Ep 173 ｜ Questions + Things We Just Don't Get
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Summary
In this episode, I talk about how to learn to trust God again and how to persevere in the midst of doubt and doubt. I also talk about the importance of the Word of God and how it can help us persevere through doubt.
Transcript
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Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Friday. I hope everyone has had a great week so far.
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I think I say the same exact opening every single time on my podcast. This is funny.
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So I was looking on Twitter. I don't even know how I found this because they didn't tag me.
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But I was looking, I guess, on the hashtag talking about why saying guys is not correct.
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It's not politically correct. You're not supposed to say, hey guys, because it excludes a certain
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gender or whatever. I think it was a Now This video. Now This is propaganda, if you didn't
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already know that. And someone responded, I think, to the tweet. It was like, if Hey Guys is wrong,
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then every Allie Beth Stuckey relatable podcast is wrong because she starts every single one of her
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podcasts with, hey guys, I don't know why I do that because I think I typically say y'all rather
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than guys. I'm from Texas. I don't know why you say guys, but just kind of started out that way.
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If you want a new opening, let me know. If you are feeling excluded and offended by me saying guys,
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let me know. I probably won't change it based on that. But hey, you never know. Today, we're not
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doing an interview. We are going to do things I just don't get. Actually, it's going to be things
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that you guys just don't get slash questions. I am excited about this episode because I got a ton
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of really good questions. And I know if one person asked me this, it is likely that others of you
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have the same question. And so hopefully this will be a good, productive, insightful, and fun episode
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for you guys. So I'm going to do some things that you guys don't get and some questions at the same time.
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Um, so the first question then I, that I got is how do you learn to trust God again? Well,
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you learn to trust God again by reading his word. God is trustworthy. We don't have to trust him for
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him to be trustworthy. He just is. God is self-existent. He is self-defining. He is self-reliant.
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He doesn't need our faith. He doesn't need our trust to do the things that he is going to do,
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but he tells us to trust him because he is trustworthy. So whenever we are experiencing
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seasons of doubt or seasons of, of questioning and saying, okay, is God really good? Uh, or as
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Satan asked Eve in the garden, did God really say, when we start, uh, finding ourselves kind of giving
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into those questions and spiraling down into this, uh, never ending tornado of doubt, we need to not
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move away from God's word and start asking people outside. Okay. What do you think about God? What
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do you think about God? But going into God's word and saying, what does God's word actually say? What
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does the inerrant, the all-sufficient word of God say about who he is? We need to read stories of the
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Bible in the Bible of God's faithfulness. We need to read the letters to the church where, uh, Paul
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exhorts people and encourages people to persevere, to stay strong in their faith, to test themselves,
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to discern what is right from wrong. That is what you're struggling with right now. Um, in addition
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to wondering how, you know, to trust God, you were struggling with all kinds of questions and the
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desire to persevere, but not knowing how or what that looks like. And my advice for you is to go deeper
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into the word of God, not away from it. What I see so often, we've seen so many, uh, stories of people
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lately falling away or saying, um, that they no longer think that the word of God is sufficient
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or exclusively true. They start adding in their own philosophies and all of a sudden their entire
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worldview crumbles. Well, that's because instead of going to the source of all wisdom and knowledge
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for truth, they have started to look at outside secular pagan sources. You're not going to find real
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wisdom there. You're just going to get confused, but God is a God of peace, not a God of confusion.
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And so if you want peace, if you want knowledge, if you want wisdom, the Bible says that the fear of
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the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Then you need to go to the source of all of these things,
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the alpha, the omega, the beginning and the end, you need to go to his word. That's how you learn
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to trust God again. And of course, prayer, pray without ceasing a pray for strength, pray for, uh,
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the grace of God to, uh, allow you to stay strong and to work out your salvation with fear and
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trembling. Um, another question. So this is completely different. This is kind of how the
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questions are going to be there. Some going to be religious and some going to be, uh, political and
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I'm not going in any particular order. Someone said Hillary running for president. Yeah. Apparently
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that's a thing that happened. Okay. I'm going to play you this little clip until you'll know what
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I'm talking about. Nothing has been more examined and looked at than my emails. We all know that.
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So he's either lying or delusional or both. There was no subpoena as he, uh, says in a tweet this
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morning. Um, so maybe there does need to be a rematch. I mean, obviously I can beat him again.
