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The season closes with the channel’s hardest bridge from the ancient past into the living present. Ammon Hillman reads a news investigation into a modern religious community whose leaders, the article reports, taught that a wife is not allowed to tell her husband no. The story follows a woman whose repeated abuse was handled by pastors as a private sin instead of a crime. Hillman uses it to make a single claim, reported here rather than endorsed: that the same structure he has been reading in the old mysteries is still working in institutions that call themselves faithful.
The Greek supplies the thesis. Hillman points to democracy as the invention of a people five hundred years before the Christian era, the people who raised a statue of a woman with victory in one hand and a spear in the other. That is Athena, the virgin on the hill. He then turns to an interview on Gnostic Informant with a Ukrainian woman, Anastasiya, whose father was killed by artillery, and calls her the voice of the Cimmerian sybil. In his framing, she carries the oracular thread from Harkiv down to the present. Loyalty, he says, belongs not to a party but to the shrine and to what it protects.
The title comes from Medea herself. Hillman reads a fragment from Nonnus where a mourning daughter speaks of the father Laius and calls the loosener Bacchus, and he attributes the voice to Medea, the seer whose judgment burned the false bride. The episode ends with the claim that the maid of Harkiv was known in the old sources for the power of her virginity and her magic, a golden drakaina. The closer is an invitation to the oracular voice, the cure placed against the disease that opened the night.
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Take me to that happy hour I never had.
Show me the girl I never met.
I want it so bad.
There’s that golden palace.
There is that whore called destiny.
I think she ran off without me.
Welcome back to Lady Babylon Bible Study.
This will be our last before my vacation.
So we’ll be off for a week.
all our classes will be stopped for a week and then we’ll pick up with more vim and vigor than
we had before by the way i’m really pleased with my students you guys are doing a fantastic job
just a fantastic job we have a great show tonight for you we’re going to start off with the disease
and we’re going to end with a cure some excitement tonight a few reels for you a little bit of play
with some video and we will watch the bride burn our first issue tonight is an update coming to us
from kentucky at the end of a revival yes at the end of a revival roll it you go is showing
well apparently it’s infectious lee university is already seeing a similar move i know many
university sending delegations there in hopes that they can catch it a shout out to all the witches
and their poxery um today i want to jump into right into a little bit of our present we’re
pulling from the past and we’re pulling from the future into this moment and at this moment i want
you to be able to see what’s around you and i want you to be able to appreciate where we are
a little bit of the museum wrapped up in some video i’d like you to watch i’m going to play
this first video and then i’m going to read to you um a vice an article by vice which i think
is the last true journalistic holdout what these reporters do what these um what they get is uh
You know, it’s the difference between what you buy in the store that’s processed and what goes out of the ground.
It’s the real stuff.
It’s the real stuff.
I want you to take a look tonight.
I invite, tonight we invite to a Bible study, an authority on the Bible.
And just the right person to set the stage for you to see maybe, maybe what it’s all about.
An almost perfect jumble.
French routinely trips over the wise Turk, foolish Christian trope.
Whether he refers to it or not, it is always running in the background.
Quote, the most prominent apologetics ministry in the United States was run by an abuser of women.
You have perhaps the largest Christian camp housing one of the worst super predators in American life for a decade plus and then covering it up.
You could go down the line.
And time and time again, I hear Christians say, we need more Christians in power.
And I’m thinking, do we though?
Close quote.
What he wants is more people in power who actually act like Christians. So do I. He wants Christian
values to govern, but is not willing to call them that. So he wants our virtuous actions in the
public square to be the kind of thing that can spring up anywhere, like Athena from the head of
Zeus. No, no, not the head of Zeus. Too religious, too denominational. We want a secular Athena to
emerge from an unspecified cupboard of vanilla virtue. The cupboard is located in the back of
the house. We’re not sure where exactly. He wants to capture the vapors of civic virtue that are
seeping out of the mystery box. He wants generally Christian-friendly virtue without having to name
the name of Christ. You can see the symbols coming forward, right? Take the left-handed path. Let’s
follow where he goes with it. But here’s the catch. That doesn’t exist. The virtues that David
French loves and respects and fights for are virtues that are not like Melchizedek. The virtues
that are embedded in our customs, mores, and laws, and which are barely hanging on anymore, are not,
quote, without father or mother. Our public virtues are not without genealogy. They actually
had a beginning of days. They grew up in the black soil of a robust Christian consensus,
as Francis Schaeffer cogently argued. And ever since the day we decided to transplant them all
into this white powdery chalk, they have done quite poorly. And the more they wilt, the more
David French lectures those Christians who want to put them back in their original soil.
