Redigging the Wells of Abraham: The Influence of Ancient Truths in Rebuilding Christendom

And Isaac digged again the wells of water which they had digged in the days of Abraham . His father for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them Genesis 26 , 17 and 18 .

In a sermon about this passage , the great 20th century preacher Martin Lloyd-Jones spelled out the need for revival and reformation in the church . Swallowed up by humanism , psychology , worldly philosophy and evolutionary theory , the church had lost the life-giving water of the preached word of God . As a result , the church had grown more impotent than ever .

The decline of the church meant the decline of Christendom and of course , lloyd-jones had passed it in London through the bombings of World War II , in the dying hours of the British Empire , as the last great bastion of Christendom breathed its last and sank into the pages of history , his church was struck by German air raids .

Worse than bombings , however , lloyd-jones recognized the cancerous humanistic teachings that had eroded people's faith in the historic church , a dark spell lay over the West . It wasn't simply that enemies lobbed bombs from the skies . Much more significant was the cancerous rot destroying the church from within . What was to be done ? Was all hope truly lost ?

Like Isaac Lloyd-Jones said , the key was going back to the past and redigging the wells of Abraham .

While the church was obsessed in his time just as much as our own , with trying to find novel solutions from psychology or business or the entertainment industry , lloyd-jones said the solutions to the church's problems were to be found in the careful study of the scriptures in church history .

Every time you find a great period of reformation and restoration in church and civilization , you will also find a rediscovery of ancient truths , lloyd-jones writes .

I would like to lay it down as a principle that there is great value in reading church history in a study of the past , and nothing , surely , is more important for us at this present time than to read the history of the past and to discover its message .

I suggest that we should do so for the very reasons which impelled Isaac to dig again the wells which they had dug in the days of Abraham , his father . It is very foolish to ignore the past .

The man who does ignore it and assumes that our problems are quite new and that therefore the past has nothing at all to teach us is a man who is not only grossly ignorant of the scriptures , he is equally ignorant of some of the greatest lessons of secular history .

Yet I think you will agree that that is the mentality that is governing the outlook of the vast majority at the present time . The basic assumption is that our problems are new , that they are quite unique and that the church in the world have never been confronted by such problems before .

Every time you get one of these great and glorious and mighty periods of reformation and revival , you will find that in every instance it seems to be a returning to something that the church had obtained before . Every time the church has been revived , she is going back to something that had happened before rediscovering and finding this ancient supply .

There is nothing I know of that is more striking in the history of the church than that principle . In season one of the King's Hall podcast , we took the axe to many of the temples , to false idols that have been erected within the walls of the church .

Revivalism and Decisionism the big , fast and famous growth model , whiteness and proxy wars , the plastic sword of Christless conservatism , among others .

In season two , we've talked at length about fatherhood and its central importance in restoring Christendom from the smallest , most atomic foundations , but now we're making a transition from fatherhood to a new subject matter in season three , in which we want to take an historical look at the first Christendom and ask a pivotal set of questions .

What was it In all its glory ? What are the key components that made it what it was , from the ecclesiastical to the civil , to the military spheres ? What were its best moments , high watermarks and greatest accomplishments ? Likewise , what were its failures and what led to its ultimate downfall ?

How can we learn from this set of blueprints and start rebuilding the walls of Christendom 2.0 ? Is everything we've been told about Christendom true ? Why go back in time ? Are we just larkers ? Are we just living in fantasy land of knights and squires and kings and great conquests ? Not so fast , in truth .

As we'll see in this episode , the work of Reformation always starts with understanding the great truths that have gone before us , but after we study the blueprints , we start the necessary work of rebuilding , one generation at a time , in this transitional episode , before we move on to Season 3 , we want to focus for a moment on the ways in which fathers have to

be the kind of men who , like Isaac , start redigging the walls of Abraham . We have to go back and find the life-giving waters that once made Christianity a great civilizing force . We have to undo the work of our modern-day Philistines who have blocked the walls of church history .

They are those modern historians who have told us that Christendom wasn't great , that it's really the source of all the evils we've known in world history . Fathers must be , as it were , historians .

They must be the kind of historians who tell the right stories about our past , so that we can remember the great works of God , the principles that guided the best of our kingly lineage , and so that we can lay out blueprints for our sons to carry on the work of building the next Christendom .

The Kings Hall podcast exists to make self-ruled men who rule well in the world .

They always take that which is useful and good and supporting of life and then they just ruin it , they bring death .

