. I love the ability to read and encourage people.

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I love the ability to try to challenge convention by
studying thoughts and ideas that most people would find challenging.
Some of the books I read are a cure for
insomnia if you have it, and so some of the
things I say maybe actually giving you that insomnia. So

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if for some reason you feel yourself drifting on in
your driving, please stop and switch the program off so
you don't hurt yourself in any way. All that to
say that today I want to talk to you about
a simple formula on how do we move ahead. We
are in some very incredible times. America has got a reprieve.

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I think we dodged a bullet literally, figuratively and precisely.
I guess in some ways to have been given that reprieve.
We are at a very incredible time in human history.
I think Adrian Rogers, that great preacher, once said that
one day the dam of God's mercy will burst and

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unleash the flood and wrath, the flood of his wrath.
I'm fortunate that we have been in the concept of
grace for so long, and I cannot even imagine how Debach, Sodom,
and Gamorah would be compared to where we are as
a world today, and that God's lightning boat doesn't come.
I'm reminded of Isaac Watt's take on the Second Psalm,

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when he said, why do these nations join to slay
the Lord's anointed son? Why do they cast his laws
away and tread his gospel down? The Lord who reigns
above the sky derides their rage below and speaks with
vengeance in his eyes, and cast their spirits through. I
called him my eternal son. I raised him from the dead.
I made my holy hill his throne, and wide his
kingdom spread. Ask me, my son, and then enjoy the

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utmost heathen land. I roar of iron will destroy the
rebel that withstands. Be wise, you, rulers of the earth,
adore the heavenly Lord. Obey the King of heavenly birth,
and tremble at his word with humble love. Address his throne.
For if he frowned, ye die. Those are secure and
those alone who on his grace rely. And I've come
to that point. I've just been relying on God's grace

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through all the tumult of the last number of years
as a migrant to these year United States. So I
came here in nineteen eighty six with nine dollars to
my name. Since then, I've had the privilege of sharing
the stage with two US Presidents, ambassador's secretaries of State,
former first Ladies, titans of industry, captains of enterprise, sports athletes,

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you name it, I've had that joy of doing it.
In fact, when I sit at my little den in
my house in Dallas and I look at all the
autograph footballs I have from people who are such great celebrities,
I just pinched myself that I had the chance to
live this American dream. My mentor, mister Zigler, always gave
me this advice. He said, live your day by the clock,
but your life with a vision. And to that end,

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today I want to hopefully take you through a concept
of how do we move ahead? How do we move
ahead in these times? To combat that which is ignorant,
to confront that which is idiotic, to compliment that which informative,
to enhance that which is intuitive. Whatever our goals are,
we need to step into life and not recuse ourselves

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from a society that seems debauched as an individual. As parents,
we have had our own brush with this casualty of
culture with our child. And as a result of that,
I speak not only from pain, but in the Bible
it tells us that Paul Storne never left him, nor
did Jacob's limp. And as a result of that, as
we feel that sometimes we are battered and wounded in

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the conservative cause, and everywhere around us we see cacophony arise,
and we see counterintuitive marches with people who look imbecilic
in their way and their shout and their demeanor. I
want to give you hope. I want to give you
hope today that it's not going to be alright just
because I say so, but it's going to be alright
because not only that, the Bible says so, but there

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is a God given mandate. I think we are breathing
the relief that that mandate has given us. I don't
know how much time we have in this new idea
or this new world that we are living in, This
new conservative agenda being unleashed with such fury. The rally
cry against it is going up day and night. If

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it's vaccines, they fight against it. If it's law and
order they fight against it anything. As Scott Jennings would say,
the twenty on every eighty twenty issue seems to be
the rally cry of the progressive left. But that doesn't
mean the progressive right needs to be pumping their chests
and saying, you know, we want YadA, YadA YadA. We
need to take this time as that reprieve what have

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we been given and what can we do with it?
Many years ago Bill Bright and Lauren Cunningham called that
the seven Mountains of influence. How do we influence these mountains?
How do we influence politics, How do we influence education?
How do we influence religion? How do we influence finances?
How do we influence family? And so on and so forth.