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So that was strange, right? That was strange. Like she said again, because she didn't beat
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president Trump the first time. And so we're just like, what? Well, it's been a question over the
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past few years, whether or not Hillary Clinton is living in an alternative universe. I think she thinks
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that there is more support for her potential presidency than there actually is. Now there are
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Hillary stands. Like there are people who love Hillary Clinton, but I don't know how many of
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those people, I would say a very small percentage of those people actually want her to become
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president. Um, now, and there would also be fear that she would just rig the election again so that
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whoever really is going to be the nominee won't become the nominee and that she will become the
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nominee because she runs the democratic party probably somewhere behind the scenes. Uh,
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that would be great for president Trump. That would be great for president Trump because not
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only was she a terrible candidate. I mean, I'm sorry. I know that a lot of you love Donald Trump
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out there. You had to have a really terrible candidate in order, uh, in order to not beat Donald
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Trump just because he was so out there and so crazy. Now I understand that she won the popular
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vote. There were three more, uh, 3 million more people who voted for her than voted for Donald
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Trump, but Donald Trump won the electoral vote. That's why, by the way, Democrats want to get rid
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of the electoral college, but that's a whole other thing to talk about. Um, but still he won, he won.
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And in order for Donald Trump, someone as far out as that is someone who so many people did not like
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for him to win, you had to have a really bad democratic candidate. And she was a really bad
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democratic candidate. And I know this is a lot of people think this is a sexist thing to say.
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It's not a sexist thing to say. Cause I say it about men too. She was just unlikable. She was
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unrelatable. She just didn't have any kind of charisma whatsoever. And Donald Trump like him or not,
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he has a ton of charisma and he is very likable to the people that like him. He is very relatable to
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the people, um, that he is relating to. I know that kind of sounds a little repetitive,
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but you understand what I'm saying. There are just not a lot of people that relate at all to
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Hillary Clinton. And plus they're so resentful against her for, uh, snubbing Bernie Sanders.
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I think it would be great for Donald Trump. Like it would be pathetic of her to enter into the race.
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And so she's got that part against her. Not a whole lot of people really like her enough to
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allow her to run for president. I don't think people really want her presidency. She's not
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woke enough quite frankly, for the direction that the Democrats are going in, which is kind of crazy
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when you think about it. But again, I think it would be great for president Trump. I don't think
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that she'll do it. I think hopefully there will be enough people in her life to say, look,
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it's just not, it's not for you girl. It's not in the cards for you. You've had your political
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career. It's just not in the cards for you. That would be, that would be crazy. Now that would be
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a turn that I didn't expect. Um, why Christians are still sending their kids to the government
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for education. So I guess this is someone saying that she just doesn't understand that, which I
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totally understand that concern. If you listen to a conversation that I had with, uh, Gabe Rinch
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over the summer, that is a, an interview that I had. It was a great interview. He's super insightful
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into biblical issues and really the intersection between, uh, the Bible and family and culture
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and politics and all of that. So you can go listen to my interview with Gabe Rinch, but he talks about
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the danger in parents sending their kids to public school. Now I know a lot of godly and Christian
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parents, uh, who have sent their kids to public school and they have done a really good job and
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their kids have turned out wonderfully and awesome and strong in their faith and very, uh, very equipped
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to deal with the outside world that we obviously are going to have to deal with and to walk through
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and to work in and all of that. So I just can't say wholesale that every single parent who sends
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their kid to public school, because that's the only option that they have is doing a bad thing.
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Now, do I think that you have to take extra steps to teach your kids while they're at home to make
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sure that you implement the right values to instill them with the word of God? Yeah, you probably do.
