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Chris Tyson is facing allegations that he spoke sexually inappropriately with a minor when he was in his 20s. Also, we ve got Glenn Beck here at the end of this episode to discuss his thoughts on if Kamala Harris is the 2020 Democratic Nominee. We ll also be discussing his amazing new book, Chasing Embers.
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Mr. Beast Chris Tyson is now facing allegations that he spoke sexually inappropriately with a minor when he was in his 20s.
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Also, we've got Glenn Beck here at the end of this episode to discuss his thoughts on if Kamala will really be the nominee.
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We will also be discussing his amazing new book, Chasing Embers.
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Tonight, Biden is supposed to address the nation.
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At the end of this conversation, we'll have more politics.
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I mean, his analysis is just so it's captivating.
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But I was just thinking, what does this man know?
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Like, what goes on inside his head as far as just being able to think creatively, but
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also, I won't say see the future, but just based on the understanding that he has of history
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and the insight that he has into the present, it just seems to give him, I don't know, a
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And so you are going to get out, get a lot out of the conversation that we are having at
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But for a second, we are going to take a pause from politics to talk about something really
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important because this person has a lot of influence, and it is a follow-up on a story
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We did a whole episode on someone by the name of Chris Tyson.
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Mr. Beast has an incredibly popular YouTube channel, 305 million subscribers.
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Really hard to even wrap your mind around that number.
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He has a pretty young audience, and he garners tens of millions, hundreds of millions of views
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He does kind of these crazy out-of-the-box projects like building a well in Africa or restoring
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sight to blind people through medical technology in really poor countries.
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But he also just does a lot of silly videos, too, but obviously has a lot of influence.
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And Chris Tyson has been a part of his channel for a long time.
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And he last year announced that he was actually going to transition so-called into a woman.
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And so Ava and then Chris, not with a C-H anymore, but with a K, and he tries to dress like a woman,
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He is a young toddler son and had this beautiful wife.
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I believe that he was also raised in the Bible Belt, was raised a Christian.
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And so this was a really strange and really heartbreaking development when he said, you know
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what, I'm leaving my family and I am going to become who I have always been, which is this
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He got a lot of support from people online, of course, that are for that thing.
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I mean, mainly because of the abandonment of his family, but also his very strange,
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bizarre attempt to try to become something that he can never be, which is a woman.
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But it also came out during that time, and this is what we focused a lot of our attention on
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when we were talking about this last year, is that he has an anime obsession.
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And I get plenty of pushback whenever I try to make this correlation, but there is a correlation.
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There undoubtedly is a correlation, at least, between obsessive anime consumption and being
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And we actually talked to a detransitioner, Sorin Aldako, on this couch, and she talks about that.
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She talks about not only her anime obsession when she was a teen, but also the nature of anime.
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And the depictions in anime and why it tends to support gender deception and gender confusion
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and gender fluidity, because there's a lot of hyper-sexualization in some forms of anime.
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The young characters in anime are very voluptuous.
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And now a lot of people will say not all forms of anime.
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There are a lot of sub-genres in anime, and that's fair.
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I'm not saying everyone who watches anime is confused about their gender.
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I'm not saying that all forms of anime are evil.
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You need to be very careful if your child is consuming anime.
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Really, if they're consuming any kind of content, but especially anime, because I think the messages
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and the depictions are very subtle, they're very subversive, though.
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So people had tracked down Chris Tyson's previous tweets where he is talking about his love for
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anime, and it was kind of just like, yeah, obviously makes a lot of sense.
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And I had the displeasure of finding out what Lolly was when I was looking at some of his
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He tweeted in 2016, so this was well before his so-called transition, he tweeted,
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Nothing gets my knob a-crankin' like some Lolly.
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He actually deleted the tweet last year when he was receiving a lot of criticism for his decision
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So not just anime, but anime pornography in which the female characters are depicted not only as
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Not only as children, but even infants, babies in diapers.
