Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 1331 ｜ Ron Answers Your Questions About Iran, Autism, and Birthright Citizenship

00:00:00.000 Well, hello, everyone. It's good to be back with you. I'm Ron Simmons. I'm Allie's dad.

00:00:14.720 And I really enjoy doing these episodes occasionally. In fact, we had a question is,

00:00:19.180 why are you doing so many episodes for Allie? Well, we're doing two episodes a month,

00:00:24.420 but these are in addition to what Allie already does three times a week. Occasionally,

00:00:29.060 she'll be out of town like she was a few weeks ago and couldn't get one of those during the week

00:00:33.300 recorded, and she'll ask me or someone to do it for. So occasionally I might be on a little bit

00:00:38.160 more than that, but these are just two episodes a month which come out on the weekend. And on the

00:00:43.080 other weekends, Allie has an episode that generally is one that's been very popular in the past that

00:00:48.580 maybe you missed or you want to listen to again that comes out. So before we get started, I wanted

00:00:52.800 to remind you, if you haven't got your tickets to share the arrows, and guys, Mother's Day is coming

00:00:58.680 up. What a great Mother's Day present, along with something else that you could give her. But a

00:01:04.740 great Mother's Day present would be a ticket and a trip to share the arrows in October. It's going

00:01:10.240 to be another great event that Allie and her team are putting on. And, you know, if you hear all the

00:01:16.620 comments from last year's and the year before, you'll want to get your wife or girlfriend or

00:01:22.400 mom or daughter there if you can. So just encourage you to do that. Tickets are going fast. So you

00:01:26.900 want to go ahead and get yours now. We're going to talk about a couple of things today, a couple

00:01:31.560 of key things today. We're going to talk about the Iran war, and then we're also going to talk

00:01:36.340 about autism. It's Autism Awareness Month, and that's very important to our family. As you know,

00:01:43.220 Allie's brother is on the autism spectrum, and we also have a nephew on the spectrum as well.

00:01:48.800 So it's something that's been near to our hearts for, well, for 41 years.

00:01:55.900 Daniel's next older brother is 41 years old, so it's something we've been talking about and dealing with for 41 years.

00:02:02.360 So we're going to talk about that a little bit today since it is Autism Awareness Month.

00:02:06.620 But first, let's talk a little about the Iran War, give a little update on that.

00:02:10.800 Oh, one thing. Before we get started on that, you'll notice that I have my Master's shirt on.

00:02:15.500 it's master's weekend. The greatest weekend of golf all year is master's weekend. And, uh,

00:02:22.640 I don't know if you're a golfer or not, but ladies, if your husband's a golfer and he likes

00:02:26.520 watching golf, give him a little grace this weekend. If you don't mind, you probably already

00:02:30.480 do that. But if he wants to spend a few hours on Saturday and Sunday afternoon in front of the TV,

00:02:36.340 watching golf, that's okay. It's okay. If he does that. Now, if he did that every weekend,

00:02:40.300 that'd be a problem. But this weekend, give him a little grace on that. It's one of the great

00:02:44.060 places in the world. I've been fortunate enough to go there a few times, and it's even prettier

00:02:50.320 in person than it is on television, which is hard to imagine because it's beautiful

00:02:54.800 on television. But I wore this in honor of Master's Weekend, so I hope you're okay with that.

00:03:00.420 But let's talk about the Iran War. It's been going on about a month now, and as you probably

00:03:07.460 have heard that we have entered into a ceasefire period, and it's a dual ceasefire, meaning that

00:03:14.720 both sides have agreed to no more bombs or attacks for at least two weeks. And during that time

00:03:24.220 period, there are going to be negotiations going on. Our entourage is led by J.D. Vance, Vice

00:03:32.220 president, J.D. Vance. And he has some other people with him also that will be in Pakistan.

00:03:38.700 Pakistan's kind of serving as the neutral location where both sides are going to go meet.

00:03:46.480 So that actually starts on Saturday. So by the time this episode comes out, they will have

00:03:51.420 started discussing points to hopefully put an end to the war and also put an end to the nuclear 0.96

00:03:59.600 threat, the very real nuclear threat that Iran exists for us, and we want to make sure 0.82

00:04:08.400 that that's taken care of. 1.00

00:04:09.860 So that's going to happen.

00:04:10.960 We should be praying for that.

00:04:12.180 We should be praying for discernment and for wisdom.

00:04:15.260 And, you know, God uses all sorts of people to accomplish his goals.

00:04:19.800 Allie just talked about that this week, that I was listening to one of her podcasts.

00:04:23.240 And sometimes he uses people that you and I wouldn't want to have dinner with, right?

00:04:28.220 But that's just the way it works.

00:04:30.100 That's what he does because he is all-powerful.

00:04:32.020 He's omnipotent.

00:04:32.960 And we just need to pray that he gives a special sense of wisdom to both sides of this, all right?

00:04:40.020 And we realize that some of those people don't believe in the God that maybe you and I believe in.

00:04:44.700 But that doesn't mean God can't use them to come to his right conclusions.

00:04:50.540 Also, there's been some reports out there that Iran put out this 10-point proposal that we don't even know if, you know,

00:04:57.800 the leadership actually put that out. It's kind of like J.D. Vance dismissed the version of that

00:05:03.020 plan as little more than a random Yahoo in Iran, submitting it to the public access television.

00:05:08.860 Who knows where it came out? But it was just ridiculous stuff, basically saying,

00:05:12.280 we're not going to give up anything. We still want to have enriched uranium, all that type. 0.54

00:05:16.600 And it's not a serious, even if it did come from the government, that's not a serious proposal.

00:05:22.820 Here's what the proposal outlined, at least what's been reported, is the key things for the United States.

00:05:30.280 I want to read those to you.

00:05:31.880 That Iran commits to never developing nuclear weapons.

00:05:36.060 That Iran must also no longer enrich uranium within the country.

00:05:40.040 They have to hand over its stockpile of already enriched uranium to the International Atomic Energy Agency.

00:05:47.260 It's called the IAEA, which is kind of hard to say.

00:05:50.400 and Tehran would also commit to allowing the IAEA to monitor all elements of the country's

00:05:56.760 remaining nuclear infrastructure. That's important because in the past, they have not allowed

00:06:01.080 inspectors to come in. And the only reason you wouldn't allow inspectors to come in is because

00:06:05.860 you're trying to hide something. And we know now for sure that they've been hiding enriched uranium.

00:06:12.160 The other thing, another thing is reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. And we'll talk about that

00:06:16.360 a little bit later. That's very important also. Then we need to end Iran's support for regional

00:06:22.220 proxies, such as Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen and then Hamas that is in Gaza. 0.71

00:06:28.760 That is part of the deal. You know, people talk about Iran wasn't a threat to us. Well, 0.72

00:06:34.060 Iran, through these organizations, these terrorist organizations, they have killed Americans. 0.99

00:06:41.180 They have killed Americans. All of you that were born before 1983 should probably remember that they bombed the marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon. And that was an organization that was supported. The money came from Iran. 0.85

00:06:58.340 And that's what went on in Gaza when Hamas attacked Israel, what goes on in the Houthis that attack people outside of Yemen and what have you.

