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brad johnson on february 12th 2020 I’m
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gonna say I don’t understand this
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subject you’re going to talk about at
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all it sounds when you briefly explained
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it to me a little bit like there is a
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new schism in the serbian orthodox
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church and that that’s going to have
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consequences for the region anyway
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please explain this because i just don’t
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get it
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yeah it’s it is i’m getting a little bit
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esoteric and discussing this it’s not
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going to be a subject that probably
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almost anyone listening will be familiar
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with but there’s a larger point to it i
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want to make but in brief what’s
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happened is serbian montenegro have been
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where there was a country for a while
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after the breakup of the former
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yugoslavia this is continuing to
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splinter in the different parts of it
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have broken off Croatia and Serbia and
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Bosnia and they’ve all come out of that
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former Yugoslavia so Serbia and
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Montenegro were for a time a country
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they’ve they’ve separated amicably
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because they traditionally have always
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been separate countries kingdoms back
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into history so it was a very friendly
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thing but they shared a church and that
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church that they shared has become known
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as the serbian orthodox church i mean
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they can understand each other speaking
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and so on their regional neighbors
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forever not enemy powers particularly
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they were always kind of allied and got
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along well together and the royal
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families married back and forth those
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sorts of things so no long term
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traditional problems or anything like
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that and as I said the shared church so
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in many ways that shared culture
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differences but also parallel things
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that were similar like the church so
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what has happened now the Montenegrin
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government has decided now this is the
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government not the church there that in
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Montenegro that what they want to do is
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have their own Orthodox Church so you
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have now of course there’s various
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Orthodox churches already there’s
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Russian Orthodox they serving on with
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the dogs the Greek Orthodox there’s
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different Orthodox churches so what
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they’ve decided to do is they want their
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own figuring that that’s kind of a
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nationalistic thing to back and so
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they’re going forward on this and have
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passed some laws to that effect trying
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to get this done now
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the church the priests and so on and the
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bishop in Montenegro are not pushing for
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this and aren’t particularly interested
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they’re part of the Serbian Orthodox
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structures so they’re kind of you know I
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would say uncertain as to how to proceed
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on this they don’t want the split but
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it’s what the government’s doing now the
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problem with this is fine
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you want to split off your you know have
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your own church and whatever priests
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that are in the Serbian Orthodox Church
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and Montenegro that want to go with the
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new Montenegrin Orthodox or stay with
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the Serbian Orthodox fine that’s up to
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them but the problem is what they’re
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doing what they’re planning on doing is
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confiscating all church property in
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Montenegro and taking it all back over
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the government of Montenegro taking it
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and then giving it to the what would be
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the newly formed Montenegro Orthodox
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Church so it’s it’s complex it’s off the
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beaten path it’s out there but the
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important point out of all of this is
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that we see this this continuing forever
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and I just very briefly going back in
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history I mean the Great Schism that
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people talked about was where the
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catholic church and the orthodox church
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split which was you know back in 1054 or
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something like that i just began this
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would be room and Byzantium yeah we’re
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yeah they the the Catholic Church a they
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they did there was the I think it was
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the fight of the Econo class fight
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basically icons and a number of other
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issues that were observed by the
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Orthodox Church were considered
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blasphemy by the Catholic Church and so
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they split over those things and
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excommunicated each other I think I’m
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not sure but if a complete split between
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them and they’ve split now since then
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both have continued to split and this is
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the point I really want to make on the
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Orthodox side the Orthodox Church then
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began to split into those all of those
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factions that I’ve already mentioned
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like the Russian Orthodox the Serbian
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Orthodox the Greek Orthodox and now
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there is a further split where you saw
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the Armenian the Amin Ian Church calls
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itself Armenian Orthodox the Orthodox
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Church does not recognize the Armenian
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Orthodox Church
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as Orthodox so it’s sort of its own
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little thing and they split the you know
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the ba-ba-boom when they so they’ve
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they’ve continued to split down and
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we’re seeing that once again playing out
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where the Orthodox Church is splintering
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off once again thus weakening the
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overall structure of Christianity and on