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This is cartoon pornography that Chris Tyson, back in 2016, said that he was fond of, said,
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And we also have a picture of a tweet from a while ago, back when he still identified,
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quote unquote, as a man, of a picture that he had apparently commissioned from an artist
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Now, Shad Base, again, I had the misfortune of figuring out what these things are.
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Shad Base apparently creates anime pornography.
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And he draws, he illustrates anime pornography, including this Lolly, L-O-L-I, pornography.
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And Chris Tyson very proudly posted on then Twitter, a picture of the poster that he had had commissioned.
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The text says, bonus fidget spinners to really throw in some extra autism.
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I won't show the entire picture on here because it is pretty explicit.
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But the picture that Chris Tyson posted is very disturbing, okay?
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And it's very clear that she's young because she has braces, okay?
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This depiction, this very sexually explicit depiction of this girl.
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You can tell she's even, and sorry to kind of be explicit, but this is part of it.
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She's even, she's flat-chested, but she's not wearing very many clothes.
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I'm just trying to explain to you who Chris Tyson has always been.
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Uh, and then you've got a hat that says, please be patient.
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And then she also has a gun in her mouth and her finger on the trigger.
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And so it has come as no surprise to me at all that Chris Tyson has now been exposed
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He is no longer a part of that team because of these allegations.
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So there's been an uproar on social media over the past few days because of a series of YouTube
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videos by someone named Prism42 that claimed to show online conversations between Chris
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Tyson and a minor about nude photos, also inappropriate Snapchat messages sent by Tyson to the minor
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and Instagram posts of Tyson and the minor who had visited Tyson in college.
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Now, this was apparently a fan of Mr. Beast, who was 13 years old when Tyson was 20 years
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old, this 13 year old won a Mr. Beast online competition.
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And then after that, Tyson apparently continued communicating with the teen on public online
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forums before meeting in person when the teen turned 16.
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Of course, that would have made Mr. Beast or that would have made Chris Tyson 23 at that point.
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So here are some examples, according to this video of the inappropriate relationship.
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The focus of the YouTube video is the age differential.
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Why is a college age man friends with a middle school boy?
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Why is a college age male so friendly with a middle school boy that he is sharing sexual
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The YouTube video clarifies that he is not necessarily calling Tyson a pedophile, but drawing attention
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to what was at the very least a very inappropriate relationship between an adult male and a teenage
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There's a screenshot of Lava, what this young man goes by sharing a Snapchat from Chris in
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The message from Chris reads, coming to America spelled in a sexually explicit way.
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Um, according to YouTuber Prism 42, Tyson allegedly joked about selling nudes to the minor.
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Again, Tyson is about 21 years old at the time and Lava is about 14 years old.
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Uh, you can see the tweets going back and forth.
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Uh, Chris says to this 14 year olds, I posted some fire nudes for you.
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Um, so these are the allegations against Chris Tyson, uh, that Chris Tyson was speaking inappropriately
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Now this person, again, whose name is Lava, who goes by Lava responded to this.
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Um, he says these videos are massive lies and twisting the truth.
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Can you do me a favor and comment on these videos and tell them to stop spreading lies?
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The situation takes away from children who are actively being exploited every day online.
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I am not a victim of anything being claimed in these videos at all.
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Um, but again, we've got some other disturbing tweets, some other disturbing posts by Chris Tyson
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that have now been resurfaced, that have now been uncovered because of these other allegations.
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The X account, Reddit lies uncovered some of these posts from Tyson's Reddit account,
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uh, where he said in June, 2017, why the F would you use your VR headset for anything
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He also commented on a link posted on what was then Twitter that redirected users to a pornographic
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Caillou is a popular children's show about a four-year-old boy.
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Another pedophilic seeming tweet in 2017, Tyson wrote, uh, that B-I-T-C-H looks good for
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Multiple posts show Tyson interacting with Shadman, as we've already said, an artist known
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In one post, Tyson begs Shadman to draw a 10-year-old anime girl.
