Apologies to ⁨@PaulVanderKlay⁩ for thinking he was incel ⁨@LeperEunuchPover⁩ come back to troll me!

Busy in Ghana

Eid cow

3:00  Halal slaughter

5:00  Petrol prices

7:00  Sheep

Israel is a proxy of America.

Brian Berletic

10:00  Rabbi Mizrachi concedes that it is easier for Jewish parents to rear believing Jewish children in Iran than in Israel itself. 

11:00  Chief Rabbi of Iran an American citizen

Israel is the only liberal democracy in the Middle East.

12:00  Orthodox Jews are on social security in Israel. 

Church of England

13:00  20% of Israelis are not Jewish. 

Making the distinction between secular and religious Jews.

Israeli Supreme Court can veto legislation from the Knesset.

14:00  Liberals run Israel. 

15:00  Israel is an American colony.

17:00  US vassal states

18:00  Representative democracy

19:00  Antisemitism

20:00  Imran Khan

21:00  Pakistan has politicians in the pocket of America.

23:00  Hollywood and Porn Hub 

Doooovid

25:00  Excommunication is not an option to exclude heretical Jews.

26:00  Sunnis and Ahmadi

27:00  Principles

28:00  WW3

Christian Zionism

29:00  Scofield Bible

30:00  Incel Leper Eunich Pover 

32:00  Marriage opportunities and potential marriage partners

34:00  Reputation

35:00  Traditional societies

36:00  Culture

Religion was created to maintain the practice o f marriage. 

37:00  Rejection by white people of marriage caused by feminism.

38:00  Secular Koranism

39:00  A culture of casual sex caused by feminism

40:00  Assimilated Jews and Muslims

41:00  Coercive control

Loss of masculine authority

42:00  Protecting the institution of marriage

44:00  Chads and players

45:00  Passing on values

46:00  Poor Muslims get married.

Sam Diego mosque shooting

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyp3gkrwg9o

https://thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.com/2026/05/talking-to-seekinggenuine-about-tlc.html

55:00  Secular Koranism/sharia

57:00  Tucker Carlson

Paul Vamderklay

58:00  Sharia would promote maintain social conservatism. 

59:00  Incel NICHOLAS SCIABARASSI/Leper Eunuch Pover in his 30s

https://www.youtube.com/@LeperEunuchPover

1:04:00  Supporting marriage

1:05:00  Appearance

1:06:00  First Amendment rights of American husbands destroyed by no fault divorce.

1:10:00  Alarming lowering of educational standards and nursing

High school dropouts

1:11:00  White Christian culture in Ohio

Five Foot Seven and Bald

1:12:00  Muslim men allowed to marry Jewesses, Christian women and Muslim women of any race.

1:13:00  Succubus

ROB joins.

1:15:00  Doom pill

1:16:00  Father and evil blond women

1:17:00  Omega from Cincinnati

1:18:00  Homeless in California

1:20:00  Raised American

1:23:00  Turkey

1:24:00  Converted to Islam when 14

1:25:00  Translations of the Koran

1:28:00  Dead Sea Scrolls

1:29:00  Schizo

1:30:00  Conspiracy theorist

1:31:00  Rich ugly men

1:32:00  Moving to Europe

1:34:00  7 ft man

1:36:00  Misdirected energy and intelligence

1:37:00  Irish

1:38:00  Intoxicants

1:39:00  Serotonin

1:40:00  Koran on intoxicants

1:41:00  Drinking  to get drunk

1:42:00  Feminism is dysgenic.

Marriageable men and women

1:45:00  Virtue

1:47:00  Bigamy

1:48:00  Bluestocking

1:50:00  Legitimate grandchildren

1:51:00  The liberal elite

1:52:00  No fault divorce

1:53:00  Rob thinks eugenics is being sexy.

1:56:00  Burnout

1:57:00  Working class

Jews

1:58:00  Gentiles  have subverted to Judaism.

1:59:00  Convicted prisoners

2:00:00  Enforcing the rules of marriage

Prison labour is slave labour.

2:01:00  MAGA

2:02:00  A neocon White House virus

2:03:00  Dan Bilzerian 

Representative democracy

2:06:00  I kick PAUL VANDERKLAY thinking he was Plover come back to troll me. 

