James Talarico (8:17)

In the Gospel of Thomas, which was later omitted from the Bible by church

Michael Knowles (8:23)

officials,

James Talarico (8:26)

the Gospel of Thomas quotes Jesus as saying, when you make the male and female one and the same, when the male is not male, when the female is not female, then you will enter the kingdom of God.

Michael Knowles (8:42)

I don't know what kind of heretical nonsense organization this guy's preaching at. It looks like the median age There is about 152, which checks out, and there are about seven people in the audience. But Talarico comes up, has the audacity, audacity at a place that calls itself Christian to preach about the heretical Gospel of Thomas, which for those of you who are not familiar, is a Gnostic text. It's not a Christian text, it's a Gnostic text. Gnosticism was one. It was actually a collection of ancient heresies that continues to the modern day. And I've discussed the transgender ideology itself as a kind of nature Gnostic heresy. Gnostic coming from gnosis, meaning secret knowledge. This idea that our bodies have really nothing to do with who we are. So much of Gnosticism says that the real world as we perceive it is a lie, it's an illusion, and the truth is hidden. And you need to be initiated into the secret knowledge to know about it. And I guess part of the secret knowledge is that women need to grow penises to go to heaven. That's an actual claim from the Gospel of Thomas. I'll put. Look, listen to it in its own words. This is according to this text that this guy is citing in a church to defend his weird views of transgenderism. Simon Peter said to them, let Mary leave us, for women are not worthy of life. Jesus said, I myself shall lead her in order to make her male so that she too may become a living spirit resembling you males. For every woman who makes herself male will enter the kingdom of heaven. Now, putting aside for a moment the tricky distinction between spirit and body that is entailed in going to heaven, what is the difference between a man and a woman. The distinction between a man and a woman is principally expressed by. Distinguished by your sexual organs. And I remember this years and years ago. This is probably 15 years ago, 20 years ago. One of my smartest friends, I was talking to him and he mentioned this crazy ancient heresy. And I said, what's the heresy? He goes, oh, yeah, there's this crazy ancient heresy that women need to grow penises to go to heaven. I said, you gotta be kidding me. That's not real. I don't believe that that's real. Sure enough, I look it up and it's this book, the Heretical Gospel of Thomas. Now, I love. Talarico says the Gospel of Thomas was actually taken out of the Bible. Hold on, Stop there. Fact check. It was not taken out of the Bible. It was never in the Bible. Unlike the Gospels, which were written within living memory of the resurrection. Unlike early Christian books, some of which ended up in the Bible in the canon, some of which were not in the canon, but were still considered helpful, useful, worthy of belief. Like the Didache from the first century. This thing that he's citing is from much, much later. So already you have in the third century, right? When this book appears, you have very serious Christian thinkers. Fathers of the Church immediately recognize this thing as nonsense. That includes Hippolytus, that includes Origen, that includes Eusebius, later on, that includes Cyril of Jerusalem and the Libs and the New Agers and the weirdos and just the anti. Christians generally in recent decades have tried to resurrect this kooky book that comes from much later, from a sect that was opposed to Christianity, that was immediately recognized as a heresy and condemned as such. And now this guy. All of that to say this guy, the moderate, the new fresh face of the Democrat party, Beto O' Rourke 2.0. This guy, look, he's not one of these radicals. He's the good polished Christian candidate who's gonna tell the Democrats that you're actually really good Christians. You know, to be a good Christian, you need to support creepy sex stuff and abortion. That this guy is gonna quote this text and in his campaign of normalcy, he is going to go viral for making the claim that women need penises to go to heaven. This is the kind of freak weirdo that you're dealing with in the Texas Senate race. This is their nominee, and you need to remind them of that a lot before the election. However, there's one more clip I wanna get to before we move on from Mr. Tallarico. Before we do that, though, I want to tell you about Done with debt. Go to donewithdebt.com the numbers don't lie. Financial stress in this country is through the roof. People are maxed out. Credit cards are choking them. Prices keep climbing while paychecks don't. This is not just the poor anymore. The middle class, the people who built this country, are hitting the wall too. This is not only about reckless spending or bad decisions. It's also about everyday Americans running out of options because the system seems stacked against them. If debt is crushing you, you are not alone. 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However, only DailyWire plus members were able to ask questions of our panel. I've mentioned before, there seem to be three big opinions on the war in Iran and they don't even necessarily cut left right. There's some people on the right and some people on the left who hold all of these views. But the one is the war in Iran is terrible and we never should do it and we should stop intervening in the Middle east, period. The other view is we need to be involved in lots of these conflicts, maybe all of these conflicts. Then there's my view in the middle, which is this is Trump's policy that he's promised us for 10 years. And whether or not it's a good idea really hinges on facts on the ground, and we're gonna try to figure out those facts anyway. We had a broad array of opinions last night. Not just cause all the people live at the bar, not just cuz of all you live in the audience, but we had Luke Beasley, the lib Returning and Dan Crenshaw, which I think was his first appearance since that major, major upset where he lost the primary for his seat down in Texas. So anyway, it was a wild night. We joked at the top, said we had Luke Beasley back because he was perfectly adequate last time and Dan probably could use a drink. That was a really shocking result that came out of that race. So anyway, you gotta go check it out. Only on Daily Wire. Plus, before we move on from Talarico, here's another one. Beyond his weird creepy sex stuff, I mean, this guy taking trans to the extreme with women need penises to go to heaven. Quoting the heretical gospel of Thomas. He also had this to say about the American flag.

