In this episode, Cole delve into the narrative of Christianity and question its origins and teachings. Cole is curious about the history of Constantine and the impact of the Roman Empire on the formation of Christianity. we explore the fascinating journey of Christianity, from its early beginnings to its transformation into a global religion. We discuss the various interpretations of its core principles and the controversies surrounding its development. Through thought-provoking conversations, I aim to shed light on the complexities of this ancient faith.
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What's up, everyone? It's America Plus. I'm your host, Cole McCormick. It's another week, another episode. What's going on, everybody? It's Sunday, February 11th. What's going on? It's Super Bowl Sunday. The big game. What's going on? Another beautiful week. Happy to be here folks. It's A beautiful day here. The sun is shining through my window. I am feeling good. I got work here in a little bit. I'm working on the Super Bowl, dude. Come on now. What's going on? But we're good. We're chilling. I came prepared. I'm ready for a good day. I got a great show for you. We're doing a we are learning, we're and we are seeking truth on this episode, folks. America Plus is the place where we walk around narratives.
We develop better narratives for a more beautiful world that our hearts know is possible. And today, I'm going deep. Today, I'm bringing back, some narratives that I've spoken of before. I'm bringing up new narratives, and we're focusing on One particular thing. We're focusing on the narrative of Christianity, and not in the sense that Many other people have focused on it before because I am on this journey of figuring out what I believe in, Figuring out my values as an individual, and with that I am reevaluating the things that I grew up in. And I am trying to discern what is truth and what is doctrine.
And, this past week has been really interesting. I Just doing some research. Just doing some random Chat GPT, and just asking Chat GPT some questions about the Roman Empire and Constantine, And what was really going on? Where do I wanna begin? First of all, this is where I wanna start off with. So When it comes to the history of Christianity, and what do Christians really believe in? I I I I can only speak for what I grew up in. To be a Christian now if you go to most church, any church, what does it mean to be a Christian? It means that you believe in 3 things. You believe in God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
There are Three entities that make up this one God, and, that's really like That's the crux. Like that is the foundation of it all, And as I've been researching and reading the Bible, you know, I'm just reading the Bible here. I'm reading the words of Jesus. I'm trying to understand How can there be this this decree that that this belief, like, Jesus didn't talk about The Holy Spirit. Jesus didn't talk about a trinity, and so I've been trying to go back to the words of Jesus. I've been trying to really figure out what was he teaching, And what do Christians believe? And I'm bringing up a Twitter account that I've brought up before, the cab account the cave account.
This is the same guy who brings up the aliens, the UFOs, the Pleiadian stuff, but I don't wanna focus on the alien space stuff right now. I wanna focus on The information that he has brought forward of, of translations of the Bible, of who Constantine was, and and what was really going on there. And, the first few things that sort of intrigued me let me go to my photos real quick. So if you if you're in a modern podcasting app, you should be able to see all these All these photos. All these images in here. The first thing that I wanna bring up is, Cabe talked about this So there's this arch in Rome. Right? It's Constantine's Arch, and there's these scenes on the arch, and there are these entities on the arch.
And to just kick it off, Cabe is saying that the first Christian emperor worshiped Sol Invictus. Sol Invictus is another name for Apollo, Apollyon, Abaddon, and Lucifer. The person most responsible for twisting Jesus's message into a religion of fear, rituals, and worship of blood was a Luciferian. And that really so that's what kicked it off. Right? It's like, woah. What? Are you serious, Gabe? Like, what does that really Mean, and he continues to bring information of who was when you look at the Christianization of the Roman Empire. Okay? Because we all know so in the time of Jesus, Jesus lived when Rome was ruling, And there was a conversion of the empire to quote unquote Christianity, And there's been there there there's always been a lot of discussion of was Constantine, the emperor Constantine, really A Christian. Who did he believe in? Who did he follow?
And what was really going on there? And he posted this video, this clip. I got clips today. First of all, I got a bunch of clips. And, oh, I I also wanna be clear that I'm not trying to speak As authority on this matter, I'm trying to just ask questions, and I'm really just seeking truth here because The conclusion that I have right now is that there is a giant big government definition change. Like, Long story short, TLDR, it seems like one of the largest, most famous governments in the world Redefined, rewrote the definition of God.
Okay? And it seems to begin with this emperor, and So to start off, here's a brief, like history of now this is a I don't know how accurate this is. Right? This is why I continued to to bring this forward. The audience will will re, will reaffirm or or, what's the word? Rebuttal rebuttaless information. So I'm totally open to that. But here's a brief history of who Constantine was and what he really believed in, and It's not just Jesus.
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So after Constantine's victory, he erected a triumphal arch celebrating his victory. It depicts Maxentius' army drowning in the Tiber river, Constantine ironically performing a pagan sacrifice, and a curious inscription that says, Constantine won by the inspiration of divinity. What divinity are we talking about here? Well, the arch might be referencing the Roman sun god Sol Invictus, not the Christian God. You see, Constantine was a sun god Fanboy. In 3 10 CE, 2 years before the Battle of Milvian Bridge, Constantine stopped at a temple of Apollo With his entire army and claimed that Apollo appeared to him in a vision, prophesying that Constantine would live a long life and rule the whole world.
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I wanna pause right there. That right there, if Constantine was Christian, that's not Christian. That's not Jesus. What? Why is anyone why is there when you read The teachings of Jesus, there is nothing that can connect that some emperor is going to have authority to reign over the earth. Like that's the most insane thing ever. This goes on for another minute and a half. Now, the Romans often associated
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Apollo with the sun and even identified him as Sol Invictus is himself. That same speech in 3:10 said that Constantine saw himself in the image of Apollo, meaning that Constantine and the God shared the same physical features, and sure enough some of Constantine's coins do depict him dressed like Sol Invictus standing side by side with the god. So by the year 310, Constantine viewed himself as a companion of Sol Invictus and became a henotheist, which means a worshipper of 1 God as superior over other gods. This In and of itself might have been a conversion of some sort, converting from a polytheist to a henotheist because Constantine was probably raised as a polytheist.
Constantine was born in modern day Serbia, which means he likely was raised worshiping indigenous gods from that region. Constantine's father, Constantius, Was a pagan who carried out orders to persecute Christians, including destroying churches and forcing Christians into exile. When the Small Italian town of Spello requested permission to build a pagan temple to honor Constantine. Constantine granted their request, And this was in the 3 thirties CE, near the end of his reign, well after he supposedly converted. So Constantine continued to tolerate pagan religions well into his reign. So that's super important, super interesting.
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When you do the research on the Roman Empire, the Common understanding of when did the Roman Empire fall? The Roman Empire, like, officially dated the fall as, The year 476, and you got Constantine in the 300. He had a big battle in the 3 tens, and when you research what, When was the Christianization of Rome? That was due to this certain creed that that, that that he established, in the year 325. The year 325, which is also ironically the numbers of my birthday. I was born March 25th, and I've always just like had like a weird, like, whenever I see 325, it just seems like a connection to me. So in the year 325, this this thing called the Nicene Creed was established, and, within that time, Chachapiti says, Christians held diverse Beliefs and theological perspectives. Early Christian communities had variations on their understanding of the nature of Christ and the trinity.
