Ep 209 ｜ Super Salacious Super Bowl
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In this episode of Relatable, I discuss the craziness surrounding the Iowa caucus, a tribute to Rush limbaugh, and some theories about the results of the Iowa caucus. I also talk about a new Pew Poll that shows a majority of christian democrats say they are voting for November, and why they re voting that way.
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hey guys happy wednesday welcome to relatable there is so much to talk about today so a lot
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of you have asked me to talk about the super bowl halftime show so we are going to discuss that
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we're going to talk about the iowa caucus in all of the madness surrounding that we are going to
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try to talk about a couple other things i want to talk about this pew poll that says
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who self-identified christian democrats say that they are going to vote for november and why they
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are voting that way uh as i'm recording this it is tuesday morning so a lot has happened maybe by the
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time you're listening to this state of the union address happened on tuesday night there are uh
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there's probably more information about the iowa caucuses that i'm not going to be able to give
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you right now as i'm recording it but i'm going to give you my best analysis on all of these things
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okay first before we get into talking about the craziness surrounding the iowa caucus i want to
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give a little bit of a tribute to rush limbaugh who announced this week that he has been diagnosed with
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advanced lung cancer i just want his family to know that i you know i don't know that they listen to
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relatable but i do want his family to know that we are praying for him that we are praying for his
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family that god would give them the peace that passes all understanding that he would make a quick
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recovery i mean thank god that he has access to the best health care in the world and i just pray
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that he would be fully healed that he would be able to recover that he would continue this uh fight and
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that he would uh that he would know that he would come close to the lord and that the lord would draw
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him near and comfort him and like i said give him and his family the peace that passes understanding
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he is a radio legend and i am so thankful for what he has contributed to the political and cultural
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dialogue for as long as he has been in the game so just wanted to make sure that i gave that tribute
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at the top of the show we are all praying for him and his family okay the iowa caucus if you don't know
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what happened in the iowa caucus you can go back and listen to the monday episode first i kind of gave
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a little bit of a precursor told you what the iowa caucus is my predictions that bernie sanders is going to
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win the iowa caucus that he was going to pick up the momentum remember that's what the iowa caucus
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is really about that doesn't necessarily mean if you win the iowa caucus that you are going to win
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the presidential nomination or the nomination for your political party but it does mean that you are
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going to pick up a lot of momentum ted cruz won the iowa caucus caucus in um in 2016 and obviously he
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didn't win the nomination but it is still a big deal to win the nomination and i predicted that
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bernie sanders was going to win it now as of right now tuesday morning as i am recording this podcast
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we do not have the results of the iowa caucus because it's been an absolute crazy town madhouse
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we don't know what's going on so there are accusations there are theories there are conspiracies
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floating around twitter that this is all rigged and it's rigged specifically the theory goes against
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bernie sanders uh bernie sanders supporters feel that the primaries were rigged against him
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in 2016 and they believe the same now and they might have a point that the dnc that the democratic
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establishment is not for bernie sanders they are just not ready to have a socialist represent their
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party now jokes on them socialists already represent their party they just uh don't admit that they're
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socialists some of the radicals that they have running for president like elizabeth warren like pete
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budajig like joe biden that are in many ways at least just as radical as bernie sanders but bernie
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sanders is at least honest about it and that's part of his appeal to a lot of people but another part of
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bernie sanders's appeal is that he is against the establishment and the establishment is against him so
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if it is true that somehow the iowa caucus that they are obscuring the results from the iowa caucus for
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a long period of time so that bernie sanders who may have won won't gain the momentum that the iowa
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caucus lends the winner uh if that is true or even if enough people believe that that is true
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all that's going to do is further incense bernie supporters all that's going to do is to give
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credibility to their theory that bernie sanders bernie sanders is fighting the establishment and that
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the establishment is fighting bernie sanders and that's part of bernie sanders's schtick right
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that uh he is sticking it to the man that's why people like bernie sanders not just when it comes
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to sticking it to capitalism and sticking it to billionaires sticking it to the one percent which
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by the way of course bernie is a part of but also sticking it to the political establishment by the way
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that's the same appeal for a lot of people that donald trump has different kinds of people and for
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different reasons but that's why bernie sanders and donald trump are really perfect for each other
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when it comes to a presidential competition because a lot of people uh support bernie sanders and donald
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trump respectively for the same kinds of reasons they believe they are fighting corruption they are
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fighting the deep state they are fighting the establishment so if this is the dnc strategy to try to
