Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 164

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. I hope everyone's having a wonderful week. Today we are going to

00:00:05.540 discuss the botched Kavanaugh allegations issued by the New York Times over the weekend and then

00:00:10.640 how we should view stories like this as well as the wider Me Too movement. Okay, let's go ahead

00:00:17.460 and talk about all of this craziness. So for those of you who are listening to my podcast a year ago

00:00:23.320 or you were following me on social media a year ago, you know that I passionately followed and

00:00:28.100 commentated on the Kavanaugh drama that happened I think almost exactly a year ago this week. That's

00:00:34.200 when all of that started. If you don't know if last year you were living under a rock or something,

00:00:39.180 Brett Kavanaugh was nominated by President Trump to the Supreme Court soon after his nomination.

00:00:45.320 It was announced by Senator Dianne Feinstein from California that she had received

00:00:49.940 allegations of sexual assault from a high school classmate of Kavanaugh's named Christine Blasey

00:00:57.240 Ford. The media trotted out a couple other women who also had accusations against Kavanaugh. One

00:01:04.320 named Julie Swetnick, whose attorney was the very credible and honorable Michael Avenatti. She claimed

00:01:10.580 and Avenatti put out in a press release or something that Kavanaugh was a part of a gang raping group

00:01:16.460 at parties that she attended while Kavanaugh was in college and she was in high school and that he would

00:01:22.060 line up outside a room and he would take his turn with whatever young lady was intoxicated

00:01:27.960 in the room. She later was interviewed by MSNBC and she admitted that she didn't actually know if

00:01:34.080 Kavanaugh was at these parties or if he took part in any of the behavior that she had described to

00:01:38.460 Avenatti. So that's great. Debra Ramirez was a Yale classmate and accused Kavanaugh of exposing himself

00:01:44.320 to her at a party, but she only came up with this accusation after six days spent with her lawyers.

00:01:50.980 She at first said she didn't know if it was Kavanaugh or not, but then after she hashed all of this out

00:01:55.780 with her lawyers over the span of about a week, she said, oh yes, this thing that happened 30 years

00:02:00.220 ago, it was definitely Brett Kavanaugh. So there is no evidence at all to corroborate not only these

00:02:07.080 stories, but also the biggest story or the story that got the most publicity, Blasey Ford's. There

00:02:12.320 were details missing from her testimony. Her lawyer was a lawyer for Hillary Clinton. That of course

00:02:17.360 doesn't automatically mean that she was telling a lie, but it makes it a little bit more suspect

00:02:22.440 or it kind of makes us think a little bit harder. She may have not been lying. I mean, we weren't

00:02:27.100 there, so no one is going to know for sure. But the facts simply were not on her side. And that's

00:02:33.760 the truth of the matter. And even though we were not in a court of law or they were not in a court of

00:02:38.500 law, America does have the principle of due process and of innocent until proven guilty. And most

00:02:45.400 conservatives believed that Kavanaugh should get to enjoy that right in these hearings, especially

00:02:50.860 especially since Blasey Ford lacked substantial evidence. If you want a more detailed account of what

00:02:56.940 happened last year, I did an episode. It was episode 38 of Relatable titled Before Believing

00:03:02.720 Kavanaugh's Accuser. As a refresher, here's a part of Ford's testimony followed by a part of Kavanaugh's

00:03:09.280 testimony. I believed he was going to rape me. I tried to yell for help. When I did, Brett put his

00:03:17.500 hand over my mouth to stop me from yelling. This is what terrified me the most and has had the most

00:03:23.920 lasting impact on my life. It was hard for me to breathe. And I thought that Brett was accidentally

00:03:30.800 going to kill me. At a time when I'm called evil by a Democratic member of this committee, while

00:03:37.880 Democratic opponents of my nomination say people will die if I am confirmed. This onslaught of last

00:03:46.560 minute allegations does not ring true. I'm not questioning that Dr. Ford may have been sexually

00:03:55.940 assaulted by some person in some place at some time. But I have never done this to her or to anyone.

00:04:07.860 That's not who I am. It is not who I was. I am innocent of this charge. I intend no ill will to Dr.

00:04:18.820 Ford and her family. The other night Ashley and my daughter Liza said their prayers and little Liza

00:04:25.780 all 10 years old. Said to Ashley, we should pray for the woman.

