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We need that code again to take gentlemen and to turn them into gentle warriors.
And so I fully encourage people to learn about chivalry and to recover it.
Lewis wrote a brilliant essay on it.
I've started a society called The Order, and central to The Order is the idea of teaching chivalry.
They can find it on my website, which is soldierofchrist.online.
Yeah, and the idea is that it's about learning fitness through martial arts.
But central to our understanding of martial arts is the idea of chivalry.
Just because you're strong doesn't mean you bully the weak.
And that's what Jesus said, be meek.
Being meek is not about being a doormat.
It's about not using your own strength to your selfish opportunity, but controlling your passions and being in control of your passions.
And that's what it is to be a Christian warrior.
A Christian knight is to be in control of your own passions and not to bully or oppress others just because you're stronger than them.
So I'll start with why they're important to England and then I'll go why they're important to me.
So the saints of England...
And the saints of the Christian church do two things.
Firstly, they connect us to our own past.