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I just picked up this book, The Existence and Attributes of God, by Stephen Charnock, written in the 1600s by this wonderful Puritan preacher.

I'm like just a couple pages then.

But I got a lot of underlines already.

And I'll just start off with this line.

When men deny the God of purity,

they must be polluted in soul and body and grow brutish in their actions.

When the sense of religion is shaken off,

all kinds of wickedness are eagerly rushed into,

whereby they become, they become as loathsome to God as putrified carcasses are to men. He didn't

hold back. Didn't all back. There's a section about this scripture right here.

Psalm 141, the fool has said in his heart, there is no God.

It's a fool, it's what a fool says.

They are corrupt.

They have done abominable works.

There is none who does good.

That's my intro to any topic we could possibly imagine in the realm of politics.

It's like spin around, put a blindfold on, spin around, throw a dart in any direction.

We're like, great, we'll go that way, go anywhere we want. Let's go this way. New York Post has a

story about the guy who is a millimeter away from murdering the president in Butler,

Pennsylvania. And it's about how the FBI committed a live omission, saying, oh, we know

nothing about this guy's political motivations from online. We have no social media accounts that,

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