Scholarship, chess, PhD and a novel

Iranian lady

2:08:00  Posh totty

2:09:00  Tucker Carlson

2:10:00   Patriarchy

Tucker Carlson

2:12:00  Fresh and Fit; Whatever Podcast

2:13:00  Pearly Thingz

2:15:00  I don't have to be a virgin bride to promote marriage. 

Even gay people could support marriage.

2:16:00  Tucker Carlson

2:17:00  Putin

2:18:00  War in Ukraine

2:19:00  Legacy

2:20:00  Propagation of message

Based Camp

https://www.youtube.com/@SimoneandMalcolm

2:22:00  AA

2:23:00  Chris Howard

2:24:00  PVK

https://www.youtube.com/@PaulVanderKlay

2:26:00  Lady Macbeth

2:27:00  I realise it was PVK I kicked!

Religious Parasitism: Early Christianity and the Transformation of the Roman Empire

https://www.academia.edu/106059316/Religious_Parasitism_Early_Christianity_and_the_Transformation_of_the_Roman_Empire?email_work_card=title

MENJ to CK

Religious parasitism is the proposition that Christianity latched onto Roman Empire practices (religious, political, cultural) to survive and morphed into a "parasite" which eventually took over and reclaimed them as its own.

The core difference is that Hegelian dialectic is an idealist philosophy that views history as driven by the evolution of human consciousness and ideas. Historical materialism, developed by Karl Marx, is a materialist theory that flips Hegel’s concept, arguing instead that economic and material conditions drive historical development. 

CK to MENJ

But Christianity was just an idea that was adopted by a Roman Emperor because he wanted a better religion than the failing imperial religion. That was why it was adopted in the first place. He wanted a religion to change the beliefs and behaviour of Romans but it just made things worse.

Edward Gibbon thought it was Christianity that caused the decline and fall of Rome. 

It also caused the end of Christendom in that it failed to defend the divine right of kings to rule. 

The shocker is that no one seems to have noticed and Americans still don't get it that the Founding Fathers made a particular point of quarantining the church from their state.

I know what you are trying to say ie that Christianity is a mind virus that colonises the people who believe in it.  

But you could say the same of idolatry or anything forbidden by God. If God says "Don't  do it", don't do it. If you disobey, there will be consequences. It is all clearly laid out in Deuteronomy 28 under Curses for Disobedience. 

Are you familiar with the concept of opportunity cost?   

MENJ to CK

Yes, I think that is close to what I was arguing. Early Christianity survived by attaching itself to Roman structures, language, law, philosophy, ritual, and eventually imperial power. It drew strength from Rome, while also reshaping Rome in return.

I agree that Constantine likely saw Christianity as useful for social cohesion when the old Roman religious order was weakening. Gibbon’s point is relevant too, though Rome’s decline had many causes. Christianity certainly changed Rome’s moral and political imagination.

The American example shows that the Founding Fathers understood the danger of church power fusing with state authority. That is why they kept the church away from the state. 

Here is a breakdown of the two frameworks and how they differ:

1. Hegelian Dialectic (Idealism)

Driver of History: The Geist (German for "Spirit" or collective human consciousness). Hegel believed that history is the rational unfolding of ideas striving toward ultimate freedom and self-awareness.

The Process: Change occurs through a three-step dialectical progression: thesis (an initial idea), antithesis (a conflicting contradiction), and synthesis (the resolution that combines elements of both).

The Relationship: Ideas and culture shape the material world. We act and change society based on how our thoughts and consciousness evolve. 

2. Historical Materialism (Materialism)

Driver of History: The material and economic conditions of society—specifically, the "forces of production" (technology, factories, labor) and "relations of production" (class structures and ownership).

The Process: Karl Marx adapted Hegel's dialectic but "stood it on its head". For Marx, the three-step progression occurs in the physical world. For example, the thesis of capitalism creates contradictions, class struggles become the antithesis, and this inevitably leads to a revolution and a new economic system (synthesis).

Talking to @SeekingGenuine about TLC, convictions, communication and peaceful resolutions

Recovering Catholic recovering from the broken promises of Catholicism.

1:00  My scary conviction

3:00  My conviction on the purpose of marriage

4:00  Liberalism/Feminism/Woke

6:00  The punishment should fit the crime.

