Paul Hodson

Christian (Reformed Baptist, 1689 Lndn Bapt Conf), husband to love of my life, father of 7 wonderful kids, grandfather of 4+ (so far)!

[𝔚𝔥𝔦𝔱𝔢𝔅𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔡 @HwsEleutheroi]

In your recent video you sat there while Brian condemned to hell those who would criticize your work. Here is the transcript: "Um, you know, all the usual suspects are still going to post their clips and what not. And I'm not naming a lot of them because I have absolutely no res I want here I have a message for you. I have absolutely no respect for you as a person. I think you're bad people And you are actively doing harm against the church and you should repent or you will go to hell." But that, of course, is not divisive, nor slanderous, nor accusatory. No, surely not!

Man up, Eric. Stop with the anonymous stuff. You and Brian invited known, documented purveyors of Nazi ideology to your conference. You took their money. You let them sell their books. Their white supremacist flyer was passed around the entire conference and you did nothing. You sat there while Brian condemned people to hell, the "usual suspects." And now you are pretending to be all spiritual (how dare you!) in "praying for" older ministers. You are not praying for anyone. This is pure theater, and you know it. So man up, big guy. Put on your best bench press shirt and quit hiding behind anonymous spiritual platitudes. Name names. We have been doing that all along. See, when you do, then you have to actually document the slander, and THAT is when it gets tough, right? So much easier to do the anonymous "we are being picked on!" thing, isn't it? So name names, name the slander, document it like a man.

[𝔚𝔥𝔦𝔱𝔢𝔅𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔡 @HwsEleutheroi]

Everyone needs to see this and recognize the form of manipulation it is utilizing.

@Brian_Sauve and company got caught with genuine, in the flesh, self-professed, “it’s all over our websites” Nazis at their conference. So how do they respond to the documentation? Deflection, victimhood, and seeking to create victim passion amongst their followers.

First, no one even HAD to hunt Nazis. Hunting takes work! You have to search and look! You all made it easy. You invited them in, gave them a place to set up, had them at your VIP meet and greet, and let them sell their wares to your attendees! No hunting needed when you do all that for us!

But more importantly look at what Sauve does. He draws on given truths that make all of us angry. Muslim rape gangs. Cowardly UK politicians like Keir Starmer (what a vile creature he is!). He taps into our general dislike of, and distrust of, government—all of it, anymore. He brings up how expensive homes are. What there are anti-whites, anti-Christians, etc., in our society. And on and on it goes. And what does ANY of this have to do with Antelope Hills and the absolute MESS Sauve and Conn have made? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. None of the material being promoted by Antelope Hills will do ANYTHING about ANY of the societal ills Sauve lists. Instead, he adds to his “going to hell” condemnation of yesterday another anonymous cavil, “our churches are led by cowards and knaves, heads buried in books.” But this entire rant is nothing but an exercise in misdirection. It is utterly lacking in logical coherence and intellectual content. It’s smoke to attempt to cover a hasty retreat.

[The Rational Animal 🤔 @theobjectivist]

I appreciate the direct response, Congressman @RoKhanna. You've raised a real question, so let me answer it seriously.

You're partly right, and I'll grant it fully: the Founders who established a government to protect individual rights performed an achievement no inventor can match, because they built the precondition for every other achievement. Jefferson and the framers created the framework of liberty. Lincoln preserved it and extended its promise to those wrongly denied it. On that we agree. The statesman who secures freedom is a hero of the highest order.

But notice the distinction that matters. Those men are great precisely to the degree they protected liberty, not to the degree they exercised power. The Founders' greatness was in handing power back. Lincoln's was in ending a violation of rights, slavery, the gravest in our history.

That is why FDR doesn't belong with them. He did the opposite. He expanded the state at the expense of the freedom the Founders secured: seizing gold under threat of prison, attempting to pack the Court, building the apparatus that treats your earnings as the government's to allocate. He used power; he didn't restrain it.

And here is the deeper point. You frame it as Rockefeller and Musk versus the statesmen, as if they compete. They don't. The statesman's whole purpose is to protect the conditions, namely individual rights, in which the producer can create.