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stifle bernie sanders this is not the way to go this is counterproductive as far as their goal goes
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because again if bernie supporters think that this is rigged against him that there is some
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conspiratorial thing going on against bernie sanders all this is going to do is to uh legitimize
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their uh what they would call a need for a movement a need to overhaul the entire american system if you
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listen to a bernie sanders rally every single act that he has before bernie sanders comes on the stage
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is about how terrible how fundamentally flawed america is how racist how corrupt how immoral how
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unjust america is to the core and so believing that uh the democratic establishment in washington
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is working against bernie sanders working against your movement well that's just going to make you
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angrier that's just going to make you more passionate i mean think about for example if you
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looked at this on the republican side the same is true for those of us who support donald trump
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uh we think the impeachment is a wish is a witch hunt that the russian collusion hoax is a witch hunt
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we thought that the kavanaugh thing was a witch hunt against kavanaugh so the more you believe that
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the establishment that the swamp is against your guy the more passionate you're going to be the angrier
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you're going to be that's why impeachment was a miscalculation for the democrats just because
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it's making republicans even angrier at them and even more passionate about voting for donald trump
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the same is true for bernie sanders if this is truly rigged against him i'm not saying that it is
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the iowa caucus but it could be so lots of theories that are floating around um about that now i want to
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switch into this pew poll that recently came out talking about uh christians who are planning to
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vote for democrats and it breaks down christians in general so protestants catholics who are voting
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for republicans voting for trump and who plan to vote for democrats and then it breaks down which
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democrats these self-identified christians plan to vote for so on monday i talked about an ap article
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that said that the democratic party is trying to court evangelical christians who for the most part
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are going to vote for donald trump are planning to vote for donald trump pete buddha judge has been
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trying to do that for a long time of course i don't think that's going to be effective but something
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i said that turns out to be true according to this pew poll is that i think christians would vote for
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joe biden uh if he is the nominee some christians who don't like donald trump who have bought into the
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lie that in order to be compassionate you have to believe in open borders and you have to believe in
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free health care and you have to believe in abortion and all of this crazy stuff i think they would
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sooner vote for joe biden than they would vote for bernie sanders bernie sanders is just too extreme
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he's too radical it's too obvious how a socialism and communism have decimated not just economies but
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people's lives and have led to suffering and have led to the stifling of religious liberty for as long
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as socialism and communism has been around that it would be too difficult to make the pitch for
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evangelical christians for any christian uh to vote for bernie sanders so i just said that i was
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just kind of surmising it was just conjecture out of you know observation on my part but it turns out
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according to this pew research poll that uh that is true that the majority of atheists and agnostics
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say that they are going to vote for bernie sanders that they are bernie sanders supporters
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uh very few agnostics and atheists uh comparatively say that they would vote for
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or say say that they would vote for joe biden and even fewer say that they would vote uh for
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donald trump but if we just look at not specifically the candidates who uh each uh religious section
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is going to vote for say that they're going to vote for it's interesting it's predictable but it's
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interesting and we'll kind of talk about why this breakdown is so 75 of white evangelicals according to
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this poll are definitely are probably voting for trump in november so 75 81 of atheists definitely
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are probably voting for democrats uh 73 of agnostics definitely are probably voting democrat 79 black
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protestant voting democrat so overall uh 51 protestants voting for trump 36 protestants voting democrats
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or they say that they're going to in november 44 catholics are voting trump 43 voting democrat that
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is very split so what we see here is that if you are theologically conservative because typically
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white evangelicals are extremely uh extremely theologically conservative if you are theologically
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conservative you tend to be politically conservative we just see that to be true uh now this is just what
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i want to say and i know this is a little bit controversial but we've talked about this so much on
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our podcast what i would say that if you are a democrat who or if you are a christian who plans
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to vote democrat or who does vote democrat and you look at a number like this and you see that 81 percent
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of atheists and 73 percent of agnostics are definitely are probably voting for democrats and you see that the
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vast majority of atheists are voting for bernie sanders or who support bernie sanders and you find yourself
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on the same political on the same side of the political aisle as almost all the atheists and
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agnostics in the country i would just ask yourself why like these people who don't believe in god don't
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believe in a supreme moral arbiter don't believe people are made in the image of god don't believe
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people have a soul and are going to live forever that's at least true of atheists agnostics you know
