Haitian Crusaders with Matt Marino

Old Paths Podcast

S2E14: Haitian Crusaders w/ Matt Marino

Cody, Michael, & returning guest, Matt Marino, engage in discussion on two chief topics: the dynamics of immigration and the metaphysics of historiography. Inspired by Matt's two articles: Who is the Sojourner? and The Lost Tools of Learning from History.

Highlights:

• Sojourner—defined and abused.
• Is America being deliberately destroyed through illegals?
• Abuses of Scripture to justify demographic warfare.
• Can we love humanity in general?
• Who is a neighbor?—can Wolfgang Musculus help us here?
• The imago Dei and immigration.
• How is our compassion exploited?
• Is the government required by God's law to remove illegals?
• Who is a native? Is C. Jay Engel's "Heritage American" helpful? Can Aristotle help? What place does race play? Culture?
• The "Anglo-Saxon supremacy" demanded by the VA Senate in 1905 + the NC and SC demands of immigrants of Celtic, Teutonic, and Saxon origins.
• Is America facing an identity crisis?
• Has the 1965 Hart-Celler Act radically redefined America?
• The failure of Blacks to assimilate into White America—real, important?
• Discussing race & politics without lighting our hair on fire.
• The reality of race as expressed in voting patterns.
• Hostiles vs. Hospitables.
• If the "immigrants" are in need, why are they all military-aged males?
• Natural law—does it require distinct nations and borders?
• The place of voting in these things.
• Political liars and gaslighters.
• Is the invasion of illegals a judgment of God?
• Gideon & Samson as lesser saviors of God's people while God was yet judging his people.
• The prophets on strangers as a judgment.
• Passivity and pacifism—besetting sins of our age and church?
• Is it a matter of natural law to defend your own people and place, even using violence if need be?
• How John Piper & James White fail here.
• Metaphysical thinking and the Crusades, the Civil War, and WW2.
• What place should the Civil War have in our thinking today?
• The South as one of the last holdouts of Christian orthodoxy; as a real opponent against egalitarianism, including upholding slavery; and as upholding racial superiority and inferiority.
• Are things that are not the gospel important?
• "Not the gospel" is deployed against political interests.
• Apolitical posture—idolatry?
• The punch right, kiss left spirit.
• Should "metaphysical thinking" be applied to WW2?
• The failure of piecemeal facts vs. the narrative.
• The place of shotgun facts in destroying the narrative.
• Proxy battles vs. substance, e.g. Romanists vs Protestants, the Crusades, etc.
• Can a syllogism convert the masses?
• The place of vibes and memes in sociopolitical renewal.
• The Holodomor, 10M Germans starved, Adolf Hitler & Christianity.
• Righteous deconstruction.
• Stephen Wolfe as a brilliant Twitter troll.
• Historiography as self-loathing and damning heroes.
• Dabney & Secession; Crusades & the present invasion of the West by Islam.
• The difference between how Crusades may have been used by Romanists in the past vs. how they are abused today against us.
• Responding effectively to the shibboleths and struggle sessions of words like racist, Nazi, white supremacist, and events like WW2, the Civil War, and Civil Rights.
• The danger of friendly fire & undue fear.
• Do not play the disavowal game.
• Purity spiraling & the failure of the Right to unite against a common enemy.
• Struggle sessions as opportunity for victory.
• The rationality of becoming white supremacist.