("Best-of" from 6/18/2018) Dr. Walter E. Williams, George Mason Distinguished Professor of Economics, steps into “The Corner” to discuss Capitalism vs. Socialism.

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18. 0:48to you.
19. 0:49Many of you are making your way as I often say.
20. 0:51From your part time job to your full time jobs,
21. 0:54please remember to not allow yourselves
22. 0:57to offer your maximum fruitfulness outside of your homes,
23. 1:01only to come home and offer your families to the leftovers.
24. 1:04Now, we have to properly understand
25. 1:06that the first ministry we are called to as Christians
26. 1:09is to ministry to Jerusalem, ministry in home.
27. 1:13All too often, people sacrifice their families
28. 1:16on the altar of external fruitfulness
29. 1:18and external ministry, only to realize
30. 1:21after they have burned the candle that both ends
31. 1:24to come to the latter parts of their lives and realize,
32. 1:26man. I should have invested more in my family. Let that not be said about you. Let it not
33. 1:33be said about me. But let us have a proper understanding of the great commissions called
34. 1:38to Jerusalem, to Samaria and the uttermost parts of the world. We don't want to sacrifice
35. 1:42the uttermost parts of the world because we are exclusively focused on Jerusalem. But
36. 1:46we certainly don't want to sacrifice Jerusalem in an effort to win the world. We can do both.
37. 1:52And that even reminds me, I had a guy tell me one time,
38. 1:55eight, can you ask me, not tell me,
39. 1:58can you really serve God and have a family?
40. 2:02It was a young man, he was trying to decide
41. 2:05whether or not God was calling him to be a husband
42. 2:08and a father, and because he had such a heart for God,
43. 2:11he had got some bad teaching, quite frankly,
44. 2:14along the way where he was told that you can't really
45. 2:18serve God fully and have a family.
46. 2:20And I say, man, I guess that must be newsflash for Apostle Peter,
47. 2:23who was married by the way.
48. 2:25And must be a newsflash for the Apostle Paul,
49. 2:28who though he was not married,
50. 2:29he wrote by the function of the Spirit of God.
51. 2:32He feeds in chapter five, he feeds in chapter four,
52. 2:35and he feeds in chapter five specifically,
53. 2:36where husbands are called to wash our wives
54. 2:38with the water of the word.
55. 2:41So it's just unfortunate that those are the types
56. 2:44of communications that are made affirmatively
57. 2:45and overtly and even passively,
58. 2:48when we have people all too willing to sacrifice their families.
59. 2:51Family is the first ministry because family is the first institution ordained by God.
60. 2:57Well, I'm glad to be with you again.
61. 3:00I'm going to start today's program as is our custom and in the scripture.
62. 3:04And we're going to begin with Proverbs chapter three, just,
63. 3:07just going to be versus one through eight.
64. 3:10Proverbs chapter three versus one through eight.
65. 3:15And this is just a reminder.
66. 3:17You know, this is a novel information.
67. 3:20This is just a reminder of what the Lord really requires of us and desires for us.
68. 3:27So here we go.
69. 3:28Let's get started.
70. 3:29I'll read it first.
71. 3:30Then we'll talk about it a little bit.
72. 3:31Verse 1 in chapter 3.
73. 3:32My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments.
74. 3:37For length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you.
75. 3:42Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you.
76. 3:48Bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart so you will find favor
77. 3:55and good success.
78. 3:57In the sight of God and man, trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your
79. 4:05own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him and he will make your path straight.
80. 4:16Be not wise in your own eyes. Fear the Lord and turn away from evil. It will be healing to your flesh
81. 4:23and refreshment, refreshment to your bones. Oh praise God for his word, for his words. So right off the
82. 4:32bad. This writer in Proverbs in chapter 3 is writing as a father to a son, which by
83. 4:40application, or should I say by implication will also apply from a father to a daughter,
84. 4:45from a mother to a daughter, from a mother to a son. This is sound godly wisdom where
85. 4:50the encouragement is, okay, you've received all of this teaching, and this is referring
86. 4:54to the first two chapters so far, but don't forget it. Don't allow the teaching to be
87. 4:59He shelved in your heart and shelved in your mind, but to keep it active.