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not necessarily uh but if you find yourself having the same basic worldview and voting the same on
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almost every single issue as people who don't believe in god i would just ask yourself why now
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separation of church and state is not a good answer on that uh because if you have a biblical worldview
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it colors how you vote it colors how you see the world it colors uh what you think the place of
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government is and what you believe good laws are now that's not to say that we necessarily have to
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disagree on all atheists or agnostics politically obviously there are atheists and agnostic conservatives
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and so just because they don't believe in god doesn't mean that i believe that they're wrong
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politically as well but if you again are on the side uh of the political aisle that almost every single
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not just one or a few but every single atheist is on i would evaluate your worldview do you believe
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just fundamental questions like do you believe the word of god is inerrant that's what i believe is
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differentiating a factor between theological conservatives and theological liberals do you
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believe that the word of god matters like do you believe that god is the moral arbiter do you believe
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and the basic idea that we were endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights among them
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being life liberty and the pursuit of happiness therefore the government exists to recognize our
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rights not give us our rights because that's really the difference that is why the majority of christians
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uh the majority of evangelical christians are conservative and atheists are not because of
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that key factor because we believe as the founders said christians believe as the founders did
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that we were created by god and because we were created by god we have natural inherent rights that
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exist just because we are alive therefore they cannot be taken away by the government because they
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weren't given by the government but if you don't have that belief that we were created by god and
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therefore given an alienable natural inherent rights then you believe that the government gives us
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our rights therefore the government can take away our rights and if you don't believe
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that God is the moral arbiter than you believe that the government is the moral arbiter because
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that's the next highest thing. But we believe that God created the heavens and the earth. Therefore,
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he is in charge of all of it ultimately. And yes, he sets up governments. He takes down
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governments. Government, I believe, is a good thing. Government should exist. Government has
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a purpose. And Romans 13 says it is to execute justice on the wrongdoer. So we know that there
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is a biblical purpose to the government. But we believe that the government is meant to be a
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servant of God. That doesn't mean a theocracy in the sense that we don't believe that we should
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compel you to worship the same God that we do. We believe in religious liberty. But do we believe
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that laws should reflect God's version of morality? Absolutely we do. Because without God, there is no
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argument for morality. So again, if you are a Christian, you believe that God is the ultimate
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moral authority, that he says what's true and what's not, what is and what isn't, and what is good and
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what is evil. Therefore, you believe that God should influence law. That is not an infringement on
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separation of church and state. The founders believe that God should influence law. Because again,
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you don't have any concept of what is right and wrong if you don't believe in a higher moral
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authority that says what is right and wrong. So atheists don't believe in that. And they believe
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that the state should be able to dictate totally what is right, what is wrong, and should not only
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be your moral arbiter, but also your caretaker, also your nanny, also your family. But Christians,
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we believe that we are made in the image of God. And because we believe that humans are made in the
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image of God, we believe that we have souls. And because we believe we have souls, we believe that we
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live forever, that human beings, souls live forever. Therefore, we outlive the state. We outlive
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governments. That means that human beings, because of that, are far more important. Individuals are far
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more important than the states. But if you don't believe that we are made in the image of God, if
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you don't believe we have souls, if you don't believe we live forever, that means the state outlives
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the individual. That means that you believe that the state probably is more important than the
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individual. So that is why the majority of atheists support someone like Bernie Sanders. That is also
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why throughout history, you see godlessness always coincide with socialism and communism in any form
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of totalitarianism. So that is why we see the difference. And again, if you're a Christian who
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tends to vote Democrat, I would ask yourself, why? Why do you have the same worldview as people who don't
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believe in God? It's just an it's just an interesting question to ask. And if you are an
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atheist who votes Republican, I would also ask yourself why? Like, why do you believe we have
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certain inherent inalienable rights if you don't believe they come from somewhere? Like, why don't
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you believe the government has the right to take away your rights? Why? I would ask you to dig a little
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bit deeper, too. I'm glad you're over here on this side, but I would want you to come to a spiritual
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revelation more than I just want your political vote. OK, so I just wanted to analyze that. Now
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let's get into what I'm really excited to talk about and what so many of you asked me to talk
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about over the past few days. And that is the Super Bowl halftime show. Lots of messages about this.
