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Greetings. This is Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church with a

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moment of truth where we challenge you to think through an important issue of life and faith.

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Today, how is it that we have let fools and clowns and tyrants bring us to the brink of nuclear war?

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I have been amazed. I've been astounded how we, the American people, have let such incompetence

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take power since the election of 2020. But I'm amazed even more that now these same incompetence

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have brought us to the brink of nuclear war. The Apostle Peter spoke of the end of the world in

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which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn,

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unquote. The first world ended in water, as God judged it, in the great deluge in which only Noah

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and his family were saved. But this one will end in fire, Peter promises, which could well be the

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fires of a nuclear holocaust in which no one is saved. Now, I must confess that in my imagination,

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I envision such an orgy of death, such an orgy of death, for that is what nuclear war is from the

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point of view of the evil one who seeks nothing more than the destruction of humanity. In my imagination,

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I envision such an orgy of death to be fought over grave and serious and world-shaking reasons,

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not to make a demented, decrepit, and doddering old fool like our president look good. For that is why

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this evil administration has undertaken a war against Russia, using the proxy chess piece of Ukraine as

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the excuse for war. When leaders falter and lose the confidence of the people, there is one tried and

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true technique to regain popularity. Start a war. People instinctively stand behind a leader in wartime.

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They tend to forget everything else that they may have criticized him for, but they want him to be

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victorious in this existential moment of wartime. They want him to overcome the enemy at the gate.

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Evil, cynical politicians use this impulse to their advantage. Bill Clinton famously launched airstrikes

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in Afghanistan to distract from his sex scandal with Monica Lewinsky. George Bush launched his war

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on Iraq to bolster his faltering poll numbers over his handling of 9-11. And Barack Obama, of course,

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attacked Boko Haram in Nigeria in 2014 to take attention away from a congressional probe into his

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administration. On and on we could go. Joe Biden has been a failure at everything to which he has put

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his unsteady hand, hasn't he? This is one reason for what is happening. He has been guilty of that

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disgraceful withdrawal from Afghanistan, leaving thousands of Americans behind. And then there's

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his so-called defeat of COVID-19. Or his destruction of the economy with mushrooming inflation destroying

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the value of our dollar. And then finally his strapping down the American people and the bonds of

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tyranny using the laughable insurrection of January 6th as a pretext for virtual martial law. These are

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only samples. And through it all, Biden has circulated in the district of criminals as if he were an escaped

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dementia patient from a nursing home, barely able to stumble through simplistic scripts on a teleprompter,

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slurring his garbled speech, unable to remain continent in his depends for an hour meeting with world

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leaders. This is precisely what happened in his meeting with Pope Francis, for example. Joe Biden has proven

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himself incapable of running a grandchild's birthday party, much less the executive branch of the greatest

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republic in the free world. So as a consequence, the American people have rejected him. His approval

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rating weighs in at about 37 percent, the second lowest in history. On the world stage, the leaders of

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other nations perceive him to be weak. And that's a legacy from his being a part of the Obama presidency,

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who was also perceived to be weak. And that's in addition to his own mishandling of issues of foreign

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policy. Consequences for pusillanimous reticence. Consequences for pusillanimous reticence ensue

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logically too. And that is weakness breeds aggression in your enemy. Weakness breeds aggression in your

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enemy. This is why Vladimir Putin is emboldened to thrust into Ukraine now and why he moved into Crimea

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and held it when Obama was president. Both presidents perceived as weak. Putin smartly perceived that

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neither Obama nor Biden would push back. There would be very little pain or cost for these

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aggressions. In contrast, Putin made no such maneuvers when Donald Trump was president, did he?

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Dear listener, weakness breeds aggression. But it must also always be kept in mind that this war serves

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the purpose of the deep state as well. It distracts from Biden's manifest failures and it rallies many

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gullible Americans behind an otherwise despicable leader. And progressives have been fanning the flames

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of hatred for Russia ever since the election of Donald Trump in 2016. Russia, Russia, Russia, right?

