Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - September 09, 2020


Ep 298 | Cardi, Candace & Critical Race Theory


Episode Stats

Length

54 minutes

Words per Minute

179.69962

Word Count

9,775

Sentence Count

616

Misogynist Sentences

21

Hate Speech Sentences

32


Summary

Today we talk about Candace Owens and Cardi B, President Trump and critical race theory, and why I think the church is failing to push back against Critical Race Theory. I also talk about how social media has allowed me to be more creative and creative.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Wednesday. I hope everyone had a wonderful Labor Day
00:00:15.140 weekend. Today we are going to talk about a variety of things. To be perfectly honest,
00:00:21.560 I still don't know exactly what has gone down news-wise over the past few days. I decided
00:00:27.680 starting about last Wednesday or Thursday that I was going to kind of just check out because Twitter
00:00:33.780 was just becoming too much for me. So the first order of business for me, because I was getting
00:00:38.380 so bogged down in all the craziness and the chaos that's going on, was to take Twitter off my phone,
00:00:44.260 which I just didn't even realize before how much time I was spending on Twitter until I actually
00:00:50.160 just took the app off my phone. It requires so much work to log on to Twitter on your computer.
00:00:55.960 Twitter. So I really just got off of Twitter for like a week or so, which meant that I had no idea
00:01:04.560 what was going on in the news, which was actually kind of nice. A little weird because I like to be
00:01:10.440 in the know. But I think it was good for the soul. I think it was good for the mind. And I'm still not
00:01:15.520 going to put Twitter on my phone. I think it's good for me to have that barrier of entry, having to
00:01:20.680 actually get out my computer, log on to Twitter to be able to scroll through. And then that means that I
00:01:26.460 only spend about like 30 minutes on Twitter a day rather than mindlessly scrolling like several hours
00:01:31.720 a day. My little screen time report. If you have an iPhone, you might get one of these. It's very
00:01:36.820 disheartening some weeks how much time I spend on my phone. But it was down like 70 percent this past week
00:01:41.880 just because I deleted Twitter off my phone. And so I think I'm going to probably keep that up.
00:01:46.760 All that to say, I came into this episode not knowing what the heck I was going to talk about.
00:01:53.900 I asked a lot of you guys on Instagram to give me some subjects. And so I'm going to talk about
00:01:58.700 a few of the things that you guys suggested. The number one thing you guys asked me to talk about
00:02:03.900 was Candace Owens and Cardi B, which honestly, I was surprised that so many of you brought that up
00:02:09.700 for me to break down and talk about because I kind of thought, OK, it's out there in the open.
00:02:13.980 Everyone sees what's going on. Can I really add any insightful or beneficial commentary to this?
00:02:20.500 Any analysis that you guys would actually think is important? I'm not sure. But in case you didn't
00:02:26.060 know what happened, I am going to break it down and I will give you a little bit of what I think.
00:02:31.500 And a lot of you guys have been asking me to talk about WAP and I have been avoiding it because
00:02:37.240 there's really not that much for me to say. I think you guys can probably anticipate my thoughts
00:02:43.340 about the song. But sure, I will indulge you. I will give you a little bit of my take on what I
00:02:50.200 think about it. And then we are going to talk about some really good news that I actually did hear about
00:02:54.980 when I was unplugged from Twitter. President Trump basically defunding critical race theory in the
00:03:01.840 federal government and why I think that is such a wonderful thing. And then we are going to talk
00:03:06.740 a little bit about what that is and why I think the church is failing in regards to pushing back
00:03:13.500 against critical race theory and some thoughts that I had over the weekend. You know what happens when
00:03:18.940 you're unplugged from social media? Your mind, it seems like, has more room to be creative and
00:03:25.420 imaginative and to think thoughts that are outside of what's going on right in front of you,
00:03:31.680 which I think is very healthy and good. I just think about this as an aside, but I think about
00:03:36.720 in high school how I didn't have all of this social media. We have Facebook, but I'm not even sure we had
00:03:42.760 the Facebook app on our phones. And when I was in high school, I graduated from high school in 2010.
00:03:47.880 So I don't even remember when the iPhone came out and when I got one or like when all of these apps
00:03:53.380 were on our phone. But I know that we didn't have Snapchat. I know that we didn't have Instagram and
00:03:58.140 we didn't have Twitter and we just weren't political. I mean, I remember Barack Obama becoming
00:04:03.100 president when I was in high school, but we just didn't really talk about a lot of these controversial
00:04:08.040 issues and we just weren't plugged in and in the know, which maybe was not great in high school.
00:04:15.120 Maybe we should have been more plugged in and more knowledgeable, but it did allow us and it allowed
00:04:20.640 our minds to have space to think about other things. And so I spent my nights when I was in high
00:04:25.800 school reading. Now I was talking to my mom about this the other day. The things I was reading were
00:04:30.880 trashy teen fiction novels. They were like Twilight and what else was it? Avalon High, things like that
00:04:38.760 in high school that probably had no intellectual benefit, but I was reading some other things too.
00:04:43.640 I was reading some C.S. Lewis. But anyway, I still think that reading those trashy novels was better
00:04:50.620 for my brain than it would have been, you know, scrolling on Instagram or using Snapchat or whatever
00:04:57.240 it is. I just fear for young people today that one, they're overly politicized because they're so
00:05:02.860 plugged into social media 24-7, but also that their minds are not given the same challenge that
00:05:11.200 generations before them were when we were in high school and we were younger. We had
00:05:17.320 no option but to read and to do things that were actually a little bit, at least intellectually
00:05:22.960 stimulating. And I think that's part of the reason why we see so often young people today,
00:05:28.800 one, they can't write. A lot of young people just cannot write. They have terrible grammar and they
00:05:34.380 have just an inability to articulate any kind of critical argument. Not all of them, but a lot of
00:05:41.980 them. And I'm afraid it is because they are so plugged into social media. So anyway, this is my
00:05:47.260 encouragement to you, whether you are a teenager, my age, older, to unplug from social media, even if
00:05:52.300 it's just a few days, give your mind a little room to breathe, maybe do some journaling. That always
00:05:56.940 really helps me kind of get my thoughts flowing. And so I will read to you or I will talk to you
00:06:02.620 about some of the thoughts that I was having over the weekend as I was unplugged from the news.
00:06:08.980 Okay, first, let's talk about Candace Owens and Cardi B. I don't have to tell you guys who these
