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Welcome to The Causes of Things, a podcast from Sovereign Nations. The 1st century BC poet Virgil stated, “Blessed is he who understands the hidden causes of things.” This statement is as brilliant today as it was 2,000 years ago.
Primarily narrated by Michael O'Fallon, The Causes of Things is didactic in nature featuring a collection of teaching series & lectures, some of which are recorded specifically for this podcast, and some that are from public lectures. The show will offer discussion and information concerning a variety of complex ideas: The philosophical presuppositions behind the ideas that are aggressively shaping our world, the answers to those challenging ideas, and the necessary historical, hierarchical structure of the world as represented through the lens of Judeo Christian belief.
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Sep 12, 2022 • 1h 9min
Panel: Defeating the Marxian Panopticon | Michael O'Fallon, Charlie Kirk, James Lindsay
The Theology of Marxism, Session 7
In this third and final panel of Sovereign Nations's The Theology of Marxism Conference, Michael O’Fallon sits down live on stage with Dr. James Lindsay—renowned scholar, self-proclaimed agnostic, and a new convert from liberalism to conservatism (as confirmed exclusively in this episode), as well as Charlie Kirk, the Founder and President of Turning Point USA. They discuss the roots of Marxism, the Woke Rotting of Corporate America, ESG, Elon Musk & Tesla, how to crush your political enemies, the New Right, Klaus Schwab’s Great Reset, and how it all comes together to form an urgent warning sign for American conservatives to wake up, stand up, and fight back for the future of our republic.
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Sep 6, 2022 • 1h 47min
Marx’s Ontology of Man and the Telos of History | James Lindsay
The Theology of Marxism, Session 6
In this sixth session of Sovereign Nations’s "The Theology of Marxism" conference, Dr. James Lindsay addresses the titular theme of the conference: The Theology of Marxism.
For a century and a half, people have failed to recognize Marxism for what it is, a theology. Marx's emphasis on Atheism and strict materialism in all things have obscured from view what Marxism really is. Well, it is not a social theory. It is not an economic theory. It is a theology that sees economic and related social conditions as that which shapes human lives and, if born again into the faith, compels them to seize those means of human production and repurpose them to achieve the Marxian eschatology. That eschatology goes by a few names, but the most identifiable are "Communism," "Liberation," and "Social Justice."
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Sep 2, 2022 • 1h 8min
Panel: Saving the Transitioned Church | Jon Benzinger, Michael O'Fallon, James Lindsay
The Theology of Marxism, Session 5
Jon Benzinger, author of Stand: Christianity vs Social Justice and Pastor of Redeemer Church in Gilbert, AZ, joined Michael O’Fallon and James Lindsay as they discussed the incursion of Marxism into Evangelical Christianity at the Sovereign Nations Conference in Phoenix, AZ.
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Aug 31, 2022 • 1h 39min
The Fracturing of Faith | Michael O'Fallon
The Theology of Marxism, Session 4
In the fourth Session of Sovereign Nations’s “The Theology of Marxism” conference, Michael O’Fallon addresses the ways in which the church has been gradualistically decoupled from Biblical doctrine over the past 15 years.
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Aug 19, 2022 • 54min
Luna v Hayslett: Florida Congressional Race | Public Occurrences, Ep. 99
This past April, I moderated the Republican Florida District 13 Congressional Race that included Anna Paulina Luna, Kevin Hayslett, Amanda Makki, Audrey Henson and Christine Quinn.
Both in the preparation and moderation of the debate, I learned quite a bit about the candidates, their intentions, and their motivations for running for Pinellas County’s Congressional seat.
Since that time, the campaign from Kevin Hayslett has turned ugly - but only towards one other candidate: Anna Paulina Luna. In the course of the past 2 months, the ugliness and complete lies supplied by the Hayslett campaign have been some of the most egregious examples of false propaganda ever levied against a fellow Republican candidate.
Hayslett’s campaign has sent flier after ugly, photoshopped flier to the residents of Tampa Bay, attempting to create a reflexive feedback loop of fertile fallacies regarding Luna. Hayslett as well has used the deceptive phrase that he is a “Trump Republican” even though Anna Paulina Luna is the only candidate who is officially endorsed by President Donald Trump.
A closer examination into Hayslett’s claims of being a conservative Republican find clear contradictions to his claims:
On Hayslett’s campaign website, he claimed to be a member of Trinity Presbyterian Church - a church that supports Critical Race Praxis, the development of a critical consciousness, Open Borders, Amnesty for illegal immigrants, transgenderism and a postmodern view of the Christian faith. When he was informed of the blatant contradictions, Hayslett had the website claim of membership changed to Harbourside Church. https://web.archive.org/web/20220128232809/https:/hayslettforcongress.com/meet-kevin/
Hayslett also lobbied hard for digital currency under the current administration - the death knell for liberty and freedom for citizens of the United States of America
Hayslett was evasive and refused to answer simple questions in regards to his past insults directed towards former President Trump in a recent interview: https://twitter.com/VoteAPL/status/1558305548487069696
With the blatant lies being told about other candidates and the lack of veracity for Hayslett’s own claims about his own attributes, voters in Pinellas County really have only one clear choice.