The Nicene Creed aimed to address and unify these theological differences emphasizing the divinity of Christ Establishing a doctrinal framework for the Christian faith. Right off the bat there, and that sort of led the way for For Catholicism, it's sort of when you just do that research, from my point of view, it seems like there is a consolidation of symbols and stories for the empowerment of the government. Maybe I'm wrong in that. I asked Chi Chi Chi Patee, how did they view Jesus before the creed? Before the Nicene Creed, There were diverse views on Jesus within early Christian communities. Some believed his in his divinity, while others emphasized his humanity.
Various theological perspectives such as Arianism, Gnosticism, presented different understandings of Jesus' nature. The Nicene Creed aimed to address and formalize a common doctrinal stance, particularly asserting the divinity of Jesus and addressing theological Controversies of the time. Now with all that, I don't wanna go too deep into the controversies, or, like, who Jesus was. We're not the divinity of Jesus. I really wanna focus on the government declaring something and establishing rule. Because that is the his that is the history. Just that is the history.
And when I speak to my family, My mother and my grandfather, specifically. I ask these questions. The questions that I just asked you, I asked to them. It's I I said to my grandpa, it seemed like the government just consolidated a bunch of things. It seemed like the government made this creed, But the creed is not attached to Jesus's teachings, and you have this history of Beginning with, Catholicism being the centralized like, that is the centralized religion. And all the other denominations, you know, they're sort of a derivative of that in my view. There's, They establish all these rules. They establish all these procedures for church.
They establish the, how to repent. They establish The priest. You know? And the Pope. You know? That within Catholicism, if you didn't know, the Pope is considered to be A continuation of the apostles. When you read the New Testament in the Bible, I believe John Like, they say Jesus chose John to lead the church, and in Catholicism, the popes are after John. And so the Catholics assume continuation of the teachings of Jesus. And when I read that, I just get more and more suspicious of this type of narrative. What did I really grow up in? What Did I believe? What was I believing? And I've said it before, growing up I never fully agreed. I never fully felt it. I was never in it. My heart was never really in this belief thing.
I was always in belief of God. I was always trying to connect with God, but when it came to this this thing to declare this, like, I I I was just never aligned with it, and it really just didn't sit well with me. And now I'm in a place and I'm getting information from random people on Twitter. And it seems as if Constantine aligned himself with Beings that are not of Jesus' teachings. They're not of Jesus, and there's clearly A wide range of views of who Jesus was and and and how to live from that. And that begs the question, is there A unified vision. Is there really a unified belief with these things?
And I think it's clear that there is not. Just the sheer fact That there are different denominations. There are different rituals. It proves that there is no u There is no unified vision for Christianity. You know? And even though Christianity is one of the largest religions of the world, There's different sects, and there's different theologies, and there's different ideas going, like, split between the East and the West. You know? I have this clip from, so going, a little while now. We're going to the Putin interview. Did anyone watch that Putin interview on Twitter with Tucker Carlson? I'm not sure if you've seen it. I watched the whole thing in full just because I was interested. I never listened to to Putin like that. And, Tucker Tucker Carlson, he he towards the end of the interview, he asks Putin about Christianity, about faith, about how he views, God and the world governments, and everything going on in the world.
And, the reason I wanna play this clip is because there within the time of Constantine, it seems like the Roman emperor saw his ruling as divine, as divine intervention. All of his winning, all of his power was from God, And, I just wanna juxtapose that with a modern world leader who also says that he's a Christian and and leads a nation.
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So do you see the supernatural at work as you look out across what's happening in the world now? Do you see God at work? Do you ever think to yourself, These are forces that are not human.
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No. To be honest, I don't think so. My opinion is that the development of the world community is in accordance with inherent laws. And those laws are what they are. It's always been this way in the history of mankind. Some nations and countries rose, became stronger and more numerous, and then left the international stage losing the That is they had accustomed to. There's probably no need for me to give examples, but We could start with the Genghis Khan and Horde conquerors, the Golden Horde, and then end with the Roman Empire. It seems that there has never been anything like the Roman Empire in the history of mankind.
Nevertheless, the potential of the barbarians gradually grew as did their population. In general, the barbarians were getting stronger and begun to develop economically, as we would say today. This eventually led to the collapse of the Roman Empire and the regime imposed by the Romans. However, It took 5 centuries for the Roman Empire to fall apart. The difference with what is happening now Is that all the processes of change are happening at a much faster pace than in Roman times.
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Super super interesting from my point of view because, I mean, I don't people the the the mainstream Commentary on Putin, and the war with Ukraine, and and just his leadership is that, like he's crazy, and he's like a murderer, and and, I I feel as though some might also put his religion, some might also put His viewpoints on history as, as evil or some sort of, just manipulative. Okay? But he doesn't this world leader does not see his actions as divine. He sees his actions as very human, you know, earthly, just in the realm of the current law.
And I just thought that was interesting because You have one Roman Emperor who thinks he's divine, and there's if he saw himself As the sun god, like, it it this guy really thought that he held the same features as this Apollo character, and he put his face on coins, aligning himself with it. There's even photos of, Or not not just photos, there's statues, like, Constantine made statues of himself, with this giant Crown. This, it looks like sunbeams on his head, that align himself with the sun god. And, this brings me to sort of how this whole thing came about. So earlier this week, I was on Twitter, and I saw this, account, called Wanted in Rome.
And, you're looking at you're looking at the picture right now. This went a little viral. The the video got, like, a few 1000000 views. There's this new statue of Constantine in Rome. They built a brand new modern statue of Constantine the Great, and The statue is him holding a scepter, and holding, a sphere of the globe, and, they're sort of just commemorating Constantine's ruling, which is a weird because he was the ruler within the last century of the Roman Empire. So like, why are you gonna Honor one of the last emperors of the fallen empire.
And along with that, why is it why is this important? Like, Constantine is important because he Christianized everything, but he didn't really worship Jesus, he didn't really follow the teachings of Jesus. His father was a pagan. He, like, he was sympathetic to the other pagan rituals. I'm not saying it's inherently bad that he did that. You know? Maybe there's a side of him allowing religious freedom, throughout Rome. But along with that, why is there any honoring of an emperor? Let's just modernize it with Joe Biden. What if Joe Biden decided to, like, consolidate all the narratives around medicine? What is medicine?
You know, in the power of medicine, in the power of health, through the power of vaccines, pills, and surgery, you are healthy. You know? Is that really is that a clean, is that a clean, parallel right there? I've been trying to modernize, this moment in history. I've been trying to figure out is there a parallel with what Konstantin did. I don't have a clear answer for that, but All I have are suspicions. All I have are just my own instincts. And if you're one to be interested in philosophy, and religion, and and how to live a good life. Go read Jesus. Go read the words of Jesus. Go read the teachings.
And it's it's really just clear. It is so clear that everything Jesus said, everything Jesus taught, It was not for the formation of a new religion. It was not and in my opinion, it was not for the worshiping of him. You always get these narratives of worshiping from the emperors. You always get these narratives from the government, and that's something to not be followed Clearly. And what's also suspicious is that within America, a lot of Christians, They might align themselves with, with the Republican political party, and traditionally, the Republican political party, they seek smaller government. You know? That's the general understanding.