James Talarico (15:47)

I often think when reclaiming symbols, I think about the American flag. I think the Confederate flag is a symbol of treason and terrorism. But the American flag is such a complicated symbol for most of us and in many ways, like Jesus, like the cross, it's been co opted and in some ways its true meaning has been betrayed.

Michael Knowles (16:09)

So the moderate, the fresh new face of the Democrat party says that the American flag is a complicated symbol and it's a symbol of betrayal. Now, not just that, not only, not only these guys, man. Every time the Republican Party just drives me crazy and I just want to just shake them. Every time the Republican Party demonstrates that they clutch defeat from the jaws of victory and they screw their own prospects up as much as possible, I look over at the Democrats and I feel better because you have the fresh new face, the moderate, normal guy of the Democrat party running against the American flag. And not just the American flag, also the cross of Christ. He thinks it's a good idea, optics wise, symbols wise. He thinks it's a good idea to run, to say the American flag is a complicated symbol of betrayal. And by the way, so is the holy cross of Christ. That's the most moderate Democrat. That's the most normal Democrat running. I know the Dems are supposed to win the midterms, they probably will. But if this is the best they got, I like our chances. Now, all of that to say and I've just broken my own advice, guys, we have to save some Talarico clips for November. These things are going all the way around the Internet. They are just. There's a tweet for everything. With Talarico, there's a clip for everything. Every time you think you've heard him say the craziest thing he could possibly say, he says something twice as crazy. But guys, slow your roll. Me too. This is. I'm talking to myself. It's like instead of looking at you right now, it's like I'm looking in the mirror. So stop it. Get a hold of yourself. Stop sharing all these clips. We want them to be fresh for November. Don't make the people calloused and bored by these clips and just hold them. It's just so hard. The guy speaking of Dan Crenshaw, the guy who upset Crenshaw and beat him in that primary, Steve Toth, he just did an interview on the Charlie Kirk show in which he said Talarico is not just eccentric or weird or clueless. The man is evil.

Steve Toth (18:34)

When I put forth legislation to secure our elections, it gets killed by the Democrats. When I put forth legislation to end the social transition of children, it gets killed by the Democrats. It's evil. Telorico is part of that group. I served with James Talarico from 2019 through to today. This guy is as evil as they come. There is a darkness to this man's life that if you doubt that there's a wickedness and an evil and a demonic presence in the world, you only have to look at James Talarico. He is an awful, awful person. Awful person.