00:04:39.860 It's a lot of wisdom from a 10 year old.

00:04:45.900 We mean, we mean no ill will.

00:04:50.340 So I remember I was in the Washington Reagan airport watching this on my computer.

00:04:54.300 I even watched it on the plane and I kept on refreshing my page to make sure I could get as

00:04:59.320 good of Wi-Fi as I could possibly get so I wouldn't miss anything. And while I did, I remember I found

00:05:05.320 Ford very compelling. She was obviously very vulnerable and very emotional. So I found that

00:05:10.360 somewhat convincing. But then when I watched Kavanaugh's testimony, it was totally over. Not only his

00:05:15.520 passion, but every detail of his defense, his wife. This is, you know, of course, a more emotional

00:05:21.240 perspective, but his wife sitting behind him tearing up. I was just completely undone by the

00:05:25.980 whole thing. I just kind of lost it. I just I couldn't take it anymore. After watching Kavanaugh's

00:05:30.820 testimony, thinking about what the Democrats in Congress and a lot of people on the left had done

00:05:35.020 to him, just dragged him and his family and his name through the mud based on a story that they don't

00:05:39.940 even know is true. Someone told me later that they felt that I had been radicalized after the whole

00:05:46.920 Kavanaugh saga. And I think that is actually true. I think that for the first time, I saw that some

00:05:53.820 people on the left, they're purely a political motives, at least while I will say partly political

00:06:00.980 motives pushed them to decimate a man's career or tried to decimate a man's career and a man's

00:06:10.200 reputation to get what they want. They were perfectly OK with ruining a man's life, a man with a

00:06:16.000 sterling reputation throughout every stage of his career thus far because they were afraid of how

00:06:20.460 he would rule on cases that matter to them. That was just too far for me. I didn't want to envision

00:06:26.420 a world in which that became the norm. I didn't know what kind of justice he would be exactly. There

00:06:32.780 was a lot of conflicting evidence for whether or not he was a strict constitutionalist. It doesn't

00:06:37.680 really seem like he is. I, of course, was very open about the fact that I wanted him to lean in the

00:06:42.660 anti-abortion direction, anti-Planned Parenthood direction. And I do hope that Kavanaugh will be

00:06:47.800 on the correct side for these kinds of cases. But I don't really I don't know what I didn't really

00:06:52.160 know back then. What got me about all of this, what really pushed me over the edge was the cruel

00:06:59.260 nature and the relentlessness of some of his opposition that showed me a picture of partisan

00:07:04.100 divisiveness in America that I just can't stomach, that I just don't want to tolerate. One where we are

00:07:09.620 perfectly fine with ruining people's lives, destroying their families, ruining their reputations

00:07:14.840 based on stories that don't even add up and have no cooperation whatsoever, just because we may not

00:07:20.100 like their politics. I didn't want to live in a world like that, a world without due process, a world

00:07:24.940 where if you fall on the more privileged side of the intersectionality scale, then your credibility

00:07:29.960 is automatically shot. It doesn't matter if the story doesn't add up or not. It doesn't matter

00:07:35.580 if the facts don't align. You are automatically because of your politics, because of where your

00:07:42.160 station is in the world, you are automatically disbelieved. I don't want to live in a world

00:07:46.000 like that. I don't want that for either side. I don't want that for someone who is on the laughter

00:07:50.200 or someone who is on the right. I don't want that for your family. I don't want that for your career.

00:07:53.860 I don't want your life to be ruined just because I disagree with you or just because I don't like

00:07:58.320 you. That is unjust. And I truly I don't want injustice for anyone. And that included and includes

00:08:04.100 Kavanaugh. That's why I was so worked up about this whole thing. If political enemies are willing

00:08:10.560 to do that, if they are willing to go that far, then that means they will stop at nothing. They

00:08:15.540 won't care if your kids are harassed at school now because of unsubstantiated claims about you.

00:08:20.960 They won't care if you can never go in public again without being assaulted. They will not care

00:08:25.960 if you lose your job. They will not care if the story is true or not. If it fits the narrative,

00:08:30.520 they will bully as many people as possible into helping them make your life miserable.

