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This is Undaunted Life Man's Podcast, I'm your host Kyle Thompson.
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Let's get into it.
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For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been
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made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake
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of the Kingdom of Heaven.
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Let the one who is able to receive this receive it.
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That is Matthew, 1912.
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That may seem like a super random verse to start the show out today, but it should make
1:39
sense here in a second.
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But just wanted to give another quick thank you.
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Now, before we get into the quick hitters and what we're doing today, I just want to give
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a quick thank you to everybody because last week of the podcast has just been absolutely
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insane.
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So we set a record for our podcast in terms of the charts for Spotify and Apple podcast.
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So over the weekend, we got to number two on the Spotify charts.
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So in our category, there's like, you know, a dozen different categories, you know, culture
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and news and sports and whatever.
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And in the religion and spirituality category, we were the number two podcast out of all the
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podcasts, which is absolutely insane, we had been top 10 before, but we got all the way
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to number two.
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And then we peaked our peak position on the Apple podcast charts at number seven.
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And so when you looked at some of the shows that were below us, I mean, people that we
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love and then, you know, some people that we really don't like at all, but they have
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enormous platforms and enormous shows, we're just so thankful and it really has everything
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to do with my appearance on my Glover's podcast.
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If you have not listened to interview yet, go to my Glover's podcast feed or to his YouTube
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channel, the Mike force podcast, you can check out that podcast and you can check out that
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interview because it was just different for his audience and for the people that kind of
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are in his world.
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So a lot of the law enforcement guys and, you know, veterans and people that get into prepping
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and stuff like that.
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And so the stuff that we talked about, the subject matter we talked about, he was so happy
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and thankful to talk about on his show, he just doesn't get the opportunity to do that
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very often.
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And then a lot of you guys that were listeners to that show, you've come over to this show.
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So you've gotten a little bit of a sense of, okay, well, we got interviews because I interviewed
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Dan Henderson last week.
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And then we've got the forging table.
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Okay.
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That's kind of like a Bible study thing.
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So for all you new people to the show, what I typically do a few times a month is I will
5:11
do an episode like this where I will take an entire subject matter that I'm or philosophy
5:15
or something I've been thinking about and kind of extrapolate that out and talk about it for
5:18
a bit.
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And then I do something called quick hitters and so quick hitters are just like quick headlines
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from specific stories that are happening in the world, things that I've wanted to comment
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on in the last few weeks or months.
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And so I kind of give you my quick thoughts on those.
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So just to welcome you again to the show and so let's go and get into it today.
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In the quick hitters, we are going to go ahead and do a few of these because I think I said
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on the last time I did these that I'm not going to be doing quick hitters for the rest
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of the year, but we got to sneak in an episode because I had an interview fall through.
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And so here are the quick hitters that we're going to hit today.
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And I just added this first one literally this morning, famous gay YouTuber Shane Dawson
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and his quote, unquote husband became the latest prominent gay couple to mail order a
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baby via surrogacy.
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The overturning of Roe v. Wade already saving tens of thousands of babies from murder a
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Florida school district seeing tremendous benefits for students and teachers after banning cell
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phones, whiny female college athletes, assuming their university for not treating them like
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they're special, a review of federal election donation records revealing that Christianity
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today employees only contribute to democratic political candidates and prominent pastor David
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Platt replacing himself as his church's pastor with a black pastor that says it is difficult
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for him not to just torch all white people in particular white evangelicals and Christians.
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Yeah, that's a line of for today.
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And we're going to be hitting the third rail and a lot of issues.
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But the very first thing we're going to get into right now is the pope.
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And so for anyone listening to this right now, even if you're new to the show, I am
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not Catholic.
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I am proudly Protestant.
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I think there are massive issues within Catholicism, not only historically, but how they practice
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Christianity.
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Today, you know, guys like John MacArthur and those types of people say that anyone that
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says they're Catholic is definitely not a Christian and they're going to hell and I'm
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certainly not going to go that far.
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There are certainly Catholics out there that believe that Jesus died specifically for them
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and they have put their faith in Christ's sacrifice for their sins, which is what saves
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you.
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But then they've just added a bunch of crap on top of it.
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You know, they're talking to a guy in a box and confessing their sins and, you know, they're
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doing all these, these weird things.
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So Catholicism is very strange.
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It's not super prominent here in Oklahoma, so I haven't grown up around it a whole lot.
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But there are issues with the office of the pope.
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First of all, I do not recognize the office of the pope.
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So there are Catholics and I've sat down with Catholics that have tried to prove to me that
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there is a straight line between the first pope, according to them, which is St. Peter,
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and then they go all the way to Pope Francis, who is the main subject matter today's podcast.
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And they say that there is a straight line in every pope along the way has been the pope
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that was supposed to be there.
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Now, when you look at some of the popes and some of the things that they've done throughout
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history, it's hard for you to say that God wanted those people in there because they were
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the best representation of the Catholic faith.
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I mean, that's like the understatement of understatement in terms of the show today.
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Like, of course, some of these popes that were selected by men were not ordained to be there.
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I don't believe that even for, even for a second.
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But then we've got Pope Francis.
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So Pope Francis has been the pope for quite a while now, but he's incredibly left-leaning.
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And it's so unbelievably clear that he's left-leaning.
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And part of the clarity on that is because he's so unclear in his messaging.
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And what I mean by that is he will say these off-the-cuff comments.
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And then the Vatican PR team basically comes together and they like, they put something
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together.
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Oh, that's not really what he said.
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And they don't really clarify.
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He's a lot like Andy Stanley in that way, because he'll make comments about homosexuality
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and gay couples and how the church should, you know, make room for those people in terms
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of blessing them and blessing these same-sex unions while at the same time saying, oh, yeah,
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but they can't get married.
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So it's kind of like, okay, they're trying to split the baby.
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The trans issue, as I talked about a couple of weeks ago, Pope Francis did a luncheon with
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a bunch of trainees at the Vatican.
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Now I'm totally fine with religious people hanging out with non-religious people or godly
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people hanging out with non-godly people.
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If you want to couch it that way, if they're sharing the gospel, but it seems like Pope
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Francis was just hanging out with trainees and not saying, hey, you need to repent and
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turn away from this lifestyle of sin that you're leading.
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So that's problematic.
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And he's been, he said some progressive things on like climate change and all this
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kind of stuff.
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And so every time he seems to open his mouth about a cultural issue or a political issue,
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it's never conservative.
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Like it's essentially never conservative.
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Now all that stuff might lead you to believe that Pope Francis sucks and no real Christian
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should take him seriously.
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And you'd be right.
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He does suck.
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And I don't think a real Christian should take him seriously.
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But he said something else here recently that in many ways is more egregious than the other
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stuff that I've mentioned so far.
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But in order to get into that, we need to set the scene.
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So a week or two ago, Pope Francis spoke at the International Theological Commission,
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which was held at the Vatican.
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So what this was, is this was a gathering of the top 30 or so theologians for the Catholic
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church.
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They took like a big picture and I think there was, you know, 31 or 32.
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He gave some scripted remarks, right?
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So he's kind of given his normal speech or whatever.
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But then he went off script to address his displeasure with the fact that there were only
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five female theologians amongst the 30 or so theologians that were gathered in attendance
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that day.
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And so he had some quotes that have been reported on, and I'll put the links to those in the
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show notes.
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But here's one of the quotes he said, women have a capacity for theological reflection
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that is different from what men have.
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So that that's kind of a weird statement.
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It seems kind of oddly unnecessary to say, but you know, whatever, but it does kind of
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lead you to something that you could call standpoint epistemology.