00:07:08.340 So it might as well be Iran themselves. 0.64

00:07:11.820 So to say Iran hasn't caused damage to America and our allies is just not a true story. 0.92

00:07:18.920 It's not true. 0.65

00:07:19.520 And how many of you can remember those hostages they took in the 70s?

00:07:23.160 And they were there for, I forget the name, how long they were there, but they were there for like a year and just released when President Reagan became president.

00:07:33.860 It's unbelievable. 0.94

00:07:35.020 So for people to say that Iran's not a threat, I just don't understand that.

00:07:39.480 When people have been claiming, at least the regime, maybe not the everyday Iranian person, but the regime has been claiming that they want death to America and death to Israel. 0.99

00:07:49.400 At some point in time, you have to believe them. 0.97

00:07:52.700 If someone in your city, if someone in your city, okay, said that they wanted to kill you and they were building a stockpile of arms that would allow them to do that, and you're just, are you just going to say, oh, it's okay, it's no big deal, that type of thing?

00:08:10.900 No, you're going to do something about it as we should, and that's what we're doing today.

00:08:16.360 Now, you can argue, and I get it, okay?

00:08:19.680 Nobody likes loss of life.

00:08:21.260 We don't like our soldiers to be killed, and I grieve for the parents of those people.

00:08:28.200 I can't imagine what that's like.

00:08:29.840 I haven't ever gone through that, so I really can't imagine, but I know it has to be heartbreaking.

00:08:35.420 Also, we don't want Iranian civilians killed either.

00:08:39.200 We don't want that to happen. 1.00

00:08:40.620 Now, sometimes that does happen because evil people, like Iranians, will hide their evilness behind good people, 1.00

00:08:49.220 and that causes sometimes some casualties on that side as well. 1.00

00:08:54.680 However, that doesn't mean that we shouldn't still do the right thing.

00:08:58.660 If you remember back, and we don't remember it,

00:09:01.320 but if you've watched any television, you know what went on in World War II.

00:09:05.960 At the end of World War II, we tried to get Japan to surrender.

00:09:10.780 We did everything we could in negotiations, and they kept saying no, no, no. 0.97

00:09:15.700 And remember, Japan at that stage was a lot like Iran today.

00:09:20.440 They had a leadership that basically thought they were infallible and they were godlike.

00:09:27.100 In fact, they thought their emperor was a god.

00:09:29.980 And so that small group of people didn't really care about their own people.

00:09:34.440 They only cared about staying in power.

00:09:36.320 And so the only way that we got them to surrender and save more American lives and more lives of other countries of which were our allies was we had to unfortunately drop an atomic bomb on a couple of their cities and it killed a bunch of innocent people. 0.91

00:09:56.500 And there's no way we're going to do that in Iran, but I promise you that if we did not take out their nuclear weapons and their capabilities, that at some point in time, Iran was going to use that as leverage against us or leverage against our allies and might even have used the bomb itself, maybe not against us, but maybe against one of our allies, even some of our NATO allies that don't seem to understand that they were at risk as well. 0.88

00:10:24.460 they're a whole lot physically closer to Iran than we are. So anyway, we just need to understand 0.85

00:10:29.700 that this war is something that nobody wants, but sometimes things are necessary.

00:10:37.000 Let's go on now. Let's talk about what kind of how Iran exists. The oil industry is the most

00:10:44.160 important industry in Iran. That's where they make their money. It has massive reserves,

00:10:49.240 About 208 billion barrels of crude oil as of the end of 2024 is in reserve.

00:10:56.220 So that is a huge, huge amount of oil.

00:10:59.740 And their exports in 2026 alone, even though there's a lot of sanctions against them, were 4.27 billion, which means probably the sanctions weren't working very well, President Obama.

00:11:11.840 I want you to understand that.

00:11:13.020 all the stuff that you told us you were going to do to keep them from enriching uranium and all

00:11:16.920 that, all that did to them was actually make them more lethal. And it's very, very disappointing.

00:11:24.000 A lot of people think or think that, well, we can't really do anything to their oil industry

00:11:29.980 because China gets so much of the oil that China uses from Iran. Now, make sure you don't mess

00:11:38.940 these statistics up. 80 percent of Iran's oil does go to China. However, that only represents

00:11:46.940 about 13 percent of what China imports for oil. So they import a lot more from Saudi Arabia and

00:11:53.740 other countries. So if Iran did not have any oil capabilities or they were greatly reduced,

00:12:01.260 that's not going to put China in a tailspin. There are other resources for that. And again,

00:12:07.100 And we're not trying to stoke China's ire as a result of this.

00:12:12.660 But it's not quite as big of a concern as some people want to make it out to be.

00:12:17.240 The U.S. doesn't partner with Iran on any oil anymore, not since 1973 when they nationalized all the oil companies over there.

00:12:26.300 We used to have a lot of oil companies over there.

00:12:28.640 In fact, we were the ones that basically discovered U.S. and British and French companies were the ones that discovered the oil in the Persian Gulf, but we don't have nothing to do with them anymore.

00:12:41.980 A think tank called the Center for Strategic and International Studies has written that hitting export infrastructure could cripple Iran's revenue, which we think is important.

00:12:52.820 Now, that will cause a spike short term in oil and gas prices, and I'm going to talk a little bit more about that in a minute.

00:12:59.700 But we have to be able – the way you cut off a regime is we cut off the head already, right?

00:13:05.940 But now we have to cut off their power supply, and their power supply is tied to money.

00:13:12.700 And the way – we have to be able to cut off their money.

00:13:15.460 What they're doing right now in the Strait of Hormuz, where they are trying to charge a toll for ships going through that strait, and they want it in Bitcoin.

00:13:25.140 Now, why do you think they want it in Bitcoin?

00:13:27.580 But Bitcoin is a lot harder to trace.

00:13:29.860 That's why they want that.

00:13:30.880 And so I read this morning that there are 3,200 ships that are sitting ready to go through the Strait of Hormuz, but they haven't gone through because either they're not willing to pay.

00:13:43.500 And therefore, if they're not willing to pay the toll, which I hope they never would, their insurance companies, unless they know there's going to be safe passage, aren't going to insure the cargo.

00:13:53.820 And that that can be a problem. That can be a problem.

00:13:58.120 So President Trump said today they'd better open up the Strait of Hormuz and not try to basically blackmail countries and companies to send them money.

00:14:11.040 But 3,200 ships, I can't imagine what that looks like.

00:14:13.540 I need to look at a satellite photo of that.

00:14:15.560 I bet it's interesting.

00:14:17.100 Okay, let's talk about enriched uranium and what 60% enriched uranium means.

