Opus 2025-609: Trying to Upstage God

One of the YouTube offerings that I have been looking at somewhat regularly is offered by a man named Anton Daniels.  He represents what I believe or want to believe is a growing number of blacks with conservative values who are speaking up and actually engaging their brain instead of just their emotions.  He’s definitely off the plantation.  He also is not on my plantation, so his views are not always what I would want, but he is speaking intelligently.

He will show bits of TikTok videos and things like that where people are saying a lot of nonsense and then he will analyze it.

What came to my mind as I was listening to one today was the lady who was on his TikTok blurb was talking like God was actually a part of her life.  She mentioned God a number of times and used some of the jargon that would make you think that she’d at least been to church.  She was, according to, her 60 years old and according to the camera was still a very attractive lady.  Makeup can do wonders.  As she described your frustrations, underneath it all what came out to me in my interpretation was it the 60-year-old woman was out looking for love in the wrong places and was upset that she was finding nothing but a bunch of men who were looking for easy hook ups in the right places.  What she considered the wrong places were the right places for them.  I assume she was talking about bars and places like that which I would have no idea about.  She seemed to go out fairly regularly.  She mentioned at one point that she kept track of all the people she’d been with.  She’s been divorced for seven years and sounds like she’d been looking pretty hard.  Now, if she had not brought God up, I would have just kind of blown it away and said Ok, here’s another randy broad out looking for a man who will really love her, whatever that means.

That made me think back to the number of times that the host of this podcast had mentioned God or made reference to Christianity and to moral values and such.  At the same time, I’ve never heard anything other than the occasional jargon which would make me think that he had a personal faith in Jesus Christ.  He seemed to be basically an old school, cultural Christian, who knew the words, but not the Word.  Again, this is not a major criticism that I’m making of him.  Where I’m getting to here is the way in which so many people are quite comfortable talking about God and I keep wondering what God are they talking about.

I see the same phenomenon in a lot of the pagan conservatives such as Douglas Murray, Joe Rogan and such.  They seem to believe there is a God; they acknowledge that.  They seem totally confused about who this God is.  If you’ve ever read meditations by Marcus Aurelius, you’ll find that he is all over the page when it comes to his spiritual convictions.  At one point, he is a polytheist.  At another place he is a pagan monotheist.  At another place, he will talk about reincarnation.  It depends on his mood for the day.  If you read the right sections, you might even think he was a Christian.  It’s kind of like people who could talk about cars. 

Now when I talk about cars, it’s usually pretty generic.  If money was not an object, I might get myself a Rolls-Royce and cruise.  More realistically, I might go for a Cadillac Escalade.  It would be necessary that money would not be an object because I would need the kind of roadside assistance and mechanics who know what they’re talking about and would keep me moving.  In reality, the world I live in right now, I’m driving a 2002 Mercury Marquis, which I bought two or three years ago.  It’s running well.  It’s reliable.  It doesn’t embarrass me by it looks.  It has everything I need.

Now go talk to somebody who is really convinced that Chevys are better than Fords.  Or someone who is convinced that a Lexis is the most reliable car in the world.  They are true believers.  They know their cars and they know what they think it’s the best.  That person would be the parallel of the true believing Christian and in this case, I would be an example of your pagan who wants the benefits of religion, but doesn’t want the price.

I pray that some day they will know God as God.

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