00:00We are called to be righteous, but not self-righteous.
00:04And we're also called, and I have to say this before opening it up to your hostile questions,
00:08we should also be very on guard against people who try to leverage the word of God,
00:17the words of Jesus, for political ends.
00:21That is one, that is a dangerous thing to do.
00:25I don't want to do that.
00:27And I attempt every time, this is all sort of new to me,
00:31I'm so obviously not a great Christian that it's not like a lot of people are going to be like,
00:34oh, I want to be like him.
00:37But there are people, particularly Christian ministers, I have noticed,
00:42who are preaching a political message and pretending that it's the gospel.
00:51So let me just say, and I think my theology is right, I'm hardly a theologian,
00:55God is not on any country's side.
01:01Certain countries can decide to be on God's side, and that is true for people too.
01:07Okay?
01:09God doesn't have a partisan affiliation, he doesn't have a nationality,
01:14and if someone is telling you otherwise, that is just not true.
01:17It is not true.
01:18And I would also call your attention to the very obvious prohibitions in the New Testament
01:24against killing the innocent.
01:27We are not, as Christians, allowed to kill the innocent.
01:31Period.
01:33We are not.
01:34And you see elaborate arguments on behalf of doing so, or ignoring it,
01:40oh, that always happens in war.
01:42Well, you're right, one of the reasons I'm not that into wars.
01:44But when it does happen, unavoidably, we have to say that's wrong.
01:51We have to say that.
01:52We have to acknowledge that was wrong.
01:55And I'm sorry for the extent to which I participated in it.
01:58Forgive me.
01:59Because killing people who committed no crime is immoral.
02:04It will always be immoral.
02:06And people who do it will be punished for it.
02:07And nations that endorse it will be punished for it.
02:11That's a fact.
02:12And you are seeing now, you are seeing now a very intense effort to convince you otherwise.
02:21Oh, it's fine.
02:22They deserved it.
02:23Really, did their children deserve it?
02:26If a man commits a crime, do we kill his kids?
02:29I don't care if it's in Minneapolis or Gaza City.
02:32No, we don't.
02:34And if we do accidentally, we say, I am so sorry that we murdered someone who did nothing wrong.
02:38Because it is murder.
02:39And to see Christian pastors make excuses for that is one of the most—and that's not a partisan question.
02:48That is not a political question.
02:50That is the only question that matters.
02:52Do we have the right to murder people?
02:56And the resounding answer that Christianity provides us is no.
03:01I don't get into the whole debate, you know, dispensationalist, you know, or whatever, replacement—I'm an Episcopalian, okay?
03:13I don't enter these debates, or was.
03:17My theology is super simple.
03:19I like the Beatitudes.
03:20Read them yesterday.
03:21I actually think—was it Michael reading them—some of them here?
03:25I think any person, any honest person would say it's the essence of the Christian faith.
03:30And killing tens of thousands of children and then making excuses for it on behalf of a foreign government is not in there.
03:38It's antithetical to that.
03:39Sorry, it doesn't make me a hater.
03:43It makes me the opponent of hate.
03:47So now that I've alienated most in the crowd, with my staunch position—
03:51You're a man who interacts with a French world with your father.
03:56And with me, now I tell you, I believe I say not, but it does not hurt this anymore.
04:00And when I'm in there, when you talk about whether I need to be the Holy Spirit,
04:01I might answer that.
04:02So find A, so imagine that that you have Ryan said you're that healthy word.
04:05Please go for it.
04:06If I say you think about it.
04:07You can ask him to save your impression or sorry yourself,
04:10if I say you can stop you doing your control,
04:11and explain whatever order again,
04:13why do you think that it's rather difficult for you to point in it?
04:16Let me tell you about your gripes of Hamish form.
04:18If you have a person, you'll crouch and دurpe them,
