Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - September 11, 2019


Ep 161 ｜ I Surrender All ... to Leftism？


Episode Stats

Length

34 minutes

Words per Minute

177.08585

Word Count

6,112

Sentence Count

327

Misogynist Sentences

1

Hate Speech Sentences

19


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 I can hear you. I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you and the people
00:00:12.180 and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.
00:00:20.920 Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. I hope y'all have had a wonderful week. Before we get into today's
00:00:31.780 episode, I just wanted to take a second to remember 9-11, which happened unbelievably 18
00:00:39.840 years ago today. So that means that tomorrow for the first time ever, there will be adults in this
00:00:45.620 country, 18 year olds who were not alive when 9-11 happened, which is crazy to think about. I
00:00:52.420 was only nine years old. I was in fourth grade. So of course I don't remember everything vividly, but
00:00:57.400 I do remember my teacher. I remember what she was wearing. I remember them, the teachers and
00:01:04.420 the administrators giving us all envelopes with letters inside that we were to give our parents
00:01:10.540 parents to read to us. And I remember my mom reading that letter in our kitchen and not really
00:01:16.980 knowing what to think. I remember she said that we might have to go to some secluded place, leave our
00:01:22.620 house. And I just didn't have the capacity to understand, of course, soon learned after that,
00:01:29.500 the significance of that day. And I do remember, I know it's hard to believe because I was so young,
00:01:34.660 but I do recollect the feeling of unity and of patriotism that followed 9-11 in a very vague sense,
00:01:44.200 of course. One of the things that sticks out in my mind was when the Dixie chicks talked badly
00:01:48.980 about George Bush, said that they were embarrassed to be from Texas because of him and the decisions
00:01:54.500 that they were making. That was a little, that was later after 9-11. But I remember the backlash that
00:01:59.420 they got and it was almost like the pushback was unanimous because you just didn't at that time
00:02:06.200 question the leadership of our country after something so tragic had happened. We put down
00:02:13.240 our differences for a short period of time and we were Americans before we were Democrats or
00:02:19.420 Republicans. Of course, as you can tell, a lot has changed since then. A lot has changed not just over
00:02:25.580 the past 18 years, but also over the past 10 years, over the past three years. It seems like we are
00:02:33.020 more divided than ever, especially in recent history. And it is a shame. I want to honor and to thank
00:02:43.400 everyone who has fought for us, especially everyone who has fought and died for us, not just on the day
00:02:50.180 of 9-11. But since then in this war that seems to, uh, never, never end and to not really have an end
00:02:58.800 in sight. I am so grateful for their service. I am so grateful for their ultimate sacrifice and for
00:03:05.100 their courage that they are fighting for our freedoms, have fought for our freedoms. And so today
00:03:10.780 on 9-11, let us just, let us be grateful. Let us be grateful for what we have and what has been
00:03:17.060 battled for and let us not take those liberties for granted. Today, we are going to switch gears
00:03:23.460 into something else, but we're, well, maybe not kind of, it kind of goes along with what I said about
00:03:29.080 the division that's going on in our country. We are going to talk about the latest and political
00:03:33.860 extremism from our friends on the left and why we as Christians need to be paying attention to this
00:03:39.660 stuff, uh, why we need to have our eyes and our ears open and to be thoughtful about these
00:03:44.360 positions. So I'm going to give you an example of that and talk specifically, uh, about why this in
00:03:50.900 general is a problem, specifically about why this in general is a problem. You know what I mean?
00:03:55.260 A lot of you have asked me to talk about SB 276, which is a bill in California that has to do with
00:04:02.140 vaccines. And I really do want to talk about that. I know that it's not really popular for a political
00:04:09.160 or a Christian commentator, whatever you want to qualify me as to talk about something like this.
00:04:13.800 It is extremely controversial and sometimes it feels like you just can't win no matter how kind
00:04:19.900 of middle of the road that you are, but it's an important topic and it is, uh, something that so
00:04:27.900 many of you have asked me to cover and I don't want to leave you guys hanging. So I don't want to be