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I think that parents need to be doing that anyway, whether their kids go to private or a public
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school, but there are probably going to be values that they will learn at a non-Christian school
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that you are more opposed to than if you sent them to a Christian school. It would be awesome if every
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single parent had the option to send their kids to a small private school, uh, a Christian school
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where they knew that they were going to be, uh, taught God's word on a daily basis. That's simply not
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an option for everyone. And I also know a lot of teachers in public schools who are great,
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who are wonderful teachers and who are godly teachers and who are doing their best to teach
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their kids as, as well as they possibly can. Now, I do think that, uh, public education has
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been overtaken by the left, has been overtaken by bureaucrats, and therefore it is failing our
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children. I do think that there is a systemic problem with public schooling and that unfortunately
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Christians kind of ceded that ground, that Christians kind of surrendered the realm of
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public education to the left. And maybe it's not all of our fault. Maybe there are some things that
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we could have not, we, maybe there are some things that we could have done differently. And maybe there
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are some things that we couldn't have done any differently. We did the best that we could in some
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arenas, but we totally ceded and surrendered that ground. And now systemically and in general,
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public education is monopolized by the left. And because of that, it is very difficult for parents
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who want to raise their kids in a Christian and conservative, uh, worldview. It is very difficult
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because they're learning something during the day. They're learning something different at home.
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And, um, that can be hard. That can present another challenge. But I know for a lot of parents,
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that's the only option that they have. And a lot of teachers do do a really good job. So I just want
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to be careful there not to make too many generalizations to say that everyone who is involved in the
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public education is wrong and bad and doing the wrong thing. Um, I think it's the most important
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thing, no matter what, no matter where your kids go is to teach them in the Lord and to cultivate
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their faith as much as you can to steward this gift of children that God has given you in a
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responsible way so that, uh, they know the truth. And that might be more difficult if your kids are
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going to public school. Uh, but that is true for all of us, no matter where our kids go or whether
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they're homeschooled, which I think is also an awesome option. Um, a lot of you, I've gotten a
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few questions about the Ellen DeGeneres, George Bush thing. They were sitting together and apparently
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some people got mad. I will say it was only people on the left who got mad. No conservatives were like,
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why is George Bush sitting with Ellen DeGeneres? I don't think any conservative thought of that. I think
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they probably thought it was cool, but leftists got mad because George Bush, he's a so-called war
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criminal, whatever. They're more mad. People on the left are more mad, madder, whatever, at George
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Bush, uh, because of the war and because of the events surrounding 9-11 than they are with Saddam
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Hussein. That is true. There are people I would say on the left and the right who are more mad at, uh,
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George Bush than they are with Saddam Hussein. That's crazy to think about. Um, okay, let me
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play you this clip from the Ellen show. So, uh, this weekend I went to Dallas, uh, for the Cowboys
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game, but during the game, they showed a shot of George and me laughing together. And, uh, so
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people were upset. They thought, why is a gay Hollywood liberal sitting next to a conservative
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Republican president? Didn't even notice I'm holding the brand new iPhone 11. And, um,
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I was aware that I was going to be surrounded with people from very different views and beliefs.
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And I'm not talking about politics. I was rooting for the Packers. And, uh, get this,
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everybody in the Cowboys suite was rooting for the Cowboys. And so I had to hide my cheese hat in
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Porsche's purse. Here's the thing. I'm friends with George Bush. In fact, I'm friends with a lot of
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people who don't share the same beliefs that I have. We're all different, and I think that we've
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forgotten that that's okay that we're all different. But just because I don't agree with someone on
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everything doesn't mean that I'm not going to be friends with them. When I say be kind to one
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another, I don't mean only the people that think the same way that you do. I mean, be kind to
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everyone. Doesn't matter. So I would say good for her. Obviously, obviously Ellen DeGeneres and I
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are diametrically opposed on a lot of values on how we see the world. But I really respect,
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I really respect that she did this. Now, what's a little bit funny, not really ha ha funny,
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but it says something about our culture that the fact that she had to go up there and say,
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hey guys, I'm going to be kind to people that I disagree with. And yeah, I'm going to be friends
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with people who are on the other side of the political aisle. And that was hailed as this like
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great heroic act that everyone applauded for. And I mean, I did like I shared it. I'm like,
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this is such a big deal. This is so awesome. Other people need to be like this. 10 years ago,
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first of all, I don't think anyone would have complained five years ago. I'm not sure as many
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people would have complained. And it wouldn't have been a big deal as as big of a deal as it is now.
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And her saying, hey, I'm going to be kind to everyone wouldn't have been applauded as this
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heroic act. But because we are so tribalized and we are so divided and we are so outraged all the time,
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this was like a stunning act of bravery. Really? It's just common decency. OK, she's a nice and
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polite person. We should all be nice and polite people. We should all be able to set our differences
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aside and say, you know what? You're a human being and I am going to see the best in you.