00:14:22.580 On March 15th of 2026, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragichi faced the nation prior to the strikes that Iran had offered to dilute the uranium as a concession to show they didn't have plans for a nuclear weapon.

00:14:40.360 Listen, though, real closely to what he said.

00:14:43.380 I said, I offered, actually, that we are ready to dilute those enriched material or downblend them, as they say, into lower percentages. 0.74

00:14:54.700 So that was a, you know, a big offer, a big concession in order to prove that Iran has never wanted nuclear weapons and would never want them.

00:15:04.740 Are you willing to give that up now?

00:15:06.160 Well, there is nothing on the table right now.

00:15:12.720 Okay.

00:15:13.520 Now, you've got to unpack that a little bit.

00:15:16.040 First of all, for the last, I don't know, maybe 20 years, certainly since Obama did the deal that gave them all their money and kind of, you know, untied the sanctions we had on them, they have said they're not enriching uranium.

00:15:33.940 But in this alone, the gentleman said that we're willing to reduce the enrichment, to dial it back.

00:15:42.960 Now, if they haven't been enriching it, then why do they need to dial it back?

00:15:48.800 That's a, you know, so it tells me that, in fact, they have been enriching uranium and at the 60 percent level.

00:15:56.740 Now, let's take a look at what actually 60 percent means.

00:16:00.300 According to the Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation, which is another kind of think tank, the International Atomic Energy Agency calculated in its September 25 report, so less than a year ago, verification and monitoring report that on the eve of June 25 attacks into Israel and the United States,

00:16:20.460 What we did to remember when we went in to Iran and bombed their nuclear facilities that Iran had in its possession, had in its possession, 440 kilograms of uranium enriched up to 60 percent of the explosive uranium isotope U-235.

00:16:40.620 And basically what enriched uranium does, it allows there to be an atomic reaction that causes the lethalness of a nuclear bomb, okay, that caused a molecular reaction.

00:16:55.340 When you get it to 90%, it's ready to be put into a warhead, and when it impacts, it causes that reaction.

00:17:04.620 The IAEA notes that 60% enrichment accomplishes most of the work.

00:17:10.620 For 90 percent weapons grade uranium, most of the separative work effort measured in SWU, which is called separative work unit, occurs in the very early stages.

00:17:21.900 So the early stages of enrichment are kind of what gets everything ready from natural uranium to 20 percent or so.

00:17:29.960 So that's where most of it gets started.

00:17:31.680 Once at higher levels like 60, the remaining work to reach 90% is minimal, often described as only about 1% of the total effort for the stockpile.

00:17:43.000 So if it only takes another 1% effort to get from 60 to 90, you can imagine that it doesn't take very long to get there.

00:17:51.220 As a matter of fact, as you will see in this next video, that the enrichment that they had up to 60 was enough to create several nuclear bombs.

00:18:03.860 But here is SOT2.

00:18:04.740 I think it's important that this material is checked, that we can see it soon, so that we can confirm that there hasn't been any diversion, deviation of part of this material. It's a lot. So even if you move part of it, you could still have amounts that would be enough to manufacture a few warheads.

00:18:31.360 All right. So the IAEA is affiliated with the United Nations. And you know from the conversations we've had or Ali's had or other things you've watched that United Nations is not necessarily always friendly to the United States.

00:18:47.540 And so the IAEA is not an organization that we control. 0.95

00:18:52.700 And for them to say they had 60 percent and that for them to say that's enough for several nuclear bombs, I am really confused at why people want to continue to deny that Iran was or was and is a threat because they are.

00:19:07.260 Now, we think that we we most of that uranium was probably in the facility that we bombed in June. 0.73

00:19:14.740 However, it's still there. And so we need to be able to go in and get that out.

00:19:21.600 And that's going to be important to be able to do that.

00:19:25.360 That was IAEA chief Rafael Grossi.

00:19:28.780 That's who that was that you just saw on that video or just heard speaking.

00:19:32.240 Now, there were some questions that you all had.

00:19:34.620 I wanted to answer some questions on the Iran war that specifically you had to have to put my glasses on because I can't read the small print on these.

00:19:41.740 So Scott, excuse me for that. First question was, and this has come from one of Ali's listeners.

00:19:46.780 Do you believe Iran is truly going to cooperate? I feel like that'll never happen.

00:19:51.600 Well, I understand why you feel like that. But I do think here's what I do think that they'll cooperate at least temporarily.

00:19:58.980 And what I mean by that, the people that believe that Americans and Israelis should die are probably going to continue to believe that. 0.65

00:20:08.700 However, because we've crippled their capabilities so much, and if we're able to get the uranium out of the country that they've enriched and able to monitor the fact that they won't enrich it in the future, then their capabilities to cause harm to us and others are going to be severely reduced for decades. 0.94

00:20:29.760 And so I think that's a win.

00:20:31.780 I think we'll force them to cooperate in some way.

00:20:35.560 The next question, one, is Allie going to condemn the genocide that Trump proposed in his Truth Social on Easter?

00:20:42.120 Well, Allie talked about this in an episode that she had earlier this week.

00:20:47.580 You know, it's interesting to me is that some people want to believe, they pick and choose what they want to believe when Trump says something.

00:20:56.140 When he says something that they, you know, want to say, oh, that doesn't mean anything or I don't agree with that.

00:21:02.720 And then they say this.

00:21:03.720 They want to take it literally.

00:21:04.920 Trump does a lot of blustery and very bombastic, has a lot of hyperbole.

00:21:12.880 And I think we just have to understand that.

00:21:15.880 That's just who he is.

00:21:17.240 And, you know, we don't agree with everything.

00:21:19.020 As Ali told you earlier this week, we don't agree with everything that he does.

00:21:23.580 We don't agree with his stance on, you know, abortion pills.

00:21:26.380 We don't agree with his stance on IVF.

00:21:28.320 But there are some things we do agree with, and we do agree with his policy. 0.78

00:21:31.440 I agree with his policy that we're taking now in Iran.

00:21:35.040 And it doesn't mean that you have to agree with everything that somebody does. 0.75

00:21:38.900 But I don't think he was saying that we're going to kill a bunch of Iranian citizens and wipe out their society. 0.95

00:21:47.840 What I believe he meant by that is that we are going to, if we have to, that we would attack their infrastructure.

00:21:55.920 And yes, that would have negative consequences on some of the civilizations, some of the citizens of Iran, but attacking their power grid, attacking some of their other infrastructure that would essentially make that whole society take a large step backwards, which nobody wants to have happen.

00:22:14.600 But it wasn't about putting a nuclear bomb into Iran and killing tens of thousands of citizens or anything like that.

00:22:20.880 I mean, in fact, the people, the only people that are doing that are the Iranian regime themselves who killed more than 30,000 of their own citizens back in January, if you remember.

00:22:31.760 The next question is, when will the war be over?

00:22:35.660 Unless talks break down.

00:22:37.280 In other words, if they can get a solution based on during the ceasefire, then the bombing will probably have already been over.