00:06:16.380 people are, right? Well, maybe some of you don't know who Cardi B is. She is a female rapper. You
00:06:22.180 know exactly who Candace Owens is. I've had her on my podcast. I was on her podcast for the second time,
00:06:28.340 her PragerU podcast this past Sunday. So if you haven't watched that on PragerU's YouTube channel
00:06:34.700 or listen to it on the PragerU Candace Owens podcast, then you can go do that. We had a
00:06:40.180 wonderful conversation about motherhood. You probably saw she announced that she is expecting
00:06:45.180 and just how to prepare the future generations for all the craziness that's to come. So make sure
00:06:50.260 you go listen to or watch that. But Candace Owens was also on a podcast, the Ben Shapiro show.
00:06:58.600 And she basically said on that show that look, Cardi B is not a great representation for women.
00:07:04.080 And she specifically talked about not being a great representation for black women. And she agreed
00:07:10.560 with Ben Shapiro's viral take on WAP that it is not empowering, that it is inappropriate,
00:07:16.860 that it's embarrassing, that this is not like a trophy of feminism, but that it's actually something
00:07:22.480 that self-respecting women should reject and should be embarrassed by. Basically, I'm summarizing some
00:07:28.860 of her thoughts. That's not exactly what she said, but she agreed with Ben Shapiro and she posted about
00:07:34.840 this on Twitter and she tagged Cardi B while Cardi B could not resist responding. And let me just read.
00:07:42.100 Well, it'll be interesting me trying to read and decipher some of the things that were said here
00:07:48.460 by Cardi B. But Candace Owens says this on Twitter first, since most black people didn't have the
00:07:53.740 spine to admit that Ben Shapiro was 100% correct about I am Cardi B and how her music and platform
00:07:59.780 contributes to the disintegration of black culture and values. Here you go. And then she posts the video
00:08:05.240 as well. Cardi B responds. You want to know why Joe got to talk to me, Candace? Because I have
00:08:11.540 the number one song and yet my sister can't go to the beach in the Hamptons without Trump supporters
00:08:16.220 harassing because they were by themselves in Santa Claus was harassing my sis GF all because they are
00:08:23.120 Afro Hispanic gay couple. And then she posts this video of these two white men, I guess, talking to her
00:08:31.260 sister. If I can interpret this, her sister, she is saying is a lesbian with the woman that she was
00:08:38.760 with on this beach at the Hamptons and these Trump supporters apparently came up to her and were
00:08:44.040 harassing her. I'm not totally sure what this had to do with the conversation. And I don't think Candace
00:08:49.220 did either. Candace replies like this. To clarify, Joe Biden, quote, got to talk to you because you have
00:08:56.940 the number one song and Santa Claus was harassing your sister. OK, thanks for clearing that one up. I am Cardi B.
00:09:03.880 Well, that's her handle. That's why I'm saying that. This is how she responds to Candace. Yes,
00:09:08.540 you are right. I have the number one song and I have a huge platform and I can make millions go vote
00:09:13.820 and to get to get the man that used you. I don't want to argue with you, Candace. I really don't
00:09:21.260 have the time. I honestly just feel sorry for you. Candace then responds. Lastly, asking racist Joe
00:09:29.540 Biden to lower your taxes in the same breath that you asked for free universal health care
00:09:34.120 is about as thick as it gets. When you stick to music, you can get left alone. When you dabble in
00:09:39.740 politics, you will get called out for platforming ignorance. Cardi says, well, paying taxes is
00:09:46.560 something that as much as I hate, it's a reality I will always have to pay. OK, I don't think that's
00:09:52.120 something that Candace was contradicting in her tweet. But I rather my tax money go to free
00:09:57.980 education than police funding. Use my money on something useful. Your president use our tax money
00:10:05.480 to fund his empty campaign runs. OK, so there's a lot of mistruths in that. I don't know if it's
00:10:12.860 even important to fact check Cardi B, but our education funding has gone up exponentially since
00:10:19.120 1960. Our spending per student has gone up exponentially since 1960. And yet school performance
00:10:27.340 or student performance has not gone up. Teacher salaries have not gone up, as we talked about
00:10:31.940 in the episode on school choice with Corey DeAngelis. That is in large part because of the corruption of
00:10:37.040 the teachers unions, how they are managing the funds. They are not actually ensuring that teachers are
00:10:42.760 getting paid more and they're not actually looking out for the well-being of the students,
00:10:46.960 unfortunately. And so we don't actually need more education funding. We need better use of the
00:10:52.100 education funds that we have. And to say that our funding going towards the police isn't going
00:10:58.100 towards a good use. I mean, it's really, really hard to imagine that you have spent any time,
00:11:05.120 which I know Cardi B has, but this is still such a naive statement that you've spent any time in
00:11:10.260 crime-ridden areas where women and children are very vulnerable to the criminals there. And the only
00:11:15.300 line of defense that they have between the criminals in their area and themselves is the police force.
00:11:23.380 Police presence is the most important in these high crime, high poverty areas. Rich people like
00:11:31.440 Cardi B are always going to have her personal security, her private security, but the people
00:11:36.360 who can't afford that, they need the police. And if you are a compassionate person who cares about the
00:11:40.960 least of these, which Cardi B claims to, then you should be glad that your tax dollars are going
00:11:45.660 towards the police.
00:11:58.000 Okay, so that's what Cardi B said. And then Candace replies, you are encouraging millions to go vote for
00:12:05.140 the man that locked up entire generations of black men. Maybe go Google Joe Biden in 1994 crime bill.
00:12:10.280 Joe Biden used you. Bernie Sanders used you. Neither of them like or know your music. That is,
00:12:15.820 I would say, guaranteed true that they do not know any song that Cardi B has ever done. They think
00:12:22.920 you're dumb. Hashtag Trump 2020. Ouch. Cardi B, this is kind of long, but you wanted me to go
00:12:30.100 through this. You wanted me to break down what's happening, and I just want to make sure that you're
00:12:34.220 following all of it. Cardi B says, and you are encouraging millions to vote for a man who laugh
00:12:38.880 every time a black man gets killed by a cop. Really? Do people laugh and tell millions of
00:12:45.740 Americans to drink bleach? Okay, that obviously never happened. Trump didn't even have you talking
00:12:51.740 at the Republican convention. He thinks you're dumb. Massa, did you dirty, but you mad at me?
00:12:59.360 Question mark. Oh, man, you guys. Candace responds. Produce the clip of Trump laughing at black men
00:13:06.040 getting killed. You lying fraud. Number two, I turned down filming a spot for the RNC convention.
00:13:13.920 Number three, you encourage millions of young girls to spread their... Whoa. Okay, this is... Hang on.