The Founders, along with Locke and Aristotle, built the house. Musk, Rockefeller, Bezos, and Vanderbilt are examples of what free men do inside it.

If you fully understood the principle of individual rights, you would be fighting against men and women like Warren, AOC, Sanders, and the rest of these collectivist statists in both parties, instead of advocating ideas that deprive individuals of the very rights you claim to honor.

[Douglas Wilson @douglaswils]

https://t.co/OR3GCcvDYp
"First, you don’t host a conference promising to fight for normal, and then bring in Nazis."

[Hitler Hated Christ @not_our_guy]

https://t.co/AdRpZmdqi9

[Robby Starbuck @robbystarbuck]

I’m probably going to regret asking this but what is a gay certification program and why does the state of California have one? Oh and as a side note, is there a more embarrassing reason for going to prison than failing your gay certification? 😂

[Lloyd Legalist @LloydLegalist]

Kids getting thrown off left and right. Limbs everywhere. A symphony of shrieks. And adults supervising absolutely nothing .

[Joseph Boot @DrJoeBoot]

Ezra Institute Fellow, James White, shreds the Ogden obfuscations on his show the Dividing Line. It is tragic that elements of the professing reformed world has come to this. We predicted it. Here we are.

No, Seriously, He Really is a Nazi https://t.co/Q25J0jGDEq via @YouTube

[Rep. Mike Collins @RepMikeCollins]

On this day in history in 1994, police pursue O.J. Simpson in a white Ford Bronco along a Los Angeles highway.

Simpson was the main suspect in the murder of his ex-wife and her friend. After searching and finally locating Simpson, police infamously chase the Bronco at 35mph for an hour before taking him into custody.

Although it was obvious he was guilty, Simpson was acquitted of the murder charges in 1995. He was eventually ordered to pay $33.5 million in damages to the families as a result of a separate civil case in 1997 that found him liable for their deaths.

[Joseph Boot @DrJoeBoot]

These men are pseudo-intellectual deceivers trading on young people’s anger, gullibility & ignorance. That anyone is still taking these clowns seriously - who claim those who oppose their blood & soil cult are going to hell - is illustrative of the chaos infecting the church!

[Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @christopherrufo]

SCOOP: California is pressuring public utilities to award $633 million in special contracts to "LGBT-owned" firms. To qualify, residents must go through the state's official gay-certification program—and face up to a year in jail if they're not gay enough.
https://t.co/rOcnPqYJrl

[Kyle Mann @The_Kyle_Mann]

If my @TheBabylonBee writers had pitched this as a joke, I would have rejected it for being too outlandish.

[Andy Webb @PastorAndyWebb]

I listened to Eric Conn and Brian Sauve explaining how a Nazi publishing house ended up at the "War for Normal" conference hosted by their publishing house, New Christendom. I don't personally feel at all relieved by their explaination, in fact I think they did more to highlight why so many Reformed Christians are alarmed by the spread of certain strains of Christian Nationalism.

Let me try to explain why.

First, I have been going to Reformed Christian conferences of varying sizes for 33 years, and I have never been to one that was selling pro-Third Reich, Pro-Nazi books. In fact, at every one I've been to, had someone set up the same table that was at the "War for Normal" conference, people would have been appalled, and the organizers would have booted them in less than an hour. In this case though, the table was up throughout the conference and only became controversial AFTER the event finished. As for the ridiculous "inadequately vetted" idea, no deep dive was necessary; all you had to do was visit the Antelope Hill website. The top page is literally full of works by men like Josef Goebbels and Adolf Hitler. You can't be anywhere on the site without realizing it's clearly pro-Third Reich.

Second, at no point in their discussion did they repudiate the actual Nazi stuff, which promotes the entire Aryan, Master Race, Nuremberg laws, liquidation of the Jews and "useless eaters", twisting of Christianity, slavery of the subhumans, agenda. They called those "varying political works" and encouraged people to read them for themselves. The only thing that they admitted to being upset about was the "Pro-White Businesses" card given away with the books that sent people to businesses selling tarot cards, porn, and a Nordic cult. They didn't even mention the Nazi jewellery site. They made it clear they don't have any problem with selling actual Nazi propaganda. Brian Sauve speaking of Antelope Hill, actually said, “I don’t have a problem with them” and mentioned he owned and was looking forward to reading one of their premier, 'It's all a Jewish conspiracy' books.