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Other posts show Tyson sexualizing cartoon children.
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So are the allegations about him talking purposely sexually to Lava, um, do they amount to accusations
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I think that we can say in the very least that this is a pattern of extremely disturbing
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Are there others out there whom he has talked to inappropriately, made so-called edgy jokes
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Look, uh, uh, an adult should never be making edgy jokes with a minor ever.
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I, maybe it wasn't, um, explicitly sexually predatory.
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Maybe there wasn't a relationship there, but you should never even have a friendship with
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A 14-year-old boy doesn't even have the words to be able to articulate why that feels wrong.
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And for Chris Tyson, in a position of influence and even power for this young person, this young
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He probably felt, okay, I've got to be really nice and responsive to Chris Tyson.
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It is entirely, entirely gross and inappropriate at the very, very least.
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And I think in the context of the rest of everything else, um, yeah, we can keep raising
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This is extremely common when it comes to these grown men who decide seemingly overnight that
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They almost always, it seems, have this history, have this pattern.
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Because as I've said many times, this gender deception, especially when it comes to grown
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I don't even really say as much gender confusion anymore, because really these grown men are
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acting out a humiliation fetish that typically involves some kind of addiction to child sex
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And this is a great example, this whole issue, but this person is a great example of the harms
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of toxic empathy, that when we have more empathy for a grown man who identifies as a female and
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starts dressing like a little girl than we have for the minors and for the women, the girls and
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women in particular, that are victims of men trying to come into their bathrooms, come into their
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locker rooms, play on their sports teams, identify as their gender.
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Well, we've really lost the plot, but we end up harming much more than helping.
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So, I mean, I just, yes, we should pray for Chris Tyson.
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We should pray that the scales would fall from his eyes, that he would repent, that he would
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come to know Christ, that he would realize the error of his ways.
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But also, pray for his ex-wife and his poor child.
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He once posted a Snapchat of his then three-year-old son laying on his stomach, I guess,
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watching TV or something in a pair of high heels.
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So we have no idea what's going on behind the scenes.
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I can imagine the absolute heartbreak that his ex-wife is feeling and how much she wants
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The last I checked, I remember when we were researching last year, in her bio, she had
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And so if you remember it, pray for her, pray for them, pray for this family.
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He loves to attack our identity as male or female.
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The world would like us to think that Satan loves our bodies because he's always pushing
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pleasure and doing what makes us happy and doing what feels good.
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But very often, those fleeting pleasures and moments of happiness, they harm us.
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He hates our identity as male and female because he hates that we are made in God's image.
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He wants to confuse men and women about their sexuality, about their gender.
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He wants to cause chaos and disorder in every way he can.
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The best way to do that is for him to attack Genesis 1 institutions and realities.
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And so they are unfortunately the victims of that.
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So pray for them and pray for everyone who might be in this position.
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And I just pray that no children have been exploited.
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Another reason why we should absolutely ban pornography.
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It is the legal loophole for the exploitation of children.
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Hopefully the next update I have on this person is that he has repented and that he has become
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a Christian and that he has been saved by grace through faith.
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tell us your general take on everything that's happened over the past couple of weeks?
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This is, I mean, this is the craziest time in my political life.
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If I was to sum it up in just a few words, I would say it would have to be, Jesus is coming.
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It's just, it is, it's so dark, it's so twisted.
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And we are, if you think that the last few weeks have been eye-opening, you won't, you
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can't imagine what the world will be like in December of this year.
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I mean, what do you think is going to happen at the DNC with this election?
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I mean, if I could talk as a fiction writer, not as a prediction.
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So, let's just look at the things that are possible.
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The 1968 convention in Chicago was a nightmare.
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Luckily, it was right at the end of the, you know, 60s hippies and everything else.
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It was that and Altamont that changed the course.
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And we got off the hippie thing and we started finding the Jesus revival era.
