Larry Sanger

I said to myself, if that's the case, then I don't actually want to read these books because I want any such doors to remain shut.

A few months passed after I became reprised of all these things, mostly the middle of 2019.

And in December of the same year, I guess I had finished some bedtime reading.

I was thinking what I was going to pick up next.

And I thought, well, you know, I wanted to read the Bible because the Bible is a...

It is the thing that the occultists are inverting.

That's basically what they do.

A lot of the symbology and the rituals and other aspects of these sorts of hidden cults is a perversion of what is in the Bible.

That's only one kind, though, of course.

And so I decided to pick up the Bible and, you know, at least I'd know what they were reacting to a little better.

And it's not like I'd never read parts of the Bible.

Of course, I've read parts of the Bible, never read the whole thing all the way through.

And I can say now that I certainly did not understand anything.

what like the point of the Bible was in the whole, what theologians call the story of redemption or salvation, right?

And when I was actually reading the Bible, well,

And I'll let you prompt me.

I don't know how much detail you want me to go into it, but I was just absolutely amazed that it stood up to as much inquiry as I could give it in just the way that Aquinas said, as you said earlier.

It actually wasn't the gospel.

It was the Old Testament.

And then, of course, I knew being raised as Christian, I knew that brought out lines of the gospel.