00:13:20.180 We're getting into some explicit territory. If you're listening with kids, you might want to fast
00:13:24.460 forward. Number three, you encourage millions of young girls to spread their legs, and you admitted
00:13:28.540 to date raping men, so don't even start on the bleach lie. That is true about Cardi B admitting to
00:13:37.040 date raping men and stealing their money. That is something that she did, according to her, when she
00:13:42.660 was young. And it's just crazy that the Me Too movement doesn't extend to admitted sexual assaults
00:13:49.540 by women toward men, and that Joe Biden would do an interview with her, someone who has admitted
00:13:56.940 to date raping men and then stealing their money. Like, is this someone that we are upholding as a
00:14:03.320 hero? This is a serious person that you want to be interviewed by when you were the candidate for the
00:14:08.180 president of the United States? I mean, just put aside all of her terrible music. I mean, this is the
00:14:15.080 kind of behavior that she admitted to. We don't even know the things that she didn't admit to.
00:14:19.440 Why are we engaging with that? Why are we legitimizing that? And why are we glorifying that?
00:14:24.640 She's got another response, Candace does. Number one, your tax dollars already go to free education,
00:14:31.060 genius. Number two, no campaign uses tax dollars for funding. That is illegal. Number three,
00:14:36.560 defunding police initiatives have led to 200% increases in Black men getting shot in inner cities.
00:14:40.820 Stop supporting Black people dying. Candace, again, I'm almost six months pregnant and had
00:14:46.680 to rip. I am Cardi B a new WAP. Watch here. Good night, fam. Hashtag Trump 2020 all day,
00:14:56.260 every day. I am Cardi B, your baby singing WAP, WAP, WAP. This, um, well, I just can't. I,
00:15:04.340 you can read it if you are watching on YouTube, but I cannot repeat the next few words for this
00:15:11.480 podcast. Wow. This keeps going guys. I did not know that this, okay. Am I going to be okay? We're
00:15:17.980 almost done. We're almost done. Candace says attacking an unborn child. How very Democrat of
00:15:23.540 you. While I have you, did you know your party has supported the slaughter of over 18 million Black
00:15:28.240 babies since 1973? Fact check. True. Did you know the most unsafe place for a Black child is
00:15:34.220 in the mother's womb because of your party, says Candace? Um, and then Chuck Ross says this,
00:15:44.100 this genius of talking to Cardi B is one of the only people allowed to interview Joe Biden so far
00:15:49.760 this year. And that is, that is true. And so they also went back and forth on Instagram.
00:15:56.060 They did some stories and then Cardi B got into some like really strange territory. If you didn't
00:16:01.680 think that it was strange enough, what was she was saying on Twitter about Santa Claus didn't even
00:16:06.220 follow that. But then on Instagram, she posted some, she posted some weird pictures and some
00:16:14.340 videos of like a doll or like a troll doll. I don't even know what it was like speaking. Like she was
00:16:21.940 speaking for the troll doll and she was, or she was holding the doll in the picture while she was
00:16:27.320 speaking in the background. And it was very strange. I think Candace Owens broke Cardi B.
00:16:32.260 This obviously really bothered Cardi B. And she kept on saying over and over again, I don't have
00:16:37.120 time for this. I'm done with this. I'm done with this. I don't have time for this. And she kept on
00:16:41.720 going over and over again. And look, I'm not denigrating Cardi B. I know that she is very popular.
00:16:48.540 She has the number one song, I think internationally now. And so, you know, she has, she went from nothing.
00:16:54.700 She went from being poor. I don't really know her story, but according to her, she went from being
00:16:59.740 poor, being a stripper to now being a millionaire rapper. And so she obviously has a lot of
00:17:05.800 entrepreneurial spirit, whether you love her or hate her. So I am not trying to denigrate her for
00:17:12.080 the sake of just putting her down. Obviously, when it comes to politics and when it comes to being a
00:17:28.860 moral example, Cardi B is not the person that I would go to, which is why I think it's so ridiculous
00:17:34.040 that Joe Biden went to her for an interview when he keeps on turning down people like Chris Wallace
00:17:39.680 on Fox News, whom we know is a fair journalist and who pushes back against Trump and Republicans a lot.
00:17:45.780 That probably would be a really good interview. And yet Joe Biden is turning that down. He's turning
00:17:50.240 down all kinds of hard hitting interviews because he knows that he can't handle it. His campaign knows
00:17:55.800 that he can't handle it. His campaign has a lot of discernment in that regard. Some of that
00:18:01.080 discernment, I actually wish that Donald Trump's campaign sometimes in the past would have with
00:18:06.060 particular interviews. But they understand that he doesn't get any benefit, Joe Biden, from
00:18:11.580 being in front of the camera because he is not well spoken. He can't remember the last thing he
00:18:17.360 said. He can't remember the thing that he's going to say. He campaigns much better when he is not seen
00:18:22.800 nor heard. And so they are hiding him. But they realize that with someone like Cardi B, she's not going
00:18:27.840 to ask some hard hitting question that he doesn't know how to answer, that he's just going to be able
00:18:32.120 to kind of sit there and nod along as she says things that don't make sense. And because she's
00:18:36.400 popular and she has a lot of followers, people are going to watch it. I don't think it's going
00:18:41.400 to move the needle at all for Joe Biden. But I understand why marketing wise they chose Cardi B.
00:18:47.920 But from the stance of, OK, substantive dialogue and being able to see what this candidate is made of,
00:18:53.580 which I don't think we've been able to see with Joe Biden. Yes, he's been in politics for 47 years
00:18:59.140 without much positive to show for it. But who is he going to be as president? We don't really know
00:19:05.960 because he's not taking interviews. Cardi B is not going to ask him any hard hitting questions
00:19:10.800 when he does do rarely when he does do these press conferences or when he's asked questions by
00:19:16.120 the press. They ask him questions about Donald Trump like they don't ask him, OK, what are your
00:19:22.000 ties to China? What are your son's ties to China? Can you kind of clarify your position on X, Y, Z?
00:19:27.220 Hey, hey, you blamed the violence a couple of weeks ago on right wing militias. Do you have any
00:19:31.560 evidence of that? We do not have a media besides some in conservative media who will fact check
00:19:37.960 Joe Biden. That's just the fact of the matter. Doesn't matter if he lies. Doesn't matter if he
00:19:43.160 exaggerates. It doesn't matter if he forgets what he was going to say and misspeaks. They continually
00:19:47.260 give him the benefit of the doubt. They're not going to hold his feet to the fire because they so
00:19:51.300 badly want Trump to win. And so that, of course, is Trump to lose. That is why, of course, they
00:19:56.880 chose his campaign, chose Cardi B to be his interviewer. Now, what I think about that whole
