Plodcast Ep. 68 - Direct Actions, Militant Normals, Amentanoetos

Plodcast

Canon Press

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2018

⏱️ 13 minutes

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This week Douglas Wilson talks about people who refuse to abide by the election results. He then goes on to recommend Kurt Schlichter’s book, “Militant Normals.” Wrapping it up with a look at “Amentanoetos,” a New Testament word only used once! Happy plodding! Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ihoo62cf5kspbbj5e52wyaes2p4?t=Plodcast iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/plodcast/id1257949421?mt=2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=148592&refid=stpr RSS Feed: http://canonpress.libsyn.com/rss Get the weekly episodes in your inbox: http://canonpress.us2.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=7c049fc7f2904e30e1ac37ebf&id=db9614c891 Show notes: Direct Confrontation What it looks like when people refuse to abide by the election results. There are different levels of disagreement This doesn’t usually affect the “flyover states” or rural areas The urban areas are the ones who go big or go home Militant Normals Written by Kurt Schlichter He describes how he went from to being a “movement conservative” to a Trump fan. Great book to understand where the “Trump mania” wave is coming from. Impenitent The word “Amentanoetos” refers to a sinner who has the bit in his teeth. Rom. 2:5

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0:00.0	Yes, God, God. God don't never change.
0:17.0	Welcome to Plodcast, episode 68.
0:19.8	Thanks for coming.
0:20.6	Thanks for listening.
0:21.4	Thanks for tuning in or whatever it is people do these days.
0:25.0	Thanks for driving down the road listening to this.
0:27.0	So I want to talk today about a phenomenon that we're seeing more and more of, and that's the fact of confrontations,
0:40.7	direct action. And I'm talking about a group of people, flash mobs or groups of people
0:47.0	identifying a senator who's out to dinner with his staff at a restaurant and they cause a scene and
0:56.7	they force the senator to leave as just recently happened with Senator Cruz.
1:05.0	So you've got this kind of confrontation and people who are trying to whip people up into the taking direct action themselves.
1:17.2	And that's usually couched in the form of,
1:22.1	you need to harass them, you need to get in their face, you need to harass them you need to get in their face you need to get after them but there there are
1:27.0	occasions when it can can turn violent as when the Bernie Sanders supporter showed up at the ball field and shot all the
1:35.0	shot the congressman and representative Scalese for example and so what are we to make of this breakdown of civility?
1:47.0	Well, I think it's much more serious than a breakdown of civility.
1:51.0	What we are seeing is the first wave, the first wave, maybe the
1:56.8	second wave of what it looks like when people refuse to abide by the election results.
2:05.0	When you have a stable government, you support your guy,
2:09.2	you campaign for your guy, you vote for your guy,
2:11.9	your guy loses, you are disappointed and you go to go to bed sad and you try to cope
2:19.4	with it depending on how bad the victorious opposition was, right?
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