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This is Undaunted Life, a man's podcast.
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I'm your host Kyle Thompson.
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Let's get into it.
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The word of the Lord came to me saying, "Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you.
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You were born.
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I set you apart.
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I appointed you as a prophet to the nations."
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That is Jeremiah 1, 4, and 5.
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I can just surprise you whenever I feel like there's something extra special I want to
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and whatever over the last week or so, whenever I ask for prayers for my voice and for my throat.
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So my voice and my throat is a little bit better this week, but as with most things,
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I mean, this is a very much so and an up-or-down thing, and I've had more struggles with it
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doctors to try and see what I can figure out and all that, but I just wanted to let you
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guys know that I really, really appreciate the prayers.
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Now, we're not going to do any quick hitters today because there's really one thing that
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I wanted to talk about today, but before I get there, I got to address some more stuff
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on the pit bull issue.
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Okay, so again, back on episode 377 of this podcast, start around the 49 minute mark.
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I give you a full long breakdown as to why I don't think people should be able to own
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that breed, some statistics that you're probably not aware of, but I was stirring the pot
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again on social media because there was a post about the seven year old girl that was
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malted death by pit bull.
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I posted it online.
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People were freaking out, blah, blah, blah.
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And then also, this was just a few days ago, let me actually look and see what I have it
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here.
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I may have put it here in the show notes, but Fox News did a story about a boy.
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Let me actually read the headline.
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If I can find it, this is what whenever, whenever you don't plan these things and you just try
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to do it live.
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Okay, here we go.
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Georgia boy 11 pulled from bike and attacked by loose pit bulls, loses part of the year
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and most of his scalp.
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Okay.
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So I'm actually going to show some pictures of him on the screen here.
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And I probably, if you're watching on Rumble or YouTube, you've seen it, but we just got
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this, this normal looking boy.
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And then when you go to the next picture, it hit most of his scalp is missing, right?
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He's in a hospital room.
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There's a quote there from his mother that, you know, he's never going to be the same.
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And here is the kind of this final picture of him with his head all wrapped up.
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I mean, the kid is absolutely alive by the grace of God.
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There's no other reason why this kid was able to survive.
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And so I posted that on our social media.
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And then here come all the pit bull people.
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Like I've told you before, I can talk about anything.
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I can talk about abortion.
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I can talk about illegal immigration, pedophilia, LGBTQ.
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I can talk about everything and I will never get more hate and more Kyle, you're wrong
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and more Kyle.
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I'm, I'm unfollowing you and I'm mad and all these different things than when I talk about
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pit bulls.
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Okay.
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Now as a quick side note, I don't think that you should operate in this world dismissing
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people because they disagree with you about one thing.
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So I had a guy that literally left me a message.
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I can't remember.
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I think it was on Instagram.
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He goes, yeah, I found you like four or five days ago and I've really been enjoying your
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stuff until I found out what you thought about pit bulls. Now I'm unfollowing you, which how
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much of a narcissist do you have to be to think that you need to let me know that you
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no longer want to follow my stuff?
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Just leave.
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Just just hit the unfollow button and move on with your life, but you're such a narcissist.
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You want the entire world to revolve around you and your opinions.
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You had to let me know.
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So I guess I really appreciate you letting me know.
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But about a week before that, and this is not related to the pit bull stuff, I got an
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email from a guy that was asking me a question about Jordan Peterson and he's like, Hey, Jordan
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Peterson thinks this about this particular subject.
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I mean, what do you think about that?
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Because you talk about Jordan Peterson a lot.
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I don't think that you should dismiss people if they disagree with you on one thing, even
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if the one thing is whether or not Jesus was divine, like you don't just dismiss someone
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outright because they disagree with you.
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Okay.
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So that's a side note.
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So in the last week or so, well, I guess just in general, since I've started talking
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about this, I have yet to hear a single compelling argument as to why pit bulls should
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still be allowed to exist in the United States, but I did hear some new arguments in the last
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week that I'd never heard before.
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So real quick, before we get into the main thing that I want to talk about today, really
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the only thing I want to talk about today, I'm going to dispense with these new pit bull
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arguments, I guess, to add to my backlog of arguments against the ownership of this breed.
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And then I'll leave it there, you know, probably until another child or elderly person is involved
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to death by one of these wild animals, which I'm recording this on a Sunday.
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It's releasing on Thursday.
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So in the meantime, statistically speaking, that's likely going to happen before you guys
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hear this.