Today, I offer my full support and endorsement of Anna Paulina Luna for the FL Congressional 13 seat in the House of Representatives.
I stand with a distinguished crowd of those that have endorsed Luna including
Former President Donald J. Trump
Rep. Lauren Boebert
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
Rep. Jim Jordan
and other liberty-minded patriots that are standing together for a hopeful future for this nation.
-Michael O'Fallon
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Aug 17, 2022 • 24min
Thinking the Unthinkable | Public Occurrences, Ep. 98
What does it take to finally convince someone to embrace what should be plainly evident to everyone?
Would it take a realization that the healthcare industry as a whole has transitioned from being concerned about healthcare and more concerned with leading the nation into a system of “health equity?”
Would it take a realization that every single one of the major automobile manufacturers have colluded with the World Economic Forum, the UN and the financial overlords of BlackRock and Vanguard to transition their entire fleets into electric in the short term while in the long terms eliminating the possibility of private car ownership?
Would it take the realization that the entirety of the education system is marching lock-step into radical subjectivism in every subject being offered at their institutions - being less concerned about the field of study and more concerned with helping to infuse social justice into every subject?
Would it take the realization that our entire financial system is being railroaded into a fascistically controlled algorithmic socialism? And when thinking of this horrible possibility you are forced to think of “National Socialism?”
Would it take a realization that the major faiths of this nation from Evangelical Christianity, Catholicism, Mormonism, Islam, Buddhism and even the New Atheist Movement would all together weave the Gnostic concepts of Marx and Gramsci into their belief systems?
Would it take a realization that our world’s food supply is being purposely diminished for the purposes of pushing all of us into a global Holodomor?
What would it take?
In every situation, it would take the strength and will of men and women everywhere to abandon all that they thought to be true, all that they thought to be “the way things are” and to embrace…
…the unthinkable.
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Aug 5, 2022 • 1h 44min
The Dialectical Faith of Leftism | James Lindsay
The Theology of Marxism, Session 3
Marxism is a theology, and its religion is Communism. That we have failed to understand this fact over the 175 years since Marx wrote the early drafts of what he originally called the Communist Confession of Faith and published in by the title The Communist Manifesto is indisputably one of the most damaging analytical errors in human history, if not the single worst. It's time to set the record straight. Marx laid out an evil theology, and the practice of his religion is a liturgy of death and destruction.
To understand the Marxist theology, we have to understand its theological antecedent, which was laid down by the German systematic theologian, speculative idealist, and Hermetic alchemist Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. His theology is a dialectical one, the father of what Marx turned into dialectical materialism, and it is the combination of two mystery religions. Hegel, building on Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Father of Leftism), Immanuel Kant, and others dialectically synthesized Hermetic alchemy and Gnosticism, hammered it into a Christianity-based metaphysical framework, and mislabeled it a "system of science." Thus we arrive at what has been variously called "Scientific Gnosticism," "Gnosticism in the Modern Era," and "Dialectical Leftism," which outlines a broad system of faith in man's necessary role as a transformer of reality into its utopian idealized state at the End of History.
In this deep-diving presentation from The Theology of Marxism Conference, New Discourses (https://newdiscourses.com/) Founder James Lindsay (https://linktr.ee/conceptualjames) explains for the first time in decades and in unprecedented clarity how Rousseau and Hegel architected the seeds of a broad Dialectical Faith of Leftism that Marx codified into his own anti-human theology.
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Aug 5, 2022 • 35min
Fabian Gradualism | Public Occurrences, Ep. 97
Fabian Gradualism discusses the concept of gradualism, which refers to the slow and progressive processes that lead to the evolution of Marxism without a sudden revolution. It delves into the British Fabians preference for this approach and how it has contributed to the rapid cultural and civilizational changes in western nations. The podcast also explores distractions like sports and social media as tools to prevent people from realizing the erosion of sovereignty and the plans for a New World Order. Additionally, it delves into Marx and Engels thoughts on class conflict, the concept of dialectical materialism, and the belief in the inevitability of socialism and communism.

Aug 3, 2022 • 21min
Marxism: A Religion | Public Occurrences, Ep. 96
The Theology of Marxism videos from Sovereign Nations’s groundbreaking conference have started to roll out over social media over the past week. Michael O’Fallon and Dr. James Lindsay provided an in-depth examination of Marxism and its varied denominational cults as it has ravaged faith communities around the world.
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Aug 1, 2022 • 47min
Panel: Steal Their Motte & Bomb Their Bailey | James Lindsay & Michael O'Fallon
The Theology of Marxism, Session 2
Many of the Christian leaders of seminaries, denominations and para-church ministries, who in the past propagated CRT and intersectionality, are still holding seats of power and influence: denying their own past actions to poison the minds of those under their influence. How are these men and women still in positions of influence? How can they pivot on their past words and actions without acknowledging their past errors?
James Lindsay and Michael O’Fallon discussed these issues during their first of four panels at the Sovereign Nations Conference in Phoenix, AZ. Their suggestion? Rhetorically bomb their bailey and steal their bailey and leave the dishonest merchants of poisonous ideology without a safe haven.
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