88. 5:04And it goes further says, but let your heart keep my commandments.
89. 5:08It's amazing that the phrase there is let your heart, which really is a term of permission,
90. 5:14a term of admission where the fatherly advisor is advising his two, his two, his disciple
91. 5:24if you will, to allow your heart to keep my commandments.
92. 5:28Isn't that amazing?
93. 5:30it really conveys the true prospect that we can deny our hearts and minds from receiving
94. 5:38and applying the commands of God.
95. 5:40And when this Old Testament reference to the heart hit there, it's not talking about the
96. 5:45four chambered, the chambered organ that disseminates blood throughout our physical body.
97. 5:50The word heart there in Hebrew is a reference to the seat of human consciousness and volition.
98. 5:56the seed of human consciousness, emotion, and volition.
99. 6:00Let not your reasoning capacities,
100. 6:02your emotive capacities, and your awareness capacities
101. 6:06deny the truth of the commands
102. 6:08that they bring offer to you.
103. 6:09Verse two, because then the result of your heart
104. 6:13embracing these commandments are for a length of days
105. 6:16and years of life.
106. 6:18And peace they will add to you, isn't it amazing
107. 6:21that the first commandment with promise
108. 6:23of the under the 10 commandments?
109. 6:24That's citing from Exodus 20,
110. 6:26but written in Ephesians chapter six is honor your father and your mother
111. 6:31that your days may be long on the earth.
112. 6:33This is the first commandment with promise. Could it be? Could it be this rash
113. 6:40of violence amongst the, amongst the younger people in our communities,
114. 6:46amongst the crime written communities around the country,
115. 6:50even in many of these schools where the children are,
116. 6:54are angry and rebellious, could it be that the lack of value for life is related to an unwillingness
117. 7:03to honor fathers and mothers?
118. 7:06Now of course that may seem too spiritual but too biblical for some, but the word of
119. 7:11God is true because the Bible tells us in Ephesians 6, Exodus 20 that honoring our
120. 7:17fathers and our mothers will result in length of days.
121. 7:20here in Proverbs 3, the heart of the disciplee that is receiving, accepting and applying with
122. 7:27consistency, the teachings of the disciple are, will result in peace and length of days
123. 7:34added to them.
124. 7:38Could it be a young man who grew up like I did in the New Orleans, this Lord, Ninth Ward,
125. 7:43when your father says, hey, I don't want you hanging out with those drug dealers.
126. 7:47it be that if little Abe refuses to heed the instruction of his father that little
127. 7:52Abe's life could be put in jeopardy. As a result of rejecting the wisdom of father.
128. 7:58I'll go on. Let not steadfast love and faithfulness, King James here says,
129. 8:02mercy and truth forsake you but bind them around your neck.
130. 8:07Bind them around your neck. This communication is that these things should
131. 8:11be a perpetual and consistent reality for you. Not a fleeting visitation to what
132. 8:17we visit them when we're in church, but we abandon them, we outside of church.
133. 8:20Well, we develop this kind of disassociative spiritual identity disorder,
134. 8:23where we act one way around one group of people and we act a different way around
135. 8:27other groups of people. No, this would be the consistent manner of living for us.
136. 8:32Write them on the tablet of your heart.
137. 8:33There's so much I can say that when I'm going to keep going because I'm trying to get
138. 8:35to a particular point. Again, verse four, as a result of obeying,
139. 8:39heating these instructions, verse four says, so you will find favor and good
140. 8:44success in the sight of God and man. There is great benefit to yielding to the
141. 8:54Word of God, to submitting our hearts, submitting our way of living to God's Word.
142. 9:00There is great benefit there. Then we come to verse 5 and this is really where I
143. 9:05want to go. Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean to your own
144. 9:14understanding isn't it amazing that the
145. 9:16proverb writer lays a table before us a
146. 9:19feast of insight that complete absolute
147. 9:23100% trust in the Lord with all of our
148. 9:27hearts again same word seat of human
149. 9:29consciousness seat of human volition and
150. 9:30seat of emotion emotive capacities
151. 9:33trusting in the Lord with the full
152. 9:35thrust of all of our human reliance is
153. 9:38mutually exclusive to leaning on our
154. 9:41own understanding. To say it differently
155. 9:44There's no way you can lean on your own understanding and simultaneously trust in the Lord with all your heart.
