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Sermon Claims Jesus was Transgender (Ep. 393)

November 30, 2022 57m 27s Full transcript available
Sermon Claims Jesus was Transgender (Ep. 393)
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In this episode, we tackle the absurd claim that Jesus was transgender, made during a sermon at Trinity College. We dissect the implications of such a statement and the cultural insanity surrounding it, while also addressing the importance of standing firm in our faith against heresy.
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1:23 And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid
1:27 him in the manger because there was no place for them in the end.
1:30 That is Luke 2-7.
1:32 Now, it's interesting there, they use gendered language in the scripture to describe that
1:37 when Jesus was born that he was a son, as opposed to what we would know in the gender
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2:59 Okay, guys, in the quick hitter segment today, we're going to be discussing a lot of things
3:02 and some of the things, these things happen, you know, months and months and months ago.
3:06 They've just kind of been on my list and I haven't really been able to get to them.
3:08 So we're kind of clearing out a little bit of the backlog before we get to the beginning
3:11 of the year.
3:12 But we're going to talk about the ground breaking study that exposes the enormous myth about
3:17 anti-depressants.
3:18 ACT scores hitting the lowest point in more than three decades.
3:21 A British woman being denied life-saving surgery because she requested a non-transgender nurse.
3:27 Yes, that's a real story.
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3:34 In the last one, we will honor the last surviving American medal of honor winner from World
3:39 War II.
3:40 But today we need to talk about a recent sermon that claims that Jesus, yes, Jesus of Nazareth,
3:46 Jesus, the Christ, our Savior, part of the Godhead, had a trans body that Jesus was actually
3:54 transgender.
3:55 Okay.
3:56 So we need to set the stage here.
3:57 The date was Sunday, November the 20th, so about a week and a half ago or so.
4:01 There was an event called Evensong or Evensong that is at the location of the chapel at Trinity
4:07 College, which is a constituent college at the University of Cambridge in the UK.
4:11 So this is kind of like a chapel service.
4:13 This is where worshipers are going to come here a sermon, praise God, those types of things.
4:17 So think of it like a church service.
4:18 The speaker at this particular service was a guy named Joshua Heath, who is a junior research
4:23 fellow at Trinity College.
4:26 Also a couple of guys that are important to the story, Dr. Michael Banner, who is the
4:29 Dean of Trinity College and the former Archbishop of Canterbury named Rowan Williams.
4:34 So that is Joshua Heath's PhD supervisor.
4:38 So again, the speaker was Joshua Heath, the Dean of Trinity College is Dr. Michael Banner.
4:42 And then the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams was Joshua Heath's PhD advisor.
4:48 So we kind of have a bunch of people here in this story.
4:50 So during this, and I guess we can call it sermon, you know, for lack of a better term.
4:55 You know, didn't end up being that in the end.
4:56 But during this sermon, Joshua Heath showed three different works of art to make a point
5:03 about Jesus Christ.
5:04 So the first work of art was Henry Massaroni's 1990 work called Christ.
5:09 I tried to find a really good picture of it and I really couldn't.
5:11 So we won't be showing that here.
5:12 And then there's a couple of others that I will show the prayer book of, and I think
5:16 it's Bonn of Luxembourg, it's Beo in and I don't know if it's Bonn or Bona or something
5:19 like that.
5:20 So this is a prayer book of artwork from the 14th century.
5:23 And then John Maluels, I believe is how you say the last name, a work from the year
5:28 1400 called Pieta.
5:30 Okay.
5:31 So the point that Joshua Heath was trying to make with these works of art during this sermon
5:36 was this, that Jesus was transgender.
5:40 Yes.
5:41 That is the point that he was making by showing these works of art and some other works of
5:45 art that Jesus was transgender.
5:47 Okay.
5:48 So let's look at a couple of pieces of these artwork.
5:51 So if you're watching this on rumble or on YouTube, you'll be able to see these.
5:54 If not, you can look them up later.
5:55 But one is the prayer book of again, Bonn of Luxembourg from the 14th century.
6:00 So during the sermon, Joshua Heath showed this picture.
6:03 So I'll go ahead and bring it up here for those of you guys that are watching.
6:05 He showed this picture, which is from the prayer book, which is an artistic rendering
6:11 of the wound in Jesus's side from the spear that the Roman soldier stabbed him with.
6:16 Okay.
6:17 Now what Heath is exclaiming by this picture is that this side wound was isolated and that
6:24 it, and this is a quote from the presentation that it quote takes on a decidedly vaginal
6:30 appearance.
6:31 Unquote.
6:33 So it's a, it's a very beautiful piece of art, the, you know, the prayer book is fantastic
6:36 piece of art, but he's saying when you look at this, that it takes on a decidedly vaginal
6:41 appearance.
6:42 Okay.
6:43 And then the, the main work that he used in his presentation was from the year 1400.
6:47 Again, John Mallewell's Pieta.
6:49 Okay.
6:50 So I'm going to go and bring that up here for you.
6:52 And so with this work of art, he claims that this provides proof that Jesus was transgender
7:01 because the blood that is coming from the side wound on Jesus flowed down to Jesus's
7:07 groin.
7:08 Okay.
7:09 So for those of you that are not actually, you know, seeing this, this is kind of like
7:11 a, a golden plate and there's, there's people holding up the body of Jesus.
7:14 We can assume that's Joseph and Mary and there's angels and things like that.
7:18 And it's a naked Jesus, even though you can't see his crotch region, you can't see a penis
7:22 or testicles.
7:23 And then you have the side wound and the blood from the side wound goes down and basically
7:27 pulls in Jesus's crotch and then runs down his leg.
7:31 Okay.
7:32 So there's the image.
7:33 I'll go ahead and move on from there.
7:34 But again, he's claiming that that provides proof that Jesus was transgender because of
7:40 where the blood flowed and that you, you can't see Jesus's penis.
7:44 Okay.
7:45 So Heath also showed some other works of art, which showed Jesus's penis in a, in a nonsexual
7:50 or nonerotic way and told the worshipers that were at this service at Trinity college
7:55 and that the depictions of Jesus's penis, quote, urge a welcoming rather than hostile
8:01 response towards the raised voices of trans people.
8:05 Unquote.