You know? Clearly, like like, I don't think it's real real, but, like, that is, like, the narrative for Republicans. They want less government. But if you're a Christian and a Republican, and you want less government, And there and and but there's clear history of the narrative of Christianity beginning with one of the largest governments On earth, why are you following that? Why why was there a creed? Why are you following a creed that was established by a government. That's really my big issue here. Why was there a creed made by a government, and why are Christians following that. Because my mom, she says that she believes that that God sent his only son to die for our sins.
And I read the words of Jesus, and Jesus never said, I came here to die for your sins. I He never said, I came here to save you. When you read what Jesus talked about, he was talking about how, like, first of all, he wanted his disciples to perform miracles. He was performing miracles himself, And he didn't ask for the people who were healed to to follow him or worship him. People, like, there was, of course, a lot of energy around him. People followed him. People listened to him. The reality of all that, you know, I'm also not trying to debate the reality of these things. I'm I'm just trying I begin with the with with with Jesus being real, and just assuming whatever he did actually happened. Because there's, I wasn't there. Okay? And I also wasn't there in the time of Constantine, but there's clearly more history. There's more physical history Tied to Constantine than there is, Jesus. There's more philosophical history with Jesus.
And so, I'm willing to doubt the doctrine. I told my mom this week, I'm willing to throw away the doctrine and focus on the red words. If you own a Bible and you go to the New Testament, everything Jesus said is in red. So if you were and I've been thinking about this since I was 17. What if you only followed the red words? What would happen if you only listened to and implemented the teachings of Jesus in your own life? And from my point of view, it would change a lot of things. It would change everything. Because within the church, within the centralized religion, if you wanna be a good person, for the first thing you must do is repent.
And Jesus said this, you must repent. You must repent for your sins. And the church describes repentance as going to the priest, confessing your sins, and the priest gives you either some examples or some Some sort of path, some actions that you can do to correct yourself. And through that repentance, and through that admission of your sins, and through the acceptance of Jesus as the son of God who came to to die for your sins. Once you accept that, then you are saved. But Jesus said that we will do greater miracles in him. Jesus said that you must pass through the eye of a needle to enter into the kingdom of God.
And the narrative within the church, I I I don't understand how the church can be equated to The eye of a needle. I don't understand how how a creed can can be equal to what Jesus said. I don't see that. From my point of view, when I read the words of Jesus, it seems a bit more mystical, and it seems a lot more personal. Okay. It seems a bit more individualistic. The individual must choose, to forgive, the individual must choose to identify when they've done wrong. If if there's a person around you who will not admit that they fucked up, then that person is arrogant, and that person is not aligned with love.
If you are a person who's willing to admit when you did wrong, it I think there's a higher chance that you are aligned with love. You seek forgiveness for yourself, and and and you want your environment to to be heavenly, to flow. You want a healthy family. You want healthy relationship. Is this not how you live a good life? It seemed the the messages of Jesus are a lot more simple than what the church has to make them be. So that's just interesting, man. That's just interesting, and I don't have, like, I I don't have a real conclusion, man. I just have to these, like, random little, like, bits of information of of what was going on there.
I wanna play another clip. This is from the Joe Rogan show. Randall Carlson. I don't know the episode number, but Randall Carlson, I I hope you know that name. He's archaeologist researcher. Has he's done a bunch of great research on the Younger Dryas period, talking about lost civilizations. He has a lot of information about numerology, astrology, geometry, sacred geometry, And, here's this is just a minute clip of him talking about this, this other, I don't I don't wanna call it religion, but it was a belief. There was this coexisting belief structure that was sort of, He says competing with Christianity within Rome. And this thing was called Mithraicism.
Myth, myth a, Mytheraism. And this is something that ChachiPT says that the a lot of Roman Soldiers followed myth myth myth mytharianism. And, just hear Randall Carlson talk about it. Have you ever heard of Mithraism?
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Was Mithraism was the in the, like, 1st century AD was the primary competitor to Christianity Throughout the whole Roman Empire, and Christianity won out for a variety of reasons. But misterism was loaded With some really potent symbolism. And one of the things is that during the, Mithraic ceremonies or or rituals was called the taurochtenae, The slaying of the celestial bowl. And when you look at these images, they would go underground, and they would have a vault shaped, like temple that with stars painted on the ceiling. And at the end of that, they would have this, this carving of the of Mithras stabbing his, sword into the slaying the bull, the slasher bull stabbing his His sword into the shoulder of the bull and the blood flowing out.
And if you superimpose the, The constellation of the the Taurus, in the classical sense, the shoulder of the bull is the Pleiades.
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Alright. So right there, what he says right there, That is a pagan ritual from my understanding. Mithraism is a it was Chechi Pateez call calls it a cult, And it seems as though they were doing pagan rituals. And Cave on Twitter, he has to say that Pagan rituals were mixed into Christianity. The, quote, unquote, fallen angels, which from cave's perspective are actual aliens from other planets pretending to be God, playing God, but also seeking power, and worship, and blood. The fallen the fallen angels taught elites to use a bull in rituals to mock Pleiadians. Let me play the last little bit
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what Carlson said here. The Taurus in the classical sense, the shoulder of the bull is the Pleiades.
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The Pleiades. The Pleiades. That's a constellation in space. Cabe speaks about the Pleiadians. There's a species of people within the Pleiadians. And, I've already gone a bit into that already in past episodes, so go back to those, but What I'm just seeing is there's a lot of crossover, and there's a lot of, conflicting narratives, and I'm still seeking truth. I'm still seeking truth here, and the narratives of Christianity just clearly, from my point of view, they do not unify people. The narratives of Christianity, I think put people in a more submissive position.
But when you read the words of Jesus, Jesus didn't put anyone in a submissive position. Jesus You know, the the story of of Jesus, speaking to a tax collector, and he invites the tax collector to to have dinner with him. And people, you know, they hated the tax collector, because they would steal more. They would take more than what the real taxes were, And you got Jesus having dinner with him, and actually treating him like a human, treating him like a person, and loving him. And through that interaction, To my memory of that story, the tax collector had a change of heart, and started following Jesus.
And It's just different, man. It's just different. It's just not that it it's not what the church says it was. I was listening to another podcast this week, for my friend, Kyron, Kyron Down. He's in Australia. And I I and he was discussing, how he's just not been interested in talking with with Christians at all. He's more interested in other belief systems.
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Why was it that I've I've become, over the years, just spent more time looking at, you know, Zen and Buddhism than I have at, Say, like, Christianity, for example. And I think they're better marketers. Like, I've never had a a a Buddhist person really come up to me and, like, try and sell their religion. Whereas, I can think of so many times where I've had the, you know, the very Explicit. They come up to the door and they're trying to pitch me Jehovah's Witness style or or something like that.
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Yeah. Why who cares about the Jehovah Witness? Like, Why would you wanna talk to a Jehovah Jehovah Witness? Why would you wanna speak to a Christian who's trying to give you a little card That says, like, you're gonna burn in hell if you don't follow Jesus. You know what I mean? It's just really suspicious, and I don't like it. I don't like it at all, and I can respect Kyran's position more, because he's actually searching for something. He's actually looking for A good way of living. So with that, it's, it makes me want to explore more. Karen Chiron inspires me to explore more things like that. I've never looked into Buddhism.