156. 9:50Can't happen.
157. 9:52Why is that?
158. 9:53Why is that?
159. 9:54Because in order to trust in the Lord with all our hearts, it requires us to submit our
160. 10:00reasoning, our wills, our emotive capacities, our human consciousness to the transcendent reality of who God is.
161. 10:08That's why the Hebrew writer says if any man want to receive anything from God, he must first believe that God is.
162. 10:12That's not mere mental assent to his existence.
163. 10:15It is taken into full scope, embracing the full comprehension of the weight, scope, nature,
164. 10:23will, character of who God is.
165. 10:27That he's omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, loves us deeply, went to the cross for us.
166. 10:34In order to receive anything from God, we must first believe that he is.
167. 10:40And look what Proverbs chapter three verse six says,
168. 10:44and in all your ways acknowledge him,
169. 10:47and he will make your past straight.
170. 10:48Again, that word acknowledge there is not mere mental ascent,
171. 10:50but it's a Hebrew word, yada, which literally means
172. 10:53to carry into every future engagement,
173. 10:56every future encounter the full scope of God's faithfulness
174. 10:59on your behalf.
175. 11:00That includes his written word
176. 11:02and your personal testimony of God's faithfulness.
177. 11:04And this is where I'm going with this.
178. 11:06The unfortunate reality of that in our day,
179. 11:09We have loads of people who profess to be Christians,
180. 11:13but in reality for all practical purposes,
181. 11:16there are functional atheists.
182. 11:18Now why do I say that?
183. 11:20Because in all of their lives doing,
184. 11:23it is a consistent testimony of leaning
185. 11:25on their own understanding.
186. 11:27Remember what I said?
187. 11:28It is impossible to trust God with all our hearts
188. 11:31when we have the consistent habitual lifestyle
189. 11:33of relying on ourselves.
190. 11:35Folks, that is humanism just exercised
191. 11:38within a church cultural context.
192. 11:43And in this day and age, Jeff was talking to me
193. 11:46on the way in, we saw Kate Spade, Billionaire,
194. 11:50you know, sold her company for $2.2 billion,
195. 11:55after becoming a world renowned clothing designer,
196. 11:58having over 180 something stores all over the country,
197. 12:01the world would say, man, she's living it up.
198. 12:04Then re-entered the design world,
199. 12:06after taking time off to raise her daughter,
200. 12:10And she took our own life with all of that.
201. 12:14This morning, I learned of the news of Anthony Bourdain,
202. 12:18the world-renowned celebrity chef and mixed martial artists
203. 12:23to, you know, who are dating actresses or models.
204. 12:27I don't know whatever it is.
205. 12:28It takes his own life.
206. 12:30You know why, folks?
207. 12:31Because the world is looking for something.
208. 12:34The world is looking for something.
209. 12:36Roman says that the world quakes and groans.
210. 12:39anticipation of the manifestation of the sons of God.
211. 12:43Who are the sons of God?
212. 12:44Those who are led by the Spirit of God,
213. 12:48not those who are led by themselves.
214. 12:51Functional atheism within a Christian context
215. 12:54exercises itself, or it looks like a Christian
216. 12:57who is prayerless.
217. 12:59A Christian who lives according to their own agenda.
218. 13:02A person who professes to be a believer
219. 13:04with pretty good church attendance records,
220. 13:07but when it comes down to the way we live our lives,
221. 13:10It's by leaning on our own understanding.
222. 13:13And it's amazing that the proverb writer uses the phrase,
223. 13:16leaning.
224. 13:19It gives the indication that this is a consistent manner
225. 13:22of living and that they have to be snapped out of the leaning
226. 13:25by some external force.
227. 13:29Let today be the day where we resolve in our hearts,
228. 13:32where we submit ourselves fully to the Lord.
229. 13:34And if we find that we are those who have the habit
230. 13:38of living the humanistic life while professionally
231. 13:41be a believer living the life of relying on ourselves as opposed to relying on the one
232. 13:48who knows all and has all power.
233. 13:51That's the day be the day of adjustment because guess what?
234. 13:53There's a world waiting to see what it looks like to have a fully switched on belief.