00:08:35.480 Believe women was the mantra of these people. And I really I can't think of a more patronizing or less

00:08:41.580 just idea than that or mantra than that or worldview than that. Why should we automatically believe a

00:08:48.760 woman? OK, your friend maybe or someone whose character that you know, someone that you trust

00:08:53.380 really well, maybe you'll automatically believe them and that's fine. But why should we believe

00:08:57.320 all women just because they're a woman no matter what? We should weigh the facts and testimonies

00:09:03.580 we have and do our best to come up with a judicious conclusion. But that doesn't mean that we have to

00:09:08.500 believe someone just because of what genitalia they have. A belief woman only makes sense if you do not

00:09:14.400 believe in objective truth. And unfortunately, a lot of the opposition and just a lot of people on the

00:09:19.160 left, that's the nature of leftism in general, is that they they don't believe in absolute truth.

00:09:23.940 Remember, as AOC said, as AOC said, it is more important. It is OK to be morally right and

00:09:31.360 factually incorrect. Joe Biden said something similar. He said the truth is more important

00:09:35.160 than facts. We now live in a world, apparently, where we can separate truth from facts and we can

00:09:40.840 decide which one fits our narrative and go that direction. So that's what we see a lot of people

00:09:46.520 who not just oppose Kavanaugh, but just people in the media in general do. They have a conclusion that

00:09:51.520 they've decided is morally right. And then they will fit facts into that conclusion and throw the

00:09:56.540 facts out that don't fit into that conclusion and make things up and present them as fact to support

00:10:00.640 that conclusion. So rather than supporting the facts and then allowing you to come up with the

00:10:05.420 conclusion, they start out with a foregone conclusion and then they fit the different

00:10:09.300 points to fit into that. That is reporting today. And of course, the whole Kavanaugh thing was no

00:10:13.840 exception. We saw this in the New York Times over the weekend in their opinion section, which has truly

00:10:19.980 been even CNN is saying this truly been in disarray for a few years now. A piece written by Kate Kelly

00:10:26.540 and Robin Pogrebin. I can't say that I know how to pronounce her last name revealed by revealed

00:10:33.780 another woman, an allegation by another woman by the name of Harmon Joyce that that said that Kavanaugh

00:10:40.500 also exposed himself to her at a party. The article was adapted from their book, The Education of Brett

00:10:45.820 Kavanaugh. Apparently, they have been investigating him for the past 10 months. But in this article in

00:10:50.660 the New York Times, they left out a key point that Molly Hemingway, she works at the Federalist. She

00:10:56.120 had already read an advanced copy of this book. She pointed out on Twitter that this alleged victim

00:11:00.900 that they were talking about in this article never agreed to be interviewed. So they never even talked

00:11:05.160 to her. Later, she said that she didn't recall this incident at all that they're talking about.

00:11:09.820 The only person who said that this happened was Max Steyer. He was a classmate and he's a lawyer that

00:11:15.820 is now connected to the Clintons. And he actually didn't even provide them with the account that they

00:11:20.860 used. Other people who communicated with Steyer and then communicated with these authors were

00:11:26.200 authors were the ones who provided this account. So when this was pointed out, the New York Times issued

00:11:32.080 a correction, you know, postscript clarifying all of this. But of course, the damage had already been

00:11:38.660 done. This seems to be a pattern, not just by the New York Times, but also the Washington Post

00:11:42.620 to write something completely erroneous, get everyone worked up about it, raise hysteria and

00:11:48.820 then say, oh, just kidding. Sorry, that wasn't actually true. But people have already started

00:11:53.920 freaking out and doesn't matter. And that's exactly what we saw in this whole thing. After the article

00:11:58.300 was published, every single Democratic candidate called for his impeachment. In addition to other

00:12:03.760 Democrats who are in Congress, every liberal news network went crazy with the allegations.

00:12:09.700 Democrats are still going in on this. They're still insisting that he needs to be impeached,

00:12:14.100 despite the fact that these allegations are even weaker than the first allegations that we heard

00:12:18.820 about a year ago. Ayanna Pressley, she's a Democratic member of the House. She is part of the squad with

00:12:24.460 Ilhan Omar, AOC, Rashida Tlaib. She is filing an impeachment resolution. She said on a Boston public

00:12:31.760 radio station, sexual predators do not deserve a seat on the nation's highest court. And Brett

00:12:37.380 Kavanaugh's confirmation process set a dangerous precedent. She also said we must demand justice for