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And so John Cooper talked about this in his latest book, but standpoint epistemology is
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that you basically you come to knowledge from where you stand in society.
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So if you're of a particular race or gender or social standing, that's where you're epistemology
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and where your ability to gain knowledge comes from.
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And that kind of leads into narcissism, which is where you, you know, the secret knowledge
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that you get because of, you know, some revelation or some, something to do with your immutable
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characteristics.
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But then there was another quote said this, the church is woman.
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And if we do not understand who women are, what the theology of a woman is, we will never
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understand what the church is.
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Now, again, I'm not Catholic, but that seems deeply odd because I know Catholics, they swear
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they don't worship Mary until you say something negative about Mary, and then they respond
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as if they worship her.
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But to say that the church is woman, the church is woman.
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But the, the thing that's maybe more deeply problematic about this, you know, short sentence
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he said is he says what the theology of a woman is because theology is just theology.
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There's not a theology of woman, a theology of man, a theology of child, a theology.
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There's, they're not different categories of it.
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Now, women might read it from a feminine perspective because duh, but there is no separate theology.
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There's no separate doctrine.
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But then there was a quote that I'll, again, I'll put this in the show notes.
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It's from an article from the US Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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And so Pope Francis said having more women on the commission would help, but the theologians
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also needed to dedicate more energy to studying the issue.
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And to this is a direct quote, de-masculinize the church.
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He wants the church, the Catholic church to go through a de-masculinizing process.
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And that was the quote that obviously caught my eye because we're here to equipment to
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push back darkness.
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And obviously I'm not terribly worried about masculinity and culture, you know, having
13:12
too much of it, I'm certainly worried that we have too little of it in our culture.
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But again, he's, he's displeased that there's not enough women there.
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He's displeased that it's not, you know, probably diverse enough or something like that.
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But then he says, and it's also to masculine, you know, the, the church in and of itself
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is too manly.
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And so when I first saw the headline, obviously you need to read the story, not just headline,
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but when I read the headline in the red story, my initial reaction was like, yeah, I'm not
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really shocked by this.
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This isn't really shocking at all since it's coming from Pope Francis.
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And so the first question that you need to ask yourself about this whole situation is
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this.
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Why would Pope Francis make these comments specifically in front of a room full of the
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most influential and important theologians in the Catholic church?
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And there's an answer.
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And this is it because he wants to change Catholic ortho, ortho proxy.
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Okay.
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So ortho proxy is correct religious practice.
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Okay.
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So it's a big word to just say, hey, you're doing the right religious stuff.
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And how do you change Catholic ortho proxy?
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You change Catholic tradition.
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And how do you change Catholic tradition?
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You change Catholic doctrine.
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And how do you change Catholic doctrine?
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Well, you make sure that your theologians are progressives.
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And how do you make sure that your theologians are progressives?
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You stamp out any dissent from conservatives.
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And that's seemingly what is taking place in the Catholic church right now.
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And we have even evidence about this recently, just about a month ago, Pope Francis fired
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Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, because Strickland was an outspoken critic
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of Pope Francis and his left leaning opinions on social issues and most notably his apparent
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inability to condemn homosexual lifestyles.
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And you know, maybe this is going a little bit too far, certainly it'll be too far for
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some of you.
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But I think the reason why this particular pope is so sensitive about the homosexual
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lifestyles issue is not just because the, the winds of culture have changed, but maybe
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perhaps the Pope and his buddies at the Vatican, you know, the members of the lavender mafia
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are all homosexuals themselves.
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Is that possible?
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I mean, we've seen a lot of things come out about homosexuality within the priesthood and
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obviously pedophilic homosexuality and different things like that.
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Would it shock anybody that all of these quote unquote, celibate men are not actually into
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women, but they're into men themselves?
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But I'll digress from there.
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So why do I think that these comments about him actively wanting to demasculineize the
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church?
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Why do I think that those are more egregious than some of the comments that he's made
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about gay marriage and transgenderism and climate change and other things?
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It's because a more feminine disposition leads to more left leaning viewpoints on social
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cultural and political issues.
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So Jordan Peterson has talked about this on his show before, but some of the best predictors
16:07
of liberalization or of liberal standpoints on particular issues is effeminacy.
16:15
Now you can take that to mean a bunch of different things, but just think about it just anecdotally
16:19
in your life to the men and you in your life that are the most masculine, whatever that
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means to you, right?
16:25
So they're the most masculine looking acting and the things that they do are all kind of
16:31
very masculine, very manly.
16:33
How many of those people are like big Joe Biden people, like, like, how many of those
16:38
people are just going out of their way to tell you how much they love AOC?
16:43
How many of those guys are, you know, picketing outside of the Supreme Court anytime there's
16:48
something that doesn't go the way of the left?
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That's not really something that you see very often.
16:53
Have you ever thought about that?
16:57
Because apparently that goes to more of who you are and this gets into the big five personality
17:02
traits where it's like, okay, if you're higher in trait, openness, then you know, you're
17:06
probably more artistic and you're more of kind of a big thinker.
17:09
If you're higher in neuroticism, you're just going to be overwhelmed by negative thoughts
17:14
and that those things are to control you and all those things go into how you act in culture
17:19
and how you act in a family, right?
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And so all that is very, very important.
17:25
So his effeminacy is going to directly lead to more left-leaning moves inside of the Catholic
17:30
Church.
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But as we wrap up the discussion here on Pope Francis, why is Pope Francis's effeminacy so
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problematic and dangerous?
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I think that's something that we need to really reckon with.
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One reason is because he is certainly paving the way for a more woke pope than him and
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he's perhaps eventually paving the way for the first female pope.
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Now, obviously me saying, oh, there's going to be a more woke pope down the line, you
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know, that's pretty easy to see.
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That's not really going out on the limb.
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But people are really like, Kyle, that's crazy.
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Oh, female pope, that could never happen to that person.
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I would say, well, why?
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Why would it never happen?
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There certainly are the winds of changing culture and the church writ large, not just
18:13
the Catholic Church, but Catholicism, Protestantism, we're all downstream of culture now.
18:18
That's how we've been acting for a long time.
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And so you already have female bishops at different denominations and there's already
18:27
movements to have female clergy and female priests inside the Catholic church.
18:30
And so fast forward 100 years, maybe it's probably not going to take nearly that long,
18:35
but let's just take a go a century in the future.
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There will very, very likely be female Catholic priests.
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And if there are female Catholic priests and the people that choose the pope, right, that
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group of people, they are all trying to communicate something with the pope that they're choosing.
18:52
And you're telling me that those men and women wouldn't come together and put a female forward
18:56
to be the first female pope.
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And I mean, progressives all over the planet would just be, they would just be elated,
19:03
which should kind of give you an idea, guys, that if atheistic leftist progressives really,
19:07
really like something that your particular church is doing, that's probably a good hint
19:12
that it's not biblical, just saying.
19:14
But also a reason why his femininity is so problematic and dangerous is because atheistic
19:19
regimes.
19:20
So let's look at the, you know, socialist and communist regimes of the 20th century,
19:24
for example, they can only gain power if the men of that culture are too feeble and weak
19:30
to resist.
19:31
One of my favorite things that Eric Metax is who has written a lot, but one of my favorite
19:36
things that he's ever written about is he wrote about the 12,000 or so Christian pastors
19:41
that were in Germany at the during the time of the rise of the Third Reich of the rise
19:45
of the Nazi party.
19:46
And he said, you know, according to him in his study that if a few thousand more of these
19:52
pastors would have actually advocated against the Nazi party, they would have never risen
19:59
to power.
