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FIRED and Called a "TERRORIST" for Preaching The Gospel | Rev. Dr Bernard Randall

The Michael Knowles Show

The Michael Knowles Show

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4.828.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

A Christian chaplain at Trent College was fired and reported to the British government’s anti-terrorism programme for delivering a sermon in which he told pupils that it is acceptable to question and disagree with far-left LGBT ideology being taught at the school. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's even crazier than that. It's a sermon in a chapel by the chaplain in the Christian school.

0:07.1

How did we get this far?

0:15.3

As the state-established church of secular progressivism enforces its orthodoxies more and more

0:22.4

each day in the United States in Britain throughout the West, I am so pleased to be able to speak

0:28.8

today with a heretic. Someone who has questioned the dominant liberal regime and it's deeply

0:36.4

intolerant ideology of tolerance. That person would be the Reverend Dr. Bernard Randall,

0:42.4

who was until very recently chaplain at Trent College, former chaplain at Cambridge University

0:48.1

graduate of Oxford University, but we will not hold those sorts of things against him.

0:54.3

Dr. Randall, thank you so much for being here.

0:56.0

And it's my pleasure, absolutely delighted. It's talk to you today.

0:59.5

I cannot say that I was surprised when I saw what happened to you. I was outraged, I was horrified,

1:06.3

I was deeply saddened for the state of the anglosphere in the world, but I was not surprised

1:12.6

that you were punished, you were fired from your position as chaplain, you were reported to a terror

1:20.2

watcher list because you sort of kind of defended the legitimacy of being a Christian in the modern

1:29.1

world. Yeah, I mean, it surprised me quite how badly people took it. I think I would be

1:37.8

fair to say, you know, I was doing my job, Christian chaplain in a Christian school and just

1:43.5

trying to present the fact that, you know, Christian beliefs do vary from some of those political

1:50.0

agenda identity politics kind of stuff and that you're allowed to believe the Christian beliefs.

1:56.6

That's all I was saying, along with where we have disagreements, respect one another.

2:02.4

And I said, respect one another about half a dozen times in the space of sort of 10 minute

2:07.6

sermon. That was the most important takeaway really. But for daring to say yes, you may believe

2:15.3

the church is teaching on marriage, you may believe that biological sex is real and sometimes

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