I've never looked into Hinduism, but it seems like My instinct says that the teachings of Jesus are more aligned with with, with those things than what the Roman Empire has to say. I reject the Roman Empire. I reject all these things. The last thing I wanna bring up is just like a funny thing that happened on Twitter. So I, if you're looking at your photo right now, so if you're looking at your podcasting 2.0 app, There's, I quote tweeted this video of this, of the statue of Constantine, And I said, the Roman Emperor positioned himself as God. He's holding Earth, and for some reason, Christians are supposed to honor him?
Total fucking bullshit. Fuck the empire. Fuck the religion. Choose love in your heart. Worship no one. And if you wanna go to this tweet, I think it's actually a little funny. I got a bunch of Catholics commenting under this, and, of course, it's the Catholics defending this fallen emperor, this dead guy. It's insane, dude. A bunch of these people were saying first of all, I got called a dumb prot, A dumb pro a dumb protestant. And, some other guy was like, do you know who Constantine is? And then I said, He's definitely the guy who centralized the religion around Jesus for the empowerment of the Roman Empire. And then this guy says, so the answer is no. Bro, I don't know what else is what I I just went to chat GPT. Like, what's the history? What's the information?
And then, some other and then this other guy these are just random people. Right? This one guy says, my brother in Christ, the orb is an orb of divine authority. This is common in coronations or depictions of Christian monarchs such as Constantine. What divine authority, dude? You're supposed to worship Jesus. The fuck are you talking about, man? And then another another Catholic is saying cope. And then just, another my my favorite one Says, this is embarrassing. Please delete for your own sake. Thanks. Okay. Sure. I'm gonna delete it. No, dude. I stand by my words. I stand by this. I don't believe in the Roman Empire. I don't believe in what Constantine said.
I am willing to not believe in this Roman creed. Like, that's not my faith. My faith is in my heart. My faith is in my Actions and how I treat people. My faith is in my love. The love that I have to share. The love that I have to Give myself the forgiveness that I have for myself and for the people around me who have hurt me. Jesus says to pray for your enemies. That's the complete opposite thing that any, that any Jewish, scripture says. It's a complete opposite thing than what Then what I would say the the Catholics have to say, Jesus just talked about different stuff, dude. It's just It's that simple, I think. So just very interesting. Right? Like, what do you have to say to that? Like, do you have any thoughts on this?
I I want more information on this. I'm really seeking truth here, man. I'm really I real I want the value, like, there has to be More value to to be given, man. It just It has to be. There has to be. And with that guys, with with the Value. We're gonna head on into the value for value section, the boostograms folks. America Plus is a value for value show. What that means is, I produce the value upfront. I do my best to bring narratives, that I think are interesting, and I wanna bring just information that I think is valuable, and you're able to reciprocate that value through multiple ways. There's 4 main ways that you can do it, just listening to the show is being valuable.
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Yeah. Shout out to my dad. He's getting better. He's healing from cancer. And then this next one comes in from at Joel w. He has he sent in his normal 1,111 sats. He says, bro, that's a fucking awesome update on pops, man. Boosting is loving. Yes, sir. A little cheers on that, Joel. Thank you very much. And then, let me go to and I got another boostagram from my friend, Kyron. He's he commented on number 107. He sends in a beautiful 2,222 sats, that that's Road Ducks, by the way. He says, been a minute, got backlogged with workish stuff. How's your Twitter experiment going? Any learnings?
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As the French say, it is time for Le Boost. Yeah. Karen, an update on my Twitter, since I'm talking about Twitter all the time, I'm on Twitter most of the time. I was recently demonetized on Twitter. Like, why? What? I don't know why I was demonetized. There's really zero reason. I keep asking the Twitter support people, like, what is going on, and all they can tell me is that their the review is ongoing. So I just one random day, I got demonetized. Even though I was I wasn't making any money. I made $18 that that one week in November, and I haven't made any money since. So right now, the experiment with paying for the blue check, Kyron, it hasn't returned any monetary value, but I do see some other side of, of like a connection value, you know. It's definitely I believe that I'm growing my network of people that I'm connected to. I've been able to speak with more people with the blue check.
So I think informationally, it's been good, but Monetarily, no. It hasn't been working out very well. And then we got, the last boostagram of the week. It's from Joel w. He sends in, 1,080 10 80 SATS, and he says, in honor of number 108, from the Bhagavad Gita 108. So this sort of, relates to what we're talking about this week. The the the Bhagavad Gita. This is Hindu scripture, verse chapter 10 verse 8. He says, I am the origin of all creation. Everything proceeds from me. The wise who know this perfectly worship me With great faith and devotion.
Bustar. Bustar. Thank you, Kyren. Because basically, you put Bitcoin with anything, and all of a sudden, that is more efficient. Thank you, Connor. Thank you, Joel, for that. Joel, that's really interesting. I didn't know you read Hinduism. So that's really cool to to bring forward that. What's your opinion on on the Christian narratives, man? I I think it's important to talk about. I like that Hindu scripture. We gotta do more research. We need to do more research. The individual my ultimate narrative is The individual must choose love, and you must choose inner peace.
The only way that we can have a peaceful world is if You choose peace and love for yourself. It's it's not my job to save you. It's not my job to save anyone, but I am on this journey of telling stories and and discussing topics that hopefully unlock Certain thought chains in people's minds. I feel like people are stuck. I really feel like people are stuck with this stuff, and Again, I just wanna separate the doctrine from the truth. What is that? What is the doctrine from the truth, man? Don't know what it is. Don't know what it is. But yeah, man. Tell me what you think. Honestly, this is value for value. You can send in that value. You can send in your information. You can you can chime in with this conversation. If you think I'm way off base on something, do that. Please do that. But the best way to do that is to send me monetary value.
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Enjoy.
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What's up, everyone? It's America Plus. I'm your host, Cole McCormick. It's another week, another episode. What's going on, everybody? It's Sunday, February 11th. What's going on? It's Super Bowl Sunday. The big game. What's going on? Another beautiful week. Happy to be here folks. It's A beautiful day here. The sun is shining through my window. I am feeling good. I got work here in a little bit. I'm working on the Super Bowl, dude. Come on now. What's going on? But we're good. We're chilling. I came prepared. I'm ready for a good day. I got a great show for you. We're doing a we are learning, we're and we are seeking truth on this episode, folks. America Plus is the place where we walk around narratives.
We develop better narratives for a more beautiful world that our hearts know is possible. And today, I'm going deep. Today, I'm bringing back, some narratives that I've spoken of before. I'm bringing up new narratives, and we're focusing on One particular thing. We're focusing on the narrative of Christianity, and not in the sense that Many other people have focused on it before because I am on this journey of figuring out what I believe in, Figuring out my values as an individual, and with that I am reevaluating the things that I grew up in. And I am trying to discern what is truth and what is doctrine.