20:00
They would have never risen to prominence.
20:02
There is no Holocaust.
20:03
There is no World War II, at least not in the way that we saw it.
20:07
A few thousand more pastors that would have, you know, been, been okay with being known
20:12
for what they're against.
20:14
Because again, a lot of these people, I don't want to be known for what I'm for, not what
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I'm against.
20:17
Well, dummy, every time you communicate your for something, you communicate that you're
20:20
against something else.
20:21
And this idea that we are supposed to be outside of a culture entirely outside of politics
20:26
entirely is ridiculous.
20:28
And again, it's the question that I've asked that you've heard me ask before.
20:31
So when someone says, Hey, you know, Christians don't need to be involved in the culture
20:34
where it's like, okay, so you only want atheists to control culture.
20:37
You only want atheists to control Hollywood in entertainment.
20:41
You only want atheists to control politics.
20:43
You only want atheists to control the education system.
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Is that what you're communicating?
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Whoa, whoa, whoa.
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That's what you're saying.
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If you don't want the people of God in those arenas, it will be filled by someone else.
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It's a void.
20:55
It's a vacuum that's got to be filled by someone else.
20:58
So as we see this long march inside the institutions to liberalize and progressivize everything,
21:05
this is going to lead to socialistic and communist takeovers because that's exactly the directionality
21:11
that history has taught us.
21:14
Because again, if you have a whole bunch that that that's why leftists are so nervous about
21:18
right wing people, conservatives and firearms.
21:22
Because if you're strong, you have a firearm, you know how to use it and you're willing
21:25
to use it, that makes the leftists, communists, socialists, and socialistic governments very,
21:31
very nervous.
21:32
Because one of the first things that you do if you want to take over a populace in a totalitarian
21:36
fashion is you get rid of their ability to defend themselves.
21:41
In our modern context, that would be something like an AR 15.
21:44
That would be something like the magazines that go into that particular firearm, right?
21:49
And so I think that's a problem that the pope is certainly aiding in.
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My last point here in terms of the, the dangerous nature of the pope and his effeminacy is,
21:58
and this is I guess in some ways, the most practical reason of all of them is because
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over a billion people on the planet, at least purportedly take Pope Francis's words, opinions
22:07
and declaration seriously, there's something like 1.1 or 1.2 billion people on the planet
22:13
right now that categorize themselves as Catholic.
22:16
And so when Pope Francis speaks or does anything, they're paying attention.
22:20
Now, some people are just checking the Catholic box, like, they don't even believe in God,
22:24
but they'll say they're Catholic.
22:25
It's kind of one of those silly things, it's kind of like, there's a lot of discussion
22:28
about Judaism right now and rightfully so because of what happened on October the 7th.
22:32
But a lot of people that are culturally Jewish, they don't even believe in God.
22:35
They don't even go to synagogue.
22:36
They don't even pray.
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It's just, you know, an identity for them.
22:39
Same thing with Catholicism.
22:40
Like, I don't think Joe Biden, like, considering the things that he says and does, he's certainly
22:47
not a Christian, but he identifies as a Catholic and it's like, okay, well, even if you believe
22:53
in all of the Catholic doctrine, that means you can't kill children, means you can't support
22:57
gay marriage, you basically can't be for any of the things that he is for being the most
23:01
prominent Catholic example right now.
23:04
But when you have this many people that are sitting on the edge of their seat, waiting
23:08
for the Pope to say something, he's going to be able to change people's viewpoints.
23:14
Because again, people don't read their Bibles, people don't actually think that the Bible
23:18
is the inerrant, infallible word of God.
23:21
And so they're just going to go based on what their figurehead says.
23:24
So in the Catholic church, that's Pope Francis, for Protestant churches, it might be an Andy
23:29
Stanley or a Stephen Furtick or a, I don't know, pick a prominent pastor that is said
23:36
and done things that are like completely outside of orthodoxy.
23:40
So there are people specifically in Andy Stanley's church that are just going to go
23:43
with whatever Andy Stanley says about homosexuality and transgenderism.
23:47
They're not going to look to the Bible because I think I'll probably mess up the quote, but
23:51
it's like, if you want to hear God speak to you, read the word out loud.
23:55
But again, we just want to go to these people that went to Bible college or some of them
23:59
like Joel's didn't even go to Bible college, you know, shock of all shocks, but they just
24:02
want to listen to these people, say things that make them feel better and also make them
24:07
acquiesce more to culture because that'll mean their life is easier.
24:12
That's a big key here that no one really thinks about.
24:14
It should be difficult to be a Christian.
24:17
Now, even with the crap happening in culture, it's still really, really easy to be a Christian
24:22
in America because as of right now, there's not people that are kicking your doors down
24:28
looking for copies of the New Testament that you might be hiding under your floorboards.
24:33
That's not really something that's happening right now, but that's happening in other places
24:35
around the world.
24:37
It certainly is.
24:39
And so if you have these things happening, what you need as a populist that is ready
24:44
for that, Christian should be ready to be put under persecution, but we're not because
24:51
we bought the cultural Christianity lie, the colloquial Christianity lie that if you become
24:56
a Christian, everything just works out name and claim it, right?
25:00
You're just going to pray to the universe and it's going to those prayers are going to attach
25:04
to other like posy vibes inside the universe and it's just going to rain down blessings
25:09
on your bank account.
25:10
We bought the lie.
25:11
We bought a hook line in sinker.
25:13
And so when Pope Francis tells you something or says something like, Hey, we should really
25:17
demasculineize the church.
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That jives directly with culture that is trying to demasculineize every part of culture, toxic
25:24
masculinity and some such, right?
25:27
If he says, yeah, we really should try to understand transgender people and, and you know, just
25:33
kind of accept them for who they are and who God made them to be those types of comments.
25:38
But yeah, that jives directly with culture, so it's going to make it easier to live inside
25:41
this culture.
25:42
But again, my message to all you Christians here is if your Christian walk is super, super
25:47
easy, you're probably not doing it right.
25:50
Talking about orthopracty, you're probably probably not practicing right.
25:54
You're probably not bristling up against the plate places and people that you need to bristle
25:57
up against.
25:59
That is not licensed for you to go out and be a [inaudible] and just to like literally take
26:03
your Bible and beat people over the head with it.
26:05
But it's being able to take a tactful approach to these things and culture that God hates.
26:12
And Pope Francis is doing us no favors.
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Why?
26:16
Because he's an effeminate pansy.
26:17
All right, we're going to get into the quick hitters here and again, this first one I added
26:21
this morning because I'm literally sitting there on the john this morning taking care
26:25
of my initial business and this pops up and I'm like, great, just another example.
26:29
So famous gay YouTuber Shane Dawson and his quote unquote husband became the latest prominent
26:34
gay couple to mail order a baby via surrogacy.
26:37
So this is according to pop crave on Twitter.
26:39
Obviously, everyone follows pop crave, right?
26:40
But this was it.
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It was a picture of this guy and his, you know, supposed husband and they're holding twins.
26:47
Okay.
26:48
And the caption said YouTuber Shane Dawson and Rylan Adams have welcomed their twin boys
26:53
via a surrogate, which obviously they welcome twin boys via surrogacy because it's two men.
26:59
You can't make a baby, right?
27:01
So you may be asking yourself who Shane Dawson because I had no idea who this person was,
27:05
but apparently has over 19 million subscribers to his YouTube channel.
27:08
So he's very prominent in YouTube, but also there's some things about him that people
27:13
may not know, which will kind of give you an idea of who this person is and whether or
27:17
not he should ever have a kid around him ever.