00:04:33.360 scared to talk about something just because, um, it's going to push some buttons because undoubtedly it
00:04:39.780 will. So I'm looking to interview someone for this Friday's episode, no guarantees. Sometimes you just
00:04:46.660 know, don't know what kind of guest that you're going to get, but that's my hope. And I'm also
00:04:51.340 doing a lot of research in this because the last thing I want to do is to come on this podcast
00:04:56.760 unprepared and to be what I would be, what I would consider to be a responsible with this subject,
00:05:03.700 because it's heavy, it's complex, it's intricate. And I have already heard from some of you who are
00:05:10.060 on either side of this and know that I am so appreciative. I'm so appreciative of you reaching
00:05:15.480 out to me. I've heard from pro-vaccine Christian moms. I've heard from Vax Hesitant is what I like
00:05:21.720 to call you, uh, or what I like to call this group, Vax Hesitant Christian moms. And you guys have both
00:05:27.560 sent me your sources. And I just want you to know that I am so thankful for that. And I want to hear
00:05:32.780 for more of you. So please feel free to do that. All of your attitudes have been one of openness and
00:05:37.760 kindness and just willingness to share this information. And I'm grateful for that. I don't
00:05:43.100 want to ostracize or alienate anyone in this conversation, uh, because it's just, it's not
00:05:48.840 worth that alienation to me. So that's where I am on all of that. I'm not ignoring it. I'm not
00:05:53.300 ignoring your messages. I'm just trying to prepare as best I can to have that conversation. Uh, another
00:05:58.700 thing that, uh, a lot of you have, uh, messaged me about is the problem with the Apple podcast app
00:06:05.060 and how you haven't been able to see the latest episodes at the top. So what you can do until we
00:06:10.100 get this fixed, because we are working on getting this fixed, what you can do is I think you can go
00:06:14.820 to available episodes and scroll all the way to the bottom. And then under unknown season is where
00:06:20.880 the latest episodes are. I know that's kind of annoying. It's just the Apple podcast app
00:06:24.780 has been a little bit difficult for us to navigate. I won't even explain the whole issue with it,
00:06:30.420 but that will be fixed soon. But I'm sorry if you've had a hard time, you can also watch this
00:06:34.620 on YouTube. Allie Beth Stuckey is my YouTube channel. You can go to Spotify. You can go to
00:06:40.260 omni.fm. Of course, just actually the easiest thing to do is just to go to blaze tv.com slash Allie.
00:06:46.560 Then you can see all of the places that you can listen. That is not Apple podcasts. If you are
00:06:50.860 having a hard time with that. Okay, now let's get into this episode. Most of you have heard of Pete
00:06:56.020 Buttigieg. He is a Democratic candidate for the presidency. He is mayor of South Bend, Indiana.
00:07:01.820 A lot of people like to say that he is part time mayor of South Bend, Indiana, because he's not there
00:07:06.840 very much while he is campaigning. He is also a veteran, very thankful for his service. He is also
00:07:11.720 what I consider to be a very articulate, a very even keel seeming person who has made his pitch
00:07:18.840 somewhat effectively. Now, of course, I don't agree with him, but somewhat effectively, I would say
00:07:23.560 as the Christian Democratic candidate, which is very unique for that side of the aisle. You are not
00:07:30.580 going to hear a lot of candidates invoke the name of God, invoke the name of Jesus Christ, or invoke
00:07:37.660 scripture. But Pete Buttigieg has made it a point to do that. He has also claimed in a controversial way
00:07:43.880 that his marriage to a man has brought him closer to God. So as you can see, he is making some waves.
00:07:52.200 He claims that leftism actually aligns with Christianity far better than conservatism does,
00:07:58.440 and he spends a good deal of time chastising half of America for not being Christ-like enough
00:08:04.620 like he is because he is a progressive, and progressive values, according to him,
00:08:10.140 are much more Christian than conservative values are. Now, here is St. Peter last week on a radio
00:08:17.420 program called The Breakfast Club. Now, right now, they hold everybody in line with this one
00:08:22.620 kind of piece of doctrine about abortion, right? Which is obviously a tough issue for a lot of people
00:08:30.120 to think through morally. Then again, you know, there's a lot of parts of the Bible that talk about
00:08:35.820 how life begins with breath. And so even that is something that we can interpret differently and