8:06 Now I'm going to read that again because I got to be honest with you.
8:07 I had no idea what he's, he's meeting there.
8:09 But again, the depictions of Jesus's penis in these works of art, quote, urge a welcoming
8:15 rather than hostile response towards the raised voices of trans people, unquote.
8:20 No freaking clue what he's getting out there.
8:21 But in order to drive home his, his main point of this entire thing, Heath said this at the
8:27 end of the sermon.
8:28 This is a direct quote, quote, in Christ's simultaneously masculine and feminine body
8:33 in these works, if the body of Christ as these works suggest the body of all bodies, then
8:39 is his body is also the trans body.
8:43 Okay.
8:45 So Heath is claiming that because of these works of art, because of what we can see, we
8:49 can surmise that Christ's body, who is the body of all bodies, right?
8:55 That his body is also the trans body.
8:58 Okay.
8:59 Now, there was a lot of reaction to the sermon and there was a lot of reaction to the sermon
9:02 in the room.
9:03 So one person actually reportedly got up and shouted heresy before storming out.
9:07 So you know, hats off to that person, you know, let me know where they, where they live.
9:11 I'll go and buy them a pint and at least one person left the speech in tears because they
9:14 were so distressed.
9:15 They wanted to talk about it afterwards, but then they were unable to do so because they
9:18 were so angry and distressed and it was also reported that there were children in attendance
9:21 because of course there would be children in attendance at a service like this and they
9:24 seem to be incredibly uncomfortable, as you can imagine, with the content.
9:29 But it wasn't all bad and all negative for Heath because a very high profile person that
9:33 I've already mentioned immediately came to his defense and that is Dr. Michael Banner,
9:36 the Dean of Trinity College.
9:38 So the Dean claimed that the view that Jesus was transgender was a legitimate argument.
9:43 Okay.
9:44 So this is actually a quote from him again.
9:46 This is Dr. Michael Banner, the Dean of Trinity College quote, for myself, I think that speculation
9:51 was legitimate.
9:52 Whether or not you or I or anyone else disagrees with the interpretation says something else
9:57 about the artistic about that artistic tradition or resists its application to contemporary
10:02 questions around around transsexualism.
10:05 Unquote.
10:06 Okay.
10:07 So again, he's trying to point the thing, trying to defend this guy saying that that is an
10:10 actual legitimate way of looking at this.
10:13 And then Banner went on to compliment the sermon saying that it was forcing the congregants.
10:17 Okay.
10:18 So the people that were in the congregation that day to quote, think about these images
10:21 of Christ's male, female body as providing us with ways of thinking about issues around
10:27 chant, transgender questions today.
10:30 So again, he's talking about artwork from in some cases, you know, 600 years ago and talking
10:35 about how those are potentially going to provide us with ways of thinking about issues around
10:40 transgenderism today.
10:42 And then when Banner was challenged for even even having Heath speak to begin with by those
10:47 claiming that he was, you know, just being purposefully offensive to gain attention.
10:51 Banner said that he would not invite a speaker, quote, who would deliberately seek to shock
10:55 or a thin day congregation or who would be expected to speak against the Christian faith.
11:00 Unquote.
11:02 So this obviously made the rounds as soon as this came across, you know, my attention,
11:05 I immediately posted on our Instagram and a lot of people were like, you've got to be
11:08 kidding me.
11:09 Like, you know, some people thought it was just hilarious and the other people, you know,
11:12 got really, really offended.
11:13 And I think that all of those things are probably appropriate because I think it is deeply offensive
11:19 to say that Jesus was transgender.
11:21 Again, there's nothing that we could surmise from scripture that would give us any idea
11:26 that he was anything other than man in terms of whenever he was existing on this planet.
11:30 Yes, part of the Godhead.
11:31 But when he was here, you know, fully God and fully man.
11:34 And I don't mean man in the Greek word use sense where man actually includes man and
11:39 woman. No, I mean that in terms of the male female binary that he was male.
11:44 But then also I can completely understand how people would think that this was just kind
11:47 of funny.
11:49 Because with a lot of these worldviews, especially those that come from the LGBTQ leftist side
11:54 of things, they deserve our derision.
11:56 They deserve to be mocked and we should act in accordance with what those opinions and
12:03 what those people deserve in a lot of ways.
12:06 And as I was thinking through this, I was thinking about why is this story so important?
12:10 Because it is an important story.
12:11 It may seem silly.
12:12 It may seem like, you know, a headline from the Babylon Bee or the onion, but it is very
12:16 important.
12:18 The first reason I think it's important is that leftists and liberals have no limitations
12:22 to their quote unquote progress.
12:24 Again, we hear about progressives and progressivism and we're progressing towards something.
12:29 And you always have to ask the question, which is what are we progressing towards?
12:33 That is the end goal because even if you say utopia, everyone defines that differently.
12:39 So where exactly are we going?
12:42 But this just shows that there, there are no governors to the things that they will say.
12:46 They will literally turn the Christ transgender.
12:50 They will turn the Christ gay.
12:53 They will say, what did that moron on the view say last week that, you know, Jesus wouldn't
12:56 just attend a pride parade.
12:58 He would be, you know, the, the main person, right?
13:00 I forget what the, the main person for a pride parade or a parade would even be, but he would
13:03 be like the drum major or the whatever, like I can't even think of what they said, but
13:07 like Jesus wouldn't just participate.
13:09 He would be all over it.
13:10 And again, they, of course they would think this way because there literally are no sacred
13:15 cows within religion or anybody on the right or anything within politics.
13:20 They're going to constantly push and push and push until they've progressed past where
13:24 they feel like they can come back from, which I don't actually think they have the ability
13:27 to even think through that.
13:29 One reason why I think that this, the story so important is Jesus being a transgender
13:34 person is currently a very, very fringe view, but wait a few years because we can no longer
13:44 accept the slippery slope fallacy argument and we can no longer accept that these fringe
13:51 ideas will stay on the fringes.
13:53 We just can't do that anymore.
13:54 Like we're well past that at this point because again, just look at gay marriage.
13:59 And that's kind of back in the headlines.
14:00 A lot of people are talking about that 20 years ago, it was silly to think that we would
14:04 be okay societally in America with gay people getting married because marriage means something.