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But here are the new arguments.
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Some of the new arguments that I heard.
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One of them is you can't really trust the data on dog attacks anyway.
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So my response to that is if you're going to question the data, which you should, you
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know, should always question the data, you have to be the one to provide a compelling
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reason why we should dismiss it.
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You can't just wave your hand over the situation and be like, well, you just can't trust this
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data anyway.
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It's like, well, do we have a reason to not trust the data?
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Because if you can't provide me with a reason, I'm just going to go with what the data say.
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Okay.
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Also, even if the data are wrong by 50%, isn't it still a problem?
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Like if literally like they doubled the amount of people supposedly killed by these animals,
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if it was half that, isn't it still a problem?
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Because I think it is.
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Another argument that I heard is you can't even really tell what a pit bull terrier or
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what is a pit bull terrier and what is a mix, right?
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Like you say pit bull, but you know, that's a, that's a wide ranging topic and there's
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a lot of different animals.
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And you know, the original pit bull terrier was, you know, 30 or 40 pounds and then they
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bred it with this to get this type of era.
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They bred it with that to get it to where it'd be this particular color and all that.
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My response to that is I'm totally fine with a much larger macro category of pit bull and
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pit bull mixes because the overwhelming majority of the attacks that I'm talking about are
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perpetrated by dogs that have at least some pit bull terrier in them.
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There's no other magical mix of dog where you put in a drop or a lot of another different
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breed into that mixture and it creates a killing machine.
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It doesn't exist.
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So I'm fine with the broader category.
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So saying, oh, we don't really know what that is.
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Okay, let's take anything that even, you know, tangentially has pit bull in it.
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I'll take it.
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Another one I heard is even if the attacks don't seem provoked, because I always talk
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about unprovoked attacks, even if they don't seem provoked, a trained observer can spot
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that a provocation actually occurred.
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So this in some ways is a recycled version of the there's no such thing as a bad dog,
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just bad owners argument.
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So it's an argument that puts total responsibility for the attack on the humans involved and
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none whatsoever on the animal.
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Okay.
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So it's just a recycled version of that.
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So my response to that would be I don't think it's even anecdotally true because how
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many of these stories that we talk about are just kids playing outside or an elderly person
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simply existing inside a home somewhere?
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I mean, how many stories do you hear about someone throwing rocks at a pit or, you know,
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poking one with a stick and then it attacks them, right?
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And I guess if you were to say that, like, oh, there actually were provocations or, you
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know, the people just didn't know it.
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No one in the entire situation knew that the dog was provoked.
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This provides all the more reason to ban the breed.
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I mean, if it takes a highly trained dog behaviorist to tell when a pit bull or pit bull mix is
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agitated so much that it's going to decide to decapitate a child.
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This just provides even more reason to suggest that the breed should not be owned by the
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general public as a pet.
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Okay.
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But now there's a few more here.
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And again, I want to kind of put this stuff to bed, but we're getting into some, some
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more now where the rubber really starts to meet the road that the people that said these
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were very, very pleased with their arguments, but they clearly can't see the gaping holes
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in their logic.
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So one of them was something like this, it's owning a pit bull is just like owning horses
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or pools or ladders.
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These are all different examples I heard.
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You have the right to own a horse pool or ladder, but according to your logic, we should
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ban them because they could kill people and way more people die from horses, pools and
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ladders every year anyway.
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So there are so many problems with this particular argument.
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So here let's kind of take them one by one.
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Yes, there are discrepancies in dog related fatalities and others, other ways to die.
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Okay.
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So there are, you know, roughly, because I just did quick searches on these, there's
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roughly about 700 people that die from accidents on horses a year, about 4,000 people drowned
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overall.
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So that's not just people drowning in pools.
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This is drowning in lakes with the ocean, but around 4,000 people, you're a drowned.
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And then around a hundred people, you're a die from falling off ladders, okay.
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So pointing out that the people die in higher numbers in other ways, other than dog attacks
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doesn't do anything to erase the occurrences where people are dying in ways that represent
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a smaller proportion of all cause mortality.
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As an example, dog attacks, it doesn't eradicate those.
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You're just pointing out the obvious.
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Like imagine me saying, well, and I'm completely making these numbers up because I don't know.
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Well, I know that 10,000 people a year die from, you know, leukemia, but 50,000 people
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a year die from lymphoma.
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So does that mean we're not supposed to care about leukemia?
