The Lord is long suffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and

by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons

to the third and fourth generation.

This is going to be a series of several podcasts about blood guilt.

It's one of the most ancient and painful questions at the heart of the human race, and

we are going to be looking at it over three episodes here on Young Heretics, the classical

education that you didn't know you were missing.

So blood guilt.

Why am I talking about blood guilt?

Well, it's a thing now.

We in the West had moved long ago beyond the notion that we need to punish children and

future generations for historical wrongs, and now this ancient idea has come back in the

form of things like reparations.

And more generally systemic racism, right?

This idea that because the founders of America were imperfect, because the leaders of the

British Empire were imperfect, whatever, name your historical sin, we are now inextricably

bound up.

The racism is in our DNA, as Nicole Hannah Jones famously said in the 1619 project The New

York Times.

And recently, this idea has become so powerful, so all-consuming that it even is making

creeping its way into the conservative movement.

You may know the name David French, and maybe at this point, I shouldn't even mention that

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