Dale Partridge - September 15, 2025


The Four Sins that Brought us to an Assassination Culture


Episode Stats


Length

7 minutes

Words per minute

103.2101

Word count

777

Sentence count

50

Harmful content

Misogyny

3

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Hate speech

15

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Transcript

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00:00:00.920 What sins have we committed to bring such a judgment upon us?
00:00:05.000 I think it's important to understand what got us here, so that we might not repeat them.
00:00:13.080 And I think we could summarize them into four major categories.
00:00:17.900 I'm going to give them to you now.
00:00:19.760 Number one, we have ordained the wrong men.
00:00:24.880 We have ordained the wrong men to the pastorate.
00:00:27.520 Congregations rarely rise above their pastors
00:00:31.400 That's a fact
00:00:32.960 On the one hand, many pulpits have been filled with these excellent communicators
00:00:38.260 The problem is that they traded courage for comfort
00:00:42.460 They are people-pleasing, donor-pleasing, giving-pleasing
00:00:46.480 Controversy-avoiding compromisers that are more concerned with financial security and popularity
00:00:52.200 Than they are with preaching the truth
00:00:55.340 Those people exist, and they exist not only in our nation, but also in our city.
00:01:03.120 These men have diluted doctrine to accommodate the visitor.
00:01:08.900 We have turned the church into a place of evangelism rather than the strengthening of the flock.
00:01:15.760 They have feared women, and they have perverted compassion, and they have been painfully quiet.
00:01:24.540 In the face of a variety of cultural events.
00:01:29.960 On the other hand, we have ordained intellectuals.
00:01:35.640 PhDs and master's degrees.
00:01:38.360 Who love doctrine and scholastics, but they are out of touch with the pastoral reality.
00:01:43.780 And they have no spine.
00:01:47.260 They have confused a love of knowledge with a call to be a shepherd.
00:01:52.060 Both are errors
00:01:55.140 Number two 1.00
00:01:56.260 We have cultivated an effeminate form of Christianity 1.00
00:02:01.160 We've cultivated it 1.00
00:02:04.180 We've actually nurtured it
00:02:07.640 In the 1700s
00:02:10.760 The enlightenment occurred
00:02:13.160 The enlightenment taught if I can't rationalize it
00:02:17.000 It can't be true
00:02:18.620 So, in the 1800s and early 1900s, we had the piety movement.
00:02:28.140 This was heavily driven by the early feminist movement.
00:02:32.160 But the piety movement declared, if I can't feel it, it isn't true.
00:02:39.640 So, rationalization was, if I can't rationalize it, it's not true.
00:02:43.980 Piety is, if I can't feel it, it's not true.
00:02:49.880 This gave rise to what we call experiential Christianity,
00:02:55.320 where spiritual maturity is measured by what?
00:03:00.400 Emotion.
00:03:02.520 And as you know, who is more inclined to succeed in emotion? 1.00
00:03:08.800 Women. 1.00
00:03:09.520 It was in this climate that we invented phrases like, it's not a religion, it's a relationship.
00:03:20.900 It's in this climate where we began love song style worship music, where we sway our hips to Jesus.
00:03:28.780 it's in this climate that we had the start of endless altar calls and baptisms and re-baptisms
00:03:39.520 because the first time didn't feel right
00:03:42.500 all of this institutionalization of emotion made men feel increasingly out of step with the church
00:03:54.360 and the result was what statistically a mass exodus of men from the church
00:04:03.060 and when men leave the church is left defenseless there is no one that is watching over and the men
00:04:15.980 that stayed in these feminized churches became soft. In the
00:04:25.360 absence of men, women pastors emerged, a new phenomenon of the
00:04:31.860 last 50 or 60 years. The matriarchy rose, complementarianism 0.78
00:04:37.920 has been birthed, and the church declined in power and
00:04:42.180 conviction. Number three, we have compartmentalized Christianity because of the rise of dispensationalism
00:04:51.600 in the early 1900s, which taught the church three powerful lies. Number one, to expect the inevitable 0.55
00:04:59.180 cultural decline. We don't polish brass on a sinking ship. It's all going to hell in a hand
00:05:06.700 basket. Let's just check out and wait. Number two, the imminent return of Christ and the rapture
00:05:12.880 of the church. Number three, the victory of the scriptures is reserved for ethnic Israel, 0.94
00:05:22.280 not the church. Those three lies shifted Christians from working to preserve society 0.89
00:05:32.500 through the proclamation of the gospel and the standing of righteousness 0.95
00:05:35.180 to waiting for its collapse and their escape.
00:05:42.140 In doing so, we surrendered our schools, our politics, our media,
00:05:45.940 our architecture, our arts, our finance, our economics.
00:05:50.800 The result was a surge of atheism,
00:05:54.940 plummeting birth rates, 0.78
00:05:57.940 an influx of pagan cultures through immigration. 0.81
00:06:02.500 And the slow suicide of the West. 0.94
00:06:06.120 That happened. 0.66
00:06:09.260 Number four.
00:06:12.440 And I'm going to spend most of my time here.
00:06:16.320 We have been shamefully tolerant of evil.
00:06:20.660 Shamefully tolerant of evil. 0.89
00:06:24.260 Over the last 50 years, under the increasing feminization of the church, 0.89
00:06:28.420 we have confronted evils with a soft, nurturing approach of empathy and accommodation 0.88
00:06:39.180 rather than the masculine approach of confrontation and correction and uncompromising truth.
00:06:49.400 This has produced what I call a conflict-averse church.
00:06:54.520 A conflict-averse church with many conflict-averse pastors.
00:07:01.840 We have gone from peacemaking to peacekeeping, which there is a wild difference.
00:07:11.700 Peacekeeping avoids, well, I'll say this.
00:07:15.540 Peacekeeping tolerates evil to avoid conflict.
00:07:18.960 peacekeeping tolerates evil to avoid conflict
00:07:25.600 peacemaking drives out evil to have real peace