individual independence, individual accountability. god-centric. versus the idea of centralized control. glenn: it can be really even our founders, thomas paine and thomas jefferson were misled by this. they thought the french revolution was good. it s a subtle difference if you don t know what you re looking for, right? very important. right. glenn: thomas paine ended up in prison. right. so abraham gives the vision of individual impendence, which always has to include economic impendence. that s crucial. abraham, first man in the bible described as a wealthy man. blessing, good thing. not a curse. a good thing. glenn: so when we come back, the bricks and the mort mortar. america, when you find out what the mortar means in
individual independence, individual accountability. god-centric. versus the idea of centralized control. glenn: it can be really even our founders, thomas paine and thomas jefferson were misled by this. they thought the french revolution was good. it s a subtle difference if you don t know what you re looking for, right? very important. right. glenn: thomas paine ended up in prison. right. so abraham gives the vision of individual impendence, which always has to include economic impendence. that s crucial. abraham, first man in the bible described as a wealthy man. blessing, good thing. not a curse. a good thing. glenn: so when we come back, the bricks and the mort mortar. america, when you find out what the mortar means in
to the jews. as soon as the chancellor was named as hitler, he stood up and said we can t do this. we re changing. the reason why is because god was being lost. you have to understand, germany was a god-centric place, but he talks later in life in prison and torturing him, he talked about we need i think he called at it churchless religion or something like that. the left tries to twist that into see, he s a social justice guy! what he meant by that is in germany, everything was so stiff, everything was by the book and by the rule. all of the people that were behind the pulpit just said don t worry about it. don t worry about it. don t make trouble. it will be okay. we ll get past it. he wouldn t shut up.
luther king and jesus, committed to nonviolence. yeah. glenn: but those ten commandments were pretty violent let s say at one point, but that was the lord. glenn: right, because he was i m sorry, the he didn t do anything, right. yeah, right. i mean, earlier on he did kill an egyptian that he saw attacking his one of his brethren. glenn: but that s kind of he got out of the desert. that s what the desert was all about, right? here is one thing that leaps out as a common denominator, glenn. that is that when the revolution is god centric, when the motivation is by a deeper and higher purpose, the personality is trumped by the cause. so, whether it s dr. martin luther king or moses specifically, there is a willingness to not be the center of the scene. moses was willing to die and he knew somebody else would