Dale Partridge - September 15, 2025


The Four Sins that Brought us to an Assassination Culture

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7 minutes

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103.21

Word count

777

Sentence count

53

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Misogyny

3

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In this episode, Dr. Carl Sagan speaks on the dangers of the feminization of the church and the impact it has had on our culture, and how we have contributed to it. He points out four reasons why the church has become feminized, and what we can do about it.

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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