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So on the quick hitters today, we've got a bunch of quick hitters.
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This might be a little bit of a longer episode just because we've got a lot of interviews
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and forging tables coming up and some really, really awesome interviews that I can't really
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talk about yet.
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So we're kind of going to go like Trump, not Trump, Trump, not Trump, but I added one.
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Like that just happened.
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I added it right before recording and that's the he gets us not getting Jesus.
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Okay, so we're going to be talking about he gets us again.
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Then we're going to be talking about the United States Army shattering their recruiting record
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after Donald Trump was elected president, popular UFC fighter Bryce Mitchell, praising
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Hitler, president Trump signing an executive order banning men from women's sports, a French
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gynecologist being suspended for not providing medical treatment to a man pretending to be
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a woman, president Trump signing an executive order to establish a task force to eradicate
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anti Christian bias, Texas right to life recruiting men to take legal action against the women
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that killed their babies via abortion, president Trump choosing pastor, Paula White cane to
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lead the White House faith office and Gen Z rejecting atheism.
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So right from the beginning here, we need to ask a question and that's, is it possible
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for me to kick a gigantic hornet's nest two weeks in a row?
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And I would say you bet it is.
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Okay.
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So here goes nothing.
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Last week, I talk about Martin Luther King, Jr.
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And unless you talk about Martin Luther King, Jr. in the most glowing ways, you should not
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talk about Martin Luther King, Jr. at least that's what we've been told.
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And so I was like batten down the hatchets.
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I was ready for incoming last week as a pertain to the Martin Luther King episode.
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And just didn't come.
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Okay.
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So I don't know if people were bored or if people just didn't really feel like reaching
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out or if I just really threaded the needle there, but you know, I felt like I did a really
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good job.
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I felt like I really prepared for that episode.
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I felt like I was very, very fair, but I didn't get any of the backlash.
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So I'm going to try again this week because this week I'm going to be talking about women
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and combat roles in the military.
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So if you've listened to my show for any length of time, you've likely heard me give my opinion
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on this.
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But if you're new to the show, I won't leave you in suspense.
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Let me be clear from the beginning.
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Women should not serve in any combat roles in the military.
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Now, if we lived in a sane culture and a sane time, this would be one of the least controversial
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things that I could say and I wouldn't have to spend an entire monologue here at the beginning
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of the show talking about it, but we don't live in a sane culture, nor in a sane time.
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We live in a culture that has been marinating in this milieu of feminist ideology and propaganda
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and feckless male leaders for decades at this point, but my point remains the same and that's
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that women should not serve in any combat roles in the military.
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So the reason why I'm bringing this up now is because this debate has been sparked up
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again because of the black hawk helicopter that crashed into a passenger airliner in
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Washington DC on January the 29th, killing 64 people on the plane and three people in
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the helicopter.
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It has now been confirmed that the person piloting the black hawk helicopter was Captain Rebecca
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Lobach.
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She was 28 years old at the time of the accident.
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She was undergoing her annual night flight evaluation when she crashed her helicopter
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into an America Airlines bombardier CRJ 700 regional jet.
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National reports revealed that they were probably wearing night vision goggles and also that
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she was over a mile away from where she was supposed to be flying and flying at an altitude
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that was almost two times higher than she was supposed to be flying at.
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Also there are initial reports revealing that she was warned about being too close to the
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jet that she eventually crashed into.
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And here's the thing from the beginning.
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There were initially a lot of DEI commentary takes on this in the conservative blogosphere
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and I'd be lying if I said that I didn't at least initially think, "Oh my gosh, was this
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a female pilot?
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Was this a trans pilot?
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Was this a pilot?
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Shouldn't have been there?"
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That was one of my initial thoughts.
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And even President Trump said something about it whenever he was just casually talking with
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the media there in the Oval Office.
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But we can't be sure right now that this pilot was in that position because she was a woman.
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Okay?
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But that's not really the point that I want to make today.
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That's not really what I want to delve into.
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Because ultimately, I do care if Rebecca Lobak was in the position that she was in for
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the United States Army because of DEI policies and politics.
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Like I do care about that.
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But I actually want to discuss the more important point that she should have never been allowed
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to be a Black Hawk pilot to begin with.
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That's the more important point here.
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Now, before I go too far into the commentary, again, I want to kind of just come back a
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little bit.
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I want to make something very clear.
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I am absolutely heartbroken over the loss of life in this situation.
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I mean, 67 image bearers of God lost like boom in an instant, okay?
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It is clear that many mistakes were made by a bunch of different people and we should
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let the investigation come to fruition before placing final and ultimate blame.
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I'm for all that, okay?
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But it is clear that at least some of the blame falls on the shoulders of Rebecca Lobak.
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And that is not insensitive or immoral for me to say.
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It's just the truth at this point.
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She was piloting a helicopter when it ran into a plane in midair.
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So a helicopter has more maneuverability than a plane like she has more options and controls
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in this situation than the pilot of the plane surely had or anyone else for that matter.
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So two things can be true.
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Once this could be an absolutely, you know, just tragic accident and this accident could
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and should have been prevented.
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But we will see as time will tell in terms of the best investigation.
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So I want us to pull back even another layer here out of all the individual details of
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the situation and consider a foundational societal question, okay?
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Should our women be fighting our wars?
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Should our women be fighting our wars?
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Now the reason this is important is because since as a society, we have decided that yes,
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indeed women should be fighting our wars, that puts women like Rebecca Lobak in the pilot
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seat in an aircraft that's designed for war.
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Now this might strike some people as odd because Lobak was not at war at the time that she crashed
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her helicopter into an airplane full of civilians, but she was doing her annual night evaluation
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flight in an aircraft that was designed for has been and is used in war.
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Thus we can all surmise that if duty called whether in a foreign land or right here on
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our own soil, Rebecca Lobak likely would have been tasked with flying that aircraft in a
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combat situation.
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So we need to stop and talk about the Black Hawk helicopter for a second, okay?
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Because there are a lot of uses for a Black Hawk helicopter, but there are some major
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primary uses for that in a military context.
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One is tactical troop transport, okay?
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So you could actually argue that that is the primary use of a Black Hawk over and above
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all the other uses is transporting infantry soldiers into combat zones quickly.
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Also, it's used for medevac, okay?
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So when someone takes incoming fire or there's someone that's been wounded or blown up or
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something like that, this is the person that is going to land this helicopter so that that
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person can be loaded up and taken to the surgery center or something like that to try to save
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life, right?
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So medevac.
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Also search and rescue.
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So if someone's been lost in, you know, war zone or something like that and we need
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to kind of get them out of there, the Black Hawk can be used for that.
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Also special operation support.
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So these are those covert, you know, insertion and extraction missions that a lot of us have
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gotten used to.
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And really like the stories of or have seen in movies and things like that, the Black
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Hawk is used for that.
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Also close air support.
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So this is where they are providing suppressing fire during insertion or extraction, okay?
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So this will be loaded up with different, you know, artillery or different, you know,
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automatic machine guns, things like that.
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Like, they'll be loaded up on the aircraft for close air support and also cargo transport.
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So resupply drops into combat zones, you know, kind of getting, you know, the useful supplies
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where they need to go.
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Those are all uses, primary uses of the Black Hawk helicopter.
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And do you know what all of those Black Hawk uses have in common?
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They all take place in combat zones, all of them.
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The training almost always doesn't take place in a combat zone, but you're doing the training
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in non combat zone so that you can do the things with that helicopter that you need
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to do when you are in a combat zone.
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So I'm bringing all this up because at this point, any sane person knows full well that
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women should not be in special operations.
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So they shouldn't be seals.
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They shouldn't be SF.
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They shouldn't be Marine recon.
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They shouldn't be, you know, any of that.
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And they also shouldn't be in infantry roles.
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Okay.
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So that's just super easy to understand because women obviously in general, right?
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So I'm using all women and all men right here.
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They have physical limitations that men don't have, right?