00:22:46.440 We won't do that again.

00:22:47.580 However, there are two flashpoints that we have to make sure that we do.

00:22:52.720 We have to open the Strait of Hormuz.

00:22:54.500 That's a non-negotiable. 0.99

00:22:55.900 And we have to remove their enriched uranium and keep them from being able to do that in the future.

00:23:01.300 Those are non-negotiables on our part, my opinion.

00:23:04.420 Obviously, President Trump hasn't asked my opinion, but that's what I think that most of us, if we've gone this far, let's go ahead and finish the job.

00:23:12.260 All right.

00:23:13.540 Where in the scripture does God condone war?

00:23:16.360 Well, it's all throughout the New Testament, whether it's about Gideon or Joshua, David, even in the New Testament, in Revelations, Jesus, as you remember, returns as a warrior and he's leading the heavenly armies to defeat the beast and the false prophet.

00:23:33.620 Now, I certainly don't equate Donald Trump to Jesus, okay?

00:23:37.160 But the question was, where does the Bible talk about war, God condoning war?

00:23:42.220 And it's all throughout the Bible. 0.80

00:23:44.340 And again, you know, it has to be a just war. 0.67

00:23:47.900 There's actually something called the just war theory.

00:23:50.680 And the just war theory has six elements.

00:23:53.100 I want to read them to you. 0.96

00:23:54.720 You have to have a just cause.

00:23:56.360 In other words, why are you doing this?

00:23:57.820 There needs to be a just cause. 0.97

00:23:59.560 We believe, a lot of people believe, this was a just cause, that Iran was a threat to our allies and to America. 0.97

00:24:06.040 You can argue whether or not you believe that or whether it was an imminent threat. 0.71

00:24:10.980 And, you know, for me, if there's 60% enriched uranium and only 1% more effort to get to 90, that's a significant threat.

00:24:18.340 Number two, there's a legitimate authority.

00:24:20.880 In other words, you can't get a bunch of street gang people together and say you have the legitimate authority.

00:24:26.580 It has to be an established government to have legitimate authority.

00:24:30.140 Number three, it has to have the right intention.

00:24:33.260 What's our intention?

00:24:34.000 We're not trying to take territory from Iran.

00:24:37.160 We're not trying to steal their oil.

00:24:38.740 We're not trying to get any of their resources.

00:24:41.160 All we're trying to get them to do is do not be a threat to your neighbors or to us.

00:24:47.460 So I think that certainly is the right intention.

00:24:50.140 And it has to be the last resort. 0.68

00:24:51.960 Well, we've been negotiating with Iran for 47 years. 0.65

00:24:55.020 and, uh, we haven't been able to convince them that not having a nuclear weapon is the right

00:25:02.460 thing to do. So I absolutely think this is our last resort. And what's the probability of success?

00:25:08.220 You know, that's probably the hardest one. You never know a hundred percent, anything that

00:25:12.120 you're doing, but the fact that, uh, we have been able to essentially dismantle their military

00:25:18.340 capabilities other than some drones that they're still doing at the Strait of Hormuz, which we need

00:25:23.380 to figure out how to take care of, then the probability of success is pretty high for us.

00:25:28.760 Now, the last part of it is the hardest, opening up the strait, getting the uranium out. That'll

00:25:34.180 be the hardest part for sure. And does the good outweigh the cost? Yeah. You know, again, go back

00:25:41.340 to World War II and, you know, when 100,000 civilians and military people too, but a lot

00:25:47.840 of civilians were killed in the atomic bombs that we dropped. That's a lot of people. However,

00:25:55.160 if we wouldn't have stopped that war when we did, there could have been hundreds of thousands of

00:25:59.040 more killed. And so you have to think about, does the long-term good outweigh the short-term

00:26:05.120 consequences? And I personally believe that this does. We'll see. I don't want my grandkids to have

00:26:12.200 to go through another World War II scenario?

00:26:16.000 What about if we never would have been able,

00:26:17.940 if we wouldn't have gotten the war stopped in Japan?

00:26:20.400 And we still, think about Japan today

00:26:22.120 versus Japan during World War II. 1.00

00:26:24.680 I mean, they were beasts. 0.98

00:26:26.220 I mean, some of the, if you read some of the books

00:26:28.040 on the way they treated prisoners and whatever,

00:26:30.000 it's just unbelievable.

00:26:31.960 What if we're still having to deal with that?

00:26:33.560 We don't want our grandkids to have to deal with

00:26:36.160 what our grandparents had to deal with in World War II.

00:26:39.380 And that's what happens if you don't put a stop to this, right? 0.95

00:26:44.020 We should have put a stop to Hitler. 0.90

00:26:46.100 Winston Churchill, if you read any history about Winston Churchill, he was the lone voice that was saying, this guy is a problem. 0.90

00:26:53.900 And we should have done something with them, Europe should have for sure, a lot earlier than they did.

00:27:00.000 It cost millions of lives by not doing that.

00:27:03.500 So I hope that, you know, that you are at least open minded about it if you can be.

00:27:10.240 All right.

00:27:11.160 There's another question that came up, and it's a fair question, and it's a sad scenario,

00:27:15.400 but it's Christians are being bombed in Lebanon by Israel.

00:27:18.800 How and how we as U.S. Christians should respond?

00:27:22.580 Well, it is true that some Christians have been killed in Lebanon as a result of strikes

00:27:27.920 from the Israelis. 0.99

00:27:29.680 They're not being targeted, but the way Hezbollah works, that they hide behind a lot of their 0.97

00:27:36.420 innocent civilians. 0.87

00:27:38.020 And some of the rockets that we fired to get to Hezbollah have killed some civilians in

00:27:43.560 the area.

00:27:44.500 About 1,800 people have been killed in Lebanon since the conflict started.

00:27:49.580 About what we can figure out is somewhere less than 20 of those have been confirmed

00:27:54.880 as Christian as of now.

00:27:56.760 30% of the Lebanon's population is Christian.

00:27:59.180 So it's sad, but it is a small percentage.

00:28:02.360 And so I don't know that you can consider that a genocide.

00:28:06.160 But it is something that, as you know, Israel and the U.S.

00:28:10.400 tries their best not to have an impact on the civilians.

00:28:14.820 All right.

00:28:16.160 How do I feel about the mandatory draft and war Trump started?

00:28:21.020 I think, you know, it's easy for me to say this because I didn't have to do it.

00:28:24.700 But I think military service is a part of a requirement or some type of public service after someone reaches a certain age, whether it's out of high school or out of college, whatever.

00:28:35.300 I think that's actually a good thing.

00:28:37.000 We don't have that here, but I'm not sure that's not a good thing.

00:28:41.280 And it doesn't always have to be military.

00:28:42.860 Remember, there's other types of public service that people could get into and actually allow them to mature a little bit more before they head out into the world.

00:28:52.640 But I don't know that that'll happen.

00:28:54.320 I mean, that requires an act of Congress, and I do not believe that that could happen.

