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Speaker 2: James in Marlborough. Thanks for holding James and welcome.

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Speaker 4: No problem. How you doing, Jeff.

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Speaker 5: I think this priest is in a lot more trouble

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Speaker 5: than he realizes. A lot more trouble because, according to

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Speaker 5: the Gospels, an angel, a direct emissary of God, directed

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Speaker 5: Joseph to take.

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Speaker 4: His family to Egypt. Now, if this priest is calling

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Speaker 4: that illegal immigration, he's basically saying that God is complicit

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Speaker 4: in a crime, which is a rather odd theological position

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Speaker 4: to take.

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Speaker 2: Wouldn't you say, brilliant, James, I'm telling you, brilliant, seriously brilliant.

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Speaker 2: I know I'm like a broken record, but honestly, best

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Speaker 2: audience in the business. I mean, it's checkmate. Really, you

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Speaker 2: got them, you got them, and you know, James, I

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Speaker 2: gotta tell you. Look, and I'm not saying this to

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Speaker 2: stroke your ego. You're obviously a smart man. But look,

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Speaker 2: the archdiocese they're no dummies. I mean they're not and

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Speaker 2: a lot of them are trained in the seminary. They

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Speaker 2: know Christian traditions, they know Catholic faith, they know the Catechism,

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Speaker 2: they know you know, they know the story of Jesus,

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Speaker 2: they know it extremely well. They know this. They know this.

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Speaker 2: So how come nobody, James, honestly, how come nobody's picking

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Speaker 2: up the phone and telling this priest, father Josoma, how

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Speaker 2: do you pronounced his last name? Say, hey, dude, you

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Speaker 2: gotta go like, I'm sorry, that's it, It's over. I mean,

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Speaker 2: why is the archdiocese deliberately turning a blind eye in

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Speaker 2: your view? Even though forget the local backlash, this is

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Speaker 2: now a national story. I mean, this parish now is

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Speaker 2: bringing shame to the Catholic Church.

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Speaker 4: What's your theory, James, Well, like you said, it's uh,

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Speaker 4: it's politicized, and you know sometimes uh, you know, sometimes

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Speaker 4: scripture is difficult, you know, I mean, uh, you know,

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Speaker 4: you've got to you've got to you know, embrace what's there.

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Speaker 4: And you know, if your politics clashes with you know,

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Speaker 4: your theology or basically divine truth from a from a

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Speaker 4: religious perspective, yeah, that's pretty bad. That's pretty bad. I

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Speaker 4: mean the bottom line is on whose authority is he

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Speaker 4: making this distinction? I mean, on the one hand, you know,

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Speaker 4: you've got God telling you to do something, and on

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Speaker 4: the other hand, you know you've got this you know,

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Speaker 4: secular legal you know whatever. Uh. So again, if he's

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Speaker 4: going to start talking about legalities and the rules and such,

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Speaker 4: I think he's going to have a much harder time

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Speaker 4: finding a higher authority, uh than God. So, like I said,

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Speaker 4: I think this guy's going to be in a lot

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Speaker 4: of trouble to worry about.

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Speaker 2: James, Master, call, you nailed it. You so nailed it.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for that call. Look, this is the elephant

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Speaker 2: in the room, and it pains me as a Catholic

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Speaker 2: to say it. It really does, and to be fair.

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Speaker 2: It's not just the Catholic Church, the Lutheran Church. There

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Speaker 2: are other Protestant denominations or some Lutheran churches because there

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Speaker 2: are multiple but some Lutheran denominations and Protestant denominations are

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Speaker 2: involved as well. Okay, so it's not just a Catholic thing,

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Speaker 2: to be fair, but I'm speaking as a Catholic. It's

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Speaker 2: the billions and billions of dollars that the Vatican and

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Speaker 2: the Church gets in the United States from working with

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Speaker 2: NGOs non governmental organizations led by Catholic charities to bring

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Speaker 2: in illegal aliens and resettle them across the country. Just

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Speaker 2: follow the money. So they're espousing a globalist, open borders

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Speaker 2: id theology now, which is a form of cultural Marxism.

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Speaker 2: It's getting them now to the point that this is

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's now openly blasphemous. Okay, what they're doing now,

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Speaker 2: and nobody's doing anything because they're so in bed, forgive me,

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Speaker 2: with human trafficking, because that's what illegal immigration ultimately is.

