Contra Mundum

Many people have heard those in the online right use the phrase "Post-War Consensus" as a sort of shorthand for cultural and political narrative surrounding contemporary liberal ideas.Dr. Paul Gottfried joins us today to define precisely what it is (and what it is NOT), discuss the history behind it, whether or not the post-war consensus is collapsing and, if so, what will the future look like?

The book of Daniel intertwines themes of God's sovereignty over earthly empires with his time's spiritual and political dynamics, focusing on God's revelation through dreams and visions to assert His ultimate control over history. Nebuchadnezzar, confronted by his own dreams, finds his pagan magicians powerless to interpret, leading to a decree of death. Through divine intervention, Daniel interprets the dream and explains its prophetic significance—detailing the rise and fall of successive world empires, symbolized by a statue with parts made of different metals. This narrative underscores a progression from worship to mere tolerance of God by successive empires, culminating with the advent of Christ, depicted as a stone that destroys the statue and grows into a mountain, representing God's kingdom. This story serves as an encouragement for believers to trust in God's enduring kingdom amidst the fleeting powers of earthly rulers, emphasizing that divine wisdom and intervention surpass human understanding and control.

The politics that Big Eva pushes upon American evangelicals is a disaster for our country.Recently one of the biggest figures in Big Eva, Matt Chandler, preached a sermon on politics. We invited Stephen Wolfe to join us in breaking down just how awful the ideas and thinking in this sermon are, and to give an alternative vision for conservative evangelical political thought.

Is the Bible patriarchal? Does feminism reject the fundamental realities of the Christian faith?Today we discuss the church, feminism, masculinity, and all things related with the author of Masculine Christianity and Honor Thy Fathers, Zachary Garris.

The passage outlines how Daniel and his friends, taken captive to Babylon, represent God's people amidst spiritual warfare against pagan gods. Despite being culturally assimilated through renaming and possible emasculation, Daniel resolves not to defile himself with the king's food, symbolizing a refusal to fully submit to Babylon's ways. Miraculously, God blesses their faithfulness with health and wisdom, surpassing Babylon's wise men, illustrating that even in captivity, God's sovereignty prevails as His people remain faithful, foreshadowing the eventual defeat of Babylon. This story calls believers today to similar steadfastness against modern cultural and ideological pressures, trusting in God's ultimate victory over opposing forces.

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PART TWO of last week's discussion, this time actually WITH our special guests!Very special episode with the translators of Renaud Camus' Enemy of the Disaster.If you are unfamiliar with this very controversial thinker, he is the originator of the concept of "The Great [Exchange-of-One-Thing-for-Another]. Yet despite this being thought of as a rightwing concept, he would not be considered a man of the right.We will discuss the essays found in this book, particularly the most controversial one, and what this all means for the future of Western Civilization.

Very special episode with the translators of Renaud Camus' Enemy of the Disaster.If you are unfamiliar with this very controversial thinker, he is the originator of the concept of "The Great [Exchange-of-One-Thing-for-Another]. Yet despite this being thought of as a rightwing concept, he would not be considered a man of the right.We will discuss the essays found in this book, particularly the most controversial one, and what this all means for the future of Western Civilization.

The revolution against our way of life does not want you to celebrate many of the greatest Americans who ever lived.Today we will discuss a list of great Americans you should be proud of if you are a Heritage American.

The Washingtong Regime has just announced that they have given permission to the Zelenskyyyy One-Party Government to begin using long-range missiles to attack Russia. This will be the most significant escalation in the war to date.Will Russia respond by attacking NATO countries? Are they trying to start World War Three? How does it relate to the political situation in the US? Is this the plan to stop Trump?