00:20:03.880 exchange, I mean, obviously, Candace is going to dominate Cardi B in these kinds of conversations,
00:20:10.120 probably in any conversation, any kind of conversation or discussion about anything
00:20:14.640 substantive. Honestly, it was hard for me to read. It was a little bit hard for me to watch. I just,
00:20:20.960 it was like a train wreck. I just kind of wanted to look away because you almost start to feel
00:20:25.960 sympathetic. You start to feel bad towards Cardi B because she has stepped into a realm that she
00:20:30.760 just knows nothing about. And Candace knows a lot about. And whenever you do that, you are getting
00:20:35.680 into very dangerous territory for yourself, at least PR wise. I'm sure Cardi B's publicist would
00:20:42.040 really, would really hope for her not to have these conversations. And yet here she is doing just
00:20:48.820 that. Now, my thoughts on the song WAP. As I said, I don't have, I don't have a whole lot of thoughts.
00:20:58.360 Like it's just another crazy, sexual, explicit rap song. She has sung similar songs before other
00:21:06.920 female rappers have sung similar songs before. This is not the first one. I've heard a little bit of it.
00:21:13.260 I haven't even heard the whole song. I've read the lyrics, but the tune, of course, the beat is
00:21:18.800 catchy. And that is why so many people are singing it. And so many people are saying that this is their
00:21:24.120 like female empowering feminist anthem right now. And a lot of people are saying, okay, well, this is
00:21:30.220 just so empowering because for so long, men have said this about us. Men have objectified us. And now
00:21:36.740 we get to objectify ourselves. Isn't that awesome? Like, isn't that awesome that we get to embrace
00:21:42.380 our sexuality and our sensuality and guys don't have to sing about those things for us. So that's
00:21:47.500 the argument that I'm hearing that WAP is so empowering. But here's the question that you have
00:21:52.360 to ask is, is objectification good? Like, is it good for women to be objectified? Is it good for women
00:22:00.920 to be seen as sexual objects? If yes, then you shouldn't have any problem with men objectifying
00:22:07.240 women in their songs. And I guess you wouldn't have any problem with women objectifying themselves
00:22:12.320 in their and their songs. But if objectification is wrong, like if you think it's wrong when men
00:22:18.280 objectify women, then you would logically think it's wrong when women objectify women as well,
00:22:23.340 or when women objectify men. Is objectification wrong? Of course, as a Christian, I believe so,
00:22:29.500 because people are not sexual objects. Like we are more than that. We are people with souls. We are
00:22:35.400 made in the image of God. We have value and sexuality and sexual acts actually have an impact
00:22:41.520 on our soul. It's not just a performance. It's not just something you do. It's not just a physical
00:22:46.840 action. It has an effect. It has an impact on your soul. The Bible says that as Christians,
00:22:52.940 our bodies are dwelling places for the Holy Spirit. So they matter. Of course, if you're not a
00:22:58.480 Christian, that reality isn't there, but you are still a human being made in the image of God
00:23:03.340 with great and immense value. You have a soul that is going to live forever. And I believe that there
00:23:09.560 is something better for men and women than objectification. That doesn't mean that sexual
00:23:13.680 desire is wrong. That doesn't mean that sex is wrong and bad. Of course, God has placed sex within the good
00:23:21.260 and beneficial and productive and beautiful confines of covenant marriage. And that is where
00:23:28.640 I believe in Christians believe sex and sexuality thrives and is meant to remain. And when it goes
00:23:37.040 outside of that, you see something like WAP. You see the objectification of men and women in the name
00:23:42.860 of empowerment. But again, is objectification good? Is objectifying yourself as a sexual object or someone
00:23:49.780 else's sexual object good? Is it productive? Is it empowering? Does it lead to people being happy and
00:23:56.400 healthy or does it lead to people being hurt? And so this argument that men have been objectifying us
00:24:03.840 for so long, now we get to objectify ourselves. That just doesn't make a whole lot of sense. That's
00:24:09.080 like saying, okay, well, this man has abused me for so long. Now I'm going to take this matter into my
00:24:14.180 own hands and abuse myself. No, abuse is wrong. Wouldn't it be better to not be abused altogether?
00:24:20.880 Like if you think that objectification is wrong, then you should push back against the objectification
00:24:26.040 that has existed in rap music for decades and has existed in other kinds of music. It's not just rap
00:24:32.220 music that has talked about women as sexual objects to just be kind of used and abused. But I don't see
00:24:38.660 how it's empowering or advancing women for us to talk about ourselves as objects to be used and
00:24:46.140 abused. If objectification is wrong, then it's wrong, no matter who is saying it. If someone is
00:24:52.060 saying mean things about you, is it empowering for you to say mean things about yourself? Or is it better
00:24:56.800 for no one to be saying mean things about people? I think the answer is obvious. But of course, we see
00:25:02.220 the faulty logic, if you can even call it logic, the illogic of the world when it comes to empowerment.
00:25:07.520 You might have listened to my replay episode on Monday, Why Feminism Will Fail You. There are,
00:25:13.800 if you haven't, go back and listen to it. There are constant contradictions when it comes to feminism.
00:25:18.240 It is the best the world can do to uplift women. But as Christians, we don't need that. Like we have
00:25:24.140 the most empowering, the most inspiring, the most confidence-inducing material in the Word of God that
00:25:30.700 says women are made with equal dignity to men. We are made equally in the image of God. Yes,
00:25:36.720 we have different proclivities. We have different inherent strengths and weaknesses. Our strengths
00:25:43.060 and weaknesses complement men's strengths and weaknesses. We have different roles. We have
00:25:48.700 different responsibilities within the church and within the family. But God values women. We see
00:25:53.460 that throughout Jesus' life, that He values the women that He created, that He extends attention,
00:25:59.540 He extends nurturing, He extends forgiveness and grace to women throughout His life and throughout
00:26:06.740 His ministry. And so we don't need feminism and the contradictions of feminism and the glorification
00:26:13.700 of objectification of feminism in order to, as Christian women, feel empowered. We have everything
00:26:21.460 that we need for confidence, for confidence, for godliness, for peace about ourselves and who we
00:26:27.940 are in Christ in the Word of God. Does that make the Word of God a feminist document? No, that makes it the
00:26:34.260 Word of God. Like we don't need to adopt worldly ideologies or worldly philosophies or worldly trains of
00:26:42.080 thought in order to feel empowered and cared for as women. We just need God, who He is and who He says that
00:26:49.220 we are according to His Word. That's all we need. Now, this is the verse that I think specifically speaks to