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Now, there are some things that some people brought up about, OK, she's not kind to President Trump.
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She hasn't had President Trump on her show. I understand that concern is someone who voted for
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Donald Trump, who is someone who is obviously a conservative. I understand what you're saying,
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but I don't think I don't think that makes her unkind. I think that you can dislike a politician.
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She obviously believes not saying she's right, but she obviously believes that Donald Trump is a bad
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person, that he is a bigot and that he is not just someone who disagrees with her, but someone whose
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values she just doesn't align with at all. I don't think it's wrong for her or a hypocritic. I don't
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think it's hypocritical of her to say, hey, be kind to everyone and still disagree with President
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Trump and not have him on her show. I don't think that's hypocritical. I don't think in order for her
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to be a kind person, she has to have every single politician that she doesn't agree with on her
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show. Now, she really never has Republicans on her show, not just Donald Trump. So that might be a
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little point of contention that, OK, if you're it's not just you shouldn't just be kind and welcoming
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to George Bush. Maybe there are some other Republicans that you don't hate as much as Donald Trump
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that you can at least be kind to. I think that's fair to point out. But just because she doesn't
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like President Trump, I don't think that necessarily makes her hypocritical. OK, next question.
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I don't get people. OK, this is not a question. I don't get people who don't like naps or who wash
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their hair every day. OK, yes, I don't wash my hair every day. I haven't washed my hair every day since
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ever. Have I ever washed my hair every day? Because I remember in high school that my friends
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and I literally this is gross and this is just what teenagers do, had a competition to see who
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could go the longest without washing their hair. I don't think I won that. I don't think I won that
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competition. But that just goes to show that we obviously didn't care about washing our hair
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every day. It's not good to wash your hair every day. If you know that my parents still don't believe
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me on this and they don't get it, that it's actually not good to wash your hair every day,
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that you should let your hair rest and collect oil and all that good stuff.
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So but I can't say that I don't get people that don't wash their hair every day because
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I do get it because some people's hair just gets greasy and they don't want to deal with it.
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It gets itchy and all that. Sorry, this is kind of a gross subject, but I just wanted to address
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this person's concern that I'm on the same page as you, but I kind of get why people do it.
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And then the other thing that you don't get people who don't like naps. I don't like naps.
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Yes. I so I guess you just don't get me. So let me try to explain this to you. I feel like I'm
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losing time and I don't like I like sleep, but I don't like our need for sleep. Like I wish that
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I didn't need as much sleep as I do in order to function and to be productive. And I don't like
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naps. I'm not good at taking naps because as soon as I lay down, I'm thinking about a million things
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and it makes me feel worse afterwards. I think maybe napping is something like an art that you
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kind of have to perfect. And I haven't perfected that art because I lay there for 20 minutes. And
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by the way, this is like I'm talking about before I had a baby. I don't I can't nap at all now. But
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I guess if I ever tried to nap before I have a baby, I lay there for 20 minutes thinking about
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something or on my phone or something like that. And then if I do finally fall asleep,
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unless I wake up at the exact right time in my sleep cycle, I am really groggy for the rest of
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the day. So that's why I don't like naps. So I hope that provided you some insight.
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What is your favorite thing that your daughter does so far? I love talking about her. She's so cute. I
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know I don't show pictures, but she is. I mean, just like objectively speaking, I know I'm biased,
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objectively speaking, like she's just so cute. My favorite thing that she does, I think I might
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have answered this on the last Q&A, actually. It's really hard to pick a favorite. I mean,
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I love when she smiles. She has smiled since she was like literally two weeks years, two weeks,
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two weeks years old, two weeks years old, two weeks old. I know that in the beginning, it's kind
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of just like a reflex that they have. It's not like a genuine reaction to something, but it did
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seem like it. Like she would look us in our eyes and smile really early on. So I love when she smiles.
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She hasn't quite gotten a laugh yet, but I love when she reacts to something that we do or she tries
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to kind of like mimic our facial expressions. One thing that I think is funny that she does is that
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she has very different emotional reactions to different songs. So if there's like a happy,
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upbeat song, she'll be happy. She likes that. But if you change to a song that she doesn't like,
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it is like, I don't know what it is, but she will just erupt in tears, which I just think is
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very emotionally mature of her, very emotionally sensitive of her to know that there is some songs
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that she just doesn't like or too sad for her. If like there's some kind of, if there's some kind
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of tune that she thinks is a little bit sadder, it seems like her emotions change. I love that.