Hypocrisy

8:00  Fear and respect

Social clubs cannot maintain morality if the law does not support certain religious and moral principles. 

9:00  Americans cannot use their Christianity to maintain morality because of the separation of church and state. 

11:00  George Washington regarded by Americans as  another dead white male

12:00  Americans accusing each other of being "unAmerican" has fallen out of fashion. 

31 year old cisgender female

13:00  Weapon words

15:00  Defining what words mean

18:00  Ensuring terms agree

19:00  Urgent problems

21:00  Denying the problem

22:00  Admitting that there is a problem is hardest of all eg  AA.

23:00  Liberalism is a religion. 

25:00  Integrity

26:00  Villages and communities

Mental health issues

27:00  Multiple Choice Test from A to Z

29:00  Family and friends

30:00  Atomisation of Americans

31:00  Representative democracy is totemic of liberalism.

Washington's warning against political parties.

32:00  How to take a political position

34:00  Find a political conviction and then defend it.

35:00  Assuming failure

37:00  Socrates

38:00  Just ask logical next questions. No need to make a speech.

39:00  Even atheists unconsciously reach out to God when they talk about best case scenarios, in the best of all worlds etc. 

40:00  Right and wrong, good and evil

41:00  Spirit and letter of the law. 

42:00  More chiefs than indians

43:00  Family hierarchy would be externalised in a patriarchy.

47:00  The national leader has to be a married father with adult offspring who are a credit to him.

James Buchanan, gay bachelor POTUS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Buchanan  

50:00 "Grab them by the pussy."

51:00  Redemption

52:00  Patterns of beliefs and behaviour

54:00  Asking a question

Ship of fools

56:00  Changing direction

58:00  Penguin analogy

1:01:00  A replacement must be offered or your complaints will be ignored.

1:02:00  Asking the captain nicely about the direction of the ship

1:03:00  Women goading the men into confronting the captain about the direction of the ship

1:04:00  Women not competing against men.

1:05:00  Feminine privilege

1:06:00  Most men do not want to become married fathers.

1:07:00  Because most men are not married fathers, they do not feel that they have enough of a stake in society to want to defend their society from destructive ideas.  

Women should learn to shut up and communicate non-verbally.

1:09:00  An educated woman

1:11:00  Slut-shaming

1:12:00  The  wedding ceremony

1:13:00  Obedience

1:14:00  Deferred gratification

1:15:00  Most people don't know if they believe in God.

1:16:00  Hell-bound hypocrites

1:17:00  The Roman Catholic Church is a remnant of the Roman Empire.

1:18:00  Codification of religious principles

1:19:00  Holding on to the brand of MAGA and using it but not being too fussed about its principles.  

1:20:00  Schism 

1:21:00  The Abrahamic God is the most powerful being conceivable. 

1:23:00  Good and evil

1:24:00  Id, ego and supergeo

1:25:00  Because the Trinity does not make sense, being forced to say you believe it generates rebellion. 

1:26:00  Status seeking gets in the way of religious principles. 

1:28:00  What is religion for if not to support the institution of marriage?

Mandate of Heaven

1:31:00  Recreational sex is only the entitlement of married couples. 

1:33:00  Mexican wave

1:34:00  The religion of our ancestors

https://quran.com/al-baqarah/170 

1:35:00  Organised religions

1:36:00  Shouldn't  Americans of all people be the people most able to protect their constitutional rights?

1:37:00  Moses

1:39:00  Debunking feminism

1:41:00  Prioritising our needs and wants

1:42:00  Inter-gender relations

1:44:00  Gender roles

1:46:00  Asking the right questions

1:48:00  My motives

1:51:00  Have I said anything untrue, illogical or immoral?

1:52:00  Shaking people by the shoulders

1:54:00  Anyone with convictions is immediately called an extremist or fundamentalist.

1:56:00  Mental health issues caused by living in a malign matriarchy

1:57:00  The Emperor's New Clothes

1:58:00  Being  sociable

1:59:00  Chris Howard

2:02:00  Communication skills

2:05:00  Luke Thompson

2:06:00  Black and white thinking

2:09:00  The line in the middle of the road  is whether we are obeying the rules correctly. 

