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

Welcome to the Plodcast. This is episode 350.

My name is Douglas Wilson. This is the

the podcast. Good to have you with us. Thanks for coming. So I'm a few

episodes ago I was reviewing J.C. Riles Book How Readest Now and I included in that a pitch to get involved in the Bible

reading challenge. And the Bible reading challenge is something that I'm involved in doing and

consequently I'm currently reading in Genesis and one of the and in my Bible reading, what I generally try to do is on average, every other

time I read through the Bible, I want to read my base translation, which would be the King James

version of the Bible. And then on the other in-between times, I read other versions of

the Bible just to mix it up to make sure that I don't start reading the

Bible on cruise control and I'll run into a phrase that's you know phrased unusually and then I'll go look it up and and so on.

So I'm reading my current trip through the Bible.

I'm reading the Lexum translation of the Bible.

Lexum is the translation done by the Logos Bible software people.

And one of the things that's striking to me reading through the

par, uh, life lives of the patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, is that all three of

them, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, all three of them were slave owners.

And the reason I bring this up is because the people who are currently trying to tear down Western civilization have a few rhetorical

tricks in their arsenal and one of of them, when they finally propose tearing down the

Washington Monument, or probably more likely renaming the Washington Monument and renaming Washington D.C., you know that the centerpiece of their

argument will be George Washington was a slave owner.

They've already been removing a number of statues, whether Robert E. Lee or Thomas Jefferson.

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