Ep 1043 ｜ The Storybook Bibles Promoting Atheism to Kids
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Summary
In this episode, Allie talks about the Democratic Party's new strategy of calling Trump and Vance "weird," and why it's time for Christians to join the fight against it. Plus, we talk about the dangers of glorification of childlessness, and why animals should not be put in the role of children.
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Have you read the storybook Bible that your child is reading?
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There is at least one parent who has been very disturbed to find out that their child
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was given something called the Brick Bible at VBS this year.
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And as it turns out, thousands of unsuspecting parents and children have been duped by what
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looks like an innocuous storybook Bible, but it is really trying to convince children not
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Also, we are talking about the glorification of childlessness, its latest iteration on
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Acts, and my response to it today as we talk about the problem of elevating animals to the
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This episode is brought to you by our friends at Good Ranchers.
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Yesterday, I posted on Instagram that I have an idea for an ad or even an ad campaign or
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a messaging strategy when it comes to Kamala Harris and this assault that they have launched
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against J.D. Vance and Donald Trump, but even more so J.D. Vance in calling him weird.
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And I wouldn't typically even bring it up because I wouldn't want to draw attention to
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the fact that they have labeled them in this way, but I think it's just so pervasive at
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this point, which speaks to the uniformity of the Democratic Party.
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It speaks to their effective strategy and that they can come together, they can agree on
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messaging, and they can absolutely run with it.
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And I've been chewing on this for the past few days because I represent women.
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I mean, not all women, obviously, many, many, many don't agree with me, but I mean, that
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And so that's the only demographic that I can say I even somewhat represent and that
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I am a part of, and then more specifically, the Christian woman.
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And I would love to say that all Christian women are definitely going to vote Republican,
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We can't have them, oh my goodness, vote for Kamala Harris.
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And yet, I know it might seem strange to some of you, but this strategy of just calling
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Trump Vance weird, just out of the realm of normal, creepy even, that actually can be
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Because look, in this demographic, we've got a lot of busy moms or a lot of working women.
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They don't have a lot of time to look into the policies.
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And while I think that we should absolutely hammer home the policy differences between
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Harris and Trump, because Harris is truly a far left radical whose policies have been
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We also have to remember that there is a significant voting block, specifically among women who do
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And as much as I have lamented that over the years, as frustrated as I have been by that,
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And I'm not going to change that in the next 100 days.
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Now, I hope to convince as many people as possible by talking about the policies to at
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And if there are people who are voting based on vibes, I want the vibes for this side to
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And I want the vibes for Kamala to be disastrous.
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And so it takes, I think, just a certain level of strategy and thinking and labeling and messaging
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And I apologize for that terminology because vibe shift, it's like vibrations, energy,
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I just mean the feelings, like the vibes for right now, right now for Kamala, unfortunately,
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And look, the right can't overcome everything that she has in her corner.
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I guarantee she'll get Taylor Swift to come out in support of her.
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She's got Megan Thee Stallion, who I guess has influence.
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She's got even these great global institutions.
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She's got a lot of these social media companies and social media influencers.
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And look, the right's not going to be able to overcome that part.
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We're not going to be able to get celebrities that have the same pull as the celebrities that
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are going to be, you know, in the in the bucket for Kamala Harris.
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Republicans have won in the past, even with those kinds of odds stacked against them.
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And that means that the traditional strategy of just traditional ad campaigns isn't going
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But to change the feeling of this female voting block, it's not enough to say, don't focus
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I've even had this realization in like the past several days.
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As much as I want that, it's got to be a vibe shift.
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And I do think because I've been thinking about this and chewing on this for the past few
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I do think that I have a messaging strategy that some people more talented than I am and
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with more experience than I have, that they could run with the seedlings of my idea and
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make it into something great that would shift how at least one demographic sees Kamala Harris.
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And so I posted on Instagram about that and I asked you guys, does anyone have a connection?
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Because I know I have a lot of people that are listening to this and watching this who
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So I just want to say thank you for that because a lot of you spread that message.
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Y'all even prayed that I would get connected to the right people.
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And I don't want anything out of this at all besides just giving, handing over someone the
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Or maybe someone can run with it and it'll work for them.
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I don't want, I don't even need to be a part of it or anything.
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I just have this idea, this vibe shift idea that I think could possibly work and could
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Because what we're doing right now, this, I know you are, but what am I?
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Okay, you're calling me weird, but you're actually weird.