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I love when she wakes up in the morning. I love that she likes, she really likes to sit up,
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even though she can't sit up. She would like us to hold her in a seated position for as long as
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possible. Oh, one thing that I really love that she does, she loves to watch football. I think it's
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because of like the movement and the colors. And so she will sit with my husband on the couch and
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intently, intensely watch football. And it's so cute. She looks like she's like really focused
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and like she really wants to know if her team is going to win. So I don't know. She just does a
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lot of cute things. I mean, not everyone can be as cute and as great as baby girl.
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One thing this person doesn't get is why nickels are bigger than dimes. I don't know. That's so weird.
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Who decided that? And so were pennies. Pennies are bigger than dimes too. I think that's weird as well.
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I think we should probably, we should probably hold whoever runs for president on the democratic
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side or whoever the nominee is and president Trump, we should hold them both accountable when
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it comes to that. We should ask them that tough question at the debates. That should be the
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question that we should submit. They need to tell us the reasoning for this. And if they're not willing
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to change that, are they really capable of changing anything? So I think that's a great,
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great question. Enneagram. Enneagram. Okay. I get asked this a lot. This is another
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one. This, I need to add this to my list actually of things to talk about is dedicating an entire
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podcast episode to personality tests. This is actually something that I'm going to talk about
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in my book, which is coming out April, 2020, by the way, you guys are going to love it. I can't wait
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to like share the cover with you and exactly what it is. Once I share the title, you guys are going to
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be so excited. I'm so excited. But I talk about the Enneagram, um, in my book and
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it's its origins and why it is so easy to idolize personality tests and to use your personality
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type, whether it's the Enneagram or Myers-Briggs or whatever, as an excuse to send, oh, well, I'm just,
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you know, I'm just an isolated person or I'm just an unfriendly person or I'm just an overthinker.
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I'm just a worrier because I'm an Enneagram one, two, five, seven, nine. And by the way,
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I pretty recently, I would say like a year ago, didn't see anything wrong with the Enneagram.
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I didn't know about it. I just kind of assumed it was another personality test. I was even told
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in college that it was a Christian personality test, that it was used by the church. Well,
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that's not true. It actually has origins in the occults, which I will, I can talk about
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in more depth at some point. And it was used by mystics. It was introduced to the Catholic
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church in like the 1970s and they've tried to like reappropriate it, but it doesn't have
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Christian origins. And it's really not something to base your life on or to try to understand your
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behavior through the lens of. I think it gives people some sense of comfort to try to understand
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themselves or to feel like they are understood by an objective standard of a personality test.
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But the fact is, is that the Bible calls us all to be holy, not to know ourselves better.
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And I would be wary in general of too much introspection. I do think it's important to test
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ourselves and to understand what our sin temptations are. But I think that we are able to do that
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through the word of God and through the Holy Spirit and not through obsessing over personality
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tests. I understand a lot of people feel like they've been liberated by personality tests. You
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haven't. You've been liberated, if you have been, by the blood of Christ. A lot of people feel like
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they've been helped by the Enneagram. A lot of people think that it has helped them love other
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people. And I understand that. I do. I'm not saying that it hasn't. I can't, you know, argue with you
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on that. If you feel like it's been helpful to you in some way, there are a lot of pagan things that
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probably people feel like they have been helped by. People probably think that they have been helped
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by a zodiac sign. But the Enneagram really is not much different than that, is what I've realized.
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And I've just done my own research and learning this stuff. And so I'm telling you that as someone
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who did believe in the truth in them and the helpfulness of them pretty recently, until I
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started researching for myself and realizing that it's become this idol almost in the church of all
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these Christians talking about, well, I'm a nine, I'm a one. I don't think that should be our identity.
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I think that we are bought with a price. We become ambassadors of Christ when we are made
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new creations. And that is who we are. Yes, we all have different personalities. We have different
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quirks. We have different preferences. And that's wonderful. That's beautiful. We are all different
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members, different parts of the body of Christ. And God did create us that way. And that is great.
