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look at that and make that happen. But before we get into today's main topic, we will talk
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about the quick hitter segment. So in the quick hitter segment, we are going to be discussing
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an update on the 10 year old Ohio girl that cross state lines in order to get an abortion.
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Apparently that was a true story. A good guy with a gun stopping a mass shooting at a mall
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in Indiana. LeBron James, the amazingly wonderful smart LeBron James saying that Britney Griner
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should reconsider whether or not she should come back to the United States after she gets
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out of Russian prison. That's a real thing that happened. Also, we have NASA's James
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Webb space telescope giving us the deepest looks into space that we've ever seen. And
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also the one and only Leah Thomas is poised to become the 2022 woman of the year, even
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though he's a dude, but we'll get to that here in just a second. But we need to talk
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about something that I've just been drowned with in the last week or so. And that is Jordan
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Peterson coming out swinging against Christian churches. So on July the 12th, Jordan Peterson
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released a video on his YouTube channel called message to the Christian churches. Okay. So
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by the time you listen to this episode, it will likely have over 1 million views. I think
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when I last checked, it was like 943,000 in like four or five days. Tons of you guys sent
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this video to me to get my reaction. You just wanted to make sure that we could see it.
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I mean, I was getting text messages, DMS emails, kind of the whole nine yards. And I just
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knew as soon as I saw the reaction, you guys had to it. And I watched it myself that we
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had to talk about on the show. So this video is about 10 minutes long. I will put it in
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the show notes so you guys can check that out. He also released a video like a day later,
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which was a message to Muslims. It was about it had about twice as many views. It was, you
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know, maybe six or seven minutes long. I really didn't think it was that good. I thought
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it was pretty weak overall. Again, I'm not the target audience because I'm not a Muslim
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and I don't go to a mosque or any of those types of things. But I thought the message
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in it was just kind of ho hum. It was like, Hey, you know, soonies and she is, why don't
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you stop squabbling with each other? And I was like, there's a little bit more to it
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than that. So wasn't really gonna, I was going to basically do a review of both videos, but
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I didn't feel like there was a whole lot of meat on the bone on the Muslim one. Someone
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to focus on the one with Christian church is obviously, I think that would be more important
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for you guys and more interesting to you guys as well. But if you have not seen the video
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already, okay, the video again is in the show notes, but we're going to break down the entire
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thing right now. Okay, so if you want to watch it and all it's glory all at once without
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me kind of coming in and out and kind of giving my my feedback, you can watch it there first,
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but then we're going to break it up. So if you're watching this on YouTube or rumble,
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you will see the actual video of it. But again, if you're just listening to it, which is most
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of you, it will be here that, you know, I'll just basically be giving you the audio in
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and out. So let's go ahead and go into it. This is message to the Christian churches.
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Here's the first clip here. Hi, all. It is, of course, completely presumptuous of me
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to dare to write and broadcast a video entitled message to the Christian churches. But I'm
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going to do it anyway, because I have something to say and because that something needs to
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be said. So obviously right here from the beginning, he is a guy that as you know, and
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if you've been following him for any length of time, he's not afraid to speak his mind.
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And I'm so glad that he does. And I think a lot of us, whether you're in the church or
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outside the church, you can get a lot of value from what Jordan Peterson says in his writings
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and especially in the things that he says in his speeches. So let's get back into it here.
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I've been speaking to and watching and listening to audiences all over the Western world for
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the past four years in person and in virtual form. And I've learned a few things in consequence.
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It all started in some sense with the lectures I did on Genesis in 2017. My family and I took
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a risk and rented out a theater in Toronto on the off chance that there might be an audience
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for what might be described as a psychological approach to our ancient stories and lo and
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behold and miracle of miracles, there was. So obviously he's talking about his biblical
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lecture series, which, you know, if you didn't know him from Bill C 16 in Canada and was in
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his response to that, if you didn't know him from 12 rules for life, that's probably why
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you knew him because guys, those lectures have been viewed and listened to tens of millions
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of times.
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Right. You know, but a lot of people watching on YouTube, a lot of people have listened
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to him because he's put him on his podcast feed. I mean, just incredible. And it's, it's
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partially because the talks are so interesting. Obviously they can kind of stay in alone as
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being an interesting thing. But it's also partially because a non Christian clinical psychologist
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in Dr. Jordan B. Peterson takes the holy Bible seemingly more seriously than many purported
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Christians do. I mean, he he spends so much time in Genesis and he uses his decades long
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work as a clinical psychologist to apply that what we see in those stories, what we see from
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our historical holy text and brings it to life in a different way than maybe a pastor would
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not even maybe a pastor would definitely than what a pastor would. All right, let's get
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back into it here.
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I completed 15 or so lectures walking through the first biblical book, sold out the theater
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and attracted surprisingly millions of viewers, Christians, Jews, Muslims, and atheists and
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most of the people who attended live and the majority of those who watched online were
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young men. That is not a phenomenon that can be easily accounted for, but let me try.
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So Jordan Peterson has literally been talking about this phenomenon for years, for years
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now. Like ever since he figured out that the majority of the people that were watching
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his YouTube channel were young men, he's been talking about this and been thinking about
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this because you would have thought it would have been a little bit more of a down the
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middle split. And that's been something that people have kind of come at him before. It's
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like, Oh, you know, all these angry white men are watching Jordan Peterson videos and
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being radicalized, or they're being preached to in a good way. They're being welcomed into
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a higher, you know, place and higher value for themselves. We'll get more into that here
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in a second. But he spent, he has probably spent more time thinking about the plight of
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young men in Western society than just about anyone. There's some people that wrote some
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fantastic books and working to get some of those people on here to talk about, you know,
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the crisis happening with boys and boyhood and, you know, on into, you know, pre manhood
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and manhood and all those different things. And even all those people may have not spent
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as much time thinking about this is Jordan Peterson. And it's has a lot to do with the
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phenomenon of his YouTube channel that came from these biblical lectures. All right, let's
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get back into it. Now in the West, because of the weight of historical guilt that is
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upon us, a variant of the sense of original sin in a very real sense. And because of a
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very real attempt by those possessed by what might be described as unhelpful ideas to weaponize
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that guilt, our young people face a demoralization that is perhaps unparalleled. This is particularly
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true of young men. Although anything that devastates young men will eventually do the
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same to young women. And that in this era of anti-natalism and equally reprehensible nihilism
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is precisely the point. I think this is great here. We start to get into this whole concept
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of the demoralization of specifically young boys and the demoralization of them specifically
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in the ways that they should be lifted up. A lot of young boys, a lot of things that they
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do are demonized. And when who they are as a person, they're wiring is demonized. It's
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amazing how you can easily quash that person and crush them a little bit. And again, that
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doesn't just impact the young boys because obviously we're in this complementarian relationship
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between young men and young women. And then whenever they grow up between men and women,
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having this reciprocal relationship with one another, that will lead to the flourishing
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of humanity. And if you start to attack that at the early stages of a boy's development,
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it's a big, big deal. So back into it here.