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So a 120 pound woman can't carry an 80 pound pack and pull a 200 pound guy with his 80
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pound pack out of the line of fire.
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It's just not really something that any woman in existence can do.
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Also there's issues with how men respond when women are around in a military situation or
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just in general, like obviously men start to kind of peacock.
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They start, they start to show off a little bit.
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They start to do things that they would normally do if they were only surrounded by men.
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There's this a natural innate sheep dog protection mechanism that happens in a lot of men that
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are naturally over protecting of women and children.
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And if you have a woman that's in a military context in your unit or something like that,
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that becomes an issue.
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There's the obvious sexual tension that you see or even sexual abuse or things like that
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that happen when women are there and around.
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But the thing is that some people have never actually reckoned with the fact that women
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are still in combat roles, even if they're not in one of the roles that puts you so close
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to the enemy that you can smell them, right?
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We think, oh, well, there's not any women in the Navy SEALs and there's not, you know,
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we don't hear stories about infantry, marine, women, you know, going around and kicking
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indoors.
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So they're not really in combat roles, right?
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But you know, as we can see, if you're flying a black helicopter, you are in a combat role.
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And this leads us back to our main question of consideration today, which is should our
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women be fighting our wars?
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And I wholeheartedly say no, but I do want to elucidate my position and explain it.
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And I'm going to do it in a couple of different ways and the first way that I'm going to do
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it is in a completely secular way.
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And then I'm going to get into some biblical ways to defend my position.
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So just looking strictly in a secular way right now, I do not think that women should
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be in combat roles because women are not physically suited for combat.
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Again, I could do a full biological breakdown of the differences in, you know, bone density
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and upper body mass and overall strength and, you know, size of the organs and the way blood
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most of the body and all those types of things, but I think at the end of the day, most people
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know that men in general are way better suited for battle for combat than women are.
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I think that we just kind of know that at this point.
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Also I do not think that women should be in combat roles because including women in combat
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roles inevitably leads to the lowering of physical and performance standards, which lessens
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the overall readiness of the military.
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So perhaps you've heard about different standards physically for men in the Marine Corps, as
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opposed to women in the Marine Corps, at which you might rightly think, well, why don't we
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just have one standard for being a Marine?
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Like why do we need to lower the standard so that we can have certain people with ponytails
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get into the military or get into this part of the Marine Corps as opposed to just having
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a single standard?
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Also I do not think that women should be in combat roles because women are naturally,
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again, not talking about all women, right, I'm not using this as a pejorative, but women
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in general are naturally more nurturing and life-giving, which is literally antithetical
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to the business of killing people and breaking stuff, which those are the two main jobs of
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any good military.
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Talk to anyone that's been in the military, been in military leadership.
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You want to effectively kill people and break stuff because that's how you win wars.
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And women innately are not wired for that.
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And also lastly on the kind of secular side of things, I do not think that women should
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be in combat roles because our enemies don't put women in combat roles, right?
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Like why in the world would we choose to be weaker than China or Russia or any of our
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main adversaries who don't choose to put women in these combat roles?
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Like why in the world would we do that?
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What's the wisdom there?
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But now we need to look at this as we try to do with the show in a lot of different areas
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in a biblical way, in a biblical lens.
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So I do not think that women should be in combat roles because God did not design them
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for combat.
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So if we all go all the way back to Genesis two, so verse 18, then the Lord's God said,
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it was not good that the man should be alone.
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I will make him a helper fit for him, okay?
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So Eve woman was created from the rib of Adam man to help man.
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That's what she was there for to provide a cover of his side, right?
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To be at his side, her place though is not next to him in war.
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Her place is back home and don't think that this is some sort of like trad wife rant that
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I'm going to go on like, all right, if you're not barefoot and pregnant and wearing an apron
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and making sourdough, that somehow you're not doing it right now.
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That's not what I'm saying.
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But her place is not next to her man in battle, okay?
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That's just not what she was made for.
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Also biblically speaking, I do not think that women should be in combat roles because the
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Bible depicts and prescribes frankly, for men to do the war fighting.
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So if we go to the book of numbers one, verses two and three, take a census of all the congregation
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of the people of Israel by clans by Father's houses, according to the number of names every
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male head by head from 20 years old and upward, all in Israel who are able to go to war and
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you and Aaron shall list them company by company.
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So obviously only men were considered for military service.
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We see that model there in numbers.
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Then if we go to Deuteronomy 20, we see that God is giving instructions for warfare and
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who is God addressing?
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He's addressing men, not women.
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And then some people, you know, if you dig into some of the research and arguments here,
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some people will ask about Deborah or they'll mention Deborah as having leadership and war
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is described in the book of Judges.
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But guys, it's described in the book of Judges.
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It's not prescribed again.
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This is the problem when you read the Bible just in like little snippets and you don't
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take any regard for who was this written for?
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What was this written about?
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Like what was going on in this exact moment because in Judges, Barack should she should
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have led, but he hesitated and Deborah stepped up, but that was not God's intended order.
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Like Deborah was doing that because Barack was not doing his job.
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So she felt like, well, someone's got to step up, but that's not what God had in mind, right?
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I also do not think that women should be in combat roles because God says through scripture
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that women when rightly ordered should be nurturers and caregivers.
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Okay.
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So Titus two versus four and five and so train the young women to love their husbands and
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children to be self controlled, pure working at home, kind and submissive to their own husbands
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that the word of God may not be reviled.
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And then the first Timothy five verse 14.
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So I would have younger widows, marry, bear children, manage their households and give
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the adversary no occasion for slander again.
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This is not my rant that all women should stay home.
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I know there are some guys out there in the kind of hyper reformed, hypercaliveness side
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of things that just think, all right, if you if you're not at home doing the home thing
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that you're you're not basically you're sinning, and I'm just not in that camp.
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But again, when we see women described in terms of their roles and responsibilities,
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it's in a nurturing caregiver kind of a way.
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I also do not think that women should be in combat roles because God says through scripture
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that it is the man's role to physically protect women and children, not the other way around.
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Okay.
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So as you know, by now, if you listen to this show or the Daily Blade, I'm obsessed with
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Nehemiah.
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I love the I'd love that entire Old Testament book, but especially the first four chapters
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in a Nehemiah four versus 14, this is Nehemiah talking, and I looked in her rows and said
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to the nobles and to the officials and to the rest of the people, did not be afraid
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of them.
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Remember the Lord who is great and awesome and fight for your brothers, your sons, your
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daughters, your wives and your homes.
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Who is Nehemiah talking to?
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The men.
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He was not talking to everyone.
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He was talking specifically to the men.
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So God designed men with innate physical, emotional and psychological capacity for taking
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human life.
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Now you might say, well, what about these men that have taken human life or have seen human
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life be taken and they come home, they're all jacked up, you know, it was shell shock
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and then it's like PTSD and then now just PTS, we don't want to use the, you know, disorder
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part of it.
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Like whatever you're, you're chosen modality to describe the situation, men are innately
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better suited for the taking of human life when it's righteous and they're suited even
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in unrighteous causes, but it's designed for us to do that in a righteous way.
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Women are not.
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So to summarize these points, God designed man, God designed woman and he created men
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and women as equals, but he gave them different roles and responsibilities and it is neither
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the role nor the responsibility of women to fight in war because God did not design them
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for it, nor call them to it.
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That's the summary.
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So should women be allowed to fight in combat roles in the military?
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No, I don't think that they should and neither does God.
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And then you might ask, you know, so do I think that women should be able to be in the
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military at all, to which point I would say absolutely 100%.
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There is a school of thought that's kind of in my vein where it's like, no, women shouldn't
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be even tangentially attached to the military because the military is ultimately in the
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business of killing people and breaking stuff and women shouldn't do that.
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But I don't think that way.
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I think it is appropriate for women to serve in logistical and organizational roles, state
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side or overseas on bases and stuff like that, but they should never be personally involved
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in missions that take place outside the wire.