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My formula for you is simple. It follows the word move.
Move First, let's merge with the lane of truth. You know,
truth by nature is exclusive. I've said that many times.
If you've heard me, if you've heard me a minute
or an hour, you've heard me say this over and
over again. The truth by nature is exclusive. But for

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some reason we have read, we have decided over the
last many years, probably the last forty years, maybe even longer,
post Vietnam when many great philosophers say America's cultural soul
came home in a body bag. What we have seen
is the red defining of truth. There is two truths now,

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my truth and your truth. Not objective truth, but a
subjective truth. My heart likes it, my head approves it.
You better approve it, and you better applaud it. And
then there is the objective truth right wrong, yes, no, black, white,
good bad. Since the days of our late great Russi Limbo,
when we have believed in objective truth, we've always been villa.
There is always a parallel, and the parallel is but

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why do you object to somebody having their own idea
about truth? And that's the issue here, isn't it. If
you want to merge the lane of truth, there has
to be an understanding of what this truth is. Is
there an objective truth? And I do believe it is.
I believe it's a natural law or nature's law that
follows Nature's law giver. And whether that truth is something

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as simple as believing that, as Isaac Newton says, I
can explain to you through formula what gravity is. I
can show you through mechanism and method how it works.
But I cannot, ever, for a life of me, figure
out why gravity exists. That's agency, and I leave that
to the divine, And I don't know somewhere along the
line we decided that man would start playing god. And

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what Newton was saying is that things we can explain.
It's part of the intellect we have been given to
be able to explain some of the things we experience
in this world. But some things are left up to
the designer, to a creator, to a creation, and I
think we have recently started meddling with that, and that's
when the erosion of truth took place. The erosion of

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truth took place because people started believing in what the
media was telling them, in what the politicians wanted people
to believe. And it doesn't take you to be a
fi bear, a kapa from Mit to figure out what
truth is. Objectively, we all know it. I don't think
there is a person out there who's protesting in that

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blue haired hippie squad of some kind that decides to
wear all kinds of garish make up, all kinds of
ridiculous adornments and piercings and all the things that maybe
their desire to express themselves. But they know, and they
know that, they know that, they know in their heart
of hearts that they are not doing it for any
other reason except a desperate desire to garnish and garner attention.

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That's all it is. At the end of the day,
you cry out, is just for that. John Lennox, a
multiple PhD from Oxford University, says, nonsense is nonsense, even
if Stephen Hawking says it. So. You could be the
most learned person in the world, you could be the
most esteemed professor in the world, you could have tenure

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at one of the Ivy League institutions. But even you
know it when you espouse stupidity, When you espouse stupidity
in your heart of hearts, any common sense man with
a second grade education should be able to say, you
know what, that goes against the framework of common sense.
Then why then, is this desire to so desperately remake society?

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Why is there this desperate daily fervor to remake everything
that is normal? So when we say let's clean up
a city, say okay, but you cannot clean up the
city if you're of a different political persuasion. You can
only clean up the city if you have my political persuasion.

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What happened to the common sense attribute that I don't
care who gets rid of the trash as long as
the trash has gotten rid off. Why does a Republican
taking out trash have to be one side and a
Democrat taking out trash being the other side? When trash
itself is trash? Do you really care who takes out
the garbage? Same token? Do you really care who solves

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the crime problem? If security insanity is given to you.
Politics cannot be so divisive in ourselves that we are
redefining truth in terms of I'm going to determine if
crime is affecting me only if it is red crime
or blue crime. And then the audacity, I mean, I
don't care if you're a billionaire governor of a state,

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if you have the audacity to say that you know
all the crime is actually in red states, well that's misleading, right.
You know that you're misleading people when you know that
the statistics are proving that it's the blu run cities
that are actually more overrun by crime. And it's not
like data we're pulling out from a hat or from
a weekend. We're pulling it out from years of research

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in the same locale, and so when someone stands up
and says that I have had enough of it, you're
immediately branded as someone who's a fascist. Oh yeah, Hitler, Hitler.
You know, this Hitler cry has gotten so ridiculous it's
almost laughable. Now. I teach at an academy that's called
Patriot Academy, and you know, it's been branded in many

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different ways of saying, Okay, you know they believe in
the ultra American propaganda. They're nationalism. I'm a first generation
migrant to this United States. As Danish Dusuza said when
he was accosted at an event, he says, what threat
do I post to anybody? I came here with nothing
to my name. I worked hard every day and followed
the rules that were given to me, the American way,