Michael Knowles (19:15)

I don't know Talarico personally, but based on only what I have seen of him, I would have to agree. I would have to agree. And you know me, you know me. I'm not one of these guys who's always just calling everyone evil and lambasting my opponents with all sorts of adjectives and four letter words. I don't do that. I'd probably get more clicks if I did that. That's not my style. And yet I think Steve Toth is being precise here. This is pretty evil stuff that Talarico's doing. It reminds me, this is quote from St. Andrew Wooters who was. He was a priest and he was a really controversial priest. Not for his ideas, for his behavior. You know, he was just a ruffian. He was just a rapscallion. He was just, you know, he had a bad reputation. I think he was punished. He was censured by the ecclesiastical authorities and eventually this guy was persecuted. This was during some of the religious wars. He was persecuted by the Calvinists and his family. Famous non denial. His famous statement on his persecution before he was killed, before he refused to renounce Catholicism, he said, fornicator. I always was heretic. Never. It's just this great statement. It's a guy to say, look, I've committed sins of the flesh. I'm a weak man. I've done all sorts of bad things. I'm a miserable sinner in need of grace and mercy. But I ain't gonna be a heretic. It would be much worse to be a heretic is the idea. And with Talarico, I don't know his personal life. Some people have called him the gay Pete Buttigieg. I don't know, though. I don't know what his personal life is. I don't know if he's married. He's not married. I don't know. I wanna know. It doesn't interest me. But I do know he's a heretic. A pretty vile heretic to try to twist the words of our Lord, to defend the slaughter of innocent little babies, to defend the sexual abuse of children by grooming them to be castrated and mutilated and pretend to be the opposite sex. This is sick stuff. This is deeply sacrilegious, deeply satanic stuff in a way. If this guy were an adulterer or a drunk or a glutton or a drug addict or something, I'd feel much better about him. The fact that he is so vile, a heretic that he would so twist the faith to these satanic purposes makes him a lot worse. So I have to not knowing him, I kind of have to agree with Steve Toth here. Okay, enough. I'm gonna finally listen to my own advice. Enough about Talarico. There's one more race that we have to get to in Texas before we get to whether or not we're in World War 3 with Iran firing on a NATO country. First though, I want to tell you about stash. Go to get.stash.com knowles K N A W L E S. You do not need to overhaul your life to start investing. Just automate it. With Stash, your new year money goals can quietly run in the background while you focus on everything else. Stash is not just another investing app. It's a registered investment advisor that combines automated investing with expert personalized guidance so you don't have to worry about gambling or figuring it out on your own. Stash is simple, smart and stress free. Choose from personalized investments. Let Stash's award winning smart portfolio do the work for you. Or pick a combo of both. Stash is there to guide you every step of the way. Join over 1,000,000 Active Stash subscribers and finally, let your money work as hard as you do. Do not let your money sit around. Put it to work with stash. Go to get.stash.comknowles k w l e s to see how you can receive $25 toward your first stock purchase and to view important disclosures, I.e. get.stash.com knowles get.stash.com Knowles paid non client endorsement not a guarantee nor representative of all clients. Smart portfolios or discretionary managed accounts and subject to additional fees. See the Advisory Agreement Deposit Account Agreement for details. Investment Advisory Services offered by Stash Investments LLC and SEC Registered Investment Advisor. Investing involves risk okay, I'm going to break my rule again. One more supercut. This is from Colin Rugg of James Talarico.

James Talarico (23:24)

Do you know any undocumented immigrants?

Michael Knowles (23:26)

No, I do not.

James Talarico (23:27)

When I was a teacher on the west side of San Antonio, I taught a lot of students who were undocumented and I don't want to stereotype, but those students tended to be the most patriotic, the hardest working students that I had in the classroom. And again, I haven't stated this enough to to say this definitively, but there are interpretations of certain passages from the Torah where some folks will even say that there is a. There is some subtle instructions for how to perform an abortion in the ancient world. Certain things to drink, things like that. Before we go further, I want to acknowledge that our trans community needs abortion care too. Defending trans Texans is something we have to do every day at the state capitol. And you better believe I'll be giving sermons on that too. I want us all to be aware of is that that modern science obviously recognizes that there are many more than two biological sexes. In fact there are six is both masculine and feminine and everything in between. God is non binary. So this, this idea that to be a Christian means you have to be anti gay and anti abortion. There really is no historical, theological, biblical basis for that opinion.