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And this year promises to be, I think, as explosive as the 68, if not more so.
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Anything could happen, especially with our Secret Service being as poorly run as they are right now.
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I would imagine that we are going to see some very unusual things in the streets of Chicago.
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I hope this was the last attempt on assassination, but I don't think so.
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Our president is so ill that I think he could pass away from natural causes at any time.
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He started taking his responsibilities and delegating literally in writing.
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I didn't even know you could do this, but he is delegating the presidential powers on certain issues like Ukraine to the State Department and to the Secretary of Treasury.
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I can't imagine it's going to be Kamala Harris.
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But, well, Barack Obama hasn't weighed in on it yet.
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He doesn't want Kamala Harris, and I think you're going to have possible chaos on the convention floor.
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It was Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi that were really responsible for the duck out of Joe Biden.
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And so Barack Obama will get his way one way or another, and I would imagine we're going to have chaos on the convention floor.
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You already are seeing the death of democracy with the Democrats.
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And the Democrats seem to be okay with it, which is so bizarre.
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They would not allow the president to be challenged by anyone in the run-up.
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Even though the people were saying, we want another choice, they wouldn't allow it to happen.
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Now the same people, Kamala and all the rest of them, that were saying he was fine are now saying he's got to step down, not from the presidency, just from the run.
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The GOP is going to file suit in several states because the laws forbid what they're trying to do.
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So again, the Democrats are going to have to try to change the rules of state laws for voting.
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And if they don't get it right, the superdelegates will then vote and they'll nominate the president and expect everybody to be fine.
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Do you agree with the language calling this a palace coup?
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The 25th Amendment should have been enacted a long time ago.
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I mean, I've been reading now from people who are saying, you know, in 2021, I was in a meeting with him.
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And he never came back to the caucus again in 2021.
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This is this is they have been running the country through the office of the president, through all of the cabinet.
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I don't know who's giving marching orders and direction, but it's not the president.
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They didn't want to invoke the 25th because why should we?
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They're getting everything done that they need to do while everybody's focused on Joe Biden.
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Yeah, it was AOC on an Instagram Live recently.
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She said the Democratic donors and elites, they want Joe Biden out, and they also want to push Kamala Harris out, that they don't want her.
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I have no idea what elites she's talking about and what donors she's talking about, but it sounds like you might think that she's on to something.
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I can't believe I'm agreeing with AOC, but she's absolutely right on this.
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This is what they started in 2016, and they've just perfected it.
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I am very concerned that the events that we have seen in the last few weeks could accelerate.
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We could lose the president through natural causes, be left with Kamala Harris.
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And if the elites don't want Kamala Harris, well, she's gettable.
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I don't want to believe that the Secret Service was in any way, shape, or form involved or just turned a blind eye.
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I want to claim that it was only incompetence that happened a couple of weeks ago, and that might be the truth.
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But we also now at this point have to consider it might have been a blind eye or worse.
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And we have to have these answers before we get to the convention in Chicago.
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Can you imagine if somebody shot Kamala Harris at this point?
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I mean, and Ali, look at what the leaders of the world who are against us are seeing.
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You think that people in Iran, in North Korea, in China, in Russia, anywhere that they don't like America,
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they're not looking at us right now and saying it is prime for the taking right now.
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And yet, in his statement, President Biden said that we have never, ever in our history been better positioned to lead on the world stage than we have right now.
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He has to say we have the greatest economy in the world and gaslight the public.
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But to make that kind of statement, that we have an unprecedented leadership position on the world stage right now, that's, I mean, that's bold.
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And we've been talking about this stuff for a long time, saying, but you could still excuse it one way or another.
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You could still say, if you're on the other side, well, that's not happening.
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There's no way, there's no other way for a thinking human being to look at what's happening and not say,
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And we have to clean this mess up quickly or the world will take us out.
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Um, you mentioned that we live in this dystopia now and we can't even imagine what it's going to be like at the end of this year.