00:08:41.560 take up... I'm pro-choice.
00:08:43.100 Me too. But I think no matter where you think about the kind of cosmic question of how life begins,
00:08:49.720 most Americans can get on the board with the idea of, all right, I might draw the line here,
00:08:54.880 you might draw the line there. But the most important thing is the person who should be drawing
00:08:58.040 the line is the woman making the decision. Absolutely.
00:09:00.360 Now, you would think that someone who is so self-avowedly, or maybe that's repetitive,
00:09:09.460 so avowedly, knowledgeable, and scripture would have some moral qualms with violently dismembering
00:09:16.780 a living, moving, feeling baby moments before birth or really at any time in the pregnancy for
00:09:21.920 that matter. But apparently not. Apparently, he has found what he thinks are scriptural justifications
00:09:27.260 for that. Now, we could go on and on about how terrible his theology is, not just for his views
00:09:33.280 on abortion, but his views on seemingly almost everything moral that I've heard him talk about
00:09:38.640 and see him represent. But I think that most people listening to this podcast know where we stand on
00:09:45.420 that. You can go back and listen to an episode titled Abortion Ain't Biblical, where we go through
00:09:51.120 the absolutely ignorant and stupid and evil argument the left tries to make from a biblical perspective,
00:09:57.000 on abortion. We talk about, on an episode titled Calling Evil Good, just exactly what abortion is
00:10:05.120 from a scientific perspective. So you can listen to that. I also talk about Buttigieg and his faith and
00:10:12.120 why he is so wrong theologically. I think the episode is titled Trump, Buttigieg, and Evangelicals.
00:10:20.900 Maybe that was a couple months ago. And then, of course, I talk about biblical marriage and what
00:10:26.520 that looks like on an episode titled Biblical Marriage from just a couple months ago. So if
00:10:31.100 you're curious about any of those subjects and want to hear me go in depth, you can. But that is not
00:10:35.340 what this particular episode is. This, what I just played, is one of many examples of the incongruent
00:10:42.420 nature of today's leftism with Christianity, with biblical Christianity, as if there was any other
00:10:47.860 kind of Christianity. Pete Buttigieg is not the only one trying to square the Bible with his politics.
00:10:53.220 There are many other young people, a lot of millennials, trying to do the same thing,
00:10:58.120 saying ridiculous things, like Jesus was a socialist, another thing that I've talked about many times.
00:11:02.580 But that is why it is important that we spend this episode, spend time clarifying why this is never,
00:11:09.740 ever going to work. We have discussed what I call the religion of leftism before, and I have gotten
00:11:16.160 some pushback on that for saying that it is impossible to be a modern day leftist progressive
00:11:22.840 and be a Bible-believing Christian. Now, for many of you, that is not a controversial statement at all.
00:11:29.360 But for some of you, and for a lot of people not listening to this podcast, it is a very
00:11:34.120 controversial statement. They say, how can you, Ali, be the arbiter of who is a Christian and who is
00:11:40.100 not? How can you exclude anyone from Christianity just because of their political beliefs? God is
00:11:45.400 not Republican or Democrat. He transcends politics. It doesn't matter what someone's political ideology
00:11:50.960 is when it comes to their faith. And to that, I say to critics of this stance, you are partly
00:11:56.920 correct. God does transcend politics. Of course he does. He is bigger than our political system. He is
00:12:02.840 not a Republican or a Democrat. He is much bigger than that. He is much bigger than our nation. He is much
00:12:08.820 bigger than all of history. He is much bigger than the entire universe. He is supreme over all of it.
00:12:14.320 So I certainly don't believe in ascribing to God my political beliefs. But to say that it doesn't
00:12:22.220 matter what someone believes politically when it comes to faith is not thoughtful. It does matter. Now,
00:12:29.380 no one has all the correct answers. I certainly do not. No one is infallible except for God himself.
00:12:35.680 People's views can evolve over time. Mine have. And God is not going to ask you when you get to heaven
00:12:42.480 what your views on tax brackets are. But we have to do our best to view the world, to view political,
00:12:50.780 social, cultural issues through the lens of God's word. And when we look at the things that the far
00:12:56.880 left represents, and when I say far left, that is the movement of the left that is making itself