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris face off tonight and we will react to what might be the only debate of the 2024 election.Brought to you by Farmer Bill's.farmerbillsprovisions.com (use promo code: CONTRA)

As leftwing cities and states become ever worse, and GOP states become a cultural, political, and economic haven, more and more people are leaving to be in environments that fit their way of life (or way of anti-life).Will this phenomenon continue to increase? And if it does, will it lead to the breakdown and destruction of the United States?SPONSORS:squirrellyjoes.com/contraionlayer.com (promo code:CONTRA)

Current political discourse has revealed that evangelicalism is a mess.Evangelical leaders are either completely tools of the Regime OR are too steeped in pietism to seriously confront the issues before us.The laity is divided and pulled in multiple different directions.What does this mean for the future?

President Trump's recent post on Truth Social about "supporting women's reproductive rights" has set off further debate about whether prolifers can support him in good conscience.A Special Guest fills in for CJay who is still in the process of moving to Tennessee.Maybe it is Beyonce or Taylor Swift?

David French has endorsed Kamala.Russell Moore has defended Tim Walz for his stolen valor lies.Are the Shepherds for Sale merely doing this for money or is there something else going on here?Chase Davis fills in for CJay (who is literally on the road in the moving truck).We discuss all this and more.

Tim Walz is the very worst governor in the United States of America.In one legislative session he transformed a moderately purple state into one of the most far left places in the entire country. He presided over the most destructive riots of our lifetimes. And now has been made the Democratic Vice Presidential nominee.We discuss this plus the thing that enabled him to destroy this state: mass migration.

Over the last week, we have been subject to the most intense propaganda campaign since 2020.Many have been tricked into believing the laughably unlikeable Vice President, who could not summon 1% of Democratic primary voters to support her in 2020 is now SOMEHOW an electoral JUGGERNAUT capable of sweeping the electoral college.Don't blackpill. STOP IT. Keep your head.We are going to win.This is a potpourri episode. Many topics will be covered.

Joe Biden has dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed his vice president, Kamala Harris.She is a singularly stupid and malevolent figure in American politics.Not only does she speak like an fifth-grader doing a book report on what she failed to read, her public career is marked by intentional destruction of anything that is true, good, and beautiful.She cannot become president of the United States.

Days after Donald Trump's life was miraculously spared, he addressed the RNC with an uncharacteristically moving and heartfelt speech.Is Trump a new man? What does this moment signal for the future?We also discuss the selection of Sen. J.D. Vance as Vice Presidential nominee and what we know about the attempt on Trump's life now almost a week later.

Donald Trump was nearly assassinated this afternoon.We react.

In our third and final episode on Neil Shenvi’s “woke right” article, we discuss his assertions that the dissident Christian Right is racist, that we are very dangerous people, and no different than a mirror image of the woke.Join us as we show that liberal anti-wokeness has no positive answer for it and is doomed to fail.

Stephen Wolfe recently gave a speech at the New Christendom Conference against multiculturalism and FOR a distinctly Anglo-Protestant America.We will watch and see what all the fuss is about!

President Trump and President Biden faced off tonight in a televised debate. Did Joe Biden survive it? Did the drugs wear off? Just how bad was CNN? Did this debate change anyone's mind?

The liberal is incapable of understanding rightist thought.They are simply not able to comprehend reality outside of the liberal framework of individualism, egalitarianism, and "rights."Any argument you make about the nature of power dynamics, hierarchy, political order, etc. will sound like Charlie Brown's mom talking.Neil Shenvi's article on the "woke right" demonstrates this acutely.We dig into it a second time today. https://shenviapologetics.com/what-is...

Recently CJay has come under attack for his Heritage America posting.Neil Shenvi wrote a long screed accusing him of being the bizarre neologism "woke right": https://shenviapologetics.com/what-is...We discuss!

It has been a rough 24 hours for "we still have a Constitutional government" believers.President Trump has just been convicted in a show trial in New York City. No one has really any understanding of what exactly he was accused of or why it is a felony. What does this mean for our country and the future?

