We're going to discuss this book and I have my dad and my brother so my dad is

Scott Harris and he's a pastor graduated from Master's Seminary and my brother is a school teacher in Tennessee.

One of the things that I wanted to bring you into

is the discussions growing up my family would have

around the kitchen table usually but we would talk about things that we were reading some sometimes things I would read in school

books like this I like ideas of consequences are really, I think, good for that because there's

just a lot of material in it that's really thought-provoking.

In fact, we could probably spend days and days talking about some of the things Richard Weaver brings up.

And the reason I want to do this is because it's a lot different than what I've been doing on the

podcast, which is talking about evangelical elites and where they're messing up sometimes and

social justice in particular that issue and it can be really discouraging I

think for a lot of people who everywhere they turn it's bad there's problems there and we're going to talk

about some bad things again today but I wanted to at least put positive resources in your hands

instead of doing a lot of book reviews on here's another bad book and let's talk about how bad this book is I wanted to start giving you

Authors and books that are helpful in certain ways and this is a book that I found helpful and people have often asked me

how I started the podcast where I got my understanding of the issues that I'm critiquing and

it's hard for me to answer that because there's a whole bunch of authors and influences but Richard Weaver is definitely one of them. Weaver is considered a conservative and I want to read for you a quote from him from a work that he did called

Life Without Prejudice. He says this, it is my contention that a conservative is a

realist. He that a conservative is a realist.

He believes that there is a structure of reality independent of his own desire.

He believes that there is a creation which was before him, which exists now, not just by his sufferance and which will be here

after he's gone.

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