00:13:02.180 mainstream, and it's actually manifesting itself in the Democratic candidates for president and other
00:13:07.840 Democratic politicians, there is just no way to adhere to these things and also adhere to the Bible,
00:13:15.120 which Christians, of course, are called to do. Now, even that statement alone has become controversial,
00:13:19.980 which is crazy. These are three of the issues that the far left and many of the Democratic Party stand
00:13:26.760 for that are simply, utterly, and completely opposed to any biblical interpretation worth
00:13:34.300 itself. A taxpayer-funded abortion on demand through nine months and possibly after birth.
00:13:39.860 If you heard the governor of Virginia, Ralph Northam, I can't believe he's still in office,
00:13:43.720 by the way, you heard him say on a radio program that if a baby survived an abortion and was actually
00:13:50.500 born alive, that you would set the baby off to the side, make him or her comfortable, and then the
00:13:56.320 parents and the doctor would decide what to do with the baby. I mean, we're talking about a baby
00:14:00.920 outside of the womb, umbilical cord is cut, and you're still going to call that bodily autonomy? Not
00:14:05.580 really sure about that one. Socialism, which includes the confiscation of wealth from one group to
00:14:11.160 redistribute it to another group. The militancy of the LGBTQ agenda, along with the redefinition of
00:14:17.100 gender, is something that one simply identifies as rather than something that is assigned according
00:14:22.820 to sex. There are lots of other unworkable things that the far left stands for, like open borders,
00:14:28.680 racial reparations, extreme climate change policies that would obliterate many of our industries,
00:14:33.580 but it is not simply the left's current stances on these issues. And not even all that I included
00:14:40.940 there are necessarily always paradoxical to Christianity. I'm just talking in general. It's not just the
00:14:46.580 issues that they stand for that make them paradoxical to biblical Christianity. It is the nature of the
00:14:53.280 current left that makes it opposed to biblical Christianity. It is that in order to be a leftist
00:14:58.580 today, and notice that I say today and modern, things like that, because it hasn't necessarily
00:15:04.020 always been this way. Now, I've always been a conservative, but the left hasn't always, even in
00:15:09.880 my lifetime, been this militant and this far left as it currently is, and this contradictory to
00:15:14.920 biblical Christianity. But in order to be a leftist today, you are not permitted by their thought
00:15:21.240 police to waver on any of these issues, even and especially if the Bible says otherwise. You will
00:15:27.340 be kicked out. You will be shamed. You will be called a bigot or a white supremacist. Doesn't matter
00:15:31.620 if you're white or black. You will be called a white supremacist. You'll be called a racist or a
00:15:35.420 homophobe or whatever. You must, according to today's left, fiercely support abortion on demands.
00:15:43.200 You must staunchly believe that gender is a social construct. You have to believe in what I like to
00:15:48.160 call the gospel of grievance. That's the title of another episode that anyone who is poor or non-white
00:15:54.740 or non-Christian has been oppressed and therefore deserves an upper hand and are entitled to be given
00:16:01.120 more resources by the government because of their oppression. This falls under what is called
00:16:06.600 intersectionality, the collectivist idea that every person on earth is categorized by the various groups
00:16:13.160 to which they belong and are ascribed certain oppression points based on their group membership.
00:16:18.260 The more oppression points you have, according to them, the more credibility you should be given,
00:16:23.120 the more privileges you should be given. In order to be accepted by today's left, you not only have to
00:16:30.060 believe that, but you have to decry toxic masculinity. You have to believe that a man can be a biological,
00:16:36.440 a biological female. A biological man can be a biological female as long as he declares that he
00:16:42.920 is. You have to not just accept LGBTQ, but you have to celebrate it and you have to shame others,
00:16:48.640 others into celebrating it. And if that doesn't work, you have to legally force them to. Like the example
00:16:54.420 in the masterpiece, uh, cake shop, the Colorado man who has basically had his life in business ruined
00:17:01.460 by people, uh, suing him for not selling a wedding cake to a gay couple because his, uh, religion stands
