Thank you. A week after the protests and riots began, I almost lost any grip on stability. My first instinct was to pick up a fiction book, which happened to be "Song of the Sirin". My goal was to hammer away at the stone formation of facts surrounding my heart. It seems to be working as I've moved to Book 3 as well as re-reading LOTR snd other fairytales. I hope, God willing, I can become a storyteller. Perhaps not for the world's sake but for my children's. Beauty, not facts, will save the world and it certainly will tug on your feelings, God willing.
Thank you for addressing the sadness of the closing of the Churches. My heart has been frozen for these 4 months because I could not understand why they would close. Your comments brought the first cleansing tears to my eyes.
I’m glad you use the word grieving to describe the loss of churches. It wasn’t that I couldn’t go to church, it was the realization that the church I was going to was not the church I thought it was. That was what I grieved, and I am grieving.
"The hermit is out there fasting and fighting demons, and you're watching Netflix with the demons pouring in, and be like: Come on demons, let's go! I'm up for this!"
Im Irish and my mother passed on a lot of Celtic lore to me as a child, but the chain is broken now, these old stories arent being passed on in any meaningful way. Its a loss even if its difficult to quantify
I like this very very much. In university, in the 90's, I did a short course on story telling. It's so so important for us to have that deep symbolic structures for our psyches to function properly. Thank you for this video. I have gone back to my catholic faith after a very chaotic life.... It all makes sense to me now and has helped me so much to be able to to cope with all my scars. We all need to delve into this dimension of our lives. I think this is one of the most beautiful videos you have done. Thank you both 🙏
When I was a little kid we could walk into any church, any time we wanted. I think the worst mistake the church has made in America was to lock the doors on our churches.
On the point raised by Pageau at 36:44, watch John Ford's "The Searchers" (1956). It is a complex and nuanced exploration of race and fear, violence and compassion, degredation and nobility without a cliche resolution. The western film genre was our myth in the 20th centery. It was a stable and effective framework for understanding ourselves, for showing ourselve to ourselves with symbol and story. Watching these films evolve through the 20th centery is an exploration of the american soul. I recommend Richard Slotkin’s "Gunfighter Nation” as a study of the genre. That we have no stable genre in film is just one more reflection of our disunity. We no longer see ourselves as occupying the same world. And stories take place in ‘worlds’ (ie settings). So ‘our’ story can not be told because there is no ‘place’ to set the story, no ‘us’ from which the draw characters.
Taxi Driver was written as a sort of remake of the Searchers. Scorcesse changed the race of the pimp and underlings as an early pc move. He said he had to or the film would've lost financing... so Harvey Keitel plays the pimp. Very different movie but he was trying to tap into the John Ford movie
Man, it feels so good to see people talking about these things without getting stuck in scientific/economic justifications that go nowhere. The thing that matters most is story. Stories are the things that can heal the soul. Everything is just add-ons on top of that.
THANK YOU for maintaining intelligent and balanced discussions! .... I find some academic high profile intellectuals (IDW or other) tend to be dismissive of too many things without proper discussion as to why --- they essentially do the same thing as others they criticize.
Besides how much I agree with you both, as far as I'm concerned post-modern university-taught people do not know how to tell a proper story and will pay greatly for it. Look at the failing move into a more "progressive" cinema and comics for a clear picture of that. So is not storytelling they do well, but politics. All they do is politics. The person is political, as they would say. But people don't go to the cinema or read a comic for political reasons. It is much deeper. So yes, we need to read and write more, I do agree with that.
except that the BLM narrative is powerful and has a lot of the outward trappings of a good story. I still think they'll devour their own, but in the meantime the power of their narrative might convince many. I hope I'm wrong.
Look up John C Wright (sci fi writer) in the online mag “Dappled Things” talking propaganda vs art. He was atheist who had a remarkable conversion to Catholicism, but lost none of his spark In critiquing how stories are spoiled by trying to preach.
