Dan 11:32
123 episodes - English - Latest episode: 8 days ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn Daniel 11:32 we read that "the people who know their God shall stand firm and take action." Our goal with Dan 11:32 is to help equip Christians to do exactly that - providing tools to recognize the challenges that are coming at us from all sides, the encouragement to stand firm, and suggestions for how we can take action.
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Dan 11:32 Episode 73: Digital ID Will Solve Everything!
January 20, 2023 21:11 - 2 hours - 27.8 MBToday we'll listen to Tony Blair speaking about Digital ID at the WEF in Davos, consider how it is being touted as a cure for all ills, and what this push for Digital ID means for us.
Dan 11:32 Episode 72: In the Camps
January 13, 2023 20:32 - 1 hour - 18.1 MBDarren Byler's 2021 book In the Camps: China's High-Tech Penal Colony reveals how Big Tech and the totalitarian State in China have combined forces to develop systems of oppression and control of the Uyghur population in China's Xinjiang province. In today's episode, we look at the links between these developments and American tech corporations, and the danger of imagining that "this could never happen here."
Dan 11:32 Episode 71: Conflicts of Interest and Critical Thinking
January 05, 2023 20:27 - 1 hour - 15.1 MBI recently stumbled across a Canadian public school curriculum website that vividly demonstrates the necessity for discernment, digging a little deeper, and being aware of the interests at work behind the scenes in shaping public opinion. In this week's episode of Dan 11:32, we take a look at kidsboostimmunity.com.
Dan 11:32 Episode 70: Surveillance Valley
November 21, 2022 22:49 - 2 hours - 31.6 MBAuthor Yasha Levine refers to Silicon Valley as "Surveillance Valley," and the book that bears this title reveals much about how true that moniker really is. In this episode of Dan 11:32, we'll look at the roots of the Internet in the American military-industrial complex, and the continuing role that Big Tech continues to play in seeking to build a world where everyone is watched, predicted, and controlled.
Dan 11:32 Episode 69: Herbert Marcuse's "Repressive Tolerance"
November 11, 2022 21:22 - 1 hour - 23.8 MBHow did we become a society that proclaims "tolerance" to be the greatest good, while still being so intolerant toward certain points of view? In this week's episode, we explore this question, looking at the influential 1965 essay by Herbert Marcuse, "Repressive Tolerance," and considering its lasting and destructive influence.
Dan 11:32 Episode 68: The United States of Fear
November 05, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 21.6 MBIn this week's episode I discuss Dr. Mark McDonald's 2021 book The United States of Fear: How America Fell Victim To A Mass Delusional Psychosis. McDonald argues that America suffered two pandemics: a viral one, and a psychological one, with the "pandemic of fear" being far more dangerous and damaging. His thesis, that this "fear pandemic" is rooted in the natural anxieties of women on behalf of their children and families, worsened by the way in which feminized men failed their women, infla...
Dan 11:32 Episode 67: The Victim Cult
October 26, 2022 21:17 - 1 hour - 20.4 MBIn today's episode, I go through the introduction of Mark Milke's 2021 book The Victim Cult: How the Grievance Culture Hurts Everyone and Wrecks Civilzations, and address what Milke has to say about this "grievance culture" in the context of the previous two episodes on "Truth and Reconciliation."
Dan 11:32 Episode 66: The "Truth" in Truth and Reconciliation
October 14, 2022 19:37 - 1 hour - 16.6 MBThe truth matters, and it often falls victim when the dominant ideology is being promoted. In this episode, we use the examples of the Kamloops Residential School and the Nicholas Sandmann case to discuss the importance of discernment, and the lack of discernment that has often been shown, even in the evangelical world. In this episode, I go through the following article, published in January of this year: https://www.dorchesterreview.ca/blogs/news/in-kamloops-not-one-body-has-been-found
Dan 11:32 Episode 65: Virtue Signalling, "Truth and Reconciliation"
October 06, 2022 20:14 - 1 hour - 24.4 MBIn today's episode, we consider last week's "Day of Truth and Reconciliation," what this day really means, the ideology upon which it is based, and what that means for the way in which we participate in it. In this episode, we'll consider Tom Flanagan's article, "Did Indian Residential Schools Cause Intergenerational Trauma," which can be found here: https://www.dorchesterreview.ca/blogs/news/did-indian-residential-schools-cause-intergenerational-trauma
Dan 11:32 Episode 64: You Shall Be Like God - A Christian Response to Transhumanism
September 20, 2022 18:17 - 3 hours - 44.6 MBOn Friday, September 16th, I gave a presentation at the inaugural Canadian Theopolitans conference (www.canadiantheopolitans.ca). The presentation was based on a chapter in my forthcoming book entitled "Creating Superman," and explores the history and philosophy of transhumanism, and the importance of the transhumanist ideology on the world stage today. In this week's episode, I'm sharing that presentation here on the podcast. It covers some material that I've already covered in previous epi...