2:11:00  Jordan Peterson

2:13:00  Tucker Carlson

2:14:00  PVK exorcising CK.

2:18:00  Asking the right questions

Luke Thompson

********************

2:20:00  Dealing with the chat

2:21:00  Whig interpretation of history

2:22:00  Declaration of Independence "certain unalienable rights"

2:24:00  States shouldn't want to avoid a brain drain.

2:25:00  The abolition of no fault divorce is imperative to strong communities. 

Too much liberty leads to the law of the jungle.

Redemption is requires admitting our mistakes. 

2:28:00  A sense of justice

2:29:00  You can be legal and immoral, but you cannot break the law without being a criminal. 

2:30:00  Status

2:31:00  Patriarchy > matriarchy

2:32:00  The eugenic practice of marriage

2:34:00  Ceremonial wrist slapping

https://thebattlefieldoflove.blogspot.com/2010/06/my-interpretation-of-that-wife-beating.html

2:37:00  Military organisation

2:38:00  THE GREAT OBSTACLE: Men who wish to become married fathers appear to be significantly fewer than men who do not want to become married fathers. Even gay men can be shamed into supporting marriage even if they are unmarriageable. 

2:40:00  No fault divorce

INTERVAL

2:43:00  Raising standards of sexual morality

2:45:00  Women are the filter to marriage/

2:46:00  Marriage license

2:48:00  Men were more chivalrous when women were feminine.

2:49:00  Ann Coulter

2:50:00  Different attitudes of men and women 

2:51:00  Choosing carefully

2:52:00  Dating apps

2:55:00  SecularKoranism.blogspot.com

2:56:00  Therapy is confession.

2:59:00  Objective truths

3:00:00  Reincarnation in purgatory

3:02:00  Unpopular demand

People in their 70s running marathons and Dr Benjamin Spock

17:00  CLAIRE KHAW joins to discuss running marathons.

18:00  Is encouraging people in their 70s malign encouragement or a psychological expression of fleeing from death and nihilism?

22:00  Will they be promoting sky diving for 70s?

23:00  Diminishing returns

24:00  The peak

26:00  When just showing up means winning!

27:00  Knee replacements

28:00  Angry running

33:00  Testosterone

34:00  Running a marathon

Flow state

36:00  Runner's high

37:00  Emotions and the release of energy

38:00  Foxman on PVK

https://thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.com/2026/05/what-is-internet-who-should-use-it-and.html

41:00  Lolcow

42:00  Previous versions of English

43:00  Translators

44:00   All our endless talking is about expressing indirectly what saying "I want" and "I wish" cannot give us.

45:00  Trappist monks

AI Overview

Trappist monks are members of the Roman Catholic contemplative Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance (O.C.S.O.). Following the Rule of Saint Benedict, they dedicate their lives to prayer, silence, and manual labor, living in cloistered monasteries separated from the distractions of the outside world. 

History and Origins

Roots: The order traces its roots back to 1098, but the specific "Trappist" branch was born in 1664 when Abbot Armand-Jean Le Bouthillier de Rancé reformed La Trappe Abbey in France, emphasizing severe austerity and a strict return to the basics of monastic life.

Rule: They emphasize the balance of ora et labora (prayer and work), seeking simplicity, authentic poverty, and deep contemplation of God. 

Daily Life and Routine

Structure: A typical day begins incredibly early—often around 3:00 a.m.—and is divided among communal worship (usually seven times a day), sacred reading, and physical labor.

Silence: While the popular myth is that they take a lifelong, absolute "vow of silence," Trappists instead practice a profound reverence for silence. They speak when necessary for their work or community but avoid idle chatter to keep their minds focused on prayer.

Community: Monasteries are open to people of all faiths or no faith, offering retreat opportunities for those seeking stillness away from modern life

45:00  CHAD joins to talk about his daughter. 

47:00  Grandson

53:00  Dr Spock

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Spock

55:00  The Mini Me

1:11:00  Dr Dobson

1:13:00  Musical Theory and Practice

1:14:00  What liberals say when people with practical experience challenge their absurd theories

1:16:00  Comedic bullies

"President Foxman" on PVK talking about weaponised apathy

Youth leader of TLC

4:00  Christian miming

8:00  State school

10:00  Middle school

11:00  Schism

14:00  Being lied to in high school

16:00  Christian theology

17:00  Baptised at 7

18:00  Ancient Greek

19:00  Spanish and French

Studied Computer Science

20:00  Covid

21:00  Married! 