00:26:56.940 this song, WAP, and why I didn't want to say anything about it, because this verse, I think, speaks enough. It
00:27:02.860 speaks everything that I think about it and everything that I think Christians should think about it. And I think that
00:27:07.740 should be the end of the story. Philippians 4, 8. Most of you who grew up in church know this verse. Finally, brothers,
00:27:15.160 whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever
00:27:21.720 is commendable. If there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these
00:27:28.000 things. Obviously, this doesn't just apply to that song. It applies to all things. And of course, we pray
00:27:34.940 for discernment and for wisdom in knowing what that is. But those are my final thoughts on it. I think
00:27:40.560 there's been a lot of analysis on it. And you guys probably already knew what I was going to say.
00:27:46.960 Okay, moving on to this next story that I'm just so excited about. So President Trump, he has decided
00:27:55.420 that he is going to defund, he is going to make sure that taxpayer funds are not going towards the
00:28:03.040 teaching of critical race theory in federal agency. So there was a segment on Tucker Carlson last week
00:28:09.380 that I am assuming that President Trump saw. I watched it with a man named Christopher Ruffo,
00:28:14.620 who I will actually have on this podcast in a couple weeks, who reported that in the FBI and
00:28:20.940 other federal agencies, they are teaching critical race theory. Now, if you have listened to my podcast
00:28:25.520 for any amount of time, if you listen to or watched the episode with Neil Shenvey from a few weeks ago,
00:28:32.540 if you listen to or watch the episode with Votie Bauckham or listen to or watch the episode
00:28:37.540 with Monique Dusan, I highly recommend you doing that, you can just type in on your podcast app,
00:28:44.800 relatable Monique Dusan or relatable Votie Bauckham or relatable Neil Shenvey, and it will come up and
00:28:50.640 you can listen to that. And they're also on YouTube as well. Then you know what critical theory is critical
00:28:55.740 theory is the study of power structures. And it views everything, everything, every situation in the
00:29:02.180 world, every bit of data, every bit of history from the lens of the oppressed versus the oppressor.
00:29:09.400 And it uses your group identity. So it uses your skin color, your sexual orientation,
00:29:14.980 your gender to categorize you and particular group identity categories and assigns oppression points
00:29:23.940 based on your group identity. The least oppressed being the straight white cisgender male,
00:29:30.700 the most oppressed being the opposite of that. So if you are black, you get oppression points. If you're
00:29:35.520 a woman, you get oppression points. If you are gay, you get oppression points and so on and so on.
00:29:41.260 And this is how critical theory looks at the world. So it's not really interested in looking at
00:29:46.660 objective truth or objective data. It is interested in looking at the standpoint of the oppressed.
00:29:54.300 That is how their world is interpreted. And we've talked about the problems with that. For example,
00:30:00.240 the 1619 Project presents itself as real history of America. And the lead essayist in that project,
00:30:08.980 Nicole Hannah-Jones, has since come out and said, no, it's not supposed to be real history. It's not
00:30:13.800 supposed to be objective truth. This is a narrative. We're challenging a narrative, of course, using this
00:30:18.860 idea of critical theory. Critical race theory is looking at everything primarily through the lens of
00:30:25.420 black versus white or white versus non-white, all white people being oppressors, all non-white people
00:30:31.860 being oppressed, and white people, all white people owing non-white people, no matter the experiences
00:30:37.840 of individuals in each group, owing them capital, owing them power, owing them deference, and all of
00:30:45.780 these things. And so you can see the problems with this. Critical theory and critical race theory
00:30:51.060 do not view people as individuals. It doesn't care about your experience as a white person,
00:30:55.960 whether you've been poor, whether you've been abused, whether you've been oppressed in your life.
00:31:00.000 It cares about the experiences or even the perceived or inherited experiences of non-white people.
00:31:09.180 And so in this way, they believe all white people are racist. All structures built by white people are
00:31:14.540 white supremacist structures. Therefore, America is a white supremacist structure. Therefore,
00:31:19.240 it needs to be taken down to the ground and destroyed and rebuilt in this intersectional
00:31:24.200 critical race theory way, which we don't even know what that is. But this is a form of Marxism.
00:31:31.020 Marxism is a communist philosophy that says it is the proletariat versus the bourgeois, the working
00:31:39.400 class versus the rich. And in the same way that he wrote in the Communist Manifesto that the
00:31:45.220 proletariat need to have an uprising to take over the rich and to take their capital and to take
00:31:50.300 their property and to take their stuff. Critical race theorists say that non-white people need to do
00:31:56.140 the same for white people who have been their oppressors for hundreds of years. So that's how
00:32:01.080 the theory goes. It has to really warp some history and warp a lot of data and warp a lot of inconvenient
00:32:09.240 facts in order to fit this narrative. And yet that it does.
00:32:12.700 And so President Trump made an announcement that he is going to make sure that this is not allowed,
00:32:18.620 that our taxpayer dollars are not paying for this when it comes to federal agencies. So here is
00:32:25.420 a letter from the White House.
00:32:28.540 It has come to the president's attention that executive branch agencies have spent millions
00:32:32.620 of taxpayer dollars to date training government workers to believe divisive anti-American propaganda.
00:32:38.420 It is true. It is divisive anti-American propaganda. And let me just say something that Neil Shenvey
00:32:44.020 and Monique Dusan have both said. Critical theory is not unifying. So it's not going to be the thing
00:32:51.200 that brings us to, quote, racial reconciliation. It is not going to be the thing that brings us
00:32:57.460 together because it says that white people are always guilty. You'll always be racist, no matter what.
00:33:02.420 And that non-white people don't have moral agency, that nothing is actually their fault.
00:33:07.380 That's never going to bring two people together. That's always continually going to divide. And yet
00:33:12.500 that is what is being taught, not just in these federal agencies, but it's being taught in all
00:33:16.720 diversity and include inclusivity trainings in corporate America right now and in schools by
00:33:23.440 teachers unions. By the way, the letter goes on to say, for example, according to press reports,
00:33:28.540 employees across the executive branch have been required to attend trainings where they are told
00:33:32.440 that virtually all white people contribute to racism or where they are required to say that
00:33:36.700 they benefit from racism. In some cases, these trainings have further claimed that there is
