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If we're going to look for hope, it can't be fake. It can't be fake. We have to assess where we are and violence has a special has a sin. Violence has a very special serious place, you know.
If you read the patriarchal histories in the opening books of the Bible, you read Genesis for instance, chapter 6. This is the account of God regretting that he had made the human race. What could the human being have possibly been doing to make God regret having made us and the consequence uh Moses tells us is that he sent a worldwide universal flood. Yes. Moses articulated the reason. The reason God did that and had to start over with Noah and in fact he made Noah a second Adam. He gave the same commission to Noah that he gave to Adam. Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth, rule it and subdue it. Why did he do that? It says because the world had become full of violence. Yes.
When you attack another man, when you attack another man, you attack God. Because every human being, as you were just saying so beautifully, is made in the image of God. And so to attack a human is a direct divine offense. Violence is extremely serious. I'm not surprised uh that we have this level of violence in a culture that murders unborn children at the rate that we do and have sustained it for the decades that we have, Yes. Really is it is any violence uh surprising?
Do we have Do we have hope? That's what you asked me. So, forgive me but that's the background. That is how black it is. Yes, I agree. How black it is. Do we have hope and what's the future? I would say that from without a without a belief uh that God is merciful and that he loves the human race and that there's no sin so great that if we repent of it, he will not send his love and forgiveness. Without that belief, certainly we have no future. The statistics are horrible for our country. We are so captured uh by an ideology that is hopeless, atheism, strict secularism, which is what what running our country now. It is extremely hopeless. Yes. And uh without a an a major reconsideration on the part part of our people, a return to classic American virtues, a recovery of Christian faith, without that, certainly we're doomed.
But, we know we know from Christian history that it repentance is possible. And it usually takes in a in an in a national sense, in a personal sense, it's up to us to repent and to believe. In a national sense, it takes leadership. Leadership that is willing to address the important things at the heart of national national catastrophe. We have been living through national catastrophe. We have lost our faith in God. All of our institutions have been captured by by strict secularism. Our law is godless. Our Our Our universities um exclude God. Our Our Our country is uh has gone down a very very serious deep hole. If we're going to get out, if we're going to have hope as a nation, we need leadership. Leadership in the likes of uh George Washington. I think our forebears our forebears are ashamed. My grandparents and America They're ashamed of where we are, Tucker. Uh as a nation. Our relationship to faith, our our explicit commitment to God, our excluding him from everything that's important in American life. We have to repent and we need someone give us God, someone like a King David. Give us someone like my patron saint, Josiah, who was the last great king of Israel, who himself lived at a terrible time. His father and his grandfather were both awful kings who had completely apostatized, abandoned the heritage of Israel, led the people to copy the pagan practices of the surrounding nations and forgive me, we're way worse than pagans. I I always tell people, look, don't call the secular nonsense that's going on in America pagan. That's an insult to the pagans. The pagans believed in the divine order. They believed in the gods. Okay, we don't believe that there are gods. There is one God. But the pagans at least knew they were accountable to the divine order. They were accountable to the gods and that they had to live with respect to the wishes of the gods. To call America, which has no reference Most of our leaders make no reference to God at all. They They make They act as though they are not accountable to God's law. And I think that's far far worse than paganism and a full-blown insult to pagans to call it pagan. No, unless we have a leader who's going to address this, it needs to be addressed, right? Directly. We need to repent. And we need to recover our faith. If we do that, times of refreshing will come from from God. We couldn't We can be changed. A new day can arise, but it's not going to be with a little fix. It's not going to be with a a little something here or a little something there.
I've never seen I've been a priest for almost 33 years. I've never seen the radical interest in faith that we're seeing right now. Uh I'll tell you if I use my parish just as a little example, I have maybe, I don't know, little more than a thousand active parishioners that are here regularly. And all over the years of my ministry, I've I've catechized, I've instructed and prepared people for baptism, you know, maybe 20, 30, 40. A really great year would be 40 people. I have over 200 people in catechism right now. And this is happening all across the country. People are moving towards God, moving towards faith. If this continues and it translates into lives that are rooted, lives that are where faith is important, where true repentance has happened, where this quest for um just biological life as though that's somehow the sum total of value is rejected. You know, if you study the scriptures, there's three types of life that are described in scriptures. There's biological life. In Greek, it's called bios, from where we get biological, right? There's the life of the soul. Many Americans don't even know that that exists. That's called psyche. It's the life It's the most noble part of you, right? Even the Greek pagans, to use this again, knew that. The body is like a chariot and the soul is like the charioteer leading the person in nobility so that the body does virtue. The body does something beautiful, right? If you don't think you have psyche, if you think you're just a body and you don't have a soul, which by the way is the world view of the major tech titans of our country. Uh this is why someone as noble as Elon Musk is becoming would stand up and speak to to the protesters in England when they were saying, "What can we do? What's our future?" And he said, "What?" He said, "Technology and AI." I promise you, Tucker, technology is not going to save us. No. It is not going to save us and to say that is such is so hopeless. If we are soulless and we have greater technology, then the soulless are going to use that greater technology to oppress us. Of course. We need We need to affirm what all reasonable human beings in civilized countries accept the modern nuts secular West. If we don't recognize that a human being is more than his body, he has more than bios, more than biological life, he has the life of his soul, psyche, and then there's something that's most important, which is eternal life. Aionia zoe it's called in the scriptures. Eternal life. This is the life of God's kingdom. These are the three fundamental lives. Two of them we have stopped talking about for many decades and the consequences have been tragic.