00:12:44.420 survivors and hold Kavanaugh accountable for his actions, except that we don't actually have any

00:12:49.660 evidence for his actions. We don't even have any kind of sensical testimony to say that there are

00:12:54.740 grounds for impeachment. And yet we're running with this anyway. The reason that Representative

00:12:59.440 Presley and other Democrats and people on the left are willing to speak so confidently about this

00:13:06.280 without any regard to Kavanaugh whatsoever, without any regard to the truth is not just for political

00:13:11.180 reasons. Yes, I do think that they probably believe that he's too conservative. He's too much of a

00:13:15.760 constitutionalist. They're afraid of the future of abortion. Oh, no. But I also think there's a grander

00:13:20.860 narrative going on here, and that is the grander narrative of social justice. That's the grander

00:13:26.120 narrative of intersectionality, which is the fuel of modern day social justice. Intersectionality, as we've

00:13:32.400 talked about many times on this podcast, is the oppressed versus the oppressor. Because Kavanaugh is

00:13:39.060 generally conservative, because he is a straight white Catholic male, because he comes from a well-to-do

00:13:44.480 family with an Ivy League education, he is automatically assumed to be in the wrong because he lacks

00:13:50.480 oppression points. That's what intersectionality is built on. It describes oppression points to certain

00:13:55.560 people based on their skin color, religion, etc. You know how I know this? Because the title of this

00:14:01.640 article, this botched article in the New York Times, was this. Brett Kavanaugh fit in with the privileged

00:14:07.140 kids. She did not. So this is no longer about the premise of this. The central point of this article is

00:14:12.980 no longer about whether or not he's a sexual assaulter, whether or not we have an alleged or accused or

00:14:18.640 credible rapist on the Supreme Court. It's about the fact that he was privileged, and apparently

00:14:24.040 this supposed victim was not. It's about Kavanaugh being on the side of the oppressor. He embodies

00:14:31.160 so much, it seems like, of what the left hates. He is the archetype of the oppressor because of his

00:14:37.620 skin color, because of his socioeconomic status, because of his religion. None of these things,

00:14:42.740 his race or his wealth or his faith or anything like that, would matter if he was a hardcore leftist.

00:14:48.220 It'd be totally fine if he was worth millions of dollars, if he was, you know, a privileged white

00:14:54.600 guy as long as he was on the left. But because he's Catholic and because he leans conservative,

00:14:58.800 it is all a huge problem. Being liberal automatically gives you favorable ratings on the intersectionality

00:15:05.440 scale. And this is the, of course, inherent injustice of intersectionality. So rather than looking at facts,

00:15:11.980 rather than seeing people as individuals, it sees people as member, members of collections and

00:15:17.620 ascribes credibility to them based on how oppressed they are or how liberal they are. Intersectionality

00:15:23.440 is the fuel, as we've already said, of the social justice movement, which is why, as I've said so many

00:15:28.120 times, social justice is not justice. It's not justice. It is what Thomas Sowell calls cosmic justice.

00:15:35.440 It is this arbitrary equation of trying to push some people back that are more privileged than

00:15:41.240 others, trying to push people forward that are less privileged than others until you have this

00:15:45.820 completely equitable and equal utopia that just doesn't exist. So in the case of Kavanaugh and Ford,

00:15:52.960 for example, you've got two pretty privileged, white, well-educated people, but Ford is a woman.

00:15:58.440 So in their eyes, she has more oppression points than he does. So we have to believe her.

00:16:02.760 This is how this all works. This is the lens through which much of the modern left

00:16:07.080 sees the world and sees every issue, every case, every conflict. And when you realize,

00:16:13.040 when you realize that you understand why they report and why they react the way that they do.

00:16:18.780 Covington Catholic boys with the Native American man, Nathan Phillips, that happened, I think it was,

00:16:24.020 I think it was January because it was March for Life. It was immediately reported by leftist news

00:16:28.300 outlets that these kids wearing MAGA hats were harassing and intimidating them.

00:16:32.540 And that wasn't the case at all. Nathan Phillips was actually the one who approached them and the

00:16:37.440 black Hebrew nationalists surrounding them were the one throwing out racial and homophobic slurs.

00:16:42.220 Same with Jussie Smollett. He was believed immediately. Cory Booker passed an anti-lynching

00:16:46.920 bill because of his story. Kamala Harris, of course, expressed outrage, but it wasn't true.