So we see what we’ve got in front of us and you say, oh, this is ridiculous that we’re having to
go into this because these people don’t have any influence no it turns out they
do and it turns out your government is being attacked right now right now the
insurrection is happening historically people we don’t have flights of fancy
and small units over time there are movements that rise against the
government, against the powers that be. And those movements start through this web of what Doug
Wilson is weaving. Yes, he’s an open advocate for overthrowing the powers that God does not
deem to be of his standard. Yes, yes. So today the theme in the background is, as the bride burns,
is the idea of this voice of democracy this voice of where it came from right how does it come out
how does it bring itself to life after centuries of lying in rest under tyranny how does it
bubble forth out of the out of the soil vice news published an article about doug and his
Doug and his uh his escapades and it’s titled inside the church that preaches wives need to be
led with a firm hand with a firm hand I want to read a quote to you depending upon whom you ask
the town either hosts the Calvinist utopia or a patriarchal cult in which women must submit
or face discipline at home and at church I’m not why that’s an either I’m not sure why that’s an
either or, you know, you can have both of those. As a matter
of fact, I don’t think you can have that as an either or, you
know, they just go together. They go together. I want to
tell you the story of gene, but I want to read it to you from
from the journalist. By the way, we need the name of Sarah.
Yeah, stare at Sarah stunk orb. Excuse me if I if I’ve
mispronounced your name, Sarah, but kudos to you. Kudos to you for the, yeah, for the work that
you’ve done. Thank you. As an American, thank you. Thank you. Let’s look at what they’re saying here.
Well, to learn about, she says, to learn about Christ Church’s culture of abuse and social
control, Vice has interviewed 12 former and current church members and Logos students. Logos
is what they have logos is what they have a school they have set up because this monstrous taliban
guy is bringing forward um is bringing forward a s a form of control that is impacting a lot of
people yeah so what vice has done is they would they dug into the individuals bring out the
witnesses look watch through the size of gene um yeah here we go i just want to read this during
gene’s first year as a non-matriculating student at new saint andrews oh by the way well i was
saying about the logos they’ve they’ve tried to capture the logos by creating an academy what
they call a classical academy right um by the you know the romans said hey man the christians they
can’t teach you can’t allow them to teach right and everybody’s like it was because they were
corrupting the text in order to bring about the overthrow of the authorities surprise surprise
here they are with their ancient confederate flags trying to bring down the union yeah
surprised is anybody surprised anybody smell i smell something it’s probably coming from florida
amazing yeah so she matriculated christ church’s college of about 150 students she met a charming
handsome upperclassman by the way um this is going to be rough so hold on to your stomachs but this
is history and life and we’re investigating what happened right with that naked boy that he was
arrested with right so this is all part of it let’s see so she um gene medic char that’s not
name gene met a charming handsome upperclassman his father was a deacon at mother kirk right at
the church by her second year they started dating and soon he said he wanted to marry her i had
stars in my eyes remembers gene but then he got physical i was a virgin and it scared me within
their first year of dating heavy petting turned coercive sex he’d get her drunk and refused to
accept her wishes not to have sex he refused condoms gene who had been raised on a steady
diet of purity movement books felt like she had no choice but to marry him there’s that entity
there’s that sanctity of marriage right in your face this is the sanctity right as we’re going in
we’re getting ready to burn the bride right the sanctity of marriage this is this is their idea
yeah gene who had been raised on a steady diet of purity movement books felt like she had no
choice but to marry him was somehow unclean and unworthy before they got married she joined the
church taking covenant vows in front of the congregation after her vows kirker came up and
shook her hand saying how beautiful she was ew okay can i just say just leave it on me i just
want them to get this on me um gross first of all inappropriate and gross but watch this that’s a
big deal she says to men in leadership they brag about how their women are more beautiful than
pagan wives yeah this is now here and now right this is what’s going on the wedding leave me up
there please the wedding officiated by wilson okay was four years after she moved to moscow
starting nine months after they were married. They had a baby every other year until the couple
had four children. One night after their first was born, her husband came home drunk after she
was asleep. He pulled her over, lifted her nightgown. She told him not tonight that she was
tired. He got angry. She tried clawing away, then pushing him away with her arms. He pinned her down
so she used her legs to kick him. That’s when he unbuttoned his pants. And Jean says, when he was
done, he passed out drunk and I locked myself in the bathroom and cried. She was bruised and her
insides bled. She called a Kirker friend about it the next day. The friend attended a Christchurch
plant, a seedling congregation based in Christchurch’s doctrine and culture. Wait a minute,
what? Remember what Tom said? Thomas Jefferson said, greatest threat to the fledgling American
democracy is the Christian church. Yeah. Look at it. See it for what it is. You people have gone
back. You’ve seen the Bacchic movements. You’ve seen the Christianity that was oppressed and
attempted to be suppressed and put out before they burned down Rome. Yeah. Yeah. Now you understand
why the Romans were all about, if it doesn’t interfere with government, right? They’re not
trying to stop the government. We don’t care what they do, but it’s when they step over that line.