Internet poaster Ryan Turnipseed was recently the subject of excommunication in an LCMS over his associations online, recording his confrontation with his pastor, and his criticism of, frankly, perverted changes made to his denomination's catechism.Ryan joins us to discuss what has happened to him, what will happen next, and what the future holds for this important conservative Protestant denomination.

Darryl Cooper and Ron Dodson join us.We will discuss Israel/Gaza, Ukraine/Russia, dispensationalism, and other current events.

Protests continue to rage on college campuses throughout the United States over Israel and Gaza.Apolitical frat-boys, without a dog in the fight, but who abhor disgusting leftoid freaks, have begun to fight back.We discuss what this means.Plus, we dig into an interview between John Mearsheimer and Judge Napolitano:   • Prof. John Mearsheimer : Genocide, Fr...  

Protests on Ivy League and other major university campuses over the Israeli response to the Hamas attacks has been raging for a few weeks.Andrew and Pastor Toby Sumpter recently exchanged opinions about what the motivating force for the leftist activism is, resulting in a blog post by Pastor Sumpter: https://tobyjsumpter.com/anti-white-h...Ron Dodson joins Andrew to discuss the issue.Ron's article mentioned in the episode can be found at:https://americanreformer.org/2023/11/just-what-is-israel/

Australian theologian Michael Bird has attacked The Case for Christian Nationalism in this video:    • The Case AGAINST Christian Nationalism  We review his review with his countryman, @theotherpaul.To support the show, please go to contramundumpodcast.com

What does Stephen Wolfe's The Case For Christian Nationalism have to say about Elite Theory?How does a ruler affect how his people live and believe?

This week Donald Trump announced that he opposes a Federal abortion ban, saying laws governing this issue belong at the state level. He has also opposed the IVF ban in Alabama and his surrogate Kari Lake is pushing the state of Arizona to allow abortion access after a recent court decision that effectively bans it.What is a Christian to think of these things? Can you vote for a presidential candidate that is not consistently pro-life? Is the GOP becoming a pro-choice lite party?To support the show (and to get access to our subscriber-only episodes) please go to contramundumpodcast.com

Notorious Australian theologian Michael Bird has written against Christian Nationalism.TheOtherPaul read it so you didn't have to, and he joins us to tear apart yet another misfire against basical Protestant political theology.

The Daily Wire's most popular personality, Candace Owens, was right before Holy Week, allegedly for saying "Christ is king." Her firing has set off a large reaction, especially among Christians who hold to their faith in the public square. It has become clear to all that you can publicly be a Christian in mainstream conservatism, but you may not treat the Christian faith the way the Bible does—that it is exclusively true and the only way of salvation for all men.What does this mean for the immediate future of both Christianity and rightwing political thought in the United States?To support the show, please go to contramundumpodcast.com

Recently leading Big Eva scion Ligon Duncan joined a podcast to discuss the Moscow Mood and the insurgent rightism within evangelicalism.Chase Davis pinch hits for CJay today as we react to this video.To support the show: please go to contramundumpodcast.com and subscribe. Our first subscriber's only live stream is coming next week!

The most controversial chapter of Stephen Wolfe's book, The Case For Christian Nationalism, is "The Christian Prince."We discuss what this idea even means, what a nation is, how a nation's collective will can be personalized and enacted, and what this means for historical Christian political theology and our current political disorder.Please support the show at ContraMundumPodcast.com!

UPDATE (an earlier version was published that cut off the last ten minutes)Joe Biden gave his (hopefully) final State of the Union Address.It was objectively the worst speech an American president has ever given.What does this speech signal about the future of our country?To support the show, please go to contramundumpodcast.com and subscribe. A new and very important supporters-only episode is right coming soon!

Like many in the online right, we were once doctrinaire libertarians. The 2008 and 2012 Ron Paul campaigns drew us into something interesting and exciting, it challenged our way of looking at the world. We encountered Mises and Rothbard and what they had to say was a breath of fresh air.But why are we no longer of that world? What changed? Why are we the way that we are now?To find out how to support the show, please go to contramundumpodcast.com.