Jonathan, could you and Nicholas put out a list of recommended books similar to what Jordan Peterson has done on his website? A list of 20-50 must reads in literature, religion, symbolism, fairy tales, philosophy etc. I think people would be desperate to hear your opinion and get reading!
At 18:00 ish..... Spend time in front of your screen so you don't communicate with your unwife and unchildren. This is exactly where I live and I hate it.
I have said from the beginning that closing churches is like avoiding the cross of Christ. After listening to you guys, I wonder if it isn't the opposite for those of us who wish the churches would have continued services as usual. This may be a little overstated, but personally I feel a bit of anguish and pain being forced by the church to stay home on Sunday mornings. Maybe this is a kind of flip that God can do. I am suffering inside by seeing how bishops and priests close churches and then tell people to stay away from each other, not talk to or touch each other, not touch icons, etc. This to me is a type of death. So ultimately, maybe for those with eyes to see this defacing of the services is actually a recapitulation of sorts?
Yes, close churches but keep shoping malls open to a minor capacity. Like you can't apply that to churches as well. At least that's the ridiculous thing in my country.
Our U.S. President Donald Trump called for churches to reopen, proclaiming the Importance of Freedom of religious expression and of Religious Expression itself, while our bishops dithered! Good on him. Shame, shame, and shame on them
You're over thinking it man. The devil doesn't want us to be in church. He'd rather have us home watching netflix and getting drunk every night as Jonothan said.
the rituals are being replaced. They have hand washing rituals with covid soap before entering. Real devotees wear masks to prevent emotional connection. There is no love with masks.... just the 'purpose'
Fr. Kotar mentioned that during the second cholera epidemic in Russia, Met. St. Philaret kept the churches open. Does anyone have a source for this information? I haven't been able to locate anything online. I find out lots about riots and government efforts to contain the epidemic but nothing about the church.
I hope that a cholera epidemic is not being compared to a highly contagious respiratory virus. Because there is no comparison. Cholera is caused by a bacteria. It can be easily controlled through purifying water. You are not going to contract cholera within a church unless you are all sharing contaminated drinking water. The process of wine making kills cholera bacteria, making communion safe. I am a RN and my husband is a retired Veterinary research virologist. If you want to compare, use the Spanish flu as your example, as they are both respiratory viruses, although COVID 19 is at a lower lethality. However we did not know the lethality at first, and this could change if the virus mutates to kill young people, as the Spanish flu did in its second year. I recognize the sadness and the deep mourning at the loss of community, but we are dealing with a very lethal situation for our infirm and elderly, as well as others. Mortality rates are one thing, but morbidity is high, people get sick with this virus and quite a few are not recovering well, if at all. Some will be permanently infirm as their organs are devastated and the lungs are scarred. Some suffer major fatigue for many months and some are simply not getting well. We are not to test God, God does not step in and save us when we are stupid, we are given the tools to understand these diseases and do what we can to mitigate their effects. This includes safe vaccines and whatever treatments we can come up with. I certainly agree that churches should not be closed and other venues left open, all should be opened slowly and carefully. But the disease has become politicized, so we must do what we can to be careful and protect our loved ones and our neighbors.
Best book on the Galilean folk-oral tradition, the Targum: _Memory, Memorization, and Memorizers: The Galilean Oral-Style Tradition and Its Traditionists_ by Marcel Jousse. (An understanding of orality, oral cultures, and oral literatures _in general_ could lend further depth to your already-wonderful analyses.)
I’ve just started taking a creative writing course at the local university- it’s ALL political, subversive and systemically woke. My question is, how can I subvert the subversives and write meaningful stories? I’m so delighted to have found this discussion and plan to follow up by reading more of Nicholas’s material and by reading more fairytales. I have always collected beautiful beautiful editions of original fairytales.