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When they are children, boys are hectored for their toy preferences, which often include
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toy weapons such as guns. And they're more boisterous playing style as boys require
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active rough and tumble play, even more than girls, for whom it is also a necessity. When
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in grade school, boys are admonished, shamed and controlled in a very similar manner by
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those who think that play is unnecessary, particularly if it's competitive and who value
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a docile, harmless obedience above all, shades of Dolores Umbridge.
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So if you don't know who Dolores Umbridge is, I didn't either. I guess that somebody from
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the Harry Potter books or the movies or whatever. So there you go. For all you Harry Potter
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folks. But I love that he gets into this part. He's basically flowing on the fact that the
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K through 12 school systems. So this could be public or private or whatever. It's being
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suited and best suited for compliant little girls that they want you to sit and rose.
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They want you to focus on the front of the class and they want you to do exactly what
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is expected of you. Right. It doesn't really know what to do with excitable little boys.
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And probably the best example, you know, for me that hits close to home is my sister was
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one grade ahead of me and she and I are polar opposites, right? You know, I'm male, she's
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female, but I'm incredibly boisterous and you know, class clown, those types of things.
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She was the quiet, reserved band kid that sat in the very, very front row, did her homework,
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turned her assignments in on time and all those things and never like, you know, she
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would have absolutely just melted into a puddle of disaster if a teacher had ever like gotten
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on to her for anything like she was a rule follower. But that's what K through 12 school
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is for. It's for little girls like my sister was. And so it was always, you know, she and
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I had the same teachers. And so I would be coming in and they're thinking they're getting
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another kind of well-mannered, you know, down to earth, easy to control Thompson. And they
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got me, you know, they got me instead. And so I love that he's talking about this because
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a lot of people are trying to figure out how they can create a better school specifically
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for energetic young boys to not just create automatons out of them, to just, you know,
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shove them into, you know, being, you know, in a cubicle farm and just trying to deal
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with it at some point down the road. So let's get back into it here.
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Having all that, because that's not enough, even when pursued assiduously for total demoralization,
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is the inculcation of an extremely damaging ideology, which essentially consists of three
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accusations. Number one, human culture, particularly in the West, is best construed as an oppressive
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patriarchy, motivated by the desire, willingness, and ability to use power defined as the compulsion
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of others against their will to attain what are purely selfish and self-serving ends.
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This is true at every level of analysis. Marriage is akin to slavery, friendship to exploitation,
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political disagreement to war, and business arrangements to deception and theft. And this
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is true, not only of the current social arrangements that characterize our culture, particularly
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in the West, but also the fundamental reality of history itself.
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So I think it's important here that we get into the discussion of patriarchy. So this
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is his first accusation, essentially just to kind of sum it up, patriarchy defines Western
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culture. And he defines it in a negative way. Essentially, the patriarchy is the great devil.
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And if you can frame it that way, then everything that you do that is, you know, anti the patriarchy
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is a good and moral thing to do. And so I'm actually working my way through a book right
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now. I'm so really, really early in it. So it's called The Rise and Triumph of the Modern
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Self. So this is by Carl Truman. And so we get into a little bit of the patriarchy in
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this. And again, I'm only about a quarter of the way through this. You know, we're hoping
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to have him on the show here very, very soon. A lot of people have pointed to this book as
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a descriptor of our current cultural moment and all the negative things therein. But it
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talks about the patriarchy in here. It talks about kind of where these ideologies come from.
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And obviously, Jordan Pearson has, you know, seen a lot of this and the stuff that he's
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done and the attacking of the patriarchy. And you know, basically, if you say the patriarchy,
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everybody just assumes, Oh, yeah, that big negative thing, right? Even though that's not
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exactly the case and it shouldn't work out that way. But let's get back into it here.
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Accusation number two, human activity, particularly that undertaken in the West, is fundamentally
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a planet disboiling enterprise. The human race is a threat to the ecological utopia that
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existed before us and that could hypothetically exist in our absence. We might well be construed
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even as a cancer that threatens the very viability of the complex systems that make up the ecosystem
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of the earth that shelters and supports us. We are facing a melthusian catastrophe of overpopulation
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and biosphere degradation. And we have to place extreme limits on our wants, even our
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needs so that survival itself, even in a much reduced form, can be guaranteed.
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So obviously this isn't the main point of this entire video, but in actually accusation
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number two, you see that human activity, especially here in the West, is a cancer to the earth.
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Okay. So this is basically the basis. This is a scaffolding of the anti human, anti natalist,
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you know, green policies that we see. And the funny thing about that is with a lot of these
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green policy people that are, Oh, we need less humans and we need to kind of curtail
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that. They're never willing to start with themselves or their families. It's always you
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and your family, right? Like you shouldn't have kids because of global warming or something.
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So I like that he throws that in here. But again, that accusation plays into a lot of
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the stuff that we're seeing with his entire concept. So back to it.
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Accusation number three, the prime contributor, both to the tyranny that makes up the oppressive
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patriarchy and structures, all of our social interactions, past and present, and the unforgivable
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disboiling of our beloved mother earth is damnable male ambition, competitive and dominating
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power mad selfish exploitative raping and pillaging. You might think that I'm overstating the case.
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Think again, sunshine. We in the West are facing an all out assault at the deepest levels on
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what that old joker Jacques Derrida deemed the foul logo centric conceptual structure
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of civilization itself. So let's get into that a little bit. This is accusation three,
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male ambition is the gasoline essentially to the fire that destroys all things. But you
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heard a couple of things there, Jacques Derrida and foul logo centrism. You may not be familiar
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with those things. So Jacques Derrida is a French philosopher. I guess all horrible things
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come out of France. And he's still alive today. So this is a guy that's still kind of spouting
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a lot of his nonsense. But foul logo centrism. This is actually like a conglomeration of
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a bunch of different words. But it's referring to the the privileging of masculine in the
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construction of meaning. And so masculine, phallus, right, foul logo centrism. So it's
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focusing on the logos or logos of the construction of meaning around the masculine point of view.
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So back to it here.
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To take that apart, that's a society centered on the encouraging adventurous masculine spirit
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and that privileges that hated word of all things, the divine logos. And what should we
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worship and celebrate properly other than that, deconstructionists, the words of that
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mass murderer Karl Marx. And it is precisely those young men who are deeply conscientious,
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capable of guilt and regret, who have come to believe in pain that every deep impulse
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that moves them out into the world for the adventure of their life, even that impulse
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drawing them to women is nothing but the manifestation of a spirit that is essentially satanic in
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nature. This is not only wrong, theologically, morally, psychologically, practically, and
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scientifically, it is literally anti true. It's not a mere misstatement about the nature
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of reality, a minor conceptual error, but something that literally could not be farther
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from the truth. And something that distant from the truth comes from a place that cannot
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be distinguished from hell.
