Woke Christianity

As you know, I've been here long enough, you know that I've always had a fascination with how what is called Christianity today, how it formed. We look at it as it is, but I've always been fascinated by how did it end up this way. I mean, if we go back 2,000 years, how do you end up with this? That fascination started when I was a teenager, and it's so much part of the way I look at things and study things. I've authored two books on just that subject. How did Christianity move from Judea with Jesus and 12 disciples and become what it is today, which in many ways is not what Jesus taught at all. And it is a very complicated process. It took 2,000 years for Catholicism and Protestantism to be what it is today. It kept morphing and changing and different things happened, different influences would come along. What I want to talk about today is something that I find fascinating because there's a change in Christianity that started about 100 years ago, maybe a little before. A lot of theologians became just disillusioned because of World War I. You know, they lost sons in World War I, or they were young enough to actually participate. And they came out and they began to look at Christianity and struggle with what is really Christianity. Out of that also came the secular humanist movement. And you've heard me talk about that quite a bit. We don't realize the impact secular humanism has had on our country. Until you realize that in the 1930s when it formed, it was formed by a group of educators that said they wanted to create a better democracy.

And one of the things you had to do was remove religion from it to make it a better democracy. The main leader of that group, John Dewey, became famous. His books today are still used to teach higher education. If you get a degree of master's or doctorate in education, psychology, sociology, you will study the whole secular humanist movement. And that becomes your way of thinking. Well, what's interesting is that because so many people have now gone through the education system, there is forming a new Christianity. I say forming. It has been forming for a long time, but over 100 years. It took Catholicism and Protestantism a couple thousand years to reach their apex. And now Protestantism and Catholicism is being dramatically changed by a brand new, completely new Christianity. This Christianity is as dangerous to the truth as the paganism and Greek philosophy that formed the Catholic Church. So what's happening now is just as dangerous as what happened then. It took a long time for that to actually form into what it is. This is happening very, very quickly. And the reason why at the beginning it was because people had printed material 100 years ago. They could read books. They could read magazines. And they started to get this information. And then once it became part of the educational system, even in Europe today, by the way, John Dewey's books are used to teach people about higher education. He's affected what happens in Europe. So, John Dewey's not a mystery guy. So we have some conspiracy theory. In the 1960s, the United States issued a stamp honoring him as the father of American education. So he's not, this is some, oh, he's making this up. No, it's the way the system has developed. But now you have these educated people that come out and say that we have to believe in God, but what do we do with the Bible? At first it was called New Age Christianity, which was basically a way of mixing even more paganism in. They became mystics. And New Age Christianity involved a lot of drugs and all kinds of things. Now it's called Woke Christianity. Now we know there's a woke political movement, right? But now there is a Christian movement called Woke Christianity. And the two of them sort of work together. I want to talk about Woke Christianity because it is so subtle. We can see it in its worst forms and not understand the subtlety of how it gets there and how influential it is. And it's actually influenced us. It's influenced us, sometimes more than we realize.

So we're going to talk about Woke Christianity. I've spent the last two years studying this because I'm fascinated with, oh, I'm watching it happen right in front of me. I couldn't have watched the Catholic Church form because it took 1,500 years to do it. I'm watching a new Christianity form that's affecting so much that nearly half—well, it's less than that now.

The amount of people who would be considered Protestant in 1975, according to Barna, is 13% of the U.S. population. They still claim to be Protestant, but they have a new religion. Catholicism has now been totally infiltrated by the thought process, especially Pope Francis. I'm going to quote something he said a little bit, the Pope that died.

And the reason I'm bringing this out is this movement is happening so fast, but we need to be aware of it. We need to be absolutely aware of it. And for many of you, you won't even know what I'm talking about. But the new theological books and what is being taught at theology schools, for the most part, is this. It's this.

I'll give you a few examples, because just a few examples I wrote down of, I've watched a lot of sermons over the last couple years, or confrontations, people arguing over what's considered traditional Christianity and won't Christianity. One was an interesting one, where it was a sermon given by a woman preacher who got up and said that the whole Adam and Eve story is true, or at least it may not be true, but it's there as an allegorical teaching. And only because of the misogynist men hasn't been misunderstood.

Eve is the hero, because Eve chose to say, I will explore both good and evil to find out what the truth is, and therefore she should be seen as the greatest leader of Christianity. Because she chose to do that, and in doing so, she created the critical thinking needed for us to explore good and evil. Some of you will say, that's ridiculous. It is not unusual. It's forming around us, and we live in our own little bubble, and sometimes we're not aware of what's happening.

