Ep 167 ｜ Democrats’ Gender Confusion
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Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Ben Carson, and others have confused the transgender community with their own gender identity and have been accused of being "transphobes" for saying that a man can be a woman if he wants to identify as a woman.
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Hey y'all, welcome to Relatable. Happy Wednesday. I hope everyone has had a wonderful week so far.
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Today we are going to talk about Democrats' gender confusion. That is right, Democrats
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are apparently gender confused. Here's Joe Biden saying that if you are a man who identifies as a
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woman in prison, you should be placed with other women. In prison, the determination should be
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that your sexual identity is defined by what you say it is, not what in fact the prison says it is.
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Oh gosh, what is he saying? I'm not totally sure. I'm not really sure that he knows what he's saying
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either. Earlier, also, Ben Carson said that men are trying to access homeless shelters for women,
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and that's dangerous. But because he said that very logical statement, he was called a transphobe,
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of course. Okay, got it. You may also remember this one from, I think it was one of the first
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Democratic debates from Julian Castro. I don't believe only in reproductive freedom. I believe
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in reproductive justice. And what that means is that just because a woman, or let's also not forget
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someone in the trans community, a trans female, is poor, doesn't mean they shouldn't have the right
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to exercise that right to choose. And so I absolutely would cover the right to have an abortion.
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So he said trans women there, but he actually meant trans men. And if you are confused, that's
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totally fine. I've got you. Trans women are biological men and trans men are biological women.
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So trans men actually have a uterus and trans women do not. Obviously, it's not that hard. You will
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notice that many of the Democratic candidates have their gender pronouns in their Twitter profiles. Yes,
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that is true. Elizabeth Warren has she slashed her in her Twitter profile, just in case you were
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considering calling Elizabeth Warren bro. The next time you saw her, she specified for you which
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gender she identifies as. Speaking of Elizabeth Warren, here she is at an NYC rally saying that
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women, we don't need no man. We are not here today because of famous arches or famous men.
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These are just a couple of recent examples of the dissonance that you are going to see from
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Democrats that you have seen from Democrats that we are going to see moving forward during this
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election. And they are going to get away with it as well coming up in 2020, because the media will
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have their backs as they simultaneously claim that women are unique and important and powerful
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and that a man can be a woman if they want to, which means logically from the leftist point of
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view that there is no such thing really as being a woman. And we are going to break that down.
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Now that we have gotten through that, let us talk about this crazy circle that Democrats are running
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and trying to define a woman and fight for women's rights, fight for feminism, but also say that there's
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really no such thing logically or biologically as a woman. If you have listened to this podcast for any length
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of time, you know, that we often talk about the insanity of intersectionality. Here is a technical
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definition of intersectionality, the interconnection interconnected. I can't say, I can't even say it's
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already confusing. The interconnected nature of social categorization, such as race, class and gender,
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as they apply to a given individual or group regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent
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systems of discrimination or disadvantage. That's amazing. It is the process of assigning oppression
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points. This is me now. It is the process of assigning oppression points to people based on
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the groups to which they belong. That is my simple definition of it. So the less white or straight or
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Christian or cisgendered or wealthy you are, the more oppression points you receive, which in the world
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of leftism affords you political and social capital. The messages you convey are seen as credible
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and important simply because you are a part of a traditionally marginalized group. So for example,
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we've given this example many times before, Jesse Smollett or Nathan Phillips with the Covington
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Catholic saga or the Georgia state representative Erica Thomas, who made up a story, uh, that a white
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man hurled racial insults at her at a grocery store ended up not being true. According to interviews and
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people who actually looked into the so-called incident, all of these people though were immediately
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believed by the leftist media because they are a part of minority groups. Their stories must be
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automatically bought into right off the bat to perpetuate the narrative that white supremacy
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and bigotry are still rampant in this country and that Donald Trump is at the helm of all of it.