Tolkiens recently published (by his daughter) book called Roverandom is my new favorite children's story. Its written for a younger age than The Hobbit and Christopher Tolkien is an actual character in it. I highly recommend it for those with kids (or tolkien fans). Correction... is was written in 1925 and published in 1998. Michael is the son in it, not Christopher (though he is mentioned).
St Patrick's Day 2023. When the churches closed I understood who they served, the blinders came ff. I'm sorry to hear the orthodox submitted to the closures. And three years later the truth is beginning to leak out.
Only thing I don't like is the notion that the media understands narrative better. I think it's more that people are just bombarded with one cynical narrative and the others are suppressed. The internet is really one big advertisement if you're not paying attention. But I guess he's saying that it wouldn't be so effective if we raised our children with stories.
Here is something interesting to think about. COVID will go down in history as such a horrible and life changing disease, but in reality, it doesn’t seem so bad. Sure it kills hundreds of thousands, of mostly very old and very sick people, but for most healthy people, it’s very mild. Now look back on other diseases through this lens and you may begin to think that some other horrible, historic diseases were perhaps a little different than portrayed. Just something I have thought of lately.
What makes COVID so bad of a problem is not the symptoms, it's the ease of spread. We got much stronger epidemies on a yearly basis all over the world, but not one of them spreads quite as easily as this one does
@@Eichro it turned out the main group dying were over the life expectancy and politicains ran fear campaigns exaggerating the reasons to fear. Now we have a whole generation that hasn't seen faces. Of course their iq levels are well below the previous generations. The vaxxed now seem to never stop getting sick.
When the wind comes that is looking for all to be one And insists that changes be made..... And you have to, and you hold to, The rock The rock. With your face and your nails in the dirt as you realize You are the clay. And you have to And you hols to The rock, the rock. Instinct is stronger than thought, as previously Instinct is stronger than thought as previously Taught.
So we should read good stories to understand what a good story is? I suppose the Bible has fantastic examples of good stories, but which other stories are there? I sometimes have trouble with understanding the Bible as some of what's written seems so strange and bizarre, it's harder to get a grasp on than a good fairy tale. I'd like to be able to write a good story, how does one know when they are reading or writing a good story?
@MNI Andes i dont know,but for the reasons you mentioned and more,i dont really trust any vaccine. but as long as im free to choose not to vaccinate,and people are legally responsible for falsely advertising/lying about vaccine content,i wouldnt oppose then.
Free choice makes it seem a lot more legitimate and trustworthy. Look what government force has done to the quality of insurance and higher education. The providers need not prove their efficacy or responsibility since consumers have no choice. I would think that popular scepticism would encourage an education approach rather than force, to the degree that the product speaks for itself.
I note that one of the comments correctly identifies this as an ‘anti-left’ channel. I’m sick of the politics here, so I’m leaving and going elsewhere. The bias to the right is just too much, it’s everywhere, it’s clumsy and transparent, it’s political bias plastered over Christianity as if the two are the same. Like talking about ANTIFA as if this is what the left is, the left is like this, the left is like that, as if everyone on the left in all places and all times are all the same. Are the right all KKK? Of course not. The whole channel is becoming a right wing soap box with a simplistic black and white view of the right and the left. What a shame to spoil something so good with such short sighted partisanship.
read Johnathan Haidt's two tribes report. The right has 5 moral foundations and the left only has one. You may think leftists can be Christians but it's not reflected in reality. Is that political? The left has made everything political. Should we just bend our knees to it?
@@christophersnedeker2065 Yup, it’s just that the left is dominant right now and on this issue, and also more anti Christian rather than a distorted version in allegiance with a more blue collar secular indivdualsm.
Thank you. A week after the protests and riots began, I almost lost any grip on stability. My first instinct was to pick up a fiction book, which happened to be "Song of the Sirin". My goal was to hammer away at the stone formation of facts surrounding my heart.
It seems to be working as I've moved to Book 3 as well as re-reading LOTR snd other fairytales.