235. 14:03Shiting light into the darkness, this is the Hamilton Corner, an American family radio
236. 14:08and urban family talk.
237. 14:10Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner here on American Family Radio and Urban Family Talk.
238. 14:15I am so excited to have who has become a pretty frequent guest now on the Hamilton corner of the Friends of the Program
239. 14:21Dr. Walter E. Williams who is a
240. 14:24Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University and quite frankly in my opinion folks. He is a national treasure
241. 14:30I just watched a documentary on him and I was produced a little while ago called suffer no fools
242. 14:35Which I encourage you to find and to watch it is phenomenal. I know it's on YouTube
243. 14:40I know it's on Amazon video in a couple other places, but dr. Williams
244. 14:43Thank you so much for joining me on the program.
245. 14:44How are you?
246. 14:45Thank you for inviting me.
247. 14:47Oh, you're very, very welcome.
248. 14:48Well, I want to jump right into it
249. 14:51because I have found amongst my generation,
250. 14:54those that are younger, and even some that are a little bit older,
251. 14:57they have come to the place where they fancy socialism.
252. 15:02The New York Times wrote a glowing article
253. 15:06in celebration of Karl Marx's birthday,
254. 15:08and people are literally drinking this stuff up.
255. 15:11I have done on this program an expose on the person of Karl Marx even before digging into
256. 15:17his economic philosophy within socialism.
257. 15:21But why are we out of place in our country where people, I mean we're just a few decades
258. 15:28removed from Ronald Reagan saying Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall, why are people in America
259. 15:32today warming up to socialism?
260. 15:34Well, I was on the university and if you ask people, well, which areas.
261. 16:51And so, now, for those who may be unfamiliar with these terms, I know most of my audience
262. 17:10is familiar with it, but we get new listeners all the time, how would you define capitalism
263. 17:16and then how would you define socialism?
264. 17:18Well, I'd say that you engage in pure economic spectrum.
265. 19:06You're absolutely right.
266. 19:08And I've had this conversation with many people and many who would be, I would say, academically
267. 19:15accomplished because I don't confuse academic accomplishment with education.
268. 19:19That's a whole other story.
269. 19:21But what would you say to people who say well Abraham really the constant conservatives
270. 19:26willingness to refer to the failures of communists, Russia, socialists, Germany and so on, that's
271. 19:32just because they didn't do socialism right.
272. 19:35But look at the Scandinavian countries, they are a good example of socialism done right.
273. 19:40What would you say to someone who would say that?
274. 19:41that that is a larger they they be weak bingo or the and those
275. 20:16yeah absolutely I think that one of the track for the United States that is
276. 20:58the average yes that is into people come on doctor will you absolutely right and
277. 21:49so do you think and and I mean you'll probably gather my opinion on this
278. 21:55question in my question itself but do you do you think that the
279. 21:59governments, uh, encroachments further and further into education by bureaucrats and elected officials is self-interested in that
280. 22:07the-the-they are fomenting this collectivist and even this willingness to embrace, uh, government
281. 22:14confiscation of one person's wealth and resources to forcibly use it- forcibly confiscate it to use it to give to others.
282. 22:20Do you think the government is self-interested in gathering its control over education to foment this type of indoctrination you refer to that
283. 22:29on the on the back end in this will be right while they're paying and reading I believe in
284. 24:22and so to that and man this this this is the hand that I fan with because they're really
285. 24:26only two options in this regard we are either in specifically the the leaders and the edge
286. 24:32in the educational establishment we are either ignorant or real evil and in in from my standpoint
287. 24:39I don't think the numbers you just cited I don't think that would be novel information
288. 24:43for most of these people.
289. 24:44Yet, we continue to pour trillions of dollars into what has been demonstrably a failure.
290. 24:50The graduate that when you give a kiss that he can read and write at the twelfth and read
291. 25:18and write at the eighth grade level, remedial math, so what that's saying to me.
292. 25:57Bingo, you can't see me, but I'm sure my hand together rub my fingers together because they
293. 26:02are chasing that paper.
294. 26:04That's what they're looking to accomplish.
295. 26:06And now many of the people getting back to the socialism conversation who are embracing
296. 26:13socialism, they do so on the grounds that they would say socialism is inherently morally
297. 26:20superior to capitalism.
