Yeah,

that's quite a bit, right? I could talk about that forever, and I'm not going to.

I'm going to read a quote from Martin Luther.

So Martin Luther is a guy in the 16th century, and he's the one that started Lutheranism, and he started the Protestant Revolution, where the Protestants broke away from the Catholics.

He said, "'Reason is the chief prostitute of the devil, a lousy, filthy, and disgusting prostitute that ought to be trampled on and destroyed, both she and her companion wisdom.

It would be a good thing to make her detestable by throwing filth in her face for abominable wretch that she is.

She only deserves to be placed in the dirtiest place in the house, the privy.'" That's Martin Luther.

well

very little self-confidence.

That's just the way it is.

And once you are fearless and have self-confidence, you own the room.

And not only you own the room, you own life.

You're like a wolf among sheep.

And that's just the way it is.

It's all about developing your self-confidence and becoming fearless.

first of all, What message are you trying to communicate through the false paradigms of today and also the timeless truth of tomorrow?

I know I've seen you on the trail for at least a year, right?

Why not? Yes.

I, I announced, uh, very early, uh, last summer, like you're alluding to, and then officially I announced in November, and my kickoff event was March 7th.

So yeah, I've been doing a lot of stuff and getting her out and, uh, meeting people and listening to residents and their concerns and what they, what they feel that, uh, District 6 w- and the city of Merced as a whole needs.

And, uh, hopefully, uh, if I'm fortunate enough to win, I can make an impact there.

And I have a lot of ideas that I would like to see, uh, moving forward.

And, uh, I think the current, uh, board, with maybe one exception, uh, has been excellent.

Mm-hmm.

Exactly.

That's not very Christlike.

Doesn't sound like it to me.

Or what about, you know, all the wars of religion in the 1500s in Europe? Was that Christlike? There's all kinds of, you know, great examples of religion and religious authorities that doing things that had nothing to do with the original founders.

So I understand why people have drifted from religion.

Excuse me.

But as they've drifted, they needed to embrace something.

Aaron, after 13 years of writing your book, what truths emerged that surprised even you?