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We have also discussed why intersectionality is a wholly unbiblical worldview because God does not
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define people by the victimhood of their group, nor does he judge people, uh, or judge individuals
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on the basis of the sins of people who share their race or their sexual orientation. This is a worldview
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based on resentment, based on bitterness, based on covetousness, none of which are pleasing to the
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Lord. It is a worldview unconcerned with factual truth or objective morality, but is rather concerned
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with making moral points about the evils of the oppressor. Uh, like all unbiblical worldviews,
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it is unsustainable. It is constantly tripping over itself. It is constantly contradicting itself.
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When you measure people's worth or importance by how oppressed they are. And when you determine how
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oppressed someone is by how far they are from the mainstream or the majority, you're going to have
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a conflict because these so-called marginalized groups are going to be competing for who is actually
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more marginalized than the other. So in a culture where being a victim of oppression is glorified as a
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virtue in itself, there will be unfortunately people lined up to join the most allegedly discriminated
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against or misunderstood group. Intersectionality is part of the Marxist ideology. And as such is
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godless. There is no God in the center or in any part of Marxism. Any attempt at creating a moral system
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without God is always going to be riddled with problems. Really any system, of course, on earth is
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going to have its problems. But if you try to create some kind of system of right and wrong without God
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being at the center or the foundation of it, it's not going to work. It's going to fall very quickly.
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Without God, without a moral law giver, as C.S. Lewis calls him in mere Christianity, there is no basis
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for a moral law. Everything is then subjective based on the individual's interpretation of what is good and
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what is bad. Evolution, natural selection, survival of the fittest do not account for all that we view as
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right and wrong. It's just not sufficient. The materialist worldview is just not sufficient to create a
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moral framework. Therefore, when we remove God from morality, all we are left with is subjectivism and
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confusion, which is what intersectionality is. That is why it fails so often. It does not hold to any standard
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of the absolute truth. It is based on self-identity and personal feelings rather than on reality and an
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objective morality. This is constant confusion. One of the many points of dissonance that we see in the
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intersectional world is this that we are watching between feminists and transgender people. Many
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feminists will say that they are affirming of transgender identities, of course, and that men who
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claim to be women are women. But thinking feminists have a problem with this. They ask a very important
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question. If a biological man can claim to be a woman and by doing so be just as much a woman as a
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biological woman, what is a woman? How do you define a woman? Is a woman really just something that you
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say that you are? Are we just diminishing womanhood to that? Do we really have such a low view of
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womanhood and of the female body and of the female creation that being a woman doesn't actually mean
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anything? Are we really just concepts without any material significance or distinction? And if a woman is
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just this undefinable, elusive idea that only exists in people's minds, is there a basis to fight for
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women's rights? Is there a basis for feminism or what feminism says that it is, which is a movement
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for women's rights? Because a transgender woman has met different obstacles than a biological woman has.
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They don't have the same difficulties and challenges, even just physically. And even when a man tries to live
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his life as a woman, there are still going to be differences between him and a biological woman.
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No amount of hormone therapy, no amount of reconstructive surgery will ever alter a man's
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male chromosomes. He will always fundamentally, basically biologically, scientifically be a man.