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They should never be personally involved in the missions that are taking human lives.
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And then, you know, there's some other quick considerations.
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Like I had one buddy bring up what about drone pilots and I had actually thought about that.
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No, I don't, I don't think so, even though, you know, if you're a drone pilot, you're
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basically playing a video game and killing terrorists, right?
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Like in real life, but it's not called duty terrorists.
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It's like real, real terrorists, right?
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But they should not be killing people.
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Okay.
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And then this even stretches out to should women train MMA and there's guys in this world
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that are like women should not do jujitsu.
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They should not do Western boxing.
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They shouldn't do any of those things.
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I vehemently disagree with that.
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I think they absolutely should train.
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Yes.
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Are they at an automatic disadvantage if they are being assaulted by a man?
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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Like one of the main guys I was saying this online.
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This guy is probably five foot eight, 140 pounds, maybe tiny, little, little weakling
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of a guy.
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I, there are two girls at the top off the top of my head at my gym three, actually, now
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that I think about it, three purple bell females that I guarantee you, if this guy came under
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the mat, they would get some, he would smash them to pee or sorry.
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They would smash him to pieces.
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They would absolutely destroy him, absolutely control him because they train.
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And so if there was a guy his size, I was trying to assault one of those girls, it'd
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be a bad day for that guy for the most part, right?
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So I don't really get into all those arguments.
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But ultimately guys, when a society, like ours decides to allow their women to fight
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their wars, it's indicative of a foundational sickness that will eventually cause the entire
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society to crumble to the ground.
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Right?
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I mentioned last week like Camille Packley, who's definitely not dead, right, who's definitely
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not dead, she is obsessed with setting the end of these great civilizations and these
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people just, they get obsessed with, you know, gender roles and equality and sex and transgenderism
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and like the blending of roles and all those types of things.
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And that's where we're at.
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Again, we've just been marinating in this.
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And so it's indicative of a foundational sickness that has to be eradicated.
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But perhaps my biggest point is we wrap up here on this first part.
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Women should not risk their lives so that men might live.
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And is that it's disordered guys, women should not risk their lives so that men might live.
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And here's the thing, we know this innately, we already know this, we just don't really
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feel like we can say it out loud because of our current cultural moment.
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But if you said this a hundred years ago, right, well, you know, what was the big feminist
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movement, the biggest push for like second way, what was that the 1960s, let's just go
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back to the 1800s and anytime before that, if you were to say something like women should
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not risk their life so that men might live, every single people group on the plan would
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be like, yeah, yeah, why are we talking about this?
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I don't really understand what the point is.
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But that's where we're at.
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And so for us, I think that we should look at this, but not just through a secular lens,
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lens through a biblical lens.
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And then we should use this as our, I guess, scaffolding for how we're going to build
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our society.
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I know it's not going to be popular with everybody, but it just is the way that it is.
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Hey, guys, real quick.
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All right, guys, let's get into the quick hitters here.
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So let's get into the He Gets Us ad because I don't think that He Gets Us Gets Jesus.
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So it's that time of year again, at least it was this past Sunday, right?
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So it's Super Bowl Sunday this year, the Super Bowl, and kind of all the festivities
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around it were pretty uneventful.
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So the game was an absolute complete blowout because again, I don't really follow the NFL
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with all the end races and all that bull crap.
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But I just kept seeing where the Kansas City Chiefs were escaping these games.
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They kept, at least according to armchair quarterbacks on Twitter, they kept escaping
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with wins.
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But apparently they got absolutely exposed.
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They were not an elite level team, Philadelphia Eagles just absolutely destroyed them.
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And then the National Anthem, I forget the guy's name, I'll top my head, but it was a guy
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from New Orleans or something like that.
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It was mad.
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I mean, it started off really lame and it was real jazzy and most of the world's on
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end of jazz and then when it really gets it, then it got kind of powerful and then it got
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weird again.
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And then at the end, it's like, oh, it's powerful, but then he just wouldn't just end
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the song.
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And I'm a big fan of just like, just sing the National Anthem, just sing it.
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Don't make it, you know, needlessly long.
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The goat of all national anthems is still Chris Stapleton, miss me with all that Whitney
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Houston stuff.
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Guys, she recorded that rendition, right?
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And then she lip synced it live, okay?
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So had she sang it live, she might still be number one, but Chris Stapleton still has
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the crown as far as I go.
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The only good thing about redeeming thing about the National Anthem is they did so show Donald
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Trump during the National Anthem.
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He was saluting and the crowd absolutely went insane.
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So of course they did, because, you know, he's awesome and people actually like him now.
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You're actually allowed to like him.
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The halftime show was like super duper boring.
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I remember when they announced Kendrick Lamar, I was like, okay, like, I've always felt like
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Kendrick Lamar was like super overrated.
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Kendrick Lamar is like the rap manifestation of a movie that no one really likes, but they
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pretend to like it so that they don't seem weird, right?
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So I feel like it's like Godfather, like Godfather and Godfather Part 2, those movies
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are terrible.
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They're not good.
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I rewatched them like a year ago.
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They're super boring.
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It's six hours to basically say that, all right, you know, if you live long enough, you'll
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see yourself become the bad guy that was one line in the dark night and somehow took,
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you know, these guys with the Godfather, Godfather, six hours to tell that story.
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But if you say that the Godfather is not good, you're like a terrible person.
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So I feel like he's that.
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But it was just super boring.
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Even my wife who doesn't know who Kendrick Lamar is, she's like, the dancing wasn't even
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good.
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I was like, yeah, dancing wasn't good.
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It just wasn't really that interesting.
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And then like here we are, you know, a few days in and no one's really talking about any
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of the commercials.
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I mean, Nike kind of made a woke commercial like, oh, you know, women can do everything.
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It's kind of feminist nonsense commercial. And then there was some commercial about some
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girl that was like beating all the boys and, you know, flag football.
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It's like, okay, we'll put a helmet and pads on her and see how well she would have done.
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So but no one's really talking about anything.
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But it is that time each year where an organization called he gets us, spends millions and millions
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of dollars to apparently not point people to Jesus.
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So last year's commercial was very overtly woke in a lot of different ways.
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It struck a lot of Christians as, you know, very, very bad and like, you know, what is this
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happening and all that?
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But then I was reliably informed by some people that would know, some people that had met
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with the guys over at he gets us and they're like, look, man, that he gets us their point
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is not for the conservative Christians.
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It's not for church people.
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They're going after people that are Christ curious people that are the sea Christians
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as just these bigoted, fascistic, you know, Trump loving magga people or something like
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that.
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And so it's like, hey, pump the brakes.
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You know, he gets us, you know, don't, don't just say that they suck out, right?
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Don't be fair.
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Say cool.
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Just like give them a chance.
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Like that type of thing.
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But I didn't really, I don't know if I talked about this on the show.
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I actually went through the he gets us process last year.
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I pretended to not be me, right?
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I didn't lie, but I was, you know, kind of cagey about who I was.
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And I kind of went through their process because I was reliably informed that they were going
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to be funneling people to Bible believing expository preaching gospel center churches.
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And so I just pretended that I was going to, I just pretended that I, you know, I didn't
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pretend I lived in Jacksonville, I said, Hey, I'm in Jacksonville quite a bit for business,
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which is true.
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Can you lead me to any churches that I might go to?
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And you might think, well, how about, you know, the biggest church in Jacksonville, one
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of the fastest growing churches in Jacksonville, which is discipleship gospel and biblically
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centered and has expository preaching and that's the church of 1122, Joey's church.
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That wasn't on the list of churches that they gave me.
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So you're like, wondering like, how exactly are they, you know, vetting these churches
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and where, where are they getting their philosophy and certainly what's their theology?
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And so it's just kind of all over the place.
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And so he gets us as a mess.
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But as I told you all last year, it's like, okay, let's pump the brakes.