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So there's a lot to get in here into here, but I love the shot that he takes at the deconstructionist
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because almost all the deconstructionists that we see in our culture, they would all
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tell us to follow the words of Karl Marx. You would, you would be hard pressed to find
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a deconstructionist that rejects Karl Marx and the things that he said specifically in
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the communist manifesto, but also in his other writings. And that's a very, very important
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thing. So I like the shot he takes there. But again, the kind of the main point of that
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little, you know, that little set up there and all the stuff that he talked to in that
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little section is if you want to ruin manhood, you know, and manliness and masculinity, all
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those things, you must, you have to force young men, especially highly driven young men,
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and force them and tell them and enforce upon them that all of their impulses are wrong
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and should be suppressed. That's how you ruin it. Right? But that's also how you ruin society
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because men are the builders of society. We see that all the way back to biblical times.
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We see that throughout the Old Testament, New Testament, that men are the builders of society.
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And we do that in concert in a complimentary relationship with the women of society, okay?
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And the children of society, I guess you could put it that way. But again, how do you destroy
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society from the inside out? You have to attack manhood. Well, it's harder to attack an adult
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man whose brain is fully developed who already has his ways of thinking and ways of operating.
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So what do you do? You attack the young men, right? But now this this next section here
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are really the last entire part of this video. We're about a little bit over halfway. He's
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going to start going in on Christian churches. And he's set it up incredibly well with the
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first, you know, six or so, seven or minutes or so of this entire video. So let's get back to it.
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The Christian church is there to remind people, young men included, and perhaps even first and
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foremost, that they have a woman to find a garden to walk in, a family to nurture, an arc to build,
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a land to conquer, a ladder to heaven to build, and the utter terrible catastrophe of life to face
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stalwartly in truth, devoted to love and without fear. So in this section, he's invoking a bunch
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of biblical imagery in order to call boys into manhood. So if you go back to some of our interviews
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that we've done with John Eldridge, that's the thing that we're talking about. You can talk about
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rites of passage. You can talk about, you know, becoming a better man, a better father, a better
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husband, all those different things. But what we need from fathers and from the church is that we're
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calling boys into a higher version of themselves into the higher calling of true biblical manhood.
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Back to it here. Invite the young men back. Say literally to those young men, you are welcome here.
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If no one else wants what you have to offer, we do. We want to call you to the highest purpose
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of your life. We want your time and energy and effort and your will and your goodwill.
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We want to work with you to make things better, to produce life more abundant for you
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and for your wife and children and for your community and your country and the world.
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Every single pastor listening to this needs to go back and listen to that section again.
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And then once you've done that, listen to it again and again and then seven more times
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and then a thousand more times after that. And for those of you that have a good relationship
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with the pastors that work in your church, you need to show them this entire video,
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but also have them focus in really on this back half because again, the quote there from him was
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invite the young men back. Say literally to those young men, you are welcome here.
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Because I've talked about, as I've talked about a lot on this show is most churches have created
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an environment where it's basically telling the men, you're not really needed. We've got this.
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We've got the professional Christians on staff and then we've got all the volunteer women
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that will take care of business. We don't need you here. And to the young men, right?
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So, you know, whatever that looks like to you, maybe that's a 12 year old or a 22 year old or whatever.
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To the young men, there's no place for them. Nothing really fits. When you see a young man
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volunteering a whole bunch of church, you almost kind of look at them, a scan like, you know,
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what's his angle? What's he doing? Is he trying to sell stuff? Is he trying to get in with all
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these people so he can have power? It's that type of an environment because we've created
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non man friendly churches. But imagine if you were part of the church, if you were part of the
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revolution, to welcome these men through these doors saying, not only do we have a place for you,
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we need you. Back to it. And we have our problems in the Christian church. We are more abundant,
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sometimes far too often corrupt and sometimes deeply so. We're outdated as are all institutions
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with their roots in the dead, but still often wise past. So join us. We'll help fix you up.
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And you can help fix us up and together we'll aim up. I absolutely love this section because
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the message for the church and to church leaders to young men is this. We will not fault you. This
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is what it should be. Anyway, we will not fault you for your manly wiring. We will use it. We will
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help you channel that energy as you help us eradicate our problems. Right. So there are a lot of
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kind of masculine centered preachers and pastors out there, you know, Mark Driscoll's one that comes
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to mind. Everybody loves to beat that guy up. And again, some of the stuff he absolutely deserves.
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But he's always focused on the men. And he's never faulted them for their wiring. He never
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treated them as if they were this broken thing that needed to be feminized in order to be controlled.
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He's never done that. And I think that's very, very important because if you're a pastor,
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you should not want to take those things away from that man. God made men that way for a purpose.
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And it's your job to make sure that can be used within the flock. I absolutely love that part of
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it. Back to it here. And here is a message to those young men skeptical about such things.
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What else do you have? You can abandon the churches in your cynicism and disbelief.
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You can say to yourself, narcissistically and solipsistically, the church does not
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express what I believe properly. Who cares what you believe? Why is this about you?
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Do you even want it to be about you? What if it was about others? What if it was about your duty
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to the past and to the broader community that surrounds you in the present? What if it was
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incumbent upon you and vital to your health and willingness even to live to rescue your
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dead father from the belly of the beast where he has always resided and to restore him to life?
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So one thing I love from the beginning of that section is he says, basically, who cares what you
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believe? Why is this about you? And the reason why he's saying that is because he's calling young men
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away from narcissism. He's saying, let's separate ourselves off from this overwhelming focus on
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the self. That's another thing from Carl Truman's book that I'm getting into right now calling their
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attention back to where it should have been all along. And that's to their greater family and to
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the surrounding community. Because again, we're not encouraged to do that in our TikTok,
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Instagram focus on me generation. Everything's about becoming an influencer and becoming the
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center point, you know, and everybody revolving around you as opposed to you trying to see what
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you can do to help those around you. We don't encourage that anymore. And the church has done
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a really, really poor job of doing that. Part of it is we've lifted up all these mega church
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pastors where it's like, they're not pastors anymore. They're influencers. Like these mega
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church pastors, they're not the ones holding the hands of people dying in hospitals. They're not
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the ones doing, you know, marriage counseling. They've hired staff to do that. So they get to play
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celebrity CEO. And then they let everybody else deal with the professional Christian stuff.
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And then we're shocked when even kids in the church are focusing on themselves. You know,
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they're looking at their pastors got a million or two million followers on Instagram. They're like,
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I want to be that someday. I want to be an influencer pastor. I want to be able to sell,
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you know, a whole bunch of books through through all these cool publishers. And again,
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ultimately, there's nothing wrong with that. If, but the, the, you should see how that could
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become an issue for the people that are in your community. And again, when your church is so big
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that your pastor can't even give you the names of 200 people that go to church there,
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how could they possibly be in charge of the health of every single person in the flock?
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It doesn't make a lot of sense. Again, we're calling and should be calling these men,
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these young men away from their own personal narcissism to get them to focus on things
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outside of themselves. And you as a church and as a pastor and as a leader should be modeling that.
