Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 209 ｜ Super Salacious Super Bowl

00:00:00.000 hey guys happy wednesday welcome to relatable there is so much to talk about today so a lot

00:00:06.740 of you have asked me to talk about the super bowl halftime show so we are going to discuss that

00:00:11.620 we're going to talk about the iowa caucus in all of the madness surrounding that we are going to

00:00:19.840 try to talk about a couple other things i want to talk about this pew poll that says

00:00:24.660 who self-identified christian democrats say that they are going to vote for november and why they

00:00:31.160 are voting that way uh as i'm recording this it is tuesday morning so a lot has happened maybe by the

00:00:37.980 time you're listening to this state of the union address happened on tuesday night there are uh

00:00:44.140 there's probably more information about the iowa caucuses that i'm not going to be able to give

00:00:48.120 you right now as i'm recording it but i'm going to give you my best analysis on all of these things

00:00:53.660 okay first before we get into talking about the craziness surrounding the iowa caucus i want to

00:00:58.740 give a little bit of a tribute to rush limbaugh who announced this week that he has been diagnosed with

00:01:04.700 advanced lung cancer i just want his family to know that i you know i don't know that they listen to

00:01:10.880 relatable but i do want his family to know that we are praying for him that we are praying for his

00:01:15.380 family that god would give them the peace that passes all understanding that he would make a quick

00:01:20.260 recovery i mean thank god that he has access to the best health care in the world and i just pray

00:01:26.680 that he would be fully healed that he would be able to recover that he would continue this uh fight and

00:01:32.620 that he would uh that he would know that he would come close to the lord and that the lord would draw

00:01:39.920 him near and comfort him and like i said give him and his family the peace that passes understanding

00:01:44.920 he is a radio legend and i am so thankful for what he has contributed to the political and cultural

00:01:52.660 dialogue for as long as he has been in the game so just wanted to make sure that i gave that tribute

00:01:58.200 at the top of the show we are all praying for him and his family okay the iowa caucus if you don't know

00:02:04.020 what happened in the iowa caucus you can go back and listen to the monday episode first i kind of gave

00:02:09.080 a little bit of a precursor told you what the iowa caucus is my predictions that bernie sanders is going to

00:02:14.920 win the iowa caucus that he was going to pick up the momentum remember that's what the iowa caucus

00:02:19.860 is really about that doesn't necessarily mean if you win the iowa caucus that you are going to win

00:02:25.760 the presidential nomination or the nomination for your political party but it does mean that you are

00:02:31.220 going to pick up a lot of momentum ted cruz won the iowa caucus caucus in um in 2016 and obviously he

00:02:37.940 didn't win the nomination but it is still a big deal to win the nomination and i predicted that

00:02:42.680 bernie sanders was going to win it now as of right now tuesday morning as i am recording this podcast

00:02:48.420 we do not have the results of the iowa caucus because it's been an absolute crazy town madhouse

00:02:56.540 we don't know what's going on so there are accusations there are theories there are conspiracies

00:03:00.900 floating around twitter that this is all rigged and it's rigged specifically the theory goes against

00:03:06.940 bernie sanders uh bernie sanders supporters feel that the primaries were rigged against him

00:03:12.220 in 2016 and they believe the same now and they might have a point that the dnc that the democratic

00:03:18.000 establishment is not for bernie sanders they are just not ready to have a socialist represent their 0.86

00:03:23.680 party now jokes on them socialists already represent their party they just uh don't admit that they're

00:03:30.100 socialists some of the radicals that they have running for president like elizabeth warren like pete

00:03:34.300 budajig like joe biden that are in many ways at least just as radical as bernie sanders but bernie

00:03:40.480 sanders is at least honest about it and that's part of his appeal to a lot of people but another part of

00:03:45.840 bernie sanders's appeal is that he is against the establishment and the establishment is against him so

00:03:52.480 if it is true that somehow the iowa caucus that they are obscuring the results from the iowa caucus for

00:03:58.720 a long period of time so that bernie sanders who may have won won't gain the momentum that the iowa

00:04:07.160 caucus lends the winner uh if that is true or even if enough people believe that that is true

00:04:13.100 all that's going to do is further incense bernie supporters all that's going to do is to give

00:04:19.100 credibility to their theory that bernie sanders bernie sanders is fighting the establishment and that

00:04:24.860 the establishment is fighting bernie sanders and that's part of bernie sanders's schtick right 1.00