27:20
So in a video in 2013, he explained to the person that he was talking to on a show called
27:25
Shane and friends, why he Googled the term naked baby.
27:30
This was his direct quote, I went to Google and I didn't want to see child porn.
27:35
I just wanted to see, let me pretend I'm a pedophile for a second.
27:39
So I typed in naked baby.
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First of all, I don't understand why anybody would be turned on by that, but they were
27:45
sexy.
27:46
I'm kidding.
27:48
So he's just making light and making a joke about pedophilia, specifically naked babies.
27:56
Now, I've made some irreverent jokes in my life, I've said some things, trying to get
28:01
that next laugh, that next big guttural laugh, and it just fell flat.
28:05
And I went a, you know, step or two too far, but this isn't a different category entirely.
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This is a homosexual person.
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And if anybody's heard homosexuals talk about this, like they don't see pedophilia in the
28:17
same way that straight people do, they just don't.
28:20
And that's enough to get me and other people canceled just saying that, but you will have
28:24
gay people that just say, yeah, I mean, there's, there's tons of relationships between older
28:28
gay men and younger gay boys, like that's just like a thing that happens, right?
28:33
But specifically in this particular case, you have a prominent gay person saying that
28:37
he went to the internet and typed in gay baby, or sorry, not gay baby, but naked baby, like
28:43
that's problematic.
28:44
And it should be.
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But in addition to him being an open and proud homosexual and potentially a pedophile, apparently
28:51
he's also into having sex with animals.
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Yeah, because in 2015, he said this one time I laid my cat down on her back.
29:00
I moved her little chicken legs, spread open or whatever.
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I came all over my cat.
29:06
It was like my first sexual experience.
29:09
I was also like 19.
29:11
So this guy is homosexual.
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He has made light and made jokes about pedophilia.
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So would it shock anybody if he's had pedophilic relationships or sexual experiences in his
29:22
life certainly wouldn't surprise me and yet sex with his cat and came all over his cat.
29:28
So in total, this dude would not have passed a background check to even foster a kid much
29:36
less adopt a child.
29:37
But hey, let's let him and his husband buy a kid by two kids, right?
29:44
What could possibly go wrong?
29:46
So here's my big takeaway on this story.
29:49
It's surrogacy is human trafficking.
29:53
It's sick and it's depraved.
29:55
Now I'm certainly not the first person to point out that surrogacy is human trafficking.
29:59
That's not a unique idea.
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But people that have said that are absolutely correct because what is the process?
30:05
You basically go to a catalog of women and you say to yourself, well, we're going to
30:11
swirl our sperm together and then we're going to have that injected into this woman or they're
30:17
going to inject it, you know, they're going to marry it with an egg and then put it inside
30:21
a woman, you know, however the process goes in that particular thing and they swirl the
30:25
sperm right so they don't know which one's the father right because it's so cute, right?
30:30
But they're choosing the woman it goes into.
30:32
They're choosing the egg donor.
30:34
They're choosing the hospital and guess what?
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Everyone's getting paid.
30:39
Everyone's getting paid.
30:40
So the hospitals are turn obviously turning a blind eye to the potential moral ramifications
30:45
of this because they're making a crap ton of money off of every step of the process and
30:50
all these agencies that are part of it, they're all making a crap ton of money.
30:55
It's human trafficking.
30:56
That's exactly what this is.
30:58
They didn't create those two young boys.
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They bought them.
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Now I talk about this in much more detail.
31:04
Go back to episode four, twenty six of this podcast is called the ugliness of gay adoption
31:09
and surrogacy.
31:10
So in that particular episode, I talked about the story where there was a gay couple that
31:13
had adopted these brothers and not only were they raping and sodomizing these boys, they
31:20
were selling them to be raped and sodomized by all their other gay friends.
31:25
So they were running a gay pedophile ring, right?
31:29
And so obviously I'll make the point now in the same point that I made then that doesn't
31:33
mean that every gay couple that adopts or takes over children via surrogacy is going
31:38
to do that.
31:40
Obviously that's not going to happen, but it opens up that door certainly because of
31:45
some of the things that I've already talked about because the reality is is that babies,
31:50
I hate deserve language.
31:51
So I'll just throw that out there, especially to the new people to the show.
31:53
I hate when people are like, well, you deserve this and I deserve the no, but I'll tell you
31:57
what a baby deserves, a baby deserves a mother, a father, and a household that upholds God's
32:03
design and goodness like at the most minimum basic level.
32:08
That's exactly what a baby deserves because there are situations because of the fall that
32:14
do not allow for a mother and father to be present.
32:18
Maybe the mother died during childbirth, but the baby lived.
32:21
Maybe the father knocked up the chick and then took off.
32:24
Maybe someone died, maybe whatever there's, there's a myriad of circumstances where a
32:28
child does not grow with mother and father in the home, but the best outcomes for children.
32:36
And this is where the sociological data always catches up with what we know from thousands
32:41
of years of Christian history and Christian practice is that the best outcome and the
32:46
best household for a child to grow up in is a household with a present mother, a present
32:50
father, and they go to church.
32:53
So that gets into the upholding of God's design and goodness.
32:56
Now, that doesn't even get into the data.
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Is it, is it a good mom?
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Is it a doting mother?
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Is it a good father?
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Is it like a really present and all the way there father?
33:06
Do they go to the right kind of church?
33:08
Do they go to the church that expos the, the scripture and really upholds the gospel above
33:12
everything else?
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It doesn't even get into all that mother, father, present, and they all go to churches
33:17
of family.
33:19
And so you have a situation like this where these two young boys, these, these poor young
33:25
boys, they've been adopted so that these gay men can have an accessory to walk around with.
33:32
It's like a purse for a woman.
33:34
That's what this is, because you can obviously see, you know, with this guy who makes a lot
33:39
of money off his YouTube channel, you think they're going to be the ones getting up in
33:42
the middle of night feeding the child?
33:44
No, they're going to have, you know, women that come in and do that for them.
33:48
They're going to have women that come and take care of those children that are not their
33:52
mother.
33:55
These men paid for the right to be able to steal motherhood away from the surrogate.
34:01
Now, the surrogate in this situation is not a victim by any stretch of the imagination
34:07
because she made the decision, the conscious decision to take the money from these gay
34:12
men so that she could carry two babies, provide for them with her nutrition and nourishment
34:20
inside of her body.
34:21
And then the moment they're outside of her body, very likely via a caesarean section,
34:26
the babies just go away.
34:28
They likely didn't put the babies on the mother so that it would attach themselves to her,
34:32
you know, all these benefits that come to a baby by being with their mother outside the
34:37
womb gone.
34:39
Doctors just walk the baby from one room over to the other.
34:43
And then these homosexual dudes just they get the right to sit there and take the pictures
34:47
with their babies.
34:48
And you know, these morons took pictures like the babies in the, in the little, you know,
34:53
baby holder or whatever.
34:54
I can't think of the name of it right now.
34:55
They're laying down covered with like a hospital blanket like they just went through the labor.
35:01
So they get to have the cute pictures for social media.
35:04
And we're just left wondering how long until these young kids are going to be taken advantage
35:08
of.
35:09
And even if those are both doting parents, they never do anything sexually to those boys,
35:13
they're going to be growing up in a household with two fathers when a mother is necessary
35:17
and needed.
35:19
And we can also assume that these men are not going to be raising these, these young children
35:24
up to, to be able to worship God.
35:28
And all we can hope for is that the gospel penetrates the hearts of these men that they
35:32
repent and turn away from this lifestyle.