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All right, back to it. Once again, to the churches, Protestant, you're the worst at the moment,
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Catholic, Orthodox, invite young men, put up a billboard, say young men are welcome here,
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print some flyers and put them in a box by the billboard, signal the existence of those flyers
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with an arrow with the words, more information about attending here. Tell those who have never
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been in a church exactly what to do, how to dress, when to show up, who to contact and most importantly,
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what they can do. Ask more, not less of those you are inviting. Ask more of them than anyone ever has.
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This section is absolute golden. There's only one more section after this,
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but he says rightly, rightly so from the very beginning that Protestants are the worst at this.
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He's 100% right. Okay. We as Protestants expect way too little and then we get exactly that or worse.
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That's exactly what happens because again, we're in this very influencer driven church environment
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to where it's seeker sensitive and we don't want to say anything or do anything or talk about any
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subjects that could ruffle any feathers and then get people not to show up. Again, it's it's kind
28:29
of the, you know, the Burger King model like we're going to do. We're going to have all these different
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Burger King set up and we're going to have this model and we want to make sure that everything kind
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of still flows through our central organization, but you know, we want to have, you know, a footprint
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and all these other different areas and all these other different things, but we don't really want
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to ask too much of people. We might ask them to join a small group or a home group or something
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like that. We might ask them to volunteer here or there, but you know, we don't want to pry and we
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don't want to press and, you know, we might ask you to do a little bit of theological reading,
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but who am I kidding? Like, let's just make sure you keep coming in and getting your donuts and
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your coffee and go in there for the light show and then go in and get your TED talk with your bible
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verses and all those types of things. That's basically what the Protestant church has devolved
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into in a lot of areas. Okay. But then also in this section, Jordan Peterson hits this again.
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You are welcome here. Like literally imagine if you took him literally and in your church this
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weekend, you put up a big sign on cardboard or poster board or whatever and just said, men are
29:25
welcome here. Young men are welcome here. And just having that up, some people might look at that and
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that would be a little bit weird. Some of the more feministy people in your midst might be like,
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Oh, that's why aren't they talking about the women? Why aren't they just talking about the men?
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But just imagine the impact that would have on the men that see that because they're going to
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internalize that and be like, I guess I am welcome here. Well, the sign said so like,
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dudes are pretty simple, right? For some of them, that's all you really need.
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And then also, he hits on the section of ask more, ask more, not less of the people you're
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inviting to be a part of your flock. And we get this in Protestantism. We get this so,
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so unbelievably wrong, right? Now, if you're in some more of the advanced theological
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churches and things like that, they ask a lot of their people because they take discipleship
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seriously. So you're not only going to come to this church, you're going to become a member
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and you're not just going to become a member, you're going to volunteer. You're going to be a part
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of what we're doing here. Not only you're going to volunteer, you're going to be discipling others
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while others are discipling you. You're going to follow the pastor as the pastor follows Jesus.
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Like we're going to take all these things very, very, very seriously. But most churches don't do that.
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Again, we want to ask the minimum amount from you. We want you to show up and we don't even
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care if you show up on time. You can show up a little late, no big deal, no big deal, right?
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We just want you to, we just want you to come and we want you to enjoy yourself.
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We don't even care if you pay attention that much, but then that's it.
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And if you come once or twice a month or something like that and take a few months off,
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we won't notice because there's so many people around. How could we possibly notice whether or not
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you were there? Again, asking more of the people is a huge deal and a big deal because, again,
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if you set the bar really, really high and people don't hit it, they're probably still going to land
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higher than they did had you set the bar really, really, really low to begin with.
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All right, guys, let's get to the very last section of it here.
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Remind them who they are in the deepest sense and help them become that.
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Your churches for God's sake, quit fighting for social justice, quit saving the bloody planet,
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attend to some souls. That's what you're supposed to do. That's your holy duty.
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Do it. Now, before it's too late, the hour is nigh.
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So that's how he ends it. And I'll just go ahead and redo the quote he did here.
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Quit fighting for social justice, quit saving the bloody planet, attend to some souls.
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That's what you're supposed to do. That's your holy duty. Do it. Now, before it's too late,
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the hour is nigh. That's the message because what are churches focusing on right now?
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They're focusing on social justice, but not social justice, undergirded by scripture.
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No, no, no, no, no, undergirded by critical theory, which is undergirded by the Frankfurt
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school, which is undergirded by the writings of Karl Marx, one of the most evil people to have
32:34
ever lived, right? And the guy that has set up more evil people to do more evil than maybe anybody
32:39
that's ever lived, okay? Quit saving the bloody planet. Because again, we were given this planet
32:45
as a gift and given it to work it and keep it. But whenever you worship at the altar of Mother
32:50
Nature, and I know some people like I'll mention Mother Nature in this podcast and I always mention
32:55
it in the concept of working out. I'm like, Hey, you know, with Mother Nature and the human body,
32:59
you can do a whole lot and people get really, really weird about that. Like guys, I'm obviously
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not saying you should worship at the altar of Mother Nature. I'm using that phrase colloquially.
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But at the same time, there are a lot of people, even Christians, that really would want to do
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things that would more so benefit a tree or an animal and not an image bearer of Christ,
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not somebody that has the Amago day, attend to some souls.
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Just think about that one line. If in your next church board meeting or something like that,
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or whatever you do, your next prayer meeting, if you just wrote that across the top of the board
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or across the top of the pamphlet that you give to everybody or the itinerary for the meeting,
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attend to some souls. Yeah, we can worry about raising enough money to do this thing later,
33:44
but let's attend to some souls. Yeah, you know what? We could really kind of figure out what's
33:47
going to be that next big thing for our band. And so we can get more people liking us on Instagram
33:51
and different things like, how about we attend to some souls? Because Jordan Peterson is absolutely
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right. Again, that that's our holy duty as a church is to do that. And there will be a time when
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we can't do that anymore. So a couple of quick overall thoughts. The first thing, and you know,
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here we are, you know, about a half hour in or so before anyone reminds me, I know Jordan Peterson
34:14
isn't a Christian. I know that. Now, I think he's close. I think that God is calling him and
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whether you're, you know, Armenian or your Calvinist or you're something in between or something on
34:24
the other ends of the spectrum or whatever, like maybe maybe you think it's coming. Maybe you think
34:28
it's not coming. I know he's not a Christian, but even though he's not a Christian, in any sense that
34:35
any of us would define him as is his message wrong? Because some people will want to dismiss this
34:42
outright and say, well, he's not a pastor. He's not a theologian. He's never gone to divinity school.
34:48
Why can he say all these things? As opposed to just judging whether or not what he's saying is
34:53
real and accurate and should be taken seriously. I think you'd be hard pressed to prove that he's
35:00
not somebody that we should take seriously on this issue and to say that he's wrong about what he's
35:05
claiming or saying should happen. Because here's another thing. If we, you know, the church, the
35:10
greater church, take his message seriously just in this video, not his hours and hours and hours,
35:16
stuff he's on to YouTube or his books or any of that just this 10 minute YouTube video. If we took
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this seriously, it will literally change the world. And that's every, you know, influencer and, you
35:29
know, self-help book person's favorite thing to say, ah, we're going to change the world. But we're
35:33
talking about this literally, it would literally change the world. Think about fatherlessness.