So, we're going to go through some of the core understandings of won't Christianity, and where it got some of its ideas started in secular humanism. But now, Jesus has stamped on it, and when I say Jesus, most of the rest of the Bible is absolutely thrown out, and over half of Jesus' teachings are thrown out. It reminds me of Thomas Jefferson, when he wrote his version of the New Testament.

He didn't believe Jesus was divine, so all the miracles of Jesus are removed from his Bible. He actually printed a Bible. I have a copy, not original copy, it'd be worth a lot of money, but they still print it today. You can get the Jeffersonian Bible. And Thomas Jefferson decided Jesus wasn't divine, so he took out all his miracles. Well, what they do is they take out all the teachings they don't like, and they produce this abridged version of Jesus.

And so what you have, if your person takes notes, you can do this. Just draw a line, straight line that goes up and down, a vertical line, and draw a horizontal line. Vertical and horizontal. The traditional teaching of Christianity, and what we believe, is that morality is determined by the Creator God. So on that vertical line, you have God at the top and humanity at the bottom. And God teaches us what moral behavior is.

God teaches us the difference between right and wrong, because He created everything. He knows the difference. That's the traditional teaching of Christianity. What secular humanism teaches, and has now become a major, main way of actually explaining morality in woke Christianity, is that it is not horizontal, it's vertical. All moral decisions are based upon, am I loving my neighbor? See, it sounds good. Am I loving my neighbor in a way that they understand?

So what happens from that is that you accept all religions lead to the same God. You have to believe that you cannot judge anybody over anything, except a few things. You can judge murder, but not necessarily the person shouldn't go to prison, because that would be mean to them. And if you love them, you wouldn't put them in prison. They argue over that one.

The woke Christianity has a problem that secular humanism does not. In secular humanism, you remove all criminals and get them out of society. Well, Christianity takes that concept and then twists it into the words of Jesus and says, oh, well, no, maybe you shouldn't punish them, because you have to realize they had a bad upbringing and they were mistreated by other people, and that's the way they become that way.

Have you ever heard people say those kinds of things? Okay. This thought process, in a secular sense, doesn't actually go as bad as the woke Christianity sense does. Because you can get to the place where you can't judge anything that's wrong. Well, you can judge it that's wrong, but you can't punish it. Also, you have sexual freedom. A big part of this horizontal morality is sexual freedom.

As long as it's consenting adults and nobody's hurt, it's okay. So, when you talk to or watch people who talk about this, and I had a video I watched from a young woman, who was on TikTok, who is a secular humanist, but she was applying this to Christianity also. She said that the problem with this vertical morality, so this is the description now. You've probably never heard of this before, but this is how it's discussed.

In this vertical reality, God has authority and God's a victim, because we're all sinning against God. She says there's no sin against God. We sin against each other. It's all horizontal. So, when we sin, we have to go to the person, say you're sorry, and fix the problem. So, the idea that Jesus died for your sins is ridiculous, because you've never committed a sin against Jesus.

All sin is against each other, and so there is no sin against God. God's bigger than that. God's greater than that. You see, how could people believe this? It's growing. Tens and tens of millions of people believe this, and it's taken over over half of Protestantism already. So, this is where it's going. So, what did Jesus say? Okay, we're only going to read passages from Jesus, and they're going to be so common that you're going to say, well, this is boring.

He's not going in anything deep. Well, I don't have to go into anything deep. But we have to know what he said. Okay, so Matthew 22. Are you with me so far? Or you're like lost? Okay. But think about it. You've heard people say some of these things. As we go through this, you're going to hear, you've heard people say it, or talk to people that have brought this up. I have. You know, people cut my hair, you know, the barbers.

They bring up these conversations, because I'm a minister, and you hear this kind of thing. Matthew 22. Okay. Jesus taught, love your neighbor. Jesus taught, take care of the sick, the poor, the good Samaritan. These are all major teachings in world Christianity. That you visit him in a prison. If you don't visit him in a prison, then you're not a true Christian. True Christians are always on a vertical plane, always helping somebody else for their good.

And the definition of good is, what impact do I have on them? I did them no harm. I gave them a little bit of happiness. So if I gave them a little bit of happiness, I did good, therefore I'm righteous. It's actually a way of earning salvation, by the way, because eventually you don't have to repent of anything. You just got to bring happiness wherever you go.