00:04:29.660 that uh he is sticking it to the man that's why people like bernie sanders not just when it comes

00:04:35.800 to sticking it to capitalism and sticking it to billionaires sticking it to the one percent which

00:04:40.960 by the way of course bernie is a part of but also sticking it to the political establishment by the way

00:04:46.680 that's the same appeal for a lot of people that donald trump has different kinds of people and for

00:04:51.840 different reasons but that's why bernie sanders and donald trump are really perfect for each other

00:04:58.380 when it comes to a presidential competition because a lot of people uh support bernie sanders and donald

00:05:05.160 trump respectively for the same kinds of reasons they believe they are fighting corruption they are

00:05:11.100 fighting the deep state they are fighting the establishment so if this is the dnc strategy to try to

00:05:18.440 stifle bernie sanders this is not the way to go this is counterproductive as far as their goal goes

00:05:25.340 because again if bernie supporters think that this is rigged against him that there is some

00:05:31.700 conspiratorial thing going on against bernie sanders all this is going to do is to uh legitimize

00:05:38.840 their uh what they would call a need for a movement a need to overhaul the entire american system if you

00:05:45.820 listen to a bernie sanders rally every single act that he has before bernie sanders comes on the stage

00:05:51.640 is about how terrible how fundamentally flawed america is how racist how corrupt how immoral how

00:05:59.060 unjust america is to the core and so believing that uh the democratic establishment in washington

00:06:06.440 is working against bernie sanders working against your movement well that's just going to make you 0.70

00:06:11.420 angrier that's just going to make you more passionate i mean think about for example if you

00:06:16.000 looked at this on the republican side the same is true for those of us who support donald trump

00:06:20.960 uh we think the impeachment is a wish is a witch hunt that the russian collusion hoax is a witch hunt

00:06:27.580 we thought that the kavanaugh thing was a witch hunt against kavanaugh so the more you believe that

00:06:33.020 the establishment that the swamp is against your guy the more passionate you're going to be the angrier

00:06:39.100 you're going to be that's why impeachment was a miscalculation for the democrats just because

00:06:43.460 it's making republicans even angrier at them and even more passionate about voting for donald trump

00:06:48.860 the same is true for bernie sanders if this is truly rigged against him i'm not saying that it is

00:06:54.740 the iowa caucus but it could be so lots of theories that are floating around um about that now i want to

00:07:01.540 switch into this pew poll that recently came out talking about uh christians who are planning to

00:07:08.720 vote for democrats and it breaks down christians in general so protestants catholics who are voting

00:07:16.380 for republicans voting for trump and who plan to vote for democrats and then it breaks down which

00:07:22.180 democrats these self-identified christians plan to vote for so on monday i talked about an ap article

00:07:29.240 that said that the democratic party is trying to court evangelical christians who for the most part

00:07:35.600 are going to vote for donald trump are planning to vote for donald trump pete buddha judge has been

00:07:39.540 trying to do that for a long time of course i don't think that's going to be effective but something

00:07:44.060 i said that turns out to be true according to this pew poll is that i think christians would vote for

00:07:50.380 joe biden uh if he is the nominee some christians who don't like donald trump who have bought into the

00:07:57.580 lie that in order to be compassionate you have to believe in open borders and you have to believe in

00:08:02.920 free health care and you have to believe in abortion and all of this crazy stuff i think they would 1.00

00:08:07.360 sooner vote for joe biden than they would vote for bernie sanders bernie sanders is just too extreme

00:08:12.200 he's too radical it's too obvious how a socialism and communism have decimated not just economies but

00:08:19.440 people's lives and have led to suffering and have led to the stifling of religious liberty for as long 0.99

00:08:25.880 as socialism and communism has been around that it would be too difficult to make the pitch for

00:08:31.040 evangelical christians for any christian uh to vote for bernie sanders so i just said that i was

00:08:35.760 just kind of surmising it was just conjecture out of you know observation on my part but it turns out

00:08:41.320 according to this pew research poll that uh that is true that the majority of atheists and agnostics

00:08:47.640 say that they are going to vote for bernie sanders that they are bernie sanders supporters

00:08:51.720 uh very few agnostics and atheists uh comparatively say that they would vote for

00:08:57.880 or say say that they would vote for joe biden and even fewer say that they would vote uh for