Dan 11:32 Episode 63: The Shortcuts of Identity Politics
September 09, 2022 22:31 - 1 hour - 17.6 MBPeople have four great hopes: a second innocence after long immersion in a broken world, a justice that is clean and without ambiguity, a security that cannot be undermined, and a world in which there are no more difficult labours. In this episode, we will consider the ways in which Identity Politics attempts to provide shortcuts to the realization of these hopes, with reference to Joshua Mitchell's book American Awakening: Identity Politics and Other Afflictions of our Time.
Dan 11:32 Episode 62: The Psychology of Totalitarianism V
August 26, 2022 22:32 - 1 hour - 14.2 MBIn this episode we conclude our look at Mattias Desmet's book The Psychology of Totalitarianism, drawing some conclusions and offering an evaluation of Desmet's conclusions.
Dan 11:32 Episode 61: Transgression, Guilt, and the Scapegoat
August 18, 2022 18:50 - 1 hour - 17.6 MBThis week I read a letter that was published on the Aquila Report, and talk about the way in which identity politics twists the Christian concepts of transgression, innocence, and the scapegoat for its own purposes.
Dan 11:32 Episode 60: The Psychology of Totalitarianism IV
August 12, 2022 00:54 - 1 hour - 16.8 MBIn this episode I go through chapters seven and eight of Mattias Desmet's 2022 book The Psychology of Totalitarianism. In this week's episode we'll look at "The Leader and the Masses," and "Conspiracy and Ideology."
Dan 11:32 Episode 59: The Psychology of Totalitarianism III
August 03, 2022 00:19 - 1 hour - 23.3 MBThis week we'll continue our journey through Mattias Desmet's The Psychology of Totalitarianism, and work our way through the fifth and sixth chapters - "The Desire for a Master," and "The Rise of the Masses."
Dan 11:32 Episode 58: The Psychology of Totalitarianism II
July 26, 2022 23:37 - 1 hour - 19 MBThis week we'll look at the third and fourth chapters of Mattias Desmet's 2022 book The Psychology of Totalitarianism. In these chapters, Desmet discusses the goals of the mechanistic ideology, and the method that adherents of this ideology uses to gather knowledge. This episode follows up on last week's episode, which discusses the introduction and first two chapters of the book, so if you haven't already listened to that episode, I recommend that you start there!
Dan 11:32 Episode 57: The Psychology of Totalitarianism I
July 19, 2022 21:30 - 1 hour - 22.2 MBThis week I begin a detailed look at Mattias Desmet's 2022 book The Psychology of Totalitarianism, in which he explains the nature of "mass formation" and its results. In this episode we'll go through the introduction and the first two chapters of the book, in which Desmet begins to discuss the issue of Science and its Psychological Effects.
Dan 11:32 Episode 56: Sexual Revolutions
July 01, 2022 22:11 - 2 hours - 34 MBThis week's episode is a preview of my forthcoming book, How In The World Did We Get Here? Today I read Chapter 4, "Sexual Revolutions," which explores the Twentieth Century sexual revolutions which have shaped our prevailing culture's views on sexuality, marriage, family, and the relationship between the sexes.
Dan 11:32 Episode 55: Living in Fear?
June 23, 2022 23:51 - 1 hour - 19.2 MBIn this week's episode, I address the question of how we should live in the light of the concerning current events and trends that we are witnessing and experiencing. Does expressing concern about the state of the world mean that we are living in fear? And does speaking out about these issues make us fear-mongers?