Just a little happiness, wherever you go. Of course, the people eventually get deep into this. I've never met somebody that wasn't a truly troubled human being. So it's hard to bring happiness to everybody when you're in that depth of your own despair. So, Matthew 22, 34. So the Pharisees are upset here because Jesus had just been challenged by the Sadducees, and he came up with an answer that they could not deal with. So it says, and he silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him and saying, teacher, which is the great commandment of the law?

Now, the Jews argued over this all the time. There was actually a small group of rabbis that said it's doing the little tassels on the bottom of your clothes. And the reason why is if you have tassels on, you'll never forget the law. So that's the greatest commandment. You'll remember all the law because you're wearing tassels. So they argued this, and so they're trying to test him to create a controversy.

And Jesus says, you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind. Vertical. Which is the greatest of the laws, of the commandments? Oh, well, Jesus never gave any commandments. Well, which is the greatest? And Jesus says, it's upward. It's towards God. God is the determinant of everything. He's the one that we all look to. Of course, he says, verse 38, this is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it, you shall love your neighbor as yourself. And these two commandments hang all the law and all the prophets.

He says, you if you want to know and understand the basis of everything that God teaches, and this is the basis of everything that Jesus taught, you love God with all your heart, all your mind, and all your soul. And that determines how you treat other people. And his instructions tell us how to treat other people. So you love your neighbor through his wisdom. What this does, by the way, well, Christianity just makes every person their own God. They determine everything. Which, boy, going through life trying to be God is a blueprint for failure, right?

So they determine, and it's all based on quote-unquote love, and they define love as feelings, and you bring some goodness or happiness into this person's life.

And so you walk away and say, I did some goodness because I brought some happiness into their life. So, I'm not even going any farther than this because Jesus obviously said, everything you need to learn is vertical. God even tells us we have to love him first because he then defines how we treat others. And all you have to do, read Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and won't Christianity collapses under its own weight because it's based on Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. All you have to do is read it, but they cherry pick it. I'm just shocked at the level of how they'll cherry pick things. So, that's the first groundwork of old Christianity. It's a definition of morality based on you and you doing nice things to people. That doesn't erase the fact that we are supposed to visit the sick and the people in prison and help the poor. And, you know, that doesn't just mean among us in the church, we're to help other people, too. We're supposed to be a good example of if our neighbor's in need, we give them a hand. So, yeah, we're not denying that, but you know where I get that from? Because my selfishness is I don't want to give my neighbor a hand. I get that because of my vertical morality. God says do that, so we do it. And we want to do it. We learn to like to do it, to help others. The second point is that they still cherry-pick Jesus and they totally deny, like I said, the Old Testament and the writings of Paul. Now, the Old Testament's all allegory, so you can read it to understand that, like, Eve is the history. Eve is the greatest hero of the Old Testament. Can't you see it? She chose good and evil because she now gets to choose it. God gave her the power to choose and now she has the power God gave her. They don't explain how she got kicked out of the garden, right? That's just a man's interpretation there. So they look at the Old Testament and they really look at the God of the Old Testament as evil. He can't be real because he's evil. And you can prove that he's evil. He killed people in Sodom. He must be evil, including pregnant women, so he committed abortions. That's an interesting argument, right? God commits abortions. He killed people. That makes him evil. He told Abraham to sacrifice his son. That makes him the greatest child abuser in the history of humanity. And that's one thing they say about God. They teach that he's the greatest child abuser in history. If you follow that God, he sacrificed his own son. Who would do that? Who would take his own son and kill him? And yet that's how they interpret the death of Jesus Christ. God killed him. The Old Testament creates a family structure that is incredibly oppressive to women. But this shows they never studied the teachings of Jesus. If you read Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, you find out Jesus is always talking about the Old Testament as absolute history. Adam and Eve are real. Cain and Abel are real. Noah is real. King David is real. Abraham and Sarah are real. He talks about them. You remember this. You know this. He doesn't say according to the legends.

All those people were real and he taught his whole life that they were real. And he even talked about how the Old Testament applied to him. And he uses verses, quotes verses from the Old Testament, especially Isaiah, to say, well, this is me. So if he threw out the Old Testament, what a liar! He's a con man. I threw out the Old Testament except I'll pull this and this and say, that's about me. They make Jesus into a con man.

