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  1. Blood & Rain Episode 91: Orthodoxy & Modern Politics Featuring: Principality of Spirit

    25 AUG

    Blood & Rain Episode 91: Orthodoxy & Modern Politics Featuring: Principality of Spirit

    The return of the Tsar. The restoration of Constantinople. Orthodox America.  The question is always “how?” There is a notion that is common amongst modern Christians that if the world is not to the perfect standard of Christianity (as judged by themselves), then there is no point in partaking in the discourse of politics and to even go as far as being nihilistic about everything surrounding our world in its form today. Fifty years ago, Father Seraphim Rose wrote to the few Orthodox Christians in the West who were shellshocked at a world so antithetical to the Orthodox Faith. America still in invincible form amidst the rise of material capitalism as a state religion with enlightenment ideas surrounding, and the Soviet Union waging war on Christianity directly. There was little hope for our world to reflect God then.  Yet today, 10,000 churches have been rebuilt in Russia, church attendance is climbing there, and the state is funding the Church to rapidly expand and return to its place as the bedrock of the Russian people.  In America, Orthodox Christianity has 10xd in four years going from 600,000 to 6 million members across all jurisdictions.  Yet there is still this utter pessimism that is the result of a lingering liberalism and nihilism after the conversions still within the minds of many here in the West.  Twenty years ago, the thought of an America increasingly Orthodox with a potential President to be listening to ideas that are increasingly classical this shifting the discourse to values increasingly close to those of our own would never have entered our minds. Yet this pessimism remains.  God has dominion over all, and when one thinks with this mindset, one can detach from his prideful perfectionist projection on the Faith of leaders, and begin to see how God is using them to enact his will.  The Blood & Rain Podcast Episode 91 “Orthodoxy & Modern Politics”  Featuring: Principality of Spirit Enjoy.

    1h 57m
  2. Blood & Rain Episode 90: Huey Long Featuring: John Slaughter

    23 AUG

    Blood & Rain Episode 90: Huey Long Featuring: John Slaughter

    The bid for an American Napoleon originating from the American South in a Louisiana that stopped looking after its people.  A boy born in one of the poorest counties in America to an upper middle class family by that county’s standards and a low class by America’s standards.  High school kingpin and political operator inspired by Napoleon, the Count of Monte Cristo, and the downtrodden men of his state.  Former seminarian turned traveling salesman turned lawyer.  Innovator of campaigning by both automobile and radio.  The Caesar of Louisiana becoming governor and destroying its bureaucratic state building infrastructure never thought possible.  Challenger of FDR for the fate of America only to be unceremoniously assassinated before the election he was picked to win.  The man who famously declared that every man should be a king but there should be no crowns.  The Kingfish.  The Blood & Rain Podcast  Episode 90 “Huey Long”  Featuring: John Slaughter  Enjoy.

    1h 28m
  3. Blood & Rain Episode 89: Anti-Heroes of Television Featuring: Blood Satellite

    6 AUG

    Blood & Rain Episode 89: Anti-Heroes of Television Featuring: Blood Satellite

    What is often defined as the golden age of television is centered around one common thread: the antihero.  America’s obsession with the flawed protagonist not always operating in the interest of upholding the highest morality standard is a reflection on its idleness as a nation in the post-Cold War Era. No clear enemy and Godlessness lead to fascinations in behaviors that point downward.  We grew bored with heroes as they should be. We grew bored with flawed heroes who eventually conquer their one fatal flaw. We only wanted the ones who plunge into indulgence of spiritual and sometimes indirect physical suicide.  All that glitters is unfortunately not always gold.  I’m joined by @bloodsatellite in a discussion that was originally supposed to be regarding the benefits of studying leftist thinkers like Derrida and Foucault, but it spontaneously shifted into a discussion about the great anti-heroes of television’s golden age.  Despite this subject matter, it was a comedic, jovial, and dare I say, fun conversation.  We discussed Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Mr. Robot, Boardwalk Empire, The Wire, and the Sopranos among others.  Give it a listen.  The Blood & Rain Podcast Episode 90:  “Anti-Heroes of Television”  Enjoy.

