39: From Neo-Nazi Skinhead to Literary Scholar with Joseph Pearce

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🗓️ 5 September 2017

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

You would never know it from listening to him lecture or watch him on EWTN, by literary scholar and biographer Joseph Pearce did two stints in the British prison system for his involvement in a violent Aryan-nation style group called the National Front.

The news footage of the recent violent riots at Charlottesville, VA, gave Pearce a serious case of deja vu, and i this remarkable interview, he tells what it’s like to BE one of those activists -- angry (mostly young) men with chaos and anarchy on their minds.

His racism and deep-seated hatred of all non-whites, Jews, and Catholics (“I hated all of the above,” he says) was finally overcome after he discovered the writings of G.K. Chesterton, Thomas Aquinas, and J.R.R. Tolkien. The darkness of his prison cell led into the light of Christ and His commandment to love God and neighbor -- and to forgive one’s enemies.

His unlikely story is filled to the brim with providential interventions, ironies, and a cast of characters you normally only see in movies. To find out the full tale, his spiritual autobiography is Race With the Devil: My Journey From Racial Hatred to Rational Love.

If you want an inside look into the mindset of Antifa and its doppelganger the violent alt-right from a convert to the Faith, this interview is the place to be.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode number 39 of the Patrick Coffin Show.
0:04.0	Warning, the following podcast contains ideas and arguments that might challenge your world view.
0:09.0	And now for something completely different. The Poetry Coffin Show, a bacon of light in a world of spam.
0:18.0	Thank you for a false.
0:21.0	You're tired of secularist bullies punching your values in the face.
0:25.0	You're looking for smart commentary that doesn't sound like NPR, with our annoying voices.
0:31.0	You're wondering where we're going and why we're in this hand
0:34.2	basket. If you answer true to any of these, you've come to the right place. You're
0:39.7	about to meet the innovators and influencers who are restoring the Judeo Christian
0:44.4	foundations of our culture right here on the Patrick Coffin show.
0:49.6	And now here's your host, Patrick Coffin.
0:54.0	Yes, indeed, welcome to the show.
1:00.0	This is the place where we recover the classical and biblical roots of America and the West, one conversation at a time.
1:07.0	The surge of violence and
1:15.0	violence, have really exposed a deep level of racial and political hatred in this country.
1:20.0	Debate seems far in the past.
1:22.0	Nowadays, the degree of vitriol and polarization are at an all-time
1:25.9	high and some people are talking about maybe a coming civil war. Our guest today is a former white supremacist, leader of the National Front in England.
1:37.0	He did jail time on more than one occasion and he knows firsthand from the inside out what intense race hatred feels like.
1:45.8	Joseph Pierce is senior editor at the Augusta Institute.
1:48.8	He's the senior fellow and journal editor at the Cardinal Newman Society and Toulkin and Lewis Chair in
1:53.7	Literary Studies at Holy Apostles College and Seminar. You've probably seen him on EWTN
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