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And it might work for some people, but I don't think that that's sufficient.
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So anyway, if you're listening, even though I have been reached out to by some people,
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but if you're listening, super PACs, Trump campaign, Vance communications people, reach
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So many of you are like, you're going to leave us hanging and you're not going to share
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No, I'm actually not because I actually want this idea to come to fruition.
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If I just wanted you to know about it, to try to get people to tell me that's a good idea,
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And plus, I don't want people across enemy lines to hear it.
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And I don't want them to be able to preempt it because I actually think it's a good idea.
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OK, so one of you messaged me the other day about a Bible that is apparently kind of popular
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It's marketed as a kid's Bible, and some kids have actually received this Bible at vacation
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It's called the Brick Bible, and it is a children's storybook Bible.
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And if you grew up in the church or if you have kids who are in church, you know, these
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storybook Bibles are basically the Bible stories condensed and put in kind of more kid-friendly
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language, and they typically have illustrations of the story.
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And usually they kind of leave out the most gory stories, or even if they do tell, of course,
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the story of the flood or David and Goliath, they do it in a way that a kid is not going to
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They may ask questions, why did God flood the earth?
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How did a slingshot with a tiny rock in it kill Goliath?
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But it's not like blood gushing everywhere, and it's just to kind of help lay a foundation
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for a child and their understanding of Scripture.
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Now, some people are completely against storybook Bibles because we feel like it leaves out too
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And whether you love storybook Bibles or you hate them, I promise you will hate this brick
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It is geared towards Lego fans, and it seems like it would be awesome, especially for young
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boys, because it uses pictures of Lego set up in a way that seems to be depicting biblical
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The Chicago Tribune said that it is beyond remarkable.
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Publishers Weekly called it a curiously powerful graphic novel.
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And it seems that it is actually meant to shock and disturb.
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It was seemingly created for adults who almost want to make fun of the Bible and to show how
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maybe cruel and merciless God seems rather than for children to show them the beauty of Scripture
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It includes the first six stories from the book of Genesis.
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And then in the next decade, so through 2011, almost 5,000 biblical scenes have been added to it,
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illustrated with these Lego blocks, spawning nativity scene, Christmas cards, sets of assorted greeting cards,
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Many churches and Sunday school classes have reached out to the creator for permission to use his material
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However, as we already mentioned, this has actually ended up being very detrimental to the faith
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So it depicts Bible stories in a way that is not only violent but sexually graphic.
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It ridicules the nature and character of God by making him only seem garish.
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So, for example, they have subtitles like this, like the headline for Revelation 21 through 1 through 22
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is, quote, God's garish eternal tribute to himself.
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And he says when he was 13, he started going by this ironic nickname, the Reverend.
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More recently, in 2015, the author Smith came out as, quote, unquote, transgender.
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So he now calls himself a female and goes by the name of L.B. Sperling, referring to himself
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as a, quote, unquote, blue-haired transgender lesbian atheist.
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In all, the book, with its skewed perspective on matters of faith and its wry commentary on
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Old Testament stories, attempts to make a case against the God of the Bible.
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It's attempting to make a case against the God of the Bible.
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So this is the screenshot that was originally sent to me.
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It's a part of a group called Book Reviews for Christians, and it's a picture of the
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And it looks like the cover of the brick Bible, if you can see it right there watching on YouTube.
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Like, it looks—there's nothing that indicates that it would be blasphemous, of course, because
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it wants Christians, and it especially wants unsuspecting kids, to read it.
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And they want these violent images to be stuck in their head so that when they think about
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God and they think about Christianity, they are fearful and angry.
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But you don't get that at all when you are looking at the cover.
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You know, I would probably look at this and be like, wow, this is a cute idea.
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I can't believe someone put in this much effort.
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You see Jesus walking on water, and it seems really sweet.
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But here is what this caption says of this person who was warning others in this group about
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It says, do not get this book for your children.
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They had a Lego competition, as it was Lego VBS starting Monday.
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We left for a two-day road trip Monday, and he read it for two days.
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Not realizing there were images of characters cutting off their private parts and blood everywhere.
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We've had to talk about rape, as he already read that in the Bible.
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But this story was in there, as well as a Lego raping another Lego.
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It jumped from one horrific story to another, never showing God's love and grace.
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Even God was shown from the beginning as a mean, hateful character.
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I'm sick to my stomach, as I'm so careful with what he is exposed to.