Dan 11:32 Episode 54: Fathers Are Essential
June 17, 2022 23:17 - 1 hour - 15.9 MBFollowing up on the previous two episodes focusing on family life and the important role that parents have in their children's lives, this week we consider the role of fathers, especially as it relates to their responsibility toward their sons. Is there a "crisis of masculinity" in our society? And if so, what is behind it?
Dan 11:32 Episode 53: Day Care Deception
June 10, 2022 22:00 - 1 hour - 23.9 MBThis week's episode follows up on last week's discussion of the "separationist" trend, focusing specifically on the issue of government-subsidized universal daycare and the way the separation of children from their mothers continues to be encouraged. Beginning with Brian C. Robertson's book, Day Care Deception: What The Childcare Establishment Isn't Telling Us, we'll examine the question of who benefits from the move from in-home parental care to institutional care of children outside the ho...
Dan 11:32 Episode 52: Home-Alone America
June 02, 2022 20:01 - 2 hours - 27.9 MBExperts tell us that absence of parents in children's lives is not as damaging as we may imagine it to be. In this episode, we examine that claim, using Mary Eberstadt's 2004 book Home-Alone America as our starting point.
Dan 11:32 Episode 51: "We invented the cow" - Hubris and Lab-Grown Meat
May 26, 2022 18:49 - 1 hour - 17.7 MBIn this week's episode, we take a look at a recently-published article about "cultivated meat," and the way in which the narrative is being shaped to promote the consumption of meat substitutes grown in bioreactors.
Dan 11:32 Episode 50: Agriculture and the Food System
May 16, 2022 21:34 - 2 hours - 29.6 MBThis week's episode is a conversation with Dwayne Faber, an American dairy farmer, writer, and public speaker, about a number of issues surrounding the production of food and the agricultural industry. In a wide-ranging conversation, we touch on issues including environmentalism, food security, GMOs, and how to think of these issues in a way that is shaped by our Christian worldview. Dwayne's website is https://dwaynefaber.com/, and he can be found on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/dfab...
Dan 11:32 Episode 49: The Rockefellers Reset the Table
May 10, 2022 20:11 - 1 hour - 22.9 MBIn this week's episode we take a look at the Rockefeller Foundation's 2020 policy paper, "Reset the Table," and examine the way in which this organization is seeking to shape the narrative about the "food system" in the United States (and the world).
Dan 11:32 Episode 48: Technocracy in America
May 03, 2022 18:09 - 1 hour - 22.7 MBIn this week's episode we follow up on last week's discussion of Klaus Schwab's "great narrative" by taking a more in-depth look at the ideology and practical outworking of the technocratic system of government, using Parag Khanna's 2017 book Technocracy in America as our starting point.
Dan 11:32 Episode 47: The Great Narrative
April 25, 2022 21:00 - 2 hours - 27.8 MBKlaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum want to make their ideas "palatable so that a large majority of citizens embrace them." In order to accomplish this goal, they have come up with their own "Great Narrative" - their own understanding of the challenges that the world is facing, and how those challenges can be dealt with. In this episode, we'll look at Klaus Schwab's latest book, The Great Narrative For a Better Future, and evaluate the worldview that Schwab is promoting, as well as his...
Dan 11:32 Episode 46: The Ad Council
April 14, 2022 21:19 - 1 hour - 18.5 MBYou may remember Smokey Bear, or McGruff the Crime Dog. You may see or hear "public service announcements" brought to you by the same folks who brought you those famed commercial characters of old, The Advertising Council. But what is the Ad Council? Who runs it, and who funds it? In this episode, we'll look at the Ad Council and the role it plays in propagandizing the masses.
Dan 11:32 Episode 45: Privacy and Power
April 09, 2022 20:01 - 2 hours - 30 MBAs the sphere of personal privacy continues to shrink and attacks on privacy rights worsen, the issue of privacy is very much a living concern. In this episode we discuss the relationship between privacy and power, the history and meaning of privacy, and why it is so important to us to maintain and fight for the right to privacy.
Dan 11:32 Episode 44: Obedience to Authority
April 01, 2022 19:05 - 1 hour - 24.8 MBStanley Milgram's 1962 experiment investigated the human tendency to obey authority figures, even when that obedience meant acting against one's own moral principles. In this episode, we take a look at Milgram's experiment and some of the conclusions that he drew, and apply these conclusions in today's world.