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Let's just hope that they're actually doing what they're setting out to do.
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So let's go and look at the commercial that they spent several million dollars to show
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this year at the Super Bowl.
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Let's go to the clip here.
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♪ You're on personal Jesus ♪
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♪ Someone to hear your prayers, someone who's there ♪
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♪ Feeling unknown, and you're all alone, flesh and bones by the telephone ♪
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♪ Lift up the receiver, I'll make you a believer ♪
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♪ Reach out and touch faith ♪
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♪ Reach out and touch faith ♪
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Okay.
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So if you're confused after watching that, which again, I mean, if you're only listening
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to this, you should really watch it on YouTube and Rumble, which by the way, you found out
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the Rumble thing.
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It wasn't posting for like a year.
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We're not going to go back and post all those on Rumble, so just keep up with us from this
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point out.
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But you really do need the visuals with this one, you know, just hearing Johnny Cash sing
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isn't going to be, you know, big enough for you.
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But let's go ahead and break down the commercial.
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So the music is Johnny Cash's cover of The Depesh Mode song, Personal Jesus.
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There's nothing wrong with that song, you know, I like Johnny's version of it, so let's
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get into the ad itself.
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So it starts with the question, again, you should go look at it or, you know, we'll make
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sure it's in the show notes so you guys can check it out, or just go to hegetsus.com,
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you can watch it right there, hegetsus.com.
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So it starts out with this question, and it's right there on the screen, it says, "What
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is greatness?"
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Then it just goes to a bunch of different pictures.
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So it's Four Men helping push a car that's stuck in the snow.
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That's fine.
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That's a fighter going up the stairwell while other people are evacuating down it.
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So that's fine.
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An organ donor sitting next to his organ recipient.
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That's fine.
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Two women, one black, one white holding hands and laughing.
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That's fine.
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A woman helping another woman out of a car after a car crash, and that's fine.
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And at this point in the commercial, you're about 18 seconds in, and you would only really
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know that this is probably he gets us commercial because you would be familiar with the font
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that's used, and then they use the color yellow for highlight purposes on certain things.
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So at this point, I was like, "Okay, I think this is a he gets us sad," but then it takes
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a bit of a turn, which you probably would have expected.
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So back to the pictures.
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You have a guy power washing spray paint off a wall that says, "Go back," and I'm like,
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"Okay, I think we know what that's supposed to depict."
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And then we see a man, for some reason, sitting on the floor at a grocery store aisle sobbing
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while another woman, presumably a stranger, consults him, it's like, "Okay."
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And then there's a guy wearing a John 3/16 hat, hugging a gay man in the middle of a pride
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parade.
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So I'm like, "Okay, here we go."
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And then we see a black cop consoling a Hispanic woman, for some reason, okay, we could probably
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imply what that's about.
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Then we have an elderly man holding the hand of an elderly woman, presumably his wife,
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while she lays on the couch.
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That's fine.
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And then we see a woman crying while on a phone call, fine.
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We see a football player consoling a football player from the other team after a loss, fine.
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A guy dressed up as a superhero outside the window of a children's hospital room.
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That was awesome.
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Then we have a guy carrying a ladder down a street after a natural disaster, and there's
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like a dog walking there, then there's, you know, that's all fine.
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And we have a guy in a wheelchair that's crowd surfing, that's fine.
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Then we have a guy giving a homeless man a beer train, fine.
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Okay.
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Then we get these words on the screen.
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Jesus showed us what greatness really is.
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He gets us, all of us, hegetsus.com.
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So just objectively speaking here, just objectively speaking from the outset, this commercial
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sucked.
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Like, is it okay to say that?
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Like it had the words Jesus in it, but it just sucked.
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I mean, it had music, had images, but it made no sense.
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So again, you go from, what is greatness?
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You see a bunch of photos of random people doing random stuff, but then, you know, your
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big moment where you give, you know, the point of your commercial, your call to action is
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Jesus showed us what greatness really is.
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He gets us, all of us, hegetsus.com.
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Like what?
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Like what?
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Again, you're just kind of stuck wondering what the point is.
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Okay.
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So even though the commercial itself was junk, even though the call to action was junk and
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as a, as a marketing guy, as a content creator, it's like your call to action has to be punchy
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and it has to be clear, I went ahead and went to the, the website, okay?
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Just to see if it was going to point people to the gospel of Jesus Christ in a clear way,
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because again, I was reliably informed that that's what they're here to do.
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So you go to hegetsus.com and then one of the first boxes that, you know, prompts you to
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click on is one that says, learn more about greatness, okay, whatever that means, which
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takes you to a YouTube video with a guy talking.
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I mean, literally just like scrolls you down like, you know, half a page and it takes you
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to this clip.
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So I'm going to show the full clip here.
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There's our obsession with greatness actually fueling our dissatisfaction is like we think
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being great will somehow solve all our problems.
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If we work hard enough, if we just focus our efforts in the right direction, we'll find
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the fulfillment we've been looking for.
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To be great needs to be celebrated superior content to be happy, but right now, most
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of us aren't.
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He gets us spent weeks traveling across the country, find out why, why we're so divided,
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anxious, isolated, and frustrated.
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Most of us are sick of the state of our lives and our world, and it seems like our desire
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for greatness is leading us a little bit empty, at the very least, we don't feel great.
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But if you look at the teachings of Jesus, you start to uncover a different way of thinking
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about greatness, a pursuit that has nothing to do with our achievements, our reputation,
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or our superiority, Jesus showed us that our greatness is measured in how we care for others,
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how we serve people in need or in pain.
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He showed that the greatest thing we could be is a humble servant, sacrificing our own
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desires for others.
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What would the world look like if we all pursued that kind of greatness?
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How great would that be?
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Okay, so let's break that down.
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The guy that's in this video says that many of us think that if we pursue greatness, that
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it will lead to us feeling celebrated and superior and content and happy, which it doesn't,
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you know, I completely agree.
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I think everyone knows that at this point.
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Then he says that he gets us spent weeks traveling the country to find out why we're
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so divided, anxious, isolated, and frustrated, which I guess means that they get money from
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USAID because that seems like a tremendous waste of money and time.
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I mean, you don't need to globetrot to know that people are divided, anxious, isolated,
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and frustrated.
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Okay.
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So you could have hopped on a zoom call with me and I could have told you that, but okay.
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So then the guy says that our pursuit of greatness is leaving us empty, which ultimately it does
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agree.
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Okay.
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I think some of us pursue it and we figure that out eventually, right?
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So at this point, you can sense in this video that it's going to provide some kind of solution
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to that emptiness, right?
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Like there's got to be a turn somewhere than this.
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But if you look at the teachings of Jesus, you start to uncover a different way of thinking
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about greatness.
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So you know, at this point, my ears perk up, as you can imagine.
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So if you look at the gospels, at least according to he gets us, you're going to uncover a different
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way of thinking about greatness.
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Okay.
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So let's get to the greatness, right?
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Jesus showed us that our greatness is measured in how we care for others, how we serve people
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in need or in pain.
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He showed us the greatest thing that we could be is a humble servant, sacrificing our own
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desires for others.
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And that's pretty much it.
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That's the follow up video to the dumb commercial.
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That's the thing they wanted you to see if you bothered to go to their website, right?
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So you got kind of your click funnel that they plan out.
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It's like, okay, we're going to spend millions of dollars on this commercial and then boom,
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they're going to go to our website.
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And then here's the thing.
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That was it.
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Now, at this point, you might be thinking rightly that the main point of the gospel, which is
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a word that they didn't care to use in either of those videos, by the way, doesn't seem
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to be that we should be a humble servant, but that it took Jesus taking on all of our
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sin into gravity and dying on our behalf so that we could be made right in the eyes of
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God the Father.
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Like that's what we get from the gospels.
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But hey, hey, remember, I said right last year, I said that we need to be patient, right?
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We had to have a wait and see approach with he gets us.
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So surely, surely we're two videos in at this point, right?