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Again, I'm just making those numbers up, but because five times the number of people die
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because of something else means that we don't look at these other things, that's pretty silly.
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But also there are two categorical differences here that the person that said this argument
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didn't really understand.
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And the first is there's a categorical difference between inanimate objects and animate objects.
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So inanimate objects like pools or ladders versus animate objects like horses, okay?
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Pools and ladders can't literally grab you and, you know, a pool can't grab you and hold
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you under until you drown, right?
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A ladder isn't, you know, grabbing you and throwing you off the top of it, right?
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Because they're inanimate objects.
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They don't do anything unless we do something with them, right?
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Or I guess in less nature, like a tornado picks it up and throws a ladder at you.
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I guess you could die that way.
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But then there are animate objects like horses or dogs like they have choice in the matter
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of what they're going to do with their bodies, at least to a degree.
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And the second categorical difference is death by accident versus death by attack.
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So when around 700 people a year die in horse related deaths, these horses are not running
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them down, grabbing them by the throat and suffocating them to death or scalping them
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or decapitating them.
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These are people that are riding horses and either by a mistake of their own or something
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happened with the horse got spooked, they get bucked off and they die.
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Unfortunately, it's a gruesome way to die, I would say.
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But it's an accident.
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The horse did not mean to kill the person, right?
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But when a pit bull kills someone, that's exactly what it's intending to do.
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People are like, oh, you can't read intent into an animal, can't you?
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Animals to a degree are a lot easier to understand because they don't have awareness inside their
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souls.
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Like a pit bull that just mauled a child to death is not going to, you know, go to bed
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that night and really think, oh, gosh, I killed another kid, dad, gummy dang it.
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I thought it was going to be better than that.
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You know, the lion that kills a baby Zebra isn't like, gosh, you know, I was just really
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hungry and I had a moment of weakness.
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No, they're just existing because they're an animal.
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And I think a pit bull is much closer to a wild animal than it is to a household pet.
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And then on that argument as well, you can't bubble wrap the entire world, right?
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So when people are like, oh, should we just get rid of everything that could potentially
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kill people?
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But again, there's a categorical difference between a person losing their balance and falling
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off a ladder and a person being mauled to death by an animal that we've been duped into believing
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as a household pet.
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Okay.
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Two more arguments that I've heard.
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One of them is we either have a constitutional republic based on complete liberty and freedom
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or we don't.
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We either have ownership rights or we don't, right?
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So this person's like, I, you know, I'm going to bust out the constitution and give you a
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little bit of a lesson, but this is a really silly argument because the moment you enact
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laws as a society, you no longer have complete freedom and liberty because you could be the
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most libertarian person on the planet, but you're probably not going to ever advocate
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for murder and say, well, I have liberty and freedom and autonomy.
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So I should just be able to kill whoever I want, like nobody's down with that.
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So we all agree as a society, every society, every, you know,
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government, you know, every governing body, right?
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They all come up with laws and well, I guess all of us do.
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We advocate for and enact laws as a society that protect our society, protect the people
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within that society and provide for human flourishing.
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We do it all the time.
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Why do we have speed limits inside residential areas?
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Because the potential for death or destruction of the people living in that society, like
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is high, if someone's driving 75 miles an hour down your residential neighborhood street,
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right?
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And we all societally to a degree, we agree on those things.
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We think these are reasonable things.
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Yes, what I like to be able to drive 100 miles an hour on the highway, yes.
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The reason why we put a speed limit there is to try and have some level of human flourishing
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while also understanding that people got to get stuff done.
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We can't go back to horse and buggy, not now.
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Not everyone's going to travel around on a bicycle.
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We need vehicles.
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Okay?
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We advocate for and enact laws as a society that protect our society as a whole, protect
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the people within that society and provide for human flourishing.
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So there's one more argument here.
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And now this was the worst and most egregious argument.
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Okay?
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If for no other reason, because of how extreme it is.
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So it went something like this, talking to me, if you're not willing to be the one killing
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the pit bulls with your own hands or going into a person's house to confiscate their pit bull
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at gunpoint, then you're full of crap and you need to shut up.
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So I can see the passion behind this argument, but the argument has no grounding in reality.
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And I mean, no grounding in reality whatsoever.
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Because you can advocate for a law and then also not be part of the enforcement mechanism.
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Okay?
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So, so let's go back to the, the speeding in the neighborhood example.