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I look up info on the author, and some statements he slash she question mark made are included.
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The author is a trans-atheist, and this was written to mock the Bible for an adult teen audience.
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It's so sneaky, it's so sly, it's so much like Satan to make a book like this that looks
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cheery and loving on the outside, that really on the inside is a poor depiction of what
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It does talk about some really, really disturbing stuff.
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But these things are descriptive, not prescriptive.
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So just because the Bible includes some things that are very violent or very gory, are very
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uncomfortable to read, does not mean that they are saying these things are good.
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And God certainly isn't saying these things are good.
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And actually, I think that's something that lends to the reliability of the Bible, why
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we can look at this biblical canon and say, yeah, wow, that must be true, is because if
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the Bible were just compiled by a bunch of men who wanted to get you to believe what
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they believe and believe and the idea of God that they have, if they just wanted to
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create a faith that had control over you, then surely they wouldn't have included all
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of these very inconvenient parts, the parts that are tough to defend, the descriptions of
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God that are actually very hard to wrestle with and tough to contend with.
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If they just wanted to make God as attractive and as palatable as possible and to get as many
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people to latch on to it, they wouldn't have included the failures of God's people over
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and over again, the hardships that they had to go through, the death and the battles and
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And they also wouldn't have depicted all of these attributes of God that can be very
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I think that they would have created it in a way that just tells this very easy, linear
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story that everyone can understand and latch on to and adhere to in this cultish way.
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Um, but the, really the only explanation for the compilation of scripture is that it must
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It must just be inspired because this, you know, it's, it's certainly not a PR campaign
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The only thing that makes it compelling is that it is true.
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Um, this author, however, uh, he's got, he's got a lot more about him that I think, uh,
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What's interesting about this guy is that he's received backlash for years because of this.
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And yet somehow churches aren't hearing about that.
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So in 2011, when he released the Brick Bible, a new spin on the Old Testament, it was followed
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And then in 2013, he was able to sell them together and it received a lot of backlash because
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of the inappropriate material for children, Sam's Club actually pulled the book from its
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Most recently, Smith has been working on another book, actually, the Brick Book of Mormon, which
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presents the history and teachings of Mormonism.
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And so he really has it out for all different kinds of religions.
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Like I said, he became an atheist when he was 13.
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Before that, he was a churchgoer at the Episcopal Church.
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The Episcopalian denomination is extremely liberal.
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I think there are probably a lot of agnostics and a lot of people who may even be atheists
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They generally do not believe that the Bible is inerrant and infallible.
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And so it never really surprises me when people go from Episcopalian to nothing.
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Or maybe they try to go the other direction, too.
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But he was probably raised in a liberal home if he was being raised Episcopalian.
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He said that when he read the Bible and he studied religion and philosophy at Boston
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He found the Bible so shocking and full of dramatic, obscene behavior that he believed
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I don't think I would have been nearly as inspired to create this project if it weren't for the
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continuous, outrageous, and depraved actions of the Bible's main character, Yahweh.
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Power mad, belligerent, masochistic, petty, woefully insecure, extremely dangerous and
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Yahweh exhibits all the worst attributes of man.
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On Reddit, oh, oh my goodness, this person's on Reddit?
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I would have never, never assumed that this person would be a Redditor.
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Smith responded to the criticism of his Brick Bible series by defending his perception of
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The more of the Bible I read, the more it seemed impossible that anyone would depict Yahweh with
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anything other than an angry, vengeful disposition.
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I say that without making any judgment of Yahweh's character, I am strictly making an impartial
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All this can be quite jarring and can cause serious cognitive dissonance for religious believers.
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And, uh, he also tweeted this in October of 2022, he said, since Republicans and Christian
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ministers are far more likely to molest or rape children than LGBTQ people, I don't think
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children should be exposed to Republicans or Christian ministries in school or anywhere,
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which is obviously, um, major, major projection.
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Again, this is a grown man who decided that he was going to pretend to be a woman.
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And we know what is typically, um, what is typically underneath those desires and that
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shift, uh, for grown men, it is typically some kind of humiliation fetish.
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So for him to talk about like the sexual depravity of one group of people, what it comes down to
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Um, he hates the God of the Bible and it's understandable because when you don't believe you see it as
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And of course, I mean, the first Corinthians one talks about this, that God has shamed the
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It seems like evil to those who are in the darkness.