298. 26:22I mean, sorry, to capitalism.
299. 26:24What say you to that?
300. 26:25You know, when you are your private evil, that is, Thomas do need some gun from this against
301. 27:31and he said that i think my finger on that
302. 28:27that's not yet that's right
303. 28:41that's right
304. 28:42and then just one point about that and if you really limited
305. 29:32that that
306. 29:32oh my goodness
307. 29:33and in the basic
308. 29:35notion that is underscored here and overcome the close it to to the end
309. 29:39of this interview
310. 29:42our country has become
311. 29:44absolutely ignorant concerning individual liberty
312. 29:47and they are favoring many of them are beginning to favor collectivism
313. 29:52instead of individual liberty.
314. 29:54Why do you think that we have such a glowing
315. 29:57romanticization of collectivism
316. 30:00and neglect of individual liberty?
317. 30:02Well, you know, I think that what we all have to recognize,
318. 30:08personal liberty is rare in human affairs.
319. 30:13That is for most of mankind's history,
320. 30:16he's been subject to abuse and control by others.
321. 30:20And I'm first that a historian writing 200 years from now
322. 30:24He'll say, well, you know, there was this little tiny curiosity, mostly in the West,
323. 30:29but where people had personal liberty and private property rights, but it all went back to the
324. 30:35normal state of affairs.
325. 30:36We got a jumping right there because we're about to hit this break.
326. 30:39Dr. Williams, I told you guys he's a national treasure.
327. 30:42Thank you so much for spending some time with us.
328. 30:43And thanks for inviting me.
329. 30:44Oh, you're very welcome.
330. 30:45We'll have to have you back on the program.
331. 30:47I mean, it's for the show this evening.
332. 30:48Dr. Walter E. Williams, go to his website, walterewilliams.com.
333. 30:53the E is for excellence.
334. 30:55The Hamilton Corner Podcast and One-Minute Comment Terrence are available at EFR.net and
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337. 31:13Woo!
338. 31:14Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner here in American Family Radio and Urban Family Talk.
339. 31:18My gosh, I told you guys, Dr. Walter Williams is a national treasure.
340. 31:23He just turned 82 years old recently, and I love talking to him.
341. 31:30I think his approach to economics, beginning with the premise that as an individual, I own
342. 31:38myself.
343. 31:40And so any concept, let me say it this way, beginning with the premise that as an individual
344. 31:47I own myself. It lays the foundation for the moral superiority for the free, as he described
345. 31:54it, the free, peaceable, and voluntary exchange, because anything else, force is inherently
346. 32:02immoral. We understand that in terms of murder, would be the force of taking of another's
347. 32:08life. We understand that in terms of rape, would be the force of intrusion and evasion
348. 32:13of another individual, well why don't we understand that economically?
349. 32:19And I stand by my point that we have an uploaded federal government that is self-interested
350. 32:27in expanding its own authority and preserving its own power that is willing to monetize
351. 32:34and subsidize government-based indoctrination in the indoctrination camps that are often
352. 32:40called schools to create the passive receptivity of the immoral, forcible intrusion upon the
353. 32:50wealth resources and resources of other people to forcibly extract them and disseminate them
354. 32:56to others. Folks, socialism and communism is inherently immoral because it is an intrusion
355. 33:04upon the private property of another by force.
356. 33:09Even if you attempt to paint the purposes for that intrusion
357. 33:14as some justifiable good,
358. 33:18it literally is, go with me here,
359. 33:21the American government's function at this day in time
360. 33:25and at this age literally is the personification
361. 33:29of the notion that the ends justify the means.
362. 33:33Because they present it as if, well, we're looking to help these people and to help this
363. 33:37group of people, this group of people.
364. 33:39So we have to forcibly extract your private property in order to accomplish that.
365. 33:43It is a fundamental, fundamentally immoral proposition.
366. 33:47A fundamentally immoral proposition.
367. 33:49And I loved Dr. Williams's response to those who attempt to hold up the Scandinavian countries
368. 33:55as an example of socialism done right when the reality is that they have the free market
369. 34:01principles at play in enterprise, but you have extremely high notions of taxation.
370. 34:07So the sources of revenues that bolster the socialistic distribution of means is free
371. 34:15market principles.
