Contra Mundum

In this episode, Ron and I examine the arguments for a late date (AD 90s) for Revelation and articulate why this is built upon weak evidence and also conflicts with the internal evidence of the book.

Apocalyptic talk is all the rage today, even more than it normally is.

"Who could be the antichrist?"

"Is World War III around the corner?"

The mainstream of American Christianity is apocalyptic. That has been true our entire lifetimes. It remains true today, though things seem to be changing.

As people question the End Times obsessiveness, and historical alternatives begin to have purchase, the question always comes up, "what about the Book of Revelation? What is that about?"

Ron Dodson and I have begun to explore this book and plan to do so over the next several months.

In the first episode we start to set the groundwork of what this book is, how biblical exegesis has continued to develop over time, and how in order to approach this book you have to have an extremely well-developed understanding of the entire Bible before you can begin to make sense of anything in it.

Earlier this month CJay wrote a long post on the topic of race, ethnicity, and American identity.

Naturally, the kind of people who believe the (now-discredited) SPLC is the fount of all truth immediately objected to it.

This is, of course, a difficult topic because of the hysterical religious zealotry surrounding it, but God has called Christians to maturity, especially in difficult topics such as these.

How should we think about this stuff in a mature and godly way?

We are coming to you live from the Texas Panhandle with legendary oil man Skippy Petro.

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We revisit Calvin Coolidge’s immigration essay and apply it to the modern crisis. From cultural cohesion to policy failure, this episode explores why his framework still holds and what it means for America now.

I am joined today by the great poaster, Kaiser Von Lohengramm.

We discuss the history of the Anglo-Saxons, where they came from, what they did, and how they became the ethnic and cultural core of what would one day become America.

We discuss this and many other topics.

Cheers.

Every so often, something pops off in online discourse that lays bare faultlines that were already always there.

This week was dominated by discussion of a young man with an online branding business who announced to the world that his wife had been a former online performer, and after her conversion, she is now "more pure than most virgins."

AD and I will discuss this phenomenon and what is actually going on here.

We will also talk about the horrific Noelia Castillo Ramos case.

A conversation with C.Jay Engel and Glenn Arbery on the Southern critics, what they opposed, what they defended, and how their arguments challenge the modern American order.

This episode looks at how the rise of the United States helped unravel the Westphalian system built after the Peace of Westphalia. While the system began to weaken after World War I and World War II, it was the U.S. that reshaped it.