00:16:53.740 We just believed him because he was a gay black man who, of course,

00:16:58.080 was attacked by two white dudes wearing MAGA hats in a polar vortex in the middle of

00:17:02.840 the night in Chicago. Of course, that has to be true. Why? Because of intersectionality. But

00:17:07.720 it turned out to be a giant hoax. This is also why Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib get away with being

00:17:13.320 anti-Semitic. On the intersectionality scale, Muslims are more oppressed than Jews. So it's okay to hang

00:17:18.640 out with literal Islamic terrorists and retweet anti-Semitic cartoon artists and make anti-Semitic

00:17:23.400 jokes. It's fine because they are Muslim women of color. And if you criticize them for anything they

00:17:28.260 do, then you are accused of inciting violence against them. Apparently it's not fair game at

00:17:33.360 all. So intersectional social justice is the larger story and the larger narrative behind the character

00:17:40.360 assassination of Brett Kavanaugh. It's just it's not just political. It's not just about Roe v. Wade or

00:17:45.060 abortion. This is the same guy that Ruth Bader Ginsburg has praised, has said is a very worthy

00:17:50.800 colleague. Like I said before, I don't believe that this is a sustainable system for anyone, right, or

00:17:57.940 left, no matter what your race or your background is. I don't want anyone, regardless of their

00:18:02.860 political affiliation, regardless of their faith, regardless of their nationality, to be ruined by

00:18:07.840 unproven allegations. I just don't think that's fair. I don't want that for you. No matter how much you

00:18:12.160 want that for me, I don't want that for you. And as Christians, we should always be on the side of

00:18:17.340 justice and truth. In the case of Kavanaugh, God may only know the full story. We may never

00:18:22.380 completely know 100% what happened 30 years ago. But as believers in objective truth, as believers

00:18:29.000 in fairness and justice, we should side, not based on, we should pick our side, not based on emotion,

00:18:36.000 on political association or the intersectionality scale, but on what facts we know. And we also have

00:18:41.500 to view people as individuals, not part of a collection or part of an oppression group. We

00:18:47.100 discern as much as we can based on the information that we have. And while we will never fully be able

00:18:53.620 to exonerate someone, or at least in this case, we won't be able to exonerate someone just because

00:18:58.200 we don't know for sure we weren't there. We also can't accuse someone of being guilty without knowing

00:19:03.180 what is actually true. Right and left Christians should oppose the lack of integrity demonstrated by

00:19:08.660 the New York Times. We should be lovers of truth and trustworthiness. This would be the same whether

00:19:14.780 it was Fox News as well. It doesn't matter if it's the New York Times. We should be lovers and

00:19:19.260 adheres to truth. The biblical worldview should always seek to know as much as we can about what is true.

00:19:25.580 That's another problem with the secular view of justice, social or cosmic justice, is that it doesn't

00:19:30.820 know what to do with truth. It doesn't know what to do with right and wrong. As we've already said,

00:19:35.160 it's subjective and it's arbitrary. And so it doesn't know how to deal with true evil. It comes

00:19:40.800 up with its own idea for evil, which again is based on these very superficial qualifications of

00:19:46.300 your skin color and your background. Oh, you're more privileged. And so you must be oppressing this

00:19:52.500 person or you must be guilty. You must be on the side that is wrong. And that's the problem with moral

00:19:58.300 relativism. That's the problem when you don't believe that God is the supreme moral lawgiver. You don't

00:20:03.280 believe that God is the supreme arbiter of what is right and wrong. You're left to your own devices

00:20:07.860 to figure out what is true and what is not and what is just and what is not. That's why we get

00:20:12.180 in all of these conflicts. And that is why the best that the world can come up with when it comes to a

00:20:16.660 system of justice is intersectionality. And what we find is that intersectionality is always tripping

00:20:21.360 over itself. It is always conflicting. It's always disagreeing with its own ideology. It can't keep

00:20:30.360 up with itself. And that's what we see, not just in this, but in every story that we listed before.

00:20:35.320 It's just not a sustainable system of justice. And Christians should be okay with that. We should

00:20:41.000 be happy with that because the system of justice that God sets up, one that punishes people individually

00:20:47.260 based on their own crimes, not on the crimes of generations before them or generations of the

00:20:52.740 groups they're a part of, not the crimes of people who share their skin color, one that is based on

00:20:57.520 truth, one that is based on fact, one that is equitable, that it doesn't favor the rich.