Wilson is not only across that line, he is miles beyond it with an army, with an army of what you
and I could come up with names for, but maybe victims is one of the names you might come up
with. Yeah. I hate to put Jean in that category. You know what I mean? Yeah. She said the woman
that she talked to said the same thing was going on in her marriage. Marital rape it seemed was
normal. So Jean didn’t report it. Jean’s husband raped her over and again a couple of times a week
for about a decade. Seriously? Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Either with violence or by waiting until after
she took a prescription sleeping pill sometimes i’d wake up with him on me having me or i’d wake
up the next morning and be bleeding and see the signs jane has since been diagnosed with ptsd from
sexual assault you know years into her marriage jane went to several pastors at trinity reform
a moscow christ church plant and told them her husband had been raping her although they did
notify Christchurch leaders because her then-husband’s father was an elder who could be
disciplined if his son continued to sin. The pastors at Trinity, quote, all told me not to
report it and that I was wrong. These pastors told me a wife is not allowed to tell her husband no.
Yeah, it gets worse from there. They keep pressuring her not to do anything about it.
It’s an accepted, you know, thing. And the church, Wilson comes out with comments about children being, children who are raped can be married to the person who raped them for a, if they exhibit repentance and if they pay a fine, right?
It’s based on a godly law.
Jehovah did the same stuff, right?
It’s all the trafficking, right?
Human trafficking.
Amazing.
What does this have to do with the Bible and with Bible study and with satanic initiation, right?
What does it have to do?
We’re going to try to make that bridge.
We’ve got another.
We’ve got just about 15 minutes.
but we’re going to make a bridge now as we’re sitting in that history and we’re looking at
jesus in the garden saying why is he with that naked kid and everybody has walked out of the room
who has who who has any respect for what is going on right everybody’s left because we’ve got him
in a garden we got him at 4 a.m we got him with a naked boy he’s obviously on something he’s
confused and he’s throwing around the word trafficker he said i’m not a trafficker i’m not
a trafficker so um let’s figure out where do we go between his followers and the what they
produce this anti-government movement doesn’t matter that’s america right and this is where
you brits and you canadians know you got that funny feeling and you know you’re behind us right
with we’re the pioneers and the looks like we’re the pioneers with the uh with the the dark attempt
to overthrow the light of justice and and uh democracy yeah um fantastic that we have to be
the leaders in that but maybe we can show them maybe we can show them anyway doug doug is there
with his taliban-esque approach he’s very ancient this is a very christian thing it’s a very
christian thing to rise up against the government right the christians will tell you that your
government is based in a christian heritage it’s not democracy was the invention of a group of
people 500 years before jesus ever pooped his diaper 500 years 500 years and those people
built a statue on their big hill of a woman with victory in her hands and a spear in the other
yeah so when wilson speaks of athena remember he’s teaching about athena i bet you he teached in his
in his academy right he’s he’s pushing a curriculum that teaches this classical heritage imagine how
much he’s lying and messing it up. Imagine how much, Chthonius, imagine Doug Wilson talking
about Athena. It’s disgusting and despicable, isn’t it, right? By the way, those dudes that
were involved in his church getting in trouble for raping underage girls and whatnot, those guys
were helped by his church. They were helped. They were given resources, right? After all of this,
after the civil authorities caught them, right, they’re still supporting them. Why? Why? Why the
Taliban? And why here in America? So we’re going to make that bridge, and I want to jump over.
I want to jump over now to Ukraine. And for those of you who didn’t see it today,
I want you, I want to take a quick look at an interview that was done by Gnostic Informant.