Third, they used the podcast to call people's concerns about Nazi propaganda at a Christian family conference, "Faux outrage" drummed up by "marionette people." Sauve had this message for those on Twitter who are posting about this (which I assume would include people like me): “I have no respect for you as a person. I think you’re bad people and you are actively doing harm against the church, and you should repent or you will go to hell.” I'm not sure what part of being concerned about Nazi material being sold at a Christian conference is "actively doing harm against the church"? but I'll move on...

Fourthly, they actually spent time peddling some of the outright lies that are becoming part and parcel of the "anti-PWC" community. I'll just give you one: they claimed that Churchill was the one who initiated incendiary raids on civilian targets, when in fact the Nazis had bombed plenty of civilian targets in Spain during the Spanish Civil War (Guernica, for instance), and had already bombed Wieluń, Warsaw, and the city center of Rotterdam with incendiaries, killing thousands of civilians. The Dutch actually surrendered BECAUSE they were afraid their cities would be wiped out one by one. At the time, the British were still conducting pointless leaflet raids and fruitless attacks on military targets.

All in all, this was not an apology nor even an excuse. Yes, they are clearly embarrassed that Nordic pagan/occultic material that was part and parcel of the Third Reich was promoted at their conference, but they are certainly not embarrassed and will not apologize that books glorifying the Third Reich, Nazi leaders, Nazism, and the twisted Christianity of the Reich were being sold and read. More alarmingly, subsequent comments seem to indicate that very few of the people who attended the conference were concerned either. In fact, a lot of the attendees seem to want a lot more of this material (something Sauve actually alluded to).

Prior to 2020 if you'd told me that an American version of the "Positive Christianity" of the Third Reich (https://t.co/56Yac85x3g ) would have a following among people calling themselves Reformed, I wouldn't have believed it, but today, I'll admit, it's happening.

[moose @mooseincrisis]

Adorable, but blur my kids’ faces next time. This is the last warning I’m giving you.

[Emir Han @RealEmirHan]

Anthony Bourdain once said RATATOUILLE is the best food movie of all time.

“The best restaurant movie ever made, the best chef movie. The tiny details are astonishing:

•The faded burns on the cooks’ wrists.

•The ‘personal histories’ of the cooks.

•The attention paid to the food.

•And the Anton Ego ratatouille epiphany hit me like a punch in the chest–literally breathtaking.

I saw it in a theater entirely full with adults–and the reaction to that moment was what movie making was once–a long time ago–all about:

Audible surprise, delight, awe and even a measure of enlightenment.

I am hugely and disproportionately proud that my miniscule contribution (if any) early early in the project’s development led to a ‘thank you’ in the credits. Amazing how much they got ‘right.’”

[Mikale Olson @realmikolson]

It appears that anyone who dares to publicly criticize New Christendom Press (Ogden, UT) for having Antelope Canyon, a self-avowed and proud Nazi publishing company, as a sponsored vendor at its latest conference is suddenly “causing division” and “accusing the brethren.”

1. Yes, we are accusing you of wrongdoing because what you’re doing is wrong.

2. I think it’s a good time to remind these guys of the obvious: those who partner with, platform, or preach Nazi philosophy in the name of Jesus are the ones wrongly dividing the Body of Christ, not the people exposing that evil.

…but by all means, keep gaslighting people.

Ogden’s front men (like Conn and Sauve) regularly uses the phrase “divisive accuser of the brethren” the same way the Left uses “racist” as a deflection against anyone who rightly rebukes them, except worse, because Ogden is quoting Scripture to do it.

[Amy Swearer @AmySwearer]

Imagine traveling to the States thinking the World Cup would be a highlight of your life...

...and within days you've become a modern Tocqueville, chronicling a nation and its people in real time for the entire world, during what now amounts to a VIP all-access tour of America.

[Lloyd Legalist @LloydLegalist]

Every family has secrets until a Sunday School teacher asks a group of kids if they’d like to share any prayer requests.