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I watched it. Shakira, JLo. Here are all of my honest thoughts about this. So first, these are
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incredibly talented and beautiful women. Shakira is 43 years old. JLo is 50 years old. 50 years
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old. They're amazing dancers. They are incredible athletes. I don't know this from experience because
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I am not a dancer at all. I wish that I were. I wish I were a dancer. But I can tell, you can just
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tell from watching that what it takes to be able to do what they did takes incredible skill, takes
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incredible practice. It takes incredible athleticism that the vast majority of the world could never
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have, even if we practice every single day. All of the dancers on that stage, totally talented. I
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could never do what they do. I will never look like Shakira and JLo. I'm totally fine with that.
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They are amazing performers and gorgeous women. Now, all of that said, did I have a problem with the
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show? Of course I had a problem with the show. And I know there are a lot of people that are going to
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push back on this. Like there are a lot of people that think anyone who has criticized this at all
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is just being a stick in the mud. But let me let me explain from a Christian perspective.
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It was overtly and overly sexual, not just kind of sexual, not just some innuendo, but explicitly
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sexual. Obviously, they were wearing very little clothing. They were pole dancing. The camera crotch
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shots were like every other shot, it seemed like. And I was kind of, I was like laughing at this
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because it was so weird that there were so many crotch shots. There is this idea that female
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empowerment means being unapologetically sexual, being unapologetically naked, almost showing your
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body as much as you want without shame, being unabashedly sexy. Like we hear that that is feminism
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today. And the same people who promulgate this idea, this is the funny part. The same people who
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promulgate this idea are the ones decrying the patriarchy. Guys, if the patriarchy exists, this is
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the greatest trick they have ever played on women, that you are more empowered and that you will gain
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more respect if you take off your clothes. What an incredible strategy by the so-called patriarchy that,
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hey ladies, the more naked you are, the more empowered you'll be. Yeah, you're not, you're not
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a real feminist until you take your clothes off. I saw a post the other day on a popular account that
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said, and you may want to cover your kid's ears if you haven't done that already. It said, be an SLUT.
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I just hate that word. So I don't even say that word. It said, be an SLUT. Show your body, get naked,
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have all the safe, different consensual sex you want, be kinky, masturbate, make watch porn, make
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money. Just a reminder that being sexual is okay. That's what the post said. Again, LOL. If this is
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feminism, then feminism is a dream come true for every pervy guy who has ever existed. So
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congratulations, feminists. You done got played. Oh, and don't forget another W for the patriarchy
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is that according to leftist feminist ideology of today, men can also be women. And guess what?
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They are apparently better women than even women are. They are dominating women's athletic
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competitions. I saw that a guy in Tennessee a few months ago was crowned homecoming queen this fall.
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So yes, men are now better women than women are. See, this is the reason why, by the way, when people
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say, oh, you're a feminist, if you believe that men and women are equal. Well, no, that's not
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apparently what feminism is. Feminism, at least in part, is encouraging women that empowerment
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is hyper-sexualization, it's abortion, and gender-bending. A feminism that says that you can
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be an SLUT or that you should be that in order to be empowered or make porn, in order to be empowered,
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in order to be free, that's not an ideology that is concerned with the well-being of women.