372. 34:16And we're seeing some of the same things happening in China.
373. 34:20And it's just unfortunate that we have a large swaths of our society that we just helplessly
374. 34:30are helplessly ignorant concerning capitalism. And Dr. Williams has an article on his website,
375. 34:37you know, he writes for, you know, hundreds, hundreds of publications all over the country.
376. 34:43And he's written a piece called Capitalism versus Socialism. And he says this in the
377. 34:47piece, free market capitalism is disfavored by many Americans and threatened not because
378. 34:52of its failure, but ironically because of its success. Free market capitalism in America
379. 34:57America has been so successful in eliminating the traditional problems of mankind such as
380. 35:02disease, pestilence, hunger, and gross poverty that all other human problems appear both unbearable
381. 35:09and inexcusable."
382. 35:11Isn't that ironic?
383. 35:13Because our society enjoys so much freedom and we've had so many successes that any evidences
384. 35:20of human difficulty are deemed inexcusable.
385. 35:24And so we're at a place where we don't have an appropriate appreciation, nor an appropriate
386. 35:28estimation for just how successful capitalism has been in our country.
387. 35:39Now I'm going to turn to, and I said this earlier, and I didn't intend to go back to
388. 35:43this, but I'm going to go back to this now because it seems like suicide and things of
389. 35:49that nature only become sources for public conversation and public comment when it happens
390. 35:57in the lives of celebrities. Frankly, that is the product of our idolatrous conditions
391. 36:07concerning celebrities. But I think that these moments give stage, create a stage where those
392. 36:14stage, create a stage where those of us who are Christians, we can enter the
393. 36:23conversation with the gospel. You know, in the popular apologetic scripture, always
394. 36:31being ready to give a reason for the hope that you have to anyone who asks
395. 36:38you for the hope that you have. Because many of us, we're different
396. 36:45lifestyles, we have different economic statuses and all these types of things.
397. 36:50But one thing that's consistent in the life of believers is that we have a hope
398. 36:53that transcends this life.
399. 36:57And so I just want to gently remind us and to gently nudge you to not absent yourself
400. 37:05from the conversation.
401. 37:07To be a hundred percent frank, we have what the world is looking for in Jesus Christ.
402. 37:14We have it.
403. 37:16So why not share Him with the world?
404. 37:19Why not share Him with the world?
405. 37:22That in times of great difficulty we still have hope.
406. 37:25In times of great success we still have hope.
407. 37:27In times of, and lean times we have hope.
408. 37:30And in abundant times we have hope.
409. 37:32Why keep that to ourselves?
410. 37:34Why keep it to ourselves?
411. 37:37You know I made the reference to church culture and in many of our cities all over the country
412. 37:46when you would have a conversation about Christianity the first response you get is
413. 37:49I go to so-and-so's church.
414. 37:51Or I go to such and such church.
415. 37:52When the question was not where you go to church, the question is, are you a believer?
416. 37:56Are you a Christ follower?
417. 37:58And many people, misconstrued church attendance or even church membership were Christ following
418. 38:04because in many places what we have is not Christianity, but we have what I call
419. 38:08church-y-anity.
420. 38:09Where we are familiar with church culture, we know, you know, how long the length of the
421. 38:14The skirt should be, we know about A and B selections,
422. 38:17we know the hymns, we know you're not supposed to chew gum,
423. 38:21we know all of the rules, the do's,
424. 38:24and the don'ts about going to church.
425. 38:27But what do we know about following Christ?
426. 38:31What do we know about giving our all?
427. 38:35One small thing if you search the scriptures,
428. 38:38and I know we say things, it's kind of tongue in cheek,
429. 38:41but I think you'd be hard pressed to find a place
430. 38:44in the Bible where it says accept Jesus in your heart.
431. 38:48If you search the scripture now,
432. 38:49not just repeating what you've heard in church culture,
433. 38:51not just repeating what you've been exposed to,
434. 38:55but if you search the scripture,
435. 38:56you'll find Jesus' encouragement was,
436. 38:59were repent and believe.
437. 39:02Repent and believe, submit your life to him.