We're going back to Christendom and church history and figuring out all these questions that we describe . What is it , what were its high watermarks , all that . But I just want to ask you guys I know we've all been doing a lot of reading .

We're all super excited , I think , about a number of things , but I want to ask each of you what has been so exciting in that research process so far , as you've looked back into these old wells of ancient truths ?

One of the things that has been exciting to me is you go back to the old paths of the first Christendom and you see the culture that was , I mean , cultivated because of worship of God , and the virtues that were embodied by nobility and by peasants alike is that you see just a completely different culture outside of our zeitgeist , and it's really been interesting

having that form our thoughts and the way that we approach problems , because it's so much easier . I mean , this is what studying history does , and this is what Lloyd Johns was saying is that when you study history , you realize , oh , all of these problems , these have happened before .

This problem reminds me of this event and this is how this king or this monk or this missionary or whomever at the church addressed this issue , and this is where it went wrong , this is where it went right , and things suddenly become a lot clearer . And it's funny how , as you look back at the old paths , all of a sudden , you know your own time better .

You look back at the past and you suddenly can see clearer the current issues of our day and knowing the times better , which is a key to wisdom , and a key to , I mean , wise action .

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Tell me and remember this is for posterity , so be honest , how do you feel it is a religion of scum , it is demonic and it urges giving way to every basest passion of the flesh of man , and it valorizes all of the basest passions of men .

So I've been stirred up in just absolute fire at the just offense at the sacrilegious and wicked usurpation of Christian lands by the Muhammedans . How do you actually feel about it , though ?

It must be channeled righteously , and the way that I've kind of I feel like at least tried to do that is in also being encouraged by the great heroes of the first Christendom , like just inspired by the courage and also then angry again at the way that our modern day has treated them and slandered them base slander and that Christians have gone along with it .

So that's been an overwhelming urge , I guess as well .

Along the way I have been struck by how much more complicated history always is when you get down into the weeds of it than any one narrative that one might want to tell in history and but that there's a beauty and a glory there , and seeing the way that God providentially ordered his story that he's telling through his church in all of the black portions and

the glories . So there's just been a lot . It stirred me up quite a bit more than I expected that it would .

So we've got a lot of great historical evidence and discussion with actual historians for this season . A lot of that will be on Patreon , especially if you're a Patreon member . It's worth noting that we'll have a lot of these ad-free on Patreon early Full interviews , so a lot of these are actually already done .

You'll get the full interview before anybody else will . Some will drop during or after the season .

Do you guys think this is true ? And why is church history so important for present works of restoration and reformation ? Why start here ?

And these are often errors that are made where , if you had just asked one question , you would have been saved from all of them . And that question being has anybody else in the previous 19 centuries of Christian history thought or practiced the way that I am currently considering , thinking and practicing ?

And if the answer is no , it doesn't necessarily by brute , you know , deductive argument mean that you're wrong , but it does mean that you should really have an epistemic humility and pause and be able to articulate the position of the church , how it developed through history , what were the practices of my forefathers and why am I thinking about departing here ?

Is there wisdom and I think of so many issues in the church today that could be rectified had we merely stopped and either said is what I'm about to do , departing , an error and that's why nobody thought this way ?

Or have I even wandered down a few miles of error and I need to go back in history and find the point where we departed and go back there , and that's often what we have to do .

Before me it is kind of the default position , whether it's explicitly said , it's assumed , and so it is really important to go back to the roots of historic Christianity and to see , because there's another thing too is that it's assumed that the first century church had everything perfect and then there was a whole dark age , you know , after , maybe like

post-Constantine Constantine and afterwards . That was just rediscovered recently , which again is a very Mormon ideal . So anyway , it is really important to go back and not be ignorant of how the church exercised their authority and their teaching and the culture and everything like that .

Actually , a book I would recommend to you is Anthony Esselen's book A Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization . It's a really good broad overview of the history of Western civilization .

Obviously it's in the title , but he goes in depth specifically in the Middle Ages and talks about how it was actually one of the greatest times of human flourishing in human existence and talks about that . I think that would be really helpful If you have just a general ignorance about church history .

This is so obvious now that I kind of like have read this sentence but even the fact that we call it the West , in the fact that we identify Christianity with the West , the reason that we do that is because the West is all that remained unconquered after the scourge of the Mohammedans went through and conquered vast swaths of Christian land and territory that had

been ruled Christianly for centuries . So even now I'm like the history of the West . I mean , I also wanna talk about the East . And there's all these veins of history that were just like you said . It's not that a lot of Christians are rejecting their history , it's that they don't even know them .