14:10 We used to believe the thing that is true, which is that marriage is between one man
14:14 and one woman for life, then we have no fault divorce, then we have the liberalization of
14:18 culture, then you know, we basically can get married without having any connection to God
14:24 or his church or any of those types of things.
14:26 And now here we are where in modernity, it was like, okay, just let us have civil unions.
14:32 And then it was, okay, we'll just let us get married.
14:34 And then it was, okay, yeah, but I need you to come to my wedding and cheer me on.
14:38 Oh, and also I need you to bake me a cake and take pictures.
14:42 Oh, and I also want you to silence anybody that would disagree with the fact that we
14:46 are getting married to begin with.
14:48 Like you see how these things have gone and that's been in a very relatively short period
14:52 of time.
14:53 You know, actually less than 10 years, what was Obergefell 2015?
14:56 Right.
14:57 So we're talking a very, very truncated period of time in our history.
15:00 And so this is a fringe view, but it won't be fringe for long.
15:05 Remember when I said several years ago that LGBTQ would eventually be adding a P and I
15:09 don't mean for pansexual, I mean for pedophile, but they're actually calling them maps minor
15:14 attracted persons now.
15:16 And that was seen as crazy.
15:18 And so far outside the mainstream and still to a degree, it has seen very, very outside
15:21 of the mainstream, but for how long is that going to be outside the mainstream?
15:25 Because again, if a child can choose their gender, why can't they choose their sexual
15:29 partner?
15:30 If somebody it can be trans gender, why can't they be trans race or trans age?
15:35 So if a 50 year old man wants to date a 14 year old girl, but the 50 year old man identifies
15:41 as a 14 year old boy, then who are you to say anything different?
15:45 Again, I obviously disagree with that vehemently.
15:48 That's kind of where we are.
15:49 It's a fringe idea now, but it's not going to be for very, very long.
15:53 Another reason why the story so important is that if you destroy truth, and I mean truth
15:58 capital T truth, not your truth, my truth, but if you destroy truth, you can control facts.
16:06 And I'm using scare quotes with facts because again, facts undergird what truth is because
16:14 if you say, you know, that the 16th president of the United States was Abraham Lincoln and
16:19 that he was assassinated, okay?
16:21 Well, there are a lot of facts that are undergirding those truths, okay?
16:27 So there had to been a 15th president that Abraham Lincoln came after there had to been
16:32 an election.
16:33 There had to have been a result.
16:34 There had to been a deemed winner.
16:35 These are all facts that lead up to the truth that he was the 16th president of the United
16:38 States.
16:39 And then there are a bunch of facts that show that he was killed, like, okay, where was
16:43 he?
16:44 Was he what happened?
16:45 He was shot.
16:46 Okay, it doesn't even matter by who when you're talking about those facts, but he was
16:49 killed.
16:50 He was assassinated while he was in office.
16:51 Okay.
16:52 So there's facts that undergird truth.
16:54 So if you can destroy truth, you can control facts.
16:59 So if you can destroy the truth that Jesus was born male, then you can control any other
17:06 fact about the gospel and the message of the gospel that you want to.
17:11 You can change it.
17:12 You can edit it.
17:13 You can adjust it.
17:14 You can go where a lot of people are going now.
17:16 There are again, you know, with a, with the gay marriage issue, there are a lot of people
17:19 that believe that what is said in the Bible is meant in the Bible about homosexual relationships,
17:25 which is that they are sinful.
17:26 That marriage in and of itself is not the union of any combination of random people.
17:32 It is the union of one man and one woman before God for life.
17:37 But there are now people that are very on the liberal spectrum within Christianity that
17:40 say, yeah, that's what the Bible says, but I don't like it.
17:43 And that was 2000 years ago, and we need to update.
17:47 We need a public relations refresh.
17:50 We need to hit the reset button.
17:51 We need to make over, okay?
17:53 So they're destroying truth and now they're controlling facts and saying, no, no, no,
17:58 this is actually what marriage is.
18:00 We've known what marriage has been for thousands of years, but you know, we know better now.
18:04 We've evolved past God somehow.
18:07 So here are the new facts and they get to be in control of that.
18:11 And if you come back and say, no, no, no, let's go back to the truth.
18:13 Well, they've already destroyed the truth.
18:15 And if you point to the truth, that in and of itself is bigoted and you're not allowed
18:19 to do that.
18:20 Another couple of reasons why this is an important story is leftist, you know, while
18:25 very zealotrous, you know, they're cowards by nature, that they may be very excited.
18:32 They may scream loudly, that they may, you know, not have anything else to do during the
18:36 day and then to scream at you or flame you online, but they are cowards by nature.
18:41 These are people that don't want their ideas challenged.
18:44 They just want you to accept them and they will shout you down and call you a bunch of
18:47 names.
18:48 If you say what they're saying is not again, capital T true, but we as, you know, whatever
18:54 you want to call us as real Christians or as conservatives or as whatever, we must push
18:59 back against these people as if they were a bully on the playground.
19:03 There's a lot of you got the advice growing up and sometimes it didn't quite work out
19:07 that way.
19:08 But when you stood up to the bully, the bully would back down because the bully has a lot
19:12 of insecurities, a lot of issues and they are a coward by their very nature.
19:17 Now, you may have tried to stand up to the bully.
19:19 You might have, you know, still got smacked around a little bit, but I bet you didn't
19:22 keep getting bullied by that particular bully, right?
19:26 These people are saying these ridiculous things like Jesus was a transgender person because
19:31 nobody is yelling back at them because only one person will stand up and yell heresy as
19:38 they're leaving that they're going to continue to do drag queen story hour because there
19:42 aren't enough parents coming and saying, yeah, this is bad and this is child abuse and I'm
19:46 going to keep talking and I'm going to interrupt this and I'm going to do everything I can
19:50 to stop this short of doing physical violence to these people, right?
19:55 It takes people standing up in a full-throated fashion saying, no, we're not going to do that.
20:01 And so again, this was at a religious service, a Christian religious service and this guy's
20:06 just waxing poetic about artwork in the tranny version of Jesus.
20:11 We have to push back against that.