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the American dream. My mentors were all white. My mentors
were all ultra religious. They were ultra conservative. When I
first met him, I was practicing Hindu at that time,
who came from a different society, who came from abject poverty.
But I overcame language, I overcame linguistics, I overcame everything,
just because I truly believed that what these guys were

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saying was the right thing to do. So righteousness does
have a truth component to it. So the first thing
we have to ask ourselves, the first litmus test in
everything we do in our movement, is merge the lane
of truth. Merge the lane of truth. The OH in
my formula stands for overcome the frame of lies. Man,

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I don't care how you camouflage aly, it is easy
to anybody with a basic civic sense to see that
you're grandstanding. I cannot believe for a second that if
you have worked anywhere, at any length of time, that
you would get on TikTok and make some of the
stupid assertions you do about what is required of you.

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I remember when I went for my first job. The
guy says, by law, you're going to be required to
work forty hours a week, and it was a minimum
wage job. I quizically asked him, can I work sixty?
He said, why would you want to work sixty? I said,
sixty times minimum wage is more than forty times minimum wage.
And you know what he said to me, this has
been minimum wage was three thirty five an hour. He says, yeah,

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you know what, I love your innocence you'll go far. See.
Innocence is the seed bed of wonder, and when we
take innocence away, people cease to wonder. Amazement goes to
the background, and suddenly we go from Even though we
are living in a Star Wars world with artificial intelligence
doing amazing things, self driving cars, China providing a platform

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which can receive one hundred and forty high speed trains
a day and take up to seven hundred thousand people
as passengers. Whether you believe in China's ideology or not,
human invention has brought us to the point of that
brilliance of experiencing a Star Wars kind of world, that amazement.
But the other side is mad Max, doom and gloom.

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It cannot be right. Something bad's going to happen, Something
bad has to happen. Why is that? Why is it
that they cannot be a live and a let live philosophy?
Why is it that the haves and the have nots
don't get along anymore together? You know, a poor person
has never offered me a job. That doesn't mean I'm
not poor. When I was poor, I didn't envy the rich.

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I wanted to be rich, but I also understood there's
a difference between having wealth and riches. You know, wealth
is when everybody you know loves you. Riches are when
your best friends want to hang out with you, and
the moment that goes, they leave you by the wayside.
So overcome the frame of lies. You know, we have
parents now being cut off from their grandchildren for the

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simple reason that they voted for someone different than the
children did. Now that is not only sophomoric, that is moronic,
That is idiotic. It goes against the grain of a
healthy family. Generational people have had the ability to disagree.
We fought wars over this. This nation allowed people to

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die when we and fought for causes that were not
even causes that we needed to be a part of,
but we went because it was just You can debate
the number of people that died at Auschwitz, whether it
was six million or four million, and you can put
a TikTok video on whether the Holocaust was really as
big as it was or not. But that's stupid till
you actually walk in Auschwitz, and I have, and you

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see what Hannah Aerrant called the banality of evil. Taking
the hair off a human scalp and knitting it into
socks and caps, because that is the greatest insulation that
any fiber can provide. And then shipping it off to
your troops or fighting on the front lines in Siberia
is what fascism and Adolf Hitler did. Now you tell

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me that we're doing anything close to that in our stuff,
and I will tell you that you do not understand
the banality of evil. So stop it with these comparisons.
But that's overcoming the frame of life. So when I
hear the word Hitler or Nazi, or I hear any
of this propaganda nonsense give into conservatives, I always stand
up and I said, I'm a brown skin, first generation immigrant.

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I'm proud of the fact that I am an immigrant.
I'm proud of the fact that I've had to live
and achieve the American dream. But I'm also proud of
the fact that I get to teach American kids American history,
church history, religion, belief, philosophy, understanding worldviews. You know, the
joy of that could not have happened anywhere else. You
take anywhere else in the world where an immigrant would

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come from another country and go to France, for example,
with very little money to his name, and then be
recognized by the government of France to teach French history
to French people. It's an oddity that is only possible
in the American experience. So I tell people, you know,
before you get all ratcheted up and riled up to
go out and protest stupidity, ask yourself, why when someone

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offers me a one way ticket, first class to somewhere else,
I don't want to go. Because this is the only
place that will allow you to get up and be
your stupid self day in, day out, and still give
you the lux and the provision to do that. No
other nation allows this. You cannot go and rail against
any other nation in one of those countries, they'll lock
you up in a heartbeat. And these people are supposedly free,

