Yes, God, God. God don't never change.

Welcome to the Plodcast. This is episode 342.

342. This is the Plodcast and I'm Douglas Wilson.

Thanks for coming. Thanks for showing up.

So I need to explain a little, occasionally I find myself in a little TIF or back and forth on Twitter or somewhere online because I say something

and somebody else responds and there you go and we're off to the races.

I recently spoke at NatCon 4 in Washington DC and this is a political conference and at this conference there were Catholics and Catholic intercolists and there were Protestants and there were Protestants there were Protestants there were Protestants there were Jews there and there were also a few Hindus.

Vivek Ramaswami spoke there.

It was quite a good speech.

Didn't have a good foundation,

but it was quite a good speech and there was another guy I've

forgotten his name from India representing an organization called RSS which is

an Indian or a Hindu nationalist organization.

And someone objected to me going to the conference

because this Hindu was going to be there.

They said he was representing like a terrorist organization

and I was sharing the platform with a terrorist.

And I said, I responded that as no, of course Hindu persecution of Christians is reprehensible no matter who's doing

it, I condemn that entirely and because no restrictions had been placed on what I was allowed to say, I was

happy to go and tell the people what I wanted to tell them.

But there was this skirmish online because I was sharing the platform with the

Hindu and was willing at least in principle to talk to a Hindu about our

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