There was so much that happened in the East that I was simply ignorant of , and I know now like the more you learn , the more you know that you don't know . So there's just a whole like .

There's this great body of history of our forefathers that has so much to teach us today , and it's not only that the modern church has rejected it , it's that they've rejected it by not even learning it , and that is even worse .

Like maybe it's a different flavor , slightly different flavor , but sexual immorality coming into the church , the LGBTQ stuff , women usurping their roles , men being effeminate and disregarding their authority as church fathers and pastors this is old . This is old , old stuff . I mean , this has happened so many different times and you know what you know .

What's interesting is there's often a uniting force throughout the cycle of church history . In history , and church history is that the church would fall into licentiousness , into sexual immorality , into bad teaching , and somebody would attack .

And all of a sudden , you have a united West , you have a united England , you have these united nations , the Western church is sending troops to the eastern city of Constantinople . Yeah , because of the persecution of Christians and things like that , yeah , I mean it's , and so this is something that's happened before .

And so another thing that it does is it actually gives you hope . It gives you hope because Christ is faithful . He is faithful to his church , he's faithful to his body .

I mean , you might have some crazy you know elimination , you know survivalists , I don't know Bunker Christianity idea like well , no , it's inevitable that everybody dies and that Christ comes back to pretty much no Christians . I think that's baloney and you can look at history and see that that's absolutely not true .

There have been worse times than we live in now and things have turned out amazing for the church . It just takes a few hundred years usually .

I was thinking of , you know , on knowing church history and we talked about adoption and fatherhood in the last episode , but one of our listeners , dear listeners , one of the kings in the King's Hall , had sent us a thing saying yeah , what you guys are talking about , two tiers of Christianity , like super Christians versus other he said this is actually old

doctrine of Kazwiki in theology . So Dan and I were unpacking that in the Pugelist on the Hardman podcast . But it was just a good point that if you understand the history of a doctrine , you see this hasn't actually knew it all , and then you can go back and then refute it based on well , how did , or it's already been refuted .

And I was like no , no , no , no , tell me where I lose you . It'd be better to do a better job at some things , and that's possible . It's called sanctification . It's called sanctification and just learning skills .

But one of the charges I think could be a real charge that some of these people have said , which is are you guys just larking ? Are we just trying to lark back to an old age again of knights and roundtables and stuff like this ? And then I guess a follow up to that is so are we larkers ? And then what would make us not larkers ?

Yeah , look at that wall , a fox will climb on it and knock it down . Larker , because you haven't built a cathedral . That you guys know . Some of the cathedrals , well , you guys know Some of them were started in the 12th century , weren't finished till the Civil War , okay .

But if you went and just told that the people building them , you guys are just flipping larkers Like where's the roof on this thing ? It's like look things , take time and , believe it or not , we're three dudes . We can't single-handedly rebuild Christendom .

But here's the neat part you can participate in it as three guys and as a guy , as a family and with your limited little piddling vapor of a life . You really can use that for the glory of Christ . Don't let anybody discourage you with this . What are you doing ? What are you up to ? Like ?

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55 year old guys sitting on the internet just like telling people that they're wasting their life , like we're not just . It would be totally fair to make that objection If we podcasted about stuff that we didn't do .

You know what's larping Is refighting 500 year old battles that are already won , while not doing anything about the battles today .

One of the outflows of Martin Lloyd-Jones' life , I believe , with Ian Murray , was the starting of creating , like the Puritan paperbacks banner truth , because they wanted to revive the works of the Puritans , which has been such a tremendous blessing to the church . We're reading William Gooch Like thank God that these things have been brought back into publication .

One of the problems I've heard about these types of reform camps , though , is exactly that , like you want to wear the Luther shirt , but you wouldn't allow Luther to be in your church , you won't tolerate anybody with a sharp tongue . You won't tolerate anybody with a sharp sword who's actually going to use it .

So , dan , does it seem like the reform camp really is ? I feel like there are a lot of guys calling us LARPers who are actually LARPing , so I was going to tweet this . I saved it for our listeners in this show . Here's my hot take Do you think the reform camp I do Many of the reform camp is actually just LARPing ?

You know , like the whole , I'm reformed because I'm a five point Calvinist they're five point Calvinists that often , without even realizing it , have replaced the entire foundation of actual reformed thought with something totally foreign to the history of Christian thinking .

And then they have the audacity to claim that they are the truly reformed ones , who are bulwarks standing against these dangerous and dark ideology .

