Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 298 ｜ Cardi, Candace & Critical Race Theory

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 1.00

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 1.00

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 0.99

00:07:22.480 that self-respecting women should reject and should be embarrassed by. Basically, I'm summarizing some 1.00

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 1.00

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 0.99

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, 0.89

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 1.00

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 0.99

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? 1.00

00:12:59.360 Question mark. Oh, man, you guys. Candace responds. Produce the clip of Trump laughing at black men 0.85

00:13:06.040 getting killed. You lying fraud. Number two, I turned down filming a spot for the RNC convention. 1.00

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 0.95

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 0.74

00:13:37.040 date raping men and stealing their money. That is something that she did, according to her, when she 0.82

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, 0.99

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. 0.99

00:14:40.820 Stop supporting Black people dying. Candace, again, I'm almost six months pregnant and had 0.98

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 1.00

00:15:28.240 babies since 1973? Fact check. True. Did you know the most unsafe place for a Black child is 1.00

00:15:34.220 in the mother's womb because of your party, says Candace? Um, and then Chuck Ross says this, 0.98

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. 0.98

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 1.00

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, 1.00

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 0.96

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 1.00

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, 1.00

00:22:23.340 or when women objectify men. Is objectification wrong? Of course, as a Christian, I believe so, 0.52

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 0.99

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 0.71

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, 1.00

00:25:13.800 if you haven't, go back and listen to it. There are constant contradictions when it comes to feminism. 1.00

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 1.00

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 0.93

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 0.51

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, 0.55

00:29:30.700 the most oppressed being the opposite of that. So if you are black, you get oppression points. If you're 0.96

00:29:35.520 a woman, you get oppression points. If you are gay, you get oppression points and so on and so on. 1.00

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 0.99

00:30:31.860 being oppressed, and white people, all white people owing non-white people, no matter the experiences 0.89

00:30:37.840 of individuals in each group, owing them capital, owing them power, owing them deference, and all of 0.84

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. 0.91

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, 0.98

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 0.84

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. 0.59

00:33:02.420 And that non-white people don't have moral agency, that nothing is actually their fault. 0.99

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. 0.94

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, 0.95

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 0.85

00:36:36.060 people of color and black folks being dehumanized, that actually everyone is dehumanized off 0.97

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 0.95

00:36:46.740 taught to do, to be demons. Okay, so all white people, she says, are demons. They are subhuman 1.00

00:36:53.920 white people. She said we are born subhuman, which is actually an argument that I heard the leader of 0.62

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 1.00

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 0.98

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 0.94

00:37:30.420 is pretending that she is oppressed, even though she has this job that's probably making plenty of money 0.96

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 0.98

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 1.00

00:38:19.980 they do, because they're just products of oppression and everything they do is a product 0.98

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 0.98

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 0.98

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 1.00

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 1.00

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 0.93

00:42:08.160 whiteness and is because of white churches. And so again, no responsibility for the false teachers within 0.83

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 0.99

00:43:45.700 embrace stupidity like critical race theory. They're supposed to be confused. They're supposed 1.00

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. 0.99

00:46:39.900 And then it goes on to a father is talking to his son about resisting sin and sinners. 0.99

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 1.00

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 0.96

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 0.87

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.

00:53:46.360 Okay, that's all I have today. If you guys have not picked up my book, you're not enough. And

00:53:50.880 that's okay. Escaping the toxic culture of self love. Please do AllieBethStuckey.com book. You can

00:53:57.500 also pick it up at your local Barnes and Noble or independent bookstore, maybe even at your local

00:54:02.020 library. Join Women's Book Club with Allie Stuckey. We are starting. We just finished discussing this,

00:54:06.960 but you can go back and you can look at the discussions. And we are about to start

00:54:11.140 discrimination and disparities by Thomas Sowell. So if you're a woman, a woman who wants to join that 0.89

00:54:16.700 book club, please do on Facebook. And that's all I have for today. I will see you back here on Friday.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - September 09, 2020

Ep 298 ｜ Cardi, Candace & Critical Race Theory

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