The phrase "Christ is King" is found (in various forms) in the New Testament, throughout Christian history and tradition, and has lately found a place in online discourse.But what does this phrase truly mean? How should Christians understand it? What does it have to do with Christian engagement in the political?We are joined by Ron Dodson to see just how far down this rabbit hole goes.Please go to contramundumpodcast.com to find out how you can support the show.

Pastor Dusty Deevers was recently sworn in to the Oklahoma State Senate and immediately brought forth several bills combating rampant degeneracy in Trashworld, including abolishing prenatal infanticide.Critics, even among many ostensibly conservative Christians, have vocally opposed his efforts, crying "you cannot legislate morality!"But what is law but the use of force to impose one morality over another? What is it about the postwar consensus that demands a supposedly neutral public sphere?To discuss these issues and more, we are joined by Senator Deevers.To support the show, please go to contramundumpodcast.comThank you!

In the Super Bowl Sunday, an evangelical group of mostly unknown funding released multiple ads, one featuring images of Christians washing the feet of women seeking abortions, LGBT people, illegal immigrants, Muslims, etc.What does this ad tell us about the priorities of those at the very top of the evangelical hierarchy? What do they think about regular evangelical people? Who are they trying to appeal to with this ad? What is it they are trying to accomplish?We also discussed Tucker's remarks after his Putin interview (and failed at playing the audio Sorry!)We also are happy to announce a new way to support the show at contramundumpodcast.com.Thank you for listening!

After Texas took bold steps to secure the border and insert immigration to the top of the national conversation, the GOP Senate, spearheaded by Senator James Lankford (Oklahoma), negotiated a compromise deal that would allow up to 5000 border encounters a day before the border could be shut down. All of this was in exchange for more tens billions to both Ukraine and Israel.When 60%+ of the country is in favor of mass deportation, much less an immediately closed border, such a compromise is an abject betrayal.To discuss what this means and the geopolitics driving it all, we are joined by writer and academic, Josiah Lippincott.NB: Josiah let one "non-family show" word slip!

This past year the Southern Baptist Convention disfellowshipped some churches with female pastors, a practice that is in direct conflict with both scripture and the SBC bylaws.But this feminist practice is far from eradicated from the SBC, nor are the pro-LGBT, and pro-race communist elements that nearly always overlap.So who will fight the good fight in the SBC? Can it be reformed? William Wolfe joins us to discuss.

After the Supreme Court ruled against Texas, Governor Abbott issued a statement declaring an invasion and invoking Texas's constitutional right to repel a foreign invasion. Within 24 hours, several GOP governors issued their public support and activated units to assist Texas.The Biden Administration gave an ultimatum giving Texas 24 hours to comply.What happens from here? We discuss.

Recently Alistair Begg advised a woman to attend her grandchild's wedding to an impossible woman, on the condition the grandchild knows what she thinks about it, and to buy them a gift.Why would someone who has taught the Bible for decades offer counsel such as this? What on earth is going on with him? How could someone get to the point where they think such advice is wise and godly?If Begg has been one of the best and most rock-solid ones we've had, what does this say about conservative evangelical pulpits in general?

Kevin DeYoung has sounded the alarm. "The Moscow Mood" is taking over American evangelicalism. Is it true that Doug Wilson is causing your sons to call others "wussys"? We discuss!https://clearlyreformed.org/on-culture-war-doug-wilson-and-the-moscow-mood/

Just how much did Elon Musk (and Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson) shift the discourse on Israel, Zionism, and anti-white race hatred?

After an Algerian immigrant stabbed five, including three small children, Ireland erupted in a series of riots. MMA international superstar, Conor McGregor, emerged as the most vocal critic of the globalist occupational regime flooding the emerald isle with third-world migrants.Is this just a minor flash point that will be quickly forgotten, or is this the start of something bigger?

Now is your chance to ask CJay whatever you have been dying to find out!