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What Happened to the Southern Baptists?

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Podcast: The Hypocrisy of Christian Warmongers

Nevertheless, today’s podcast is a doozy, for it rips a new one against those famous “Christians” who use their public prominence to shill for a warmongering State. The “Christian Axis of Evil” is the title of today’s essay, and it is also the name Vance gives to that group of warmongering Christians. May their influence be ever-diminishing!

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Podcast: The Christian Axis of Evil

1. Christianity and War Part 1
2. Falwell’s Folly
3. Gott Mit Uns
4. Charles Spurgeon on Christian War Fever
5. Are You a Christian Warmonger?
6. Vicesimus Knox, Minister of Peace
7. The Early Christian Attitude to War
8. The Warmonger’s Beatitudes and Humpty Dumpty Religion
9. The Wicked Bible and the Wicked War
10. The President’s Prayer

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Christianity and War Audiobook Roundup #1

Today’s essay is entitled “The President’s Prayer.” It is worthy to note that in the original essay on LewRockwell.com, Vance posted a picture of a church sign (see the picture on the right) and referenced the caption in the essay. Since you obviously can’t hear the sign in the audio portion, I decided to add the words of the sign at an appropriate point: “We support our President.” It is rather important to know what it says while listening to the essay, so I felt it was a justified modification to the original text.

I think it is kind of funny that the picture Vance posted actually was created via Says-It.com and the “Church Sign Generator” there. There is no doubt in my mind that you could find church signs with this exact text all over the country (I know with all certainty I have seen them), so I guess he simply didn’t want to “name names” if you will… Anyway, enjoy the podcast!

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Podcast: The President’s Prayer

At any rate, I decided that I need to take a break this week from recording the Christianity and War Audiobook. This will give you a chance to get all caught up with everything thus far, and I’ll have a fresh podcast for you next Monday or Tuesday. For a glimpse at what life has been like here the past few weeks, see the following PHD Comic:

Actually, this isn’t quite accurate. My advisor *does* have confidence in my competence… Hehe.

By the way, here’s something else for you… A couple of people have asked me what the music is at the beginning of the podcast. That music, my friends, is by my favorite fingerstyle guitarist of all time: Michael Hedges. The song is called Ritual Dance. Incidentally, it was featured in the film August Rush, played by Kaki King (in the guise of the main character).

Michael died in a car accident in 1997, and thus the world lost one of the most innovative musicians of our time. He literally revolutionized the way guitarists practice their craft, and Michael’s work has influenced my own music quite a lot. He often was categorized as a “New Age” musician, but this is mainly because there really wasn’t a way to categorize him (and that he was on the Windham Hill label). Michael would often in response describe his music as “Heavy Mental”, “New Edge”, ““Acoustic Thrash”, “Deep Tissue Gladiator Guitar” or “Savage Myth Guitar,” amongst other terms. The wiki article says Michael was affectionately known as “The Guitarist from Another Planet.” yeah, he was a bit weird…

Here is the essential chronological discography of Michael Hedges with links to Amazon… I recommend every album but Road to Return, which is kinda kooky but has some great songs like Sister Soul and Communicate.

• Breakfast in the Field
• Aerial Boundaries (MP3) <– In my opinion, this is his best album.
• Watching My Life Go By (MP3)
• Taproot (MP3)
• Live on the Double Planet (MP3)
• Road to Return
• Oracle (MP3)
• Torched (published posthumously)
• Some compilations of his best stuff:
  • Beyond Boundaries
  • Pure Michael Hedges (MP3)
  • Platinum and Gold Collection (MP3)

You can also, of course, find many videos of him playing on Youtube. Most of them are live concert videos which prior to Youtube were extremely rare. It’s actually quite extraordinary that we have the opportunity essentially to watch and learn from the master himself whenever we want! Here’s one of my favorite songs, Aerial Boundaries, from a DVD Windham Hill made a while ago:

A toast to musical enjoyment!

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Taking the week off from recording the Christianity and War Audiobook…

In this installment, you can hear the Foreward, the Introduction, and the first essay that gives the book it’s title: Christianity and War. I said earlier today that my goal was 20 minutes per podcast… well today it’s about 23 minutes. What can I say, there’s a lot of material!

You can find all of the original essays on LewRockwell.com in Dr. Vance’s archives. Enjoy the podcast!

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Podcast: Christianity and War Part 1

Each installment will be no more than 25 minutes long (my goal is 20, but you never know…) and I will go through the book essay-by-essay, chapter-by-chapter. The book is over 300 pages long, so it will likely take a few months to do this. After the book has been fully recorded, the plan is to add it to the Mises.org archive, Dr. Vance’s website, and of course LibertarianChristians.com.

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Special Announcement: Audiobook of Vance’s "Christianity and War" Releases Today!