00:33:41.600 racism embedded in the belief that America is the land of opportunity or the belief that the most
00:33:46.420 qualified person should receive a job. So their critical race theory says that that is bad.
00:33:52.720 Goes on to talk about where this training is coming from and where it's going on.
00:33:57.980 One, in the meantime, all agencies are directed to begin to identify all contracts or other
00:34:05.720 agencies spending related to any training on, quote, critical race theory, white privilege,
00:34:11.200 or any other training or propaganda effort that teaches or suggests either one, that the United
00:34:16.360 States is an inherently racist or evil country, or two, that any race or ethnicity is inherently racist
00:34:21.820 or evil. Duh, because that's racist. So it's good that President Trump is against this.
00:34:26.820 In addition, all agencies should begin to identify all available avenues within the law to cancel
00:34:31.800 any such contract and or to divert federal dollars away from these un-American propaganda training
00:34:37.360 sessions. Yes and amen. This is so good by President Trump. I am so thankful for this.
00:34:44.160 This is an instance in which being a cultural warrior, being a cultural warrior is good. And him
00:34:50.880 watching Fox News is good. This should not be going on in our FBI and in our federal agencies. Our
00:34:57.420 taxpayer dollars should not be contributing to this divisive, anti-American, anti-white,
00:35:04.600 anti-capitalist propaganda. I mean, this stuff is cancerous. It really is. And the wider it spreads,
00:35:12.040 the more it infects people's minds. This stuff is going on in elementary schools, as young as kindergarten,
00:35:16.480 even preschool. I mean, this stuff is insidious. This stuff is bad. This stuff has to be pushed
00:35:22.320 against. And I commend President Trump for for making this effort. You can guarantee that under
00:35:28.060 Biden and Kamala, this stuff will be spread everywhere and they will make sure that our
00:35:33.700 taxpayer dollars are funding it even more than they already are. And let me give you an example
00:35:38.580 of this diversity and includes inclusivity training. So this is a video that has been going around.
00:35:45.320 I don't know where it is, where it's actually from. I don't know what corporation brought this person
00:35:54.360 in, this person named Ashley to come in and have this training, but someone filmed it and they posted
00:35:59.360 it on social media. Here is a clip of what was going on there. All white people are racist. So I put this
00:36:09.300 up because I really want any white person in the room to know upfront that this is what we're dealing
00:36:14.660 with, that it's not going to be this coddling of white tears and what that looks like. We're not
00:36:19.820 going to discuss, oh, maybe some of us have worked it out. No, you're always going to be racist,
00:36:24.320 actually. So even when you're on your path to trying to figure out how to be a better human being,
00:36:29.880 because I believe that white people are born into not being human, like that actually, instead of
00:36:36.060 people of color and black folks being dehumanized, that actually everyone is dehumanized off
00:36:41.420 within white supremacy, that y'all are born into a life to not be human. And that's what y'all are
00:36:46.740 taught to do, to be demons. Okay, so all white people, she says, are demons. They are subhuman
00:36:53.920 white people. She said we are born subhuman, which is actually an argument that I heard the leader of
00:37:00.280 BLM in Toronto, Canada. She made the same argument. And unfortunately, this is an idea that is going
00:37:06.760 around. And she is saying it to white people's faces. She is saying that all white people are
00:37:12.340 racist. Not only that, but you're subhuman and you're demons. And if you're not watching, she also
00:37:17.080 has on the on the paper that she has this written down that all white people are racist. She has her
00:37:23.740 PayPal. So she wants white people to pay her, I guess, because they're white and she's black and she
00:37:30.420 is pretending that she is oppressed, even though she has this job that's probably making plenty of money
00:37:35.260 telling white people that they're racist. Like in what how many other countries like are you free
00:37:41.480 to make money from that? Capitalism is crazy, man. And so she is telling these white people that
00:37:48.560 they're demons, but they also need to pay her like this is what's going on in these diversity and
00:37:53.760 inclusion trainings. And it's not only racist, but it's destructive and it's divisive. And it's just
00:38:00.080 going to create resentment and bitterness between people of all types. This is not creating the
00:38:04.820 reconciliation that we want, which is exactly why I think that it is so unfortunate and so sad when
00:38:10.880 you see Christian leaders kind of latching on to this thing, saying all white people are guilty.
00:38:15.560 All black people are alleviated from any responsibility or any moral agency for what
00:38:19.980 they do, because they're just products of oppression and everything they do is a product
00:38:23.980 of oppression. And all white people are at least complicit, if not actively racist, even if you don't know
00:38:29.120 their heart. And so they preach to white people about their white privilege and they preach to black
00:38:33.620 people about their oppression when really what both groups need is the gospel. As we've talked
00:38:38.160 about before, Ephesians says that Jesus brought the two groups, the Jews and the Gentiles together by
00:38:44.100 tearing down the dividing wall of hostility. How? Through critical race theory or critical religion
00:38:49.640 theory? No, through himself, by offering himself as the reconciling sacrifice, the reconciling
00:38:56.840 sacrifice of a sinful people to a holy God. And in that way, by reconciling the sinful people to a holy
00:39:06.300 God, he also reconciled two disparate groups, two far apart groups, the Gentiles and the Jews. If he can
00:39:13.540 do that just by being our savior and being our redeemer, then he can reconcile any two groups. And I do
00:39:21.800 believe in racial unity. I believe in the unity of the church, unity under truth, unity under love,
00:39:28.620 unity under the gospel. And I know that critical theory in any form is not going to get us there.
00:39:34.200 It is not biblical to say that one group is inherently more guilty or complicit because of
00:39:38.400 their skin color. And one group is less responsible for their sins and in less need of repentance because
00:39:44.160 of their skin color. You are doing an eternal disservice to your congregations if that is what you're
00:39:49.060 preaching. Because one group is going to feel like they carry a responsibility for the actions of other
00:39:55.560 people that they don't actually carry. And that is actually going to inhibit them from the repentance
00:40:00.040 that they really need in their own individual lives. And it is going to convince another group that they
00:40:07.560 are not as responsible for their own sins, that they are going to be given some kind of a pass for
00:40:12.980 their sins because it's just the product of oppression. That ain't going to fly before the judgment
00:40:17.680 throne of God. It's not. So if you care about your congregant souls, white, black, brown, whatever