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Speaker 2: And the Church needs the money because of all the

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Speaker 2: sex abuse scandals in the lawsuits, so they're desperate for cash.

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Speaker 2: They need the cash, and these globalist organizations, these NGOs

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Speaker 2: who have been bringing in an army of illegals go

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Speaker 2: to the churches in particular. Again, it's not just the

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Speaker 2: Catholic Church. There are other some Protestant churches are involved

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Speaker 2: as well, but still Catholic Church is a big player

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Speaker 2: in this and they're getting billions, billions of dollars out

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Speaker 2: of it, so they have a financial self interest in

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Speaker 2: pushing this. And that's why I say this respectfully to

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Speaker 2: the Pope who's come out now with another ridiculous claim,

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Speaker 2: this time about Muslims. Okay, but he's going on about,

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Speaker 2: you know, the migrant, the migrant, the migrant, and this

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Speaker 2: was not just the current Pope, previous pope, Pope Francis

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Speaker 2: same thing. You are financially compromised when you make that

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Speaker 2: kind of a statement because you are taking in vast

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Speaker 2: amounts of cash, so you have a financial vested interest

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Speaker 2: in what you say. And I'm sorry, it's wrong, it's

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Speaker 2: unethical and it's immoral. Six one seven two six six

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Speaker 2: sixty eight sixty eight agree, disagree. Keith in Avon, Thanks

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Speaker 2: for holding Keith, and.

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Speaker 6: Welcome Jeff, Jeff heirs and foremost I want to thank

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Speaker 6: you for what you do okay. Second, I want to

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Speaker 6: reach my voice out individually to every listener, one on one,

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Speaker 6: me to you listening right now. Merry Christmas, happy Honkah,

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Speaker 6: and good loving, strong vibes for anything you celebrate.

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Speaker 2: God bless you, really, God bless you. No, Merry Christmas,

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Speaker 2: happy Honkah, Thank you very much, keep going, my friend.

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Speaker 6: I look at that. I'm no theologian. I know the

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Speaker 6: Bible enough to be able to speak on it, but

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Speaker 6: you know whatever, But I look for things that aren't

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Speaker 6: in there, because everyone nitpicks and looks and tries to

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Speaker 6: draw something from every word of the Bible. But wouldn't

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Speaker 6: it make sense if there were a character in the

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Speaker 6: Bible where Mary and Joseph come to Bethlehem. They're knocking

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Speaker 6: on all the doors and everyone just slams the door

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Speaker 6: in their face, and there's no one who just said, yeah,

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Speaker 6: come on in, use my house, do whatever you need

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Speaker 6: to do, take it over.

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Speaker 4: It's fine.

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Speaker 6: That's not in the Bible, is it. It's just not there.

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Speaker 6: It would be a perfect story to have. It would

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Speaker 6: be a wonderful character to speak on for two thousand years.

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Speaker 6: But human nature is that we are secure for ourselves

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Speaker 6: and our families first, and then generous to others, not selfish,

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Speaker 6: not in a bad way. But you have to make

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Speaker 6: sure that whoever is coming into your home is someone

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Speaker 6: you know, someone you trust when you want to open

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Speaker 6: it up to not just some random stranger knocking on

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Speaker 6: the door. You know, I'll drive you to the hospital

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Speaker 6: if you're pregnant. Holy crap, but you're not giving birth

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Speaker 6: in my living room floor, like you know, so like

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Speaker 6: the whole story of Jesus and whatnot, really look at

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Speaker 6: what's not there as well as what's there.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, seriously, the previous caller grand slam, disc

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Speaker 2: grand slam. That's why baby Jesus is born in a manger.

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Speaker 2: You're right, he's not born in someone's home. You're absolutely right. Ah,

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Speaker 2: you know. And what gets me is, and I don't

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Speaker 2: mean this in any disrespectful way, but you know, Keith,

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Speaker 2: you and the previous caller, you know you're not expert theologians.

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Speaker 2: You haven't spent years studying in a seminary. And these

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Speaker 2: are trained priests or the one in Evanston he's are

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Speaker 2: trained reverence, right, I mean, these are people who apparently

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Speaker 2: you know, they have a degree and training. How come

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Speaker 2: both of you know this and you're lay people, and

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Speaker 2: they don't.

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