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And it can only seem like that if it is not true, but if it is all true, if it is all true,
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that humankind fell and that we are sinful and that God is real and that he created everything
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and he is perfectly holy and therefore he cannot be in the presence of sin.
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And therefore he created a way that we could be reconciled to him, that we could be sinless,
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that we could be made new so that we could have a relationship with him, that we could become
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his friend, that we could spend forever with him, that we could, um, escape wrath.
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If it's not true somehow, then yes, this depiction, independent from that, independent from the
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reality of the redemptive arc that I just explained, sure, you can take bits and pieces
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But if it's all actually true, then God is really good that he would give us the opportunity
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to come to him and to be his heirs and to be his children and to be his friends and to live
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forever with him and to be made new without any sin.
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And he can say, this author can say he's objective as much as he wants to, but at the end of the
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day, if he were, he would depict all of the love and the grace and the mercy we see from,
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Different titles in the Bible say children to be killed as warning.
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And then there is a bunch of sexual stuff in it, um, that is needlessly explicitly sexual.
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Of course, this is something that is, again, depicted for children.
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And most parents would not just give their young child, uh, the Bible without any guidance
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or help or explanation whatsoever, because some of it is absolutely, um, explicit.
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There's a right place, a right time, and a right way for that.
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That's why parents must disciple their children.
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We can show you, um, some of these pictures, and we can just start putting them up on the
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screen that show you that, for example, like David looking at Bathsheba, um, this is full
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Um, and so you can see, like, her different body parts there as a Lego.
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We've got Solomon's wives and concubines, sexually explicit, full screen 11.
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And then we've also got some violent, very violent and strange imagery there with the
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Um, we've got apostles performing magic tricks by, like, pulling a rabbit out of the hat.
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So, obviously, that is trivializing the actual miracles and healing, um, that was happening.
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So, unfortunately, the lesson here is we have to be so careful with what we are allowing
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our children to read and consume, even when it says Christian, even when it says Bible.
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And, you know, I actually received, I had just remembered this, I received some pictures,
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I think, from the same person who sent me the stuff about this, uh, uh, this Brick Bible.
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Um, there is another Bible that apparently is going around.
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This is a storybook Bible, and it's called the Peace Table, the Peace Table Bible.
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And it is all basically from the perspective, not exaggerating, of critical race theory.
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So, for example, like, there's one story that says, Strong Sisters.
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Apparently, that's the theme of Numbers 27, 1 through 11.
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And it goes through the story that is really not about what they are saying that, um, it's
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And then they have, um, a love song in Song of Songs.
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And then it starts with, I am black and I am beautiful.
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My beloved is like an apple tree with satisfying and sweet fruit.
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So apparently the Song of Solomon is about actually being, um, black.
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Um, and then we've also got some other pages in the storybook Bible, and it's talking about
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This is apparently biblically what we should do, and it's just a bunch of environmentalist
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Not all of it is wrong and bad, but it's clearly coming from just one perspective.
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For example, you, um, turn off the light when you leave a room.
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You use less water, uh, you bike instead of using a car or a bus.
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That's one way that you apparently make peace with creation.
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Okay, so this is apparently one of the paths to sanctification according to this Peace Table
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So all that to say, just be careful out there, y'all.
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Watch out, again, for the things that your kids are, uh, consuming and make sure that they
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We have to be reading and watching and listening to all of this stuff on our own, and that doesn't
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mean that we have to keep our kids in, you know, this insulated bubble where they don't
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Um, but we should be in charge of that, and we should be the ones to introduce new concepts
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to them, because whoever has the power of introduction to a child has the authority to
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shape what they think about that thing, which is, of course, why these books exist, and why
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teachers are pushing different kinds of ideology in schools, and why there are different books
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that are pushing the ideas of gender ideology, because they know if they can get to your child
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first, then they can lay the foundation for what that child thinks about God, marriage,
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For anti-natalism, that is, like, anti-children, um, celebrating childlessness.
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And it's to the point where it's not just celebrating someone's circumstances or personal
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life choices or freedom or whatever it is, but it's actually denigrating children and
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child-bearing in favor of just doing what you want to do.
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So there's this person named Angela, uh, Belcomino.
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So this is just an example of what I'm talking about, but I almost positive that she's rage
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baiting on X because she posts things like this and people just absolutely lose their
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I think she knows that it gets her a lot of engagement.
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I'm just contributing to that, but this is an example of what I'm talking about.