    1h 17m
  4. Blood & Rain Episode 88: Ius Publicum Europeaum Pt 2 Featuring: Mercatores

    18 MAY

    Blood & Rain Episode 88: Ius Publicum Europeaum Pt 2 Featuring: Mercatores

    In part two of the Ius Publicum Europeaum Series, I am once again joined by our new political theory cohost, Merctores to discuss the fruits of Hugo Grotius’s labors that gave life to European public law and the rise of the nation state: the Peace of Westphalia.  It is in this peace that the European consensus was cemented for 300 years, with empires being outsourced to possessions overseas, and the German people never truly recovering from the war that begged for this peace in the first place: the Thirty Years War.  With the exception of somewhat grander conflicts like the Nine Years War and Seven Years War, the consensus of Ius Publicum Europeaum was maintained amidst the many punitive wars that it permitted from its inception.  This status quo however would receive its first major threat and test in the form of the French Revolution and its consequences.  The Blood & Rain Podcast Episode 88  “Ius Publicum Europeaum Part 2”  Featuring: Mercatores  Enjoy.

    1h 43m
  5. Blood & Rain Episode 87: No Prayer Without Action Featuring: Prismatic Orthodox

    20 APR

    Blood & Rain Episode 87: No Prayer Without Action Featuring: Prismatic Orthodox

    The Son of God and Son of man has not only given humanity the opportunity for salvation of the soul, but He has called upon us in the material to act in accordance with our prayers on the road to Salvation.  God saw it necessary to make material our Salvation by becoming flesh, and it is in a material world where the fruits of our Faith are visible through our demeanor reflecting theosis or through our deeds. I’m joined by Prismatic Orthodox to discuss prayer and it’s lack of fruits when not coupled with action in his beautifully spoken understanding of synergy in the Orthodox Faith. The Blood & Rain Podcast Episode 87  “No Prayer Without Action” Featuring: Prismatic Orthodox Enjoy.

    1h 6m
  6. Blood & Rain Episode 86: Ius Publicum Europeaum PT 1 Featuring: Mercatores

    15 APR

    Blood & Rain Episode 86: Ius Publicum Europeaum PT 1 Featuring: Mercatores

    For the first time on Blood & Rain, we have a co-host, a member of the Anti-Fragile Athletes and aspiring professor from the Netherlands, Adam who will go by the moniker, “Mercatores.”  After two years of fascination with political theory, Mercatores will be my bi-weekly partner in crime on Blood & Rain when discussing various topics of political theory we both find a fascination in studying.  The first of these episodes is regarding the work of Hugo Grotius, who was called by King Henry IV, “the miracle of Holland.” Grotius was a lawyer, jurist, professor, and political theorist whose key texts laid the groundwork for the Peace of Westphalia, European Public Law or “Ius Publicum Europeaum,” and the dawn of true mercantilism.  In this part one episode, we chronicle the early life of Grotius, his influences from Spain in Francisco Vittoria and Francisco Suarez, his magnum opus, and the peace of Westphalia.  In part two, we will discuss the impact of Westphalia upon the next 300 years and its influences on Nuremberg which dictates the order of the world today.  The Blood & Rain Podcast  Episode 86: “Ius Publicum Europeaum Pt 1” Featuring: Mercatores  Enjoy.

    1h 5m
  7. Blood & Rain Episode 85: Gen Z Vanguard Featuring: J. Burden

    9 APR

    Blood & Rain Episode 85: Gen Z Vanguard Featuring: J. Burden

    The “Zillennials”and an intense Generation Z contingent displays the opposite behavior and sentiments of the Millennial and Generation Z majority.  Within the context of America and Europe’s fracturing hold that has lasted since Nuremberg, the vacuum to come will likely be filled by the aforementioned faction with the backing of their fringe Generation X counterparts.  The question is how much pain it will take to push through.  The Blood & Rain Podcast Episode 85: Gen Z Vanguard Featuring: J. Burden

    1h 16m
  8. Blood & Rain Episode 84: Western Re-Enchantment Featuring: The Prudentialist

    31 MAR

    Blood & Rain Episode 84: Western Re-Enchantment Featuring: The Prudentialist

    The DR’s resident geopolitical analyst, The Prudentialist joins me to discuss how he got into geopolitics, his view on the current American situation both domestically and internationally, his conversion to Orthodox Christianity, his views on the necessary steps for Orthodox expansion in America, and his recent article on “re-enchantment” of the West.

    2h 4m
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  • Creator
    Bloodandrain
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2024
  • Episodes
    95
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