And, this past week has been really interesting. I Just doing some research. Just doing some random Chat GPT, and just asking Chat GPT some questions about the Roman Empire and Constantine, And what was really going on? Where do I wanna begin? First of all, this is where I wanna start off with. So When it comes to the history of Christianity, and what do Christians really believe in? I I I I can only speak for what I grew up in. To be a Christian now if you go to most church, any church, what does it mean to be a Christian? It means that you believe in 3 things. You believe in God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
There are Three entities that make up this one God, and, that's really like That's the crux. Like that is the foundation of it all, And as I've been researching and reading the Bible, you know, I'm just reading the Bible here. I'm reading the words of Jesus. I'm trying to understand How can there be this this decree that that this belief, like, Jesus didn't talk about The Holy Spirit. Jesus didn't talk about a trinity, and so I've been trying to go back to the words of Jesus. I've been trying to really figure out what was he teaching, And what do Christians believe? And I'm bringing up a Twitter account that I've brought up before, the cab account the cave account.
This is the same guy who brings up the aliens, the UFOs, the Pleiadian stuff, but I don't wanna focus on the alien space stuff right now. I wanna focus on The information that he has brought forward of, of translations of the Bible, of who Constantine was, and and what was really going on there. And, the first few things that sort of intrigued me let me go to my photos real quick. So if you if you're in a modern podcasting app, you should be able to see all these All these photos. All these images in here. The first thing that I wanna bring up is, Cabe talked about this So there's this arch in Rome. Right? It's Constantine's Arch, and there's these scenes on the arch, and there are these entities on the arch.
And to just kick it off, Cabe is saying that the first Christian emperor worshiped Sol Invictus. Sol Invictus is another name for Apollo, Apollyon, Abaddon, and Lucifer. The person most responsible for twisting Jesus's message into a religion of fear, rituals, and worship of blood was a Luciferian. And that really so that's what kicked it off. Right? It's like, woah. What? Are you serious, Gabe? Like, what does that really Mean, and he continues to bring information of who was when you look at the Christianization of the Roman Empire. Okay? Because we all know so in the time of Jesus, Jesus lived when Rome was ruling, And there was a conversion of the empire to quote unquote Christianity, And there's been there there there's always been a lot of discussion of was Constantine, the emperor Constantine, really A Christian. Who did he believe in? Who did he follow?
And what was really going on there? And he posted this video, this clip. I got clips today. First of all, I got a bunch of clips. And, oh, I I also wanna be clear that I'm not trying to speak As authority on this matter, I'm trying to just ask questions, and I'm really just seeking truth here because The conclusion that I have right now is that there is a giant big government definition change. Like, Long story short, TLDR, it seems like one of the largest, most famous governments in the world Redefined, rewrote the definition of God.
Okay? And it seems to begin with this emperor, and So to start off, here's a brief, like history of now this is a I don't know how accurate this is. Right? This is why I continued to to bring this forward. The audience will will re, will reaffirm or or, what's the word? Rebuttal rebuttaless information. So I'm totally open to that. But here's a brief history of who Constantine was and what he really believed in, and It's not just Jesus.
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So after Constantine's victory, he erected a triumphal arch celebrating his victory. It depicts Maxentius' army drowning in the Tiber river, Constantine ironically performing a pagan sacrifice, and a curious inscription that says, Constantine won by the inspiration of divinity. What divinity are we talking about here? Well, the arch might be referencing the Roman sun god Sol Invictus, not the Christian God. You see, Constantine was a sun god Fanboy. In 3 10 CE, 2 years before the Battle of Milvian Bridge, Constantine stopped at a temple of Apollo With his entire army and claimed that Apollo appeared to him in a vision, prophesying that Constantine would live a long life and rule the whole world.
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I wanna pause right there. That right there, if Constantine was Christian, that's not Christian. That's not Jesus. What? Why is anyone why is there when you read The teachings of Jesus, there is nothing that can connect that some emperor is going to have authority to reign over the earth. Like that's the most insane thing ever. This goes on for another minute and a half. Now, the Romans often associated
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Apollo with the sun and even identified him as Sol Invictus is himself. That same speech in 3:10 said that Constantine saw himself in the image of Apollo, meaning that Constantine and the God shared the same physical features, and sure enough some of Constantine's coins do depict him dressed like Sol Invictus standing side by side with the god. So by the year 310, Constantine viewed himself as a companion of Sol Invictus and became a henotheist, which means a worshipper of 1 God as superior over other gods. This In and of itself might have been a conversion of some sort, converting from a polytheist to a henotheist because Constantine was probably raised as a polytheist.
Constantine was born in modern day Serbia, which means he likely was raised worshiping indigenous gods from that region. Constantine's father, Constantius, Was a pagan who carried out orders to persecute Christians, including destroying churches and forcing Christians into exile. When the Small Italian town of Spello requested permission to build a pagan temple to honor Constantine. Constantine granted their request, And this was in the 3 thirties CE, near the end of his reign, well after he supposedly converted. So Constantine continued to tolerate pagan religions well into his reign. So that's super important, super interesting.
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When you do the research on the Roman Empire, the Common understanding of when did the Roman Empire fall? The Roman Empire, like, officially dated the fall as, The year 476, and you got Constantine in the 300. He had a big battle in the 3 tens, and when you research what, When was the Christianization of Rome? That was due to this certain creed that that, that that he established, in the year 325. The year 325, which is also ironically the numbers of my birthday. I was born March 25th, and I've always just like had like a weird, like, whenever I see 325, it just seems like a connection to me. So in the year 325, this this thing called the Nicene Creed was established, and, within that time, Chachapiti says, Christians held diverse Beliefs and theological perspectives. Early Christian communities had variations on their understanding of the nature of Christ and the trinity.
The Nicene Creed aimed to address and unify these theological differences emphasizing the divinity of Christ Establishing a doctrinal framework for the Christian faith. Right off the bat there, and that sort of led the way for For Catholicism, it's sort of when you just do that research, from my point of view, it seems like there is a consolidation of symbols and stories for the empowerment of the government. Maybe I'm wrong in that. I asked Chi Chi Chi Patee, how did they view Jesus before the creed? Before the Nicene Creed, There were diverse views on Jesus within early Christian communities. Some believed his in his divinity, while others emphasized his humanity.
Various theological perspectives such as Arianism, Gnosticism, presented different understandings of Jesus' nature. The Nicene Creed aimed to address and formalize a common doctrinal stance, particularly asserting the divinity of Jesus and addressing theological Controversies of the time. Now with all that, I don't wanna go too deep into the controversies, or, like, who Jesus was. We're not the divinity of Jesus. I really wanna focus on the government declaring something and establishing rule. Because that is the his that is the history. Just that is the history.
And when I speak to my family, My mother and my grandfather, specifically. I ask these questions. The questions that I just asked you, I asked to them. It's I I said to my grandpa, it seemed like the government just consolidated a bunch of things. It seemed like the government made this creed, But the creed is not attached to Jesus's teachings, and you have this history of Beginning with, Catholicism being the centralized like, that is the centralized religion. And all the other denominations, you know, they're sort of a derivative of that in my view. There's, They establish all these rules. They establish all these procedures for church.
They establish the, how to repent. They establish The priest. You know? And the Pope. You know? That within Catholicism, if you didn't know, the Pope is considered to be A continuation of the apostles. When you read the New Testament in the Bible, I believe John Like, they say Jesus chose John to lead the church, and in Catholicism, the popes are after John. And so the Catholics assume continuation of the teachings of Jesus. And when I read that, I just get more and more suspicious of this type of narrative. What did I really grow up in? What Did I believe? What was I believing? And I've said it before, growing up I never fully agreed. I never fully felt it. I was never in it. My heart was never really in this belief thing.