Michael Knowles (24:41)

Okay, all right, all right, all right, I'm done. I'm done. Says illegal aliens are more patriotic than Americans. He already told you that. The American flag is a complicated symbol of betrayal, as is the cross of Christ. God wants you to kill babies. We need trans kids. God might be trans he suggests, or non binary or what? I don't even want to quote him saying that. It's so sacrilegious and icky I don't even want the words in my mouth. Republicans are gonna have a good time in this race. Now what about the Republican race I mentioned yesterday there was a three way race. Technically it was between John Cornyn, who has been a senator for a very long time, Republican Ken Paxton, who's the Attorney General of Texas who wants to unseat Cornyn, Congressman Wesley Hunt who came in third way behind. So he's out. It goes to a runoff between Paxton and Cornyn. Trump comes in, he says, I want one of you guys to drop out because John Cornyn's already spent $70 million in this race just to get to the primary, through the primary, into the runoff. That's not counting the general election. And so I don't want you guys running against each other. The tea leaves seem to suggest that Trump is gonna endorse Cornyn, which makes sense. Cornyn is a long term incumbent, so that's the safe option to go with, even though Paxton seems to be the more MAGA candidate, definitely more of a favorite of the base. And now Paxton is coming and saying he will not withdraw even if Trump endorses Cornyn for reelection. So a lot of eyes on Texas here. Lot going on in Texas where you have Dan Crenshaw, who's a, what, three term incumbent, three, four term incumbent gets thrown out in his primary. Really unexpected. You now have this case where the White House might be running against the MAGA candidate for the Senate seat. And you've got a Senate candidate who I think is a complete nut, but he is a silver tongue devil who might give whoever the nominee is a run for his money. We can't lose Texas, guys. Get it together, get it together. Work it out in the back room, then pull all those Talarico clips. But very thorny issue here in Texas. Now there are bigger problems for Trump, namely that we might enter into a third world war depending on what happens in Iran. As I've said from the beginning, I was skeptical of the Iran war. If I had been on the National Security Council, I probably would have made arguments against it based on public information. Obviously, I don't have private information. However, Trump's got a lot of credibility on this. Trump has the best foreign policy of anyone in my lifetime. I let the man cook. However, the war is escalating. Iran shot a missile at Turkey. Why is this interesting? Not only because they're two Muslim countries, not only because Erdogan in Turkey has said that if the war in Iran goes on much longer, he's going to step in to defend Muslims, but because Turkey is a NATO ally. Turkey's been a NATO ally since 1953. Israel is an ally. Israel's not in NATO. Thank goodness Israel's not in NATO, because then every time a rocket hit into Israel, it would bring in the 32 member alliance and you'd be in a major, major war every single time someone attacked Israel, which is like, every 36 hours. So Israel's not a NATO ally. Turkey is. Even though we don't always get along with Turkey, Turkey is. This is very, very serious. According to Article 5 of NATO, the collective security, all 32 members should be coming to Turkey's defense. Now. NATO shot down the missile, so the missile didn't really hit Turkey. Nevertheless, this could spin seriously out of control. Now, before everyone panics, don't forget President Trump laid out a timeline here. His timeline is four or five weeks, which is well within his rights according to the War Powers Act. You're gonna hear some people on the left and even on the right say that Trump has no right to conduct this war because the war wasn't declared. Congress, that is complete nonsense. According to the War Powers act, among other laws and rules, since 1973, the President has the right to conduct these kinds of military operations for 60 days at least, because then some people will tell you, well, he only has 60 days. Even that's not true, because at 60 days, he can then unilaterally inform Congress that it has to go longer. He can extend it by 50%. So then he gets 90 days. But even that's not the whole story, because the two most