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It is moral relativism targeted specifically at women. And guess what? If your life is centered
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on promiscuity, on prostitution, on pornography, you are going to end up at the very best, heartbroken
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and lonely, and at the very worst, ridden with STDs and possibly sex trafficked. Since sex slavery and
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the making of pornography very often go hand in hand. That's something people were saying in relation
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to the Super Bowl show. The Super Bowl is always a hotbed for sex trafficking and prostitution,
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and here we are promoting the objectification of women. And I don't care what you say, whether you
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are objectifying yourself or someone else is objectifying you, you are still being perceived
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as a sexual object. That doesn't mean that's what you are, but that is how you are being perceived,
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not as an empowered woman. I just want to tell you something in all of this. If this is what feminism
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is promoting, then feminism, ladies, does not care about you. Feminism doesn't care about you.
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It doesn't care about your well-being. It doesn't care about your soul. It doesn't care about your
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heart. Feminism isn't going to be there for you when you wake up from another one night stand Sunday
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morning hungover and wondering how many more times you're going to do this before you'll actually be
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satisfied. Feminism isn't holding your hand when you are in the doctor's office and find out you have
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an STD. Feminism can't keep you company after you watch porn and you realize you're still lonely.
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Feminism won't comfort you when you've realized too late that you have exchanged kids for a career.
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That might not be fair. You might say, well, people should treat me with respect no matter what in your
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rights. People should absolutely treat you with respect. I will treat anyone with respect no matter who
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they are or what they look like or what they're wearing. It doesn't matter, but I'm not everyone.
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If you use your body as a commodity, you will be commodified. If you present your body as a sexual
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object, you will be sexually objectified. Unfortunately, again, you might not like that
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and you might say, well, no woman should change their behavior. Men just shouldn't think of us
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like that. They just shouldn't look at us like that. And as much as the left wants us to believe
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that that could be the case one day, as much as they want to emasculate men and pretend that this
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isn't so. Men like to look at naked women. That's just a fact. And when they do, unless maybe it's
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their wife, but even then they're not typically thinking about what a beautiful soul this woman
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has. God wired men to be sexually attracted to naked women. And that sexual desire, God says,
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is supposed to be solely satisfied by their wife, not just in deed, but also in thought. Jesus says,
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if you lust after a woman, you've already committed adultery. So especially to the Christian women,
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telling critics of the halftime performance to calm down, I have to assume two things out of that.
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You either both, or you either have a low view of women or you have a low view of men.
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First Timothy 2.9 says, women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel with modesty and
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self-control. And here is the why behind that. Biblically, 1 Corinthians 6.19-20 says,
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or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you,
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whom you have from God? You are not your own for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in
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your body. The reason Christians care about modesty, the reason we don't approve of women
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flaunting their bodies on stage, dancing in a way that is specifically choreographed to solicit lust
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and dress in outfits specifically designed to make someone imagine having sex with them
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is because we have a high view of the body, a dignified view of the body. The secular world
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says Christians are suppressive, that we have a low view of sex and sexuality in the body. And that is
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not true. We have the highest view of sex and the highest view of sexuality and the highest view
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of the body that exists because we believe behaving in a way that lends to health, that lends to maximum
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enjoyment, both physically and spiritually, and treats both ourselves and others with respect.
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We believe all human beings are made in the image of God. Therefore, they have a soul that will live
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forever. Therefore, they are worth our care. They're worth our compassion and love and kindness. They are
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worth recognizing their dignity. And we believe that Christians specifically are indwelled with the Holy
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Spirit. That means you and I are not our own. We are gods. And God tells us to dress modestly. End of story.
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Have I been perfect in this regard in my life? Not even close. No, I haven't. Definitely not. Especially since
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I only this year started to think about the fact that leggings without something covering them is immodest.
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Never even thought about that. It took being on the Ben Shapiro show for us to argue about this for me to start
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considering, okay, maybe that is a line that I've crossed without even realizing. I think that's true. I think
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that's part of sanctification for women, that there might be things that you don't realize today that
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you're doing that are unholy, not just in the realm of modesty, but in other realms of life that you
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realize next week that the Holy Spirit convicts you and you realize, oh my gosh, I can't believe I did that
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or said that or thought that way. And that is certainly true for me in this particular area.