I hope, God willing, I can become a storyteller. Perhaps not for the world's sake but for my children's.
Beauty, not facts, will save the world and it certainly will tug on your feelings, God willing.
Go for it! :) The world need story tellers.
Get the book by Patsisis on Beauty...Orthodox
Thank you for addressing the sadness of the closing of the Churches. My heart has been frozen for these 4 months because I could not understand why they would close. Your comments brought the first cleansing tears to my eyes.
I’m glad you use the word grieving to describe the loss of churches. It wasn’t that I couldn’t go to church, it was the realization that the church I was going to was not the church I thought it was. That was what I grieved, and I am grieving.
I 100 % agree w your comments the closing of churches and the churches willingness to concede to it apart from closing schools has been heartbreaking.
Im Coptic and love that you mentioned St Mary of Egypt. What a great conversation.
"The hermit is out there fasting and fighting demons, and you're watching Netflix with the demons pouring in, and be like: Come on demons, let's go! I'm up for this!"
@undertakersarmpit Sounds like Alex Jones doing the voice for the DOOM space marine.
That was so good. This hits home so hard. The feeling of being rootless is almost impossible to bare. Thank you, im gonna be following ALL the links.
Im Irish and my mother passed on a lot of Celtic lore to me as a child, but the chain is broken now, these old stories arent being passed on in any meaningful way. Its a loss even if its difficult to quantify
So take up the mantle! Become the storyteller to the youths in your sphere of influence. We must be the heroes we seek.
I like this very very much. In university, in the 90's, I did a short course on story telling. It's so so important for us to have that deep symbolic structures for our psyches to function properly. Thank you for this video. I have gone back to my catholic faith after a very chaotic life.... It all makes sense to me now and has helped me so much to be able to to cope with all my scars. We all need to delve into this dimension of our lives. I think this is one of the most beautiful videos you have done. Thank you both 🙏
I really like Nicholas, he’s the nicest angry person of all time. Kind but takes no crap lol
Wish you two would have a regular podcast, just love listening to your discussions
When I was a little kid we could walk into any church, any time we wanted. I think the worst mistake the church has made in America was to lock the doors on our churches.
But Walmart stayed open for prayers to Mammon and the hunger of the Fenris wolf.
On the point raised by Pageau at 36:44, watch John Ford's "The Searchers" (1956). It is a complex and nuanced exploration of race and fear, violence and compassion, degredation and nobility without a cliche resolution. The western film genre was our myth in the 20th centery. It was a stable and effective framework for understanding ourselves, for showing ourselve to ourselves with symbol and story. Watching these films evolve through the 20th centery is an exploration of the american soul. I recommend Richard Slotkin’s "Gunfighter Nation” as a study of the genre. That we have no stable genre in film is just one more reflection of our disunity. We no longer see ourselves as occupying the same world. And stories take place in ‘worlds’ (ie settings). So ‘our’ story can not be told because there is no ‘place’ to set the story, no ‘us’ from which the draw characters.
Taxi Driver was written as a sort of remake of the Searchers. Scorcesse changed the race of the pimp and underlings as an early pc move. He said he had to or the film would've lost financing... so Harvey Keitel plays the pimp.
Very different movie but he was trying to tap into the John Ford movie
@@nuckygulliver9607 I have not heard that analysis! I’ll watch it again to how that works. Thx!
Man, it feels so good to see people talking about these things without getting stuck in scientific/economic justifications that go nowhere.
The thing that matters most is story. Stories are the things that can heal the soul. Everything is just add-ons on top of that.
"All stories start with a nonsense statement, some sort of absurdity that shocks you out of the reality you live in." Nicholas Kotar
THANK YOU for maintaining intelligent and balanced discussions! .... I find some academic high profile intellectuals (IDW or other) tend to be dismissive of too many things without proper discussion as to why --- they essentially do the same thing as others they criticize.