00:40:23.420 it is, then you need to be preaching the gospel. And again, does that mean, as I've said so many times,
00:40:28.960 does that mean that we don't care about justice? Does that mean that we shouldn't say racism is a sin?
00:40:34.740 No, I don't believe that at all. Of course, racism is a sin. You can't love God and hate your brother,
00:40:40.960 1 John says. And any kind of ism, sexism, ageism, ableism, that hates or demeans someone because of some
00:40:49.380 kind of immutable characteristic is, of course, hate. And it should be rejected by a Christian. And if you talk
00:40:55.260 about that, of course, I think that is okay. But pretending that racism can only happen in one group of
00:41:04.040 people or only does happen among one group of people with a lower melanin count or pretending
00:41:09.660 that injustice only happens from one group of people with a lower melanin count or the opposite,
00:41:15.480 by the way, I don't think there's anyone preaching the opposite. But if you are preaching complicity or
00:41:21.820 guilt based on your skin color and alleviation or abdication of responsibility because of your skin
00:41:30.300 color, then you are not preaching the gospel and you are not preaching truth. You are preaching
00:41:33.880 critical race theory. And that means you are going to divide your congregation. You are going to lead
00:41:39.300 them down a divisive and a bitter and a malicious path that will hurt their theology. It will wreck their
00:41:46.420 entire theology. Unfortunately, Pastor Eric Mason, from the things that I have seen of him recently, he has
00:41:52.020 gone down this path of saying that the reason he said this multiple times recently, that the reason why, in his
00:41:59.180 words, some black people have gone down the path of African spiritualism or bad theology is because of
00:42:08.160 whiteness and is because of white churches. And so again, no responsibility for the false teachers within
00:42:15.260 communities. But it's actually the fault of another group. And he makes it seem in some of the sermons that
00:42:22.740 he has posted on Twitter recently that it is the black church that has been systemically wronged.
00:42:32.220 And because of that, they are going to be rewarded in a particular way, and they are not going to be
00:42:37.120 held responsible for certain things in a particular way. And maybe I hope I'm not misinterpreting that.
00:42:42.420 I hope that I'm wrong on that. I hope that maybe the clips that have been posted are wrong on that.
00:42:48.400 But he is certainly an example of someone whose theology has just been absolutely wrecked by
00:42:52.980 critical race theory, along with Carl Lentz from Hillsong. Now, he's not someone that I would say
00:43:00.420 had this solid theology and that I would have gone to as a teacher and now has been led astray. I think
00:43:07.360 it seems that his theology has always been on shaky ground. Whenever you have someone unable to
00:43:14.340 say publicly, yeah, abortion is wrong, abortion is a sin, this is what I think about that. I think
00:43:20.120 that it's always a good question just to take a second look at what their theology and what their
00:43:24.680 worldview is. I say that as someone who has been in those situations many times and has had to say
00:43:29.660 very uncomfortable biblical things in front of people that I disagree with. I'm much more
00:43:34.860 disappointed by people in the church and their lack of discernment than I am the world's lack of
00:43:40.300 goodness. The world, according to the Bible, is supposed to be foolish. The world is supposed to
00:43:45.700 embrace stupidity like critical race theory. They're supposed to be confused. They're supposed
00:43:51.340 to not know what truth is. They're supposed to be deceived. Jesus himself says their father is the
00:43:57.420 devil, whom he calls the father of lies. They're supposed to be blind. They're supposed to be joining in
00:44:03.060 with movements like Black Lives Matter and buying into false narratives and linking arms with destructive
00:44:07.480 movements that present a facade of righteousness, but underneath are just death and decay. They're
00:44:12.100 supposed to be doing that. That is in their nature. As Ephesians 2 said, they says they are dead in their
00:44:17.800 sin. They follow the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of
00:44:22.780 disobedience. They are supposed to be confused. But the church isn't. The church is not supposed to be
00:44:29.000 confused. The church is supposed to be truthful. Our God is the source of truth. He is truth. Jesus says,
00:44:35.940 I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the father except through me. Jesus says,
00:44:42.220 the truth will set you free. Jesus says, sanctify them, father, in truth. Your word is truth. We
00:44:48.720 have the truth. We shouldn't be confused about all of this. We shouldn't be confused by critical theory
00:44:54.520 and critical race theory. We shouldn't be confused about whether or not it is biblical and going to lead
00:44:58.620 to reconciliation. We know what leads to reconciliation. God is the giver of wisdom. If we ask for it,
00:45:05.940 he will give it to us without reproach, as the book of James says. And if we seek it according to
00:45:10.940 the book of Proverbs, we will find it. We are not supposed to take our cues on justice, on race,
00:45:17.480 on unity, on reconciliation from the world. If the world is raising their fist in solidarity,
00:45:23.220 that is the first sign for us to wonder if whether or not our hand should be down. If the rest of the
00:45:30.100 world, whether they believe in God or not, is doing something, we should probably ask ourselves if we
00:45:35.540 need to be doing that thing too. We shouldn't be falling in with the mainstream just because it's
00:45:41.120 popular. And if something is popular and mainstream, that's a really good time for us to take a step back
00:45:46.640 and say, what does God's word say about this? If the world, for example, is justifying rioting and
00:45:51.940 looting, then we shouldn't be. If the world is adding anger to anger and resentment to resentment and
00:45:57.820 injustice to injustice and division to division, then we should not be.
00:46:02.440 I was reading Proverbs 1 over the weekend, and I thought it was just so appropriate with what
00:46:07.280 we are talking about right now. I'm going to read you some of it.
00:46:12.020 To know wisdom and instruction, to understand words of insight, to receive instruction in wise
00:46:17.200 dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity, to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and
00:46:22.660 discretion to the youth. Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands
00:46:27.680 obtain guidance, to understand a proverb and a saying, the words of the wise and their riddles.
00:46:33.260 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. Fools despise wisdom and instruction.
00:46:39.900 And then it goes on to a father is talking to his son about resisting sin and sinners.
00:46:47.400 My son, if sinners entice you, verse 10 says, do not consent. If they say, come with us,
00:46:53.300 let us lie in wait for blood. Let us ambush the innocent without reason. Like Sheol, let us swallow
00:46:59.720 them alive and whole. Like those who go down to the pit, we shall find all precious goods. We shall