Dan 11:32 Episode 43: A Chat About Freedom Convoy 2022
February 25, 2022 19:45 - 1 hour - 25.5 MBIn this week's episode I sat down with Tim Jonker and William Ravensbergen to speak about their participation in the Freedom Convoy and the Ottawa protest in recent weeks. We talk about their experiences from the beginning of the convoy to its ignominious end last week, and speak about how their Christian faith led them to take part in this protest, what it accomplished, and where we go from here.
Dan 11:32 Episode 42: The State of Exception and the Confessions
February 15, 2022 19:53 - 2 hours - 29.6 MBIn this week's episode I speak with Pr. Nathan Zekveld about what our Reformed confessions have to say about the current situation in Canada and elsewhere. The confessions, especially the Belgic Confession and the Heidelberg Catechism, have a lot to say about how the Church, and we as individual Christians, should deal with issues such as lockdowns, decrees forbidding or limiting corporate worship, and participation in peaceful protest. We address these issues from the perspective of our con...
Dan 11:32 Episode 41: A Conversation about Romans 13
February 10, 2022 23:49 - 2 hours - 31.3 MBIn this episode I'm joined by Pr. Tim Schouten for a conversation about Romans 13. Over the past two years, this passage of Scripture has been debated and discussed by many Christians. We discuss what this passage means, what the broader context of Scripture has to teach us about submission to authorities, and how we should apply it today.
Dan 11:32 Episode 40: Appearance on Real Talk
February 02, 2022 18:21 - 1 hour - 90.5 MBLate last week I sat down for a conversation with Tyler and Lucas from the Real Talk podcast. We talked about a number of the issues that I've been addressing on Dan 11:32, including propaganda, the corporate media, big tech, and even the truckers' protest. I really enjoyed our conversation, and encourage you to check out the Real Talk podcast!
Dan 11:32 Episode 39: Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals, Pt. II
January 27, 2022 21:09 - 1 hour - 19 MBAs a massive convoy of truckers and their supporters makes it way to Canada's capital, attracting enthusiastic support and a lot of attention around the world, we consider Saul Alinsky's thirteen "rules for radicals," and how these rules relate specifically to the reaction to this movement.
Dan 11:32 Episode 38: Saul Alinksky's Rules For Radicals, Pt. 1
January 20, 2022 21:17 - 2 hours - 27.7 MBThe influence of Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals has had a pernicious effect on the political sphere since its publication in 1971. In this episode, we'll begin an examination of Alinsky's tactics, and the ideology that forms their foundation: pragmatic action to win power. In order to fight wisely, we need to know our enemy and the methods he uses, so that we recognize them for what they are and learn how to counter them.
Dan 11:32 Episode 37: The Public Health Crisis as a Crisis of Faith
January 13, 2022 20:33 - 1 hour - 22.9 MBFor the past two years, much of the world has been in a near-permanent "state of exception" because of what is described as a "public health crisis." In this episode, we consider the importance of the current situation as a battle of worldviews, using Giorgio Agamben's article "Religion as Medicine" as our starting point.
Dan 11:32 Episode 36: The Mask as Religious Talisman
January 07, 2022 22:39 - 1 hour - 18.8 MBPeople who oppose mask mandates are often characterized as selfish individualists who care more about their personal comfort than for the safety, well-being, and comfort of others. In this episode, we challenge that mischaracterization of "anti-maskers" by going back in time to 1957, and an article about the use of masks in tuberculosis wards. We'll see how the use of masks as a religious talisman is a serious issue that should lead us to challenge the idea that obeying mask mandates is bene...
Dan 11:32 Episode 35: Do What You Believe
December 30, 2021 22:56 - 1 hour - 26.1 MBIn this year-end show, we take a look at the year that has almost come to a close, and look forward to the year ahead. As the title of Steve Deace's recent book says, "Do what you believe, or you won't be free to believe it much longer." Using portions of Deace's book, we'll consider why it appears that freedom is endangered by encroaching tyranny, and how best to do what we believe.
Dan 11:32 Episode 34: How to Deal With the Veils of Distortion
December 17, 2021 21:15 - 1 hour - 17.6 MBLast week we considered how the news media distorts reality and warps the minds of uncritical consumers. In this week's episode, we'll consider 10 things that we can do to, in the words of John Zada, "mitigate the impact the news has on our individual lives, and on our society."