24:00  Dostoevsky

26:00  State university

Married three years

29:00  Jordan Peterson

31:00  Origins of "President Foxman" 

PVK's really obscure titles

38:00  Video games

1:24:00  Conscription

1:25:00  Parent/child and government/voter relationship

1:26:00  What would kill TLC?

1:27:00  Robust and decentralised

1:29:00  Potentiality, Bitcoin, attention or tension?

1:31:00  Tayo

1:34:00  "You're not Claire!"

1:38:00  The churn

1:41:00  Bobby Fisher

1:44:00 Weaponised apathy

The talking and the trolling is group therapy and attempts at exorcism of demons invoked after generations of ignoring George Washington's warning against political parties.   

1:46:00 Emotions are identity. Facts and logic are extraneous and someone else's thing, while our emotions however emotional and our opinions however dumb are uniquely us. 

1:47:00  Paul, I think you mean me. I actually enjoy what I do anyway or it is such a compulsion that I can do no other. You are very welcome to exorcise my demons on your YouTube channel though I know that Calvinist pastors are not trained to do this because traditional Calvinist theology, rooted in the teachings of John Calvin, emphasizes that demons are under God’s sovereign control and that the primary weapons against spiritual forces are prayer and the Word of God rather than ritualistic deliverance.

We need to choose a side or take a position to assert our moral agency and obey our moral imperative. But what is our moral imperative telling us to do, and what is the moral system we believe to be ours? Why does America not have an OFFICIAL MORAL SYSTEM bearing in mind what Washington told Americans to with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion? What is morality and what is the religion Washington had in mind? It cannot have been Christianity since the Founding Fathers made a point about separating the church from their state. What religion supports the First Amendment with its holy book? Why did Jefferson talk about "certain unalienable rights"? Why did he consider them "unalienable"? Were they considered unalienable because they were conferred on humanity by God and contained in the Koran? Is there not a White House Koran?

Why is the current political orthodoxy not even based on anything the Founders Fathers might have said? Why is there almost universal indifference about the Founding Fathers. So North America was built on British imperialism, Protestantism and slavery of both varieties. Is America an exceptional nation and does it have manifest destiny? If so, what does it mean for the rest of the world?

What is our moral imperative? It is our compulsion to say what we believe to be the truth. The First Amendment gives us the space to be wrong and proven wrong if we are indeed wrong. 

American husbands have been deprived of their First Amendment rights by their wives and the introduction of no-fault divorce. Isn't the remedy for this a class action by American husbands who have lost their First Amendment rights and are so afraid that they dare not say how afraid they are to have a political disagreement with their wife? There is a legal remedy for this, as you must all know.  I am not expecting a bunch of boomers to start a revolution. They could just call a constitutional lawyer about judicial review to restore their rights. 

1:47:45  Haha. I am often called "Claire Bear"! 

1:48:00  Boomer blaming is the latest thing and could end badly for boomers whose children hate them. Sons who talk about their "boomer dad" - as Ezra did recently on Chad's channel - always say it with a sneer. Since patricide is a crime that appears to be trending, and boomers are reaching retirement age, they should have a care.  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2687531/the-rising-tide-of-patricide/

1:49:00  All the prophets of God were revolutionaries. America was built on a republican revolution by proto-Muslim Noahides. Prove me wrong, Americans! 

1:52:00 1:52:00 Now is the time to remind Americans that George Washington warned Americans against political parties and ask them who they respect if not their Founding Fathers who took such trouble to ensure that they were not Canadians. And when they shrug their shoulders and say they don’t care what some dead white man once said, tell them that their republic is wasted on them. (Yes, Scott AKA Am I Driving - I’m talking to you and about you.)

If Americans with their constitutional rights in their constitutional republic refuse to defend their constitutional republic and use their weaponised apathy to shrug their shoulders and say they don’t care, then it appears that the are using their weaponised apathy against themselves.

If Americans cannot and refuse to use their constitutional rights against an increasingly oppressive and tyrannical government, then what hope is there for the rest of the world?

