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@AnthonyAB1 - Ammitedly, very long quote, but you mentioned Chesterton the other day and it ties in with the theme of many a show over the time I have been a listener. I found it encouraging.

“Again and again, before our time, men have grown content with a diluted doctrine. And again and again there has followed on that dilution, coming as out of the darkness in a crimson cataract, the strength of the red original wine. And we only say once more today as has been said many times by our fathers: "Long years and centuries ago our fathers or the founders of our people drank, as they dreamed, of the blood of God. Long years and centuries have passed since the strength of that giant vintage has been anything but a legend of the age of giants. Centuries ago already is the dark time of the second fermentation, when the wine of Catholicism turned into the vinegar of Calvinism. Long since that bitter drink has been itself diluted; rinsed out and washed away by the waters of oblivion and the wave of the world. Never did we think to taste again even that bitter tang of sincerity and the spirit, still less the richer and the sweeter strength of the purple vineyards in our dreams of the age of gold. Day by day and year by year we have lowered our hopes and lessened our convictions; we have grown more and more used to seeing those vats and vineyards overwhelmed in the water-floods and the last savour and suggestion of that special element fading like a stain of purple upon a sea of grey.
We have grown used to dilution, to dissolution, to a watering down that went on forever. But Thou hast kept the good wine until now."

This is the final fact, and it is the most extraordinary of all. The faith has not only often died but it has often died of old age. It has not only been often killed but it has often died a natural death; in the sense of coming to a natural and necessary end. It is obvious that it has survived the most savage and the most universal persecutions from the shock of the Diocletian fury to the shock of the French Revolution. But it has a more strange and even a more weird tenacity; it has survived not only war but peace. It has not only died often but degenerated often and decayed often; it has survived its own weakness and even its own surrender. We need not repeat what is so obvious about the beauty of the end of Christ in its wedding of youth and death. But this is almost as if Christ had lived to the last possible span, had been a white-haired sage of a hundred and died of natural decay, and then had risen again rejuvenated, with trumpets and the rending of the sky.”

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Are you @AvoidingBabylon guys going to be on Pelican+? You're the only reason why I would consider subscribing. I thought I heard Ant say y'all weren't going to be on it. I might be wrong tho.

New Locals member: can I please get the Telegram link?

https://rense.com/general98/MURDER-WEAPON.php

^not saying definitively whether I think this is the case or not but def kind of compelling/interesting regarding the CK assassination

Stopped being useful for the Zionists and then it was time for him to go 🤷🏻‍♂️

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