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This has become a problem when it comes to things like sports, where boys who claim to be girls are
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competing against girls. And guess what? They're dominating. Of course they are. This should be no
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surprise for anyone who has even a lick of common sense. Because in general, men, boys are stronger,
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are bigger, and faster than women are. They have a better aerobic and anaerobic capacity. They have
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better bone density. They are in general more aggressive. This is a problem when it comes to
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prisons or women's shelters or bathrooms or locker rooms, places where women seek privacy and
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protection from men. Men are much more likely to be predatory than women are. So the Democrats,
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having claimed their spot, all the Democratic candidates pretty much at this point, having
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claimed their spot on the far left, which does not, I don't think, represent the majority of
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Democratic voters, having claimed this spot, they are placed in this self-made conundrum of saying that
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they are fighting for women's rights, but A, not being able to define what a woman is, and B,
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placing women at the mercy of biological men who claim to be women. When men can be women,
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can occupy women's only spaces, can compete against women, women lose. Women in general
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will never be able to overpower a man, whether it's in a physical altercation or in an athletic
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arena, just in general. So considering a man, a woman, just because he says he is, makes biological
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women and their efforts for equal rights obsolete. By the way, these are the same people who would
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prefer to disarm women who want to protect themselves with a firearm. These are the same
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people who claim to be about scientific evidence and truth. These are the same people who claim to
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have a monopoly on morality and compassion. But the question is, is it really compassionate? We know
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it's not logical, but is it really compassionate to allow a man to share space with women in prison,
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for example? Is it really compassionate to allow a man to dominate women in sports? This is the problem
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with intersectionality, one of the many problems with it. But this really typifies, I think, or
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symbolizes all of the problems that trans women are considered more oppressed than biological women.
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So they will be bowed down to by the left and these democratic candidates. Being a cis woman is
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privileged compared to being a trans woman. So the cis woman can just shut up about fearing for her
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safety. We can just shut up about fearing for our daughters. Feminists can just shut up about
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obscuring the obscuring of women's rights. And I will agree with that last one. I will agree that
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feminists can and probably should just shut up about the obscuring of women's rights by
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transgenderism because feminists got us here. Feminists got us to this place. Their whole
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movement is, at least in the past half century, based on the idea that men and women are really not
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different, that we are essentially the same. Feminists just have not, not in recent years, by any stretch of
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the imagination, figured out how to fight for the dignity of women, the protection of women, without
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arguing that women are and should be the same as men. That is why they are so passionate about abortion,
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for example, because if a man can physically walk away from a pregnancy, then a woman should be able
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to as well. They have pushed equality through homogeny is something that I've called it a lot,
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or equality through sameness. So rather than equality of dignity, equality of basic rights,
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it has been, no, we are the same. You know what happens when you claim that there are no
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essential differences between men and women? They become interchangeable. And when they become
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interchangeable, they lose their distinct meaning. This is what happens in a world without absolute
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truth or in a worldview, not based on absolute truth. The standards are constantly shifting. It is
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confusing. It is chaotic. No one can keep up with them or live up to them. And then I think as a
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Christian of Jesus, who says that his yoke is easy and his burden is light. And I compare that
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to the yoke and the burdens placed on us by mainstream culture, who tells us that we will
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never be woke enough. And I praise God for an objective, unchanging standard. People say that being
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a Christian is hard. I don't know. I think that it might be a lot harder to be a leftist in this day
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and age. This is again, why it is so difficult, if not impossible to be a Bible believing Christian
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and a modern leftist, because both are asking you to deny yourself, to take up your cross and
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to follow it. But following leftism leads only to more and more confusion. Following the creator
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of the universe who has graciously given us the scriptures, who has graciously left us with the
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Holy Spirit leads to clarity and to peace. That doesn't mean that we know everything or that we
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have everything figured out all the time. But when we have questions, when we have points of
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confusion, we know where to go. We go to the source of all knowledge and wisdom and we begin
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and we subject our opinions to him. So Christians have the privilege, the utter privilege, the luxury
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to get off this crazy merry-go-round of leftism, which makes no sense and is constantly caving in on
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itself. God made us male and female in his image, equal in worth and different in roles. You can go
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listen to the interview that I had with Nancy Piercy last week. Yes, it was last Friday. We talk a lot
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about the biblical view of the body and how it is much more honorable than the secular view of the
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body and why these conflicts are happening. I highly recommend you listen to that interview.