This is going to come up, this comes up over and over again in Woke Christianity. There's a dishonesty to it. Either you have to accept what Jesus said, or you have to accept he was a madman. I am the Son of God. I'm dying for the sins of the world. He's either crazy or he's the Son of God. He's one or the other. And they try to say, well, he wasn't crazy, he just misunderstood.

Because we're real Christians. We're the ones who really follow Jesus Christ.

So he uses the book of Genesis. It's just, you know, like I said, he quotes from Isaiah. Now they don't like the teachings of Paul, because Paul basically was just a sort of angry, bitter, Jewish dude.

One of the things they say about him is that, you know, I actually saw this. It was a debate between a street preacher, who was teaching actually many things from the Bible, and a pastor who came out of the church. He was in front of this church, and he came out, and the pastor said, why are you preaching this here?

And he said, because I believe homosexuality is wrong. He said, Jesus never talked about homosexuality. Never mentioned the word. He said, but Paul said, and he started to read from Romans, and he said, oh, wait, wait, wait, I understand. He said, at this church, we follow Jesus Christ. We are Christians.

You follow Paul. You're a Pauline. We don't, you know, Paulines are true Christians. So anything taught by Paul was wrong. And only Paulines follow him. Jesus Christ, Christians, that's a whole different group of people. They don't follow Paul, because Paul says things that they absolutely reject. Which brings us to our third point here, and that is, there is, at the core of what Christianity, absolutely, it's a need, it's a desire, it's driven, that all sexual relationships between consenting adults is okay as long as they love each other.

And there's a couple things that they absolutely deny and then don't understand the consequences. Is that we were created as sexual beings, and God said, this is how this works, and he told us how it worked. Outside of that framework, sexuality becomes emotionally, mentally, spiritually, and physically damaging. And so he said, well, it doesn't hurt anybody. It hurts the people on this vertical line. It hurts the individuals involved. He said, well, I didn't hurt anybody. You hurt yourself, and God doesn't want us to hurt ourselves. He doesn't want us to hurt ourselves.

God's love said, stop hurting yourself. Don't hurt each other and don't hurt yourself. They don't understand that. They believe all sexuality is good as long as people consent. And this is core to the whole movement. And of course, it is true, Jesus never directly talked about homosexuality. But let's look at a few things he said.

By the way, if you had an elementary understanding of Judaism in the first century, or Orthodox Judaism today, you would know they have very strict beliefs about sexuality. Jesus was walking in a world that had very strict beliefs, well, in the Jewish world. The Roman world didn't. But in the Jewish world, they had very strict beliefs based on the Old Testament. Oh, it was based on the Old Testament, so you don't have to listen to it.

Okay, well, what did Jesus say? Okay, let's remember, I'm just going to Jesus today. Matthew 19. I've studied just to the point it makes me mad. Because it is, like I said, I've never seen a movement get this big, this vast in history, that actually turns, it even turns old conservative Protestantism up and down into something different.

Something totally different. Matthew 19, verse 3, the Pharisees came to him, testing him, saying, is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason? In other words, divorce can be allowed, but it's very specific. Divorce in the Bible is a sin. Now, there can be very specific reasons why a divorce can take place, that it's not a sin to divorce.

But they're very specific. So divorce is a sin, unless it meets those criteria. So they're testing him on, because the Jewish rabbis are always arguing, what's a good reason for divorce? This, that, what happens here? So they're asking him a practical argument that almost any stance he takes, he's going to have somebody argue with him.

And he answered and said to them, have you not read that he who made them in the beginning made the male and female? Whoa, whoa, where's he go here? He goes directly to the Old Testament and says, don't you remember, God made them male and female, specifically for a purpose. And he said, for this reason, a man shall leave his father and mother, and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh? He's talking about sexuality here, okay? He says, haven't you, you know what the Bible says?

You know what God says? He's talking vertically. Vertically. So when they had no longer two but one flesh, therefore what God has joined together, let no man separate. Now they get into an argument about divorce. But notice his answer, where he goes to right away. I can remember many years ago, many, many years ago, a man in the church saying, you know, he says, my neighbors. He said, they are some of the nicest people I've ever met. And he said, they go to church every Sunday.

He said, they work at the soup kitchen. They, every week, they're involved in some project helping the poor. He said, they give. He said, I'm ashamed of my lifestyle compared to them. And I said, well, we do need to give more. And he said, well, then I found out something. Every once in a while they'd take a weekend. They'd be gone for the whole weekend. And I asked them one day, hey, where do you go on your weekends?