00:09:03.680 donald trump but if we just look at not specifically the candidates who uh each uh religious section

00:09:12.160 is going to vote for say that they're going to vote for it's interesting it's predictable but it's

00:09:17.120 interesting and we'll kind of talk about why this breakdown is so 75 of white evangelicals according to

00:09:23.020 this poll are definitely are probably voting for trump in november so 75 81 of atheists definitely

00:09:30.760 are probably voting for democrats uh 73 of agnostics definitely are probably voting democrat 79 black

00:09:38.380 protestant voting democrat so overall uh 51 protestants voting for trump 36 protestants voting democrats

00:09:46.800 or they say that they're going to in november 44 catholics are voting trump 43 voting democrat that

00:09:53.580 is very split so what we see here is that if you are theologically conservative because typically

00:09:59.660 white evangelicals are extremely uh extremely theologically conservative if you are theologically

00:10:05.900 conservative you tend to be politically conservative we just see that to be true uh now this is just what

00:10:11.880 i want to say and i know this is a little bit controversial but we've talked about this so much on

00:10:16.460 our podcast what i would say that if you are a democrat who or if you are a christian who plans

00:10:23.820 to vote democrat or who does vote democrat and you look at a number like this and you see that 81 percent

00:10:29.380 of atheists and 73 percent of agnostics are definitely are probably voting for democrats and you see that the

00:10:35.000 vast majority of atheists are voting for bernie sanders or who support bernie sanders and you find yourself

00:10:41.040 on the same political on the same side of the political aisle as almost all the atheists and

00:10:47.720 agnostics in the country i would just ask yourself why like these people who don't believe in god don't 0.97

00:10:53.980 believe in a supreme moral arbiter don't believe people are made in the image of god don't believe

00:10:58.320 people have a soul and are going to live forever that's at least true of atheists agnostics you know 1.00

00:11:03.620 not necessarily uh but if you find yourself having the same basic worldview and voting the same on

00:11:11.880 almost every single issue as people who don't believe in god i would just ask yourself why now

00:11:17.860 separation of church and state is not a good answer on that uh because if you have a biblical worldview

00:11:23.520 it colors how you vote it colors how you see the world it colors uh what you think the place of

00:11:29.940 government is and what you believe good laws are now that's not to say that we necessarily have to

00:11:36.440 disagree on all atheists or agnostics politically obviously there are atheists and agnostic conservatives

00:11:43.080 and so just because they don't believe in god doesn't mean that i believe that they're wrong

00:11:47.920 politically as well but if you again are on the side uh of the political aisle that almost every single

00:11:56.360 not just one or a few but every single atheist is on i would evaluate your worldview do you believe

00:12:03.740 just fundamental questions like do you believe the word of god is inerrant that's what i believe is

00:12:08.740 differentiating a factor between theological conservatives and theological liberals do you

00:12:15.020 believe that the word of god matters like do you believe that god is the moral arbiter do you believe

00:12:21.060 and the basic idea that we were endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights among them

00:12:26.440 being life liberty and the pursuit of happiness therefore the government exists to recognize our

00:12:31.020 rights not give us our rights because that's really the difference that is why the majority of christians

00:12:36.300 uh the majority of evangelical christians are conservative and atheists are not because of

00:12:41.260 that key factor because we believe as the founders said christians believe as the founders did

00:12:46.660 that we were created by god and because we were created by god we have natural inherent rights that

00:12:53.680 exist just because we are alive therefore they cannot be taken away by the government because they

00:12:59.440 weren't given by the government but if you don't have that belief that we were created by god and

00:13:03.600 therefore given an alienable natural inherent rights then you believe that the government gives us

00:13:09.200 our rights therefore the government can take away our rights and if you don't believe

00:13:12.800 that God is the moral arbiter than you believe that the government is the moral arbiter because

00:13:17.720 that's the next highest thing. But we believe that God created the heavens and the earth. Therefore,

00:13:23.280 he is in charge of all of it ultimately. And yes, he sets up governments. He takes down

00:13:28.000 governments. Government, I believe, is a good thing. Government should exist. Government has

00:13:33.400 a purpose. And Romans 13 says it is to execute justice on the wrongdoer. So we know that there

00:13:40.280 is a biblical purpose to the government. But we believe that the government is meant to be a

00:13:47.060 servant of God. That doesn't mean a theocracy in the sense that we don't believe that we should