00:29:00.480 Secondly, how do you think the Iran war is going to affect the midterms?

00:29:04.860 Well, I think it depends.

00:29:05.840 If we can get a ceasefire and get what we want out of the deal, then I think it'll actually have a positive effect for Republicans.

00:29:14.200 If we don't get that or it drags on, then, you know, I think it could have a negative effect

00:29:19.560 because the polls show that there are a lot of people that are not in support of this action.

00:29:24.460 I disagree with them, but there are a lot of people that are showing that.

00:29:27.460 So it just kind of depends on how it goes the rest of the way.

00:29:31.620 Trump claims that the U.S. has had enough of its own oil, so why are gas prices so high?

00:29:37.100 I explained this a few weeks ago.

00:29:38.840 You might have missed that episode.

00:29:40.640 But the way oil prices are determined, it is a worldwide market.

00:29:46.360 And so the price of, for example, West Texas crude oil, which is considered one of the premier oils that are out there, is determined by supply and demand all over the world.

00:29:59.900 Not even that they're necessarily buying our oil, but also sets the price of oil that's refined and produced in other parts of the world as well.

00:30:09.940 And so, unfortunately, that's the way it works now.

00:30:13.240 do I think oil and gas companies take advantage of that? Do they have to charge that price? No.

00:30:19.200 To the U.S. consumer and to the U.S. refiners? No, they don't have to. Now, remember, we do

00:30:25.320 have to export some of our oil. All right. And again, you can blame our far left liberals on

00:30:32.820 this. We have to export some of our oil to get refined and then bring back in as gasoline because

00:30:38.860 we don't have enough refinery capacity because of the environmental regulations that make

00:30:47.000 it so hard to build new refineries here in the United States.

00:30:50.280 Hopefully, some of that's being taken care of, but that's one of the reasons.

00:30:54.280 So we have to send it out in the world market and then buy it back, which is not fun.

00:31:01.080 But anyway, it's a world market, and that's where the world prices get set. 0.83

00:31:05.080 All right, so that's enough about the Iran War.

00:31:07.040 Let's spend the last minutes that we have on talking about some other things.

00:31:11.960 I'm going to answer some more listener questions, which I so much appreciate you sending those.

00:31:17.000 But I'm also going to talk about autism because this is April is Autism Awareness Month.

00:31:22.220 And I just want to kind of give you a few facts.

00:31:24.180 In 2000, autism diagnosis was 1 in 150 children.

00:31:31.260 One in 150 children born were eventually given an autism diagnosis.

00:31:38.480 Look at how it's changed, though.

00:31:40.200 Now it's one in 31, which is incredible.

00:31:44.980 One in 31.

00:31:46.220 I mean, that's what, five times?

00:31:47.640 That's a 5X in less than 25 years.

00:31:51.020 Something's going on.

00:31:52.060 I don't know what it is.

00:31:53.140 You know, Lisa and I, our middle child, Daniel, is on the autism spectrum.

00:31:58.540 We did not know exactly what it was.

00:32:01.820 Lisa knew she was at least it was a well, first of all, she has a very good sense, as most mothers do, of their children.

00:32:08.380 Right. And she was also a teacher. 0.98

00:32:10.540 So she knew development pretty well as to how kids should develop.

00:32:14.900 We'd already had one child. So we'd watch Justin develop.

00:32:17.480 And so we could tell the differences that were in Daniel.

00:32:20.860 And we, you know, went from doctor to doctor to therapist to diagnostic test and things like that.

00:32:29.900 And finally, and one of the worst things is not getting a diagnosis because you want to say, okay, well, let's find out what it is and then we can deal with it.

00:32:37.640 Now, luckily for us, Lisa, even though we didn't have a diagnosis early on, from about the age of three or four on, she began working and doing the extra stuff that needed to be and looking for teachers that could specifically or schools that could specifically, you know, educate Daniel and what have you.

00:32:58.280 But it's just gotten more and more prevalent and really don't know why.

00:33:03.280 It's also more prevalent in boys than girls.

00:33:06.820 About 1 in 20 boys are identified with autism compared to 1 in 70 girls, making it roughly three times more common in boys.

00:33:15.220 I don't know why that is.

00:33:16.700 And again, we don't know 100% if it's genetic, if there's some environmental causes, or if it lays inside of a lot of people and then there's something in the environment that triggers it.

00:33:27.780 because a lot of people will say, you know, my child was developing perfectly normal until

00:33:32.660 just pick an age, say age four. And all of a sudden things change. Either they even went

00:33:37.500 nonverbal, they started having huge behavioral issues and what have you. So we don't know. We

00:33:44.640 just don't know the answer to that. But there is a lot of research going on. There's a lot more

00:33:48.380 awareness of it today than there was when I was in the legislature. One of the things that we do

00:33:53.360 know is that if you can get a diagnosis early and begin treating it through different types

00:33:58.700 of therapy like ABA, which is applied behavioral therapy, if you can get to treating it early

00:34:07.040 on, that their success in being able to accomplish more and more in their life is much, much

00:34:16.120 greater.

00:34:16.460 So we passed a bill when I was in the legislature that would make sure that insurance companies pay, include, as covered, ABA therapy, which is generally the best therapy to start with if your person's on the spectrum.

00:34:33.240 And a lot of insurance companies were denying that therapy.

00:34:36.560 But at least in Texas, if you live in Texas, your insurance company should be covering that therapy.

00:34:43.180 And I would encourage you to make sure don't a lot of people take it as shame, too, in that in that, oh, you know, I don't want to admit it.

00:34:51.120 Well, that's the worst thing you can do.

00:34:52.840 OK, there's no I mean, you don't control whether your child has autism or whether your child has this or that, just like we don't control if our child ends up being a, you know, a great athlete.

00:35:02.060 Those things just it just happens to some some people, good, bad, whatever.

00:35:06.320 So don't I would just encourage you not to avoid it.

00:35:10.160 Right. Or not to say, well, there's just a little something here.

00:35:12.580 And maybe it is just a little something and he's neurotypical or she's neurotypical.

00:35:19.640 But if you wait until they're in the fourth, fifth, sixth grade, now that's better than nothing.

00:35:26.500 But if you wait and you deny it until then and then you finally admit that there's something going on as you diagnose,

00:35:33.500 it's much, much harder for them to reach their maximum capacity.

00:35:37.160 And so I just encourage you to, if you see something, again, if you see something, say something.

00:35:42.020 If you see something, then get involved with experts that know what to look for.

00:35:47.500 It's pretty easy to test for autism.

00:35:49.420 It's non-invasive.

00:35:50.180 They can basically do some testing that will give you an idea whether or not they are on the spectrum and what types of therapy they might need.

00:35:59.860 A couple of other things.

00:36:01.880 You might remember in 2025, the FDA discussed a medication that would be a possible treatment for people with autism.

00:36:10.400 But what they have since found out, and they just put this out this past month, is that leucovorin was approved only for rare genetic orders that affects how folate is transported to the brain, but not for the more general treatment of autism.

