Michael & Cody sit down again with returning guest, Michael Hunter, to discuss the topic of persecution in the church, each relaying some of their own personal experiences. They also raise some lessons and answer follower questions.

Michael & Cody review and discuss the book, The Sword of Christ by Giles Corey, published by Antelope Hill. Episode outline: book contents summary, our critiques and commendations, particular discussion points, and questions / comments of X followers. Highlights:

• Is Christianity is right-wing?
• Why is it legitimate to say organized Christianity is largely corrupt?
• Should we consider Jews a prime enemy of our faith and civilization?
• How are Jews involved in sexual degeneracy?
• Does Christianity support or reject "ethnonationalism"?
• Is pacifism a requirement for Christians?
• Violence: lawful at times, or not?
• Jews, Canaanites, Palestinians, & genetics.
• Two-kingdom distinction and our present confusions.
• Republicans & anti-semitism; Ron DeSantis in Israel.
• Russell Moore: white supremacy is Satanism, blood & soil is idolatry.
• Paul Gottfried: the loss of Calvinism has produced our present ills.
• Christianity: Germanized essentially or accidentally?
• C. I. Scofield: Confederate deserter, miscreant, family-abandoner, heresy spreader.
• Samuel Untermeyer & John Hagee.
• Has Christianity always been anti-semitic?
• The Talmud on the Lord Jesus Christ.
• Jewish hostility in porn, erosion of obscenity laws, critical theory, freudianism, feminism, pedophilia, gambling, contraception, abortion, ritual murder, and more.
• Christianity in other regions and among other races.
• Slavery, pacifism, violence, and the Crusades.

Michael & Cody continue the topic of Christian Race Realism, drawing from Michael's article series from the Pactum Institute, now available for⁠ pre-order as a book from Sacra Press⁠, with a special dedicatory epistle to President Donald Trump. Use code: OLDPATHS at checkout for a discount. Episode highlights:

• Changes in races
• Is race unimportant?
• Galatians, James, & racial partiality
• The Old Testament & interracial marriage
• The life-saving virtue of racism
• Victims & victim blaming
• Going on the offense
• Beware the "brother" concerns
• Steel your mind for war
• Is it possible to flip the shibboleths?
• Own the Enemy's truth
• Racial prejudice: a gospel help
• Being a Christian in your race
• White effeminacy & cowardice
• Loss of natural affection linked to loss of the Christian Faith
• Joel Berry's dingleberry crusade
• Politics, association, & religion

Michael & Cody continue through The Marrow of Theology by William Ames, with focus on man's fall. Highlights:

• Men and angels in the fall.
• Causes and consequences of the fall.
• The parts and motions of sin.
• Egalitarianism & disordered nature.
• Satan's method of temptation.
• The projections & "pious" pretensions of wicked men.
• The dangers of gullibility and over-charity.
• The necessity of men to tell women no.
• The fall as apologetic tool.
• Embracing hierarchy.
• Doom of the angels.
• Thankfulness to God.

Michael & Cody respond to Pastor Gavin Beers of the FCC on the topic of Christian Nationalism, by playing his sermon-review of Stephen Wolfe's book, The Case for Christian Nationalism. They use it as an opportunity for discussion and criticism. Highlights:

• Christ the Edge Lord
• Reactionary vs. Stationary
• CN vibes & memes
• Dangers of anachronism
• Nationalism Christianized: bad or good?
• Reformed political theory: Aristotelian or Biblicist?
• False dichotomies of Scripture & Nature
• Rutherford's political non-sequitur
• The insufficiency of Scripture
• Covenanter weirdos
• Romantic ethnonationalism
• Jewish Supremacy vs. White Supremacy
• The gospel of blood and soil
• The Christian Prince
• Fascists in Scripture
• Rutherford: against or for CN?
• Religious establishment: dogmatic or pragmatic?
• America as it is
• Popery: compatible with CN?
• Papists vs. Jews as political malignants
• Is it wrong to want countrymen who look like you?

• Non-Christian European vs. Nigerian Anglican
• Right-wing: natural + common sense
• No redpilled, based men: no Christian nation
• Political change: top-down or bottom-up?
• CNs as the nation; Covenanters as foreigners

National Religion by Gavin Beers (4 Part Series)

Michael & Cody are joined by Michael Hunter for a discussion surrounding the book, The Marrow of Christian Ethics—be sure to pickup a copy—by Benedict Pictet, the nephew of Francis Turretin. The Marrow is a concise treatise of classical reformed ethics which Michael Hunter recently translated and published. Highlights:

• Hunter's college background and studies
• Thoughts on retrieval
• Who is Benedict Pictet? Why publish this book?
• Survey of the book's contents
• The discipline of Ethics and how it has been neglected
• The importance of Ethics for preaching
• Man as a social creature
• Maintaining friendships
• Self-love, priority of love, and hatred
• Good works—condition of the Covenant of Grace, for eternal glory, etc.
• Modern views of good works vs. Benedict Pictet
• Emotions—what they are, what place they have, how they help us in nature
• Pleasure and Christian hedonism

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Read Michael Hunter's excellent Natural Communties articles here.