They said, oh, we go to California. We really helped our marriage. We belong to a club where you go, and over the weekend you swap mates. And we come home so much happier and thankful for each other. I said, he said, I looked at him and he said, what did they mean by swap mates? He says, they meant swap mates. You go into the motel room with this guy, and you go into the motel with this girl. And you spend the weekend together.

That was a long time ago before woke Christianity had formed. But that could be accepted very easily in woke Christianity as a good thing. Because on this horizontal morality, good is happening. The people have a stronger marriage. And they're with other people where they're making them happy. See how it spirals and spirals and spirals. Jesus clearly said, this is why God made us male and female.

This is why there's human sexuality, and it's for this reason. He didn't have to say anything else. He didn't have to say anything else. He summarized it all right there. Oh, but they struggle with it. Yeah, well you're making this too big a thing out of these sexual sins. Okay. Let's look at what Jesus said in Matthew 15.

And I'm only bringing this up because this is one of the five or six core issues inside woke Christianity. It is a driving force. Matthew 15, verse 19.

Jesus speaking, for out of the heart, out of the core of the human being, proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, which just means sexual sins, thefts, and false witnesses, and blasphemies. In other words, hatred towards God.

Jesus said, out of the core of who a human being is, comes all kinds of evil things.

And He mentions here sexual sins.

So the idea that sexuality is important to Jesus, it's what He said. It comes from evil inside people. Oh my, you hate. I don't hate anybody. I'm just saying this is what God said.

So you're not a true Christian. You don't hate. You don't love people.

I believe in vertical morality. Oh, okay. Well, no wonder that's just you believe in some authority from God that He wants us to choose good and evil and learn how to love each other.

And it all sounds so good.

What it does is it actually destroys any kind of critical thinking. You get to the point where you can't choose right and wrong. You can't think because what do I say is wrong? Murder. Okay. Murder is wrong. Rape is wrong. Rape is wrong. But the thing, the list you get is pretty narrow after all.

How do you determine?

There's no authority. And that's the one thing that Christianity despises. I keep saying one thing. There's all these different things together. They despise the idea that God has authority. They have authority over their own lives. Isn't that what Eve taught us?

We have authority over our own lives. We choose and we learn to love other people so we do no harm.

So to read this does people harm? Oh, you aren't a true Christian. It's what Jesus said. He's the Christ. It's what he said.

You know, John 8. John 8 is you sometimes. So let's look at John 8.

Probably been a long time since you heard her sermon where the pastor got up and taught so much falsehood. John 8.

But it is hard to underestimate this. And some of you who work in an office or someplace where you're interacting with a lot of people, you're going to hear this and you're going to hear it more and more because it's become part of society.

John 8. We know this story.

In verse 1 it talks about this at the end of the Feast of Tabernacles. So they go into their own homes. So verse 2 says, Now early in the morning he came again to the temple. This is Jesus. And all the people came to him and he sat down and taught them. So the scribes of Pharisees bring a woman to him, caught in adultery. You know this story. She's caught in adultery. And they bring her to him and they say in verse 5, Now Moses in the law commanded us that such should be stoned. But what do you say? Now you get a real interesting problem here they presented before him. First, what they're doing right now is illegal under the Old Testament law. Has to be two or more witnesses. Has to be brought before the elders. This isn't being done. This is an illegal trial. And he's not going to participate in this illegal trial.

So Jesus doesn't say anything. He squats down and he writes in the sand. You know what's left out of here is so amazing. First of all, where's the man who committed adultery? Second of all, where is her husband that would bring the accusation? And three, what did he write in the sand or in the dirt? We don't know. All we know is what he told them in verse 7. So when they continued asking him, he raised himself up and said to them, He was without sin among you. Let him throw a stone at her first. Okay, you're such a righteous bunch, killer. Here, pick up some rocks. The one of you who is the most righteous, still the first rock. And it says, they were stunned by that. They had no answer to that and they all left. So this is used to say, see, Jesus is saying, because he tells her that in verse, so they're convicted and they're consciously leaving verse 9, and they leave. Jesus says, stands up, saw Noah but the woman, and he said to her, Woman, where are those accusers of yours? Has no one condemned you? She said, No, Lord. And Jesus said to her, Therefore I do not condemn you. And that's where the story ends. And that's not where this story ends.