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Yeah. Christians care about modesty, not just because we know we're housing the Holy Spirit in
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our, uh, in our bodies, but also because we care about our brothers in Christ who are fighting each
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day with Jesus's strength to avert their eyes and to walk in purity. So did I have a problem with the
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halftime show? Of course I did. I think all Christians should have a problem with the halftime show.
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Now there is another pushback that a lot of people are getting saying, well, why are you surprised?
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Shouldn't you expect this? This isn't family friendly viewing television. Yeah, I totally
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agree with you. And I wasn't, I wasn't surprised. I wasn't sitting there like with my mouth hanging
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open being like, oh my gosh, I can't believe this is happening. I thought that, you know,
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like the Teletubbies were going to come out. I didn't think that I obviously assumed that something
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like this was going to happen. It's been sexual for a long time. I think Adam Levine even took his
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shirt off last year, which again, like totally unnecessary, but also not the exact same thing.
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Some people are saying that's a double standard. Yes, there's a double standard because men and
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women aren't the same. It's not the same. Looking at a guy with a shirt off is looking as it is
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looking at a girl, almost naked pole dancing. Like we can pretend all we want to that men look at
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women in the same way that women look at men, but it's not true. Like women are wired differently.
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We don't look at a guy with a shirt off and have the same thoughts as a guy does when he looks at a
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girl with her shirt off. Like again, we can pretend like we're all egalitarian and the same here,
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but we're not. It is different. There are double standards for a reason in some things. In this
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case, it's true. I still thought it was weird that he took a shirt off. But anyway, so was I
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surprised at any of this? No. Even so, even so, Christians can show anger over sin. We can show
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disgust over sin. We can show a desire for things to be different. That doesn't mean that we didn't
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expect something like that or a show like that to occur. But of course, Christians are obligated
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to say what is and what isn't. That doesn't mean that you have to be like a public hater on the
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show in order to be on the right side of this issue. I'm not saying that at all. But several
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things can be true at the same time that we can know that, yes, the halftime show is not going to be
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some like family friendly viewing. We can also acknowledge that these are beautiful and talented
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women. And then we can also say, yeah, this is wrong. And this is something that Christians should
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be willing to stand against and call out that we should turn the channel if our sons are watching
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this. Now, it was all adults in the room and none of us were even really watching the halftime show when
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we were watching it. But I was just kind of observing for this very reason, because I like to know what's
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going on so I can talk about these things. Now, some people are saying that there were like satanic
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parts of this as well, that there were satanic symbols in all of this. I don't know enough about
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that to confirm or deny. They are also saying there were political undertones. J-Lo had a Puerto Rican
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flag. There were like kids in cages looking type thing subtly there. Again, I don't know about all
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of the symbolism. I think the more important thing is that Christians are still turned off by this
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stuff. Like it's so easy to be desensitized to it. I've seen some people say, oh, you just don't
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understand dancers. Like you don't understand performers. Like this is just how it is. You just
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need to be okay with these outfits. You just need to be okay with these moves. Well, that's not
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biblical. So I think that we should remain sensitive to this stuff. People say that Christians are overly
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sensitive. We're supposed to be sensitive. Like Jesus tells us to be harmless or innocent as doves.
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We're supposed to be wise as serpents, but innocent as doves. We should maintain our innocence. Like we
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should maintain our holiness in this regard. We should be completely disgusted by this stuff. We should be
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sensitive to it. We should be appalled by this, uh, no matter how much it permeates culture. And yes,
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we should call it out and we should pray for conviction about things that we have become
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desensitized to in this world, including something like this. So lots of other things I wanted to talk
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about today. I'll try to cover Taylor Swift on Friday if I have time. Uh, some people have asked me
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to talk about the coronavirus and I might do that. It's really more a story of the failures of
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communism than anything else. And I might do an Instagram live tonight on Wednesday to talk about
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the state of the union, uh, that I wasn't able to cover today because I'm recording this before the
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state of the union is actually happening, but I'm very excited about it. So we'll see, but I will see
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you guys for sure back here on Friday. I'm having an interview with someone who left the new age. So
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all the stuff that we talk about so much, but crystals, yoga, all of that stuff left the new age,
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became a believer. And I'm so excited about that conversation and I will see you guys then.