35:35
And that also the gospel penetrates the hearts of these children at some point as well.
35:39
It's just an ugly and depraved situation.
35:41
I hate it, but had to talk about it.
35:43
All right.
35:44
Next quick, here, the overturning of Roe v. Wade already saving tens of thousands of babies
35:49
from murder.
35:50
So this is according to Fox News.
35:52
This is Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June of 2022.
35:55
At least 30,000 babies have been born that would have otherwise been aborted.
35:59
According to a new study published this month, I think it was actually last month, the 32,000
36:03
babies were born in states that enacted some form of abortion restriction.
36:07
According to the study conducted by the Institute of Labor Economics, that looked at the effects
36:11
of the US Supreme Court decision in jobs V Jackson women's health organization, which returned
36:16
the issue of abortion to the States.
36:18
Our primary analysis indicates that in the first six months of 2023, burst rose by an
36:23
average of 2.3% in states enforcing total abortion bans compared to a control group
36:28
of states where abortion rights remain protected, amounting to approximately 32,000 additional
36:34
annual births resulting from abortion bans, according to the study.
36:38
So right to the big takeaway on this one with the rest of these will probably just go right
36:42
to the big takeaway.
36:43
The big takeaway on this one is tens of thousands of babies to the glory of God are alive outside
36:51
of their mother's wounds today.
36:54
That otherwise would have been ripped to shreds in that same room previously, and Republicans
37:01
are tripping all over themselves trying to moderate on the abortion issue.
37:08
I don't get it and not just Republicans.
37:12
Let me add Christians to that as well.
37:15
There are plenty of plenty of left leaning congregations in churches and Christians that
37:19
are trying to do everything to moderate on the abortion issue to try to find some mythical
37:26
third way, right?
37:28
They might as well try to find a pink and purple unicorn.
37:31
There is no third way on abortion.
37:35
It's either a child that is alive, that is worthy of our protection, or it is a meaningless
37:42
clump of cells that feels nothing as you're sucking it through a vacuum tube into a trash
37:47
can.
37:49
There's nothing in between.
37:51
So to the Republicans and Christians out there, why are you not just standing up and shouting
37:57
this particular study from the rooftops and saying 32,000, 32,000 children are alive today
38:05
that otherwise would have been murdered because there's a lot of focus right now.
38:09
And for good reason on the 1200 or so Israelis, Jews that were murdered by Hamas at the beginning
38:16
of October.
38:17
Then again, I did an entire episode on it.
38:19
I taught my entire Sunday school on that.
38:21
It is something that we should think about, but let's just look at the numbers.
38:25
1200 people brutally murdered versus 32,000 people that would have been brutally murdered.
38:32
Like what if we could live in a parallel universe, which we can't, but you know, come with me
38:36
for a little bit.
38:37
What if we lived in a parallel universe where the Hamas attacks in Israel on the 7th of
38:42
October this year could have been prevented.
38:46
And we know without a doubt or, you know, in general, in the range that around 1200 people
38:52
would have been saved.
38:54
Can you imagine the headlines, certainly right-leaning people or Zionists or whatever the people
38:59
that you're into that Jews would have been like, this is great.
39:03
1200 of us were going to be murdered, ripped limb from limb.
39:09
And we weren't.
39:10
This is a, this is a big win.
39:13
Why are Republicans and Christians doing that right now with 32,000 babies that are
39:17
here now existing outside of their mother's wounds?
39:21
I'll never understand it.
39:23
And part of it, again, is because Christians have accepted the placement of being downstream
39:27
from culture.
39:28
Again, you don't need to be a jerk about the abortion issue.
39:32
But if you can't stand on the correct moral side of the abortion issue, what subject matter
39:38
should I trust you with?
39:40
So to these squishy Republicans that have said that their pro life and yet they're trying
39:44
to advocate for pro choice opinions and pro choice stances, I'm sorry, I'm not going to
39:49
trust you with the economy, I'm not going to trust you with the border.
39:53
I'm not going to trust you with the international diplomacy because you can't even get the subject
39:58
matter of life.
39:59
Right.
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So my encouragement to all the Christians and Republicans out here is being super proud
40:04
of this, celebrate it.
40:08
Celebrate it more loudly than a touchdown by your favorite team than a knockout by your
40:13
favorite fighter.
40:14
Like this because this is a big deal, 32,000 babies are here today.
40:20
And that is a win for everybody.
40:22
All right.
40:23
Next quick hitter here, a Florida school district sees tremendous benefits for students and teachers
40:28
after banning cell phones.
40:30
So this is according to govtech.com.
40:32
New rules that require cell phones to be silent and tucked away in backpacks all day made
40:37
Sarah Spates.
40:39
How do you say her name?
40:40
Spate Spate.
40:41
I'll just go with Spate.
40:42
Sarah Spates classroom.
40:43
In a place this semester, students were more focused on lessons.
40:46
The Boone high school teacher said and more willing to engage in discussions.
40:50
In her view, Orange County public schools ban on phones during the school day.
40:53
A rule in effect, even during lunch has been a four month success story.
40:58
The learning change in the classroom is remarkable.
41:01
Students are engaged because they're not getting notifications in their pockets at Spate who
41:04
teaches ninth grade English and advanced placement literature.
41:07
I would predict that we're going to see a positive impact on test scores for the schools
41:11
that have implemented this with consistency educators and school leaders across central
41:16
Florida's largest school district report similar benefits, though they don't yet have
41:20
the data to back up their sense of success.
41:23
They also wanted to limit distractions in class, encourage in person communication among
41:27
students and tamp down on what many studies say are screen times detrimental impacts on
41:32
children's mental health.
41:34
I absolutely absolutely love this story.
41:36
My big takeaway on this one is every school in the country should institute this rule
41:42
immediately.
41:45
There is literally no good argument against it.
41:49
None.
41:50
Because I've tried to put myself there mentally.
41:53
Okay.
41:54
Let's say I thought we should have more cell phones in schools or the same amount.
41:57
How would I argue against something like this and I couldn't come up with a good reason?
42:01
I just couldn't.
42:02
You could basically go back to what did children do before this century before cell phones
42:08
were ubiquitous and elementary school kids had cell phones.
42:11
Like every kid was fine.
42:14
I say that.
42:15
You know what I mean?
42:16
Every kid was fine not having a cell phone.
42:19
Every every kid made it through the day and made it to the bus and made it home fine.
42:25
Like parents that needed to get hold of their kid for whatever reason know what they did.
42:29
They called the school, you know, if there was an emergency, Hey, your, your, your uncle,
42:35
my brother had a heart attack.
42:37
Can you please call Mrs. Jones's class?
42:39
I need to get my son out today.
42:40
We need to go to the hospital.
42:42
Like that's all it took as opposed to furiously texting your kid while they're trying to learn,
42:46
right?
42:47
And so the, the educational outcomes in America, and many of you know this, the educational
42:53
outcomes in American schools is just destitute.
42:57
It is horrific.
42:59
And that is in contrast to the unbelievably high amount of funding we give to education.
43:03
We constantly get these teachers and administrators that complain about the funding that they
43:07
don't have for education.
43:08
And it's like there are countries that have way less money per capita going to fund education
43:14
for their students to have way higher educational outcomes.
43:19
So obviously there's something there and the problem isn't money.
43:23
Because again, is, is the problem that kids don't have the latest iPad in their class?
43:29
Or is the problem that we're focusing on crappy modalities that don't end up leading
43:33
our children to be able to be successful in the classroom?
43:37
And you also have to remember phone manufacturers and social media companies, they set out to
43:43
create devices and apps that prevent children from being able to concentrate.