00:13:51.900 compel you to worship the same God that we do. We believe in religious liberty. But do we believe

00:13:57.900 that laws should reflect God's version of morality? Absolutely we do. Because without God, there is no

00:14:05.500 argument for morality. So again, if you are a Christian, you believe that God is the ultimate 0.80

00:14:11.040 moral authority, that he says what's true and what's not, what is and what isn't, and what is good and

00:14:15.520 what is evil. Therefore, you believe that God should influence law. That is not an infringement on

00:14:20.900 separation of church and state. The founders believe that God should influence law. Because again,

00:14:25.380 you don't have any concept of what is right and wrong if you don't believe in a higher moral

00:14:31.300 authority that says what is right and wrong. So atheists don't believe in that. And they believe 1.00

00:14:35.960 that the state should be able to dictate totally what is right, what is wrong, and should not only

00:14:40.720 be your moral arbiter, but also your caretaker, also your nanny, also your family. But Christians, 1.00

00:14:48.380 we believe that we are made in the image of God. And because we believe that humans are made in the

00:14:52.360 image of God, we believe that we have souls. And because we believe we have souls, we believe that we

00:14:56.420 live forever, that human beings, souls live forever. Therefore, we outlive the state. We outlive

00:15:02.460 governments. That means that human beings, because of that, are far more important. Individuals are far

00:15:07.800 more important than the states. But if you don't believe that we are made in the image of God, if

00:15:12.560 you don't believe we have souls, if you don't believe we live forever, that means the state outlives

00:15:17.220 the individual. That means that you believe that the state probably is more important than the

00:15:23.340 individual. So that is why the majority of atheists support someone like Bernie Sanders. That is also

00:15:29.880 why throughout history, you see godlessness always coincide with socialism and communism in any form

00:15:36.740 of totalitarianism. So that is why we see the difference. And again, if you're a Christian who 0.75

00:15:41.640 tends to vote Democrat, I would ask yourself, why? Why do you have the same worldview as people who don't

00:15:47.840 believe in God? It's just an it's just an interesting question to ask. And if you are an

00:15:52.560 atheist who votes Republican, I would also ask yourself why? Like, why do you believe we have

00:15:58.860 certain inherent inalienable rights if you don't believe they come from somewhere? Like, why don't

00:16:04.460 you believe the government has the right to take away your rights? Why? I would ask you to dig a little

00:16:11.260 bit deeper, too. I'm glad you're over here on this side, but I would want you to come to a spiritual

00:16:16.480 revelation more than I just want your political vote. OK, so I just wanted to analyze that. Now

00:16:21.580 let's get into what I'm really excited to talk about and what so many of you asked me to talk

00:16:26.080 about over the past few days. And that is the Super Bowl halftime show. Lots of messages about this.

00:16:33.260 I watched it. Shakira, JLo. Here are all of my honest thoughts about this. So first, these are

00:16:41.520 incredibly talented and beautiful women. Shakira is 43 years old. JLo is 50 years old. 50 years

00:16:50.900 old. They're amazing dancers. They are incredible athletes. I don't know this from experience because

00:16:56.860 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

00:17:03.140 tell from watching that what it takes to be able to do what they did takes incredible skill, takes

00:17:09.320 incredible practice. It takes incredible athleticism that the vast majority of the world could never

00:17:15.380 have, even if we practice every single day. All of the dancers on that stage, totally talented. I

00:17:21.100 could never do what they do. I will never look like Shakira and JLo. I'm totally fine with that.

00:17:26.320 They are amazing performers and gorgeous women. Now, all of that said, did I have a problem with the

00:17:33.140 show? Of course I had a problem with the show. And I know there are a lot of people that are going to

00:17:37.560 push back on this. Like there are a lot of people that think anyone who has criticized this at all

00:17:43.200 is just being a stick in the mud. But let me let me explain from a Christian perspective. 0.83

00:17:48.240 It was overtly and overly sexual, not just kind of sexual, not just some innuendo, but explicitly

00:17:55.920 sexual. Obviously, they were wearing very little clothing. They were pole dancing. The camera crotch 0.65

00:18:02.220 shots were like every other shot, it seemed like. And I was kind of, I was like laughing at this

00:18:07.480 because it was so weird that there were so many crotch shots. There is this idea that female 1.00

00:18:14.160 empowerment means being unapologetically sexual, being unapologetically naked, almost showing your