20:13 And the last thing in terms of why the story is important is at some point, this is my
20:17 message to the audience at some point, you will have an opportunity to stand up against
20:21 heresy.
20:22 Okay, but you need to pre-decide what you will do and you need to be equipped to be able
20:28 to push back.
20:29 Part of the reason why some people can't spot heresy is because they haven't spent any time
20:34 in the good book.
20:35 You know, it's been a whole lot of time reading the Bible and you might hear somebody make
20:39 some sort of argument like what this guy was making and think to yourself, well, gosh,
20:43 you know what?
20:44 I know enough about the Bible to know that when they talked about mankind, obviously
20:46 that that meant women as well, Jesus is like the ultimate God man.
20:51 So does that mean that he's the ultimate she he and it almost sounds plausible and you
20:56 may start selling yourself on the fact like, yeah, this actually sounds like something
20:59 that I can get behind.
21:02 But again, you need to be spending time in the word because that will equip you.
21:06 You need to also pre-decide.
21:08 I mentioned pre-decision.
21:09 One thing that I've talked about this in several contexts is I know there are a lot
21:12 of guys out there that listen to the show that are concealed carry people, right?
21:15 But there are a lot of people that are concealed carry people that number one, they have never
21:19 trained with their firearms.
21:21 So that's going to potentially cause some issues whenever the moment comes.
21:24 But they haven't pre-decided whether or not they will use that firearm in order to potentially
21:28 end a life.
21:30 They haven't pre-decided to do what the sheep dog would do, which would be to protect the
21:33 sheep from the wolf.
21:35 So you're carrying around a deadly weapon, but you have not made the decision that you
21:38 will be deadly with it if the occasion calls for it.
21:42 So that's obviously an extreme example, but you don't want to be making that decision
21:46 at the moment the bullets are flying past your head, right?
21:50 That's not the time to sit down and really been Franklin this and you know, have a left
21:54 column, right column.
21:55 That's not really the best time for that.
21:57 But in these moments where heresy is being spouted, where Jesus is being called a transgender
22:03 person or somebody is taking the Bible completely out of context or changing the story of the
22:07 gospel, are you going to be willing to stand up?
22:12 And I mean, literally stand up against that.
22:15 If it's happening in your midst, are you going to have enough boldness?
22:18 Are you going to have the balls to stand up and be like, Nope, not on my watch?
22:23 Because some of you guys would be like, Oh, you know, I wasn't really not the time.
22:25 This is going to be really, really awkward.
22:26 I don't really know if I can stand up and do all those different things, but one person
22:31 stood up yelled heresy after the presentation was over as they were storming out.
22:36 That was it.
22:37 And I don't know how many people were there, but I'm assuming it was more than one.
22:40 At some point, guys, you will have the opportunity to stand up against heresy.
22:43 You have to pre decide what you're going to do.
22:46 All right, guys, let's go ahead and get into the quick hitters segment.
22:49 Again, we're going to be discussing a bunch of quick hitters and some of these happened
22:51 a while ago.
22:52 So let's get into the first one here.
22:53 The groundbreaking study that exposes the myth about antidepressants.
22:57 So this is according to the UK Daily Mail.
22:59 Now, shocking new research shows that shows that the theory just find the millions of
23:03 prescriptions for antidepressants handed out every month to patients is simply not true.
23:08 The research confirms that some medical professionals have increasingly come to suspect or what
23:13 they have come to suspect that the chemical imbalance theory that depression is due to
23:18 a lack of brain chemical serotonin is nothing more than a myth.
23:23 This myth was created more than 35 years ago by pharmaceutical companies to justify their
23:27 products and has been perpetuated ever since by the training and practice of doctors around
23:31 the world.
23:32 In the most comprehensive review of the research on links between depression and serotonin ever
23:36 carried out research from the researchers from the UK, Italy and Switzerland looked at 17
23:42 major international reviews that had documented the findings from more than 260 studies involving
23:48 300,000 patients.
23:50 Their findings published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry undermine the basis for decades
23:55 of prescribing of the most commonly used antidepressants, selective serotonin, reuptake inhibitors
24:01 or SSRIs.
24:02 Now, guys, I'm going to put a link in the show notes to the entire study.
24:06 So the one that was published in Molecular Psychiatry because I believe this was back
24:09 in June whenever this was put out there and it's worth your time.
24:12 I think you should read it.
24:13 So I've talked about this on the show before and I've talked about, you know, even my personal
24:17 experience with seeing somebody be prescribed SSRIs that are these very, very powerful.
24:24 And in a lot of ways, addicting drugs after spending almost no time with people.
24:28 So again, a very close person to me spent less than five minutes with the doctor kind of
24:32 describing what they were going through and the doctor prescribed them Zoloft.
24:37 And the idea was, okay, you're only going to be on this for a short period of time.
24:41 And what the doctor meant by short period of time was six months, we're going to put you
24:46 on this thing, which is supposed to change your brain chemistry for six months.
24:50 And then we're just going to kind of see how you feel then.
24:54 But for any of you that may be taken those or know people that have taken them, what do
24:57 you think happens after six months?
24:59 Do you think you just stop taking it cold turkey?
25:02 Like the best case scenario is you would wean yourself off of it.
25:05 But for the most part, there are now going to be introductions of other things.
25:09 Okay, well, let's try this dosage.
25:10 Okay, let's try this antidepressant.
25:12 Let's try to figure all these different things out.
25:15 And a lot of doctors and a lot of people and a lot of morons and stupid moms online and
25:18 things like that, they will basically say that these things are harmless, that these
25:22 things are, they're harmless and one of the things that they will say as to why it should
25:26 be provable that it's harmless is because millions of doctors around the globe have prescribed
25:31 things like SSRIs, antidepressants for decades now.
25:35 And it's, it's obviously got to be having a positive impact or else they wouldn't keep
25:39 doing it, which obviously leads to people having to question, okay, you're talking about the
25:44 pharmaceutical companies, which are tied right into the doctors.
25:48 And why would they stop doing that if it's going to continue to be a cash cow for them?
25:52 Okay.
25:53 And what this always does is it begs the big question and this, this is an enormous question
25:57 that I have not heard enough people asking enough people really ponder.
