
The state is not broken. It is working exactly as designed. Every Sunday, Mike Shaner takes one idea the state needs you to leave alone — voluntaryism, property, war, money, faith, food freedom — and argues it out loud in plain English. No hedging. No both-sides theater. Listen right here, or follow the show on Apple Podcasts and every new episode lands on its own.
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Season 1, Episode 1 — How Can a Loving God Send People to Hell?
Published August 10, 2026 · 18 min
People ask this more than any other question — sometimes as a challenge, sometimes as a real wound. Mike’s answer is not clever: he never came to Christ to avoid hell, he came because grace pulled him out of a prison he built himself. On fear as the worst possible reason to believe, on separation from God as a choice rather than a sentence, and on refusing to rank anyone’s sins above your own.
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Season 1
Season 1 is a twelve-episode arc, released every Sunday at 8:30am Central. Episodes appear here the moment they publish.
S1E1 — How Can a Loving God Send People to Hell? · Aug 10, 2026 · Play above · Read the Revolution
From the Archive — Short Audio Editions
Before the show had a season, the essays had a voice. These are the short audio editions of past Black Market Report pieces — two to three minutes each, same argument, read aloud.
Every Episode, As It Drops
- People ask me this more than any other question. Usually it comes as a challenge, sometimes as a real wound, and I finally sat down and answered it as honestly as I know how.My answer is not clever. I don’t […]
- For years, there has been an outcry for the inclusion of more political parties on the national stage, but the fire has never been hotter than it is right now, due to Tucker Carlson hinting that he may start a […]
- Do you want to know what my biggest conspiracy theory is?It’s that most conspiracy theories were created by government to paint the AntiState movement as crazy.If we stayed out of the high weeds and focused on what government admits, defending […]
- The Collectivist ArgumentCollectivism is the problem with the restrictionist side of the immigration debate.My argument is not with Republicans or neocons. Their philosophy opposes mine. I would love for them to hear my argument and change their minds, but that’s […]
- In 2022, I wrote that the efforts to defund the police were a Trojan horse that would ultimately benefit authoritarianism. Time would indicate that I was correct.I laid out that argument in Defund the Police Movement Is an Authoritarian Trojan […]
- One of the most misunderstood and deliberately misused passages of the Bible is Matthew 22:15–22.“Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s.” — Matthew 22:21Manipulative statists will misrepresent that as Christ […]
- We are supposed to believe that Donald Trump and the mainstream media are enemies—that the whole thing is a shoot rather than a work. If that is true, then why has no one in the mainstream media asked Donald Trump […]
- When monsters are vanquished and tyrants deposed, it is right to express relief.Whether the monster wears a German mustache, a Saudi turban, or a Washington suit is inconsequential. Get full access to The Black Market Report at antistatecontent.substack.com/subscribe
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