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just like we are republics all over the world. They
called republics, the Republic of India, the Republic of the Congo.
But any of these places, you go onto the street
corner and you start shouting and call the main person
in charge what we call our people in charge here,
and you see how long you last in that provision.
This is an amazing nation. And I want us as

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conservatives to articulate a love with a wisdom and our
knowledge with true facts. You know, these people who are
being guided on feelings need to be jostled back into
reality with facts. And once those facts begin to play,
those facts have to have a compassion attached to it,
which is the commandment. I don't ever go into these
dialects because you are a conservative audience. That's where you're

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listening to this show. So I'm going off on a
little bit of a higher pitch here. The reality is
when I go and engage, and I've been invited to
speak in mosques, I've been invited to speak in temples.
They know I'm a Christian. You just have to look
at my YouTube and you know that I'm an avowed
evangelical Christian who has spent my life spreading the Gospel
of Jesus Christ. But I also know that the two

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things my Lord gave me, the Great Commandment and the
Great Commission of parallel lines, and I have to straddle them.
I have to make disciples because that's the true God.
But I also have to love them, and if I
do that, I have to do it in a winning
and a convincing way. In order to do that, I
have to merge the lane of truth. I have to
understand the truth by nature is exclusive. I have to

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find as many avenues of truth that will make the
person who is living a lie I realize they are
living a lie. And then overcoming this frame of lies
requires a tremendous amount of patience. Sometimes it's easy to
watch the news, or watch X or scroll through Facebook
and just get riled up because we see some things

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that are not supposed to be normal, that are now
paraded as everyday behavior. But you have to take a
deep breath and ask ourselves. You know, it's not like,
what would Jesus do? What wouldn't Jesus do? He was winsome,
he was loving, He had read Hot's corn for the
people that when he up ended the tables and said

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not in my father's house. But he had the tenderness
of love. He wept when his friend died. So we
need to know both the conviction and the compassion of
our Lord. If we do that, we'll be able to
overcome this frame of lies. By saying, you know what,
there is a truth. It is an objective truth. It
is an objective moral truth. It comes from an objective

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moral law, and it comes from an objective moral law giver.
When we come back after the break, we'll continue with
the remainder of our formula. So right now we are
merging the lane of truth, we are overcoming the frame
of lies, and we'll come back and talk about a
little more as we finish up today's broadcast more after

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the break. Greetings, and welcome back to the Todd Huff

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Radio Show, the home of Conservative Not Bitter. This is
Chris Dunham, your guest host, filling in for Todd. We
are talking today about how do we move and engage
in this tumultuous time we are in. We talked about
merging the lane of truth and overcoming the frame of lies,
and next we're going to talk about vocalizing the name

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of reality, vocalizing the name of God. Whatever you want
to vocalize, there is a vocalizing component that has to
take place. And by this I mean that if you
are articulate and if you are prepared, make sure that
your answers are succinct, make sure your answers are fact based,
but make sure your answers are able to elicit feeling.

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You know, there's an old adage that when will meets imagination,
put your money on imagination. For so long, the left
has been able to parade nonsense in a very emotional way.
So a certain picture of Grandma being thrown off a
cliff from many years ago, I think it was a
Michael Deucaccus election time, where they said, oh, if you

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elect the Republicans, you know your grandma's healthcare will go off,
will be taken away, And they threw Grandma off a
cliff in a wheelchair, and it was a very interesting visual. Now,
I don't know how many of them actually believed that
conservatives would wheel people up to the edge of a
cliff and throw them off, but that's right now where
we are. I don't think it would be far fetched

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to say that some of the average people you talk to,
they believe the vitriol so hook line and sinker when
they believe that people are being deported or no just
cause or no due process, they just thinking it's a
roundup that is taking place without any proof, without any identity.
Now I've been pulled over a couple of times by
police because I was going too fast or ran a

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stop sign or whatever, and when I comply with them,
it's actually fairly benign. Now, I very visibly. Remember there
was the time I was driving interstate coming back from
Florida to Texas for some reason because I didn't want
to wait. I had a late engagement, and I had
another engagement in Arkansas, and then I was coming to Texas,
and then I was going to overnight here and then