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So she said, imagine being 42, child-free, stress-free, and being this happy.
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And it's just a video of her dancing in a jean skirt.
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Belcomino has also, she has a new single called Bold Lib.
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And the video says, being child-free threatens the patriarchy.
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So I don't know if she's really a liberal or if she's just, I mean, it feels like satire.
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I do think she's rage baiting, but maybe she is also sincere.
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And whether or not that person that we just played is being legit.
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Like, I think that there are plenty of people who would rock out to that.
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She posted on X about choosing to fly first class over choosing to have a house and children.
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She said, I just met a 72-year-old woman who's been telling me about her life.
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Because this is the best thing she said, apparently.
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You can either have a house and kids or you can fly first class.
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I mean, first class, I will say, is better than coach.
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Like, you're still in a metal tube with a bunch of people who probably are wearing open-toed shoes.
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For you to say that you are going to be voluntarily barren your whole life because you get a few extra inches in first class is really sad.
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It goes back to that quote that we used yesterday by C.S. Lewis.
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It's not that we need more, that we need more pleasure.
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We're too easily entertained when the much deeper and more profound joys are there for us.
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And, you know, I realize this, that this is even a problem on the right.
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And I shouldn't say realize because I've known this.
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I've been talking about this for probably six years at this point.
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But when I brought up the other day that I don't think animals should go everywhere.
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The animal worshippers came out to play and they were very angry.
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I just said, look, I don't think that animals should go everywhere.
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Some of you animal people out there can't even say you like cats.
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I can't even, like, my husband sometimes likes to watch hunting shows.
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Like, I have actually nothing ethically wrong with killing a deer or killing an animal for meat.
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I'm like, that buck was just living his life that day.
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Like, he was just going on his merry way and then he was just shot and killed.
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And so, when I say that people are too obsessed with their pets and elevate them to the point of being people and taking them everywhere and it's gross and it's uncivilized, when I met with, why do you hate animals?
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Why do you want Donald Trump to take everyone's pets out of their homes?
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Literally, those are the unhinged and emotional responses that I've gotten.
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And not just that, but to bring it back to our conversation.
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The comments that I got from professing Christian conservatives underneath my post on this was, they were, well, I, like, you know, my dog is better behaved than most children.
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Because this is, you might not be, think you're a child hater if you are this, but you are just contributing to this whole anti-child culture, which is very, very sad.
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It is symbolic of, it's symptomatic of paganism and godlessness.
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It's a disordered passions, disordered affection kind of thing.
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It speaks to disorder in the heart, spiritual darkness in our country, and even individually.
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I have two responses to, my dog is better behaved and cleaner than kids.
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Like, the whiny toddler gets priority over your well-trained golden retriever.
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Like, I would rather that kid be in the restaurant.
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I mean, of course, we all want kids to be well-behaved.
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But I'd rather that kid be in the restaurant, be in the space, be on the plane, than the well-trained dog.
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And number two, your dog is not cleaner than a human.
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But let me just say, like, let us remember that dogs and cats put their entire booty hole on the ground when they sit.
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They're not wearing pants or a diaper or anything.
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I literally saw a video of this, like, little pug that this woman was walking into, like, a farmer's market on the concrete.
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And that pug just sat right down and diarrhea-ed all over the concrete.
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Tell me, like, and literally all of the comments were defending the dog.
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Like, all of the comments were like, oh, that poor dog.
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I can't believe you were frustrated with the dog.
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And we have compassion, more compassion for the human than we have for a dog.
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It also, like, steps and poop and pee all the time.
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Like, luxury hotels and restaurants and grocery stores.
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And you have the audacity to tell me that your dog is cleaner than a human being?
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Just because you let your dog eat after you doesn't mean that we all have to.
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So, I actually think literally that is part of the disordered thinking that we have about animals.
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That we actually, like, aren't even worried about the health hazards that they pose.
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I was on a flight not that long ago where someone's husky.
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Literally was just, like, splayed out into the aisle.
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And by the way, did you know that you could, you can buy these service dog vests on Amazon?
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Like, they're probably not really service dogs.
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Service dogs actually have to be very well trained for, like, years.
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People who have different forms of, like, combat injuries.
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And I think we should welcome service dogs into the public.
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But most people, just because you, like, don't like flying doesn't mean that you need your, like, a service Yorkie.
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And anyway, yeah, this husky was just, like, in the middle of the aisle and barked at the flight attendant.