26:01 But if doctors knew that someone was depressed because of a chemical imbalance of the brain,
26:10 then how were they able to determine that without first doing a scan of that person's
26:15 brain?
26:16 Have you thought about that?
26:19 Again, we know they, I say doctors, they know that you've got a chemical imbalance in
26:26 your brain.
26:27 And if you just take these pills and then we'll keep, you know, shoving them down your throat
26:30 month after month, year after year, that this is going to somehow level you back out, right?
26:36 But do they know to what degree the person's chemicals in their brain are out of whack?
26:42 Do they know to what degree it is left or right or up or down?
26:47 Do they know exactly which chemical is imbalanced that once put back in balance will solve this
26:54 person's main issue, which they are claiming is their uncontrollable depression?
27:00 Because if they can do that without actually scanning the brain, that's incredible to the
27:04 point of being fanciful.
27:06 It's a myth.
27:07 They can't do it.
27:09 And literally we're incredibly smart as people in 2022, but we don't know Jack about the brain.
27:14 I mean, when you when you talk about actually knowing something and knowing how something
27:18 works, we have a very rudimentary understanding of the brain.
27:22 And yet doctors with just over a decade of schooling and all that, and they spend a small
27:29 portion of that on mental health issues, they're just going to, yeah, sure, here, take these.
27:35 It'll fix your brain chemistry problem.
27:39 Are you going to like scan my brain to actually know for sure?
27:42 I know we don't need to do that.
27:44 What are you going to do?
27:45 I'm just going to ask you some questions for about two or three minutes.
27:48 And then I'm just going to prescribe these pills to you.
27:49 And then we'll just kind of check back in as we as we need to.
27:52 Again, it's just it's just silly.
27:55 And it also made me think of I wonder what the next medical myth to be exposed will be
27:59 because it'll surely happen.
28:01 Like we got to know that like there's going to be another study that comes out that says,
28:04 Oh, hey, this thing that we thought for decades and decades and decades was true is actually
28:07 really not true because we have all this data now, which shows that this is actually true.
28:12 Now what we can be basically guaranteed of is that it will surely be way after pharmaceutical
28:16 companies, hospitals and doctors have all swam a few laps in their pools filled with
28:20 money at that point, because again, they're all in on it.
28:24 And I know you like your doctor and I know your doctor seems to mean well, and I know
28:27 they actually want to mean well, I know hospitals do a lot of great things and I know pharmaceutical
28:31 companies literally create things and are doing research that are helping give people medications
28:36 that that helped their entire lives.
28:38 But haven't we seen enough since 2020 about how pharmaceutical companies will act whenever
28:42 profit is the main motive?
28:44 And I'm all for them making profit.
28:46 If you make stuff that helps people, you should be compensated for that.
28:49 I'm not hating on them for making billions and billions of dollars.
28:52 I'm hating on them when they make it and they make it seem as if there's no issues with the
28:55 stuff that they're putting in people that like there's no going to be no issues whatsoever
28:59 for these people.
29:00 And again, for decades now, we've been prescribing these SSR eyes to people, not really knowing
29:06 what they were doing.
29:07 And now we have research to basically say that they weren't really doing anything because
29:11 it's idea that you have a chemical imbalance in your brain because it's serotonin and all
29:15 these different things being out of whack.
29:16 There's no proof of that.
29:17 None whatsoever.
29:19 So my big takeaway on this story is the next time you're feeling depressed, I Dr. Thompson
29:25 and prescribing for you 90 days of strenuous exercise, clean eating and an abundant amount
29:33 of sleep and rest because there is a lot of research to suggest when people are melancholy
29:40 or blue or sad or even clinically depressed, whatever that means that if these people were
29:47 to start exercising regularly and strenuously, that if they were to clean up their diet and
29:52 get all the nonsense and all the highly processed stuff out of their diets, and if they get
29:56 a good amount of sleep and rest in recovery, that a lot of those problems simply go away
30:01 or they become very, very manageable.
30:06 Why don't we hear doctors doing that?
30:09 Is it because they can't potentially profit off of telling someone they need to exercise,
30:15 eat clean and get a bunch of sleep?
30:17 Perhaps.
30:18 Is it because they know if they were to say that to somebody that that's like the last
30:21 thing most people will do, especially in America, we're so fat and lazy in this country.
30:25 If you told someone, I need you to work out every single day for 90 days or you're going
30:29 to die, what percentage of people would actually do that?
30:32 I'm going to say a very, very small percentage of people if they weren't already doing that
30:35 to begin with because again, you're not seeing a lot of people that get a lot of exercise
30:40 strenuous exercise, not just like walking around your neighborhood, but strenuous exercise,
30:45 eating very, very clean and getting a bunch of sleep.
30:46 A lot of these people are not complaining about these clinical levels of depression.
30:51 It's not something that you see.
30:53 And if somebody was complaining about that and didn't have any of those habits and they
30:56 start doing those habits, it's amazing what that actually does change in the chemical
31:01 balance of the brain.
31:02 Again, we don't fully understand it as to why it is that way.
31:06 But it's almost as if we were designed to have strenuous amounts of exercise, to not
31:11 eat garbage that's made in a factory and to sleep.
31:15 It's almost like that's part of who we are and what we're supposed to do.
31:20 So again, I am not a doctor, I'm not a psychiatrist, I'm a psychologist.
31:24 I literally don't have a pad where I can write a prescription out to somebody.
31:28 But the next time you feel like you're going into one of those areas, give that a try.
31:32 See what it does for you.
31:34 Our guys next quick hitter here, ACT scores hitting the lowest point in more than three
31:38 decades here in the United States.
31:39 So according to Fox News, the class of 2022's average ACT composite score was 19.8 out of
31:46 36 marking the first time since 1991 that the average score was below 20.
31:52 What's more, an increasing number of high school students failed to meet any of the subject
31:56 area benchmarks set by the ACT, any of them showing a decline in preparedness for college
32:01 level coursework.
32:03 The test scores made public in a report Wednesday.
32:05 This was like Wednesday back in October or something like that show 42% of ACT tested graduates
32:10 in the class of 2022 met none of the subject benchmarks in English, reading, science and
32:17 math, which are indicators of how well students are expected to perform in corresponding college
32:21 courses.
32:22 Okay.