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And if the events of the past, I don't know, two weeks and then five years have taught us anything,
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it's that we really can't predict the unpredictable.
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And that's just the age that we're living in now.
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Condoleezza Rice said to me, and this was in 2007, six or seven, and she used specific language and it was biblical language.
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Um, but she said, these Glenn are the birth pangs of the things to come.
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Um, it's, it's really interesting to think of a birth pang.
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Birth pangs first start and then they get faster and harder and more severe and closer and closer and closer and speed up until you give birth to something.
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Look at how the birth pangs in the last three and a half years have sped up.
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Every day you wake up and you're like, wait, what happened yesterday?
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That's going to speed up in the next few months.
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Um, is that part of why you wrote this new book, Chasing Embers?
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It's a dystopian novel and it does seem perfect for this age that we're describing.
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Um, and, and, uh, some of them make it actually to book form.
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Um, but I wrote this in my head, uh, probably 2005 or six.
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Uh, and I, I was reading Karl Marx and trying to understand Karl Marx.
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How anyone could read that and go, that's logical.
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Uh, and I, I remember reading it and thinking, why do people read this?
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Why do 20 somethings read this and think this is so genius.
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And yet they will never pick up anything from Thomas Jefferson.
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And I decided it's because it's for so long it had been banned or it was underground.
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You, if you were a Marxist, it was never popular.
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So when you're in your rebellion years, of course you read the things that make you a rebel.
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And I thought, when are people going to start reading our rebellious period are the true revolutionaries
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And I thought, you know, I think it's going to have to be lost or forbidden before it becomes
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So I started thinking about that and thinking about where the world was going with giant
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corporations and, and, uh, public private partnerships and AI and everything else.
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It most likely will end horribly like it does every other time, uh, the world tries it, except
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And then I thought of Ronald Reagan saying any generation that has tasted freedom and loses
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it, will never taste it again in their generation.
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Um, and it will be our children and our grandchildren.
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So I started playing this out over, you know, an 80 year period and, um, and thought, okay,
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so our children and our grandchildren, when the truth is taken from them, how will they find
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And, um, how will they even know what's true anymore if everything's been erased?
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And that was the, the seed of this, uh, of this book.
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We have no idea what's going to happen, uh, in the future.
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I don't believe in being paranoid and anxious and fearful.
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The Lord tells us not to be those things, but we can't be prepared.
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We can steward the resources that we have well, and just make sure that our families are taken
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One way to do that is to get an emergency food supply from my Patriot supply.
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So most people have no idea who William Tyndale is and, uh, his story and why someone would
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So, uh, William Tyndale, um, this, the secret to this book is, um, I trying to get into culture.
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It's, you know, you could read it with your kids or you could read it yourself and you'd,
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Um, but it is a, uh, a sneaky way without getting preachy.
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Um, it's a sneaky way to introduce kids to history.
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Um, and there's secret, there's secrets in the book.
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There's, you know, little Easter eggs all through it, et cetera, et cetera.
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There's so many levels to this book, but, um, the, uh, the, the kids are looking for the
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two teenagers in particular that we follow are looking for the truth.
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One, um, it is rejecting the truth because it was how he was raised.
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He was in defense of all of the lies and, but he's torn.
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And his character almost is driven insane when he finds out about William Tyndale.
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And what drives him crazy is that Tyndale died, as he says, for what?
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Paper, a story, but he doesn't understand because God has been wiped out of this.
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He doesn't understand the power that those words that he was trying to, uh, get printed
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in his own native tongue, English, the Bible, um, he doesn't understand the power of that
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And so part of the, the story is how much is the truth worth?
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Yeah, it can make you miserable at first until you align your life with it.
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And then even then it might make your life miserable, um, in a different sort of way
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And he can't understand that, um, through the book.
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He doesn't want to believe that a man would die for what's written in a book.