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Like let's say there's an old lady, she's 90 years old and she goes for walks every day
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in her neighborhood and she notices on this long stretch of road in her neighborhood that
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people are driving really, really fast.
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And she surmises that, look, if we put a stop sign at 11th street and whatever boulevard,
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that's going to make people, you know, stop and slow down and it'll be safer for me.
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It'll be safer for the kids in the neighborhood, all that.
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So she advocates for that.
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She goes to her HOA, HOA is like, yeah, I think this is a fantastic idea.
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HOA goes to the city, you know, the city meeting or whatever they say, this is what we want
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to do.
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And the local magistrates are like, yep, we agree with you.
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We're going to go ahead and put in a stop sign there, the city will pay for it or I guess
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the taxpayers will pay for it.
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And then they do that.
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Now according to this person's logic, because this woman advocated for it and because she
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agreed with the stop sign going in in the first place, she should be the one enforcing
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the law.
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So we're going to put this woman in a cruiser.
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And if anybody runs that stop sign, this nine year old grandma is going to be the one
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responsible for pulling these people over and potentially getting into a kinetic situation
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with them, because that's what happens every time police have an interaction with the
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populace.
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There's the potential for it to go crazy, right?
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Think about how stupid that is.
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Think about how dumb that is.
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Well, you better be the one to go and do it.
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Why?
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That's not my job.
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Well, you're advocating for it.
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So you want someone else to go and do it?
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Well, that's the job they signed up for.
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So when you sign up to be a police officer, you're signing up to enforce the laws of that
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municipality or of that state or whatever agency that you represent, that's your job.
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Like imagine me because I grew up in a town that had a lot of gang violence.
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And imagine me now living in Edmond, Oklahoma, right outside of Oklahoma City, me advocating
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for gang related violence to stop and the crimes to stop and all that.
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Does that mean that I need to quit my job running undaunted life and join the gang unit
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at OKCPD?
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Is that now my job?
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Because I'm advocating for it because I agree with it.
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But that's not how we do those things.
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There are people that put forth the laws and advocate for the laws and do the things to
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try and get those laws on the books.
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And then there are the local magistrates that can do that or not do that.
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Potentially, the local populace could have a vote as to, yes, we're going to do this
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or no, we're not going to do this.
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But that is not then the local populace's job to enforce it.
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It is the law enforcement mechanisms that are in charge of doing those things.
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So again, I know some of you, this is just like in one ear out the other with this pit
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bull stuff, but I was just, I was actually surprised and shocked that I heard new arguments
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this week because for years and years, I've heard the same tiled argument, tired arguments
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and most of them are some form of, yeah, it's not the dog's fault, it's people's fault
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or something like that.
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But there, I just want to kind of put that there.
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Hopefully we won't have to talk about pit bulls for a while, but unfortunately, they're
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still going to be killing people here in the United States of America.
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So what can you do?
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All right, but let's move on to what I really wanted to talk about today.
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I want to talk about this new category that people were made aware of here recently.
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Okay.
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So as soon as the first session of the 118th Congress officially began here, you know,
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recently within last week, newly in the majority Republicans in the US House representatives
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put forth a bill called HR 26.
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So you probably heard it as the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.
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So I'm actually going to read from the bill here because it's very, very important.
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This is the actual language of the bill.
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This is what the bill would do.
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Number one, if an abortion results in the live birth of an infant, the infant is a legal
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person for all purposes under the laws of the United States and entitled to all the protections
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of such laws.
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And then number two, any infant born alive after an abortion or within a hospital clinic
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or other facility has the same claim to the protection of the law that would arise for
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any newborn or for any person who comes to a hospital clinic or other facility for screening
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and treatment or otherwise becomes a patient within its care.
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So that's what this does.
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Okay.
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So I don't understand how you could vote against something like that because this baby was
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targeted for destruction.
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And thank God, the medical professionals in that room, the paid assassins were not good
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enough at their jobs that instead of killing the baby, the baby was actually delivered.
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Now it's existing outside the womb, outside the magical, you know, vaginal canal, which
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a lot of these people think can first personhood.
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And now it's alive.
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And as opposed to just watching it sit there and struggle and die, you as someone who took
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the Hippocratic oath as a doctor or any of the other ancillary staff members, your job
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now is to protect that human life because it has rights.
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Okay.
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Now I think they have rights from the moment of conception, but now we're outside of all
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these other different realms.
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That's all this bill was trying to do.