32:23 So, but the thing with the story guys is the scores themselves are alarmingly low, right?
32:29 The average score being below 20 in most state colleges.
32:33 You need at least like a 22, I think, to even get in, like to even apply and maybe I'm just
32:38 I've been obviously applied to college in almost 20 years or something like that.
32:42 But like that's an alarmingly low score if you get below 20.
32:47 But the more alarming thing is that we don't have an educational system in place currently
32:52 in the United States that can counteract or remedy this problem quickly or perhaps even
32:57 at all because there have been a lot of people that have been sounding the drum about the
33:02 education system in this country for decades that we're lagging behind in all these areas
33:08 in English and reading and math and science in all these different areas.
33:12 But for us as a country, as a country, we still produce the best technology.
33:17 We still produce the most amount of breakthroughs.
33:19 We still have the best colleges.
33:20 We all these other different things.
33:22 We just assume that we're okay.
33:24 But what that shows is that the elite of the elite, the very top of the heap, the cream
33:29 of the crop as it were, those are the people that are crushing it, okay?
33:33 But that's not indicative of the rest of the populace.
33:37 And you don't just need a physically capable populace as a country.
33:41 You need a mentally capable populace as a country for any number of things, whether it's defending
33:47 yourself, whether it's creating jobs or creating wealth or creating businesses or developing
33:53 things into the future, caring for the community.
33:56 You need people that are physically and mentally capable of doing that.
34:00 But we're seeing massive, massive issues, and then this is just kind of the latest thing
34:04 to where it's like, okay, here's the worst it's been in about 30 years and the main reason
34:07 is because of the shutdowns, which leads to my big takeaway on this one is can we all
34:12 admit that shutting down the schools was a mistake now?
34:15 Can we admit that?
34:16 I know a lot of people are right leaning and conservatives and Republicans listening to
34:19 this show.
34:20 So there's not a whole lot of people that were huge fans of shutting down the schools.
34:23 So I think all of us were fans of shutting down the schools as we figured out what in
34:27 the world the C word was because if this thing had the death rate for children that it had
34:32 for elderly people, we would have all just completely destroyed the planet and every
34:36 single economy and not even look back because it was taken out our kids.
34:40 But that's not what it ended up being.
34:41 Thank God.
34:42 That's not what it ended up being.
34:44 But we decided to shut down our schools for something that was not dangerous to children.
34:50 And I mean, that statistically, that isn't to say that there are outliers or tragic cases,
34:54 but statistically speaking, pneumonia is way more deadly and you provide should provide
35:00 way more caution than the C word.
35:03 And yet we've never shut down for months and months and in some cases years in order to
35:08 tamp down pneumonia, but we did it for the C word, okay?
35:12 And there are still schools in this country that will shut down.
35:16 There are still schools in this country that have mask mandates.
35:19 There are still schools in this country that have V word mandates, that you have to get
35:23 the V word jab in your arm, or you can't come to school there.
35:26 I think Notre Dame was the latest one that said, yeah, in the fall, like in the fall
35:29 of next year, they're going to go in and plan to say, yes, in order to to come back to school
35:34 or it may have been in the spring of 2023 that you have to have gotten the jab there and there
35:39 is no way you can get around that as far as I understand.
35:42 But I think we should all be able to admit right now that the distance learning thing
35:47 didn't work, this idea that every single kid in America had a working laptop or iPad and
35:54 an Internet connection and was a dutiful student and had parents that were on top of them and
35:59 all these different things was a massive, massive fail.
36:02 And we should never try it again unless there is something like the black plague, whether
36:09 it is something where it's killing a quarter of the people that get it regardless of their
36:13 age or regardless of pre-existing conditions, that short of anything like that of a real
36:20 pandemic, we're not shutting down the schools anymore.
36:23 And I know that there are a lot of school districts, a lot of sheriff's offices, a lot
36:28 of, you know, teaching groups, a lot of pastors, a lot of churches that learned a lot from
36:33 what happened in 2020 and into 2021, and they're not going to do it again.
36:38 That out of an abundance of caution, they went with what the quote unquote experts said.
36:43 But when just about everything the experts told us from the beginning was wrong or later
36:48 proven to be faulty in some major way, then we just can't do something like that ever
36:53 again.
36:54 We're never going to do it again.
36:55 All right, guys.
36:56 Next quick hitter here, a British woman being denied lifesaving surgery because she requested
37:01 a non transgender nurse.
37:03 So this is according to the Daily Wire, London's Princess Grace Hospital told the anonymous
37:07 woman, it had to quote protect staff from unacceptable distress, unquote, and canceled
37:11 her operation according to the Daily Mail.
37:14 The woman's complex colorectal surgery had been scheduled for October the 10th of this
37:18 year.
37:19 The woman is a sexual assault victim and specifically requested an all female facility.
37:23 She was caught off guard when a person she believed to be a be a biological male who
37:28 identifies as a female in a blonde wig and makeup, opened the door and made eye contact
37:32 with her when she first arrived for a pre op assessment that involved intimate procedures.
37:37 Again, this is a colorectal colorectal procedure.
37:41 This prompted the woman, a feminist retired lawyer to make an urgent request for an all
37:46 female nursing staff, quote, I began to wonder if it was just a coincidence that the member
37:50 of the staff with a gender identity had made their presence felt to me in such an inappropriate
37:55 way during my first visit.
37:57 The woman told the Daily Mail, I began to suspect that I had been targeted because my patient
38:01 records showed that I refuse to use pronouns and wanted single sex facilities, although
38:06 I have no evidence of this, she said, then I began to panic that men would be attending
38:11 to my intimate care at the hospital while I was immobilized for an entire week following
38:15 major surgery.
38:16 The woman continued.
38:17 It was a slow donning realization.
38:19 I felt sick.
38:20 All arm bells were ringing in my head.
38:22 I cannot describe the fear that I felt.
38:24 I cannot rationalize it.
38:26 Okay, so I'm going to go right to my big takeaway on this one and it's that leftists are completely
38:31 full of crap when they argue that we should take people's feelings into account.
38:36 Because that's the argument that you always get when it comes to the transgender issue.