recent Democrat presidents, Democrat presidents, mind you, blew way past that limit from the War Powers Act. Barack Obama waged war on Libya for seven months without declaring a war. Joe Biden struck the Houthis over a period of 12 months without declaring a war. So what Trump is doing is completely legal, completely within his powers as president. And I'll point out, as everyone starts freaking out, oh, no, they sunk this oil ship or they attacked this Saudi Aramco facility, this, that or the other thing. Trump did not say this was going to be over in 88 minutes. It's like Venezuela in some respects, but obviously not in the scope and the duration. Trump said it's going to take four or five weeks. I will start to panic at week six. Four or five weeks. Thus far, everything that we have seen in this war, War is hell. But everything we've seen in it has exceeded expectations. So we let him cook. And hopefully NATO doesn't get dragged into a full scale war with 32 members fighting. Okay, last point on Iran. Apparently the Kurds, our old pals, the Kurds, are now entering as a ground force in Iran. You know, the Kurds occupy territory that crosses state borders. So they occupy a lot of territory in Iraq, a little bit in Iran, some territory in Turkey, actually, which might create a problem with Turkey, but, you know, the Kurds have helped us out in plenty of wars in Iraq, fighting ISIS elsewhere. And it looks like we're relying on the Kurds again. Hundreds of Kurdish fighters launch a ground offensive in Iran. Officials deny reports. You know, I think the United States is denying that we're heavily involved in sending the Kurds in. But, you know, we've done it before. And this also tells you what we talked about at the top of the show, that this is not just some minor operation. This is not just Trump dropping the Moab. He's gonna keep dialing up the pressure. He's gonna kill the Supreme Leader. Sure. Well, first he's gonna build up his fleet in the Persian Gulf. The Arabian Gulf we call it. First he's gonna build. Pretty soon it'll be the Gulf of America too. We got the one in the Western Hemisphere, then we got the other one. First he builds up the fleet. That doesn't work. This was after he struck the nuclear sites. That didn't work. Then he kills the Ayatollah, then he kills the next guy, then he keeps pounding. Then what? Then he's gonna send in or he's going to permit these ground troops to come in. Not American troops, Kurdish troops. Right out of the old playbook. He's gonna keep dialing this up. This is a longer term plan. And if you react to the news that comes out every single hour, I think you're gonna miss the forest for the trees. Just as many people were confused on this operation, cuz they weren't viewing it from within the context of Trump's campaign promises. They said this is a violation, a betrayal of Trump's campaign promises. Trump has been talking about doing this for 10 years consistently, and quite recently, no one paying attention to what Trump was actually saying. Not what they were projecting onto Trump, but what Trump was actually saying. No one was surprised by this. But furthermore, when you zoom out, you realize the Iran operation is part and parcel of US grand strategy that you can trace back to 1979. Really, you could trace it back to 1953, when we went in and led a coup and ousted Mossaddag in Iran and consolidated power for the Shah. So when you zoom out, the picture gets a little bit clearer. It's kind of like looking at an impressionist painting. If you're too close to the canvas, it's just all kind of blurry dots. You have to pull out a little bit to see the picture here and whether you agree with what Trump is doing or not, whether you understand what Trump is doing or not. But even if you do understand it, a reasonable mind could disagree. Nevertheless, he is doing something that is quite well thought out. Okay, speaking of violence, a BLM chapter founder has just gone viral for strangling his female colleague. Do we have that video? Really awful. She's given it to him pretty good, actually. Obviously, one really hates to see any violence against women, but this guy's a. This guy's a. I mean, he's a complete dirtbag, but he's kind of a wimp. This woman gets the better of him. I don't know what the deal. This is like a Marvel movie. This is. You know, it's. Look at him. She takes him down twice. It's crazy. The only two places where women can physically