00:36:28.420 Some people, autism is affected by how this folate is transmitted in the brain, and that

00:36:35.740 medicine might work for them, but it's not a general, everybody with autism should take

00:36:40.460 that.

00:36:41.320 So we got some questions on autism, which I want to make sure that I get to an answer.

00:36:46.200 Number one, how to talk to your in-laws, how are we to care or pay for their autistic son

00:36:53.980 when they can't someday?

00:36:55.060 man that's you know that's the biggest challenge that parents have is if if um if if they have a

00:37:02.780 child that's autistic it's likely you know unless there's some other comorbidities that that child

00:37:08.640 is going to live longer than the mom and the dad and what happens after that gun we think about

00:37:14.900 that with daniel all the time now we have set up a supplemental trust that will help pay for his

00:37:19.940 care. But Justin and Allie, the two, his two brother and sister are going to have to be involved

00:37:25.220 in that. And they're going to have to help make sure he has the right care. At this time, Daniel,

00:37:30.880 because of his, he also has epilepsy. He can't live alone because it creates a physical danger.

00:37:37.160 If he just had autism and he had the right type of safety net around him, then he could probably

00:37:43.400 live pretty independently, not a hundred percent, but pretty independently. But there are a lot of

00:37:48.620 people on the autism spectrum that are nonverbal, or they have huge behavioral issues where they

00:37:54.640 can be violent if not handled in the proper way. And so I think that what you have to do,

00:38:02.020 you can't worry about hurting somebody's feelings. You have to talk to them about how that's going

00:38:06.920 to work and who's going to play what role. And I get it. You may have your own family dynamics

00:38:14.600 that you're having to deal with, but if you're a sibling and your parents pass away and you have

00:38:20.740 a sibling that's on the spectrum or some other type of disability, I absolutely believe that

00:38:26.520 God calls us to care for those people. I do. I mean, you and I both, we don't want to get to

00:38:31.840 heaven's gate and say, hey, you didn't take care of your disabled brother or sister. Man, I tell

00:38:37.640 you what, I got a lot of other issues I don't have to deal with. I don't want to have to deal

00:38:40.480 with that one. That's for sure. How do you foster deep sibling relationships with your kids while

00:38:46.740 also dealing with special needs? That's a good, that's a really good question. My wife wrote a

00:38:50.880 book, self-published it, and it's called, I Would Have Said Yes. And if you want a copy of that,

00:38:56.060 we've got a few left. It's not, it's not in, in print anymore, but I'm happy to send you one if

00:39:01.800 you email me, ron at ronsimmons.com. No cost to that. If you have someone on the spectrum in your

00:39:06.980 family because it's interesting in that book, Allie and Justin both wrote a chapter. Now the

00:39:12.680 book was written probably 10 years ago. So, you know, a lot of things gone on since then,

00:39:16.660 but they wrote a chapter about how it affected them. And some of the stuff we didn't know till

00:39:23.000 we read the book. And you do have to be aware of that. You can't have everything in your life

00:39:29.960 center around that one issue, you have to try to be as quote unquote normal as you can be in a

00:39:38.280 family unit. And that might mean you have to take the person with the challenge along with you on

00:39:44.820 some things that you wouldn't normally do if it was just them, or you may have to get some type

00:39:50.200 of care for them while you're taking your other children out for other types of issues. But you

00:39:56.220 can't just shut everything else down and everything revolves around that one child that it's hard not

00:40:02.380 to do that because you care for them and you hurt for them and you want things to be better for them

00:40:07.400 but you have to make sure that your other children uh and they need to have empathy and i think they

00:40:14.880 will have although sometimes they may be angry about it but over the long run i believe that

00:40:20.260 they'll understand uh that it's a situation that you and you you and your spouse can't control

00:40:26.580 they can't control and that they'll understand that but you still have to do whatever you can

00:40:32.740 to make sure that you are working with your uh what we call neurotypical children in this in

00:40:39.060 as neurotypical way as possible and the other question that we have here that again this

00:40:47.380 print's too small. It says, do I have any advice on encouraging words for those of us

00:40:54.240 that are raising children with autism? My little one will likely be diagnosed this year and finding

00:41:00.040 Christian perspectives on the topic can be difficult sometimes. Well, yeah, it really can

00:41:06.120 be. And I hate to even say this, but I'll tell you some of the most disappointment that Lisa and I

00:41:11.500 have had has been in the Christian community. And it's not that Christians don't care. They do care 1.00

00:41:17.080 but they just sometimes don't know how to deal with it.

00:41:21.680 And what I would say is that you have to be a strong advocate for your child,

00:41:28.660 even in Christian environments, even in your church or in your Christian school

00:41:33.100 or in your community.

00:41:35.220 You have to be an advocate, and while you need to be kind in how you advocate,

00:41:40.540 you don't need to worry about whether or not that's going to hurt somebody's feelings or not.

00:41:44.360 All right. At the end of the day, it's how your opportunities you give your child.

00:41:50.200 And that might definitely cause some concerns inside your church that aren't providing what they need, what you need.

00:41:57.440 You know, if if if you know someone that has kids that are on the spectrum, here's the best thing you can do for them.

00:42:04.140 Let's say that you don't have any. OK, your kids are all neurotypical. 0.99

00:42:07.300 I'm sure they've got their own challenges, but but they don't have this challenge.

00:42:11.280 The best thing you can do for a family that you know that has a child with autism in addition

00:42:16.080 to praying for them is being able to be there, giving them some respite, saying, hey, can

00:42:22.240 we come over and keep your son or daughter while you go out to dinner?

00:42:27.840 Give them some respite care because it's very difficult on relationships.

00:42:32.620 Some 75% to 80% of families who have children with autism, those marriages end in divorce.

00:42:38.740 75 to 80 percent because it's it's a strain i'll tell you it's a strain sometimes on mine

00:42:45.700 and lisa's relationship now we've been dealing with it through a long time so we've figured out

00:42:49.580 how to adjust for it but it's not something that we still don't think about and we still don't deal

00:42:54.420 with every day and we it's it it puts a strain it's an it's an abnormal strain just like any

00:43:00.960 disability is when you have a child that's disabled so i would just just say as a parent

00:43:07.080 Advocate for your child.

00:43:08.280 As a friend, step in there and do something.

00:43:11.340 Don't just sit back and, oh, I'm sorry, I wish it wasn't that way.

00:43:14.660 Step in there and do something.

00:43:15.560 Get active.

00:43:16.860 Be a real friend, okay?

00:43:18.180 Be a real brother.

00:43:19.240 Be a real sister.

00:43:20.320 Be a real uncle.

00:43:21.100 Be a real aunt.

00:43:21.860 And do something to help out that family if you can.

00:43:25.440 All right.

00:43:26.460 We're going to speed through some of these questions.

00:43:29.500 So anyway, autism, let me finish up on autism real quick.