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fly to Hawaii or some ridiculous things like that. So anyway,
somewhere between Louisiana Mississippi, in one of those places, I
was speeding and I got a ticket. Well, each state
is different in what they require you to do. One
state will in Oklahoma, for example, they'll say if you
just go online and pay the fine and acknowledge your thing,
no harm, no foul. Another one you actually have to

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call back and verify and otherwise they could be a warrant.
So each state is different. I was a little petrified
that when I got a ticket in one of the
states that had the thing, that I had to call
back in a certain period of time otherwise there'd be
a warrant out and my license could be And I
rent cars all over the country, so I didn't want
that issue. But then I was going to be out

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of country, and I was worried what the date would be.
And I was so petrified that when the officer I
told him, I said, please don't give me a ticket
because I don't know any He says, just calm down,
take a deep breath, It's okay. Everything has a process here.
Some of the processes we don't understand. Some of the
processes we don't need to understand. But don't get into

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a panic unnecessarily where you'll cause yourself. And he was
just so kind and sweet in spite of the fact
that he gave me a ticket that cost me one
hundred and twenty dollars. Now to add insult to injury.
I came back and sure enough they had tried to
send a communicate to me and I was not in
the country. And then when we called their office, they said, oh, yeah,
there is a warrant out for him, or a warrant

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has been issued or something like that. I don't think
it had been issued or it was in the process.
I really don't. But my wife very calmly said, what
can we do? This is just a series of unfortunate events.
What was we do to make this ride? And that's
all the question we asked. They gave us about four
steps and you know, we were able to comply with
those steps and get that accomplished. The reason I say

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that is vocalizing our ability, vocalizing our thoughts, vocalizing our knowledge,
vocalizing our intellect takes a little bit of diplomacy. Today,
I watch any number of these TikTok videos where everybody
is a lawyer in the car, everybody is a sovereign
citizen in their car. At this point, what happens is
the people in blue get fatigue. I finally chuckled today

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when I saw a police officer post something said, Hey,
I've just come downtown and I've been asked to take
part in providing guidance or providing security for a protest.
So they filed the permit saying could they have some
police protection? And the irony was the cop was saying
that the protest is for a defund police and they

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wanted police prote So that's the insanity of this. And
all we have to do sometimes is vocalize our way
through humor maybe and get away with it. But I'm
reminded of a story from many, many years ago. This
took place, I think they say around eighty four hundred
Telemachus Telemachus. Telemachus also spelt Alamachus, was a Christian monk,

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and I'm going to read parts of the story that
I have on my laptop here. The story is that
around eighty four hundred and four, during the reign of
Emperor Honorius Honorius these are all difficult names, Honorius Telmachus
entered a gladiatorial arena in Rome. Most accounts take place
in that colosseum. Shocked by the violence, he leapt into

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the arena and tried to separate the fighters, crying out
something along the lines off. And this they say is
either legend or lore, but he's perpeted to have said
in the name of Christ. Stop. They enraged crowd, including
the gladiators themselves, stoned or struck him to death on
the spot, or so the story goes. The aftermath is
his martyrdom deeply moved the Emperor. Soon afterwards, the Emperor

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issued an edg manning gladiatorial contest in Rome. This Telemachus's
sacrifice is often credited with bringing the brutal gladiator tradition
to an end. Maybe that's what we need to vocalize.
In the name of all that is decent, stop, you
know you see people going on with this gender nonsense,
or going on with this identity or this behavior or

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the proclivity, and my body, my choice and all of
these things. I just stand up in front of them
and I need to say, in the name of all
that is decent, stop. Think about it. Our Lord at
the Last Supper said this is my body broken for you.
Do this in remembrance of me and in the you know,
as often as you can until I come again, And

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in that act diffused human history past, present in future.
Is it ironic that we as Christians don't feel blasphemed
enough when the cry for killing a baby is my body,
my pursh my body broken for you is a command.
Is the most sacred thing we participate in when we
take holy communion in the name of all that is

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decent and holy. Stop And we need to vocalize this
over and over again, not with any kind of rambunctious
alter ego kind of you know, I'm greater than you,
or I'm better than you, or I'm holier than now,
but just in the name of civility and decency. Stop.
What do you think is the end game of this?