35:37
If the church took this claim seriously and discipled fathers and helped them to disciple and
35:45
catechize their families and their children, wouldn't the rates of fatherlessness tank go through the
35:51
basement? You best believe they would. What about uninitiated sons? Right? We've talked about that
35:57
a lot. That's something that he has talked a lot about is when you look at these young men,
36:01
specifically ones that are doing these violent crimes, mass shootings, things like that, these
36:04
are unenitiated young men that are trying to show their competence somehow. They're desperately trying
36:11
to show their competence. Like, look what I can do. Look, I'm actually powerful. I've been rejected
36:16
by my father. I've been rejected by my family. I've been rejected by women. I've been rejected by
36:20
my community. But now they're going to see what I can do whenever I'm in control. Don't you think
36:27
we'll see that go through the basement as well? Again, as I mentioned before, whenever it talked
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about, you know, the stuff that happened and you've all been in all these other places,
36:34
no one wants to talk about how we can actually solve mass shootings. They just want to hit the
36:37
easy button, but it's uninitiated boys that are doing these things. Why are they uninitiated?
36:43
Because their fathers aren't around. Why are their fathers not around? Because the greater
36:46
community has allowed them to leave their families. Can you imagine if a dude, like if a dude in my
36:52
foxhole tried to leave his family behind, there would be about six of us piling into one of our
36:58
trucks and we would take off and find that person, beat them near to death and drag them back home
37:04
and say, you're going to be a dad. You're going to be a husband, right? And we're not doing that
37:10
just because, you know, we're a bunch of dudes and we like, we like Jocko and we like drinking beer
37:14
and eating beef jerky and all those different things. We're doing that because we know that's
37:17
what Christ would want us to do to get that man back into his family to where there would be some
37:23
level of accountability so that his family could continue uninterrupted. But also, look at the
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declining rates of faith in God and church attendance in the West. Don't you think if churches took
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what Jordan Peterson said in this seriously and literally that that would aid in that?
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And in a good way, I mean, basically sitting at the other direction where we would see an
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increase in faith in God and belief in God overall and in church attendance and all those different
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things. And this takes me back to the scripture that I mentioned from the very top of the episode.
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When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child. When I
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became a man, I did away with childish things. 1 Corinthians 13, 11. Okay. Jordan Peterson is
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calling the church to help them turn boys into men. He is employing churches to welcome young men
38:23
into manhood. Again, this is a guy that does not have, you know, he's not a Christian. He's not
38:29
saved, but he has a Judeo-Christian ethic and he understands that ethic perhaps better than any
38:34
of us, right? And he's desperately asking the churches to say to young men and men in general,
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you're welcome here. This is a good thing. Because how does a child learn to not speak like a child
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or think like a child or reason like a child? How do they learn to actually become a man?
38:53
If they're actually initiated and welcomed into manhood, they're not self initiating, right?
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They moved out of the house. They just had sex. They got their first job. They bought their first
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vehicle. Whatever they make up as the reason that they're a man now, that should not be up to them
39:11
to determine. It should be up to us as fathers and us as the greater community of fathers
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to make sure that these young men know now what is required of them. So, absolutely fantastic
39:23
video. I think there is a whole lot that we can get to from there. Hopefully, I've done it justice
39:28
for those of you that had not seen it before. But without further ado, we should probably get
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into some quick hitters. So in the quick hitter segment, we're going to be discussing a lot of
39:36
different things. But the very, very first thing that we need to talk about is an update on a story
39:40
that I talked about last week. So last week, we talked about the 10 year old Ohio girl,
39:43
you know, that cross state lines in order to get an abortion. But, you know, in that episode,
39:48
I said it seemed like it didn't even happen. And a lot of commentators, especially on the right,
39:52
were like, there doesn't seem to be any evidence for this. It seemed like Joe Biden was just making
39:56
something up or just kind of, you know, spitting it out. But, you know, as low and behold, as more
40:00
time went by, it seems to be your true story. So this is according to The Daily Wire.
40:04
A telemundo reporter confirmed on Friday that alleged rapist Gerson Fuentes is involved in a
40:09
domestic relationship with the mother of the 10 year old girl he was charged with raping.
40:13
According to a recent telemundo report, a woman claiming to be the mother of the young rape victim,
40:18
whose tragic case sparked a bait about when exceptions should be made for abortions, even in
40:22
states where there are subjects to broader restrictions, told a reporter that the media
40:26
was lying about Fuentes. The Friday report raised questions about whether the woman was attempting
40:30
to protect Fuentes because she was involved personally with the accused, as one woman who
40:35
claimed to know her said that she was. Telemundo's Maria Vargas Pion confirms domestic
40:41
relationship in horrendous Ohio rape case, the media research center's Jorge Benio tweeted adding,
40:46
it is in fact a domestic relationship and there are additional children in the household horrendous.
40:51
So here's the thing with the story is I did want to kind of correct the record because last
40:55
week I was one of the people that jumped on and said, Hey, this doesn't seem to be true. There's
40:59
no report that's been filed because when there is a rape of a minor, there has to be in that state,
41:03
there has to be a police report filed. And apparently there was no police report.
41:06
Now it's kind of random the timing that it comes out like that. You have the mother saying this
41:11
didn't happen. Is she on the take? Is she trying to protect this guy? Was this guy, you know, did
41:17
the mother know that the daughter was being raped? Apparently the first rape occurred in this in
41:22
this particular case when the when the girl was nine years old and she was impregnated when she
41:26
was 10. Like there's a lot of things around here that we still don't know the answers to,
41:30
but I did want to correct the record and say this that this did happen. But people are literally
41:34
trying to dunk on people on the right and conservatives right now for denying the story.
41:38
But guys, again, there was literally no evidence whatsoever that this actually happened when Joe
41:45
Biden said it. None. None at all. Because here's the thing, guys, you only get to dunk on people
41:53
if the evidence comes out and they stick to their original story. Like a lot of people on the left
41:59
side of the aisle love to do. Yep. They look at any, any shooting involving a white police officer
42:05
and a black, you know, black guy. And if that person is killed, we always look at that. And it's
42:11
always this big reaction to like another black man is targeted and killed by a white, you know,
42:15
racist police officer and all those things. And then it comes out to where it's like, oh,
42:18
that person was shooting a bunch of people and it just tried to run over three other cops with
42:21
this car before one cop decided to shoot him in the face, which is exactly what he deserved to get
42:26
at that moment was a bullet to the brain. And then we don't talk about it anymore.
42:30
Right. No one tries to correct the record. We just move on to the next story. There was one that came
42:35
up in the last week that I don't even feel the need to talk about because it was that exact same
42:39
scenario. This guy was basically shooting into a, a joining apartment before he was shot and killed
42:43
by police. He almost killed a woman and her kids, right? And we're supposed to feel bad for this guy.