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On October 6th, 1536 is when William Tyndale was tied to the stake outside a castle near
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And his final words were apparently, Lord, open the King of England's eyes.
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That was his, that was his final plea, not for his own safety, not for his own life, not
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for his own physical rescue, but the spiritual rescue of the King of England.
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And I think it's hard for even us to understand that.
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And I mean, what he went through, imagine, you know, and this is the rabbit hole.
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We hope kids look him up and then start going, wait a minute, what?
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Every page of the Bible, um, that was a Tyndale Bible was smuggled in, in a bag of flour or
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rice or something that came from the continent.
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He would go to, um, uh, printers all over Europe and he'd say, I just need you to print
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And so they would printed every page of the Bible and then they would smuggle these pages
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If you were caught with one page, it meant death.
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And I, I have a copy of a Tyndale Bible up upstairs and it is, um, uh, it's from 15.
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It was in the London museum, like 200 years before we were even a country.
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Um, and it's amazing because it was the first time that someone could, he didn't believe
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you should have to go to somebody to find out about God.
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You should be able to have that personal relationship and read for yourself what God wanted to say.
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But the King didn't want that because he would lose power.
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Eventually, uh, King James did change his mind.
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I mean, he, he wasn't the one that killed Tyndale, but he did change his mind.
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But again, the reason that he did that is because he didn't want the Geneva Bible, which was the
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first Bible with commentary in it, where a King or a Pharaoh could be called a tyrant.
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So he puts his version out, the King James version, which, you know, is the basic stock
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And this of course is coinciding with the Protestant Reformation and other translations of scripture
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and the Bible and the gospel just spread like wildfire because of that belief.
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Like you said, that people should have the word of God in their hands, that they don't
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have to go through any kind of leader, whether it's secular or religious to hear what God says
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I mean, that's the story of America too, that when you have freedom in your hands, when you
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have your own will that can dictate your life, hopefully, ideally under the submission of
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This is why during COVID they had to shut down the churches.
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This is why every dictator shuts down the churches, bans religion, because you can't have people
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And, you know, when it comes to, if they asked me, put a bullet in my head right now and denounce
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the United States of America, otherwise we shoot you.
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And I'd consider it, and probably today I could denounce everything that we're doing.
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Because I know that is true and God never changes.
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Man's understanding, man's description, everything else, that might change.
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You know, that's why he was baptized on his deathbed, because the king has to do some really
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Well, I'm not really sure, Constantine, that he does.
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But he was trying to cobble together an army, and that's why America was so strong.
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We understood that our Constitution and much of our declaration comes directly from scriptures.
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The reason why our pilgrims were against the slave trade was because the Bible is against
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Almost everything we have came from God and the Bible.
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But, you know, as a nation, anything good that we have came from God.
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We have put him now back in the town square to mock and ridicule him.
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You know, what you said about you can't have people or you can't see people, the enemy doesn't want to see people dying for the sake of truth, dying for the sake of the gospel.
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Because what strengthens our faith and our resolve more than seeing the death of a martyr or seeing sacrifice and suffering in the midst of persecution?
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Someone like Jack Phillips, many, many others who, in the face of persecution and pushback, even to the point of death in some cases.
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Even in a different way, look at what happened with the persecution and assassination attempt on Donald Trump.
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That's why this society is so intent on brutalizing people and erasing them.
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Make sure they're not even in the public square.
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They have to convince you that this is too high of a price to pay just to stand up and say, you know, that shouldn't be taught in our schools.
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They've gone after anybody who disagrees with them to silence not just them.
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And they can addict us to our creature comforts and make us so comfortable and so addicted to convenience that the thought of sacrifice is radical and extreme.
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That's part of what drives this main character crazy.
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So everyone can get it wherever books are sold.
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It's for young adults, but I'm sure the audience is really for anyone.
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Honestly, thank you for everything that you do.
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And to watch you grow and succeed has just been just a great joy.
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Well, thank you so much for believing in me and always encouraging me.