00:47:05.420 fill our houses with plunder. Throw in your lot among us. We will have one purse. My son, do not
00:47:12.020 walk in the way with them. Hold back your foot from their paths, for their feet run to evil, and they
00:47:17.820 make haste to shed blood. For in vain, a net is spread in the sight of any bird. But these men lie
00:47:23.740 in wait for their own blood. They set an ambush for their own lives. Such are the ways of everyone
00:47:28.400 who is greedy for unjust gain. It takes away the life of its possessors. So he is talking about
00:47:34.920 sinners and how they are looting. They are killing. They are murdering. Their feet are swift to shed
00:47:43.140 blood. They are looking for trouble. They are looking for death. They are looking for destruction.
00:47:48.240 They are looking to satisfy their own desires in a way that is destructive toward other people and
00:47:57.800 destructive toward society. And this father to his son is saying, resist that and remember what your
00:48:04.420 mother and I have taught you. Remember wisdom, love instruction, love discipline, love discernment,
00:48:12.680 and all of these things start with a fear of the Lord. And so we are seeing right now the difference
00:48:19.500 between wisdom, what wisdom looks like, and a lack of wisdom looks like. Literally, in the streets,
00:48:25.120 we are seeing a lack of wisdom, a lack of a love of discipline, a lack of a love of instruction.
00:48:30.460 And unfortunately, a lot of these kids, a lot of these young adults that are out here doing the
00:48:34.920 things that they are doing, destroying entire cities in the name of so-called justice, which their
00:48:39.600 definition of justice, of course, is not God's definition of justice. They probably lacked what
00:48:44.040 we see in Proverbs 1, verses 8.
00:48:49.240 Hear, my son, your father's instruction and forsake not your mother's teaching. A lot of these people
00:48:54.120 either didn't love their mother and father's teaching or they didn't have a mother and father
00:48:58.820 that taught them the good wisdom and the fear of the Lord that parents are supposed to teach their
00:49:03.360 kids so they can resist the path, the destructive path of sinners whose feet are swift to shed blood.
00:49:11.000 And so we see in Proverbs 1 exactly how we are supposed to be, exactly the kind of life that
00:49:16.700 we are supposed to lead, exactly the kind of behavior that we are supposed to resist. And that
00:49:21.260 comes from, one, the fear of the Lord, and two, the wisdom and the direction and the discipline
00:49:25.560 of parents. And we are seeing a dereliction of duty right now in the streets of one pastors and two
00:49:32.520 fathers. And no, it's not all the responsibility on these two groups because people do make their
00:49:39.100 own decisions. People who have great pastors and great dads can still go out and be derelicts.
00:49:44.380 They can still go out and be bad people. But I think so many of the problems that we are seeing
00:49:49.680 right now, so much of the chaos is because of a lack of strong male leadership, both in the pulpit
00:49:55.200 and at home. And we see from Proverbs 1 how important that is. So we as Christians, that's what we need to
00:50:00.900 be emphasizing. The importance of, one, fearing the Lord, knowing that that is the beginning of
00:50:05.400 knowledge, as Proverbs 1 says, the discipline, the direction, the instruction, the love, the care
00:50:10.720 of parents in guiding their children and helping them resist sin. And we also see the stark contrast
00:50:17.840 between what the world looks like, which is a very clear description of some of the things that are
00:50:24.200 going on in our streets, and what we are to look like. We are to resist that. We are to seek
00:50:29.280 justice, love, mercy, and walk humbly with our God, as Micah 6.8 says. We have to know what justice is
00:50:38.340 according to God's word, which is we have talked about on this podcast many times. Justice doesn't
00:50:43.380 mean retribution, doesn't mean revenge. It doesn't mean rioting and looting. God is very clear about
00:50:48.380 the protection of personal property, as we have also talked about. The Ten Commandments says,
00:50:53.320 do not steal, but it also says, do not covet. So you can't even want your neighbor's stuff. That is how
00:50:57.740 important. Private property is according to God's word. So that author who says, in defense of looting,
00:51:03.640 that's just a Western prescribed personal property is just a Western prescribed white supremacist idea.
00:51:08.660 No, that's actually God's idea that dates back a lot longer than America has. We know that justice,
00:51:14.820 according to God's word, is four things. It is truthful, it is proportional, it is direct, and it is
00:51:20.280 impartial. And we have talked about the verses that point to that. So you can go back and you can listen
00:51:26.060 to some of the episodes that we've done on justice. I think last Monday, we did an episode on justice.
00:51:31.040 So you can go back and listen to that. So yes, we do justice according to Micah 6-8, but we know what
00:51:39.880 justice looks like. And it is not. It is not what the world says it looks like. The world's definition
00:51:45.280 of justice is what Proverbs 1 looks like. The description of the sinners going out into the streets
00:51:52.880 and killing people and looting and plundering and causing chaos. That is not what justice looks like
00:52:03.140 according to God's word. And it makes me sad that there are people within the church who are weak
00:52:08.900 on this and who are teaching the theories, like critical race theory, that is actually just
00:52:14.520 exacerbating this and justifying this instead of preaching the gospel, which is the only thing
00:52:19.920 that unifies and is not even preaching. Every pastor, by the way, needs to preach a sermon on
00:52:28.620 justice. What is justice according to God's word? What is the role of the government? What is the role
00:52:35.360 of the family? What is the role of the church? What is the role of the individual? Every pastor needs to
00:52:42.040 be preaching that, that God's justice has a definition, that God's role of the government
00:52:47.780 is defined, that God's role of the family, that God's role of the church, that God's role of the
00:52:52.100 individual is defined. What does it mean for these entities to seek God's justice? And unfortunately,
00:52:58.600 a lot of the people that are quoting Micah 6, 8 to do justice and love mercy, they are not walking
00:53:04.140 humbly with their God. And so they take this word justice and they misconstrue it and they define it how
00:53:10.520 they want to define it. But we know that understanding what justice looks like, according to Proverbs 1,
00:53:16.920 it starts with a fear of the Lord. So that was a little bit rambly. I know we kind of went down
00:53:23.380 several different avenues, but those are the thoughts that I was having over the weekend as I am just
00:53:27.580 continually saddened by the lack of discernment that a lot of professing Christians have in this area,
00:53:34.540 buying into a false narrative and using worldly prescriptions for spiritual problems. And it's just
00:53:41.200 not what we are called to do. As I've said several times, Christian, you are bound to the truth.
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