Besides how much I agree with you both, as far as I'm concerned post-modern university-taught people do not know how to tell a proper story and will pay greatly for it. Look at the failing move into a more "progressive" cinema and comics for a clear picture of that. So is not storytelling they do well, but politics. All they do is politics. The person is political, as they would say.
But people don't go to the cinema or read a comic for political reasons. It is much deeper. So yes, we need to read and write more, I do agree with that.
except that the BLM narrative is powerful and has a lot of the outward trappings of a good story. I still think they'll devour their own, but in the meantime the power of their narrative might convince many. I hope I'm wrong.
Look up John C Wright (sci fi writer) in the online mag “Dappled Things” talking propaganda vs art. He was atheist who had a remarkable conversion to Catholicism, but lost none of his spark In critiquing how stories are spoiled by trying to preach.
Thanks to both of you for the content and spirit of your conversation.
Awesome guest, I've insta-subscribed to his channel. Great to hear another symbolic voice, we need more! (Thanks for leading the way, Jonathan!)
29:32
More like 12-13%..
The narrative has even inflated people's perspective on how many African Americans are in America.
@jay The same thing is happening in regards to gays. People wildly overestimate how many there are. I can only think tv plays a large part in this.
@@ImNotJoshPotter Possibly to try to make it seem less incriminating that 1 in 3 victims of child rape are boys...
Excellent conversation.
Nice conversation!
41:30 This reminds me of the Hungarian Folk tales on youtube. It's so bizar but intruiging at the same moment.
This was a very engaging interview with some strong stances about the current situation and the lack of courage in the Church - thank-you!
Great conversation thank you
Jonathan, could you and Nicholas put out a list of recommended books similar to what Jordan Peterson has done on his website? A list of 20-50 must reads in literature, religion, symbolism, fairy tales, philosophy etc. I think people would be desperate to hear your opinion and get reading!
More Kotar please I miss these discussions
At 18:00 ish..... Spend time in front of your screen so you don't communicate with your unwife and unchildren. This is exactly where I live and I hate it.
I have said from the beginning that closing churches is like avoiding the cross of Christ. After listening to you guys, I wonder if it isn't the opposite for those of us who wish the churches would have continued services as usual. This may be a little overstated, but personally I feel a bit of anguish and pain being forced by the church to stay home on Sunday mornings. Maybe this is a kind of flip that God can do. I am suffering inside by seeing how bishops and priests close churches and then tell people to stay away from each other, not talk to or touch each other, not touch icons, etc. This to me is a type of death. So ultimately, maybe for those with eyes to see this defacing of the services is actually a recapitulation of sorts?
Yes, close churches but keep shoping malls open to a minor capacity. Like you can't apply that to churches as well.
At least that's the ridiculous thing in my country.
Our U.S. President Donald Trump called for churches to reopen, proclaiming the Importance of Freedom of religious expression and of Religious Expression itself, while our bishops dithered! Good on him. Shame, shame, and shame on them
You're over thinking it man. The devil doesn't want us to be in church. He'd rather have us home watching netflix and getting drunk every night as Jonothan said.
the rituals are being replaced. They have hand washing rituals with covid soap before entering. Real devotees wear masks to prevent emotional connection. There is no love with masks.... just the 'purpose'
Burnt by the Sun, fantastic movie! Watched it a long time ago in college and didn't remember the title. You're a godsend!
Fr. Kotar mentioned that during the second cholera epidemic in Russia, Met. St. Philaret kept the churches open. Does anyone have a source for this information? I haven't been able to locate anything online. I find out lots about riots and government efforts to contain the epidemic but nothing about the church.
I only have Russian sources. But they are reputable.