Dan , I want to ask you for our practical purposes , because I think we could be prone to this too as we go through and people could , our listeners could . Just to hammer this point home , what do you need to be doing to ensure that you're not some fake larper who is just , you know , appreciating some bygone era ?

You're just , I just love Victorian England or I just love this era . How do you not just become a phony doing that ?

Well , it's that I mean we could stop podcast , this could be our last podcast , we could press the stop button on the recording and then go do our thing , and that would literally change nothing from our day to day , other than we would have one less .

You know our meeting , that we talk into microphones , and it begins really with the small tasks of being a good father , being a good mother , discipling your kids .

Thinking about the way that you know you interact with the church so that it'll be a bulwark in the coming tide and flood of the cultural insanity . Respecting those that are in authority over you and submitting to them . Making sure that you're actually taking care of your wife and loving her as Christ loves a church , and for ladies to respect their husbands .

And I mean it's really ordinary things . Even John Lovell , normie guy , war po society seems like a great guy .

They might be having fun and by the way , if you like larping , I actually would love to larp . I mean even like , like here's we larp . I have that much confidence .

So , even in those situations , it's like if you really want to be building Christendom , then it's going to be things like physical discipline .

Yeah , it's going to be things like you know , yeah , we talk about this , but then we are also building a media company , we're building a school , we're building the church , and I think some things that people miss about us is 99% of our time is spent on pastoral ministry . Yeah , most of our conversations .

What , like , how would we have a school at our church if we did like all of these things ? That we have to be really ruthless with ourselves and Actually make sure that we're not LARPing . It really is a good pushback . It's a great self-assessment . Where am I like yeah , build the cathedral and I give 1% of my income to the church ? My friends , they're not .

They're gonna strip all they can have a cathedral or I've wondered the same thing , brian .

You know , there's all sorts of ways that we could analyze this . Maybe one of it , dan , is your favorite Parts , I guess , of worship , or one of them is that we do confession and usually the pastors are like ruthless with this .

In fact , our very own pastor Griffin was preaching recently and when he started into his application , one of my sons looked at me , because we know what happens when pastor Griffin's preaching . He looked at me and he was like here we go like we're about to get it and it's , but . But those things are good , also Because we're having to ask these questions .

Are you just a larper ? We're actually doing the things in your everyday life .

Yeah , and and the glory while it may not be that , oh , you get to worship God in the cathedral that you started . Mm-hmm , that's just not reality . Well , but it's . It's a greater glory because you actually stand at the headwaters of a flood of generations .

Yeah , we get to see something Christ accomplished and did . There's a sense that you can live that out in your life , in your community , where faith is looking at things that aren't yet .

They aren't yet there , but but you believe that , based on the promises of God , they could be Mm-hmm , if you'd be faithful and if your children would be faithful and your children's children . That's a glory . Yeah , don't let anybody dismiss that as larping . Provided you're doing , provided you're doing your ditch digging there at the headwaters .

He would bless them for those who love him . Yeah and so you're actually doing a greater work , in some senses , than the stone cutter .

Be an encouragement . Don't be the guy who's like , well , you'll never build that . I think a lot of that is actually just envy , because you know you didn't do it , or maybe your generation wasn't able to , maybe you tried whatever . But I think for the older men I would say come alongside the younger men . So you want a cathedral ?

Let me show you what it takes . Be the guy on D-Day who says you , you young ins , you don't know how to take that machine gun nest . Let me show you . Be that kind of father . And especially , this is about how we handle the weapon of history . Take the weapon of history and show your sons how to use it well and to give them hope .

But I specifically want to ask you guys what are some of the wells and the things that Philistines have put in the well that we need to most take out ? So these are false historical narratives . All throw one out there , because it's an easy one .

I think , yeah , and I would say this whole idea that colonization was all bad and and that everything that colonization did was bad , eric .

There's literally hundreds of articles on decolonization when I look this up . One of them was even called decolonize your diet . That was one of the articles why you need a more ethnically diverse diet , because you're a colonialist .

One of the ones I found most hilarious , beautiful , was one that was called decolonize your bookshelf , and In case you wonder what that means , here's what the article says .

It says Decolonizing your bookshelf means actively examining and resisting Colonialist narratives in the books you read , in diversifying your reading to include books by authors from communities do that have been victims of colonialism and systemic racism . Eric .

So one of the things we're doing is based we're reading Rudyard Kipling , we're reading the things of Empire and realizing , you know , one of these stories which maybe we'll tell in season three is a little wet your appetite . There were I believe it was in India , when the British were in India and they were burning wives on funeral pyres .

