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“Preston seems like a genuine nice guy. I believe that what he speaks he fully believes and that his heart is to see people united, full of Christ and loving other people. I also see Preston is a big contrarian and also loves to hear the voices of those who’s voice doesn’t get much publicity. With those later traits he often has many people on his podcast that espouse views that are harmful if you just take them for what they say. That doesn’t mean don’t listen (unless you’re not mature enough to separate the good from the bad) but it does mean to listen with wise ears. Be cautious about what you take from each episode. It is easy to be lead astray even if that is not the intent of the podcast. I’ve listened to 200-250 or so episode of this podcast and have been challenged often and even changed my views on things as a result of episodes that caused me to think and investigate more on subjects so for that I’m grateful. I’ve not written a review until now (and honestly I looked for where to email Preston to ask him this question but found only his paid subscribers can do that) because I knew the podcast was a mixed bag. But the bad of this one specific episode just prompted me to have to write a caution.
In the episode about Israel and Palestine the guest started off claiming that his ancestors in the region are the decedents of those who sent missionaries into the pagan world to bring about the faith of Christian around the world. As soon as he said that (even with him saying his people joke about it) I knew it was going to be bad. The missionaries that delivered the gospel to the gentiles were Jews and this comment smacks of an anti Jew mindset. He later describes how he can trace his heritage back 13 generations I believe he said but that’s far from back to the time of the missionaries being sent from the Christian jews to being Jesus to the nations. So his vast assumption shows arrogance and also hints that anti Jew mindset of replacement theology. The issue is Preston didn’t even question this he actual acted thankful for the speakers thoughts. He didn’t ask any follow up questions and that again is the issue with this podcast. He claims to be inquisitive but his method of process is not to actually dig deep but simply to
Let his guest speak and bring their points with zero questions of how or why they believe that. Someone can go on this podcast and declare nonsense and rather than even asked any basic simple questions to dig deeper the guests just espouse their points of view and it almost appears Preston agrees or doesn’t see the danger in espousing some views. I’m a huge free speech believer so of course they should be allowed to do so but often some push back is needed to clarify issues and non is given. That requires wisdom and discernment to then decide which views are good and which are bad. Which ones hurt people and which help. Then within the episode the guest makes additional claims about how the land of Israel should be called Israel-Palestine because Palestinian people are the original inhibitors of the land and only through colonization of the 19th and 20th century are Jews in the land. He blames colonization a lot and speaks of genocide by Israel. I felt like I was listening to a partisan talk show. This historians failure to acknowledge that the land is only called Palestine because in the late first century the Romans sacked Jerusalem, burned the temple and dispersed the Jews and then renamed the region Palestine in order to eradicate Jewish history showed that either he doesn’t know the story as well as he thinks he does or he was ignoring it, because it doesn’t fit the story he wants. He also claimed that Palestinians are the original inhabitants of the land, but there is zero historical documentation to prove that. They’re very name. Palestinians comes from the fact that they lived in the land after it was changedto remove Jewish history. As a Christian, I would think he would realize that the Bible clearly states that King David created Jerusalem, and that there were inhabitants of the land but they were not called Palestinians. Yes, there have always been people in the land of Israel, but for most of human history it has been a Jewish state or Jewish people and of course there have been other people, but none of them founded a country or cities that have historical recording. So all these years as he claimed where the Jews were not in the Middle East, nobody actually created a nation they just lived on the land. That doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be allowed to continue to live there however this guest implied if not outright believes the Jews shouldn’t be allowed to stay because in his word, they are colonizers. He also spoke very negatively of Zionism, which is simply the belief that Jewish people have of their heritage in the land, which also is the only historical record, available of settling the land and owning the land. My point in all this context is that this guest was allowed to just a spouse all of these incorrect views and because he has a PhD and because Preston doesn’t like to push back on anybody, you have to discern through all the lies or misrepresentations to find the truth. I have found this to be the case in many podcasts, but this one was so obvious and egregious that I felt the need to write a review. The unfortunate situation is this guest never acknowledged that within the charter of the Palestinian people is the belief that Israel should be annihilated. all the protest around the world with the chance from the river to the sea is a genocidal chant and belief system that says all Jews should be removed from the region, which is not a two state solution. It’s a genocidal annihilate all Jews, which is not what every Palestinian believes obviously however, it is the way the Palestinian government acts. Also, the Palestinians elected Hamas democratically in 2005 and within their charter they state their goal is to annihilate all Jews.”
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United States of America ·
10/28/23
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