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But I think it becomes a problem when we see ourselves as a certain personality type or number
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and not as who we are in Christ. We are all called to the same standard of holiness because of what
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Christ did for us. Okay, next question. Okay, someone asked me about drag queen story hour. I am going
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to play you and this. So you have to be watching this in order to know what's going on. So I encourage
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you to watch this part on YouTube or on Facebook. But I am going to play you drag queen story hour
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that happened at a real library for children. This is drag queen story hour. It's your classic
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children's reading program with a twist. The day's literary leader is a larger than life drag queen.
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Drag queens are just here to entertain. We can read. We're intelligent. Like we are harmless. And I
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just hope that, you know, moving forward, it kind of just like stretches those imaginations a little
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bit more to continue normalizing it and, you know, give people a little bit more like fearlessness to
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take home with them. So obviously, this is extremely disturbing. This is perverted. It's disgusting.
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It's dark. It's demonic. It's satanic. It's whatever you want to call it. There is a real push,
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a real push to sexualize children and to see children as or to treat children as viable,
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as viable participants, as legitimate participants in any kind of sexuality, sexual acts. And that is why
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we are going to see the normalization of pedophilia. And so we talked about public schooling. This is
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another thing to think about when we are when you are considering public schooling. This is something
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that is going to be normalized in the public education system because the left controls the
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public education system. So that is something to think about. It's just another reason for parents
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to be vigilant. We cannot be apathetic with our kids' education. We cannot be apathetic with our
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kids' worldview. There was probably a time where parents could be more than they can be now where
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they could maybe trust even public schools and their teachers to teach them good godly values that
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you didn't really have to worry about. Okay, they were going to teach them, you know, 19 different
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genders and that marriage isn't really between a man and a woman, that they were going to teach them
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things that really opposed the Bible. I mean, of course, there was a big scandal when they started
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teaching evolution in public schools and that has definitely gone downhill from there and when
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prayer was pulled out of public schools. But in general, it has been a lot better in the public
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sphere than it is now. And so parents just have to be vigilant. They have to be vigilant. There is a whole
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Instagram account that I shared the other day about talking to your kids about kinks and fetishes
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and different sexual desires and things like that because they think that this is going to be
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liberating and freeing for kids. No, there is a reason why there are stages in development. Our mind
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isn't even fully formed until the age that we're 25. Kids don't have any capacity to understand those
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things. They don't have a desire for those things. They might be curious at a certain age about anatomy
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and things like that, but there is a reason why we protect a child's innocence as much as possible.
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And the outside world will tell you that is cultivating shame. No, it's not. It's actually
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cultivating honor. A book that I highly recommend is Love Thy Body by Nancy Piercy. I actually
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interviewed Nancy Piercy a few weeks ago. It talks about how the Christian ethic is actually more
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honoring to the body than the secular ethic and why that is. And so I highly recommend Love Thy Body
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by Nancy Piercy. I also recommend the episode that I did with her, the interview that I did with her
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a few weeks ago. Nancy Piercy, definitely go check that out. Next question. Have I ever done an episode
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on election? Yes, I have. There is an episode from the summer titled Predestination. I would go check
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that out if you are interested. Someone said they don't understand fingerless gloves. Me neither.
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Maybe your palm gets cold. But I would say that when you are cold, it's your digits that get cold,
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right? So and especially now they have that technology where you can like actually use your
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phone when you are when you have gloves on. So what is the point of fingerless gloves? If someone
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in the comments or someone out there could tell me the point of fingerless gloves, I always think of
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like the burglars in Home Alone when I think of fingerless gloves. So I don't know. Does anyone else
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use fingerless gloves out there besides the burglars in Home Alone that I'm sure is watching? They're
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right now. Someone says that I don't get people who like Pepsi. Pepsi is good. And I'm talking as
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someone who likes Coca-Cola. Pepsi is good. It just is. I like when people hate on Pepsi. I just like
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don't really say anything. But secretly, I'm like, Pepsi is pretty good. Like I'm okay if a restaurant
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doesn't have Coke and they want to give me Pepsi. I don't I don't get people who don't get people who
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like Pepsi. Is Pepsi really bad? Or is it just like this thing? Is there just a stigma surrounding
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Pepsi? Maybe we need to destigmatize Pepsi. That's another thing that we need to hold our presidential
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candidates to. People who say supposedly is something that you don't understand or all of
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the sudden. Oh, I might be guilty of all of the sudden. I think someone's corrected me on this
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before. All of the sudden. Is it all of a sudden? All of a sudden? Uh, is that is that just wrong?