It is that we have bought this lie that Christians in the Crusades and in the the wars , even in the conflicts pre crusades , that Christians were basically sweeping through this great civilized culture , destroying centuries of Arabic progress and learning , and in all these sciences and literature , and that these barbaric Christians , lusting for treasure and killing , came

through and swept them away , when , in reality , what we're actually looking at are again lands that were brutally conquered through rape and pillaging of an evil , demonic religion , that were actively suppressing and oppressing their Christian brothers and sisters , which had been reduced to what they called Demi status of vassals , like killed at whim , raped at whim , sold

into slavery . One of the greatest slave trades in the world were Europeans , white Europeans , sold in a slavery for the purpose of the sex and other you know Awful things , to the point where many elite Arabic bloodlines became functional European because so many white women had been Stolen , abducted , put in slavery and raped by elite Muslim rulers .

So then the Christians go through and attempt to Liberate their brothers and sisters from this horrible , oppressive darkness , actually after basically having your house stolen by somebody else and and and we've bought this lie , this historical whitewashing that that they were just some kind of like animalistic Bloodlusting .

One of the things that that I was reading said that actually , what was happening when the Muslims would conquer , they would take all the best scientists , philosophers , etc . Many of whom were like Coptic Christians . Yeah , they would change their names and claim that it was to like Al Jazeera .

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It's not that we can never say well , I don't know if I would have done quite that .

It's that the overarching narrative is replayed such that Christians are basically orcs and they're and and they went through the , the woods of Lothalorean and and just like all these Virginal elves were there with their high-elvish culture , and the Christians just ruin it and sent them to the tumbling back to the Dark Ages .

And I'm like you've never picked up a history book . If you believe that that's the case , or at least A true history book if you think that's the case .

Back to your question about what are some of the ways that the , that the Pharisees are the calling at the Dark Ages . Yeah , calling at the Dark Ages is just ludicrous .

Please somebody name that one of their sons , vlad the Impaler , my sons are many of them are gonna sound like or eastern Orthodox Saints because , like some of the iraqulous , over some of the eastern Christians , like the way that they handled the , the Turkish invaders , is Like Nick my guy , never mind I'm you know what , I'm not gonna shoot my shot now .

We got to wait and get there . Dude , come back this hall , season three . You don't even know , you don't even know what you're in for .

A lot of Christians have even said things like why would you ever celebrate somebody like Robert E Lee ? One of the books I think that is most helpful in understanding the idea of monuments and rewriting history is Pat Buchanan's the death of the West .

He says that tearing down monuments and rewriting history is one of the central aims of the Leftist state and , of course , it has been very Effective , effectively killing the West , he will say , by destroying its heroes and history . Well , I want to tie this , though , to scripture . What does scripture say about this ? What we find in many places ?

That God ordered the building of monuments to remind the people of what God had done in the past , and it was supposed to encourage , encourage future Generations .

the Jordan , from the very place where the priest's feet stood firmly , and bring them over With you and lay them down in the place where you lodge tonight . Then Joshua called the 12 men from the people of Israel whom he had appointed , a man from each tribe .

And Joshua said to them Pass on before the Ark of the Lord , your God , into the midst of the Jordan and take up , each of you , a stone upon his shoulder , according to the number of the tribes of the people of Israel . That this may be a sign among you . When your children ask , in a time to come , what do those stones mean to you ?

Then you shall tell them of the waters , that the waters of the Jordan were cut off Before the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord , when it passed over the Jordan and the waters of the Jordan were cut off . So these stones shall be to the people of Israel a memorial forever .

I find it interesting in this passage that the fathers of one generation were commanded to erect monuments . No in God says . Your children were asked in time to come . What do these stones mean to you ? And so we ought to have an answer for that . People might ask , brian , why are your children named Vlad the Impaler ?

It's this instinct of saying , basically , buildings don't matter , buildings of Jesus , juicing everything all the way down to the bottom , like , of course your problem with a Jesus , brian ?

For example , we're saying , by building a cathedral , even a church like the one that we are in now , we're saying Christians believe in transcendent beauty , they intend to be here for a really long time and they actually think that the world God made was good and that there is such thing as beauty and ugliness and that those things , as you behold and contemplate

them , will either shape you into an ugly soul or a beautiful soul . So we have this Piatistic Christian instinct that is like let's reduce everything down to its heavenly ultimate . But the , the Lord's prayer immediately teaches us not to do that .

