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The European continent was devastated in the wake of World War II, and the conflict left the Soviet Union and the United States as uncontested superpowers. This ushered in over 45 years of the Cold War, and a political alignment of Western democracies against the Communist Soviet bloc that produced conflicts pitting allies on each sides fighting, even as the American and Soviet militaries never engaged each other.

With the current political landscape, fueled by the media, we are being told that we are more divided than ever. Often times, both sides of the aisle claim the other is filled with craziness and hypocrisy. This podcast aims to look at both sides, be reasonable, examine current events, and try to find the truth of what is happening in the middle of the Right and the Left.

The show for critical thinkers, who don’t simply swallow the official story, without proper analysis.

Nowadays, the pope is synonymous with unparalleled piety, compassion, and benevolence. To many, the pope is the embodiment of godly love in its purest form. This is a far cry from how things were just a few centuries ago. Back in the day, the most notorious of popes were nothing more than power-hungry dictators and cutthroat political experts. Indeed, by the late 14th century, tensions within the Church reached a breaking point, resulting in the infamous split of the Catholic Church, one that saw multiple popes fighting to knock the others off their thrones.