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I also say, um, what do I say? Whole nother, a whole nother thing, which is not a phrase at all.
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And I'm someone who really cares. I mean, I care about grammar. I shouldn't say I really care about
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grammar. Some of you, I feel bad because you'll send me a message, you know, like, sorry, my grammar
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is bad. I'm like, oh, gosh, I hope I have not seen as that person who's like correcting people's
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grammar because I'm not. I don't really care. But I do care when people are writing articles or
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when something is formal and they don't know how to like use a comma or something. That does kind
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of irk me a little bit. Or when people are trying to sound smart and they use too many commas, that
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does bother me. But people who say supposedly, you know what? I don't say supposedly, but I think my
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dad says supposedly. And I hope he's listening to this right now because he makes fun of me for how I
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say important. Because apparently I say important. My mom says it's because we listen, young people
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listen to rap. And that's why we say important. But you know what? Someone else said when she was
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on my podcast that she says important the way that I do. I don't know why. I don't know why we say
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important. But a lot of people have told me that I don't say it correctly. Whoa, correctly. When I was
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filming my PragerU video, I've told the story before. I had to say the word important. And they made me
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say it over and over again. I had never heard until that point that I said important wrong.
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But I had to say important. And I felt so weird saying that. Do you say important? Does everyone
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say important when they talk important? Important? I think I can do that. It's spelled like D-E-N-T.
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Okay, might as well end on a controversial one. Now, everyone who listens to my podcast who is
00:32:15.920
Catholic? I love you. We have very different views. And you guys know that I actually get
00:32:19.920
messages all the time from Catholics being like, you know, we disagree on a lot. But I really like
00:32:25.820
your theology podcast. And I like your takes. And so I'm so glad that we can unite on the things that
00:32:30.280
we do agree with. But you guys know that I am a Protestant that I don't think about being a
00:32:36.240
Protestant. Like, it's not the same as Catholics saying I'm Catholic. We don't go around saying like,
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I'm Protestant. We just say I'm a Christian. But I am a Protestant. I am Reformed. And so I have very
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different views from my Catholic friends on a lot of things. But someone asked me my thoughts on
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Catholic confession to a priest. And so guys, Catholics who are listening to this, please don't
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be angry at me. You know that we disagree. So you're going to disagree with me. I wouldn't be
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angry with you for disagreeing with me. But I am going to share my opinion on this. So the Bible
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does tell us to confess our sins to one another. And so I think that's important. We are to confess
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our sins to fellow believers. I don't think that the act of confessing your sin to a priest in itself
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isn't unbiblical. But the thought that that priest can absolve you from any sin, or that he can give you
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a prescription to absolve yourself from sin is wrong. And the thought that you have to confess your
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sins to a priest in order to be forgiven is unbiblical. The only intercessor, the true intercessor
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that grants you any access to God is Jesus Christ himself. He is our intercessor. So confessing your
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sins to a priest isn't wrong. But to say you have to confess your sins to a priest in order to be
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forgiven, in order to truly repent, in order to absolve yourself from any guilt or sin, that is
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unbiblical. It's not found in the Bible at all. So while I don't think it's a bad practice, I do think
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the obligation to do so or the rule to do so, it's just not found in the Bible now. That is just one
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contention that I have with Catholic doctrine. And again, I love, I have very many Catholic friends
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that I love and are awesome. And we have great conversations about this stuff. And you and I,
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who are Catholic, we agree on a lot. But there are also just a lot of doctrinal differences,
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very serious doctrinal differences that we disagree on. So that's where I would say that's
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where I land on the confessing to the priest. I just kind of wanted to end this on a very
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controversial note. I got tons and tons and tons of questions, tons of questions. I could probably
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spend two more hours answering. But I won't. I won't. I'll save them for later. Because you guys
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always have really good thought provoking questions. Some of them take longer than me
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just thinking off the top of my head to answer. And so I'll have to do that again in the future.
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Love you guys. Happy Friday. I will see you back here on Monday. On Monday, we are going to be talking
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about why Christians should not be dating or in any kind of romantic relationship with an unbeliever.
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So just all over this controversial stuff. I will see you guys back here then. Have a great weekend.