43:47
That's the entire point.
43:49
Because if you can concentrate on something for a long time, you know what you're not
43:52
going to do, doom scroll.
43:54
And look, I'm, I'm susceptible to this as well.
43:57
Every now and then I'll get to a video on Instagram or TikTok or something like that.
44:00
And it's like, Oh, this video is like three minutes long.
44:03
Skip.
44:04
I don't even know what the video is about, but I'm not going to watch it.
44:05
Don't have time for that skip skip.
44:08
Go to the next one.
44:09
So imagine being a child, I'm a grown man and I have trouble with it sometimes, right?
44:14
I mean, I've got a pretty good hack system that, that, you know, keeps me from dedicating
44:19
my entire life to my little box and I keep in my pocket.
44:22
But what about a 12 year old?
44:24
I remember when I was in college, I went and did some leadership training for the elementary
44:28
school students and there were fifth graders that had like at the time, Palm pilots were
44:32
still a thing, fifth graders, like how old's a fifth grader?
44:38
Who do they need to get a hold of?
44:40
Who do they need to text?
44:41
Who do they need to be in connection with at 10 o'clock on a Wednesday, right?
44:46
They're like 10 years old, what do they need?
44:49
And again, if you're the, if you're the school system, if you're the teacher, if you're the
44:53
principal and you're allowing them to have these devices, you can't be shocked when they
44:57
can't concentrate in class.
44:59
You can't be shocked when they don't do well in exams.
45:02
You can't be shocked when they forgot to do something because they didn't actually hear
45:05
you say because they were playing a game on their phone or sending a Snapchat or doing
45:09
whatever, right?
45:11
But the other thing, the other kind of way around this, like if your school in your community
45:16
isn't going to institute something like this, I hope it, I hope it catches fire.
45:20
But who the heck knows?
45:21
The way around this is parents out there actually being parents and not getting their kids smartphones.
45:28
I've talked about this a lot.
45:29
Your child doesn't need it.
45:32
And we can get into the discussion about the fact that pedophiles know how to use these
45:36
smartphones, get to your kid.
45:37
And that's an important conversation.
45:39
The fact that there's porn and murder videos and murder porn videos that your kids can
45:44
access with a few clicks, right?
45:47
All that's something that's important to talk about in terms of their cell phones.
45:50
But if they're at school and they have a cell phone, how in the world do you expect them
45:54
not to look at it?
45:55
And again, to the parents, it's just like, I want to make sure I can communicate with
45:58
my kid in case something goes wrong.
46:00
You can call the school like most parents now have their teacher's phone number, right?
46:08
My kids in Pre-K3, my wife has the teacher's number.
46:12
She can text and call the teacher in the middle of the day, which again, it's kind of bad
46:16
for the modalities of the class and making sure everything can kind of move forward.
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But you have ways to get a hold of your child.
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So if your school's not going to do this, you be the parent.
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Make sure they don't have their phone at school.
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Make sure that you have it locked down where the apps can't even be accessed or in particular
46:33
hours or something like that.
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All that is something that you can do.
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But also go to your school boards, go to your private schools, go to those places and advocate
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for them to put something like this in place.
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I've heard of schools around here that do like one day a week is like cell phone free
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Wednesdays.
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And it's like, that's it.
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Cell phone free Wednesdays?
46:53
Like, why do one day?
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Like zero days makes more sense than one day.
46:58
Like you should just have a blanket ban on these things because they're not aiding the
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educational process.
47:02
All right, next quick hitter here, whiny female college athletes sue their university
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for not treating them like they're special.
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All right.
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Let's go to Fox News 32 female athletes at the University of Oregon have filed a lawsuit
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against the school claiming that it is not following title nine laws 115 page suit filed
47:21
by Bailey and glasser says the school has deprived.
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This is a quote now has been depriving women of equal treatment and benefits equal athletic
47:29
aid and equal opportunities, unquote.
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The suit cites an investigative report by the Oregonian in July that says the volleyball
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team practices and plays home games in a city park and uses public restrooms with no doors
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on the stalls.
47:43
City officials told the outlet that the stalls do not have doors due to fears that people
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will use drugs in the bathroom.
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Players often feel unsafe to use the bathroom facilities as there are often vagrants inside
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or around the restroom building.
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The student athletes have witnessed these vagrants injecting intravenous drugs or using
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crack cocaine.
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The complaint said.
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The team was unable to practice last week because someone died near the public courts
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according to beach volleyball captain Ashley Schroeder.
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We'll come back to that.
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Meanwhile, as the volleyball team practices under those conditions, the football team
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has unbelievably better treatment than the school gives any of its female student athletes.
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While the men's football team members receive brand new exclusive personally tailored gear,
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the women's beach volleyball team members share a limited amount of tattered gear handed
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down for years that often does not fit.
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The complaint reads, oh, they're closed.
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Don't fit.
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Guys, guys, come on.
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So first of all, when you see this story covered, almost none of the outlets put this
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very special word in their beach volleyball.
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No one knew before the story that beach volleyball as a collegiate sport was even a thing.
48:50
We've all seen indoor volleyball played on a basketball court.
48:52
We've all seen that.
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Most schools have that even small schools, but beach volleyball because when you read
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the story, I'll go back to the top here when it talks about, oh, they have to practice
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their home games in a city park and you're like, wow, this volleyball team has to practice
49:08
outdoors in a park.
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Yeah, because it's a beach volleyball team.
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How many beach volleyball courts have you seen indoors in a nice facility?
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Exactly zero.
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Yes, because there are exactly zero in existence, right?
49:21
And so first of all, isn't a story like this, a further indictment of the failure of Democrat
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run cities that I mean, they, they can't keep their cities from turning into filthy, wretched
49:31
dumps.
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Because again, this is a war again.
49:34
This is about as blue and left leaning as it gets.
49:37
And of course, they, they don't really have realistic policies in place for people that
49:42
have mental disorders or addictions that and they're living on the streets and all that.
49:47
And so this is just a further indictment of that.
49:48
But let's go to some big takeaways.
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I have several here on this story.
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This one, this lawsuit, lawsuit should be laughed out of court, obviously.
49:57
And all 32 female athletes listed in the lawsuit should be mandated by the court to take an
50:02
economics 101 course.
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I think this would help solve a lot of the problems that they're having, okay?
50:09
And this kind of goes right into the next big takeaways.
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You can't expect equal outputs with unequal inputs.
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So everyone loves, you know, even, you know, professors at universities do this as well.
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You know, why aren't we getting as much, you know, stuff in our random, like literature
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department as the football team's getting?
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Why do they get all these cool new buildings, cool new, whatever?
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Because the football team's making the university money, like, how is this difficult to understand?
50:37
So the University of Oregon football team brings in tens of millions of dollars of revenue
50:43
every year, even if they suck, tens of millions of dollars from TV deals to rev shares from
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the conference that they play in to the revenue generated by the sale of gear, by ticket sales,
50:59
by hot dog sales during during the home games and all that.
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And they're playing like five or six games at home and they're still able on a yearly
51:06
basis to bring in tens of millions of dollars.
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And the other thing that people don't really realize, and I've talked about this before,
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is that inside of athletic departments, typically there are one or two sports in an entire athletic
51:19
department that are operating in the black.
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It's typically football and men's basketball.
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There are random schools like Oklahoma State's wrestling program.
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They operate in the black.
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I'm sure Cal State Fullerton baseball team operates in the black, but for the most part,
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every single sport outside of men's basketball and football is operating in the red.
51:42
And so in reality, these women would be getting nothing.