00:17:08.540 opposed to homosexual marriage. Uh, you have to propagate white guilt. You have to view America as
00:17:13.980 inherently bad and inherently racist. You have to resent the wealthy and believe that if anyone has
00:17:19.680 money, it's because they have stepped on someone else to get it. Unless of course you were Beyonce
00:17:24.000 or Bernie Sanders or Barack Obama, then it's fine. Uh, you must not just believe in climate change,
00:17:29.620 but you have to support the government completely in overhauling our economy to quote fight it. You
00:17:34.700 have to essentially believe in open borders, decriminalizing illegal entry and, uh, and believe
00:17:40.140 in amnesty for all current illegal immigrants in order to be on today's left. Uh, this is what is
00:17:47.060 taking over the democratic party. This is what is taking over anyone left of center. Uh, it is
00:17:52.600 becoming more mainstream. Watch any of the democratic debates and tell me that one of these things isn't
00:17:57.880 true or is an exaggeration. And if you don't buy into one of these things, you are, as the kids say
00:18:04.260 today, canceled. Uh, this means this also means coming from a biblical perspective that if you believe
00:18:11.020 in Genesis 127, that God created human beings, male and female, then you're out. Uh, this means that if
00:18:16.700 you believe that marriage is between a male and a female, as the Bible shows us, and that is rooted
00:18:21.880 in creation, reiterated in the new Testament, represented in Christ in the church, and thus
00:18:26.040 reflective of the gospel, you are out. Uh, if you believe that the sixth commandment, thou shall not
00:18:31.680 murder also applies to pre-born children who as, uh, Psalm 139 says are intricately knitted together in
00:18:38.160 their mother's womb, then you are out. Even if you believe that, okay, abortion should just be
00:18:42.580 restricted after 24 weeks, when a baby is viable, can live outside of the womb, you are out. Uh, if
00:18:48.460 you believe that abortion should only be restricted in the moments before the child exits the womb and
00:18:53.920 is about to cry and instinctively reach for her mother, you are out. You are not even allowed to
00:18:58.980 shudder at the thought of a living, moving, feeling baby being injected with a poison, starved of
00:19:04.540 amniotic fluid and dismembered. You are not allowed to shudder at that. You are not allowed to cringe at
00:19:10.660 that. You are expected to celebrate this and call it reproductive freedom and choice. If you believe
00:19:16.520 as the creation account shows us, as the book of Proverbs shows us, as a second Thessalonians three shows
00:19:22.440 us that work is inherently good, that human beings were made to be productive, even make a profit and
00:19:28.840 labor for what they have, then you are out. And if you are not out yet for that, you will be soon. If you
00:19:35.800 believe socialism, which along with communism, uh, has accounted for the murderous deaths of a hundred
00:19:42.560 million people over the past century, which has decimated countries like Venezuela and violates
00:19:46.880 two of God's 10 commandments, thou shall not steal and thou shall not covet and far expands, far goes
00:19:52.640 beyond God's design for the civil government as outlined in Romans 13. If you believe that that
00:19:57.620 socialism, uh, maybe isn't the best system for the country, then you are out. If you believe that
00:20:03.740 caring for the poor as Jesus instructs us to do is primarily the responsibility of the church and of
00:20:08.600 individuals rather than bureaucrats, you are out of today's left. If you question, if you question
00:20:15.960 climate science for even a second, you are out. That is a problem for the Christian who claims to be a
00:20:21.520 leftist because, uh, the current quote unquote science behind climate change today says that the
00:20:26.600 world is going to end in 12 years, maybe max 50 years, they say. And the Christian knows that that's
00:20:32.100 not how the world is going to end. A revelation tells us how the world as we know it will end.
00:20:37.280 And it's not going to be because of global warming. Uh, but if you care for the environment,
00:20:41.880 want to steward the earth well, as we are instructed to do in Genesis, but you simply wonder,
00:20:47.100 simply wonder if the private sector may be better at taking care of the environment than the government
00:20:52.260 is, you are still out. If you do not operate from a place of resentment and grievance towards those
00:20:59.020 who are considered more privileged, even though Ephesians 4 31 tells us that we must put away
00:21:04.700 all bitterness and wrath and anger along with all malice, then you are out. Uh, if you don't engage