42:48
But again, you only get to dunk on people if the new evidence comes out and they stick to their
42:53
original story, not if they went by the available data at that point. But here's the other thing.
42:59
Fuentes is an illegal immigrant from Guatemala. So this is a great time to talk about how
43:05
there are illegal immigrants that come to this country and do heinous horrific crimes,
43:10
crimes that they would not have been able to commit had we had a secure southern border.
43:14
Now, a lot of people get real uncomfortable when we start talking about illegal immigration,
43:19
but Fuentes should not have been in this country. Okay, he should not have been anywhere near
43:24
that young girl or that family or that town that he was in should have been in Ohio. He should have
43:30
been in Central or South America. But we have this wide open southern border because that is
43:35
exactly what Democrats like Joe Biden want. They want as many of these people as possible,
43:39
because at some point they know down the line, there's going to be blanket amnesty for everyone
43:43
that is in this country and they're going to be given citizenship. And then you've just created
43:47
your voting block, right? But the big takeaway from this story, and again, this is going to make
43:52
some people uncomfortable considering the circumstances. But if you've listened to my show for any
43:55
length of time, you knew this was coming. Child rapists should be killed, not their offspring.
44:02
Again, I know that sounds pretty crazy because we're talking about a 10 year old girl that was
44:08
raped and impregnated. But the baby that was in her belly did nothing wrong. Fuentes did.
44:13
I would have loved if a local sheriff would have just taken Fuentes outside of the city limits,
44:19
put a bullet in the back of his brain, and then sent a letter back to his family in Guatemala
44:24
or somewhere else where they could pick up his rotting body because they could just, you know,
44:28
waltz right through the southern border and come get it and maybe take it back or stay for a while
44:32
or forever, right? But I have no appetite for people that want to double the amount of pain
44:42
in a situation because it went from a rape and an impregnation of an innocent little girl
44:48
to the murder of an innocent little baby on top of that. Because guess what didn't happen?
44:54
Killing the baby in that little girl's womb didn't erase the rape. And it also didn't punish Fuentes.
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So I know that's hard for a lot of people to hear. It just is what it is.
45:04
All right. Next quick hitter here. A good guy with a gun stopped a mass shooting in a mall in
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Indiana. So this is according to the federalist. Less than three weeks after Indiana's new
45:13
constitutional carry law went into effect and armed bystander shot and killed an assailant
45:17
suspected of fatally shooting three people and injuring two others in an Indiana mall on Sunday
45:22
evening. Reports of the shooting in the Greenwood Park mall began around 6 p.m. on Sunday when an
45:26
unarmed sorry unnamed gunman opened fire in the food court. After striking at least one male and
45:32
four females, including a 12 year old girl, the suspected the suspected shooter was quickly shot
45:37
and killed by a bystander who observed the shooting in progress. As of Monday morning, police had
45:42
not released the identity of the man who shot the gunman. But local news reports indicated he
45:46
is a 22 year old from a nearby Bartholomew County. The real hero of the day is a citizen that was
45:52
lawfully carrying a firearm in the food court and was able to stop the shooter almost as soon as he
45:56
began. This was a quote by Greenwood police chief Jim Ison. And you know what? I was just looking
46:01
around this morning. I'm actually just going to kind of do this live. I'm going to look up this
46:05
story because I think we have that person's name. And if we have his name, if it's been released,
46:12
I want to make sure that that kid, okay, here we go. Looks like the guy's name is
46:18
sorry, doing alive, doing alive. Elijah Dicken. Okay, this is how he spells his first name,
46:29
E-L-I-S-J-S-H-A. Elijah, sorry kid, Elijah Dicken. Okay, so this is a 22 year old that literally was
46:41
carrying. And the reason that he was carrying is because just a couple of weeks before all this
46:46
went down, they allowed constitutional carry. The kid was allowed to carry. He didn't have to wait,
46:50
you know, for a license to come in from the government and all that. And he was in the food
46:53
court and guys, I couldn't help but notice that this is the exact scenario that I've used so many
46:59
times before on the show. Like if I were to do something crazy, I would go to a food court in a mall
47:04
and almost every mall in America is a gun free zone. So it's still to be determined whether or not
47:10
this young kid is going to be brought up on any charges because he was carrying a firearm in a
47:14
place where you weren't allowed to have a firearm. Now, the gunman who pulled out a rifle and started
47:19
murdering people also was doing the same thing. He didn't pay attention to that stupid little
47:24
sticker on the window. Perhaps because he was a criminal. So this is a good example for people
47:29
that love gun free zones. They think gun free zones are the best and gun free zones and stickers
47:33
prevent crimes. Well, guess what? Two people were breaking the law and breaking. Well, in some places,
47:39
it's not actually the law. You're breaking the regulations of a business. Both of these people in
47:43
this scenario were one was a good guy, good guy, right? A sheep dog. And one was a wolf. And thank
47:50
God the sheep dog was there. But I've given that exact scenario every time I walk into a mall with
47:55
with my gun on me, I look at that sticker and I snicker and I'm like, well, if I'm walking through
48:00
the food court and someone decides to shoot the place up and they're between me and my exit,
48:03
sorry, I'm gonna have to kill that person if I can, right? So the other thing that we notice about
48:08
this story is acceptable in certain right wing sites. This has already left the headlines. I mean,
48:14
almost immediately, this just happened what Sunday, right? And here it is. I'm recording this on
48:17
Tuesday. It almost immediately left the headlines. Why? Because it doesn't fit the desired narrative.
48:23
Because the narrative that we need is black, innocent black man shot by racist white cop.
48:30
The narrative that we need is white supremacist goes in and shoots black people in a grocery store.
48:37
The narrative that we need is evil, you know, gun finds its way into a school and shoots
48:43
19 kids and two teachers. That's the narrative that we need. Not, I guess a good guy with a gun
48:49
can stop a bad guy with a gun. Because that that again, doesn't follow the narrative. And again,
48:54
thank God for the sheep dog. Thank God for this kid whose name I can't possibly spell or pronounce.
48:58
Thank God that he was there. Because only three people that didn't deserve to die died that day.
49:04
Because four people died, one of them was a shooter. But think about what would happen if
49:08
had he not been there. The police were probably minutes away, right? Three, four minutes away.
49:14
Because again, this is one of those scenarios that when seconds count, help is always minutes
49:18
away. Maybe this mall had a mall cop or two. A lot of these malls don't have mall cops that
49:22
are even armed. They just have badges, right? They can't even do it. They don't have batons.
49:26
Like I don't even know if they have like tasers or mace or anything like that.
49:30
They've got a belt with a bunch of random crap on it. But when seconds count,
49:33
help is minutes away. Luckily, this guy was there and he reacted within milliseconds.
49:39
So the big takeaway for me on this story isn't unless the bad guy kills himself.
49:42
It is always a good guy with a gun that stops a bad guy with a gun. Always.
49:49
So these idiots that love to, you know, say we should get rid of our guns and these Christian
49:55
morons and these pacifists that think like, Oh, we shouldn't have guns. And you know,
49:58
that's that's what's creating all these issues is just the existence of these machines. Again,
50:02
in the hands of a righteous moral actor, it is always a positive thing.