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Apparently they're getting stuff that is just so bad and handed down.
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They wouldn't even have a budget, if not for the men's football team, they wouldn't even
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have a budget.
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Yeah, they're going to get some state funds and some federal funds and things like that,
51:59
but they wouldn't have Jack crap.
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Okay.
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So again, you have unequal inputs.
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Why do you expect equal outputs with the people that are putting so much more in my last big
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takeaway on this is no one is forcing these young ladies to play volleyball, beach volleyball,
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for the University of Oregon.
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This is my biggest complaint.
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Teachers that complain about how much they get paid.
52:24
These young ladies complaining about, you know, the facilities and complaining about all
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these things, MMA fighters that are complaining about, well, I could make more money if I could
52:32
get more sponsors and over it.
52:33
You signed on the dotted line to do your job.
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When you were offered that teaching position, you took it.
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When you were offered that spot on the beach volleyball team in Oregon, you took it.
52:44
When you were offered that contract by the UFC, even though you could have made more
52:47
money over in Belltor, you took it.
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Who are you complaining to?
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Why are you yelling at the sky?
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I don't understand it.
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Yes, I could feel bad for your situation.
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I could wish.
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Yeah.
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You know what?
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These gals that they train real hard, even though no one really watches a beach volleyball
53:04
except for once every four years and mainly just to watch girls and bikinis play beach
53:08
volleyball because that's why people watch it in the summer Olympics, right?
53:11
Like, I'm not saying anything that's completely crazy.
53:13
I'm not really like blazing a trail here, but like you're playing a sport that doesn't
53:17
matter that no one really cares to watch on a regular basis.
53:21
And you're getting to go to school to play that sport and you chose to and not all these
53:26
girls are on full ride scholarships, but they're getting something to go to school there, right?
53:31
What are you complaining about?
53:33
This is your decision, right?
53:35
And guess what?
53:36
There's a really easy way that you could not have to deal with that situation anymore.
53:40
Not to deal with playing in city parks and dealing with all the homeless people watching
53:44
them shoot up and in the place that you chose to live.
53:47
You could move.
53:48
You could drop out of school.
53:50
You could transfer to another school.
53:51
I don't know how many other schools do beach volleyball.
53:53
I'm sure there's at least one more.
53:55
Is it a better city?
53:56
Is it a better situation?
53:57
Do they get better funding?
53:58
Move.
53:59
These people that complain about the states that they live in.
54:02
Oh, I can't believe this can't move.
54:04
Like you live in the greatest country in the history of the world that provides you the
54:08
most amount of flexibility and movement possible, and you're not going to move.
54:12
I'm sorry, I just don't feel bad for you.
54:14
Our next quick hitter here, a review of federal election donation records revealing that Christianity
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today employees only contribute to democratic political candidates.
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So this is according to the Daily Wire.
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The media has long framed Christianity today founded by Billy Graham in 1956 as America's
54:30
most influential Christian news outlet.
54:32
The Washington Post, for instance, regularly describes it as evangelicalism's flagship
54:37
magazine as does the New York Times.
54:39
A review of federal election records, however, indicates that the views of the magazine's
54:43
leadership and staff may be far out of step with ordinary evangelicals.
54:48
Between 2015 and 2022, nine Christianity today employees made 73 political donations.
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All of them went to Democrats.
54:57
So included in this story, which I will put in the show notes, I think it's by Megan
55:00
Basham at the Daily Wire.
55:03
This includes executives, all the executives, if they're donating, they're donating to
55:07
the Democratic Party.
55:09
This also includes editors.
55:10
And so the story actually does talk about this a little bit.
55:13
It is egregious that editors at a supposed publication are allowing themselves to donate
55:22
in a political campaign that they're covering.
55:25
That's a massive issue.
55:26
It's a massive conflict of interest because if you donate to a particular political candidate,
55:32
you will invariably write about them and describe them and, you know, position them in a certain
55:37
way.
55:38
And it's probably going to make them look better, right?
55:40
Because you want to be on the winning side.
55:41
And so my big takeaway on this story is that Christianity today is not a Christian publication.
55:46
I don't know for how long it hasn't been a Christian publication, but this just further
55:50
proves my point.
55:52
And so part of the reason this goes back to what I was saying earlier, if you were pro
55:55
choice, which basically means you're pro abortion, you're a pro the murder of babies, you're
56:00
not a Christian.
56:02
I did an episode back.
56:04
I can't remember.
56:05
But as episode four, 17 called, there is no such thing as a pro choice Christian because
56:09
there isn't because you cannot support that and say that you understand the gospel and
56:15
that the gospels for you, it's not possible.
56:18
But the Christianity today has given us hints about this really left word lurch for years
56:24
back on episode one 10 of this podcast, I'm calling back to a bunch of old school episodes,
56:28
back one 10, that was like in 2017 or 2018, I did one called Christianity today attacks
56:33
Trump.
56:34
And this was an article of this was a podcast about an article that they wrote where they
56:38
were attacking Donald Trump for something that he didn't deserve to be attacked for.
56:41
And again, I've gone on record saying, I think Trump says and does a lot of really, really
56:45
stupid things, some of them unforgivably stupid.
56:48
But what he was being attacked for by Christianity today made no sense.
56:52
And this was kind of that first time where you saw the pearl clutching from these holier
56:57
than thou Christians that apparently understand the culture better than you, even though they're
57:01
trying to change even the words meanings that we've all understood for thousands of years
57:05
to mean some other things so that they can better acquiesce with culture.
57:09
But yeah, you try to unweave that sentence a little bit later.
57:11
But this publication has Christianity in the name, but it couldn't even be recognized by
57:17
the people that started it back in the 50s.
57:19
Like most of the articles that are released by Christianity today, like Billy Graham could
57:24
not even fathomed the headline, much less the content of what's being written.
57:29
And so when I saw this story of a few weeks back, I just laughed because it's not shocking.
57:36
Just like the comments made by Pope Francis, the not being shocking at all.
57:40
This makes total sense.
57:42
You can see the editorial choices and bend of the stories put out by Christianity today
57:46
and the things that are covered and how they're covered and think to yourself, yeah, of course
57:50
they're not donating to Nikki Haley or Rhonda Santis or Donald Trump, like that that wouldn't
57:55
make any sense.
57:56
It would actually be more shocking if this study came out and it said, you know, all
58:00
the executives for Christianity today only gave to Republican political candidates.
58:05
Like that would have been truly, truly shocking.
58:07
But in this case, it's just not.
58:09
All right.
58:10
Last quick hitter here, pastor David Platt replacing himself at his church with a black
58:14
pastor that says it is difficult for him, quote, not to just torch all white people in
58:19
particular white evangelicals and Christians.
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Okay.
58:22
So this is according to church leaders.
58:23
And this was written back in September, McLean Bible Church held a church family meeting
58:28
to vote Mike Kelsey, the current NBC NBC is McLean Bible Church, Montgomery County location
58:34
pastor to be the church's new lead pastor alongside David Platt.
58:39
So go ahead and insert your, you know, the office references where Michael Scott and Jim
58:43
Halper were co managers of Dunder Mifflin Scranton for a while there.
58:47
So go and insert that. I don't know exactly how you could be a lead pastor alongside another
58:51
lead pastor, but I'll digress, go back to the story here, a video of Kelsey saying that
58:55
there are times he feels like torching all white people, particularly white evangelicals
59:00
and Christians resurfaced earlier this week again back in September, Kelsey made the comment
59:04
three years ago while he was on an episode of Jeannie Allen's podcast titled understanding
59:09
your role in racial reconciliation.