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I think it's inconsiderate, like, okay, sure, dog park certain areas.
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We used to, before we had kids, we had, we would take our dog.
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We would walk our dog to, like, this local taco place.
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I never would have dreamed of trying to bring my dog inside.
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Or, and we, like, she was on a leash and all of that stuff.
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Um, and I just think that the, like, the attention and the importance that we place on animals, it just, it just speaks to where we are as a country.
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And a lot of people say, well, so many other things are more important.
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I don't know if there are that many more important things than animal worship.
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Wherever there is animal worship, there is child sacrifice.
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Like, we care so much about pets and so much about animals.
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But every year, we sacrifice hundreds of thousands of innocent babies to Malak.
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And, you know, I also understand, here's another part of this.
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Like, I understand that not everyone can have children.
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And when you don't have children, I would say that this maybe was me to a degree before I had kids.
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Like, you can channel the natural instinct for nurturing and mothering that you were supposed to be having for children into your animals.
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And that can make your love for them seem a lot more intense.
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That's why you feel the need to call yourself a dog mom.
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But there are real life children that could use your resources and your love and your attention and affection a lot more.
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I mean, there are lots of different means and lots of different ways that you can love on and care for the living children who need it.
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That are more important, just objectively, to God than a dog.
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Like, I think we should care for animals and have compassion for animals.
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But whenever they get anywhere close to the place of children, like, we are in major, major trouble.
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Here's the truth is that children do make your life much different.
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And they do mean that you will be able to do less of what you want all the time.
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You will have less time to focus on your wants, on your pursuits, on your health, on working out, your hobbies, your career goals, all of that stuff.
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All of that stuff will be, for a long time or a little time in big ways and in small ways, pushed to the side, at least in certain moments.
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It is true that there is sacrifice that's required.
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There is a downgrading of your own happiness at times, moment by moment, and that you just don't get to do what you want to do all of the time.
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Like, human beings, we're not made to run on convenience.
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We were not made to run on fleeting pleasure and selfishness.
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That is actually how we run best and run fastest and most efficiently.
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That is when we are at our best, when we are in a place of sacrificing for something that is worth it.
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Like, why do we call the greatest generation the greatest generation?
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It's because they sacrificed so much for something bigger than themselves, for freedom, for our country, for Western civilization.
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It's not because they lived lives of luxury and licentiousness.
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They're actually the generation that went through some of the hardest times in American history, and they're great because they overcame challenges.
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We don't lionize people who just live lives of ease and pleasure.
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And having children, raising children, sacrificing for your children, discipling your children is an act of heroism.
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And not only that, because I don't want it to seem like it's just sacrifice, like, it's really fun.
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Like, I can't even describe to you just the joy that your children put in your heart.
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But to love and to be loved as a mom is, like, the greatest thing I've ever experienced.
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And plus, as they're getting to this age where they're developing their personalities and asking questions, and they're so independent and so much,
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and even just asking the most, like, theologically sharp questions at moments that really make you think about, like, your own faith.
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A dog loves me because I just happen to be the human being that gives it food.
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And plus, you learn so much about God through parenting.
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Because our relationship with our kids is reflective of the father's relationship with us,
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but also the father's relationship with the son that, gosh, how much did God love me that he would send his own son to die on my behalf?
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How many of us would sacrifice our own children that we love more than anything in this life on behalf of someone else?
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You become a more compassionate person, a more understanding person, a better communicator.
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You're able to see the big picture of things so much better.
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And I'm not saying people who don't have kids can't have all of these awesome attributes,
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but I am saying God uses children to make you better and to sanctify you in a way that just pursuing what you want just can't.
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And listen, I know that many of you out there, many of you women, like, you're listening to this and you want kids.
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You don't not have kids because you're just being selfish and you're just doing what you want to do.
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You're just in the circumstance in which God has placed you in and you have to make the best of it.
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God has a full and wonderful plan for you to use you for his purposes and for his glory and to advance his kingdom.
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In the circumstance you are right now, that doesn't start when you get married or have kids.
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So you're not less than, you're not half of a woman or anything like that.
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I want you to know that, like, God's purpose for you is right now in this circumstance too.
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But if you are in a circumstance to be able to have kids, don't put it off.
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He loves to come after kids because kids are vulnerable.
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It's our job to steward them, protect them, love them, disciple them well, help them be strong and brave and bold and wise and kind.