By the way, weaponised apathy is a product of atheism. The meaning crisis you are all always talking about is really the atheism crisis.  

You are all really atheists claiming to be Christian because you think claiming to be Christian is an assertion of your middle class status. Just as the government did not care about the American proletariat, it does not care about the American bourgeoisie. Christianity does not give you the weaponry to challenge your government because it is to this day uncodified and not worth codifying. 

Christianity was used by Constantine to defend the divine right of kings. Its modus operandi was to tell Romans to shut up and pray to Jesus if they were upset by anything untoward. Not shutting up could mean being burned at the stake.  Romans eventually came up with Stoicism to put up with living in the horrors of a declining  and degenerate empire, and we know they are all extinct.   

The Meccan followers of Muhammad also suffered from weaponised apathy in that most of them preferred to remain in Mecca and preferred not to accompany Muhammad on his migration to Medina - about 211 miles. If you ever read the Koran which most of you disdain to do, you will notice the verses on jihad were really about cajoling the weaponised apathetics of Mecca to put their money where their mouths were, excusing only the elderly ie the boomers of Mohammedan times.

1:59:00 The matriarchy should be subverted by the forces of patriarchy, should it not? Evil, irrationality and nonsense should be subverted by facts, logic and morality. 

"Pharmatopia/Pharmakeia: drug use in utopia building/human enhancement"

 https://t.co/F1jqVtFN9c

— Real Vincent Bruno (@RealVinBruno) May 26, 2026

https://radicalisedrabbi.blogspot.com/2026/05/talking-to-joshua-shalet-about-his-book.html 

2:00  Ketamine therapy

3:00  Family history of depression

4:00  Suicide a problem in Mohammedan times

5:00  Insanity or depression

Jehovah's Witnesses never  promised a cure for depression.

6:00  Suicide rate for Jehovah's  Witnesses

7:00  Dune and The Giver?

10:00  Ukraine

11:00  SSRIs

https://www.nhsinform.scot/tests-and-treatments/medicines-and-medical-aids/types-of-medicine/selective-serotonin-reuptake-inhibitors-ssris/

17:00  PTSD

18:00  Hyperphagia

Peptides

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peptide_therapeutics

20:00  Depression

22:00  Exercise

24:00  Depression

26:00  Personal details

28:00 Weights and exercise

29:00  Diet

37:00  Side effects

38:00  Natural alternatives

39:00  Weight loss

40:00  Homosexuality causes depression?

41:00  Community based gymn

Paranoia

47:00  Enhanced games

The categorisation of mental illness

 

https://radicalisedrabbi.blogspot.com/2026/05/drugs-and-depression.html

1:00  Categorising mental illness: insanity, disability, depression

2:00  Worst case scenario of depression is suicide. 

3:00  Suicide Act  1965

5:00  Job

https://radicalisedrabbi.blogspot.com/2026/05/drugs-and-depression.html

9:00  Registers of Race and Religions

10:00  Is depression linked to atheism?

11:00  Sodomites, lesbians, spinsters, bachelors, unmarried parents, divorced parents

13:00  Chinese government attitude on suicide

14:00  The shallow cult of youth and beauty

15:00  MAID

16:00  What is the political orthodoxy of the West?

17:00  Socialism with Chinese Characteristics

18:00  Bible reading  as displacement therapy

20:00  Is it idolatry to worship a man?

21:00  Milquetoast men who find facts and logic too spicy for their infantilised taste buds

The Trinity 

22:00  We prefer to believe whatever they want to believe.

23:00  Id, ego and superego

24:00  When spiritual serenity is reached

25:00  Joshua Shalet

https://thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.com/2026/05/talking-to-joshua-shalet-about-his-book.html

26:00  Being over-treated or under-treated

Iatrophobia

27:00  Socialised  medicine

28:00  Categories of the mind

29:00  Two wrong religions already

Christianity is an anachronism.

30:00  Theological and political discussions

31:00  Torah, Koran and  New Testament

32:00  Aztecs

MAID

34:00  Aren't the policies of Sodom and Gomorrah by definition evil?

35:00  Bastard grandchildren

37:00  Europeans rejected Christianity with Liberalism, Nationalism and Socialism.

38:00  Rules-based order imposing the policies of Sodom and Gomorrah globally