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I also have an episode called Biblical Marriage where I talk about why God made us male and female and
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how we are to complement one another. I also did an episode at the beginning of the summer called
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Women in the Church where I talk about the distinct roles that God has for men and women according to
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his word. And so those are all good resources for you to go back on. This is not a crazy train that we
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need to be on as Christians. It's one that we can hop off, we can look to God's word, and we can see
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clarity, and then we can watch people who claim to be moral arbiters fall all over themselves
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constantly trying to keep up with the new standard of wokeness, which makes no logical or biological
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sense whatsoever. Okay, that's all I have to say about that. That was really the main chunk of
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this podcast episode. I know I got through it really quickly, but I wanted to have time to answer some of
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the questions that you guys sent me. It doesn't have anything to do with that subject, so we're kind
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of switching gears. I asked on Instagram if you could send personal political theological questions
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that you have burning in your mind, and I will try my best to answer them. One question that I've
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gotten a lot that I want to answer because I haven't, maybe I could do a whole podcast episode
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on it, is my thoughts on Christians and alcohol. So the first verse that I think about when it comes
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to Christians and alcohol is Ephesians 5.18. It says, do not get drunk on wine, which is debauchery,
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but be filled with the Spirit. So what that tells me is that whatever fills you controls you. That's
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something that we've talked about before, and that Christians should be very particular about what
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we consume, not just what we drink, but also what we consume as far as the music that we listen to,
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as far as the shows that we watch. I actually did an episode over the summer called Whatever is
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Lovely that talks about that passage in Philippians 4 that says Christians should be dwelling only on
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that which is lovely, and we should be careful about the things that we watch and the things that
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we take in. But I think it's also true of alcohol, that if you allow alcohol to fill you, it is going
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to control you, and that is not what Christians are called to. We are not called to debauchery.
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Now, I do think that it is possible for Christians to drink responsibly. Do I think that it's totally
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cool for you to abstain from alcohol altogether in an effort to be as far away from the sin as debauchery
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as possible? Absolutely. I think that's great. I think that's awesome. I don't think that's
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legalistic in the slightest. I think that actually might be very wise. Additionally, there's another
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stipulation on this allowance of alcohol for Christians. If you are with someone who you know
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is struggling, whose maybe faith is weak, or maybe they're new to the faith and they're trying to figure
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out what's right and what's wrong, or maybe they struggle with alcoholism themselves, maybe they
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don't know how to just have one beer and be fine. Maybe whenever they go to a bar, they have a
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really strong temptation to get drunk, or maybe when they have one drink, they can't handle the buzz,
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and they just want to go further, then I do think that it is your responsibility as a loving brother
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or sister in Christ to not drink in front of them. I do think that that is our obligation to
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other members of the body of Christ, that even if you are fine, completely responsible drinking beer
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on your own, if you are with someone or if you're around people, you don't know their stance on it,
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but it might tempt them or it might in some way hurt their faith. This is like when Paul talks
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about meat sacrifice to idols. It's kind of a similar situation. If you are around people and
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you don't know how they're going to take it, it might be the wise thing just to not drink.
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So I think context really matters and obviously how much matters depending on how it actually
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affects you. And of course, if at any point alcohol becomes an idol to where you feel like you're not
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fun or you're not relaxed or you're not okay, unless you are drinking alcohol or you're getting some
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kind of buzz from alcohol, I would say that that's a problem and that's an idol that you need to give
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up. So is it possible for Christians to responsibly drink alcohol? I think that it is, but there are
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many stipulations to consider, not just, um, well, obviously it's all obedience to God, but also in
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considering those around you and what is most loving to them. So I got a question about women
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shaving their armpits and legs. I did a question and answer on Instagram a couple of weeks ago and
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someone asked me what I think about women not shaving. I don't know really where the question
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came from. I, this is not really a subject that I tackle very often or that I've really thought
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about. And I kind of just made a joke of it saying that I, you know, I kind of think it's gross when
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women don't shave their armpits and legs, but I obviously don't think it's some kind of moral issue.