Dan 11:32 Episode 33: Veils of Distortion - How the News Media Warps our Minds
December 09, 2021 23:56 - 1 hour - 23.9 MBIn this week's episode, we examine how the news media distorts reality and, in the words of author John Zada, "warps our minds" when we fail to be critical and skeptical consumers of its product.
Dan 11:32 Episode 32: Understanding the Vision of the Anointed
December 01, 2021 22:55 - 1 hour - 26.6 MBThomas Sowell refers to the intellectual elite as "The Anointed," and their ideology as "The Vision of the Anointed." In this episode we continue the discussion of Episode 30 about this vision, its presuppositions and goals, and how to see through the often articulate arguments of "the anointed."
Dan 11:32 Episode 31: The Vaccine Wars - A Battle of Worldviews
November 22, 2021 22:03 - 1 hour - 22.9 MBIn his book Dispatches from the Vaccine Wars, Dr. Christopher A. Shaw devotes a chapter to "Vaccine Ideology and Religion." In this episode, we'll use Shaw's book as a springboard to discuss the debate over vaccines and vaccine mandates in the context of two contrasting worldviews, and the religious nature of the modern medical and scientific establishment.
Dan 11:32 Episode 30: Intellectuals, Experts, and the Intelligentsia
November 17, 2021 23:55 - 2 hours - 32.3 MBIn today's episode, we consider the place of the "intellectual class" in our world. We'll consider the dangers of deferring to what Thomas Sowell calls "the Anointed Class," the intelligentsia, and the class of experts whose influence only continues to grow. We also discuss why it's so important for us to know what the intellectual class is up to, since its ideas act as a contagion that threaten to infect the whole of society, and how we can confidently stand our ground in this battle.
Dan 11:32 Episode 29: UNESCO's Foundational Ideology
November 09, 2021 00:32 - 2 hours - 30.8 MBIn this episode we examine the guiding principles behind the United Nations' Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as outlined by Julian Huxley, the organization's first Director, in his book UNESCO: Its Purpose and Philosophy.
Dan 11:32 Episode 28: Alfred Kinsey and the "Science" Behind the Sexual Revolution
October 28, 2021 00:28 - 3 hours - 43.8 MBOne of the most important factors leading to the "Sexual Revolution" of the 20th Century was the publication of The Kinsey Report (Sexual Behavior in the Human Male) in 1948. In this episode, we'll examine the work of Alfred Kinsey, his methodology, the contents of his report, and look at how his study led to societal changes that continue to the present day.
Dan 11:32 Episode 27: Margaret Mead - A Case Study in Academic Dishonesty
August 31, 2021 00:27 - 1 hour - 19.1 MBMargaret Mead's book "Coming of Age in Samoa" took the world by storm when it was published in 1928, and, according to Sherwood Washburn, "influenced the way people were brought up in the United States" (and throughout the western world, really). It was not until the 1980s that Mead's study was revealed as being a serious misrepresentation of the culture and character of Samoa. But by that time, the damage had already been done. In this episode, we take a look at Margaret Mead's work - a cas...
Dan 11:32 Episode 26: Liberation Theology and the Social Justice Movement
August 13, 2021 22:34 - 1 hour - 22.3 MBIn this episode we continue our study of the social justice movement in the evangelical church by introducing the topic of Liberation Theology. We see that there are various types of connections between the Liberation Theology movement and the current movement for "social justice" within the church, and that the history of Liberation Theology has a lot to teach us about how we should evaluate the Social Justice movement.
Dan 11:32 Episode 25: Social Justice and the Bible
August 03, 2021 23:58 - 1 hour - 22.7 MBAs we continue our study of "social justice," we turn to several Scripture passages that are among many used by Christian advocates of the social justice movement - Exodus 22, Job 29, and Leviticus 25, and consider whether they can rightly be used to support the tenets of the social justice movement. d
Dan 11:32 Episode 24: A Brief Introduction to "Social Justice"
July 19, 2021 18:02 - 1 hour - 20.4 MBWe hear a lot about "social justice," but not a lot about what "justice" actually is, let alone "social" justice. In this episode, we begin an in-depth look at the issues surrounding social justice, starting with definitions of "justice" and "social justice."