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This is why America's participation in the Russia-Ukraine war must be rejected. There's absolutely no

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national interest for America in this war. It serves the interests of the deep state and not the American

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people. For example, Ukraine is not a member of NATO. That is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

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That's the Defense League of Western Democracies formed after World War II to defend against the

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Soviet Union. And since Ukraine is not a member of NATO, and thus the United States is not obliged to

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defend her. Now, this could change rather quickly, however, since Ukraine's application to become a member

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of NATO is being fast-tracked, even as we speak. That's a relatively new development. But also, we have

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no vital regional interests there to defend. We should not be fighting there. And then, of course,

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Biden and his progressive lackeys, they evidence their utter hypocrisy in their solemn hand-wringing

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over things like defending the integrity of Ukraine's borders while ignoring our own. Or they manifest

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their hypocrisy when they cry, democracy, democracy in Ukraine. When Ukraine, when you look at the

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details is manifestly not a democracy, while imposing tyranny on us, the citizens of the United States,

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please don't suffer me to cry, democracy, democracy, Joe Biden, when you are imposing tyranny on me.

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Our involvement in the Russia-Ukraine war is evil. It serves the narrow interests of the deep state

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and not the broader interests of the whole American people. In fact, a case can be made that going ahead

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in a war with Russia over Ukraine will only increase the bonds of tyranny over us here in the United

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States. One of my favorite authors and characters of the 20th century is a man named Alexander Solzhenitsyn,

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a Russian author. And he said, a state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny. Oh,

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isn't that prescient? Isn't that insightful? A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic

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tyranny. Solzhenitsyn, of course, author of the epic Cold War history and personal memoir,

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Gulag Archipelago. Solzhenitsyn saw this reality set in, in Russia, in his lifetime, over the span of

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the 20th century, which included, of course, World War I. Solzhenitsyn was born just after that war,

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or World War II, and of course, the Cold War. The Iron Curtain, as Churchill's phrase described the

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tyranny of the Soviet Union, the Iron Curtain that settled around the Soviet Union, was that domestic

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tyranny at home. The Iron Curtain was the domestic tyranny at home in Russia, necessitated, at least

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as sensibly, by the state of war Russia had with the rest of the world. A state of war only serves

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as an excuse for domestic tyranny. Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Well, that domestic tyranny is upon

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us now, and it's on steroids. The deep state has tried to habituate the American people to tyranny

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during the unwarranted overreaction to the COVID virus, where we have been locked up, masked up,

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and vaxxed up for about two years now. Two years in running, really. Do you see, dear listener,

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that single fact? Do you see that fact yet with clarity? We have enough perspective on this. We

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have enough information coming out. If you just seek for it, we have these things for us to realize,

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first of all, that the nationwide lockdowns, for example, the nationwide lockdowns locked down

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everything but the virus, and they were actually designed in reality not to save our health,

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to save our lives. No, these lockdowns were designed to break the wills and the economy

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of the American people. We still see countless thousands of us walking around like zombies

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with lockdown PTSD, if you will, still waiting for new orders to crawl back into our homes and

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apartments to hide from the next manufactured terror. That's the nationwide lockdowns. But there was also

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the masks. The masks were meant to form us, shape us into passive, subservient cult members of the

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deep state. And some of us, maybe even listening to this very broadcast on the radio, maybe driving

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around, unconsciously wearing that slave veil, marking us as obedient cult devotees. The mask is a slave

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veil. But there was also the vaccines then as well. The vaccines are not vaccines per se, are they? But

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rather insidious gene therapies that destroy our natural immune system and aggravate a host of

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debilitating conditions and diseases. And I reference here, Dr. Peter McCullough. He's been a real

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lion on this. Check out his broadcast and his papers. Many of us who have taken these gene therapies,

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we now know this to our bones, don't we? And that's literally. Many of us now know the debilitating

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conditions and diseases to our bones. Well, I've been over and over this in broadcast after broadcast

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since this all started. And I urge you to graze through the recordings of these broadcasts at your

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leisure. And you'll find them at our radio website, omnisprotestas.org. Omnisprotestas.org.

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O-M-N-I-S-P-O-T-E-S-T-A-S.org. Omnisprotestas.org. O-M-N-I-S-P-O-T-E-S-T-A-S.org.

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Well, the church should be standing against this medical tyranny, dear listener, and not buckling to

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it, not closing down worship services. The medical tyranny is only one component of the existential

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continuum of human life, which are oppressors designed to dominate. However, medical tyranny,

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it is a vital bandwidth, if you will, on the spectrum of human existence. And it's almost

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complete, that tyranny, as medical passports are being prepared for you, and without which you will

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not be able to leave your home. But war is another bandwidth, if you will, on that spectrum of life.