00:43:32.440 Autism Awareness Month is a month that, you know, we hope more people are thinking about.

00:43:37.940 You'll see a lot of stories come out on that.

00:43:39.480 There's a great video that Allie reposted on X the other day that was where this, one of the ESPN announcers, I think it was ESPN, their child, they brought their child with autism on the set.

00:43:52.100 And he's a big Philadelphia Eagles fan.

00:43:54.380 So just Google Autism Philadelphia Eagles and you'll see this video.

00:44:01.780 it's incredible. And the dad, who's one of the commentators for ESPN, just, I mean,

00:44:07.420 he can't keep it together, which I couldn't hardly keep it together watching it. So I

00:44:11.100 understand how that is. All right. Here's some questions. Rebuttal for Democrats. How has Trump

00:44:17.960 made our lives better? Immigration. Okay. We've got millions of people that were here illegally

00:44:24.180 that are not here anymore. And he's continuing to try to clean that up. That in itself is as 0.99

00:44:29.720 big a win. If that would have been all he had done, that would have been a, that is a huge win

00:44:34.740 for America. All right. The DEI rollback, all this mess about diversity, equity, and inclusion

00:44:41.240 rather than equality, rolling back all those programs within the federal government. Remember

00:44:46.440 shutting down the USAID program that was funding all of these liberal causes around the world

00:44:52.800 that were going against traditional values in America. 1.00

00:44:59.120 I believe that making us safer, this Iran thing, 1.00

00:45:03.600 I think we're a safer country today than we were. 1.00

00:45:05.920 We've got good relationships in the Middle East now that we didn't have

00:45:09.000 with places like Behran and UAE and Saudi Arabia.

00:45:12.940 I think that the real wages for people have grown.

00:45:17.360 In other words, the average wage in America has grown faster than inflation has.

00:45:22.800 Now, there's probably a little bit of a diversion in that now while the oil prices are higher.

00:45:27.400 But in 2025, the average wage was up about 4% and inflation was up about 2.6 or 7%.

00:45:35.140 So you had a real growth in your spend and how much you could afford by a full 1%.

00:45:41.280 And that hadn't happened in the last four years.

00:45:43.600 So that's a very good thing.

00:45:46.020 All right, I'm 15 year old, but want to start investing.

00:45:48.320 How do I go about that?

00:45:49.360 Just you can go with Fidelity or Schwab or any of those and just set up an account.

00:45:55.160 And I would recommend that you put it in an S&P 500, which is diversified stock portfolio of the largest 500 companies in the United States.

00:46:05.600 Just put your money in there.

00:46:06.900 You can put a little bit in each time.

00:46:08.220 There's no minimum amount.

00:46:09.380 I would recommend that you do that.

00:46:11.700 I just met your dad on my flight.

00:46:14.360 I'd love to hear more about his health care work.

00:46:16.220 I was on a flight yesterday coming home from Birmingham, Alabama, a young lady that sat by me. 0.98

00:46:21.580 She would fit the demographic primarily of Allie's show.

00:46:25.280 So we got to talking a little bit about what she did.

00:46:28.620 She was a health care consultant, and I sit on the board of a health care company.

00:46:33.440 And she – anyway, so somewhere around the flight, I thought, you know what?

00:46:36.380 I need to see if she – I need to introduce her to Allie's podcast.

00:46:39.540 So I said, hey, my daughter has a podcast that you might like.

00:46:42.460 And I showed her on my phone what it looked like, you know, with Allie's picture on there.

00:46:48.020 And so she looked it up on Instagram and saw that 42 of her friends were already following Allie.

00:46:54.740 And she said, oh, I've got to check this out.

00:46:57.000 And she's really interested in health care.

00:46:58.460 And her name was Lainey.

00:47:00.580 And so, Lainey, I hope you're watching this this weekend.

00:47:03.080 But we're going to end up talking about health care in the future because actually there's another question about that,

00:47:07.960 which hopefully we'll have an episode on health care in the future because that is a real cost issue.

00:47:12.460 for most Americans, as Laney and I talked about yesterday on the airplane.

00:47:17.180 What can be done about Minnesota? 0.75

00:47:19.380 People have to elect new leaders.

00:47:21.000 You have to elect new leaders in Minnesota.

00:47:22.940 Those of you that are in Minnesota, if you don't like what's going on there,

00:47:25.460 which you shouldn't, and the federal government is doing the best they can

00:47:28.820 to try to clear up the fraud.

00:47:30.080 In fact, a judge just approved the fact that the Trump administration

00:47:35.580 was going to withhold $240 million of Medicaid funding,

00:47:39.380 and they sued the Trump administration over that,

00:47:43.380 but the judge just ruled that they could withhold that for now.

00:47:47.380 So hopefully, but you've got to elect new leaders.

00:47:52.200 Let's see here.

00:47:53.160 How to move from a budget based on this month's earnings to last month's earnings.

00:47:57.880 Amanda, you sent me this.

00:47:59.620 Email me more details on that because I'm not sure I understand your question,

00:48:03.000 if you don't mind.

00:48:04.000 Whatever happened to Nancy Guthrie disappearance, she's still missing,

00:48:07.280 You know, unfortunately, it's unlikely that she's alive.

00:48:11.220 I don't think there's been anything come out in the last 24 to 48 hours on that.

00:48:16.460 How does it make you feel as dad to have your daughter sharing the gospel to the world?

00:48:20.540 It just makes me feel very thankful for her mom.

00:48:23.520 It really, really does.

00:48:24.540 And of course, for Allie, too.

00:48:26.040 But she watched her mom, and she talked about this on an episode recently.

00:48:30.100 She watched her mom on her knees and in the Word every day of her life and her grandmother as well.

00:48:36.460 So I'm very appreciative, very much appreciative of that.

00:48:41.440 Only real option for private education in my area is Catholic school.

00:48:45.560 Is Catholic school or public school?

00:48:46.920 I think it depends on the school itself.

00:48:49.220 I do think some of what they would learn in a Catholic school is about the Bible and about Jesus.

00:48:57.180 Those things are positive.

00:48:58.880 If you have a good public school and it's a conservative public school, which are harder and harder to find,

00:49:04.420 then I would be okay with the public school.

00:49:06.300 but that's up to you. You might want to think about starting your own private Christian school.