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We've already scrolled the website.
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There would be another video that provided an explicit gospel presentation and message,
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right?
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Well, no, I mean, not really.
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I mean, you keep clicking around the website, you keep scrolling the main page.
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And there's a few random clicks later.
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I get to an image that has a little blurb about greatness sees the unseen and at the
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end of the blur, at the very, very end, if you make it all the way there, there's a reference
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to Luke 529 through 32.
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Okay.
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So let me actually read that here.
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And Levi made him a great feast in his house and there was a large company of tax collectors
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and others reclining at the table with them.
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And the Pharisees in their scribes grumbled at his disciples saying, "Why do you eat and
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drink with tax collectors and sinners?"
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And Jesus answered them, "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who
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are sick.
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I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
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Okay.
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So that's the first reference to repentance that we see in this whole, you know, ClickFunnel
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line.
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Okay.
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So we've got, you would think at this point, so we've got to get the full gospel call video
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now, at least, right?
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We've clicked around.
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I mean, we're well in, we're well into this process now.
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There has to be something in this entire ClickFunnel that gives us a description of our need
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for a savior specifically because we can't save ourselves.
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That's got to be coming, right?
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And that's a big, fat, nope, nope.
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You continue scrolling and then it just goes to an explore more section that just has past
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articles.
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And at this point, even I got bored with the entire process.
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Like I clicked on the top right and looked at the drop down list and, okay, it's about
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us and contact and more information and all kind of stuff.
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And like, here I am.
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I'm trying to fervently get to bedrock on this situation so that I can bring it to you guys.
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And as a content creator, I've got to take things to bedrock and I got bored.
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So here are my main problems with this latest ad from he gets us overall.
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First one, they seemingly can't grasp probably the most simple and brilliant and best piece
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of marketing advice I've ever heard, which is this.
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If you confuse, you lose.
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That's the game that marketing is.
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If you confuse people, you lose.
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If people don't know what you offer and how they can get it and how it's going to make
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their life better, right, those three things, then you're screwed.
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You're not going to sell anything.
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You're not going to sell any widgets.
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You're not going to sell any services.
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So I, you know, we get that if you confuse, you lose from a business made simple and marketing
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made simple and a story brand and all those types of guys.
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So Donald Miller and his, his crew over there.
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But one thing they talk about is something called a grunt test.
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And the grunt test is basically you should be able to go up to anybody in, you know, random
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coffee shop, have your homepage of your website on your website and say, look, I'm going to
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open up my laptop.
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It's on the homepage of my website.
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You have five seconds to look at it and you should be able to answer like, what do I make?
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How can you get it and how will it make my life better?
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And you open it up five seconds, close it.
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And they should be able to at least caveman like like grunt back to you what it is that
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you do.
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Like basic marketing, basic, you know, story branding and framing out a website, right?
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But they just, they just don't do it.
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Like I think they're trying to be too cute.
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They're trying to be in the ethereal and the, the imagistic and all these different things
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and they don't just get to the point and they need to grasp that.
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Another reason, you know, another issue I have with this latest ad is that this group
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claims again, he gets us claims to make content.
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They don't say this publicly, but they've said it in private meetings with people that
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I know that have been in these meetings, they, they try to capture the attention of the
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Jesus curious folks, right?
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So not church folks, not, you know, Christian conservatives, right?
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But then they don't point to the gospel, like, because here's thing, if they're really going
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after non-Christians, non-church folks, then you can't assume in your messaging that those
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people you're targeting know what you mean by Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, or by the writings
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of Jesus, the teachings of Jesus.
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You can't assume that when you say the teachings of Jesus, that any of these people know where
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to find that, like, you can't assume that they even know what they need to repent of.
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There's something called the curse of knowledge.
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And so when, have you ever studied for a test, right?
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And then you're exhausted physically afterwards and you're like, I didn't even move.
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I just sat here at this desk.
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It's because your brain burns more calories than anything on your body.
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And so if you're listening to a presentation or you're consuming something and you can't
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keep up, you're just going to be exhausted and eventually your brain is going to turn
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off, right?
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So if I'm at an event, right, and let's say I'm, you know, I'd invent with a bunch of
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baseball coaches and I start using like baseball lingo, I'm talking about launch angle and shifts
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and, you know, different things like that.
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Everyone there knows what I'm talking about.
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So they're going to be following along with me.
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But let's say I get up and give that same presentation to a room full of like scientists
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that have never watched baseball, they're going to be exhausted, right?
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Because I'm not speaking their language.
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But again, you can't assume that these people know what they need to repent of.
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So it's just an epic fail if indeed they're trying to reach that audience, right?
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But also they seem to be more concerned with pointing people towards a social gospel and
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not the gospel.
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That was like drippingly apparent with last year's nonsense commercial because all the
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imagery was basically put through a Marxist lens of standpoint of epistemology and a critical
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theory, critical race theory.
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Feminism like it was just it was just nonsense.
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This year it was more subtle, but it's like it really our job is to be a humble servant.
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Like that's that's the whole point of the gospel.
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Like that that's it.
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So I've got a couple of big takeaways here on this before we move on.
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He gets us might get us, but they seemingly don't get Jesus at all.
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I mean, and they certainly are taking a very confusingly circuitous route towards introducing
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people to Jesus.
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Again, I wanted more information and I got exhausted going through their process.
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So I know who their marketing people are over there, but it's like, you got to fire these
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people.
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Like you're not actually helping get people pointed to Jesus again last year.
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I went all the way through their process.
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I went to these like zoom calls with other people and like, okay, I just sat there and
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kind of dealt with the whole situation and gave my feedback and okay, can you point me
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to a church now and eventually got around to pointing me to churches that weren't even
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like the biggest and best gospel believing churches in the cities, right?
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And my second big takeaway and last one here is at some point for the love of God, literally,
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he gets us has to preach the true gospel, which will be offensive.
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It seems like he gets us is very comfortable with offending Christian conservatives, right?
43:17
Church people, but they don't want to offend people who the gospel should offend.
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They don't seem to have the stomach for it.
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Again, the way we preach the gospel should not be offensive, but the gospel itself is
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offensive because it tells you you are not enough.
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But in our modern day, everyone's special.
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Everyone's precious.
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Everyone is enough.
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That's one of the mantras you're supposed to say into the mirror every morning is you
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are enough.
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You are good enough.
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He's not good enough for you.
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Like that's what we're supposed to do in the mirror, right?
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But that is completely antithetical to what the gospel even is.
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So guys, I swear to goodness at this point, I doubt anyone with he gets us is even still
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listening to this, but if you're going to point people to Jesus, you can't point people
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to Jesus, the moral teacher, you can't point people to Jesus, the, you know, vagabond,
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nomadic hippie, you have to point them to the Jesus, the Lamb of God that had to be slain
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so that we could become so that he became righteousness, right?
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Like, I mean, he became sin on our behalf so that we could have the righteousness of God
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in him, right?
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And if we don't focus on that, and if we don't do that, we're not presenting the real gospel.
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If you want people to get Jesus, show them the real Jesus.
44:29
Our next quick hitter here, the United States Army shattering the recruiting record after
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Donald Trump was elected.
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So according to the New York Post on February the 5th, the United States Army recently announced
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it shattered previous recruiting records with December 2024 being the most productive December
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in 15 years.
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The branch reported enlisted nearly 350 soldiers every day that month.
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The officials announced Tuesday on social media, bottom line, America's youth.
44:51
This is actually a tweet from real Donald Trump, America's youth want to serve under
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the bold and strong America first leadership of President Donald Trump.
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Actually, I think that was from Pete hexa.
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Okay.
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So the American youth certainly want to do that.
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So in the new ads that we're seeing, we're seeing like young people like doing like awesome
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stuff, we're seeing young men shooting guns and breaking stuff and working out and doing
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all these types of things.
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Those are the ads that we're seeing now, okay?
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And don't you know it, people want to join in on that fight.
