Steve Bannon and Ignatius of Antioch

American Thinker ^ | 11 Jul. 2024 | Geoffrey P. Hunt

[MtnClimber]

Can the Deep State shut down Steve Bannon? It doesn’t seem that way.

Around the turn of the second century, St. Ignatius, bishop of Antioch, was condemned by a Roman tribunal to be torn apart and eaten by lions in the Coliseum. What was his crime? Ignatius was condemned because his speech was subversive to the Roman social order. Having a public audience worsened his exercise of free speech; speaking freely in front of an assembled mob was the real crime.

But Ignatius’s death sentence didn’t chill his speech. He managed to preach in dozens of venues along the route of a condemned man from Syria to Rome. There are at least seven letters from Ignatius, written during his death march, considered authentic, and perhaps another half-dozen attributed but of disputed origin. His epistles ranged from declaring the divinity of Jesus to the central truth of the Eucharist being the body of Christ to the need for hierarchy and structure in the Church.

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Bannon is not finished. His athletic, full-throated advocacy is more persistent and widespread than any other political agitator, right or left.

Bannon’s enemies couldn’t have engineered a worse elliptical prosecution — soon enough returning with the furies to its origin.

He will use the summer in a cell block, free from distractions and noisy plumes, to apply solitary ruminations for constructing an even more devastating and durable political action roadmap and workbook for the people to take back their nation, freeing themselves from indignity, humbug, and tyranny.

“For every conservative in America, this is what happens in the last days of a dying regime. They will never shut me up. They’ll have to kill me first. I have not yet begun to fight.”

—Stephen K Bannon

[MtnClimber]

The left has expanded what is acceptable in politics. I hope the opposition can make them regret it.

[Delta 21]

You’ll have to kill me first!

[Bigg Red]

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