00:21:12.040 in boycott and cancel culture based on a politically incorrect statement, someone made 12 years ago on
00:21:18.660 Twitter, when they were 12 years old, even though Ephesians 4 32 tells us to be tenderhearted,
00:21:23.440 kind and forgiving one another as God in Christ forgave us, then you of course are canceled and
00:21:29.280 out. And if you say out loud as a Democrat, as a leftist, that Jesus is the way, the truth,
00:21:36.480 the life, and that no one comes to the father except through him, then you are accused of using the Bible
00:21:42.160 to justify your bigotry and you will be kicked out. And if you simply feel, if you simply feel that
00:21:49.440 other people should be free to believe these things without interference from the government
00:21:54.180 and without public shaming, you are also out because that would mean that you don't support
00:21:58.580 the equality act, which is the piece of legislation that Democrats are championing right now. And if
00:22:04.720 you don't believe me, like I said, watch any of the democratic debates, follow some of the most
00:22:10.220 prominent leftist activists on social media, read the New York times or the Washington post. I am not
00:22:15.320 lying. I am not exaggerating. This is not hyperbole one bit. Today's leftism demands ideological purity.
00:22:22.680 Again, it's not necessarily all of the issues that the left stands for. It is the nature of them and a
00:22:28.160 lot of the issues. It has its own gospel, which is that of grievance. It has its own God, which is the
00:22:34.140 government. And this gospel of grievance and this God of leftism requires you to do the same thing that
00:22:41.440 Jesus asks his followers to do, but to go in a different direction. It asks us to surrender
00:22:47.560 completely to its will. And this is why I say and have said so many times, this is why you cannot do
00:22:55.200 both. You are required by today's left to love their agenda with all your heart, mind, soul, and
00:23:03.100 strength. And what is God's first commitment? You shall have no other gods before me. You cannot
00:23:08.340 love today's left and their agenda with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength at the same time
00:23:15.540 that you love the God of the Bible and his law. They are too contradictory and they are too similar
00:23:21.600 in nature. Now, I am not saying for those of you who maybe, maybe your conservative friend shared this
00:23:29.400 podcast episode with you, thinking that it may convince you and you are very upset right now because
00:23:34.400 you are saying, how dare you say something like that? How dare you condescend me? I can believe
00:23:39.660 in the Bible and be a far leftist. You are just crazy. And what about all of this stuff that we see
00:23:47.280 from the right that doesn't align with the Bible? Okay, well, I will humor you. I am not saying
00:23:52.240 that Christians cannot disagree on guns or immigration policy or some aspects of welfare or war.
00:23:59.820 Christians can disagree on these things in good faith without jeopardizing, for lack of a better
00:24:07.200 term, our salvation. But Christians cannot adhere to all that the modern left requires its followers
00:24:14.220 to adhere to and follow Jesus. And I won't backtrack on that. They are going to totally different
00:24:22.060 directions. Now, your counter still may be, well, couldn't you say the same thing for the rights?
00:24:29.100 Isn't that true? Isn't that true? No matter what political ideology you have. And to that, I would
00:24:33.620 say yes and no. Any ideology can become an idol. Any ideology that is not that of taking up your cross
00:24:43.480 and following Jesus Christ can become an idol. You can make any politician left or right your God,
00:24:49.760 whether you are a conservative or a liberal. You can ignore or justify, for example, Donald Trump's flaws
00:24:57.560 because he's on your team, which is wrong. You can become a hypocrite no matter what side you are on
00:25:03.560 where you excuse bad behavior from Republican politicians, but call out the same behavior
00:25:08.840 from other politicians from the other side of the aisle. You can lie. You can cheat. You can steal no
00:25:15.420 matter what letter you have by your name. You can be a part of the so-called alt-right and truly be a
00:25:22.900 white nationalist, which of course is evil, but the nature of conservatism. Now, I'm not talking
00:25:29.520 about the alt-right, which is actually self-admittedly. They are admittedly not conservative.
00:25:34.860 They are actually just as interested in identity politics as the left is, but just white identity
00:25:40.280 politics. So I'm not talking about them, which actually represent a very small part of the right,