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It's been brought up a lot and it's always been defeated.
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So as with all bills that are brought before Congress, there can be, you know, comments
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from the people that are made that are in Congress, most of them aren't worth watching.
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But there was one in particular on this bill that caught my attention and really frankly
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caught the attention of a lot of people.
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And it was these comments by representative Hillary, Hillary, Charlton, I think that's
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how you say her last name, Hillary, Charlton.
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She's a Democrat newly elected from Michigan.
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Here's what she said before Congress in opposition to HR 26, part of parental and maternal
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rights and an opposition to HR 26.
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I'm the first mother in history to represent West Michigan in Congress.
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This matter is deeply personal to me.
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I recently shared publicly about my own experience navigating a complex miscarriage and the loss
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of my daughter.
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As a pro-choice Christian who chose life, this issue is so personal to me.
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My faith informs my actions, but it doesn't dictate the policy of an entire nation.
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And further, when I read the scripture, I turn to passages and I'm guided by passages
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like Jeremiah 1, verses 5, which states, "I knew you before I formed you and I placed
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you in your mother's womb."
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It doesn't say the government's womb or the speaker's womb, it says the mother's womb.
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I believe life is precious, but I reject the idea that if I embrace the sanctity of life,
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I also must be forced to invite the federal government in to regulate it.
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We must protect families from unnecessary government intrusion into the most sacred and
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personal decisions of our lives and our children's lives."
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Okay, so just a few things I need to point out here.
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At the beginning, she mentions that she's the first mother in history to represent West
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Michigan.
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Okay, so good for you.
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So I guess that makes her especially qualified to advocate for infanticide.
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Like, what exactly is the point of pointing that out?
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And also, she mentions losing her daughter in a miscarriage, which, yes, is truly tragic.
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And as I've talked about on this show, that is something that has befallen a lot of people,
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including my wife.
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We lost two children before we had James, okay?
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So technically we have four kids, two of them are here with us and two of them we never
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got to meet.
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Very, very tragic.
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I feel terrible for her that she had to deal with that, but that literally has nothing
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at all to do with this bill at all.
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There is no moral or physical equivalence to a miscarriage and an attempted murder of
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an unborn child that leads to the murder of that child after the first murder attempt
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didn't go according to plan because that's what we're talking about.
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So I don't know what you're talking about.
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You only have a minute to address Congress and you wasted like a quarter of that being
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a moron.
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But the key quote here from her is this, "As a pro-choice Christian who chose life, this
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issue is so personal to me, my faith informs my actions, but it doesn't dictate the policy
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of an entire nation."
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So guys, this is her convoluted way of arguing that you can't legislate morality, right?
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You hear that from people all the time.
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It's usually people that are atheistic or leftist telling that to people that are evangelical
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or conservative or right-wing or something like that.
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You can't legislate your morality, but what these people don't understand and what really
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most people don't understand is all legislation is an enactment of someone's morality.
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Because that's how laws work.
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You advocate for something that you think is better for the general populace.
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Go back to when I was talking about it with pitfalls.
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You want to protect the society, the people within the society and you want to lead to
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human flourishing.
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That's what laws do, but you're always going to be advocating somebody's ideals of what
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is right and what is wrong, what is moral and what is immoral.
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Because that's how this works.
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But then she has the temerity to mention Jeremiah one five.
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So I read it from the top of the show, I knew you before I formed you and placed you in
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your mother's womb.
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And then she said, it doesn't say the government's womb, it doesn't say the speaker's womb.
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And then a little bit later, she says this, I believe life is precious, but I reject the
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idea that if I embrace the sanctity of life, I must also be forced to invite the federal
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government in to regulate it.
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So here's a request, please.
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Anyone that lives in Michigan, that's near her district or maybe in DC and knows where
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her office is, that that's listening to this right now.
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Can you please go to her office and inform her that murder is illegal in the United States
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and that the federal government regulates it?
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I must also be forced to invite the federal government in and regulate it.
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Yes, we regulate murder on a state level and a federal level that already exists.
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So I don't know what you people in her district were thinking when you voted for, but apparently
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she's not the brightest tool in the shed, okay?
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But now we need to go to just talk a little bit more about HR 26.
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Again, that's a born alive abortion survivors protection act because it was eventually voted
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on.
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There were other people that made public comments and things like that, which is fine.
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You know, they were fine, but I wanted to more so focus on what that lady was saying.