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So the big takeaway here is it's amazing what happens when you stop focusing on a diverse
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military and just start focusing on two things.
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The two things that are military supposed to do.
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We've already talked about in this episode, kill people, break stuff.
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Was it take to kill people and break stuff?
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A lot of really awesome training.
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That's what it takes.
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And so people want to serve under a Trump administration, they want to serve under a
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Pete hexa led department of defense.
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They don't want to serve if we have squishy ideas about American strength across the
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globe.
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So if we keep that up, we're probably going to start solving our recruiting crisis that
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we're having in the United States military.
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Our next quick hitter here, popular UFC fighter Bryce Mitchell praising Hitler.
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So this is according to CNN on February the 5th, UFC president Dana White slammed American
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fighter Bryce Mitchell after the 30 year old made several antisemitic homophobic and transphobic
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comments during a podcast in which he also praised Hitler and a long rambling podcast,
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the fighter known as Thugnasty called Hitler a good guy and made a series of homophobic
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and anti-Semitic remarks explaining his beliefs to his co-host that Hitler was actually fighting
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for Germany's people.
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He also denied that the Holocaust was real.
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This is, you know, quote from Bryce Mitchell here.
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I honestly think Hitler was a good guy based on my own research, not my public education
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and indoctrination.
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I really do think Hitler got on meth.
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He was a guy go fishing with.
46:43
However, despite saying he was beyond disgusted with Mitchell's comments, Dana White confirmed
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the UFC would not punish the fighter, the fighter citing free speech.
46:52
So Bryce Mitchell has said a lot of kind of crazy things.
46:55
Sometimes it's funny.
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Sometimes, you know, he's a flat earth guy, you know, he came out to, you know, one of
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his fights with the Bible and he's basically screaming, holding the Bible up.
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And so he at least is like tangentially connected to the scriptures in some way, but then obviously
47:06
praising Hitler, not a good look, you know, good fighter was undefeated for a long time.
47:10
Then he's kind of had some losses, a really terrible loss of Josh and there was some funny
47:13
memes going around of, you know, when Josh and hit him, it's like he, you know, knocked
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any sense out of him.
47:18
And you know, he like caused him to become a Nazi, but I'm going to go to my big takeaway
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on this one.
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The craziest thing about this story, at least to me, is that more people seem to be mad
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at Dana White and the UFC for deciding to not punish Bryce Mitchell than they are at Bryce
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Mitchell for saying the crazy things that he said, because everything he said was crazy.
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It was dumb.
47:39
I don't cosign any of that nonsense that he said on that podcast.
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I don't cosign his flat earth stuff.
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I don't cosign any of that, right?
47:44
I just like watching the guy fight, but people are absolutely furious inside and outside
47:49
the MMA community that Dana White and UFC didn't bring the hammer down on the sky.
47:53
But the thing that they don't understand is Dana White is a free speech absolutist.
47:58
He's like, look, my fighters can say whatever they want.
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They don't get to say whenever they want, but they can say whatever they want.
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Because guess what?
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When they're working for the UFC, when they're fighting, when they're doing things while
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in the octagon, at that point, it's like, okay, you are a contractor for the UFC.
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But when you're doing your own podcast, when you're talking, you know, to the media and
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other different contexts or something like that, he's like, I don't care.
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Do whatever you want to do.
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Say whatever you want to say.
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We're not going to punish the guy.
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But what they wanted is they want him, the media and all these people, they wanted him
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to be cut, they wanted to be suspended, they wanted him to be fined and Dana White's like,
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no, I'm not going to do any of that.
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And I don't want to talk about it anymore.
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It's dumb.
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It's ridiculous.
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I totally think everything they said was absolutely horrific and stupid.
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But he can say stupid stuff.
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Like we have the ability to say stupid stuff over and over because that's the world that
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we live in.
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Free speech.
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This guy's an American.
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This is an American company.
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Get over it.
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But so many people have heartburn over that because here's the thing, guys, you think the
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UFC is not going to actually punish him, right?
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Can you imagine who his next fight's going to be?
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Are they going to be putting a big marketing push behind this guy, trying to get him, you
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know, a handful of really good top quality wins to get him to a title fight?
49:07
Like no, like Bryce Mitchell's career is certainly going to suffer for this.
49:11
But again, people that are on kind of the woke side, the woke's gold side, the cancel
49:15
people left, like these people, they need a head.
49:18
They need a head on spike and they're just not going to get it from Dana White and the
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UFC.
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All right.
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Next quick hitter here, President Trump signing an executive order banning men from women's
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sports, according to the Daily Wire on February the 5th, President Donald Trump signed an
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executive order Wednesday banning men from women's sports, a historic moment in the fight
49:32
to protect the integrity of women's spaces from gender activists and ideologues.
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From now on, he said to a massive applause from the assembled women's sports will be
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for only women.
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With this executive order, the war on women's sports is over, he added, "It is the policy
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of the United States to rescind all funds from educational programs that deprive women
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and girls of fair athletic opportunities, which results in the endangerment, humiliation
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and silencing of women, and girls and deprives them of privacy," the executive order reads.
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It shall also be the policy of the United States to oppose male competitive participation
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in women's sports more broadly as a matter of safety, fairness, dignity, and truth.
50:06
And guys, with incredible rapidity, the NCAA, about 24 hours later, declared that they would
50:12
no longer allow men to compete in women's sports.
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So no Lee Thomas's happening in the women's pool at this point.
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So right to my big takeaway here, Republicans should 100% follow this executive order.
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The executive order up with national legislation protecting girls and women.
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But also, I'm not sure that the Democrats will even take this fight back up when they
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inevitably gain power, because they will regain power, guys.
50:35
There will be a time in all of our lifetimes where the Democrats will have the White House,
50:38
the Senate, and the House of Representatives.
50:42
But this is an 80/20 issue against them.
50:47
Like you can't find 80% of Americans to agree on just about everything, but 80% of Americans
50:52
when they are clearly asked, what do you think should happen?
50:55
Should boys to be able to take athletic opportunities away from girls?
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Should they be able to endanger girls physically?
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80% of Americans are like, no, are you crazy?
51:03
Why would you even ask me that?
51:05
So for Democrats, this is such a losing issue, but they've been operating in this kind of
51:10
echo chamber of, you know, complete control over the left wing mainstream media.
51:14
And they just thought, okay, in this echo chamber, we're going to be able to basically
51:17
scold people and shame them into doing exactly what we want to do, and most Americans are
51:22
like, no, I'm sorry, we're not here for it.
51:24
And Trump is just that massive hammer that comes into office and is just smashing all
51:28
of these left wing idols.
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I got to tell you, I'm here for it.
51:31
All right.
51:32
Next, quicker to hear a French gynecologist being suspended for not providing medical treatment
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to a man pretending to be a woman.
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So this is according to the times on January the 31st, a French gynecologist has been barred
51:41
from practicing for a month because he refused to examine a transgender patient on the grounds
51:46
that he was only qualified to treat, quote, real women, unquote, Dr. Victor Acherion was
51:51
accused of transphobia after he turned the patient away in August of 2023, the LGBTQ groups
51:57
lodged complaint and LGBTQ groups, lodged complaints.
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In December, he appeared before a disciplinary board of the French Medical Council, and he
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has now been suspended for a month from March 1st and with an additional five months of
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probation.
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Eduard Marshall, a lawyer representing the patient said, we have the satisfaction of
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having confirmation that what happened that day was totally abnormal.
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SOS homophobia, a transgender activist group issued a statement saying that the doctor's
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actions were potentially also punchable by criminal sanctions.
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So before I get to my quick hitters, I actually just want to break down those last two sentences
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real quick.
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So let me go back to it.
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Eduard Marshall, the lawyer representing the patient said, we have the satisfaction
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of having confirmation that what happened that day was totally abnormal.
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So according to them, it's abnormal for a doctor that exclusively treats biological
52:49
women, right gynecologist to refuse treatment to a biological male.