00:25:45.640 if you even want to call them the right, and are daily denounced by mainstream conservatism or
00:25:51.060 mainstream conservatives. Conservatism, true conservatism is not like the nature of leftism.
00:25:59.680 Leftism is authoritarian in nature. It believes in the concentration of power. This kind of leftism
00:26:07.520 has not always been popular in the Democratic Party, at least not as much as it is today,
00:26:13.480 but now it is. And now it is extremely mainstream. Conservatism believes in the decentralization of
00:26:21.600 power and just isn't quite as concerned as the left is, at least today's left, with ideological purity.
00:26:29.520 Yes, we do have certain things that we hold dear, like being pro-life, pro-capitalism,
00:26:34.780 pro-patriotism, but we are more willing to make room for a variety of views, especially on social
00:26:41.860 issues, believe it or not. I mean, conservatives in general, not just Christian conservatives,
00:26:46.620 than the left is. And while the left believes that conservatism should be silenced and should be
00:26:52.500 deplatformed, even in some cases criminalized, yes, there are people on the left who believe
00:26:57.620 that free speech doesn't include what they consider hate speech, and therefore people shouldn't be able
00:27:04.080 to say things from the pulpit that they believe. Conservatism, on the other hand, wants the left
00:27:09.740 to be completely free to express their views, even if we disagree, even if we find their rhetoric
00:27:16.400 dangerous. If you honestly think that I don't think that Planned Parenthood has dangerous and deadly
00:27:23.980 rhetoric, you're crazy. I mean, they justify, the left justifies hampering the right's free speech
00:27:29.740 because they say, oh, well, we say things that are dangerous and bigoted and the left doesn't.
00:27:35.320 That's not true. Trust me, I am just as passionate about the danger of the left's rhetoric as they
00:27:41.880 are about my rhetoric, and yet I want them to be free to say what they want to say, no matter how
00:27:47.780 dangerous it is. I want us to be able to have a dialogue, a debate, a discussion. But much of,
00:27:54.040 not all of, but much of today's left, I believe that such dialogue and debate with someone like me or
00:27:59.660 someone they disagree with is wrong and immoral and is counterproductive. That's why you see people
00:28:06.300 like Antifa, which are absolute thugs. They are part of, they are part of the far left and yet are
00:28:13.780 not completely condemned by the Democratic Party, unfortunately. They want nothing to do with
00:28:19.320 discussion or dialogue because they think that if they just bully and intimidate people into silence,
00:28:26.520 then conservatism, I guess, will just go away. And okay, you might say, if you're someone on the
00:28:31.700 left, well, what about kids in cages taking health care away from poor people? What about the immorality
00:28:37.200 of Donald Trump? How can you stand for these things and call yourself a Christian? But these are not
00:28:43.280 accurate descriptions of the conservative position that we want kids in cages and we want to take health
00:28:49.440 care away from poor people. And no one wants children to be mistreated. Every conservative Christian
00:28:54.800 that I know, every Christian that I know, believes in treating these people as compassionately and as
00:29:00.080 humanely as possible. But that does not mean that these families who cross illegally should not be
00:29:05.800 detained. This does not mean that everyone who applies for asylum qualifies for asylum. There are
00:29:11.320 many Christians who believe that families should not be separated, that parents shouldn't be separated
00:29:16.780 from their children. But that doesn't mean that we shouldn't have borders. That doesn't mean that we
00:29:21.360 shouldn't have laws, that our nation shouldn't have sovereignty, that we can't protect our own
00:29:25.600 citizens. That is not automatically compassionate. I did an entire episode on immigration talking about
00:29:31.900 the complexities of our immigration system this summer. You should go back and listen to that.
00:29:37.180 Additionally, no one believes in taking away health care from people. We believe that the government
00:29:44.560 does a really bad job at running things and would probably do, would definitely do, guaranteed,
00:29:51.760 do a bad job managing everyone's health care, as we see in the VA. We know that Medicare for All
00:29:57.420 would decimate hospitals and our health care system overall, making the quality of everyone's care
00:30:03.460 worse. I did also an entire episode on this titled health care this summer. I also talk about the