438. 39:06You know, and one of the differences in those two concepts
439. 39:10is submission of one's life to Jesus' lordship is completely
440. 39:15different from just accepting what you want to accept,
441. 39:17take it and leave it like it's a buffet line.
442. 39:20You know, the biblical admonition was repent.
443. 39:23That means, metanoia, the Greek word for repent,
444. 39:25with the mind, metta meaning with knowledge,
445. 39:28with the mind to turn.
446. 39:31In belief, pistus, a full investment of faith
447. 39:34into the person and work of Jesus Christ.
448. 39:37To say it differently, when you have a right understanding
449. 39:40of repentance and submission of one's life
450. 39:43to the Lord, the Lord, the Jesus Christ.
451. 39:45You come to the only realistic biblical conclusion
452. 39:48that, man, my life is not my own.
453. 39:51I've been bought with the price.
454. 39:53So as a result of having been purchased
455. 39:56with his blood, I am now duty bound to give him my all.
456. 40:03And what happens in too many of our communities
457. 40:06is that, as the scripture says rightly,
458. 40:09we have forms of godliness.
459. 40:11We have a form of godliness and the form is dictated by the expectation and by the evaluation
460. 40:19of our peers as opposed to it being a vertical evaluation and conclusion.
461. 40:26So all I'm saying, man, I didn't plan to go into this, all I'm saying is let us not
462. 40:32deprive the world of a true witness and let us be those witnesses.
463. 40:38All right, well, this is probably the last story I'll get to for today.
464. 40:41I don't know, we'll see.
465. 40:43The Daily Caller has done some investigation,
466. 40:47and they have concluded that four of the world's biggest tech
467. 40:51platforms have working partnerships
468. 40:54with a left-wing nonprofit that has a track record
469. 40:56of inaccuracies and routinely labels conservative organizations
470. 41:00as hate groups.
471. 41:01If you listen to this program for any length of time,
472. 41:03you probably already know who I am talking about,
473. 41:05and you would be right, SBLC, the Southern Poverty Law Center.
474. 41:11Facebook, Amazon, Google, and Twitter all work with or consult the Southern Poverty
475. 41:17Law Center in policing their platforms for hate speech or hate groups.
476. 41:24The SPLC is on a list of external experts and organizations that Facebook works with to
477. 41:30inform their hate speech policies.
478. 41:33Now Facebook's position is that well, they don't allow the SPLC to dictate to them their
479. 41:41hate speech and hate groups policies, but they use the SPLC as established experts in
480. 41:52the field.
481. 41:56And they do this after, for example, having an anti-Muslim hate list that included Majid
482. 42:05Nuaz, let me try to say his name properly, Majid Nuaz who threatened to shoot them.
483. 42:15Now, if you don't know who Majid Nuaz is, he is himself a Muslim, but he has identified
484. 42:24and jihadists and terrorists as being threats to the world.
485. 42:29So here you have a person who is himself a Muslim
486. 42:33that the SBLC had put on their hate list.
487. 42:37Well, they then kind of went,
488. 42:40oh my goodness, we kind of stepped in it on this one.
489. 42:42So when they backed away, took him off.
490. 42:44This is the same SBLC.
491. 42:46They had I in Hercie Ali.
492. 42:48I mean, this is amazing to me.
493. 42:51A high in her Ciali is a woman who is a survivor of female genital mutilation, who goes around
494. 43:01the world decrying female genital mutilation.
495. 43:09Was born in Somalia, was elected official in the Netherlands.
496. 43:13I mean goes all over the world saying, you know, it's wrong to mutilate females genitalia.
497. 43:20Now yet the SVLC had her on their hate list.
498. 43:24And of course, we can't leave out Ben Carson,
499. 43:30who because he believes the Bible about marriage,
500. 43:33they had him listed on their hate watch list,
501. 43:36extremist watch list.
502. 43:38And they had to with, you know, tongue,
503. 43:40I mean, not with tail firmly placed between their legs,
504. 43:45had to recant.
505. 43:46And these are the people, these are the people
506. 43:48that Facebook says, well, we wanna consult them
507. 43:49to help us with our hate speech policies.
508. 43:53Amazon, they're even worse.
509. 43:55Amazon has a program called Amazon Smile
510. 43:59that allows you and you buy stuff on Amazon
511. 44:01to donate a small percentage of the purchase
512. 44:04to the charity of your choice, right?