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That is pretending to be a woman, but it is not abnormal for an adult male to dress up
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in women's clothes, put on makeup and demand a gynecological exam.
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Okay, got it.
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And then the next sentence, we see SOS homophobia, right?
53:07
So H O M O P H O B I E homophobia, a transgender activist group issued a statement saying that
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the doctor's actions were potentially also punishable by criminal sanctions.
53:16
And I got to tell you, these people would love nothing more than to have someone thrown
53:20
in jail for using basic common sense and standing up for capital T truth.
53:25
Like again, this is a gynecologist and a guy with dick and balls walks into the office,
53:30
right?
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And says, we give me a gynecological exam.
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Now since I'm a male, I've never experienced one of these exams, but I just got to tell
53:37
you if there's not a vagina present, if there's not ovaries or fallopian tubes or any of that
53:41
stuff present, not really sure what that guy is going to be searching for, right?
53:45
But let's go to the big takeaway here.
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Left is if given the opportunity, we'll 100% try to make this a reality in our country.
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If we don't stop the spread of the LGBTQ plus agenda, and yes, it will take all of us.
53:57
And yes, it takes someone like Trump in office.
53:59
The wave of momentum that Donald Trump is writing right now.
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I know this isn't a Trump story, you know, well over 50% approval, right?
54:06
You have young people at record numbers supporting Donald Trump, and the thing is is he keeps
54:12
doing these executive orders over and over.
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And the left's mind is just blowing up and exploding every single day.
54:18
But this is exactly what got him voted in.
54:21
This is exactly why he won the Electoral College and the popular vote.
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It's precisely the stuff that he said he would do.
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Like this, this shouldn't be a shock to anybody.
54:29
This is what he said he was going to do.
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And he's doing it.
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We liked it.
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That's why we voted for him, so we'd like it when he actually does it.
54:37
Like two thumbs up like this is, this is just how the world works.
54:42
But if they ever get back in power or if they can kind of shift the cultural zeitgeist back
54:46
in their favor, they're going to be looking for stuff like this as well.
54:50
So let's go to the next one here.
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President Trump signing an executive order to establish a task force to eradicate anti-Christian
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bias.
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So this is according to the White House on February the 6th.
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So I'm going to actually read most of this because I think it's important.
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So let's go to the executive order here.
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By the authority vested in me as president by the Constitution and the laws of the United
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States of America, it is hereby ordered section one, purpose and policy.
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It is the policy of the United States and the purpose of this order to protect the religious
55:15
freedoms of Americans and in the anti-Christian weaponization of government.
55:19
The founders established a nation in which people were free to practice their faith without
55:22
fear of discrimination or retaliation by their government.
55:25
Yet the previous administration engaged in an egregious pattern of targeting peaceful
55:29
Christians while ignoring violent anti-Christian offenses.
55:33
The Biden Department of Justice sought to squelch faith in the public square by bringing
55:38
federal criminal charges and obtaining in numerous cases, multi-year prison sentences
55:42
against nearly two dozen peaceful pro-life Christians for praying and demonstrating
55:46
outside abortion facilities.
55:48
These convicted included a Catholic priest and a 75 year old grandmother as well as an
55:53
87 year old woman and a father of 11 children who are arrested 18 months after praying and
55:57
seeing hymns outside in abortion facility in Tennessee as a part of a politically motivated
56:01
prosecution campaign by the Biden administration.
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I rectified this injustice on January the 23rd of 2025 by issuing pardons in these cases.
56:10
At the same time, Catholic churches, charities and pro-life centers sought justice for violence,
56:14
theft and arson perpetrated against them which the Biden Department of Justice largely ignored.
56:18
After more than 100 attacks, the United States House of Representatives passed a resolution
56:22
condemning this violence and calling on the Biden administration to enforce the law.
56:26
And in 2023, the FBI memorandum asserted that radical traditionalist Catholics were domestic
56:32
terrorism threats and suggested infiltrating Catholic churches as threat mitigation.
56:38
This later retracted FBI memorandum cited as supported evidence propaganda from highly
56:44
partisan sources.
56:46
The Biden Department of Education sought to repeal religious liberty protections for faith-based
56:50
organizations on college campuses.
56:52
The Biden Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sought to force Christians to affirm radical
56:56
gender or transgender ideology against their faith and the Biden Department of Health and
57:01
Human Services sought to drive Christians who do not conform to certain beliefs on sexual
57:04
orientation and gender identity out of the foster care system.
57:08
The Biden administration declared March 31st of 2024, Easter Sunday, a transgender day of
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visibility.
57:14
In this atmosphere of anti-Christian government, hostility and vandalism against Christian
57:18
churches and the places of worship surged with the number of such identified acts in 2023
57:22
exceeding by more than eight times the number from 2018.
57:26
Catholic churches and institutions have been aggressively targeted and hundreds of acts
57:29
of hostility, violence and vandalism.
57:32
My administration will not tolerate anti-Christian weaponization of government or unlawful conduct
57:36
targeting Christians.
57:37
The law protects the freedom of Americans and groups of Americans to practice their
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faith and peace, and my administration will enforce the law and protect these freedoms.
57:45
My administration will ensure that any unlawful and improper conduct policies or practices
57:49
that target Christians are identified, terminated and rectified.
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So my big takeaway on this is that executive orders can be rightly categorized as symbolic
57:59
in a lot of cases, but this one seems different.
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And the main reason I think that is because of who was named to the task force.
58:07
Okay.
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So I actually want to go back to the executive order section two establishing a task force
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to eradicate anti-Christian bias, A, there is hereby established within the Department
58:15
of Justice the task force to eradicate anti-Christian bias task force, B, the attorney general shall
58:20
serve as chair of the task force, C, in addition to the chair of the task force shall consist
58:25
of the following other members.
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And I'll, I'll, I'll quit with the, you know, letters here, but secretary of state, secretary
58:32
of treasury, secretary of defense, secretary of labor, secretary of health and human services,
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secretary of housing and urban development, secretary of education, secretary of veterans
58:40
affairs, secretary of Homeland Security, the director of the office of management and budget,
58:45
representative of the United States of America, the UN, the administrator of the Small Business
58:49
Administration, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the assistant to
58:52
the president for domestic policy, the administrator, the administrator of the Federal Emergency
58:57
Management Agency, the chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the heads
59:01
of such other executive departments, agencies and offices that the chair may from time to
59:04
time invite to participate.
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That's like the whole cabinet. I mean, that's a ton of different people that have been
59:12
put on this. And I like what Albert Mueller said is if this was not meant to have any
59:16
teeth, he would have put some low level staffer on it, somebody that had like a vice chair
59:20
position or something like that, but he didn't. He put all of his, you know, biggest people
59:25
on this to include the attorney general and secretary of state, right, secretary of defense,
59:29
you know, labor, treasury, like all, all these huge individuals with a lot of power, he put
59:34
them on this. So this is a real thing that has teeth, which kind of have to see how this
59:38
looks throughout the rest of his administration.
59:39
All right. Next quick hitter here, Texas writes a life recruiting men to take legal action
59:44
against the women that killed their babies via abortion. So this is according to the Washington
59:48
Post on January the 17th. So it's just a very telling headline. So the headline for the
59:51
story is anti abortion advocates look for men to report their partner's abortions. Okay.
59:56
So let's go into the article as anti abortion advocates launch legal efforts to stop abortion
1:00:01
pills from reaching women in states which with bans, they are increasingly turning to one
1:00:05
group with uniquely intimate and specific information to help them find cases, male sex
1:00:10
partners of women who decided to end their pregnancies. The strategy propelled a first
1:00:14
of its kind lawsuit filed last month by Texas attorney general Ken Paxton that cited firsthand
1:00:19
information from an unnamed biological father to accuse a New York doctor of illegally providing
1:00:24
abortion pills to a woman in the Dallas area, according to two people familiar with the
1:00:28
case's origins. The case was inspired by a report. Paxton's office received from a man
1:00:33
that emerged as part of a broader abortion law enforcement operation. The attorney general
1:00:37
has quietly created and included and include searching for potential plaintiffs said the
1:00:41
two people who spoke on the condition and man and an image to describe private conversations.