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And the military has coined a term that encompasses the totality of human life, that is full-spectrum

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dominance. The military seeks for full-spectrum dominance. It seeks to dominate every aspect of

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the battle space in which they fight. They plan, at least, to then dominate, to have full-spectrum

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dominance over spaces like the air, or the land, or the sea, or artificial intelligence, or even

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psychological warfare. Full-spectrum dominance. And they seek to achieve full-spectrum dominance

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of the battlefield. Our oppressors, the global elite who are striving to foist a great reset upon

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us. And I have numbers of radio programs which articulate this for you. Look those up as well

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on our website. But our oppressors seek the full-spectrum dominance of the entire human

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domain. And that includes the all-too-human endeavor of war. The all-too-human endeavor of war. The author

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and commentator Arthur Kessler says, and I quote this, it's so perceptive, he says,

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the most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war

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drums. Can't you just hear them in the distance, dear listener, as war with Russia and Ukraine

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intensifies and threatens to engulf not only those two nations, but all of NATO and America and nations

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beyond. Kessler points out the most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the

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beating of war drums. Do you hear them? And the American deep state knows this. And they know it

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all too well. And that deep state is playing this card from the deck of human history. They're doing

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it even now. The brilliant economist Murray Rothbard, he puts it this way. He says, the state thrives on

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war. Expands on it. Glories in it. The state thrives on war, Rothbard points out. But he also says,

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unless of course, it's defeated and crushed. That is what we must do. The state thrives on war. Expands

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on it. Glories in it. Oh, but dear listener, no, just know that the church does not thrive on war.

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We must stand. We must resist. Neither does that church seek to expand that war or glory in war. No,

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we, the church, we Christians glory in the Prince of Peace. We seek to expand the gospel. We thrive

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on the life and grace of God, not on war. And these we offer as alternatives to the mean

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gruel of the deep state when it seeks to push the shiitake mushroom sandwich of war into our face.

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We must be especially wary, dear listener, we who are Christians and we who represent the church in

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particular, we must be especially wary of the deep state when it begins beating the war drums of

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nuclear war. The reckless political Lilliputians in the District of Criminals, D.C., this reckless

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political band of Lilliputians, they have backed Russia's Vladimir Putin into a nuclear corner.

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Yes, he has put Russia on its highest state of alert. Are you aware of this? And the only command

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remaining is launch. But Putin's situation is not one which came about in a vacuum either, dear listener.

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He has been provoked. For example, the discretionless Senator Roger Wicker, who sits on the Senate Armed

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Services Committee, and he should know better. Roger Wicker, Senator Wicker said that the U.S. could

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rain destruction on Russia with nuclear weapons if Russia invaded Ukraine. Oh, what bluster. What a brave

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man. Well, Mr. Wicker, Russia has invaded Ukraine. What now? And in response, of course, the Kremlin said

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that Russia could turn the United States into radioactive ash if she were attacked. So, of course,

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with Russia now on high alert, this is not just empty bluster, at least on Putin's part. Additionally,

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the deep state lackey, Congressman Adam Kinzinger, recently called for a no-fly zone over Ukraine.

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Does he know what he's talking about? A no-fly zone over Ukraine, enforced by NATO and the United

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States. Of course, which tactic has always been seen by all nations as an act of war and would

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certainly invite retaliation from Russia, perhaps with tactical nuclear weapons and,

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God forbid, strategic nuclear weapons on the United States. Well, dear listener, this is just a small

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sample, if you will, of the rash, foolish talk that has come from deep state progressives

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concerning nuclear war with Russia. All of them are clueless as to the terrible consequences of even

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one nuclear explosion over America, much less a full-scale war with multiple warheads igniting in

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every major city and on every major military target in America. What would be left, dear listener?

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What would be left? Albert Einstein, when he was asked about the kind of nuclear weapons that would

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be used in World War III, well, he responded, and I quote, I know not what the weapons of World War III

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will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. That's sobering, isn't it? And this

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is from the man whose physics helped create the first atom bomb. Are we such clueless children,

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dear listener? Are we such clueless children? We get the government we deserve. Are we so clueless

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that we will play with nuclear fire and not only get burned, but be consumed in a fiery holocaust?