This isn't about Jesus saying, sin doesn't matter anymore as long as you love one another. That's not the story. First of all, he confronted the men who had brought her. They were doing an illegal trial and they were self-righteous. Okay. Killer? Well, they knew, okay, well, we can't do that. So they all left. So the first thing he did is he dealt with their sin and their self-righteousness. Then he says, well, there is no legal trial going on here, so I won't condemn you. All, see? He loved her. There's no such thing as sin. No, the rest of the sentence is, and sin no more. Change your life. You're getting some mercy here. But mercy is also part of the vertical morality. Oh, throughout the Bible it says show mercy when you can, right? Judgment, mercy, and faith. Jesus taught that. That's from one of the minor prophets. Judgment, mercy, and faith. That's part of the system of vertical morality. Sometimes just forgive each other when you can, because all of us need forgiveness. But you continue to sin, the consequences come, because there is vertical morality. So the idea that Jesus here is just sort of promoting any kind of sexuality, I mean it's such a poor reading of the Scripture, it's sort of sad. But if I cherry-picked a few things, I can make Jesus say whatever I want him to say if I'm not submitting to Jesus Christ. I can make the Bible say whatever I want it to say if I'm not submitting to God. You can cherry-pick it and make it say anything you want. I told someone one time, they said, well, what do you mean? I said, give me a half hour in a concordance and I'll prove you can be a cannibal. And I started to rattle off a few Scriptures and they said, oh, yeah, but you're taking that out of context. I didn't say I'd say it in context, I said I'd prove it the way people prove things. Even Jesus said, eat my body. Right? So you can do all kinds of things with the tricks of the Bible if you want. The fourth thing then is that human nature is basically good. This is a core belief of secular humanist and now it's a core belief of woke Christianity. People are basically good and they will sometimes say God never said Jesus because that would make him a child abuser. He didn't die for our sins. God just loves us. And so really, you know, there's wrong things we do but they actually give up the concept of sin. Pope Francis, not long before he died, said this. Now this goes so much against Catholic teachings over the last 1,500 years, it's frightening. And he announced this and it became Catholic teaching. So I'm saying this is infiltrating everything. He said, you see tragedies but you also see so many beautiful things. You see heroic mothers, heroic men, men who have hopes and dreams, women who look to the future. That gives me, he said, a lot of hope. People want to live. People forge ahead. And people are fundamentally good. We're all fundamentally good. Yes, there are some rogues and sinners but the heart itself is good.

Humanity is basically good. Now, it is true that we see good. I mean, when you look around the world, you see a lot of good. You see people doing good things. You see beautiful things. We're impressed by people who serve others, who take care of the poor. We just were impressed by those people. We want to do some of those things.

So, the point is, that's a good thing. Yes, we agree that's a good thing. That's because people are basically good. No, it's because people are capable of good. There's a huge difference than being capable of good and capable of evil. It was our anniversary this week and this just shows you how much my wife loves me. I said, we're going to take the whole day off. What do you want to do? I said, I'll tell you what, I'll take you to some antique shops. She loves going to antique shops. She said, great! She's all excited. I said, what kind of restaurant do you go to? She picked this little hole in the wall Italian restaurant. She just loves those kinds of places.

She said, I know what I want to do for you. I said, what? She said, I want to take you to the movie Nuremberg.

I thought, what a woman!

Nuremberg, I've been wanting to see because it's the closest movie made about the Nuremberg trials. Were the last Nazis, the ones that hadn't already committed suicide, the top Nazis, or had been killed in battle? They were put on international law, under international law, for trial. And of course, there was no international law, so they're making this up as they go along. But the whole story is a true story about a psychologist who spent a huge amount of time with Hermann Göring.

He went in because it was his job to determine whether they were insane and therefore should not be tried. I mean, to be this evil, you're probably insane. You can't really try them, you just put them in prison for the rest of their lives. He was shocked because they weren't insane. They're actually very logical. Actually, he liked Göring, and they built sort of a friendship.

And yet, he couldn't believe his evil. He even snuck letters out and got into Göring's family, who was hiding, and realized he had a wife and a daughter who absolutely adored him.

And Göring played him for a fool.

Although in the end, he did tell the story. I'm not saying, go see this. They do show, they showed, they set up the trial exactly like it was. It's amazing. I mean, it looks exactly like the real pictures. And they showed them an hour of film taking at different concentration camps. They showed three minutes in the movie, and you almost can't sit there.