38:40 Okay, when it comes to the transgender issues, it's like, Hey, hey, hey, hey, I know it's
38:44 a little weird to have a separate bathroom or to allow, you know, boys to come into the
38:49 girls bathroom, even though that's what their biology says, it's how they feel and how they
38:54 feel is important.
38:56 Feelings have weight.
38:57 They're just as real as anything else in this, in this world.
39:00 So I know it's going to be a little strange for you, but let's take their feelings into
39:04 account.
39:05 So let's use the bathroom example.
39:07 So you're at a high school and, you know, it's an athletic locker room situation.
39:11 So you have the boys locker room and the girls locker room and you have a boy that is has
39:15 a mental issue and thinks that he is a girl.
39:18 So he goes into the girls locker room and he drops trow just like everybody else in there,
39:24 but he has bits that nobody else in the room has.
39:28 And what we're told by leftists is that this is a good thing because we are taking that
39:33 boy, which they wouldn't say, boy, we are taking that transgender girls feelings into
39:38 account.
39:39 And that's very, very important because my goodness, we wouldn't want them to feel ostracized,
39:43 would we?
39:44 We wouldn't want them to feel uncomfortable.
39:46 And we do that to the detriment of every other girl that is in that locker room.
39:53 We are told we're not explicitly, but we are basically forced to ignore the feelings of
39:58 everybody else in that room because of the feelings of this one person who, again, has
40:03 a mental disorder that requires mental health, not puberty blockers and not a scalpel.
40:08 But we're told that that person's feelings count for more than the other people's feelings.
40:14 And if any of the girls in that room think that that's uncomfortable or God forbid unacceptable,
40:20 they're labeled as a bigot.
40:22 They're labeled as a transphobe.
40:25 They're labeled as a hater as something like that.
40:28 And so you see a lot of these girls and a lot of these females in these situations, not
40:33 coming out publicly and talking about what they're going through because it really sucks
40:38 that people call you names all the time.
40:39 Now, I'm kind of used to it at this point, having a public profile and doing the stuff
40:43 that I do and doing the shows that I do on the subjects that I do.
40:46 But that's not something that I enjoy.
40:48 And certainly for a lot of people, it could ruin their entire family tree because they're
40:52 not just going to come after that girl, they're going to come after the girl's father.
40:56 And if their girl's father runs a business, like that's going to be a problem for them.
40:59 Like, and they will all descend on that family, do what they can to stamp them out and make
41:03 them feel as awful as possible.
41:05 But again, we are told constantly that we need to be more welcoming and more understanding
41:10 about people's feelings, but they don't mean it.
41:13 They simply do not mean it.
41:16 They're full of crap.
41:17 They only want you to take people's feelings into account that agree with them in their
41:21 worldview.
41:23 That's it.
41:25 That's what they want.
41:26 If you're unwilling to do that, they will stop at nothing to unleash their fury on you.
41:33 So just like I said, with the first story of the day, there's going to be opportunities
41:36 for you to step up and counteract what some of these people are saying and doing need
41:42 to be prepared to deal with that and prepared to do that.
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42:15 Right next one here, armed law abiding citizens stopping significantly more active shootings
42:20 than the FBI statistics described.
42:23 So this is according to the crime prevention research center evidence compiled by the crime
42:27 prevention research center shows that the sources the media relied on undercounted the
42:31 number of instances in which armed citizens have thwarted such attacks by an order of
42:36 more than 10, saving untold numbers of lives.
42:39 Of course, law abiding citizens stopping these attacks are not rare.
42:42 His rare is national news coverage of those incidents, although those many news stories
42:47 about the Greenwood shooting also suggested that the defensive use of guns might endanger
42:51 others.
42:52 There is no evidence that these acts have harmed innocent victims.
42:56 The FBI reports that armed citizens only stopped 11 of the 252 active shooter incidents.
43:02 It identified for the period of 2014 to 2021.
43:06 The FBI defines active shooter incidents of those in which an individual actively kills
43:10 or attempts to kill people in a populated public area.
43:13 But it does not include those it deems rather related to other criminal activity, such as
43:18 a robbery or fighting over drug turf.
43:21 An analysis by my organization, this is a guy that wrote the article identified a total
43:24 of 360 active shooter incidents during that period and found that an armed citizen stopped
43:29 124.
43:30 A previous report looked at only instances when armed civilians stopped what likely would
43:35 have been mass public shootings.
43:37 There were another 24 cases that we didn't include where armed civilians stopped armed
43:40 attacks, but the suspect didn't fire his gun.
43:43 Those cases are excluded from our calculations, though it could be argued that a civilian also
43:47 stopped what likely could have been an active shooting event.
43:51 The FBI reported that armed citizens thwarted 4.4 percent of active shooter incidents while
43:56 the CPRC found 34.4.
43:59 Okay, so we need to talk a little bit more about this because you can dig into the data
44:03 and I'll put all that in the show notes so you guys can check it out.
44:06 But the media loves to ignore stories of an armed citizen.
44:11 That's a good guy stopping an armed citizen.
44:13 That is a bad guy.
44:15 They love to ignore that because the media needs mass shootings to fit a particular narrative.
44:22 Okay, and that's typically multiple victims, preferably victims of color killed by a white
44:26 male in AR 15 used occurred in a red state or red city where the killer leaves a manifesto
44:32 and you know, talks about Alex Jones or, you know, Donald Trump or somebody like that,
44:38 like that's what they need.
44:40 And they make sure the media does to ignore stories of people that don't fit into that
44:45 narrative of people of color killing people of color and can't talk about that where handguns
44:50 were used as opposed to these quote unquote assault rifles when it happens in a deep blue
44:55 area with a lot of gun regulations and gun laws.
44:58 When it happens in gun free zones, it can't fit into those narratives.
45:01 And we just saw two here recently.
45:02 So there was the mass shooting in Colorado at the gay bar or something like that.
45:06 And then there was the one at the Walmart where somebody came in and shot up all of their
45:10 coworkers.
45:11 Well, the one in Colorado immediately was like, Oh, it's all this anti gay anti trans sentiment
45:16 and all these different things.
45:17 And then whoopsie, the guy comes out and the lawyer for the person that did all the shooting
45:21 and killing came out and said, yeah, actually my client's non binary.