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Are there no sober statesmen to govern us anymore, but only shallow, feckless political hacks who can no

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longer think deeply, but only parrot the party line? Make no mistake, dear listener, that's precisely what's

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going on now in Washington, D.C., that district of criminals. There are no sober statesmen who think and who

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govern wisely, but only shallow, feckless political hacks who no longer think deeply, but only parrot the party line

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led by Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer. Now, I'm afraid the answer I keep coming back to again and again

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is yes to the fact that we are clueless children willing to play with fire. And no to that second

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question, that is, there are no sober statesmen left. I no longer trust anyone who governs us in any of the

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branches of government, dear listener. I've become cynical in this. I no longer trust anyone who

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governs us in any of the branches of government, whether it be executive or legislative or judicial

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or our newest branch of government, which is the intelligence branch. Yes, this is an integral part of

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the deep state. This fourth branch of government, the intelligence branch, as it is called, has been

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metastasizing deep within the body politic of the federal government for decades now. And it was put on

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steroids, of course, after 9-11. The intelligence branch is ground zero for the deep state. And I refer you to

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an excellent piece from the website Last Refuge. And that piece is dated February 12. And it's entitled, The

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Surveillance and Political Spying Operations, Highlighted by John Durham, Are the Tip of the Iceberg.

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It's a long title, but it does kind of encompass the theme. That is, The Surveillance and Political Spying

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Operations, Highlighted by John Durham, Are the Tip of the Iceberg. You'll find this at the website Last Refuge.

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And it's dated February 12. Well, our federal system, now a metastasized, intelligent branch of the deep

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states. But our federal system originally was created to serve the states. And it is time that

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those 50 individual states now bring that system to heel and break it and dismantle it and destroy it

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and begin anew. That federal system was the creation of our original Dr. Frankenstein, that is the

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Constitutional Convention. But the creature created has now turned on us and serves itself at the expense

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of the states and their citizens. This Frankenstein monster has become terrible to see. And now it

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wants war, which the church, dear listener, must oppose. Oh, as one of the church fathers, the early

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church fathers, and this has been a consistent theme throughout the history of the church. In redemptive

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history, the church father, Clement of Alexandria, who lived in the late second century on into the early

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third century, Clement of Alexandria said about war, he says, this is the proclamation of righteousness to

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those that obey glad tidings and to those that disobey judgment. The loud trumpet, when sounded, collects

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the soldiers and proclaims war and shall not Christ, breathing a strain of peace to the ends of the

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earth, gather together his own soldiers, the soldiers of peace. The trumpet of Christ is his gospel. He

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hath blown it and we have heard, unquote. Beautiful words of peace from Clement of Alexandria, late second,

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early third century. This has been the consistent theme of the church throughout history when it comes to war.

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There are circumstances in which we must fight and we must go to war. I do not mean to say that there

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are no circumstances under which we must go to war, and those are covered by the seven principles of a

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just war, and we'll articulate those one day. But the larger consistent theme has been this one of

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Clement of Alexandria, that is, shall not Christ, breathing a strain of peace to the ends of the earth,

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gather together his own soldiers, the soldiers of peace. Is this you, dear listener? The trumpet of

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the gospel has been sounded and continues to sound, and the gospel opposes all unjust wars, and this war

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with Russia and Ukraine is unjust. The gospel opposes all unjust wars, which by definition characterize

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all of the ones being fought by our present administration, propagated by our current evil

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deep state. I refuse to be associated with any war advocated by our current federal government. This is

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for one reason. It's because of what John Adams has said about unjust wars. He says, great is the guilt

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of an unnecessary war. Oh, that's so true. John Adams and our founding fathers saw this. Great is the guilt

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of an unnecessary war. Dear listener, your federal deep state government does not care about you,

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the average citizen. Rather, it is consumed with aggrandizing its own wealth and power to the exclusion

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of the common good, the common weal. Rather, that deep state seeks to tyrannize you and use you for its

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own purposes. Do not disregard Solzhenitsyn's warning. He says, a state of war only serves as an excuse for

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domestic tyranny. That's coming upon us, dear listener. Rather, let us take up the original impulse

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of the church fathers. Once again, Clement of Alexandria, who said, shall not Christ, breathing a strain of

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peace to the ends of the earth, gather together his own soldiers, the soldiers of peace. The trumpet of

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Christ is his gospel. He hath blown it and we have heard, unquote. Oh, dear listener, have you heard

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that blast of the gospel being sounded? Respond to it. Respond to it in peace. And indeed, if you're going

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to fight, fight the impulse to war that is being propagated upon us by the deep state. Rather,

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listen to the trumpet of Christ in his gospel. He has blown it and we have heard. This has been

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Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church. We meet for holy worship on Sunday at 101 4th

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Street on the corner of 4th and Boulevard at 10 a.m. And you can call us for more information at area code

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208-523-0196. That number, once again, area code 208-523-0196.