00:21:02.320 It also doesn't favor the poor, one that is unbiased, why we should be okay. We should rejoice

00:21:07.540 in the fact that God has set up a kind of justice, a kind of idea of justice that we can follow is

00:21:13.920 because it deals so much better with wrong and with evil and with vengeance than worldly systems ever

00:21:20.800 could. I know we hear so often separation of church and state. America was not founded on Christian

00:21:26.240 values. Well, that's not true. My friend, Jeff Durbin says separation of church and state is

00:21:30.800 not the same thing as separation between God and law. And that's absolutely true. If God is the

00:21:35.660 supreme moral law giver, as C.S. Lewis talks about in mere Christianity, then there's just no coming up

00:21:42.260 with truth or coming up with a real dichotomy of right and wrong without him. We can't exclude him

00:21:47.080 when it comes to coming up with justice. And that is why it is not okay for Christians to latch on

00:21:53.560 to this kind of social justice that's fueled by intersectionality that is completely unbiblical.

00:21:58.300 It is the secular effort to try to come up with right and wrong while still perpetrating and

00:22:05.420 propagating moral relativism. We've talked about before the problem with that, the inherent problem

00:22:10.880 with that, if you didn't already hear the paradox in it, is that moral relativism saying that whatever

00:22:16.700 is right for this person is right for this person. Whatever is right for that person is right for that

00:22:21.180 person. The problem with it is that that in and of itself is an absolute truth. That is an absolute

00:22:26.480 morality because you're saying anyone else who isn't morally relative, anyone else who believes that

00:22:31.960 moral relativism is wrong or morality is actually universal, you're saying that they're wrong. But if

00:22:37.720 morality is really relative, how can you say that that person is wrong and your person is right? So it

00:22:41.700 doesn't work. And intersectionality strangely kind of falls under this world of moral relativism. That's

00:22:48.580 because when we believe that we're the only people that come up with our own truth and our own idea

00:22:53.860 of what is just and what is not, we constantly find ourselves in a state of contradiction. We

00:23:02.860 constantly find ourselves in a state of hypocrisy. And that's what we continually see on the left when

00:23:09.560 it comes to assigning and ascribing guilt. There was a story, and this is totally different,

00:23:14.320 it just came to my mind. There was a story that I read of a Honduran native. He was in Maryland. He

00:23:20.820 raped a six-year-old girl. He told the six-year-old girl, if you tell anyone, then I will ground you for

00:23:26.460 a hundred days. Thankfully, he faces 155 years in prison. That's great. Obviously, he shouldn't have

00:23:32.260 been here in the first place. He was an illegal immigrant. The crime wouldn't have happened if he

00:23:35.760 hadn't been here. But the thing that comforts me, and I think it does tie into all of this when we're

00:23:41.180 talking about what justice actually is based on truth, what comforts me when I read horrific stories

00:23:46.460 like that that just scare me, make my skin crawl, make me want to punch this guy in the face, the

00:23:50.420 thing that comforts me is that God is the God of justice and that he knows so much better to deal

00:23:55.580 with truth, to deal with right, to deal with wrong than we do. He has a much better way of exacting

00:24:04.640 vengeance and repaying wrong than we do. The moral of the story is the secular world doesn't know how

00:24:11.540 to deal with right and wrong. They don't know how to deal with justice. They don't know how to deal

00:24:16.220 with truth. They constantly want to separate what is actually true from what they feel to be true.

00:24:21.080 And that's what happens when you create a world of moral relativism. Moral relativism doesn't work.

00:24:26.200 It's just not a sustainable worldview. Yet, if you talk to most people on the left, they would say

00:24:30.320 morality is true for you. It's true for me, whatever you want it to be, your truth, my truth.

00:24:36.240 It's completely subjective. It's not universal at all. And yet, at the same time, if you don't

00:24:41.680 believe that morality is relative or if you don't believe in their version of morality, if you don't

00:24:45.900 ascribe to intersectionality, for example, or you don't hop onto their social justice causes, well,

00:24:51.000 they call you a bigot. They call you wrong. They call you on the wrong side of history. They call you

00:24:55.760 evil Nazi, whatever. So even the people that are perpetrating this idea of moral relativism,

00:25:00.800 we see, especially in this whole Kavanaugh thing, the outrage that they have is that they don't

00:25:05.740 actually believe that morality is relative. They actually believe if you don't believe in their

00:25:10.320 view of morality, then you are condemned to their own version of at least a proverbial kind of hell.