I was always in belief of God. I was always trying to connect with God, but when it came to this this thing to declare this, like, I I I was just never aligned with it, and it really just didn't sit well with me. And now I'm in a place and I'm getting information from random people on Twitter. And it seems as if Constantine aligned himself with Beings that are not of Jesus' teachings. They're not of Jesus, and there's clearly A wide range of views of who Jesus was and and and how to live from that. And that begs the question, is there A unified vision. Is there really a unified belief with these things?
And I think it's clear that there is not. Just the sheer fact That there are different denominations. There are different rituals. It proves that there is no u There is no unified vision for Christianity. You know? And even though Christianity is one of the largest religions of the world, There's different sects, and there's different theologies, and there's different ideas going, like, split between the East and the West. You know? I have this clip from, so going, a little while now. We're going to the Putin interview. Did anyone watch that Putin interview on Twitter with Tucker Carlson? I'm not sure if you've seen it. I watched the whole thing in full just because I was interested. I never listened to to Putin like that. And, Tucker Tucker Carlson, he he towards the end of the interview, he asks Putin about Christianity, about faith, about how he views, God and the world governments, and everything going on in the world.
And, the reason I wanna play this clip is because there within the time of Constantine, it seems like the Roman emperor saw his ruling as divine, as divine intervention. All of his winning, all of his power was from God, And, I just wanna juxtapose that with a modern world leader who also says that he's a Christian and and leads a nation.
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So do you see the supernatural at work as you look out across what's happening in the world now? Do you see God at work? Do you ever think to yourself, These are forces that are not human.
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No. To be honest, I don't think so. My opinion is that the development of the world community is in accordance with inherent laws. And those laws are what they are. It's always been this way in the history of mankind. Some nations and countries rose, became stronger and more numerous, and then left the international stage losing the That is they had accustomed to. There's probably no need for me to give examples, but We could start with the Genghis Khan and Horde conquerors, the Golden Horde, and then end with the Roman Empire. It seems that there has never been anything like the Roman Empire in the history of mankind.
Nevertheless, the potential of the barbarians gradually grew as did their population. In general, the barbarians were getting stronger and begun to develop economically, as we would say today. This eventually led to the collapse of the Roman Empire and the regime imposed by the Romans. However, It took 5 centuries for the Roman Empire to fall apart. The difference with what is happening now Is that all the processes of change are happening at a much faster pace than in Roman times.
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Super super interesting from my point of view because, I mean, I don't people the the the mainstream Commentary on Putin, and the war with Ukraine, and and just his leadership is that, like he's crazy, and he's like a murderer, and and, I I feel as though some might also put his religion, some might also put His viewpoints on history as, as evil or some sort of, just manipulative. Okay? But he doesn't this world leader does not see his actions as divine. He sees his actions as very human, you know, earthly, just in the realm of the current law.
And I just thought that was interesting because You have one Roman Emperor who thinks he's divine, and there's if he saw himself As the sun god, like, it it this guy really thought that he held the same features as this Apollo character, and he put his face on coins, aligning himself with it. There's even photos of, Or not not just photos, there's statues, like, Constantine made statues of himself, with this giant Crown. This, it looks like sunbeams on his head, that align himself with the sun god. And, this brings me to sort of how this whole thing came about. So earlier this week, I was on Twitter, and I saw this, account, called Wanted in Rome.
And, you're looking at you're looking at the picture right now. This went a little viral. The the video got, like, a few 1000000 views. There's this new statue of Constantine in Rome. They built a brand new modern statue of Constantine the Great, and The statue is him holding a scepter, and holding, a sphere of the globe, and, they're sort of just commemorating Constantine's ruling, which is a weird because he was the ruler within the last century of the Roman Empire. So like, why are you gonna Honor one of the last emperors of the fallen empire.
And along with that, why is it why is this important? Like, Constantine is important because he Christianized everything, but he didn't really worship Jesus, he didn't really follow the teachings of Jesus. His father was a pagan. He, like, he was sympathetic to the other pagan rituals. I'm not saying it's inherently bad that he did that. You know? Maybe there's a side of him allowing religious freedom, throughout Rome. But along with that, why is there any honoring of an emperor? Let's just modernize it with Joe Biden. What if Joe Biden decided to, like, consolidate all the narratives around medicine? What is medicine?
You know, in the power of medicine, in the power of health, through the power of vaccines, pills, and surgery, you are healthy. You know? Is that really is that a clean, is that a clean, parallel right there? I've been trying to modernize, this moment in history. I've been trying to figure out is there a parallel with what Konstantin did. I don't have a clear answer for that, but All I have are suspicions. All I have are just my own instincts. And if you're one to be interested in philosophy, and religion, and and how to live a good life. Go read Jesus. Go read the words of Jesus. Go read the teachings.
And it's it's really just clear. It is so clear that everything Jesus said, everything Jesus taught, It was not for the formation of a new religion. It was not and in my opinion, it was not for the worshiping of him. You always get these narratives of worshiping from the emperors. You always get these narratives from the government, and that's something to not be followed Clearly. And what's also suspicious is that within America, a lot of Christians, They might align themselves with, with the Republican political party, and traditionally, the Republican political party, they seek smaller government. You know? That's the general understanding.
You know? Clearly, like like, I don't think it's real real, but, like, that is, like, the narrative for Republicans. They want less government. But if you're a Christian and a Republican, and you want less government, And there and and but there's clear history of the narrative of Christianity beginning with one of the largest governments On earth, why are you following that? Why why was there a creed? Why are you following a creed that was established by a government. That's really my big issue here. Why was there a creed made by a government, and why are Christians following that. Because my mom, she says that she believes that that God sent his only son to die for our sins.
And I read the words of Jesus, and Jesus never said, I came here to die for your sins. I He never said, I came here to save you. When you read what Jesus talked about, he was talking about how, like, first of all, he wanted his disciples to perform miracles. He was performing miracles himself, And he didn't ask for the people who were healed to to follow him or worship him. People, like, there was, of course, a lot of energy around him. People followed him. People listened to him. The reality of all that, you know, I'm also not trying to debate the reality of these things. I'm I'm just trying I begin with the with with with Jesus being real, and just assuming whatever he did actually happened. Because there's, I wasn't there. Okay? And I also wasn't there in the time of Constantine, but there's clearly more history. There's more physical history Tied to Constantine than there is, Jesus. There's more philosophical history with Jesus.
And so, I'm willing to doubt the doctrine. I told my mom this week, I'm willing to throw away the doctrine and focus on the red words. If you own a Bible and you go to the New Testament, everything Jesus said is in red. So if you were and I've been thinking about this since I was 17. What if you only followed the red words? What would happen if you only listened to and implemented the teachings of Jesus in your own life? And from my point of view, it would change a lot of things. It would change everything. Because within the church, within the centralized religion, if you wanna be a good person, for the first thing you must do is repent.
And Jesus said this, you must repent. You must repent for your sins. And the church describes repentance as going to the priest, confessing your sins, and the priest gives you either some examples or some Some sort of path, some actions that you can do to correct yourself. And through that repentance, and through that admission of your sins, and through the acceptance of Jesus as the son of God who came to to die for your sins. Once you accept that, then you are saved. But Jesus said that we will do greater miracles in him. Jesus said that you must pass through the eye of a needle to enter into the kingdom of God.