00:18:23.560 body as much as you want without shame, being unabashedly sexy. Like we hear that that is feminism 1.00

00:18:29.100 today. And the same people who promulgate this idea, this is the funny part. The same people who

00:18:34.280 promulgate this idea are the ones decrying the patriarchy. Guys, if the patriarchy exists, this is

00:18:41.940 the greatest trick they have ever played on women, that you are more empowered and that you will gain 1.00

00:18:49.760 more respect if you take off your clothes. What an incredible strategy by the so-called patriarchy that,

00:18:56.680 hey ladies, the more naked you are, the more empowered you'll be. Yeah, you're not, you're not 1.00

00:19:02.920 a real feminist until you take your clothes off. I saw a post the other day on a popular account that 1.00

00:19:09.660 said, and you may want to cover your kid's ears if you haven't done that already. It said, be an SLUT. 1.00

00:19:15.680 I just hate that word. So I don't even say that word. It said, be an SLUT. Show your body, get naked, 1.00

00:19:21.120 have all the safe, different consensual sex you want, be kinky, masturbate, make watch porn, make 1.00

00:19:27.000 money. Just a reminder that being sexual is okay. That's what the post said. Again, LOL. If this is 1.00

00:19:33.940 feminism, then feminism is a dream come true for every pervy guy who has ever existed. So 1.00

00:19:40.620 congratulations, feminists. You done got played. Oh, and don't forget another W for the patriarchy 1.00

00:19:48.860 is that according to leftist feminist ideology of today, men can also be women. And guess what?

00:19:55.280 They are apparently better women than even women are. They are dominating women's athletic 1.00

00:19:59.980 competitions. I saw that a guy in Tennessee a few months ago was crowned homecoming queen this fall.

00:20:05.680 So yes, men are now better women than women are. See, this is the reason why, by the way, when people 1.00

00:20:11.940 say, oh, you're a feminist, if you believe that men and women are equal. Well, no, that's not 1.00

00:20:18.000 apparently what feminism is. Feminism, at least in part, is encouraging women that empowerment 1.00

00:20:23.240 is hyper-sexualization, it's abortion, and gender-bending. A feminism that says that you can 1.00

00:20:30.420 be an SLUT or that you should be that in order to be empowered or make porn, in order to be empowered,

00:20:37.000 in order to be free, that's not an ideology that is concerned with the well-being of women. 1.00

00:20:41.960 It is moral relativism targeted specifically at women. And guess what? If your life is centered 0.87

00:20:49.820 on promiscuity, on prostitution, on pornography, you are going to end up at the very best, heartbroken

00:20:57.340 and lonely, and at the very worst, ridden with STDs and possibly sex trafficked. Since sex slavery and 0.80

00:21:04.360 the making of pornography very often go hand in hand. That's something people were saying in relation

00:21:10.600 to the Super Bowl show. The Super Bowl is always a hotbed for sex trafficking and prostitution, 0.87

00:21:15.680 and here we are promoting the objectification of women. And I don't care what you say, whether you 0.88

00:21:21.540 are objectifying yourself or someone else is objectifying you, you are still being perceived 0.57

00:21:26.680 as a sexual object. That doesn't mean that's what you are, but that is how you are being perceived,

00:21:31.940 not as an empowered woman. I just want to tell you something in all of this. If this is what feminism

00:21:40.300 is promoting, then feminism, ladies, does not care about you. Feminism doesn't care about you. 1.00

00:21:48.020 It doesn't care about your well-being. It doesn't care about your soul. It doesn't care about your

00:21:51.920 heart. Feminism isn't going to be there for you when you wake up from another one night stand Sunday 1.00

00:21:57.380 morning hungover and wondering how many more times you're going to do this before you'll actually be

00:22:01.660 satisfied. Feminism isn't holding your hand when you are in the doctor's office and find out you have 1.00

00:22:07.180 an STD. Feminism can't keep you company after you watch porn and you realize you're still lonely. 1.00

00:22:13.360 Feminism won't comfort you when you've realized too late that you have exchanged kids for a career. 1.00

00:22:19.340 That might not be fair. You might say, well, people should treat me with respect no matter what in your

00:22:24.600 rights. People should absolutely treat you with respect. I will treat anyone with respect no matter who

00:22:30.360 they are or what they look like or what they're wearing. It doesn't matter, but I'm not everyone.