overpower men are Marvel movies and BLM offices, apparently. Man, insult to injury. It's kind of like you go into Iran and you kill the ayatollah and you kill the new guy's dad, and then you make fun of him for having Ed. It's kind of like this. You look at this, you say, this head of the BLM chapter is a complete degenerate dirtbag. He should be in prison. Also, he's a huge wuss. That's crazy. He just got beat up by this lady. What's the story? The story is that Clyde McLemore, who's the executive director of BLM in Lake County, Illinois, got into this physical altercation with Naisha Hill. And it's like it was staged. I mean, it's underneath the BLM banner. And this is all according to reporting. I'm not. Allegedly. Allegedly. Reportedly. Reportedly, the pair clashed after Hill walked into the office and demanded money from this guy for cigarettes. She goes, you couldn't make this up. A right winger. If he turned this script into Hollywood, Hollywood would say it's too on the nose. She goes in to the BLM office, supposed to be for social justice and defending the rights of oppressed beleaguered black people. She goes in, she goes, yeah, give me some of that good BLM money. I wanna go buy some menthol. Want to go buy some unfiltered Newports? And he says, yourself, woman. I don't know if he said. I'm not sure. He sounded like Red Fox. But he says, no, he doesn't want to give her the money. And she says, this is crazy. You've been blowing all the BLM money. Also not on social justice or the poor, oppressed black men. You've been blowing the BLM money on gambling. And then they start punching each other. According to this woman's report to the cops. I told him, quote, it's not fair that I come here and I work and you running around taking care of other things that don't got nothing to do with black lives matter. With Black Lives matter money. I'm the one that make this joint work. She makes it work. And you're running around trying to spend the money on things don't have anything to do with blm. At least I want to go buy cigarettes. Plenty of black people smoke cigarettes. Come on. I make it work. I work around here. Now, I guess we'd have to define what work is. What is the work that is being done here? What work does BLM do? Even the national leaders and founders of BLM spent the money buying themselves beautiful homes in Southern California. What is work here? The work is MAU Mauing the flat catchers. That's what the work is. The work is going out in the streets, agitating rioting, sometimes killing people, sometimes looting stores, stealing sneakers and electronics, and more to the point, shaking down corporations and the government for money so you can go buy cigarettes and gamble. And in this case, the noble use of money. The woman making this noble stand to divert the BLM money to good is saying that the good we will divert it to is to buying me cigarettes. This is Tom Wolf's story. MAU Mauing the flat catchers. This is a criminal organization, as it always was. BLM serves a political purpose for the left in that it destabilizes our political order, gives them an advantage. But the day to day of BLM is petty street crime. There is no work here. And then cherry on top, piece de resistance. The two of these people were left with lip injuries after they were punching each other, but neither of them wanted to press charges. Why? Well, the lady told officers she didn't want to see a black man in jail. Mitt Romney marched with these people. Remember that. Your friends, all your middle class suburban bourgeois friends posted the square to social media to stand with these people. Some of them might have given him money so that they could go have fist fights, men and women, to determine whether they would spend the money on gambling or cigarettes when the real genius leaders of BLM were spending it on mansions for themselves. Okay, speaking of violence, really scary stuff coming out of a mosque in Virginia. Not exactly a man bites dog story, but this is not good as the Iran war heats up so close to our nation's capital. First though, later today, Cabot Phillips goes live with our new show Wired in live here at the Daily Wire Legacy Media is already telling you how you're supposed to feel and what you should think about this. We're bringing in the people who understand it, including former Special envoy Keith Kellogg, former acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf, and