And the narrative within the church, I I I don't understand how the church can be equated to The eye of a needle. I don't understand how how a creed can can be equal to what Jesus said. I don't see that. From my point of view, when I read the words of Jesus, it seems a bit more mystical, and it seems a lot more personal. Okay. It seems a bit more individualistic. The individual must choose, to forgive, the individual must choose to identify when they've done wrong. If if there's a person around you who will not admit that they fucked up, then that person is arrogant, and that person is not aligned with love.
If you are a person who's willing to admit when you did wrong, it I think there's a higher chance that you are aligned with love. You seek forgiveness for yourself, and and and you want your environment to to be heavenly, to flow. You want a healthy family. You want healthy relationship. Is this not how you live a good life? It seemed the the messages of Jesus are a lot more simple than what the church has to make them be. So that's just interesting, man. That's just interesting, and I don't have, like, I I don't have a real conclusion, man. I just have to these, like, random little, like, bits of information of of what was going on there.
I wanna play another clip. This is from the Joe Rogan show. Randall Carlson. I don't know the episode number, but Randall Carlson, I I hope you know that name. He's archaeologist researcher. Has he's done a bunch of great research on the Younger Dryas period, talking about lost civilizations. He has a lot of information about numerology, astrology, geometry, sacred geometry, And, here's this is just a minute clip of him talking about this, this other, I don't I don't wanna call it religion, but it was a belief. There was this coexisting belief structure that was sort of, He says competing with Christianity within Rome. And this thing was called Mithraicism.
Myth, myth a, Mytheraism. And this is something that ChachiPT says that the a lot of Roman Soldiers followed myth myth myth mytharianism. And, just hear Randall Carlson talk about it. Have you ever heard of Mithraism?
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Was Mithraism was the in the, like, 1st century AD was the primary competitor to Christianity Throughout the whole Roman Empire, and Christianity won out for a variety of reasons. But misterism was loaded With some really potent symbolism. And one of the things is that during the, Mithraic ceremonies or or rituals was called the taurochtenae, The slaying of the celestial bowl. And when you look at these images, they would go underground, and they would have a vault shaped, like temple that with stars painted on the ceiling. And at the end of that, they would have this, this carving of the of Mithras stabbing his, sword into the slaying the bull, the slasher bull stabbing his His sword into the shoulder of the bull and the blood flowing out.
And if you superimpose the, The constellation of the the Taurus, in the classical sense, the shoulder of the bull is the Pleiades.
[00:29:49] Unknown:
Alright. So right there, what he says right there, That is a pagan ritual from my understanding. Mithraism is a it was Chechi Pateez call calls it a cult, And it seems as though they were doing pagan rituals. And Cave on Twitter, he has to say that Pagan rituals were mixed into Christianity. The, quote, unquote, fallen angels, which from cave's perspective are actual aliens from other planets pretending to be God, playing God, but also seeking power, and worship, and blood. The fallen the fallen angels taught elites to use a bull in rituals to mock Pleiadians. Let me play the last little bit
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what Carlson said here. The Taurus in the classical sense, the shoulder of the bull is the Pleiades.
[00:30:42] Unknown:
The Pleiades. The Pleiades. That's a constellation in space. Cabe speaks about the Pleiadians. There's a species of people within the Pleiadians. And, I've already gone a bit into that already in past episodes, so go back to those, but What I'm just seeing is there's a lot of crossover, and there's a lot of, conflicting narratives, and I'm still seeking truth. I'm still seeking truth here, and the narratives of Christianity just clearly, from my point of view, they do not unify people. The narratives of Christianity, I think put people in a more submissive position.
But when you read the words of Jesus, Jesus didn't put anyone in a submissive position. Jesus You know, the the story of of Jesus, speaking to a tax collector, and he invites the tax collector to to have dinner with him. And people, you know, they hated the tax collector, because they would steal more. They would take more than what the real taxes were, And you got Jesus having dinner with him, and actually treating him like a human, treating him like a person, and loving him. And through that interaction, To my memory of that story, the tax collector had a change of heart, and started following Jesus.
And It's just different, man. It's just different. It's just not that it it's not what the church says it was. I was listening to another podcast this week, for my friend, Kyron, Kyron Down. He's in Australia. And I I and he was discussing, how he's just not been interested in talking with with Christians at all. He's more interested in other belief systems.
[00:32:42] Unknown:
Why was it that I've I've become, over the years, just spent more time looking at, you know, Zen and Buddhism than I have at, Say, like, Christianity, for example. And I think they're better marketers. Like, I've never had a a a Buddhist person really come up to me and, like, try and sell their religion. Whereas, I can think of so many times where I've had the, you know, the very Explicit. They come up to the door and they're trying to pitch me Jehovah's Witness style or or something like that.
[00:33:11] Unknown:
Yeah. Why who cares about the Jehovah Witness? Like, Why would you wanna talk to a Jehovah Jehovah Witness? Why would you wanna speak to a Christian who's trying to give you a little card That says, like, you're gonna burn in hell if you don't follow Jesus. You know what I mean? It's just really suspicious, and I don't like it. I don't like it at all, and I can respect Kyran's position more, because he's actually searching for something. He's actually looking for A good way of living. So with that, it's, it makes me want to explore more. Karen Chiron inspires me to explore more things like that. I've never looked into Buddhism.
I've never looked into Hinduism, but it seems like My instinct says that the teachings of Jesus are more aligned with with, with those things than what the Roman Empire has to say. I reject the Roman Empire. I reject all these things. The last thing I wanna bring up is just like a funny thing that happened on Twitter. So I, if you're looking at your photo right now, so if you're looking at your podcasting 2.0 app, There's, I quote tweeted this video of this, of the statue of Constantine, And I said, the Roman Emperor positioned himself as God. He's holding Earth, and for some reason, Christians are supposed to honor him?
Total fucking bullshit. Fuck the empire. Fuck the religion. Choose love in your heart. Worship no one. And if you wanna go to this tweet, I think it's actually a little funny. I got a bunch of Catholics commenting under this, and, of course, it's the Catholics defending this fallen emperor, this dead guy. It's insane, dude. A bunch of these people were saying first of all, I got called a dumb prot, A dumb pro a dumb protestant. And, some other guy was like, do you know who Constantine is? And then I said, He's definitely the guy who centralized the religion around Jesus for the empowerment of the Roman Empire. And then this guy says, so the answer is no. Bro, I don't know what else is what I I just went to chat GPT. Like, what's the history? What's the information?
And then, some other and then this other guy these are just random people. Right? This one guy says, my brother in Christ, the orb is an orb of divine authority. This is common in coronations or depictions of Christian monarchs such as Constantine. What divine authority, dude? You're supposed to worship Jesus. The fuck are you talking about, man? And then another another Catholic is saying cope. And then just, another my my favorite one Says, this is embarrassing. Please delete for your own sake. Thanks. Okay. Sure. I'm gonna delete it. No, dude. I stand by my words. I stand by this. I don't believe in the Roman Empire. I don't believe in what Constantine said.