00:25:16.720 And that just shows us that the outside world that doesn't believe that God is the supreme moral

00:25:21.520 lawgiver, that he is the transcendent moral lawgiver, that he is the one that says what

00:25:25.900 is right and wrong. They're constantly tripping over themselves. They're constantly confused. They

00:25:30.160 are constantly in conflict. Intersectionality just is not a sustainable system of justice.

00:25:36.320 A political vengeance is not a sustainable system of justice. Deciding that someone is wrong because

00:25:42.600 they're conservative or deciding that someone is wrong because of the color of their skin, whether

00:25:46.080 you're white or black or Asian, whatever it is, is not a sustainable system of justice. And it's not

00:25:50.960 one that glorifies God, no matter who is in the hot seat. So that's what Christians need to take

00:25:55.740 away from this. And we need to find comfort in the fact that God and his idea of right and wrong

00:26:01.260 that is based on truth, that is for the individual, not blaming entire people based on whatever

00:26:06.680 group, oppression groups they're a part of, whether they are the world's version of a victim or an

00:26:13.200 oppressor or not. God's justice that is based on truth, that is individual, that shows no partiality

00:26:20.800 to the rich, that shows no partiality to the poor, that is unbiased, that is equitable,

00:26:25.720 that is equal. We should find comfort in the fact that we don't have to be confused. Like we don't

00:26:31.320 have to be caught up in this secular social justice craziness that doesn't know up from down or right

00:26:36.300 from wrong. These people who espouse moral relativism and yet assert that if you don't believe

00:26:40.820 the way that they do, that you're absolutely wrong. They're confused. But we don't have to be

00:26:45.180 confused. We have a God who knows good versus evil, even when we don't, who knows right and

00:26:51.380 wrong, even when we don't. So our responsibility as Christians is just to go in the direction of

00:26:56.060 where we see truth. Again, that doesn't mean that we uplift the side that agrees with us as perfect

00:27:03.420 and as holy and as can never do anything wrong. It doesn't mean that we demonize our political

00:27:10.620 enemies as people who can always and never do anything right and always do something wrong.

00:27:16.080 It means that we are on the side of truth. And when reporters or when whoever lack integrity,

00:27:22.280 when they lie, that should bother us. That should bother us as image bearers of God,

00:27:27.140 a God who loves truth. So I am very thankful to have a God of justice. I'm very thankful that

00:27:34.660 as image bearers of Christ, that we can love justice, that we can love truth. That doesn't

00:27:39.380 mean that we're going to be perfect. That doesn't mean that we know everything. Of course, we are

00:27:44.620 going to slip and fall. We're going to be on the wrong side of things sometimes. But the fact of the

00:27:49.380 matter is, is that one day we won't have any questions about this. We won't have any confusion. We won't

00:27:53.560 have any chaos. We won't have any conflict. We won't have to worry about these stupid political

00:27:57.540 stories anymore because Jesus will rule in perfect peace. And that's the thing that we have to look

00:28:01.680 forward to. Until then, it is our responsibility to seek truth and to be on the side of truth at least

00:28:07.560 as much as we possibly can. And not to demonize those who disagree with us. I think that Christians

00:28:12.000 in good faith can disagree on the Kavanaugh thing. But of course, we need to be careful why we're

00:28:16.940 taking the stance that we are and what the reasoning is behind our viewpoint on that.

00:28:23.920 So that is all that I have today. Thank you guys so much for listening. If you have any

00:28:28.680 questions, please email me, Allie at the conservative millennial blog.com. If you don't

00:28:32.500 already subscribe on YouTube, go ahead and do that. If you are on YouTube, you can listen to me. You

00:28:37.620 can listen to me on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Omni.fm. There are a bunch of different places that you can

00:28:43.000 listen. I will see you guys back here on Friday with the vaccine conversation part two.

00:28:53.560 Bye.

00:28:54.560 Bye.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - September 18, 2019

Ep 164 ｜ Kavanaugh Continued

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