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If society goes down this path where everybody can pick
their gender, everybody can pick their identity, everybody can pick
their costume, everybody can pick their work. What is the endgame?
And do you think this has not been tried before?
In fact, even when I talk to conservatives, I tell them,
I said, hey, you know what, before you jump on
the bandwagon of banishing communism, have you actually studied the

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evolution of it? Go back and read the teachings of Lenin.
If you read Lenin's manifesto, it actually is much more
conservative then some of the conservative rants I see today
because of all the stuff we have seeded in the
last forty years. But in Lenin's Manifesto he says that
you know what, the proletariat and the bourgeois, the fight

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between the commoner and the elite was happening. The czars,
the Romanov dynasty was looting the common people. Lenin's own
brother was I think executed because he was trying to
get involved as a rabble rouser of some kind. And
so Lenin writes this manifesto saying, some parts of the
proceeds that are made by the people belong to them.
So what he was saying is those that produce need

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a little bit, give them, give them a little bit.
Now that sounds noble, till Stalin comes along and says,
if a little power, you know, a little power is good,
Absolute power is greater. And he continues to take Lenin
say he was not Lenin's chosen successor. In fact, for
the three years Lenin was there, I don't think Lenin
even wanted Stalin around. And Stalin hasserved the power, and

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what he led was a revolution, the remnants of which
lasted seventy five years. Still, the Iron curtain fell when
President Reagan said, mister Garbichaff, tear down this wall. So
there were moments in history where people have vocalized the
right thing at the right time. Mister Gorbichaff, tear down
this wall. All of these things are great seminal moments.

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Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg address, these were all poignant, vocal events.
We have nothing to fear but fear itself during the
Great Depression. All of these things are remarkable things that
have changed the course of history. So find whatever is
is that works for you. But I think the one
that I like to use more often than anything, in

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the name of all that is holy, stop and please
tell me, what is your endgame? If there are no boundaries?
That GK. Chesterton said, before you drop a boundary, ask
yourself why it was up there in the first place.
If there are no boundaries, what is the endgame? Where
do we go? Do we as a civilization exist this
nonsense of a boundary, as thought that everything belonged to

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someone else, and everybody is in a surper and everybody
is an occupier. These are all nice slogans, but they're
stupid on face value. Maybe our rally cry, our vocal cry,
at least mine, is in the name of all that
is holy and decent. Stop, in the name of a
loving God. Stop, in the name of a loving Christ. Stop.

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You know, sometimes maybe that's what's needed. And when I
say that sometimes in some of my public speeches and
all of that, in the Q and A, people will
always ask that question. They said, mister Dunham, it seems
like you're a believer. Seems like your point of view
is you're coming from a Christian perspective. I said, before
you go any further, I need to apologize, And they're

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quite curious, what do you mean. I said, I'm apologizing
that it seems like I'm a Christian. If my diatribe
so far and my monologue did not reveal one hundred
percent that I follow my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,
then I'm doing something wrong in the name of all
that is holy. Stop. We got one more segment after
the next break. We'll come back after that and wrap
this up. This is christ Dunham on the Home of

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Conservative Not Bitter. Welcome back, dear friends, to the growing

(34:18):
audience of the Todd huff Show, Conservative Not Bitter. My
name is Chris Dunham. Chris Dunham. My email is Chris
at Patriot Academy dot com, Chrishrish at Patriot Academy, one
word dot com, Chris at Patriot Academy dot com. I
serve as the dean and Provost of the Patriot Institute
there where we are encouraging young minds. We teach them

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the classroom dignity and discipline. We teach them work dignity
and discipline, and we teach them things that our master's
level educational material that is being provided to kids in
the eighteen to twenty two range. Think about it when
you go back and read the New England Primer and
see what our founding fathers were learning in the first grade,
like abobbination and desolation and other polysyllabic words. You'll realize

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that the human mind has not been challenged to the
degree it could be challenged. I'm exposing these kids to
a world that is quite different to socratic debating methods,
to asking them to participate, to teaching them about the Reformation,
the characters within the Reformation, the fight with the Anglican Church, indulgences,
I mean master's level education we are providing. That's just

(35:25):
a glimpse into what I get to do and why
I get to do. It is probably just the benevolence
of God that He's allowed me to live at a
time such as this. But I love filling in for Todd.
And as we close this segment, out let me in
my formula. Our move formula stands for merge the lane
of truth, overcome the frame of lies, vocalize the name
of Christ, and engage. Engage, Engage, do not be a bystander.

