The only question is, Is God going to allow our nation to enter a time of judgment for our collective sins, which his mercy and grace have held back for some time? Or is he going to give us one more chance to restore the foundations and return to him? And we ask that you not give up on our nation, not give us the judgment [00:00:18] that we clearly deserve, but that your mercy and grace would guide us through these terrible, troubled waters, and that you would heal our land. That's right. According to House speaker Mike Johnson, America is on the brink of facing some ambiguous devine apocalypse because of course, we're all sinners. [00:00:38] But what exactly have you and I done to deserve God's wrath and annihilation? Well, if you're at all familiar with Johnson's extreme religious beliefs, then you probably won't be surprised by his answer to that question. Let's watch. We all know that the terrible state that we're in, the faith in our [00:00:57] institutions, is the lowest it's ever been in the history of our nation. The culture is so dark and depraved that it almost seems irredeemable at this point. We, you know, we're the church. Attendance in America dropped below 50% for the first time in our history since they began to measure the data 60 years ago. [00:01:16] And the number of people who do not believe in absolute truth is now above the majority for the first time. So 1 in 3 teen girls contemplated suicide last year. 1 in 4 high school students identifies as something other than straight. We're losing the country. [00:01:31] But at the same time, this is not unprecedented. There's nothing new under the sun. And there have been great civilizations and societies in the past that God has worked through and saved and redeemed when all hope was lost. Those gay teenagers are destroying the very fabric of this nation. [00:01:49] Now, Mike Johnson made those comments on a zoom call with Pastor Jim Garlow, who is equally as terrifying as Mike Johnson. Rolling Stone reported that a Christian nationalist based out of the San Diego area, Garlow, is viewed as an apostle within the New Apostolic Reformation, or Nar. [00:02:07] Nar leaders embraced dominionism, the concept that Christians are supposed to rise and rule over the nations in order to bring the globe into a biblical alignment in preparation for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. You know, just say Jesus Christ. [00:02:22] Someone in such a high position of political power is having a conversation with that dude. Now the report continues on to Garlow. This transformation is to be achieved through the Seven Mountains mandate, with Christians ascending to the tops of seven cultural mountains, [00:02:40] also referred to as spheres of influence religion, family, education, media, entertainment, business and government. So he's he's getting that last mountain ticked off his list. They're having that conversation with Mike Johnson. Totally not sinister at all. [00:02:57] Doesn't the New Apostolic Reformation and Seven Mountains mandate? Don't it all sound comically evil whatsoever? Very good, very good marketing there. Now, don't be fooled, though, because these clowns, of course they don't answer to God. They answer to their own God, which is money. [00:03:15] Carlo's website insists that fracking is holy because energy independence is a biblical issue, and we are to have dominion over the earth to subdue it and distort it for the creator. In his conversations with Garlow, Johnson likewise expresses pride [00:03:31] that the House GOP's governing principles e.g. limited government, peace through strength, fiscal responsibility and free markets are the principles of our creator. Obviously, this is someone who very much honors the separation of church and state [00:03:48] that is enshrined in our Constitution. Jake, are you feeling nervous about the impending apocalypse that we've brought upon ourselves for our godlessness as a nation? Yeah, well, I'm feeling nervous, but not because of that, but because about 25% of the country actually believes that. [00:04:05] So, guys, I'm a little conflicted on on the Mike Johnson story. Let me I'll explain it in a second. But first I want to explain how un-American they are. First of all, calling the country depraved and irredeemable. If anyone on the left had said that, what would the right wing reaction be? [00:04:22] Oh, these America haters, can you believe they're saying that America is irredeemable because we don't agree with their left wing culture and they're calling America depraved? How dare they? Right? But the right wing does it all the time. They insult America over and over and over again. [00:04:38] And not only that, they say that we deserve judgment. We deserve the wrath of a mighty creator of the universe. That that's how terrible America is. Sorry, I don't agree. I love America, and so I don't know why they hate America so much. [00:04:53] And that's because they lost the culture war. We'll get into that in a second. But also they they are devoutly against the founding principles of this country. In the United States Constitution. It very clearly says that we shall not establish a religion. And these Christian nationalists say, no, we don't. [00:05:09] We hate the Constitution. We want to establish a religion, and we want it to be Christianity, and we want it to rule over all of you. In fact, as I read those statements by the pastor pastor, it reminded me of a story we did yesterday about Osama bin Laden's letter to America, where one of. [00:05:27] Is the man's was that you all must obey me. Because I'm the representative of Islam. And you, everyone must be ruled by Islam. And this pastor is saying everyone must be ruled by Christianity. [00:05:42] Both lunatics, total, utter lunatics, and both deeply un-American, saying America should not be a secular nation. We should not listen to our Constitution. Instead, we should be ruled by religious zealots. So no deal. [00:05:59] That's the speaker of the House who thinks that guy is normal and speaks just like him talking about our upcoming wrath. Because we would not be. We did not bow our heads to fake religious leaders pretending to represent Christianity. [00:06:14] So now why am I conflicted? Then? Look to me for my worldview. I'm going to be honest with you guys. That's what we always do. They sound like lunatics. And when I say lunatics, I mean it very literally, like as in detached from reality. [00:06:30] So they think that there's someone who's constantly talking to them and saying, oh, I hate gay people. Make sure you hate gay people. I'm going to destroy the earth, Mike. I'm going to destroy the Earth because I hate gay people so much. But guys, we're making fun of it. [00:06:46] But he genuinely believes that, and so do all of us. That's why I'm conflicted. All these folks have been brainwashed their whole lives. We don't understand it because it's not our perspective, but from their perspective. They genuinely believe that the all powerful creator of the universe despises [00:07:05] gay people and despises any culture that believes in freedom to to be who you are and to do