and i think that um i think that it’ll be obvious why we’re doing this so chewy hit it well i’m not
sure to be quite honest what they think they’re dead i presume but um yeah i’m not actually like
ethnically ukrainian just surprised the people i know i know i’m a patriot obviously of ukraine
but i’m not like ethnically ukraine i identified ukraine obviously at nationality wise i was born
in ukraine i was raised in ukraine it’s my country it’s my people obviously but ethnically i’m
Greek and I’m also partially Polish and partially Russian. The person who wrote this probably likes
you ten times more now because he’s also fluent in Greek. My father was a Greek basically full
on and um yeah he was killed unfortunately um in july by russian artillery so yeah so i don’t know
about like the ancestors what they think about this whole mess but i do think like this is a
generational battle it’s like generations prior of ukrainians uh have fought the same battle
against russian imperialism and oppression and they fought for our right to exist as a country
and to rule ourselves all my life i was raised with american flag i thought i owned liberty
and democracy i thought i owned these things and today i saw somebody i saw that oracular voice
come right out of time and space and bring itself alive you know yeah her father was killed
anastasia’s father was killed by vlad putin vlad putin who is also as anastasia pointed out um
connected with groups that are religious groups that are pushing an lgbtq plus destruction
destruction total destruction wipe them out right this is the type of person who goes to the
to the protests and gets the bruises she’s the one anastasia shame on us shame on us
right now we have a chance we have a chance to do something here we have a chance to somehow
be involved with this rebirth this historic rebirth of the spirit of democracy of athena
herself right next one please so it’s something we deal with i guess the same thing as they did
before and i do think that uh ancestors of ukrainian people i guess you could say would
be very proud for us continuing their fight and yeah i sometimes say that ukraine is like the
phoenix basically bird uh because it’s just revised all the time you know this is just our
history you know and i hope i really hope that this time will be the last one that this time
will be the one that we will actually win and they will will be forever uh seen as uh you know
as as what we are as ukraine it’s very meaningful actually because we have been not heard for many
many years so people did not hear us at all our our like our history the way we see it our struggle
so they only heard um the side of the conqueror let’s put it like that which is russia right
And so for us to be heard and to be finally, I guess, accepted and admitted as people, as a country, is very important to us, for sure, because it’s something that we really struggled with.
So her ancestors, the Khmerians, would bring her forward as a Sybil to show you the future in the present through the past.
These are the people that were connected to those Thracians. These are the Scythian tribes that were perpetuating the oistress, the oistromania, that state of madness where their oracle, the Medwa, who was queen of Georgia, where she would bring freedom.
and how did she bring freedom she brought freedom with her voice by burning a bride alive yes it
has to go it has to we have to repel this people have to know people have to know the murderers of
the mothers and the daughters are doing you and i are sitting here tonight right i’m not worried
about bombs coming in right but i know we are on the verge of losing our republic and tearing
ourselves apart i am proud that my government is fighting to defend anastasia i’m proud i’m proud
there are americans who are over there right now doing their thing and it’s my hope it’s my hope
these men and women who stand up against the foulness of the creeps whose greed compels them
to kill mothers and daughters and fathers yeah anastasia’s father as a father anastasia i can
tell you i know your father is proud i know he’s proud yeah yeah fantastic fantastic i had a i had
a quick passage for you from nonus that i wanted to i wanted to talk about um i think we’ll save
it for next time fair enough to let you know it’s the it’s she the goddess right the great mother
who sows the universe that’s how she’s she’s go ahead and put it up there olivia let’s just
let’s just take a quick look at it excuse me let’s just take a quick look at it yes you who are
you are the seed scatterer of the ion of the ionic of the ionic organization yep whoop more physics
right you mother of loves mother of loves there’s no there’s no leader of the cows that’s bothering
me right there’s no leader of the herd there’s no desire for sleep it’s not the insanity of love
that which dawn shows. That’s not what I am bothered by, nor the love of Selene when she
is with her beloved dreamer. It’s not these things. It’s my mourning for my father, my father
Laius, the loosener, Bacchus. Please stand beside your brother. Stand beside your brother.
Yeah, it was Medea. We don’t have this text, but it was Medea. If there’s one last thing that I could say to Anastasia, maybe directly, it’s I know of a Cimmerian Sybil from the ancient world, from Harkiv, before it was a city.
yeah and that chimerion sybil with greek blood she was known for her power for her tremendous
power says says the man who possessed her oracles she was known for her tremendous power
the power of her virginity the power of her magic the maid of harkiv is the golden dragon
Yeah. Gorgeous. Anastasia, I hope that sometime you can come to satanic initiation. I will always reserve a place for that power. Yeah. But those of us who are here, there’s something that we can do.
and gnostic informant very wisely asked her what can we do what can we do we’re right at that point
let’s not just sit around let’s figure out how to support how to support uh the beauty how to
how to defend the virgin right that great acropolis that gave us our democracy um i would love for
for you to come on made of her keys and tell us the basics the basics of you
know bring us to that world and give us your voice and show us the future show
us bring us to the to the place that we can be people of honor yeah we don’t
have anybody else around I meant to have Rob over from the UK to give us an
update on the on the intellect of the uk push within the club and also um we don’t have our
canadian representative it’s just me tonight everybody’s on vacation thank you for an
excellent second season and thank you for the incredible work and those of you who are doing
it know who i’m talking to the incredible work that you are doing and of this museum is is
building in strength. And now let’s give it that oracular voice. Let’s bring it back. Let’s bring
it back. And to Doug Wilson, creepy, creepy stuff, brother. Yeah, creepy stuff. Oh, and by the way,
your Jesus was arrested in a public park with a naked boy. Looks like you’re in the right business.
Show me the girl I never met. I want it so bad. Where is that golden palace? Where is that horse called destiny? I think she ran about me.
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