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One of my mentors, doctor Romesh Richard, who teaches that
Dallas Seminary said everything in this universe, everything in this world,
seems to be a microcosm of a sporting event on
any issue. Seventy five thousand people desperately in need of rest,
constantly yelling at twenty two people desperately need of exercise,
constantly yelling at twenty two people desperately in need of rest.

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Let me repeat that, seventy five thousand people desperately in
need of exercise are constantly yelling at twenty two people
desperately in need of rest. There are certain people who've
been fighting this fight. I've been fighting this fight for
twenty five years. I know Todd fight, said daily on
his radio program. We have many voices like the Shapiros
of the world, Michael Knowles and the Great Rush Limbo

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and many others. Conservative voices have been pounding the microphone
saying we need to engage, We need to engage, we
need to engage. But somewhere along the line it got
too hard. The media hijacked the narrative. The philosophical argument
was lost, the media argument was lost. All we had
left was the kitchen table arguments we were looking for.
So you and I retreated to suburbia, raised our fences,

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and raised our children, only to find out when we
sent our chill run back into the world, the world
swallowed them up because the world was offering them a
seductive option. What I'm saying is, in order to engage
understand all the issues if someone is going through some
kind of issue with the mind, or with the heart,
or with the thought, or with the belief, we have

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to stand side by side look in the same direction.
This is where love the Lord your God with all
your heart and soul and mind come in play, because
it says love him with your mind, but love your
neighbor as yourself, which means as we love them. We
need to engage. We need to engage. Gone are the
days when missionaries like me who drew this long end
of the stick or the short end of the stick,

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ended up going to the ends of the world. We
have to engage in Judea. We have to engage in
some area and we have to engage in the end
of the world that's biblically given to us in a needing.
But the beauty of America as we now know it
as a melting pot which probably has at least one
person from every civilization or people group on Earth that
calls this place home. And Samaria are now here. Ends

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of the earth are also here, which means in our
desire to engage, we mich need go to the corner store.
We just maybe need to make eye contact with the
cashier at the grocery store. We need to make a
give a warm smile to the person who swipes us
at the convenience store. Whatever it is, engage, engage, Engage.
Our goal in this journey is to understand that there

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is a beauty. There is a duality to our purpose.
There is a composite of what we were created and
how we were created. And let me articulate it through
the lens of the word love. You know, the word
love has been hijacked, free love and blind love, and
let me choose who I love and what is love?

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And is love just the union of people or whatever?
But C. S. Lewis and his four great love said,
you know the store gay, the relational love we try
and pattern ourselves after, the file or the brotherly love
we try to engage in, or the eras the physical
love some of us are to endure with a partner
for life. Are all incomplete if they are not undergirded

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or under the umbrella of unconditional love agapy. So the
only way I truly believe that I can get my
voice to be heard and engaged in this world. Is
I need to show others that I was loved when
I was unworthy. That's their feeling. Their belief is that
nobody loves them, nobody cares about them, and that's why
they're doing the things to act out the way they do.

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But in order to stand side by side and look
in the same direction, we have to remind people that
we were unworthy and we were loved. To this end,
I want to give you a common sense proposition. See,
the easiest thing in the world is to love, and
that we can do all day long. We have made
love an event, whether it's Valentine's Day, whether it's an anniversary,

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whether it's a birthday, whether it's Mother's Day, whether it's Christmas.
We have made love an event. We make a reservation,
we buy a gift, we get a card by some flowers,
and we say that we have loved someone. We put
gifts under a tree. We say we loved someone. We
send charity halfway across the world. We say we loved someone.
We donate to a church's mission trip. We say we

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loved someone. But the key they don't realize is they
realize that your love is coming from excess. In order
for your love to hurt, they need to see that
you were loved when you were unloved. You were first
loved when you were unworthy. I tell people it's easy
for me to demonstrate my love. It's harder for me
to demonstrate that I am loved. And to that end,

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I try to say that, let you know, let the
Christ in us find the Christ in them. We know
he died for them too. That's why John three sixteen says,
for God so loved the world that whosoever believe in
Him shall not perish, but have ever loved in life
the world. And to that end, I think we need
to love the world, not in some unconditional way that

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we accept it with all warts and all that, but
love as Christ did, loved them because He loved them too,
and he died for them anyhow. This is Christ Dunham,
having filled in for Todd huff On the home of
Conservative not Bitter. Until next time, Good luck, God bless

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