50:07
Because in all these scenarios, unless the person turns a gun on themselves
50:11
and eats the bullet before the good guys get to them, it's either a good Samaritan good guy
50:16
or a professional good guy, like a cop or, you know, SWAT team or military or something like that.
50:21
It's always how these things end. When have you ever heard of a scenario where the bad guy just
50:27
decided, ah, I guess I'm done killing. Let me just safely put my guns back into their cases
50:34
and put them into the safe. And then I'll just go on the run, you know, I'll just be a fugitive.
50:38
No, that's not how these scenarios go. They killed themselves or they're killed by a good guy.
50:42
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at prolonlife.com/now. All right. Next quick hitter here, LeBron James. I just hate saying the dude's
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name. He used to be so much fun to watch that guy and be around that guy and do all those things.
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God, this guy sucks. So LeBron James says that Brittany Griner should consider not coming back
51:28
to the US after she eventually gets out of a Russian present. So again, Brittany Griner,
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she's the WNBA star that we talked about I think on last week's episode. So this is according to
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Yahoo News. NBA star LeBron James questioned if WNBA star Brittany Griner should return to the
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United States whenever she is released from her incarceration in Russia. The Los Angeles Lakers
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star made the comment about the Phoenix Mercury star in a trailer for his show, The Shop,
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which is scheduled to air on Friday. This was, I believe last Friday on uninterrupted YouTube channel.
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So this is his quote here. Now, how can she feel like America has her back? I would be feeling like,
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do I even want to go back to America? Again, he is, he is the intellectual center of everything.
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He is the intellectual star, Paragon of virtue of our time, this LeBron James. So I'm going to go
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right to my big takeaway here on this one. In addition to being a legitimately stupid person,
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which if you've listened to LeBron James actually talked before, whenever he didn't have a plan in
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place, like I remember years ago when he had the autobiography or biography of Malcolm X in his
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hand. And so when asked him about it, and it was like a kid who definitely didn't do the reading
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try to explain what they like about the book, this is a legitimately dumb person. But in addition to
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him being legitimately really, really stupid, LeBron James is one of the least appreciative
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human beings on planet Earth. LeBron James in a lot of ways has led an incredibly
52:49
charmed life. Now, he didn't have the easiest childhood. I believe he didn't have his dad around
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Akron, Ohio isn't the most wonderful place to raise a family. Like it wasn't a perfect non bumpy
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road, because most of us haven't experienced a perfect non bumpy road. But from the age of like
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13, he's been a celebrity from from in his teenage years, he's been able to support himself and his
53:13
entire family financially. You know, a lot of it under the table. But we knew this guy was when he
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was a teenager. And we knew who he was when he was drafted first overall by the Cleveland Cavaliers.
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And we've known who he is. And he's now literally one of the most famous people to have ever existed.
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And he's one of the richest people on planet Earth. He's a billionaire. He's a billionaire.
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But every chance he gets to no pun intended dunk on a white police officer that makes the right call
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and shoots and kills a black person, he does so. And he acts as if he is scared to go out in public
53:47
because he's black. Now, I know this to be the case because, you know, whenever I was doing a
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lot of stuff with the Oklahoma City Thunder, and you know, this was years ago when I was really paying
53:54
attention to the NBA, I know for a fact that LeBron James and his entire teammates, I think he was
53:59
on the heat at the time, walked through Bricktown, which is kind of like the, you know, the restaurant
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and, you know, concert district of Oklahoma City. They were just walking around. They didn't have
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armed guards. They didn't have a police escort. So this black man wearing a hoodie, mind you,
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I know he was wearing hoodie at the time. And he's six, eight, 250 pounds, sticks out like a sore
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thumb was just walking through a highly white populated state. And he didn't seem to be hiding
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behind trash cans, diving behind polls, trying to make sure no one saw him. He was walking around.
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Why? Because he knew he was safe. He knew he was safe. He knows for a fact that he's not being
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hunted, that he's not being targeted, that a white police officer isn't just waiting for that
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moment when LeBron James is in his crosshairs and he could pull the trigger and take him out.
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He knows that. But again, that doesn't feed into his narrative. His narrative is that we live in
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this racist, oppressive country. And that's how he is going to hang his hat, especially after
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his playing days are over. So my understanding is he's still playing well into old age. You know,
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he's going to be the Tom Brady of the NBA and just play forever and ever and get all the records
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and still not be the greatest. Sorry. That's still going to be MJ forever. But at the same time,
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how can this man who has become a billionaire as a black man in this country not be appreciative
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of this country so much so that he floats the idea that another black person should want to stay
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in another country and not come back to the greatest country in the most accepting country
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of black people on planet Earth? It makes no sense whatsoever. Now, in the days following this,
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he's tried to walk it back and he's tried to add a little bit of nuance to it and all these
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different things. But at the end of the day, he said what he said and he meant what he said,
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right? But now it's his PR team and it's his publicist and all these people that need to make
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sure he doesn't [inaudible] off the people at Nike and the people in China that he's getting paid by.
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He has to make sure that he keeps his brand alive. And a lot of people that hear that,
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that love America are going to hear one of America's brightest shining stars say something like that
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and then not want to go buy his sneakers. So just he's an unbelievably pathetic human being,
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one of the greatest athletes we've ever seen our entire life, perhaps the greatest athlete,
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not the greatest player, but the greatest athlete that we've ever seen in the history of sports in
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this country. But he's a gigantic turd at the end of the day. So what can you do? All right,
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next one here, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope give a telescope rather gives us a deep look
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into deep space. So this is according to fizz.org. I think it's short for physics.org,
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but billions of years ago, long before the swirling cloud of gas and dust coalesced to form the sun,
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light left the earliest stars and began a long journey through space. The light has been traveling
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ever since covering trillions upon trillions of miles. It hurtled by galaxies and their nascent
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stars, some of which were accompanied by planets. And on one of these, a species evolved and the
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ability not only to question what might be out there, but build tools to see what its own eyes
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could not. On Monday, the world got its first glimpse of that first glimpse of that ancient light
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courtesy of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the most sophisticated and ambitious deep space
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viewing tool yet assembled. Webb is a successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, which transformed
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science's understanding of the vastness of the universe. One of the Hubble's most famous images,
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the extreme deep field shows flex of light representing some 5,500 galaxies, the faintest of
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which enabled us to look back in time 13.2 billion years. Webb allows astronomers to zoom in on
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Hubble's faintest flex. So most of you have seen this by now, you've seen the pictures,
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you'll have a link in the show notes, but the picture, the kind of the first image that was
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released from this new telescope, it showed it apparently showed images of colors that humans
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have never seen before. So I don't really know about pan tones and all the different stuff and
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and kind of what goes into a particular color and what differentiates this blue versus that blue,
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but apparently there were hues that had never once been seen by human eyes ever in history.
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And the images are just incredible. It's taking pictures of planets and you're getting these
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up close, like high definition, you know, pictures of these planets and all these different things.