00:49:11.200 Maybe that's what God's calling you to do. Who knows? When is God okay with divorce? Well,

00:49:20.260 that's a good question. My mom and dad went through divorce, so we lived through that. I

00:49:25.020 don't think divorce is the unpardonable sin, but I do believe that the only biblical reason for

00:49:32.800 divorce, in my opinion, is abuse. If you're suffering abuse, you shouldn't stay in a

00:49:38.440 relationship where it's abusive. You shouldn't do that. And sometimes it's physical abuse. Sometimes

00:49:42.940 it's very much mental and emotional abuse. I do not believe that God would honor staying in a

00:49:50.020 marriage that has that. What about birthright citizenship thoughts? I don't believe in

00:49:56.680 birthright citizenship for people that come just to do that or what they call anchor babies. They

00:50:02.920 come in, have the baby and go home. That happens. There's a lot. I forgot how many. I heard a stat 0.94

00:50:07.840 the other day on how many Chinese babies have been born here and then taken back home. But it's

00:50:14.620 hundreds of thousands, maybe more than that. And so I don't think that they will, but I hope that

00:50:21.700 they would better define what it means to be born in America and subject to our laws and

00:50:29.260 regulations and what have you. Hopefully, the Supreme Court would be right on that,

00:50:33.880 but I don't have a good feeling about that. Your thoughts on spanking as a discipline for

00:50:39.260 children? I think everybody's different on that. I think that abusing children is absolutely

00:50:48.060 incorrect. I think a swat on the behind with a wooden spoon when they need it, when they're 0.71

00:50:53.880 little, like our kids got, I think that's okay. But you should never, and I wasn't always good

00:50:59.860 at this, but you should never spank your child in anger. You got to go cool down before if you 0.94

00:51:04.120 decide to spank, you got to go cool down before you do that. Every child's different. You know,

00:51:09.020 Daniel probably hardly ever got a spanking because all you had to do was look at him like

00:51:13.960 you were disappointed and he was as remorseful as you could be and would never do that again.

00:51:20.320 Our other two kids weren't exactly like that. So it depends on the child, but I don't think there's

00:51:25.560 something wrong with it if that's something that you believe in. But just remember,

00:51:29.400 you have to be measured in that and do not do that when you're angry. Do not do that when you're

00:51:35.180 angry. Let's see here. Define the confusing tax return terminology. Again, email me on that

00:51:42.160 specifically if you don't mind, Jackie, and I'll give you specific questions. I'll be happy to do

00:51:47.800 that. What was the one thing that you're most proud that you taught your daughter to pass down?

00:51:54.260 I think the one thing that I'm most proud of is I taught her to ask the next uncomfortable question

00:52:00.360 and I taught her, I mean, to take the next uncomfortable step. And I also taught her to

00:52:05.960 question, to question things. Don't just believe things as you, you know, read them or see them

00:52:11.980 question them, dig into that. And she's really naturally good at that anyway, but I think she

00:52:17.780 did get some of that from her mother and myself. All right, what is unlimited atonement

00:52:23.220 from a biblical standpoint and a Christian standpoint? What unlimited atonement essentially

00:52:27.980 means is that everyone that wants to become a Christian that accepts Jesus as their Savior can

00:52:34.340 be a Christian. That's called unlimited atonement. Now, universal atonement, which this is what you 0.87

00:52:39.520 need to find out from your church that you're asking about universal atonement means that

00:52:43.500 everybody's going to be saved okay and that's just not biblical now there are also people that

00:52:49.780 believe in limited atonement limited atonement is more of a calvinistic approach is that

00:52:54.400 it's already been pre-selected that who's going to be saved and we just have to find who those

00:53:00.580 people are again you could be on both sides of that here's what i'll tell you is that if you

00:53:07.100 know some way that needs Christ, lead them to Christ. It's not your job to determine whether

00:53:11.800 or not they're going to be saved. It's your job to open up the door for them. And don't try to

00:53:16.200 think you know who, if there is an elect, don't think you, don't think it's your job to try to

00:53:20.500 know who the elect are. We should be living our faith into everybody. But you do need to know

00:53:27.240 whether or not your church believes in universal atonement versus unlimited atonement. Okay,

00:53:33.120 that's, that would be important. Uh, how would you counsel a family where the Christian dad 0.97

00:53:39.680 left for a homosexual lifestyle? And that's, uh, I tell you one thing, I wouldn't want my kids 1.00

00:53:45.420 around him. Um, I, he's your dad. So, you know, however you decide to have relationships, your

00:53:52.060 business, but I would not want him having influence, um, on my children, his grandchildren,

00:53:57.580 unfortunately, just, just not, I mean, you can, you can love the person, but not be exposed to

00:54:02.460 the lifestyle. And that's probably where I would be. All right. Should we try for kids after being

00:54:10.320 married two years? Yes. Yes, absolutely. Have kids. Now, I don't know your whole situation,

00:54:15.160 obviously. I'm not your dad, but I think you've been married two years. You guys know each other.

00:54:20.540 You know what your scenario is. But yeah, we need more good people to have children. No question 0.65

00:54:24.420 about that. We need more good people to have children. So the Lord has used Allie to change 0.99

00:54:29.380 my heart on having children, but has not yet changed my husband's heart. How to pray for

00:54:33.940 and encourage him on this. Well, I do think that you're on the right track. I think you just want

00:54:42.080 to pray, Lord, if you will soften his heart. If you will soften my husband's heart and that he

00:54:49.500 will not want to have children because he knows I want to, but because he knows that is within

00:54:56.560 your will for us. And I think if you push too hard, then it will damage your and your husband's

00:55:04.920 relationship. But I think that you have to just pray that it'll soften your heart. If there are

00:55:12.400 other people that you know, men that could counsel him and talk to him, and he would be open to talk

00:55:18.680 about why he's resistant to that, then I think having those people in front of him and him

00:55:25.460 spending time with them would be important as well. Uh, but I know that's tough on you,

00:55:29.640 but just be patient. Okay. Be patient. The Lord's probably working on him. If I had to guess,

00:55:33.840 is it difficult for you to see your daughter attacked in the media? Absolutely. I don't

00:55:38.980 like it at all. I want to go hit people. I don't, but I want to, uh, I do not, you know, I don't, 0.99

00:55:45.420 I wouldn't like it. It was my son either. Uh, but your daughter, you're especially as a dad,

00:55:49.520 certainly more protective of them, um, as well. So anyway, I just, uh, I just hope that you enjoy

00:55:56.680 these sessions and, uh, you have some great questions. Again, you can email me anything

00:56:00.740 specifically, ron at ronsimmons.com and happy to answer you. Also, if you want one of my books,

00:56:06.980 life lessons from the little red wagon, uh, you can order that off of Allie's merchandise site,

00:56:11.620 or you can email me ron at ronsimmons.com and I will, um, I will sign it for you and then you

00:56:18.560 can send me a check. I think it's 20 bucks for it after you get the book. Don't send me anything

00:56:23.080 before you get the book because I want to make sure that I remember to send it to you. Sometimes

00:56:26.920 I forget. And again, if you've asked me a question and I've forgotten or I haven't answered you back,

00:56:32.660 please email me again because it kind of got through the bottom of my email chain. And then

00:56:36.660 also, if you haven't had Allie's book, Toxic Empathy, How Progressive Exploit Christian

00:56:41.080 Compassion, this is a great book. New York Times bestseller. Another great gift you could give on

00:56:47.480 Mother's Day. It's an incredible book. So appreciate y'all listening again,

00:56:50.900 and we look forward to seeing you next time. Have a good day.

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Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - April 11, 2026

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