00:30:10.420 conservative solutions for our health care system, so you should go listen to that. I did an episode
00:30:16.020 on the immorality of Donald Trump when I first started this podcast. I don't think that that
00:30:21.440 should be glossed over or ignored or justified. We shouldn't pretend like he's Christ-like in
00:30:26.200 everything he does. We shouldn't look to him as our savior, obviously, but we can acknowledge his
00:30:32.580 flaws while still agreeing with and even praising the policies he represents that we like, that we think are
00:30:39.140 good for the country. Christians may have positions that at times cross party lines. I want to make
00:30:45.820 that clear. I'm not saying that you have to agree with me on everything, of course. I'm not the arbiter
00:30:51.220 of this. You don't have to be a conservative 100% of the time in order to be a biblical Christian. I
00:30:56.920 don't believe that at all. I think it's okay for us to disagree on certain things, but my point is that
00:31:02.480 it is increasingly difficult to align with the Bible and with the modern left. One is going to
00:31:08.680 eventually give way. There is a reason why that friend you know from high school that you shared
00:31:16.320 your faith in common, why when she went to college off in Portland or San Francisco or wherever it was,
00:31:24.960 she became a liberal and she also abandoned her faith. There is a reason for that. There's also a
00:31:29.500 reason why that friend that you know who used to be a feminist became a Christian and then she also
00:31:34.800 became more conservative in her politics. That's not saying that that always happens that way or
00:31:39.600 that they always go hand in hand, but it's funny that they very often do. In my opinion, if someone
00:31:46.540 claims to be a leftist Christian, they either don't understand politics or they don't understand
00:31:52.220 theology. They are typically, typically confused in one of those arenas. We are told that in order to be
00:32:01.480 compassionate, in order to be loving, especially we women, especially we suburban moms, we are told in
00:32:08.800 order to be kind to children, in order to care about the next generation, in order to be loving and
00:32:13.660 inclusive and tolerant, that we have to be on the left. Did you see the protesters and I think it was
00:32:20.220 Toronto protesting outside of the new Chick-fil-A there? Did you see that? And that is not just one
00:32:29.200 small faction of today's left. That is, like I've said so many times, becoming more and more
00:32:35.360 mainstream. And you want to tell me that that side has a monopoly on love? I don't think so. Now,
00:32:40.940 that's not to say the conservatives do either. But if you believe that liberals are exclusively kind,
00:32:47.320 you have been lied to. Many, many of the policies, if not the majority of the policies of the current
00:32:54.180 Democratic Party have a guise of compassion, but in actuality are about power and moral relativism.
00:33:01.360 Two things all Christians should fear. Now, if you want to hear why I am a conservative from a
00:33:08.000 biblical perspective, not just why I'm not a liberal, you should listen to episode 130 titled
00:33:14.120 Christians and Politics, where I go into this more in depth. So I've seen so many examples like that of
00:33:21.900 Pete Buttigieg that I played at the beginning of this episode, and I just felt the need to
00:33:28.580 to dive into this yet again and to clarify this. I will probably touch on this many, many times
00:33:34.980 before the before the election actually comes around. I can't believe that's only in a little over a year.
00:33:42.020 Let me know if you have disagreements with this. I know it can kind of be a tense topic to talk about
00:33:47.980 the intersection of religion and politics. No one really wants to discuss that, but that's what we
00:33:52.700 do on Relatable. So I hope that this at least was food for a thought. You can email me,
00:33:57.820 allyatheconservativemillennialblog.com. You can also message me on Instagram. For some reason,
00:34:03.160 I'm not seeing all of your messages. Instagram has been weird. I don't think it's just me,
00:34:07.460 but I can't see all of the message requests. And so I'm not totally, not totally sure what's
00:34:12.640 happening there, but you can email me, you can message me however you want to get in touch with me,
00:34:16.980 and I will try to respond to you as soon as possible. Thank you as always for listening.
00:34:21.400 I will be back here on Friday. I'll give you an update on social media if I'm able to track down
00:34:25.800 someone to interview about SB 276. Until then, have a great day.