Welcome to another episode of Lurie Breaks It Down, a podcast where we dig deeply to connect the dots on the issues that shape our world.

I'm Lurie Daniel Favors, author, activist, attorney, and the host of the Lurie Daniel Favors show on Sirius XM's Urban View, Channel 126. If you like what you're about to hear, go ahead and give us five stars and then tell everybody that you know. And if you don't like it, just, child, keep it to yourself and pray our strength. Okay, thank you so much. Also, don't forget to check out my YouTube page, Lurie Daniel Favor's Media, where you should subscribe, like, and share because then you'll get notified when I post videos from my show, which I do just about every single day and when I go live with my YouTube audience. We got a lot to talk about today because of what is happening right now in the nation.

Now, I'm going to give everybody a warning. This is not going to be a comfortable conversation.

We're going to be talking about black Christianity in the throes of white nationalist America,

and this is going to be uncomfortable. But this is not, I'm just going to warn you right now,

this is not a conversation that is going to warn you right now, this is not a conversation

that is about your particular version of the faith, how you practice the faith. This is a conversation

about the way in which the faith is being politicized and weaponized, much as it often has been

in European hands, in ways that are going to have concrete impacts. We're going to

start this conversation in the 300s, A-C-E, or after common era, AD, for those of you who use

that particular terminology, we're going to start in the 300s, and then we're going to end in the

future at some point. And the reason we have to do this is because there are billionaires who are

on the planet right now, who are running a lot of things on the planet right now. I'm talking about

billionaires like Peter Thiel, who are very concerned with the end of life. You may have heard

Donald Trump talking about whether or not he's going to get into heaven. You're not. But you have

also probably missed or may not be as aware that billionaires talking

about what happens in the afterlife is actually becoming a very popular thing. Peter Thiel,

he is a member, he's one of the founders of PayPal's, but he is somebody who has, he's basically

the one who funded JD Vance. He is also the one who is in charge

of a company known as Palantir. Palantir is a corporation that essentially does the work of gathering

all of the disparate pieces of information about you that exist anywhere in the planet

infusing them into one database that will basically give the people who own that

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