Michael & Cody respond to Pastor Gavin Beers of the FCC on the topic of the Bible and immigration, by playing his sermon and using it as an opportunity for discussion and criticism. Highlights:

• Christian Nationalism
• Hitler as Christian Prince
• Fascism and National Socialism
• Ethnonationalism, and blood and soil
• Is it wrong to want a nation where people look like you?
• Is the true religion the primary concern for all political questions?
• Should we oppose heart piety to political concerns?
• How should modern-day Japan and Israel inform us on the question of race and nations?
• Is America a combination of different nations or races?
• Is it wrong to want to marry someone of the same race?
• The prevailing mistake of pandering to the margins
• What is a political application for us today from Israel being oppressed in Egypt? Does this demand open borders? Should this impinge on the White race?
• The Old Testament, and questions of race and nation
• Quotes on the Jews from reformed fathers (Keckermann, Burgersdijk, Voetius)
• What does "one from among thy brethren" mean?
• America and White supremacy
• The political heart piety of Nehemiah, Josiah, & Moses
• How mass immigration has and is harming us
• Why anti-racism means Kenya must let in Whites, Asians, and Indians
• The importance of race and genealogy for Christology
• Are Christian Nationalists and those like them misled by Satan?

Michael & Cody take up the topic of Christian Race Realism, drawing from Michael's article series from the Pactum Institute, and soon to be published as a book with Sacra Press. Highlights:

• What is race? race realism? Christian race realism?
• The relation of the family to race.
• Are races and nations flexible?
• Scripture on the topic of race.
• Nature on the same.
• Is race merely skin color?
• Are racial differences small or large, fluid or permanent?
• Should we acknowledge racial diversity? celebrate it? defend it?
• What is the advantage of appealing to Scripture on this topic?
• Does Christian Race Realism have utility as an apologetic to unbelievers and right-wingers?
• What are some examples of oppression in the State today concerning race? what about persecution in the Church?
• Is Liberalism a form of sociopsychological oppression?
• The Civil Rights Regime and anti-White evil.
• David VanDrunen's denial of reality.
• The shadow confession of the church.
• Examples of anti-racism in the reformed churches.
• Should race realists go on the offensive?
• Israel's civil law and race realism.
• The ordo amoris and races.
• Abraham and Isaac seeking spouses from their own.
• Is the Bible anti-racist? or does it assume race realism?
• Are the Woke totally wrong, or do they have a point?
• White supremacy—good or bad?

Michael & Cody continue through The Marrow of Theology by William Ames, with focus upon chapter 10: special government of intelligent creatures. Highlights:

• Definition of special government.
• Moral vs. physical government.
• The relation of man's nature and God's special government.
• God's condescension in human characteristics and human language in his special government.
• Divine sanctions: promises and threats.
• Does God deal with rational men in a rational way?

• How does Ames define & distinguish a covenant?
• Is the Suzerain framework good or bad?
• Angels—same government as man?
• In what way can we say the fall glorifies God?
• Use of earthly things for holy ends.
• Adam as a public person and federal head.
• The covenant of works and merit.
• Was there a necessity of Christ's mediation before the Fall?
• Objections to the covenant of works: the word "covenant" is not used in Genesis; the covenant of works promotes legalism; is faith a part of the covenant of works?; it's unfair for one man to represent all and to risk death.
• How the covenant of works and of grace should motivate us to holiness.
• God's justice in punishment of death.
• The relation between Adam in the garden and Christ in the gospels.

Michael & Cody take up the topic of women and modesty. First, they define woman; second, they define and distinguish modesty; third, they consider some examples of immodesty and applications of modesty, including motives for modesty; and fourth and finally, they wrap up with objections and submitted questions. Highlights:

• Nature, experience, and Scripture on woman
• Social and aesthetic power of woman
• Personal & sensual modesty / immodesty
• What is the relation of modesty to the law of God?
• Other principles, like charity and loyalty
• What place do women have in social media?
• Loud, argumentative, unruly women
• Women in male spaces: why a problem?
• What constitutes sensual immodesty?
• How have modesty standards regressed?
• The magistrate & public immodesty
• Rosaria Butterfield, Chris Gordon, Anthony Diehl
• Should pastors preach on women's modesty?
• The use of "whore" and immodesty
• Women weaponizing sexuality
• The refreshing, enriching power of modesty
• For whom are the sensual treats?
• Is modesty objective or subjective?
• What is the relationship between modesty in dress and behavior?
• Must women hide their figure to be modest?
• Are pants immodest? What about makeup? Showing hair?
• The red dress controversy
• Must modesty be boring?

Resources:

• David Silversides'⁠ sermon on modesty⁠
• ⁠Manuscript⁠ of Silversides
• Free book:⁠Christian Modesty & the Public Undressing of America⁠ by Jeff Pollard