1:00:47
The strategy right now is to tell dads that if you're the father of a child victim of
1:00:50
abortion, you have legal rights. There may be a way to hold these people accountable said
1:00:56
to john siago, the president of Texas right to life, adding that his group has already
1:01:00
found has already found several men who could act as plaintiffs in upcoming cases. So obviously
1:01:07
the Washington Post wants to pit this entire thing in a negative light. They think that
1:01:10
this is egregious. They think this is horrible. Why would these men have anything to say,
1:01:14
right? It was just their their children being killed. So let's go to my big takeaway here.
1:01:20
Finally, the men that didn't want their partners to kill the children that they made together
1:01:25
will potentially get some retribution and or restitution for this. Because that's one
1:01:30
of the things even in pro life circles that is not talked about nearly enough. What about
1:01:34
the men? I've seen just absolutely heartbreaking videos of men beating on the locked doors of
1:01:41
abortion facilities, desperately begging their sexual partners or girlfriends and sometimes
1:01:46
even their wives. Please do not kill our baby. And they're just apoplectic. They just can't
1:01:52
be consoled because they know that the woman has walked in there and she's getting a an
1:01:58
assassin to kill her child for her, right? And she's either not paying for it at all or
1:02:03
just paying a few hundred bucks to make the problem go away as it were. And for a lot of
1:02:09
these men, they're excited. That's their progeny. That's the future of their name. That's existing
1:02:15
in the belly of their sexual partner. And they don't want it to be killed. But we live in
1:02:19
this time, where apparently that dad has absolutely zero rights. So good for Texas right to life.
1:02:24
Uh, good, good for the AG of Texas. Let's push this as far as it can go. Let's actually
1:02:28
get these guys from retribution. Let's try to stop these things from even happening to begin
1:02:32
with. Alright, next quick hitter here, President Trump choosing pastor scare quotes, pastor
1:02:37
Paula White Kane to lead the White House faith office. So this is according to church leaders
1:02:41
on February the six at the prayer breakfast, Trump also announced his creation of a White
1:02:46
House faith office, heading that is Paula White, senior pastor of city of destiny church in, uh,
1:02:51
popka, Florida. During the first Trump administration, white was a member of Trump's inner circle,
1:02:56
serving as the advisor for his faith and opportunity initiative in the office of public liaison. Okay.
1:03:02
So let's talk about Paula White Kane. If you don't know, she is, she's televangelists. Uh,
1:03:06
she fancies herself as an apostolic leader. Um, she claims to hear directly from God and to get,
1:03:11
uh, you know, apostolic words from him. She also spreads a false gospel. She's big on the prosperity
1:03:15
gospel. Uh, you know, word of faith, that type of thing. She's on the third marriage. Uh, and also,
1:03:20
of course, she's not a pastor because the Bible. So, um, but she does have a tremendous amount of
1:03:25
spiritual influence on Trump. So Trump obviously didn't grow up in church, not really like,
1:03:29
does he not really familiar with the scripture? You know, I had this big moment where he, you know,
1:03:34
almost gets killed. He feels like God saved his life, but for all intents and purposes, we,
1:03:37
we see no fruit of, you know, biblical repentance, you know, and acceptance of the gospel for the
1:03:42
propitiation of his sin debt, but he does seem to kind of be in the spiritual, which is brew
1:03:47
right now. No pun intended, but my big takeaway here on a story like this is for the love of God,
1:03:53
literally again, can we get someone in Trump's ear so we can get him some legit biblically based
1:04:01
Christians in his inner circle? Like, can we get a, you know, a, a Joby Martin or a Matt
1:04:06
Chandler or a John MacArthur or a Vody Bockum or a coasty hen or just someone like that,
1:04:10
whether they're a pro, a professional Christian or someone that just makes good stuff. But like,
1:04:14
can we get someone like that in his ear? Because I feel like he's close. Everyone's talking about
1:04:19
how close, you know, Jordan Peterson is to become a Christian. And you know, how open Joe Rogan
1:04:24
seems to Christianity because Wes Huff went on a show and like all the, yeah, all that's great
1:04:28
for us to think about. But what about Donald Trump? Like he's signaling positive things,
1:04:32
you know, some of the offices and some of the people that he's appointing and some of the things
1:04:36
that he's saying about God. But the guy doesn't talk about Jesus. He certainly doesn't talk about
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the sacrifice that Jesus made on the cross. We got to get some of those guys around him and believe
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me guys before you say it, I'm trying. Okay. So don't you worry, I'm doing my best. All right,
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last quick hitter here, Gen Z rejecting atheism. Okay. So this is according to the UK Daily Mail
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in January the 25th. Teenagers and those in their 20s are half as likely to identify as atheists
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than their parents, a new poll has shown those aged 18 to 24 who are all Gen Z are the most
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spiritual age group in the UK with just 13% identifying as atheists. Another 62% describe
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themselves as very or fairly spiritual to research by one poll found. And when asked what the biggest
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factors in declining Christianity rates in the UK, Gen Z cited the inability to grapple with
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scandals involving abuse as well as generational change. In contrast, middle aged members of Gen
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X age 45 to 60 are the most likely to be atheists with 25% saying that they do not believe in a God
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or spirituality. For baby boomers, boomers over the age of 65 and millennials age 25 to 44,
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one in five are atheists at 20%. So big takeaway here on this one. I have seen Christians use this
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study that they talked about in this article here to talk about how great of a thing this is.
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But we need to be more sober minded in our approach here. Okay, because in the UK,
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you should ask like is Gen Z less atheistic than millennials and Gen X? And according to the study,
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yes, they are less atheistic, but they are not more Christian. Okay, this study doesn't help us
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figure that out at all. But I do want to go back to the article here. But the far higher levels of
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spirituality and young people does not necessarily mean traditional religion, such as Christianity,
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Islam, Hinduism will see a resurgence in the UK. Instead, many people describe spirituality for
1:06:30
them as being more about wellness and mindfulness. Other associations include nature astrology and
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crystals, rather than participating in religious rituals. So is it a positive sign that kiddos in
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the UK are less atheistic than their older counterparts? Yes, but they're not more Christian.
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So part of the problem with real, biblically based gospel centered Christian churches shutting
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down in the UK is where are these kids going to find it? Now we do live in an era where they're
1:06:57
all walking around with supercomputers in their pockets. They've got the same podcast apps that
1:07:01
you guys have. They can listen to the pastors that I mentioned earlier, they can listen to other
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Christian pastors, they can listen to presentations of the gospel, they can have access to the Bible,
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right? They can walk into stores at least for now in the UK and still buy Bibles. And they can see
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some of the problems with doing things like tutting Islam, right? And allowing Islam to spread
1:07:22
over the UK and all the issues that that's causing for them and has nothing to do with the race of
1:07:26
the people involved has to do with their worldviews, right? And they can see like, wait a minute,
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even a guy, even the, oh gosh, Richard Dawkins, right in the UK, he calls himself a cultural
1:07:35
Christian because he understands like what being a cultural Muslim would mean, the things that he
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would have to be okay with, and he's not okay with it. So this is a good sign, but it's not a great
1:07:45
sign. So this means that they're kind of pointed in the direction of theism. But if they're hooking
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their ponytails to trees and if they're, you know, dealing with crystals and if they're looking at
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you know, horoscopes and things like that, they're being pointed towards false gospels.
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They're being manipulated by demonic forces that are going to keep them from seeing the truth of
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the real gospel that we have in Jesus Christ. And I really hope that the he gets us commercials
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don't make a UK campaign because I'm sure they'll just confuse the things even more. But guys,
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