And in the end, he realizes he's not insane. He logically has accepted evil as a means to an end.

And it creates mental illness in the psychologist for the rest of his life.

He started to believe human nature was basically good. They don't say that, but you can see it anymore. And then he realized, no, we're all capable. And he spent the rest of his life, he wrote a book, and he just would travel on speaking about how any government could become just like them. Because that evil was inside of us, and nobody would listen to him. He became hated in the United States.

Our country could end up just like that. Any country could end up just like that. Because there's an evil in us, and we're not insane. He saw it. He got a glimpse into it.

And he didn't understand that at that time most churches taught that. They don't anymore. There is an evil in every one of us. We have a corrupt nature. But no, it's basically good. And what happens in this, because of this, they end up denying Satan. They don't believe in Satan. How can you believe in a Satan? We're all basically good. Well, where did evil come from?

I don't know. Fortunately, Eve got it right. Now, not all the Woe people believe that Eve is the hero of the story. But she is the hero of the story with many of the women pastors in the movement. So what we end up with then, love is defined as accepting all religions as the same path to God. Oprah Winfrey became famous for that 25 years ago.

Influenced millions of people to believe that. All religions lead to the same God. It can't be just one. John 6. Jesus is about to take us to another crossroads that we must decide which road we're going to take. John 6 and verse 44. No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up the last day. No one can come to me unless the Father draws him.

In verse 45 he says, as written in the prophets, they shall be taught by God. Therefore everyone who was heard and learned from the Father comes to me. Oh, this is all vertical. Notice this. It's all vertical. Not that anyone has seen the Father except he who came from the Father. He has seen the Father. Now he claims that he pre-existed. Yeah, it's either true or not true. He says, most assuredly I say to you, he who believes in me has everlasting life.

He goes on through here and says over and over again that I came from God, and then you'll see this said by him throughout Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. You'll see his disciples teach the only way to God is through Jesus Christ. There is no other way. So either Jesus is wrong. We're back to another crossroad. Jesus didn't know who he was.

Well, then he's pretty much... I mean, what if someone was out here standing out here in front of, you know, on the highway out here saying, I'm the only one ever sent by God and I'm here and salvation comes through me and you can't even know the Father except through me? We would drive by, right? We'd say, that person's nuts. Either he's insane or he is who he says he is.

If you accept he is who he says he is, then you have to believe what he teaches. You can't cherry pick it. So, well, Christianity is actually anti-Jesus. It's actually anti-Jesus. It's just a pretend thing. It's a way of feeling like I'm a good Christian, but it's anti-Jesus. Because it eventually leads to the belief that Jesus did not die for your sins. That's where it ends up. It ends up that you don't need a savior for your sins because you're basically good.

You just need to learn to treat each other better and God loves you for that. And Jesus loves you for that. And there isn't a whole lot about salvation. There isn't a whole lot about eternity that I can find that most of them teach. Some of them do. There was one famous, he died a few years ago, leader in the woke movement. He was involved in it 30-40 years ago.

He talked about this is how you get to heaven. And this is why there will be people from all religions in heaven because they vertically were good. They acted nice to everybody. They didn't condemn anybody at all. They accepted people the way they were. And therefore, they'll all be there.

Hindus, Muslims, Christians, you know. All together, standing before God, accepted God, saying, you all did really good. You did well. You're here because you loved everybody. But they didn't love God. They didn't love God. And the first great commandment is to love God. It's vertical. There's a lot I could talk about this. I just want to give you a few basic premises of woke Christianity. And if you start looking, you're going to see them. They're all there. And they're actually driving a political movement a little bit. Because that political movement is driven more by secular humanism. But there's people that feel like they have to be Christians in there.

So they've merged the two into a...you know. That's why I don't talk about political movements. I talk about spiritual movements. And this is a spiritual movement. And it is frightening. It is the greatest danger to the true Biblical teachings since the creation of the Catholic Church.

And I don't know where it's going to go. I know there are traditional Christians trying to stop it. And it's being overwhelmed. Just slowly but surely overwhelmed. And we have to make sure that that doesn't happen in our body where God is working in us. And that doesn't mean you go out and hate the people that believe it. We're not allowed to do that. But we can't accept it. And we have to sometimes make a stand against it. We have to sometimes make a stand against it. So, next time I won't teach you so much heresy.

But I thought we really need to understand what's happening in our society. And it, fundamentally, within a period of time, is going to be absolutely destructive on this country.