00:22:34.220 If you use your body as a commodity, you will be commodified. If you present your body as a sexual

00:22:41.400 object, you will be sexually objectified. Unfortunately, again, you might not like that 0.70

00:22:47.440 and you might say, well, no woman should change their behavior. Men just shouldn't think of us

00:22:53.100 like that. They just shouldn't look at us like that. And as much as the left wants us to believe

00:22:58.760 that that could be the case one day, as much as they want to emasculate men and pretend that this 0.99

00:23:02.840 isn't so. Men like to look at naked women. That's just a fact. And when they do, unless maybe it's 0.85

00:23:08.940 their wife, but even then they're not typically thinking about what a beautiful soul this woman

00:23:14.920 has. God wired men to be sexually attracted to naked women. And that sexual desire, God says, 0.88

00:23:20.480 is supposed to be solely satisfied by their wife, not just in deed, but also in thought. Jesus says,

00:23:27.140 if you lust after a woman, you've already committed adultery. So especially to the Christian women, 1.00

00:23:33.260 telling critics of the halftime performance to calm down, I have to assume two things out of that.

00:23:39.860 You either both, or you either have a low view of women or you have a low view of men.

00:23:45.680 First Timothy 2.9 says, women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel with modesty and 0.79

00:23:50.580 self-control. And here is the why behind that. Biblically, 1 Corinthians 6.19-20 says,

00:23:57.080 or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you,

00:24:01.240 whom you have from God? You are not your own for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in

00:24:06.160 your body. The reason Christians care about modesty, the reason we don't approve of women 1.00

00:24:11.660 flaunting their bodies on stage, dancing in a way that is specifically choreographed to solicit lust 0.58

00:24:17.380 and dress in outfits specifically designed to make someone imagine having sex with them

00:24:22.900 is because we have a high view of the body, a dignified view of the body. The secular world

00:24:30.000 says Christians are suppressive, that we have a low view of sex and sexuality in the body. And that is 0.89

00:24:35.320 not true. We have the highest view of sex and the highest view of sexuality and the highest view

00:24:41.560 of the body that exists because we believe behaving in a way that lends to health, that lends to maximum

00:24:47.780 enjoyment, both physically and spiritually, and treats both ourselves and others with respect.

00:24:53.660 We believe all human beings are made in the image of God. Therefore, they have a soul that will live

00:24:59.100 forever. Therefore, they are worth our care. They're worth our compassion and love and kindness. They are

00:25:05.620 worth recognizing their dignity. And we believe that Christians specifically are indwelled with the Holy 0.99

00:25:12.160 Spirit. That means you and I are not our own. We are gods. And God tells us to dress modestly. End of story.

00:25:19.600 Have I been perfect in this regard in my life? Not even close. No, I haven't. Definitely not. Especially since

00:25:25.060 I only this year started to think about the fact that leggings without something covering them is immodest.

00:25:32.400 Never even thought about that. It took being on the Ben Shapiro show for us to argue about this for me to start

00:25:39.180 considering, okay, maybe that is a line that I've crossed without even realizing. I think that's true. I think 1.00

00:25:44.640 that's part of sanctification for women, that there might be things that you don't realize today that

00:25:49.000 you're doing that are unholy, not just in the realm of modesty, but in other realms of life that you

00:25:56.340 realize next week that the Holy Spirit convicts you and you realize, oh my gosh, I can't believe I did that

00:26:00.440 or said that or thought that way. And that is certainly true for me in this particular area.

00:26:05.000 Yeah. Christians care about modesty, not just because we know we're housing the Holy Spirit in

00:26:09.760 our, uh, in our bodies, but also because we care about our brothers in Christ who are fighting each

00:26:15.820 day with Jesus's strength to avert their eyes and to walk in purity. So did I have a problem with the

00:26:22.540 halftime show? Of course I did. I think all Christians should have a problem with the halftime show. 1.00

00:26:27.000 Now there is another pushback that a lot of people are getting saying, well, why are you surprised?

00:26:32.580 Shouldn't you expect this? This isn't family friendly viewing television. Yeah, I totally

00:26:37.140 agree with you. And I wasn't, I wasn't surprised. I wasn't sitting there like with my mouth hanging

00:26:41.520 open being like, oh my gosh, I can't believe this is happening. I thought that, you know,

00:26:45.140 like the Teletubbies were going to come out. I didn't think that I obviously assumed that something

00:26:50.100 like this was going to happen. It's been sexual for a long time. I think Adam Levine even took his

00:26:54.640 shirt off last year, which again, like totally unnecessary, but also not the exact same thing.

