🇺🇸 Episode 0000 – Independence Ain’t Free: A Sermon for the Dispossessed Originally released July 4th

While fireworks light up the sky and flags wave in patriotic trance, Reverend Riot grabs the mic to blow up the myth of American freedom. This kickoff sermon dismantles the sanitized version of independence, dragging it through the mud of ICE raids, police brutality, billionaire worship, and manufactured consent.

This ain’t a celebration—it’s a reckoning.

With righteous fury and unrelenting love, we call out the Proud Boys, the January 6th insurrectionists, Trump’s cabinet, and the Heritage Foundation for hijacking the language of liberty. We lift up the oppressed, the working class, and every rebel heart still fighting for a freedom that means something real.

🗣️ Featuring quotes from:

• Malcolm X – “You can’t have capitalism without racism.”

• Martin Luther King Jr. – “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

• Teddy Roosevelt – “Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.”

• George Washington – “Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force.”

🎶 Hymnal: "And We Thought Nation States Were a Bad Idea" – Propagandhi (1996) Still screaming truths that cut deeper today than ever.

📿 In this sermon:

• The dark side of nationalism

• Why mutual aid outshines militarized patriotism

• How America was built on rebellion—and must be rebelled against again

• A prayer not for peace, but for fire that purifies

This is the real Independence Day—not for the state, but for the soul.

Welcome to Punk Rock Parish

In the fiery debut of Reverend Riot and the Punk Rock Parish, we crack open the hymnbook of resistance and lay the foundation of our anarcho-spiritual revolution. Reverend Riot kicks off the series with a sermon that ain’t about salvation—it’s about awakening. We walk through the Ten Tenets of Punk Rock Parish: a gritty, unapologetic manifesto for justice, freedom, community, and rebellion. From questioning authority to smashing capitalist control, this episode is your crash course in what we believe, why we fight, and how we love.

If you’ve ever felt like the world was rigged, that the system wasn’t built for you—or worse, built to break you—this is your sanctuary. No gods. No masters. Just community.

📿 Sermon Highlights:

• Why love is revolutionary

• What “anarchy is love in action” really means

• How DIY culture is a sacred act of resistance

• The moral clarity of “defend the oppressed”

🎧 Plus: Our first hymnal pick, closing prayer, and reflection questions for the riot within.

This isn’t your grandma’s gospel. This is the holy noise of the streets.