what you want. And they're like, we going to stomp out that freedom because in their heads, that creator in their their version of it. Right? And so to them, he said absolute truth there in that clip. [00:07:22] If you notice to them that's the absolute truth. And so when they look at us, they're like, man, these guys are going to get us all killed. I mean, they they don't even hate gay people. And they're going to let them run around. And next thing you know, God's going to kill us all. [00:07:37] His wrath is upon us. But guys, they genuinely believe it. That's why, in some sense, I have sympathy for them because they don't know they're not. They're totally detached from reality. And in their world, everybody thinks the same thing. [00:07:53] Everybody. And they think like, oh, look at these lunatics who think that God isn't going to kill all of us. Who these lunatics who have ruined our culture and have angered our great creator. And so we've got to help them get out of that, because, by the way, [00:08:09] it also ruins their life. They're not even on this planet. They're in like some crazy planet where no facts matter. Like, like. And how how do they live life? I don't even understand how they function, right. But they think the same thing about us. They think the same thing about us. [00:08:30] That's why we have to somehow break these walls. Because these walls have a separated and we both think each other is crazy. And until we find a way to break through that wall, we're just going to keep yelling at each other and and calling each other names, as I've done here. [00:08:46] Right? And as they do to us, that we're the depraved ones and we think they're the lunatics. But somehow this country has to get back together and and agree on shared reality. And right now we don't. And we've got to be honest about it. [00:09:01] And a lot of that is just being able to actually really talk to one another and talk about where we come from and even these sorts of this, what we might think of as fairly fringe is such a foundational force of exclusion in this country and is directly tied, by the way, to the situation in Israel and Palestine, [00:09:20] because the evangelical kind of movement and base has its own ideas about Palestinian peoples and they they as more depraved than the Holy Land, which is to be protected for the evangelicals. So that is also part of what's going what's going on here. [00:09:38] But I think a lot of it is just sort of looking at the United States as it actually is and rejecting reality. Right? I mean, this is a country of immigrants who are both I mean, you know, we're both from different parts of the world at some point or the other. Like you were born in Turkey. I was my parents were born in South India. [00:09:54] Immigrants and people of all types of, of, of of different from different walks of life immigrated to this country where Native Americans lived. This is a country of immigrants. If there were no immigrants here, then this country would not be where at least it was at its apex, right? [00:10:11] So at the end of the day, you can choose to reject history or this nation as it stands, which is deeply cynical and deeply full of fear and a rejection of reality. Or you can actually choose to try to listen to one another and look at this country as it. [00:10:27] Actually is, you know, and it's amazing. He talks about a lack of faith in our institutions, and he's an election denier. So he's actually denying the institutions of our election commission. So that's the only part of the story. That's not surprising, because if you think that we shouldn't have democracy [00:10:44] and that only Christians should rule, not Jews, not Muslims, not Hindus, not atheists, no one but Christians. Yeah, of course you would be against democracy. And of course you would want Donald Trump to overturn the election and and destroy democracy. No, these guys are absolute radicals. There is a thing called truth. [00:11:03] And how can you tell if we're right or they're right? So you might have different views about the creator, etcetera. So and you might not fall on either camp, but does anyone in their right mind actually believe that the creator of the universe wants us to do more fracking? [00:11:18] Like he's like, oh, okay. Wait. The Andromeda Galaxy and all that. I'm not worried about it. I just need those fracking companies to make more money. Okay, come on guys, come on guys, it's super obvious, right? But in their mind, and there is one thing they're right about. [00:11:36] They're panicked. That's why they're trying to destroy democracy right now because they're losing the country. That's that part is true. So and I've been saying this now for about 20 years, Bill O'Reilly would get on the air and say, we're losing the culture wars. We're losing the culture wars. He's right. [00:11:52] They are losing the culture wars, because now people don't think that it's evil to love whoever you like. And they want people to think it's evil. So they're losing. They want they want only them to be in charge. And now we're actually having democracy. And they hate it. [00:12:08] They hate it. They want religious rule. They are losing the country. And that's why they're getting desperate. And that's why we're in a very bad situation here, guys. And if Trump wins. They're not going to be shy about not being in favor of democracy. [00:12:24] They're saying it. The speaker of the House is saying it. The right wing is saying it. And so their only shot now, since they've almost completely lost the culture wars and the country has become far more loving, far more accepting of everyone and not just one type of person. [00:12:40] Their only hope is to kill democracy. So this is not a small issue. This is about as large an issue as you could possibly have. Yeah, I was just going to say demographically, this country has changed profoundly in just the last few decades. So, you know, you can either look at reality as it is and embrace one another [00:12:57] for our differences, or you can deny reality, which is ultimately it's going to be a losing cause for them. Yeah, let's hope that they don't. We don't lose our democracy in the meanwhile. Right. - Just that. - Yeah. And and then afterwards, for God's sake, we've got to sit down and have an [00:13:13] honest conversation, because the media, ignoring the fact that 25% of the country believes things that aren't remotely true, including dominionism, including the destruction of Al-Aqsa mosque and Israel and the Middle East, and and influencing policy towards maniacal ends. [00:13:31] We have to have an honest conversation about that. And so well, I don't want to offend religious fundamentalists is not the right way to to do things politically or in the media. Thanks for watching the video guys. We also love it if you hit the join button below, because that makes you a member. [00:13:46] And members allow us to be independent, honest. We can be as progressive as we want, no corporate media influence. And that's all because of you guys. We love doing the show with our members. Hit the join button. Become one of the Young Turks.