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But vote was done on the 11th, the bill passed 220 to 210 with one person voting as present.
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That was representative of in Cintagans, all as a Democrat of Texas and three Republicans
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abstaining only one Democrat, one voted in favor of a bill that would require that medical
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staff not sit by and watch as a newborn baby fights to stay alive.
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And that was representative Henry cooler of Texas.
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So credit where credit is due round of applause for Henry cooler for being apparently the
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only person in the Democratic party representing, you know, the house of representatives that
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understands that this is an easy one.
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That should be unanimously voted on and approved, okay?
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So I have some questions here.
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After this happened, where are all the, I want to be known for what I'm for, not what I'm
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against people right now?
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Where are they at?
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Because I remember being being told that we shouldn't get into things like that, that
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we should, you know, Jesus wouldn't have got into to this rigmarole, this, this government
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stuff.
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Right now, where are all the Christians shouldn't involve themselves in the culture wars people
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right now?
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Where are you?
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You've been very, very quiet.
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Where are the woke Christians?
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All the people that said, if I didn't post a black square during George Floyd summer,
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that I was a racist.
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Where are those people right now?
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Some of the same people that had nothing to say after Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood
27:30
v. Casey went the way of the trash bin, where are y'all at?
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You're constantly advocating for love and acceptance and protection of people and all
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these different things.
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What about the unborn?
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Where are you?
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Is it potentially that your feckless cowards that you only advocate for things when they
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align with your left of center worldview and then you try to sprinkle a little scripture
27:55
over the top of it?
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Where yet?
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So save me the pearl clutching about evangelical Christians supporting the Republican Party
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in America.
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Save it.
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Because I got a reminder for you, it's a Democratic Party in America that almost unanimously will
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vote against forcing would-be assassins, AKA abortion doctors, to try and save an infant
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born alive after a botched abortion.
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It's a Democratic Party in America that will not pass this bill in the Senate, and even
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if they did, the supposed leader of the Democratic Party, co-president Biden, would veto it immediately.
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It is the Democratic Party in America that advocates as their official party platform
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for abortion at any time up to the child's birth date for any reason and paid for 100%
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by taxpayer dollars.
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The Democratic Party in America is the party of death, and they continue to prove it over
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and over again.
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So where are you?
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Left-wing Christians, vote Christians.
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I want to be known for what I'm for, what I'm not what I'm against.
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Where are you?
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Do you have nothing to say about this?
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Your silence is deafening on this, but in all this, we need to go back to the label that
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Representative Hillary Shoulton gave herself, pro-choice Christian.
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So as intellectually honest human beings, we must ask ourselves, is such a title possible?
29:29
Would you accept a title that someone gives themselves like meat eating vegan or pro-war
29:36
pacifist or devout Muslim atheist?
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You can go on and on for days.
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Would you accept any of those titles?
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Would you question some of those titles?
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So letting God's word be our guide, which is always a good idea, let's go to the good
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book to see if we can find some justification for a Christian being pro the slaughter of
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unborn children, because these people, they're not all morons.
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I think they're morally bankrupt, but these are smart people.
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Certainly they would do better on the ACT and SAT than I would or some of you.
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Let's go to Scripture and see what Scripture has to say.
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So let's go to Genesis 1, verses 26 and 27.
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When God said, let us make man in our image after our likeness and let them have dominion
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over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over
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all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.
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So God created man in his own image.
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In the image of God, he created him, male and female, he created him.
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Okay.
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So humans are made in the images of God.
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This is not a great start.
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Okay.
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Genesis 9, verses 5 and 6.
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From his fellow man, I will require a reckoning for the life of a man, whoever sheds the blood
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of man by man, shall his blood be shed for God made man in his own image.
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Okay.
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This is getting worse.
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Exodus 20, 13, you shall not murder.
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Okay.
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Wish that wouldn't have been there.
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That's really hurt.
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My case here.
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Exodus 21 12, whoever strikes a man so that he dies shall be put to death.
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Okay.
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Why?
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Why is that such a big deal?
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If, you know, babies don't matter.
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Okay.
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Let's go to, let's go to the wisdom books.
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Okay.
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Let's go to Proverbs 6, verses 16 through 19.
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See if we can get a little bit of help here.
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There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him.
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Hotty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises
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wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies
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and one who sows discord among brothers.
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All right.
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This is going to be terrible.
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We're just going to go ahead and finish this because I'm just gosh, these pro-choice
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Christians.