513. 44:07Well, Amazon has given the SPLC full reign
514. 44:11to govern this program.
515. 44:13So Amazon has given SPLC the freedom to say
516. 44:17who gets to participate in the Amazon Smile program
517. 44:20and who does not?
518. 44:22The same ones who put I in her Ciali,
519. 44:25Majid Nwas, Ben Carson on the hate list.
520. 44:28Of course, you know, American Family Association
521. 44:31is determined to be a hate group by them.
522. 44:34Family Research Council, hate group.
523. 44:37No else they had listed as a hate group.
524. 44:39Alliance Defending Freedom.
525. 44:40Yeah, the same Christian legal organization
526. 44:45that just won a victory for Jack Phillips
527. 44:47at the US Supreme Court.
528. 44:49But Amazon Smile has booted ADF from their program, why?
529. 44:59Because SPLC says so.
530. 45:03Google, which owns YouTube by the way,
531. 45:05they use SPLC to regulate what goes on YouTube,
532. 45:09using the flagging system.
533. 45:11And it begs the question, when will,
534. 45:17I'm answering my own question to my haters,
535. 45:19I'm thinking about it.
536. 45:20I was about to say, when will the mainstream media
537. 45:22treat the SPLC the way they should be treated?
538. 45:24which is as a discredited, unreliable entity
539. 45:29that simply has anti-Christian, anti-U.S. Constitution
540. 45:35and anti-American sentiments.
541. 45:38That's what they are.
542. 45:40And they have a history when they started,
543. 45:43you know, they did some good things early on,
544. 45:46but it's ridiculous at this stage folks,
545. 45:50they have over $300 million.
546. 45:53And they call themselves a Southern Poverty Law Center,
547. 45:55They certainly ain't poor, put over $300 million,
548. 45:59that much of which they invest in the Cayman Islands.
549. 46:03What kind of nonprofit organization does that?
550. 46:06You know, that is a civil rights organization.
551. 46:12And they don't want hard to do any law.
552. 46:14Like, last year they dedicated something
553. 46:16like $3 million in litigation.
554. 46:19I mean, I'm sorry for a national legal entity.
555. 46:21That's very paltry.
556. 46:23Folks, the SPOC is a money grab machine.
557. 46:27And unfortunately, there are too many people in our country
558. 46:30that allow them to wax expert-like
559. 46:35when they really are just rather bigoted themselves,
560. 46:39quite frankly.
561. 46:41I mean, to put an organization like ADF,
562. 46:46American Family Association, on your hate list.
563. 46:49You know, it's absolutely ridiculous.
564. 46:51I was just in Baton Rouge not too long ago
565. 46:53with Gene Mills and Louisiana Family Forum,
566. 46:56shout out to LFF.
567. 46:57And they have worked, this has been a,
568. 47:00and on the front lines,
569. 47:01Christian Legal Policy Organization for decades.
570. 47:04Actually, they were instrumental in me
571. 47:05even going to law school.
572. 47:07And they have participated in Louisiana
573. 47:09in prison reform and in criminal law reform.
574. 47:17And the SPLC on one hand wants to refer
575. 47:19to the best champions for reform.
576. 47:22Why can you say their champions to reform
577. 47:24when you list them as haters?
578. 47:27Folks, we have to call us pay to spade.
579. 47:30And the longer that they are able to go on
580. 47:31with the charade that they are neutral and detached,
581. 47:35repository and evaluator of what is hateful
582. 47:37and hate speech and all of that.
583. 47:39It's absolutely ridiculous.
584. 47:40And I would like for somebody to tell me
585. 47:43how SBLC defines hate group and hate speech.
586. 47:46Because actually when you evaluate it really is
587. 47:49anything that they disagree with,
588. 47:51they feel is hateful.
589. 47:54So their line of demarcation,
590. 47:56is you agree with us?
591. 47:57You're good.
592. 47:58You disagree on the list you go.
593. 48:00And of course you can't forget 2012
594. 48:02that the Family Research Council was shot up by a person using SVOC's hate mask.
595. 48:09The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast do not necessarily reflect those of the American
596. 48:14Family Association or American Family Radio.