I hope that a cholera epidemic is not being compared to a highly contagious respiratory virus. Because there is no comparison. Cholera is caused by a bacteria. It can be easily controlled through purifying water. You are not going to contract cholera within a church unless you are all sharing contaminated drinking water. The process of wine making kills cholera bacteria, making communion safe. I am a RN and my husband is a retired Veterinary research virologist. If you want to compare, use the Spanish flu as your example, as they are both respiratory viruses, although COVID 19 is at a lower lethality. However we did not know the lethality at first, and this could change if the virus mutates to kill young people, as the Spanish flu did in its second year. I recognize the sadness and the deep mourning at the loss of community, but we are dealing with a very lethal situation for our infirm and elderly, as well as others. Mortality rates are one thing, but morbidity is high, people get sick with this virus and quite a few are not recovering well, if at all. Some will be permanently infirm as their organs are devastated and the lungs are scarred. Some suffer major fatigue for many months and some are simply not getting well. We are not to test God, God does not step in and save us when we are stupid, we are given the tools to understand these diseases and do what we can to mitigate their effects. This includes safe vaccines and whatever treatments we can come up with. I certainly agree that churches should not be closed and other venues left open, all should be opened slowly and carefully. But the disease has become politicized, so we must do what we can to be careful and protect our loved ones and our neighbors.
The comparison is apt to the extent that, at the time of the cholera epidemic, it was not easily controlled, which is why it raged on for years.
Best book on the Galilean folk-oral tradition, the Targum: _Memory, Memorization, and Memorizers: The Galilean Oral-Style Tradition and Its Traditionists_ by Marcel Jousse. (An understanding of orality, oral cultures, and oral literatures _in general_ could lend further depth to your already-wonderful analyses.)
I’ve just started taking a creative writing course at the local university- it’s ALL political, subversive and systemically woke. My question is, how can I subvert the subversives and write meaningful stories? I’m so delighted to have found this discussion and plan to follow up by reading more of Nicholas’s material and by reading more fairytales. I have always collected beautiful beautiful editions of original fairytales.
I like this guy!
Tolkiens recently published (by his daughter) book called Roverandom is my new favorite children's story. Its written for a younger age than The Hobbit and Christopher Tolkien is an actual character in it. I highly recommend it for those with kids (or tolkien fans).
Correction... is was written in 1925 and published in 1998. Michael is the son in it, not Christopher (though he is mentioned).
44:30-46:53 absolute 🔥 (to me). Maybe the clips channel will put out a video on that bit.
My summer book - Moby Dick - happen to being spending a month on our boat on the west coast . So enjoyable.
What was the name of the article Nicholas mentioned, about African-American story telling? 34:00
First! Thank you Jonathan
Nice.
Great video!
Yeah that's why I'm on both your patrons lol
Is this the guy that Brother Augustine is going to talk to?
St Patrick's Day 2023. When the churches closed I understood who they served, the blinders came ff. I'm sorry to hear the orthodox submitted to the closures. And three years later the truth is beginning to leak out.
The story of Hansel and Gretel , why the women is first , I could not hear the word he said ?
restitution for perceived injustice against women
The same thing happened to the old people in the U.K.
I couldn't know I could awaken even more.
Awakened even more.
💘👌🏻💘
Unless you are jesus you are not fully awake
25:22 I disagree, the USSR isn't exactly praised in US history textbooks.
I think the intro graphic is broken
Guest is really quiet. Hard to listen to while making food for example. Can only hear you.
I had to put ear buds in and turn volume up, still hard to hear while doing laundry.
Shut up shamus
Only thing I don't like is the notion that the media understands narrative better.
I think it's more that people are just bombarded with one cynical narrative and the others are suppressed.
The internet is really one big advertisement if you're not paying attention. But I guess he's saying that it wouldn't be so effective if we raised our children with stories.
Thank you Jonathan. Another wonderful segment. I’m wondering if he’s books are age appropriate for my 10 YO son.
they're a little too dark for a ten-year-old. 12-13, fine.