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If you decide not to shave, I think that's perfectly fine. I'll be your friend. I don't think you're a
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bad person. I don't even think that you're a gross person. That's just not a personal choice that I
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make. I don't think it's biblical or unbiblical or anything like that to shave, but I got some crazy
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responses from people who are very angry that I think that it's a little bit gross if women don't
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shave their armpits again, based on my own personal preferences. And if you want to say that I'm
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brainwashed by the patriarchy because I think it's better for women to shave, that's fine. I'll admit
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that I'm brainwashed by the patriarchy. That's okay. But someone asked me why I don't think it,
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why I think it's unhygienic. And I actually don't think that I said that.
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Necessarily. I think you can be a clean person, a clean woman and not shave as long as you take
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showers and things like that. I just don't, I don't know. I don't have a good explanation for
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it. Like I'm not betting my life on this stance or anything. This is not going to become like the
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central theme of my podcast. I just think that it's kind of gross to look at. I just don't,
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I just don't like it. But hey, if that's what you want to do, then that's fine with me. Again,
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I don't think that this is a moral problem. But some of you out there are like apologists
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for not shaving. And you think that all of women's rights are based on women not shaving. I think
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that's, I don't know. I don't know about that. I can't get on, I can't get on board with that. Maybe
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send me a very convincing email. I don't know. You never know. Maybe next summer when I'm wearing
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tank tops, you'll be like, wow, Allie has decided to join the people who, the women who don't shave.
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Just kidding. That's never going to happen. So a lot of questions on the climate change,
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on the climate change strikes, Greta Thornburg and climate change in general. So this, I think,
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begs an entire episode, kind of like what I did over the summer where I dedicated,
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you know, an entire episode to the, you know, the constitution and entire episode to universal basic
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income and all of these issues. I think I need to dedicate an entire episode to climate change.
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I also need to dedicate an entire episode to the second amendment to really get us,
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give us context and what Christians should think about this. Uh, I don't think of course,
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that it's wrong at all for us to take, um, to, to take this somewhat seriously, or at least
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critically in, in that, let me give a major stipulation in that. I simply think that Christians
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do have a responsibility to steward creation. Well, that we should care about what happens to
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our forest and our trees and our animals and our air, because God has graciously given us all of
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these things. And he has given us a responsibility as human beings, as image bearers to take care of
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these things in a responsible way. The question is not whether or not we should care about the
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environment. The question is a, how serious is it? And B how much freedom should be taken away from
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us and how much money should be taken away from us by the government, uh, to solve problems that
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we're really not sure how we're really not sure how serious they are. And another thing I think
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Christians should consider is that it's just not true. According to the Bible, that the world is going
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to end based on climate change. We know how the quote end of the world is going to be. We know,
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um, what that's going to look like when Jesus comes back and we know what the end of time,
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how that is all going to work out. And it's not going to be because of climate change. It's going
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to be because of God's providence and his will, a time that he destined long before any of us were
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ever born or created. Uh, so I think we need to be wary of the fear mongering on that personal
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question. How has recovering been from having a baby? Plus how are you keeping up with everything?
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You know, recovery has been, it's been pretty good. It hasn't been, um, easy by, by any means
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and balancing work and being a mom is difficult. I love being a mom. I know I say that like every
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podcast, but I love it more than anything. I also love my job much less than I love my child,
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but I do like what I do and I feel privileged to be able to do what I do. Um, it's an awesome
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opportunity that I understand not everyone has to be able to talk about the things that they're
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passionate about and actually get paid to do it. It is difficult balancing those two things,
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a job that it is a very good opportunity. And, you know, being a mom that I love more than anything
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else in the world. And I would give up absolutely everything if I had to for her, you know, it's,
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it's difficult, but I'm also very, I'm very lucky. We've got family close by and that has helped so
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much. Obviously I have an awesome husband. I'm not alone. Shout outs to single working parents
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out there. I, I, I, well, I can't imagine how difficult that is, but I have profound respect
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for you because it is hard. Even as someone who is surrounded by so many supportive people,
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it can be very difficult. I also have an awesome situation where I get to work from home and I get
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to be with her basically all day long, which is, I mean, I couldn't ask for anything better than that.