00:27:00.780 Some people are saying that's a double standard. Yes, there's a double standard because men and

00:27:04.340 women aren't the same. It's not the same. Looking at a guy with a shirt off is looking as it is 1.00

00:27:09.640 looking at a girl, almost naked pole dancing. Like we can pretend all we want to that men look at 0.93

00:27:15.800 women in the same way that women look at men, but it's not true. Like women are wired differently. 0.80

00:27:20.700 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

00:27:25.020 girl with her shirt off. Like again, we can pretend like we're all egalitarian and the same here,

00:27:29.380 but we're not. It is different. There are double standards for a reason in some things. In this

00:27:34.900 case, it's true. I still thought it was weird that he took a shirt off. But anyway, so was I

00:27:40.320 surprised at any of this? No. Even so, even so, Christians can show anger over sin. We can show 0.99

00:27:50.400 disgust over sin. We can show a desire for things to be different. That doesn't mean that we didn't

00:27:56.480 expect something like that or a show like that to occur. But of course, Christians are obligated 1.00

00:28:02.520 to say what is and what isn't. That doesn't mean that you have to be like a public hater on the

00:28:07.380 show in order to be on the right side of this issue. I'm not saying that at all. But several

00:28:14.180 things can be true at the same time that we can know that, yes, the halftime show is not going to be

00:28:21.640 some like family friendly viewing. We can also acknowledge that these are beautiful and talented

00:28:27.280 women. And then we can also say, yeah, this is wrong. And this is something that Christians should 1.00

00:28:32.680 be willing to stand against and call out that we should turn the channel if our sons are watching

00:28:38.860 this. Now, it was all adults in the room and none of us were even really watching the halftime show when

00:28:43.820 we were watching it. But I was just kind of observing for this very reason, because I like to know what's

00:28:49.260 going on so I can talk about these things. Now, some people are saying that there were like satanic

00:28:56.300 parts of this as well, that there were satanic symbols in all of this. I don't know enough about

00:29:04.040 that to confirm or deny. They are also saying there were political undertones. J-Lo had a Puerto Rican

00:29:11.560 flag. There were like kids in cages looking type thing subtly there. Again, I don't know about all

00:29:21.000 of the symbolism. I think the more important thing is that Christians are still turned off by this 0.96

00:29:27.140 stuff. Like it's so easy to be desensitized to it. I've seen some people say, oh, you just don't

00:29:31.920 understand dancers. Like you don't understand performers. Like this is just how it is. You just

00:29:36.840 need to be okay with these outfits. You just need to be okay with these moves. Well, that's not

00:29:40.860 biblical. So I think that we should remain sensitive to this stuff. People say that Christians are overly

00:29:46.640 sensitive. We're supposed to be sensitive. Like Jesus tells us to be harmless or innocent as doves.

00:29:52.520 We're supposed to be wise as serpents, but innocent as doves. We should maintain our innocence. Like we

00:29:58.020 should maintain our holiness in this regard. We should be completely disgusted by this stuff. We should be

00:30:03.160 sensitive to it. We should be appalled by this, uh, no matter how much it permeates culture. And yes,

00:30:09.760 we should call it out and we should pray for conviction about things that we have become

00:30:14.100 desensitized to in this world, including something like this. So lots of other things I wanted to talk

00:30:19.800 about today. I'll try to cover Taylor Swift on Friday if I have time. Uh, some people have asked me

00:30:25.240 to talk about the coronavirus and I might do that. It's really more a story of the failures of

00:30:31.620 communism than anything else. And I might do an Instagram live tonight on Wednesday to talk about

00:30:38.260 the state of the union, uh, that I wasn't able to cover today because I'm recording this before the

00:30:43.320 state of the union is actually happening, but I'm very excited about it. So we'll see, but I will see

00:30:49.340 you guys for sure back here on Friday. I'm having an interview with someone who left the new age. So

00:30:55.620 all the stuff that we talk about so much, but crystals, yoga, all of that stuff left the new age,

00:31:00.520 became a believer. And I'm so excited about that conversation and I will see you guys then.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - February 05, 2020

Ep 209 ｜ Super Salacious Super Bowl

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