Here is something interesting to think about. COVID will go down in history as such a horrible and life changing disease, but in reality, it doesn’t seem so bad. Sure it kills hundreds of thousands, of mostly very old and very sick people, but for most healthy people, it’s very mild. Now look back on other diseases through this lens and you may begin to think that some other horrible, historic diseases were perhaps a little different than portrayed. Just something I have thought of lately.
What makes COVID so bad of a problem is not the symptoms, it's the ease of spread. We got much stronger epidemies on a yearly basis all over the world, but not one of them spreads quite as easily as this one does
@@Eichro It spreads so easily people show the first symptoms (not leaving your house, losing your job) even before they're infected.
@@Eichro it turned out the main group dying were over the life expectancy and politicains ran fear campaigns exaggerating the reasons to fear. Now we have a whole generation that hasn't seen faces. Of course their iq levels are well below the previous generations.
The vaxxed now seem to never stop getting sick.
Next video: The Symbolism of Karen.
When the wind comes that is looking for all to be one
And insists that changes be made.....
And you have to, and you hold to,
The rock
The rock.
With your face and your nails in the dirt as you realize
You are the clay.
And you have to
And you hols to
The rock, the rock.
Instinct is stronger than thought, as previously
Instinct is stronger than thought as previously
Taught.
Very nice indeed. I saved it to my special file of gems. Thank you.
@@WakingUpToday213 you show great taste. Cheers haha
Is Nicholas dad Fr Serge from SF?
Yes he is! I knew they looked alike! Lol
So we should read good stories to understand what a good story is? I suppose the Bible has fantastic examples of good stories, but which other stories are there? I sometimes have trouble with understanding the Bible as some of what's written seems so strange and bizarre, it's harder to get a grasp on than a good fairy tale. I'd like to be able to write a good story, how does one know when they are reading or writing a good story?
American storyteller: Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain.Even his pen name is in American invention.
ivan who? not ivan illich?
Ivan Ilyin
Hey Jonathan are you familiar with the works of Carl Jung on the collective unconscious and the archetypes?
Jonathan is a friend of the Jungian master, Dr. Peterson. 🙂 What do you reckon?
@@olgakarpushina492 He knows jung-fu
32:22
13:36
More Mario Nintendo vids please
Wonder how the anti vax folk will react to this
Dude calm down.
antivax here,my reaction was "oh,interesting". might report after watching the video.
@MNI Andes well said
@MNI Andes i dont know,but for the reasons you mentioned and more,i dont really trust any vaccine. but as long as im free to choose not to vaccinate,and people are legally responsible for falsely advertising/lying about vaccine content,i wouldnt oppose then.
Free choice makes it seem a lot more legitimate and trustworthy. Look what government force has done to the quality of insurance and higher education. The providers need not prove their efficacy or responsibility since consumers have no choice. I would think that popular scepticism would encourage an education approach rather than force, to the degree that the product speaks for itself.
Putin is cool so I like this philosopher
Thumbs down are all Tim Snyder's sock puppet accounts.
I note that one of the comments correctly identifies this as an ‘anti-left’ channel. I’m sick of the politics here, so I’m leaving and going elsewhere. The bias to the right is just too much, it’s everywhere, it’s clumsy and transparent, it’s political bias plastered over Christianity as if the two are the same. Like talking about ANTIFA as if this is what the left is, the left is like this, the left is like that, as if everyone on the left in all places and all times are all the same. Are the right all KKK? Of course not. The whole channel is becoming a right wing soap box with a simplistic black and white view of the right and the left. What a shame to spoil something so good with such short sighted partisanship.
I think this is only marginally on the right he doesn't really get into it.
read Johnathan Haidt's two tribes report. The right has 5 moral foundations and the left only has one. You may think leftists can be Christians but it's not reflected in reality. Is that political? The left has made everything political. Should we just bend our knees to it?
@@christophersnedeker2065 Yup, it’s just that the left is dominant right now and on this issue, and also more anti Christian rather than a distorted version in allegiance with a more blue collar secular indivdualsm.
10:36