more. If you want to hear from the people who've actually been involved instead of the usual narrative, watch Wired in live today at 4pm Eastern, streaming on DailyWire.com and the DailyWire app. My favorite comment from yesterday from Jan Gardner 9542 I have never understood why anyone would want to ingest anything that causes them to see things. That sounds horrendous to me. Yes. In response to the story of scientists bringing people in so that they can do psychedelic drugs and talk to alien looking creatures that are actually demons. I know. I mean there are people, I know some of these people who they say, man, I had this amazing spiritual experience, man. Oh really? What'd you do? You know, they talk about ayahuasca or something. You ever hear this? The ayahuasca trips with peyote. And they say, yeah man, it was this amazing spiritual experience. I really learned so much. Oh really? What'd you do? Well, I flew to Mexico and I paid a drug dealer to poison me so that I could puke for 12 hours in a nasty smelly hut. Huh. When I want a spiritual experience, I am. I pray in a beautiful church and there's no vomiting involved. The only smells are nice incense and I don't. And I get to commune with God rather than demons and Mexican drug dealers. But hey, you do you. De gustibus non disputandomest. Speaking of violence, this. Gotta give a hat tip here to our own Luke Rosiak points out that the daughter in law of the imam of the Manassas Mosque in Virginia posted this soon we will avenge your death. To the Ayatollah from the Zionist and the Americans. They've done their own graves. I guess it's they've. They've. No, they've dug their own graves. Sorry, Luke Mistran miswrote that. But in the original post they've dug their own graves. You made us mourners but didn't break us. You can never frighten us. Make no mistake, Iranians in Iran are more united than ever. This being posted reportedly by the daughter in law of the imam of this mosque in Virginia. I guess this lady is married and I haven't been single for a long time, but if I were a single guy in Virginia. I know dating is tough out there, swipe culture but If I were going on a date with a lady in Virginia and she said, you know, the Zionist American pigs who have killed the Supreme Leader, they have not broken us, they have dug their own graves, I would view that as a red flag. I don't know what. I know it's tough out there with the only fans and the hypergamy and I know it's hard. But if I would say, check please, cuz I'm not used to hearing that in America. Why is that lady in America, or rather why is her father in law in America? Why is he running an institution in Virginia that's not American? That doesn't help us. Why do we tolerate that? In part, we tolerate that because of a liberal perversion of our toleration of religious diversity that we've had from the beginning of the country. But we didn't have Muslims here at the beginning of the country. We had various flavors of Christianity, some Catholics, and then a zillion different flavors of Protestant and some Enlightenment deist types. And then we had a handful of Jews. And Washington said, we like you Jews, you're welcome here. It's a little, you know, you're different, your religion is different from the Enlightenment deists and the flavors of Christianity. But we like you Jews. He wrote a whole letter about it. And that was pretty much the extent of religious diversity. We didn't have Buddhists, we didn't have Hindus, we didn't have Jains, we didn't have Mormonism wasn't invented yet. We didn't have. That was it. We certainly didn't have Islam. Our relationship with Islam from the early republic was fighting a war against them because they kept enslaving and killing us. Plus change plus c' est la mem Chose, as the French put it. Why are these people in the country? I'm not saying any Muslim. I'm saying these people who say, you know, we will avenge the death of our beloved Ayatollah. They gotta be out yesterday, man. Why is there this big mosque in Manassas where this imam is preaching? That's crazy. A serious country wouldn't put up with that. Here's Dearborn, Henry Ford Community College professor, whatever his name is. Ali Akbar Shadid. I don't think his ancestors came on the Mayflower. Here he is on Memory TV mourning the Ayatollah. To Allah we belong, and to him we shall return. The pure soul of Said Ali Kaminai is back to its Lord as a martyr like Imam Hussain