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I'm having a hard time helping you out here.
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Jeremiah 1 again, four and five, we've, we've already heard this before.
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The word of the Lord came to me saying before I formed you in the womb, I knew you before
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you were born.
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I set you apart.
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I appointed you as a prophet to the nations, then we have Galatians 1 15, but when he had
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set me apart before I was born and who had called me to his grace, and then we'll wrap
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it up with Psalm 139 13, for you form my inward parts, you knitted me together in my mother's
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womb.
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God tell you guys, if you spend any time in the scriptures and you come away thinking,
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wait a minute, I can be a Christian.
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I can do this whole Christian thing.
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Yeah.
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One third day.
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Yeah, I'm all for that.
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Oh, yeah.
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By the way, we should definitely not protect people from murder.
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You can't do that.
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Guys, if you call yourself a pro-choice Christian, only one of two things can be true.
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Either number one, you are so gullible that you have allowed the culture of death to blind
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you and convince you of their arguments or two, you're simply not a Christian.
32:39
Because again, there are certain things and this is where people get into the argument
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about, oh, we just have disagreements and it goes back to the thing I said earlier, just
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because someone disagrees about one thing doesn't mean you dismissed them outright.
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But if you come away from a situation where murder is on the table and you go to the side
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of the ledger that says, yep, two thumbs up, I'm fine with that, then you don't understand
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the Christian worldview.
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So much so that it is evidence that you are not a Christian yourself.
33:07
Because again, I believe that you could potentially, I guess, be a Christian and then just be
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constantly fed these talking points by people that are anti the things of God and used by
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them, hook, line and sinker, you know, perhaps you learned it in a woke church or a leftist
33:22
church or a progressive church that's like, yeah, we want to be known for love and lilies
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and all this other stuff.
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And we don't want to talk about abortion.
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And now that the church isn't helping you form your opinions on this and give you a Judeo-Christian
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ethic as it pertains to that.
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So then you're going to go to culture and culture is obviously going to tell you one
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thing and only make one argument.
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But I would say for the majority of these people, they've completely deceived themselves.
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They actually think that they're a Christian, but then this also gets back to their people
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that think they are a Christian because they believe in a God.
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Yeah, I believe in God.
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And then you hear a lot of people that will thank God when they get an award or things
33:56
like that.
33:57
These are people that don't really like to mention Jesus.
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Jesus guy is a little weird.
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He turned over tables and saved people and brought dead people and made them alive again.
34:08
And then he did that whole dying on the cross thing and then he came back three days later
34:12
and hung out with a bunch of people.
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Yeah, I don't really know how to deal with that.
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So I'm just going to talk about God.
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Yeah, I believe in God.
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And then that just makes them a Christian somehow, a follower of Christ somehow.
34:23
So to be clear, if there are people in your life that align with what that representative
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from Michigan, Michigan says that their approach was Christian, whatever they say after that,
34:34
you can assume is nonsense.
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And I think it is incumbent upon you as a Christian to point out their folly.
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Because again, I'm reminded of Isaiah five, twenty, well to those who call evil good and
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good evil, because what this woman is advocating for, she's advocating for the slaughter of
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unborn infants and then the murder of infants, even after they're born outside of the mother's
34:56
womb, and she's basing it on her Christian morality, supposed Christian morality.
35:02
She's saying that this is a good thing and, you know, she, she looks like a mom, she's
35:06
got her glasses and she says it in a sweet voice and then people are going to buy it.
35:11
And so yes, as I said, you know, on a podcast earlier this year, you should be known for
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what you are for and what you are against.
35:18
If somebody in your life is talking in this way, it is incumbent upon you to sit them down
35:23
and explain to them why they are wrong.
35:26
Why you disagree?
35:27
Because this is not a matter of opinion.
35:29
This isn't why I think Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player ever.
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Well, I think LeBron James, the greatest basketball player ever.
35:34
That's probably not worth sitting down and having a conversation over because it's one
35:36
person's opinion versus another person's opinion.
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Opinion does not come into this at all.
35:41
It's either true that we need to protect unborn human beings because they are made in the image
35:45
of God and are worthy of our protection, or it's not.
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They're not.
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They're simply not humans that are worthy of protection.
35:54
There is no difference in opinion.
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There's only one side being right and one side being wrong.
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So again, just to wrap this up, woe to those who call evil good and good evil.
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Isaiah 5 20.
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