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So it's been hard and good and wonderful and tiring and all that good stuff. She, uh, slept,
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she has been sleeping pretty well. She, we've been, I've been very disciplined in the schedule
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that I've given her during the day to make sure that she can sleep well at night. And that has
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been working so far. So I'm really excited about that, but it's great. I mean, she's wonderful and
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awesome. She's the cutest baby in the world. I mean, she just is, I know that I'm like kind of biased,
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but she's the cutest, cutest baby in the world. Another question. Have you thought about going
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to seminary? I have thought about it at some point in my life, although I am not considering doing
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that right now, maybe sometime in the future. There are a lot of people I know that are in seminary
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that teach at seminary that are, uh, extremely wise and know more about the Bible than I do.
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I just don't think that's something that I'm going to step into at the moment. Although I really
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appreciate the people that do, it can share their wisdom with us. Someone said, how do you talk to
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Jesus with very theologically liberal family? They think I'm not. So I would ask them a very simple
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question. Do you believe that Jesus is the way, the truth and the life, and that no one comes to the
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father except through him. And if they're theologically liberal, they will probably say no. And their answer to
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that question is, it gives you a good indication of what they believe about the rest of the Bible.
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So if they don't believe that Jesus is the way, the truth and the life, I would just ask them
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a simple question. Why then do you consider yourself a Christian? Why do you consider yourself
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a Christian? If you don't believe that Jesus is the exclusive way to the father, what does being a
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Christian mean? Ask them if they're able to define that. I would say asking questions is the best way
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to get theologically liberal people to think about their worldview and whether or not it actually
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aligns with any kind of objective standard of truth. Someone asked tips for someone wanting to
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start a podcast. So I would make sure that there is an audience for what you want to talk about and
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that there is an audience for your podcast before you start the podcast. It is very hard, if not
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impossible for a random podcast just to start and to pick up any sort of traction. Now, if you just
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want to start a podcast for your family and friends to listen to and a close circle of people to listen
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to, I think that's perfectly cool and fine. But in order to grow a podcast, it really helps if there
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is, if you already have a currently standing audience and you kind of understand what you want to talk to
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them about and what you think that they would benefit from hearing you talk about, that really
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helps the starting a podcast. It's really hard to start from scratch, not having any sort of audience
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or name recognition, starting a podcast and hoping that it picks up. Of course, that happens sometimes
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by, I would say, great luck for lack, for lack of a better word. Of course, we know nothing is
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just coincidental. But yes, there are some podcasts that start that way, but it's very difficult to start
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that way. So I think it's important to build a platform either on a blog or if you are any sort
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of writer, contribute articles to other websites. Try to get some clout, some credibility before
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actually starting a podcast or else you might just be speaking into a void. If you were, I feel like
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I've been asked this before. If you were asked to be the conservative panelist on The View, would you
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do it? Please say yes. I think I've been asked this. But yeah, I mean, of course I would. Although I think
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Meghan McCain does an awesome job and I love watching her clips that I see circulating. She
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just does a really good job, I think, of defending conservatism on The View. What do you order at
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Chick-fil-A? Well, it really depends on the mood, but I typically order a grilled chicken sandwich.
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If I'm really feeling it, I'll get fries. Though post-pregnancy, I've been trying not to get fries,
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but I'll get a grilled chicken sandwich. Not that that's that healthy, but it's a little healthier
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than the fried chicken sandwich. I mean, if I really want to go all in and I am just like,
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I don't even care about calories or my organs at all, then I will get a chicken strip meal with a
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large fry and a lemonade or a Sprite. I used to get Coke Zero, but I've stopped drinking diet sodas
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for whatever reason. Obviously, it's not, I guess, for health reasons since I'm still eating Chick-fil-A
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chicken fingers, but maybe it's helping something. What are your thoughts on modesty in fashion and
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in actions and attitude? Well, obviously, Christians are called to dress modestly and this
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looks different. Some standards look different for different people, just depending on your body type.