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the Catholic side you saw something very
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similar a little bit later 15 early
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1500s some where Martin Luther then
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created Protestantism and it was the
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rifle right Reformation is the term
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people use for it so you saw the
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creation of Protestantism splitting off
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from the Catholic Church and then if you
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look at that that has splintered you
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know madly since then and we have all
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sorts of types of Protestantism that
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they born-again Christian movement and
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then and the the Lutheran’s piss Kop
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alien the Baptist all of these different
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groups have split off from there so a
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split from the Catholic Church then it
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splits again and then splits again and
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now we have all of these things if you
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look at Christianity as a whole it is a
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terribly horribly splintered
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disconnected group of people that are
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theoretically all Christian and there
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should be some level of cooperation but
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there is not the dislike and hatred and
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around these things and speak in those
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circles and the distrust of you know by
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the Baptist for the Catholics and the
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Catholics of the earth and ox and all of
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these different things a representative
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of this horrible split and even groups
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that are out there couple that I’ve
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tried to help and work with to some
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degree or another that are trying to
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fight back against Christians being you
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know tracked down and slaughtered
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overseas in some of these areas like
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Syria in that region those are those
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Christian groups that are still out
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there which many of them are Orthodox
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type groups nobody cares because they’re
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a different brand of Christians so they
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let them be slaughtered and this is one
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of the things I’ve noticed just as kind
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of a general thing here this splintering
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and splintering and splintering and
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splintering and there’s no cohesion
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effort to stop it as I was saying one of
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those groups that I’ve worked with a
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little bit for example they’re working
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well among the born-again Christians and
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different types of Protestant groups but
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they refuse to work with say the
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Catholics or the Orthodox to achieve the
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exact same things even though many of
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the people being attacked are in fact
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Orthodox because the the people that are
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supporting them won’t tolerate it so
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what is it when you have groups that are
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out there trying to save Christians from
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being tracked down and slaughtered and
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the women taken away and given given you
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know sold into slavery you know but they
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won’t take help from another Christian
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group because they don’t recognize them
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as Christian or you’re not sure exactly
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what the justification is for this but
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this is where we find them ourselves and
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this is one of the things that I’ve
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noticed in my career overseas and in
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these areas that this lack of cohesion
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among Christians is one of the things
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that’s allowing us to have different
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Christians in different places just be
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wiped out in slaughter and you know
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we’ve had these churches burnt to the
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ground in France for example and who
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cares I mean it’s Catholics there so
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everybody here doesn’t care and it’s the
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Orthodox and issue near or in the Arabic
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speaking countries where they’re getting
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tracked down and slaughtered so nobody
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cares because it’s these different sects
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but that’s one of those things where if
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you don’t kind of help each other in the
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long run it only means all of us will
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end up getting slaughtered so it’s one
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of those things it’s a great weakness in
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the West the Western Christian
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judeo-christian world if you will and
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certainly those those those Divine’s
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with the Jewish world and the Christian
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world they all exist and they don’t have
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a tendency to to help each other or care
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when these other groups get slaughter
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and so it’s it’s our great weakness and
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I question how well we’ll stand up on
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the world stage with these divisions
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being so important that we don’t care
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that the other guy I skate killed it’s
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almost as if some of the Christian
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groups think it’s fine if that other
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Christian groups gets slaughtered
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because you know they’re not competition
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anymore for us it’s an almost an
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attitude of that nature so I I see it as
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a great danger to us as we move forward
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I mean there’s
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national security items but there’s also
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the human area where we need to
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contribute and help each other and those
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sorts of things and I get I just see
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this as a breakdown that’s very
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dangerous to the future of the world and
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yet Justin Trudeau insists on a daily
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basis that diversity is our strength I
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have to say that’s the first in my new
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book called Aqsa Marines of oxy Marines
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of the West thank you very much
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Brad Johnson I think that all of us who
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follow the conquest of the west by Islam
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will deeply understand and appreciate
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that analysis thank you
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