I am willing to not believe in this Roman creed. Like, that's not my faith. My faith is in my heart. My faith is in my Actions and how I treat people. My faith is in my love. The love that I have to share. The love that I have to Give myself the forgiveness that I have for myself and for the people around me who have hurt me. Jesus says to pray for your enemies. That's the complete opposite thing that any, that any Jewish, scripture says. It's a complete opposite thing than what Then what I would say the the Catholics have to say, Jesus just talked about different stuff, dude. It's just It's that simple, I think. So just very interesting. Right? Like, what do you have to say to that? Like, do you have any thoughts on this?
I I want more information on this. I'm really seeking truth here, man. I'm really I real I want the value, like, there has to be More value to to be given, man. It just It has to be. There has to be. And with that guys, with with the Value. We're gonna head on into the value for value section, the boostograms folks. America Plus is a value for value show. What that means is, I produce the value upfront. I do my best to bring narratives, that I think are interesting, and I wanna bring just information that I think is valuable, and you're able to reciprocate that value through multiple ways. There's 4 main ways that you can do it, just listening to the show is being valuable.
Sharing the show, sharing the episode, just talking about it with your friends. This these are valuable things, which is what I want. I want the show to grow, I want the value of the show to grow. Another way is you can clip show. If you wanna if you're on the fountain.fmappbytheway.
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It's the best way to support the show. The The Foundout FM app. This is, another podcasting 2.0 app. This is my favorite modern podcasting app. You can clip the show. You can also send a boostagram. The boostagram is one of the best ways to support it. This is money. This is Bitcoin in the app. You're able to send me small bits of Bitcoin, directly to to me, and directly to the people that I have on here. We're talking about last week. I got some boostograms from last Week number 108, life is mental. I got a few different boosts to read off. The first one comes in from my girlfriend at Shannon p, Shannon Passy. What up, Shan? She sends in a beautiful 333 Satoshis.
She says, you are funnier. I think last week I mentioned I'm funnier without weed. She says, you are funnier. Happier happy to be a part of your new journey, and God bless Kevin, much love. Yes. Yes, ma'am.
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Yeah. Shout out to my dad. He's getting better. He's healing from cancer. And then this next one comes in from at Joel w. He has he sent in his normal 1,111 sats. He says, bro, that's a fucking awesome update on pops, man. Boosting is loving. Yes, sir. A little cheers on that, Joel. Thank you very much. And then, let me go to and I got another boostagram from my friend, Kyron. He's he commented on number 107. He sends in a beautiful 2,222 sats, that that's Road Ducks, by the way. He says, been a minute, got backlogged with workish stuff. How's your Twitter experiment going? Any learnings?
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As the French say, it is time for Le Boost. Yeah. Karen, an update on my Twitter, since I'm talking about Twitter all the time, I'm on Twitter most of the time. I was recently demonetized on Twitter. Like, why? What? I don't know why I was demonetized. There's really zero reason. I keep asking the Twitter support people, like, what is going on, and all they can tell me is that their the review is ongoing. So I just one random day, I got demonetized. Even though I was I wasn't making any money. I made $18 that that one week in November, and I haven't made any money since. So right now, the experiment with paying for the blue check, Kyron, it hasn't returned any monetary value, but I do see some other side of, of like a connection value, you know. It's definitely I believe that I'm growing my network of people that I'm connected to. I've been able to speak with more people with the blue check.
So I think informationally, it's been good, but Monetarily, no. It hasn't been working out very well. And then we got, the last boostagram of the week. It's from Joel w. He sends in, 1,080 10 80 SATS, and he says, in honor of number 108, from the Bhagavad Gita 108. So this sort of, relates to what we're talking about this week. The the the Bhagavad Gita. This is Hindu scripture, verse chapter 10 verse 8. He says, I am the origin of all creation. Everything proceeds from me. The wise who know this perfectly worship me With great faith and devotion.
Bustar. Bustar. Thank you, Kyren. Because basically, you put Bitcoin with anything, and all of a sudden, that is more efficient. Thank you, Connor. Thank you, Joel, for that. Joel, that's really interesting. I didn't know you read Hinduism. So that's really cool to to bring forward that. What's your opinion on on the Christian narratives, man? I I think it's important to talk about. I like that Hindu scripture. We gotta do more research. We need to do more research. The individual my ultimate narrative is The individual must choose love, and you must choose inner peace.
The only way that we can have a peaceful world is if You choose peace and love for yourself. It's it's not my job to save you. It's not my job to save anyone, but I am on this journey of telling stories and and discussing topics that hopefully unlock Certain thought chains in people's minds. I feel like people are stuck. I really feel like people are stuck with this stuff, and Again, I just wanna separate the doctrine from the truth. What is that? What is the doctrine from the truth, man? Don't know what it is. Don't know what it is. But yeah, man. Tell me what you think. Honestly, this is value for value. You can send in that value. You can send in your information. You can you can chime in with this conversation. If you think I'm way off base on something, do that. Please do that. But the best way to do that is to send me monetary value.
I also have a PayPal. If you wanna do if you wanna send me any dollars, Please do that. That's linked down below in the in the show notes. Got a PayPal, and I accept Bitcoin in the modern podcasting apps. This is how independent creators thrive, dude. This is how we do it. If you're someone who wants to be involved with Value for Value as well, I have an Affiliate link down below if you want to start your own podcast, if you want to put out your music through value for value, through RSS feeds. There's an affiliate link for a hosting site that I use. I'm using Podhome. Shout out to Podhome. Really nice, really beautiful, hosting site.
Just simple clean. I can add all the songs in. I can upload stuff super easily, so if you want your own podcast, do that affiliate link. I get a few bucks from your subscription, and, yeah. That that will help me out as well. That's another value for value. Value for value is awesome. The value verse. The value verse is necessary. It's like, it's a new beautiful world, in my opinion. And, Yeah. I don't really have too much else to say, guys. I think I'm gonna wrap it up with a song. The song this week is really good. The song is coming in from an artist named, Anid Malal, or Malell, Anid Malal, And her song is named, Fly. Let's fly away together, man. Let's fly together because I believe we can. Come on now. Coming in from Tanzania, Fly by Anede.
Enjoy.
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Hey. I just wanna know every place you wanna go. You know that I will go anywhere, Butcher, you just name a place and I'll be there. Butcher, take a plane, take a boat, and maybe we can hit the floor. Doesn't matter how a winner will show. All I need to know is you'll be there. If you're like islands, it's all Let's catch a fightin'. Not even the sky's the limit because we can just fight in mil. We could go Speed up has the limit at 11 if you want to. Driving with a top road sound music club too. We could play Mariah if you wanna keep it old school. Just say the We You're the girl of my dreams, no Pressure. We can go anywhere to greener pastures.
Think I made up my mind. Witcher must be the way I get a 5, which I don't need another girl. My surrounding gotta pearl. You and I expand all the time in the world. And when you're ready, we'll lift up the Get it, girl. Now I'm counting all my blessings. Don't you know you are that blessing? We can fly a rocket ship, alright? Hey, would you? You know I wanna spend my life with you? Out of space, would you call? We can fly to anywhere. Extraterrestrial, girl, you're special. Go ahead and lead the way. If you're like islands, it's all fried. Let's catch a flyin' in. High all night, not even the sky's the limit. Because we can just hide it in there.
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