It teaches us that we pray that God's will would be done on earth as it is in heaven , in the earthly things , that we would orient earthly things to their heavenly realities and heavenly good .

So Christians are always speaking in our architecture and our art and how we live our lives , how we garden and how we , you know , have courtyards around our churches and beautiful graveyards and Mausoleums and all like . Of course you can idolize those things , yeah , but you don't . You don't destroy idolatry by destroying the object of your idolatry .

If it To the degree that it is a good thing that God created , yeah . You don't destroy man's tendency to worship the woman by destroying the woman .

Does God need the Ark of the Covenant like ?

do ?

You know like actually you can do the one thing without the . It's like saying you know people , that people that enslave people lived in houses . Where are you building houses ? And I'm like you're just not thinking clearly . You're just revealing that you're a low tier intellect who can't think in clear categories . If you talk like that , that was really insulting .

Well , it should be Like these people should be ashamed of themselves . No , I'm 100%- . So I know why is everybody always mad at Eric ? When every episode of the King's Hall I basically insult like 100,000 people literally every episode , I'm actually like I'm kind of disappointed , I know .

That's not Woken Gay and I was like bro it's called that's why it's disarming . It's called colonization .

A lot of times when we look at church history , it's guys like Ambrose , it's guys like you know , that are maybe offending people . God forbid , right . These are guys who are not the cookie cutter Matt Chandler , nice guy who's afraid to step on toes and wants to , you know , play nice with the current culture .

So if you would just do me the honor , I got you .

These men were steeped in scripture . They were marked by audacious courage in the face of opposition . They were emboldened by deep convictions as to the truth and a love for Christ's church that drove them to attempt to bring it back to its timeless standard . In the simplest terms , they long to see God's people worship him .

According to scripture , these men were shining lights in a dark day . Some of them literally lit on fire , saying I hope that my burning body is a candle that illuminates such a light in England as to never be put out . The reformers did not see themselves as inventors , discoverers or creators . Historian Stephen Nichols tells us .

Instead , they saw their efforts as rediscovery . They weren't making something from scratch . They were reviving something that had become dead or dying . They looked back to the Bible .

They looked back to the apostolic era , as well as the early church fathers , such as Augustine , in the fourth and fifth century , for the mold by which they could shape the church and reform it . The reformers had a saying ecclesia reformata , semper reformata , meaning the church reformed , always reforming .

The Magisterial Reformers are so-called because their reform efforts were supported by at least some ruling authorities or magistrates and because they believed the civil magistrates ought to enforce the true faith . So this term is used to distinguish them from the radical reformers , the Anabaptists , whose efforts had no Magisterial support .

The reformers are also called Magisterial because the word Magister can mean teacher and the Magisterial Reformation strongly emphasize the authority of teachers .

These men were steeped in scripture and marked by audacious courage in the face of opposition . Maybe they were men like Charles Martel , whose name means the hammer , I mean tours , come on .

Yeah , you should absolutely wanna be the good guy in the story , to be like them , to imitate them and to walk in their footsteps , and so , of course , you don't wanna be the kind of like egomaniac that's like I basically am as cool as Charlemagne today , but you should be saying I'm going to try to be a good king in my domain .

That is interesting , though , is I've seen the criticism fly toward you a lot , which is you know , you're going out there and you're saying things with conviction , like you actually think they're true , and people are like no , no , no , you need to come out and you need to be like well , you know , let's have a moratorium on making a declaration here .

But , why is like we have to resist that temptation , correct ?

I'm confident only of this , that I don't know anything and I'm an idiot . And then I'm like well , why are you speaking to any issue at all if you're so confident that you're such a dummy ? It's like you must have conviction and you must live by those convictions . It's inescapable . It's not weather , but which issue .

You're going to have convictions , make sure they're good ones and then full send , full send . Stop being a coward who's pretending to be humble by play , acting at being a kind of guy who has no firm convictions in his mind . Nobody's buying it . Nobody actually thinks you're humble , we're just annoyed .

Now , some people do think they're humble , some people do , but the rest of us are just annoyed .

So if you're going to be a reformer , if you're going to be a cathedral builder , why do you need to be comfortable as being the kind of man who has real enemies who hate him ?

You're not going to bow to the whims of the crowd or the mob or whatever ideology , the zeitgeist of the time , and so people are naturally going to hate you . And so if you don't have enemies , if you don't have people that dislike you , maybe you're not a principled guy .

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I recorded most of it in one take with a single mic just sitting in front of me playing the song , so it's much less produced . I did all of it myself , mixed-mastered everything myself .

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