Ali Akbar Shadid (43:25)

and the best of prophets.

Michael Knowles (43:26)

Oh, here he now is speaking English

Ali Akbar Shadid (43:28)

and his progeny, the Ahlulbayt. May Allah raise their ranks in paradise and shower them with mercy. However, Trump did a huge mistake by killing our beloved leader, Sayyid Ali Khamenei. He thought that by killing him, he's gonna make the believers submit and make them hopeless. However, we're going to continue on the path of Sayyid Ali Khamenei. We're going to hold his blood, his ideology. We're going to learn it and teach it to our children and grandchildren.

Michael Knowles (44:03)

Oh, yeah. So it's. So it is funny in a way that this is a Henry Ford Community College professor. I don't think Henry Ford would have totally gotten down with this. There is one commonality, I guess, which is Henry Ford was not the most philo Semitic guy in the world, not the biggest fan of the Jews, and obviously neither were the Muslims. That is kind of funny. There was the anti Semitic newspaper. Was it the Dearborn observer or the Dearborn Inquirer or something? Whatever. It was Henry Ford's newspaper that Hitler liked about how much he hates the Jews. That is one of those kind of dark winks of history that initially it was guys like Henry Ford and now it's just a bunch of Muslims and Arabs and Persians who hate the Jews in the same little town in Michigan. Anyway, putting the Jews and Henry Ford aside for a second, why is this guy in America, this guy who says, Trump, you will rue the day. You will rue the day when you killed our glorious leader, Ali Khamenei, who tried to kill you a few times, and you actually arrested, like, three people who were trying to kill you on the behest of the Iranian government. Why is this guy still in the country? I can't figure it out. Well, actually, I can figure it out. I think the Trump administration would get rid of these guys, but it's very hard. To some people who are justifiably skeptical of the Iran war, they'll say, why is Trump doing so much stuff abroad? But he can't be bothered to deport all the illegals at home. He can't be bothered to fix healthcare at home. He can't be bothered to institute this or that economic reform at home. He can't be bothered to arrest the street criminals, and he can't be bothered to secure our elections at home. Why or why is he gallivanting around Venezuela and Iran when he should be focused at home? You know, there is a simple answer to this. Because there are no district court judges in Iran. That's why. Because There are no Democrat prosecutors in Caracas. That's why I think Trump's done a lot on the home front. I don't think he's been given enough credit for it. And I don't. In fact, he's been lied about when they say he hasn't deported lots of people. He deported a lot of people. There were 2 million people who left the country last year. It's pretty impressive, most of those through self deports because it was so unpleasant for the illegals in their processing. But then over half a million who were formerly deported. In any case, whatever you could say, I wish you were doing more on the domestic front. Yeah, I wish you were doing more, too. I wish you could do more. But the reality is, and think about how crazy this is, it is much, much easier to depose the leader of a millennia old empire than it is to pass voter ID legislation domestically. It just is easy. It's much easier to depose foreign leaders if you're the President of the United States. It's much, much easier. You can get a lot more of your agenda done abroad than you can accomplish at home. Because at home you have all of these saboteurs, not just the opposition party and their various offices, but the bureaucracy that exists by and large to gum up conservative policy. But these rogue federal judges, one of 700 district court judges who thinks that she has veto power over the President of the United States. That's why. Okay, now, speaking of the judges and President Trump, here's a little teaser. We don't have time to get to it today, but we'll talk about it tomorrow. Maybe President Trump has just suggested putting Ted Cruz on the Supreme Court. And what this is really about is not that a seat could become vacant. Sam Alito, the greatest justice on the court, it's close between him and Thomas, but I think, I think, think Alito edges out Thomas. It goes back and forth, but I think Alito edges out Thomas. Any case, he could step down, Clarence Thomas himself could step down and Trump could have a nomination. He said, maybe I'll put Ted Cruz on the court. And what that's really about is not just jurisprudence. It's not just having a solid conservative right wing lawyer on the court. After some disappointments from some of Trump's appointments, I think it also is about the 2028 presidential race, but we'll get to that tomorrow. Today is Theology Thursday. The rest of the show continues now. You do not want to miss it. Become a member. Use code Knowles Ken at WLAS at checkout for two months free on all annual plan. Tomorrow we make war. I think it's a desperate plan. And foolish. I would save my people from destruction. So should you. New Faith has Gladden's judgment.

James Talarico (49:04)

He's waiting on a miracle.

Michael Knowles (49:06)

And why do you tell me this?

James Talarico (49:08)

Because I think you can.

Michael Knowles (49:11)

If I lead you into victory, Uther, the men of Britain will proclaim me king. He seeks our deliverance from God when he could so easily just give it to us with his own hands. Not long ago, you offered me the Fisher King sword. I've always believed you were meant to be High King. How many lives must be lost before you accept the power you were born to wield? For Britain? How are we to drive out 15,000 Saxon with only two and a half thousand men? Today, britain dies. Yeah. The pendragon cycle rise of the merlin. Now streaming only on daily wire. Plus.