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The American Mind

God the Father | The Roundtable Ep. 96

The American Mind

The Claremont Institute

Philosophy, News, Society & Culture

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

The editors open the show with a look at Thanksgiving proclamation excerpts by several presidents, from George Washington to Obama. This provokes meditations on fatherhood, God, and the meaning of gratitude. Then: Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of all charges, but dozens are injured and several are dead in a terror attack in Waukesha. Our editors analyze the situation.

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0:00.0

coming up on this episode of The Round Table.

0:03.0

In times of a Christian, where do you turn?

0:04.8

You know, you turn to the fathers.

0:06.8

You turn to your forefathers as much as you turn to God.

0:09.4

And if you find yourself in a situation

0:12.1

politically and culturally and psychologically

0:14.0

where you are severed,

0:15.8

where your connection to your forefathers

0:17.5

and to your literal fathers has been,

0:19.0

has been severed and broken off,

0:21.2

then that affliction is one that you seek to resolve

0:24.0

in a much different way.

0:25.3

And you end up throwing yourselves

0:26.9

at the feet of a father's surrogate

0:28.7

all the wild, resenting the fact that you even,

0:31.6

you know, that you no longer have context with your fathers.

0:33.9

This is primal psychological stuff

0:35.4

and it's gone back for thousands of years,

0:37.3

but we're seeing it to vengeance right now

0:39.0

that the same people who are so adamant

0:42.2

that America is a nation of immigrants,

0:43.8

you know, in fact, you know,

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