This is why the dollar feels demonic.
Is the US dollar the mark of the beast? That's the question brandon_gentile (npub1r6x…a9je) opens with, and he means it literally, not the number, not a chip.
From there Brandon and I get into where that belief actually comes from: the word fiat literally means "to decree" in Latin, and why Brandon believes only God is supposed to hold that power.
It moves into what being a Christian nationalist actually means to him, not the version people assume, why Pope Leo XIII called capitalism and socialism a "fake prison of two ideas" over a century ago, and why Brandon says a chunk of the last year has felt like being under spiritual attack.
Full conversation with Adam O'Brien linked below.
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