59:12
Just weeks after a video showed that George Floyd was murdered by Minneapolis police
59:16
officers.
59:17
I would quibble with the word murdered there because as I've talked about before, George
59:20
Floyd overdosed while in police custody.
59:22
But that's at least what the, the, the website put here.
59:25
So that's why I read it that way back to the, the article here.
59:28
Allen asked Kelsey to share what it felt like to experience these last few weeks.
59:32
This is a quote from him.
59:34
Sometimes I'm just like, I'm done, Kelsey said.
59:37
It's difficult for me sometimes not to just torch all white people, in particular white
59:41
evangelicals and Christians, unquote, Kelsey shared that what keeps him from wanting to
59:47
torch all white people is a combination of several things, including just meeting and
59:51
being in community with so many white brothers and sisters and looking at the type of work
59:55
there that you're doing and other people are doing.
59:59
So here's my big takeaway on this one.
1:00:01
Actually, I have a couple.
1:00:02
Here's the first one.
1:00:04
These comments from Mike Kelsey are disqualifying for him as a pastor 100% now.
1:00:13
If you immediately bristle up against the comment that I just made, I want you to do
1:00:17
me a favor.
1:00:18
Cause some of you are like, wait a minute, call you can't disqualify anyone from being
1:00:21
a pastor.
1:00:22
You don't even know.
1:00:23
You don't even know this guy.
1:00:24
Sure.
1:00:25
Fine.
1:00:26
Do this for me.
1:00:27
Switch out the word white with black and then read the quote and tell me you feel the
1:00:33
same way.
1:00:34
Okay.
1:00:35
So everybody on this podcast knows like Joby Martin's one of my best friends.
1:00:39
He happens to be a white pastor down in Florida and he kind of has a country accent.
1:00:43
So imagine Joby Martin of Churchill 11 22 saying this quote.
1:00:47
He would never wouldn't a million years say this, but just imagine him saying this the
1:00:51
next time you, you know, tune in or go to this church to hear one of his sermons.
1:00:56
Sometimes I'm just like, I'm done.
1:00:58
It's difficult for me sometimes, not just to torch all black people.
1:01:03
In particular, black evangelicals and Christians.
1:01:08
Can you imagine because Joby Martin should be way more prominent, way more famous than
1:01:13
he is.
1:01:14
In my personal opinion, you know, that will likely change here before too very much longer.
1:01:18
But can you imagine the international headlines?
1:01:23
Florida pastor says he wants to torch all black people.
1:01:27
Florida pastor prominent Florida evangelical says it's hard for him to not just torch all
1:01:32
black people in that exact moment.
1:01:36
It would be his job and his ministry would be demanded of him and rightfully so.
1:01:41
And no one there's not a conservative podcaster or you know, blogger, anybody that would come
1:01:47
to his defense.
1:01:48
Because again, let me just read it as it would sound if we switch the races.
1:01:53
Sometimes I'm just like I'm done.
1:01:54
It's difficult for me sometimes not to just torch all black people.
1:01:58
In particular, black evangelicals and Christians.
1:02:02
No one's coming to his aid.
1:02:04
Rick Warren's not going to make a Twitter video like Craig Rochelle's not going to come
1:02:08
out and record a podcast saying he defends.
1:02:11
No one's coming to his aid.
1:02:12
Matt Chandler, his good buddy.
1:02:14
No one's going to come to his aid.
1:02:15
Certainly not publicly.
1:02:17
They may even cut him off personally and socially.
1:02:20
So this statement that he made, which I don't know if he's apologized for what I don't really
1:02:26
know the context completely disqualifies my Kelsey from being a pastor.
1:02:30
Okay.
1:02:31
My next big takeaway on this is this is what happens when prominent, yet gullible white
1:02:37
pastors by the cultural lie of standpoint epistemology.
1:02:42
So I talked about standpoint epistemology where it's like your way of gaining and transferring
1:02:46
knowledge comes from your standpoint and culture.
1:02:48
But these guys like David Platt and Matt Chandler's kind of said some things like this.
1:02:53
And there are some other prominent pastors, Lucas Miles talks about a lot of them in the
1:02:57
book of woke Jesus.
1:03:00
So these people that went full black lives matter, they posted the black square.
1:03:03
They'd never repudiated the organization black lives matter while pretending while that saying
1:03:07
black lives matter was just an innocuous statement.
1:03:10
All these people, they've bought into the lie that because this person looks a certain
1:03:16
way, they will be able to do the job in a particular way.
1:03:19
And again, I go back to the egregious comments made by Matt Chandler.
1:03:22
Again, one of my favorite pastors of all time.
1:03:25
I've never listened to more sermons by any one pastor more than I've listened to Matt
1:03:29
Chandler.
1:03:30
And I still listen to him to this day, even though I can't wait to actually ask him about
1:03:33
these comments.
1:03:34
But whenever he said at MLK 50, when he said that if it's a, you know, between a Anglo
1:03:40
eight and a black seven, I'm going to hire the black seven and absolutely indefensible
1:03:47
comment, even in context.
1:03:50
But whenever you go beyond racial reconciliation, you get to racial grievance.
1:03:56
That's the next exit on the highway.
1:03:58
You're on racial reconciliation, and then you get off on racial grievance.
1:04:03
When you bind to this grievance culture, like apparently David Platt has done, he said some
1:04:07
ridiculous things the last few years, you will ignore comments like this when you're hiring
1:04:12
somebody.
1:04:13
Because again, I don't know Mike Kelsey.
1:04:15
I've never heard him, you know, provide a sermon.
1:04:17
I don't know how he counsels, you know, couples.
1:04:20
I don't know how good he is at the bedside of somebody that's dying in the hospital or
1:04:25
if he even does that, I have no reference point for him at all.
1:04:29
But these comments were very revealing about how he actually feels.
1:04:36
And you could tell by him saying like, Oh, you know, the thing that keeps me from doing
1:04:39
that is reminding myself that we have so many white brothers and sisters that are doing
1:04:43
the work that I like and we just keep focusing on that.
1:04:47
Because the question I would have for Mike Kelsey is, okay, well, what if you're surrounded
1:04:51
by a bunch of white brothers and sisters that stop doing the things that you deem appropriate?
1:04:57
Are you going to torch them?
1:04:59
Because that's what you said you were going to do.
1:05:01
All right.
1:05:02
Sorry.
1:05:03
Let me be, let me be precise.
1:05:04
That's what you said is hard for you to keep from doing.
1:05:08
Because you have this desire inside of you to according to you torch all white people in
1:05:14
particular white evangelicals and Christians.
1:05:17
How am I supposed to take that?
1:05:20
Because I get it.
1:05:21
Sometimes quotes are taken out of context.
1:05:22
Sometimes the headline doesn't reflect anything that's in the article.
1:05:25
I get it.
1:05:27
Help me understand this one.
1:05:30
So if Mike Kelsey's listening to this doubt it, or if anybody that knows Mike Kelsey is
1:05:33
listening to this, give me a defense, give me a defense for this.
1:05:38
But then I want you to insert any other group into his commentary.
1:05:44
It's difficult for me sometimes not to just torch all black people, torch all Latinos,
1:05:49
torch all Asians, torch all women, torch all gays, torch all Jews, torch all insert one.
1:05:57
Because you'll find the one that, you know, makes your hearts are beating a little bit
1:06:00
faster.
1:06:01
Get your blood pressure elevated.
1:06:03
Help me understand.
1:06:04
It's a completely indefensible comment, and I don't know why more people aren't talking
1:06:08
about it.
1:06:09
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