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And it's awesome. And again, I'm reading from a scientific website. So they're talking about
58:10
evolution, all those different things. But here's my big takeaway on this one, you know,
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outside of the images, which you can all check out for yourself. This puts even more
58:17
pressure on young earth creationists to come up with something better to defend their position.
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So I haven't talked about this a lot on this show, but I do not buy the young earth creationist
58:28
view on where we're at, that the earth is 6000 years old and they're doing math based on scripture.
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And that does not mean that I don't take the scripture seriously. But there's a lot of problems
58:38
with the worldview that I think most young earth creationists don't really deal with, right?
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And the first thing is the fact that I think it wasn't until the third day that we had
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the sun and the moon and all the, and all these different things. The things that we know,
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the sun going up and the sun coming back down that creates a day. And so when you see day described
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in Genesis and you think 24 hour day, it doesn't make sense based on all the other tools that God
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gave us in physics, astrophysics and biology, chemistry, like it, it doesn't make sense.
59:09
But even beyond that, with a lot of people that have this viewpoint, this is their main
59:13
argument on young earth because whenever you say, look, when we go down these, these ice holes in
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Antarctica, it shows this much, this much aging. If you look at the rings of this tree, or if you
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look at the carbon dating on this, I know there's problems with carbon dating and all that, but they
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say God created everything. So he certainly also had to have created the appearance of age.
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That is a common thing I hear from young earth creationists. It makes no sense whatsoever.
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Why would God try to trick us? Right? Because tricking somebody is a form of lying, right?
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So God, the arbiter of morality that gave us a moral code with which to differentiate between
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good and evil is tricking us. And then their response to that is, Oh, well, he's testing our faith.
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Using dinosaur bones, using light, traveling trillions of miles through space to the lens of
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a telescope that was created by people that have the image of God written on them.
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Really? That's your argument? I think there is much, much, much more compelling evidence
1:00:23
to suggest that the Big Bang and whenever that happened is exactly what the astrophysicists think.
1:00:29
It was exactly that long ago. And that shouldn't make Christians uncomfortable
1:00:34
because they think, Oh, that doesn't really go with what scripture says in the math and the
1:00:37
backwards, you know, reverse engineering and math that we're doing from scripture.
1:00:41
It depends on what you think a day means. So there's a book called Genesis in the Big Bang.
1:00:45
And I think it's chapter two or three of that book. I think it was chapter two.
1:00:47
It goes into it depends on how you view time. And it goes into theories of relativity and some
1:00:52
other things within Einstein's work. It just doesn't make any sense. Whenever you make that
1:00:58
argument, it drives a wedge even deeper between two things that shouldn't have a wedge driven
1:01:02
between them. And that's faith in Christ or faith in God and in the cosmos and all those things
1:01:08
in science science and in all the different disciplines therein, help us understand how
1:01:14
God did the things that he did and when he did the things that he did. So again, this telescope,
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I need to hear from the young earth creationists. What's that about? All this light coming from
1:01:25
far other ends of galaxies and beyond galaxies that we could have ever possibly imagined.
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Was that all just part of creation as well? God just snapped his fingers and all that came into
1:01:35
place with the illusion of billions of years of age. I just don't buy it. All right. Last
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quick hitter here before we let you guys go, Leah Thomas, the one and only is poised to become
1:01:46
the 2022 woman of the year. So this is according to CNN. So obviously they couch it and do the
1:01:52
pronouns in their own way. So let's go ahead and get into it here. The University of Pennsylvania
1:01:56
nominated swimmer Leah Thomas, who has become the face of the debate on transgender women in sports
1:02:00
for the 2022 NCAA woman of the year award. The Ivy League swimmer, a swimmer was nominated as a
1:02:06
division one athlete for swimming and diving according to the NCAA website. The award is meant to honor
1:02:12
the academic achievements, athletics, excellence, community service and leadership of graduating
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female college athletes from all three divisions as D one D two and D three. And this is all according
1:02:22
to their website. So here's my big takeaway on this one. Men are literally better than women
1:02:29
at everything, including being women. And I'm not the first person to say that joke. I'm just the
1:02:34
latest person to say that joke. But in all honesty, I do have a real takeaway here, a real big takeaway.
1:02:39
The cultural revolution is now flipping the bird at all of us. And that's fine. I'm fine with it.
1:02:48
Because we should always and still fight for the truth. Because the truth of the matter is,
1:02:57
is Leah Thomas is a male and no amount of hair extensions or nail polish or makeup or
1:03:04
medical interventions will change that reality. Okay, now you are out of your mind. If you don't
1:03:12
think that Leah Thomas is going to win this award. Okay, because soon as Bruce Jenner decided that
1:03:17
he was a chick, I think he won the woman of the year award. I use either at the SBS or some magazine
1:03:23
or something like that woman of the year. He wasn't even a woman for a full year. And he was the woman
1:03:28
of the year. That's incredible. That that is astonishing. Like the rate of speed to get to that
1:03:32
position. Man, you keep going. You do your thing. Slay, queen. Do your thing. But the cultural
1:03:38
revolution thinks they're winning now. Because they're going to get this award. They're going to get
1:03:41
this feather in their cap. And then they're going to pretty much ignore Leah Thomas from there on out.
1:03:45
Because at some point, I'm going to assume and I would pray that Leah Thomas is maybe going to
1:03:50
want to go back to their male name and say, yeah, I was really confused during that period of my life.
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I started transitioning. I started taking these hormones. And I thought that I could actually
1:04:00
transition into being a woman. And wouldn't you know it? I can't. I can't do that.
1:04:04
And what are they going to say then? What they're going to say is nothing because they're going to
1:04:10
ignore it. It'll be, you know, conservative entities that will pick up that interview
1:04:17
and try to get it out to as many people as possible. Because that's one thing that we're seeing with
1:04:20
a lot of D transitioners, people that have gone down the rabbit hole, they've had parts of their
1:04:24
arm cut out, you know, to make a fake penis. That's, you know, basically sewn on top of their real
1:04:30
vagina. And they're like, wait a minute. I thought I could just become a man by getting a fake dick
1:04:37
put on me. And it's like, well, not so much. I think I thought I could become a woman by putting
1:04:43
on this dress and taking these hormones to make me feel less manly. And lo and behold, it doesn't
1:04:47
work out that way. So even though the cultural revolution is gaining steam, even though it's
1:04:53
getting stronger, even though they're literally, you know, doing double birds saying, take two of
1:04:57
these and call me in the morning. Don't worry about it. You still have truth on your side.
1:05:02
You should always rest in that. All right, guys, before we let you go, we're going to do a quick
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message to Christian churches. That's from Jordan Peterson site. I've also got a link to our 100
1:05:17
books every modern Christian man should read list. So again, if we're going to be doing this book
1:05:20
club, it's probably going to be books from that list. And also I've got a list of that Carl Truman
1:05:23
book or a link rather to that Carl Truman book. So you can guys can check that out. And also links
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