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The Eric Metaxas Show

John Zmirak

The Eric Metaxas Show

Metaxas Media

Religion & Spirituality

4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

John Zmirak feels we can learn a lot from President Trump's critics and enemies and shares his insights; plus, what may have been behind Mike Pence's reluctance to look into Election Day fraud?

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0:00.0

Folks, welcome back. This is hour two. Don't be confused. It always comes after hour one.

0:18.8

I'm talking to John Zmirak, and we are, we're talking about a lot of things,

0:23.6

but we're talking about freedoms and history. And I was saying in hour one, John, I think it is

0:31.6

important for us as patriots in America to say that we know that sincere Christian faith is at the heart of why we as a

0:45.3

nation were able to have virtue and to have the ability to hold things in common, ideas in common that enabled us to be free.

0:57.0

But we also want to say that I think there are plenty of people out there, you know, good pagans, right, who believe in honor and duty.

1:05.0

They don't even know why, and sometimes you don't need to know why.

1:08.0

You know, when you die for your buddy on the battlefield,

1:11.3

you just have an innate sense. It's the right thing to do. And I think a lot of times Christians

1:16.1

denigrate that, and I think we ought not to. We ought to understand there are virtues that can be

1:22.2

that can be exhibited and believed in and lived out, even with people who don't have the head

1:27.2

knowledge of why that would be.

1:28.9

I would agree, but I think one thing that changed is, once you've been exposed to Christianity

1:36.2

and rejected it for secularism, not for Judaism or another real religion, but for secularism,

1:43.0

for the kind of woke culture we have now,

1:45.7

once you've been exposed and you don't have the innocence of the pagan.

1:50.7

You can't just say, I will fight for my tribe because then in the back of your head,

1:55.2

you will be hearing.

1:55.9

But what about the heteronormative, oppressive patriarchal structures?

1:59.6

No, no, no, no.

2:00.1

I agree with you.

2:01.1

In other words, the people who have gone woke,

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