45:25 They want to use they then pronouns whoops, and also we're not really hearing about that
45:29 story anymore, because it all sudden didn't fit into a narrative.
45:32 So they kind of swivel back to talking about, you know, guns and guns being the problem
45:35 with the situation that happened in the Walmart, there was a guy that went in and I believe
45:40 it was a black guy, a disgruntled employee that killed, I think five or six of his people
45:46 that worked with him at Walmart that were all people of color as well.
45:49 And this guy said, you know, before he turned the gun on himself and all that that he was
45:52 led by Satan to do this.
45:55 And we haven't heard about that story either.
45:57 Like, because it's just going back to, oh, there's too many guns on the streets and all
46:00 that.
46:01 But in that shooting, it was a handgun that was used by a person of color.
46:04 We're not allowed to talk about those, right?
46:07 So my big takeaway on this and about the stats around around these things and I'm not claiming
46:11 that the FBI was purposefully trying to make these numbers seem lower that could end up
46:15 being the case.
46:16 But I don't have the evidence to support that.
46:17 But my big takeaway is don't let the anti gun crowd fool you or scare you into not carrying
46:22 and to not training, because there have been plenty of situations where there would have
46:27 been a tremendous amount of bloodshed had there not been a sheepdog there ready to go
46:31 to protect themselves and others.
46:34 We've seen several instances of this and another thing you'll hear from the anti gun crowd
46:37 even in the Christian pacifist side, like the guy that I debated over there in the UK.
46:42 These people will say things like, well, even if you have your firearm and you pull it out,
46:46 what if you miss and shoot an innocent person when you're trying to stop the bad guy?
46:49 Do you know how many times that's happened in the recorded history of the United States?
46:54 Exactly zero times.
46:55 There's not been a single instance that we have on record where an armed citizen that
47:01 was legally capable of carrying that weapon was trying to shoot and kill the bad guy,
47:06 but they missed and shot someone's grandma and killed him never happened.
47:10 So not say that it couldn't happen and it was obviously be crazy tragic if it did happen,
47:15 but it's just not something that that is real.
47:17 And I've talked a lot about on the show and I think earlier this year, I did an entire
47:20 big long episode, you know, a couple of episodes on firearms and all the different arguments
47:26 that are made and how they're silly and, you know, the statistics behind it.
47:28 And again, there's that debate I did over on Justin Briarley show over the UK with that
47:32 anti gun activist that goes around and convinces Christians to destroy their firearms and makes
47:36 them unsafe because, you know, he has some really bad reading of scripture in Isaiah
47:40 too.
47:42 And so that's just something that I want to kind of put out there to you guys is there
47:44 are other statistics out there that even if those stats are wrong, and even if the FBI
47:49 stats are exactly right and perfect, don't we want more armed citizens stopping these
47:55 things since it takes a while for police to arrive?
47:58 Don't we want more armed citizens to keep the general populace safe?
48:01 I certainly think we should our guys last quick hitter of the day will honor the last surviving
48:06 American medal of honor winner from World War two.
48:09 And that guy's name is Herschel Woody Williams.
48:11 So he died on June the 29th of this year at the age of 98 in a VA medical center that
48:17 bears his name.
48:18 So according to the New York Post, Williams was awarded the medal of honor after he used
48:22 a flamethrower and explosives to clear seven concrete bunkers known as pillboxes under
48:27 a heavy machine gun fire in February of 1945.
48:31 As all of the men in Williams company perished, he kept pushing forward at one point shoving
48:35 a flamethrower nozzle into one of the small concrete boxes, killing the enemies inside.
48:40 He then refueled his weapon and boldly returned five more times to destroy the main, the remaining
48:45 pillboxes.
48:46 And so I wanted to talk about this guy for most of the year, but obviously just never
48:50 really worked out.
48:51 I thought I was going to do an entire episode for with military stuff.
48:53 It didn't quite work out that way.
48:54 But my big takeaway with this one is as a whole, our generation is very weak.
48:59 Okay.
49:00 And I'm talking about my generation.
49:01 I'm certainly talking about the generation thereafter, but we still have some Woody Williams's
49:05 around.
49:06 So I think about my buddy Dakota Meyer.
49:08 You should read his book into the fire and think about what he did to earn the Medal
49:12 of Honor and award that he hates because it reminds him of the worst day of his life.
49:16 But there are guys like that out there.
49:18 So for all of you guys that are like me that you love to lament this generation and you
49:22 love to lament the government and, you know, maybe you've bought into this narrative about
49:25 the, you know, Oh gosh, what is it?
49:28 The military industrial complex and all these other different things like I get it, but we
49:32 still have some brave men that are willing to fight and die for this country and find
49:36 and die for the men that are by their side.
49:40 And that's a great thing that there are still people in this country that are willing to
49:44 fight and willing to fight for good.
49:46 Now it's something to be discussed about whether or not our military class, our military
49:52 rulers and our general class and certainly the people in the White House that can send
49:55 out or bring back our guys is the people that we want making those decisions.
50:02 But when you look at a guy like Woody Williams, a lot of people will say, well, they're not,
50:07 they're not quite cut like that anymore.
50:09 There aren't quite guys like that anymore.
50:11 And there are that generation is called the greatest generation for a reason.
50:17 You had guys because I think Woody Williams, he's like five, three or something like he
50:21 was short.
50:22 He was too short for the military at the time that he was trying to get in.
50:25 And so we had to get a bunch of waivers and how many stories have you heard about guys
50:28 that lied about their age so that they could go fight, they were 15 years old, 16 years
50:32 old.
50:33 They're like, send me to the front lines.
50:34 I'm going to go push back darkness in Europe, right?
50:37 Now, we don't really have circumstances like that happening right now here in the United
50:41 States.
50:42 You know, we kind of have a class of people in the military that they're that's what they
50:44 do is they're profession.
50:45 And that's what they get paid to do.
50:46 And we love the separation for the most part as a people group, but there are still people
50:51 out there that are wired like that.
50:53 They're wired to get some that if it were 1945, they would have been forging doctors
50:58 documents and faking things and just showing up to go and fight and push back darkness.
51:02 And I love that about this country and I love it still.
51:05 All right, guys, before we let you go, we are going to do a quick resilience boost that
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