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What Aren’t They Telling Us?

44 min · 22. juni 2026
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James 4:1 asks a question most Christians apply only to personal quarrels: "From whence come wars and fightings among you?" But what if that same diagnostic — that conflicts are rooted in sinful passions and lusts — applies not just to family disputes but to the wars between nations that have defined the modern era? In this episode of Out of the Question, Andrea Schwartz and Pastor Charles Roberts argue that Christians who refuse to apply biblical categories to geopolitical conflict are left defenseless against manufactured narratives and engineered crises. The conversation traces a pattern from the interpersonal to the international: just as a parent asks "who instigated this?" when children fight, so Scripture demands we ask who benefits when nations go to war. Drawing on historical examples — from the circumstances surrounding Pearl Harbor to the pretexts for Germany's invasion of Poland, to the uncomfortable reality that the same financial interests often fund opposing sides of a conflict — Schwartz and Roberts make the case that wars redistribute wealth and power in predictable ways, and that those who profit from conflict have every incentive to perpetuate it. The problem, they argue, is not merely ignorance but a truncated theology that reduces the Bible to a personal salvation manual and cedes public life to autonomous human reasoning. The episode challenges listeners to move beyond both naive patriotism and cynical resignation. If Psalm 2 tells us that rulers conspire together against the Lord, and Psalm 127 tells us that unless the Lord builds the house the laborers work in vain, then the Christian's responsibility is not to retreat into pietism but to bring every institution — family, church, and state — under the governance of God's law. Listeners are pointed to Rushdoony's commentary on James, his *Christianity and the State*, and the *Faith in Action* and *Informed Faith* essay collections as resources for thinking more deeply. This is a conversation for anyone ready to ask the questions behind the questions.

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