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Something that might be modest for one person isn't modest for another person. I think some of
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them are pretty obvious, the parts of the body that you show, but there are questions like,
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is it okay to wear tight jeans? Is it okay to wear shorts at all? Is it okay to wear a tank top and
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show your shoulders? Is it okay to wear a tight t-shirt? I mean, there are all different kinds
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of questions that the Bible doesn't specifically say you shall not wear a tank top, but I think it is
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the spirit of purity and the desire to, um, and the desire to be pure and the desire to dress as
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modestly as you possibly, as you possibly know how to dress, uh, using scripture as our guide and the
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wisdom of the Holy Spirit. I think that is the spirit behind it. Um, the Bible says that our bodies
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are not our own, that they were bought with a price, that they are indwelling or in them is dwelling
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the Holy Spirit. So we are a temple of the Holy Spirit. So we should honor God with our bodies.
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That also means in how we dress. There's a lot of Christians, especially, I mean, I guess definitely
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only maybe exclusively Christian women who have, you know, kind of forgotten about that. I certainly,
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I mean, I haven't been perfect in that. I think back to college and probably different stages of
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my life where I certainly could have been more modest because either I just didn't care, didn't
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know, or didn't think about it, or it was the popular thing to do. I mean, most Christian women that I
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know have been imperfect in this arena. That's certainly not an excuse. That's not to say it's no big
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deal, but I'm just saying that I'm not speaking from this like perfect or self-righteous place,
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but I am saying that scripture talks about the importance of honoring God with our bodies and that
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it is important how we dress and that we are as modest as we possibly, possibly can be. Um, you said
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also in attitude and actions. Now we talk about so much on this podcast, the glorification of self-love,
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what I call trendy narcissism, modesty these days, isn't really something that is seen
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as a virtue. It's kind of cool to say, yeah, I know I'm awesome. I know I'm great. I deserve
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this. I know I'm beautiful. I know I'm perfect the way I am. I know I'm enough. That is seen as
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empowering. That used to be seen as tacky. That used to be seen as something that you didn't want
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to do. You wanted to be kind of muted or understated about the things that you're good at. That doesn't
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mean that you're self-deprecating, but that you just kind of, you know, worked hard, accepted the
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talents that you have, but you didn't go around talking about how perfect and wonderful you are.
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But now apparently self-love is, uh, self-obsession. And apparently it is powerful to talk about all of
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the ways that you know that you're perfect. I think it's very odd and you don't have to hate yourself
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to not be obsessed with self-love as Christians. We know that it's self, it's not self-love that's
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going to satisfy us, but it's God's love. It's not further introspection. It's not constantly
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thinking about either our flaws or the things that we like about ourselves that is going to
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help us. But it is a focus on God, how God sees us, how we should view God and how we are meant to
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be vessels that glorify God. We are meant to be ambassadors of Christ. That means we are not
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constantly focusing on ourselves. We are looking outward and upward. That is what we are called to
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do. As I've said so many times, God is radically unconcerned with self-love in the Bible. Love your
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neighbor as you love yourself is not a directive to love yourself. It is a given that we are
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naturally born loving ourselves. We will avoid pain. We will look for sustenance at all costs.
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Even people who tragically commit suicide are looking to escape pain. And I will talk a lot
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more about that. I actually cover that in my book that's coming out next year. That is basically
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something that my book centers on. So that is all that I have time for today. I hope that you enjoyed
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this episode. I will see you guys back here on Friday when we talk about vaccines. This is part two of
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the vaccine conversation, Dr. Paul Offit. It's going to be an incredibly, I think, insightful conversation
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that whether you agree with it or not, you will gain something from. So I will see you guys then.