Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 331 ｜ CORRECTED Tiny Tyrants of Thanksgiving

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Wednesday. Hope everyone has had a great week so far.

00:00:14.660 Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. I don't know what your plans are. You might live in a state

00:00:19.040 in an area where your governor or your local official is telling you that they're going to

00:00:24.680 stick the cops on you. If you do the scandalous, the scandalous illicit thing of gathering with

00:00:33.480 your family for Thanksgiving and enjoying fellowship, or maybe you live in a state where

00:00:39.480 there aren't as many regulations and you're looking forward to that gathering. There's

00:00:44.020 been a lot of back and forth on this. We talked a little bit on Monday. I do recommend going to

00:00:48.580 listen to Monday's episode because we talked a little bit about, well, we talked a lot about

00:00:53.380 what it looks like to live under God's authority above any other authority. That doesn't mean

00:00:59.020 that we subvert the leadership here on earth just because we want to. Romans 13, it's clear about

00:01:04.260 that. But when any kind of edict or earthly authority causes us to sin, then that is when we choose to

00:01:11.880 obey God rather than man. When it comes to gathering for Thanksgiving, I think it's up to you. You love

00:01:18.900 your family and know your family better than the state does. You love your elderly parents better

00:01:24.820 than the government does. You love your kid coming home from college better than the state does. You

00:01:30.920 know their mental and their physical needs. And I promise you, you are more resistant to harming them

00:01:37.600 or putting them in harm's way than the state is. So you can trust yourself. You can trust your family to

00:01:43.700 decide what is best in gathering. Is it that you have a smaller crowd come over? Is it that you use,

00:01:50.540 I don't know, disposable cutlery and plates? Is it that you, you know, distance everyone while you're

00:01:59.320 eating? Or maybe you don't feel like it's important to do any of those precautions whatsoever. I think

00:02:04.720 it's up to you and your family. The fact of the matter is, is that you know better what is best for you

00:02:10.320 and your family? That is my basic political philosophy. That is certainly my philosophy when it comes to

00:02:16.460 gathering for Thanksgiving. It's not that the virus isn't serious. It's not that you won't ever get it or

00:02:21.280 that you won't die from it. There is a very, very, very slight possibility that that will happen, that it

00:02:27.740 will be serious for you or someone in your family and they could die. That is possible. It's possible with

00:02:33.520 the flu. It's possible with other sicknesses as well. And it is up to you whether or not you want to take on

00:02:39.160 that risk. But it should be up to you, not up to the government, not for a virus that has the survival

00:02:47.420 rate that this does. It should be up to you. So take it as seriously as you want to take it. Take

00:02:54.180 all of the precautions that you want to take. If you feel like you're more comfortable not meeting

00:02:59.320 with your family, then that's completely fine. That is your decision and that is what is best for you.

00:03:07.980 And I, you know, I applaud you in making that decision for yourself. I don't think that you

00:03:13.880 should decide any one way based on the threats of a tiny tyrant. This is not about for them for a lot

00:03:22.440 of them. I don't think this is really about protecting you and your family. Like, do you

00:03:26.240 really believe the pro-abortion, pro-rioting and looting, pro-mass mosh pits after Joe Biden was the

00:03:33.060 projected winner? Do you really think those people care whether or not your elderly parent

00:03:38.320 gets COVID-19? No, they do not. They do not actually. I'm not going to believe that the party

00:03:44.060 who believes that slaughtering babies inside the womb really cares all that much whether or not

00:03:50.460 your grandparent gets coronavirus, especially when they give someone like Andrew Cuomo an Emmy

00:03:56.000 Leadership, Emmy's Leadership Award. I don't even know what that is for awesome, outstanding leadership in

00:04:02.840 New York when he, by executive order, shoved thousands and thousands of elderly people,

00:04:09.060 COVID-positive elderly people, back into nursing homes, causing mass sickness and death 1.00

00:04:15.260 in the elderly population in New York. The same thing happened in New Jersey.

00:04:20.040 A similar thing happened in Michigan. So those same people who had a blatant disregard for the lives of

00:04:25.140 elderly people, that could have been avoided very easily. But because they were reckless and 1.00

00:04:30.540 arbitrary in their leadership, they're going to say now that you can't safely gather for Thanksgiving

00:04:35.880 because of your elderly parents and grandparents, that just doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.

00:04:41.640 So like I said, I'm not saying don't take this virus seriously. I am saying that you are best

00:04:48.960 equipped to make those decisions, not the government who does not know you. They do not know the needs of

00:04:55.360 your family, but you do. So you decide. You decide what is best. We are going to decide what is best

00:05:02.740 for my family. You decide what is best for your family. There's a lot of people right now who are

00:05:08.100 struggling. There's a lot of people who are struggling mentally and emotionally. There was

00:05:11.820 someone who, I guess you could call him an influencer or commentator, a conservative commentator on

00:05:18.820 Twitter who shared that he's had a very rough few months mentally and that he has even in a few

00:05:26.920 moments considered suicide. Well, the leftists, and I know this is not representative of the left,

00:05:32.180 and I'm not trying to make this argument, but the people who happen to disagree with him, who happen

00:05:35.940 to be on the left on Twitter, were actually saying, you know what, it's really selfish of you to even

00:05:41.900 bring this up. It's selfish of you to say because you're struggling mentally and struggling with

00:05:45.680 thoughts of suicide that you should go visit your family. You're going to kill your family.

00:05:49.720 You're so selfish. There were even a couple of tweets, and I actually quote tweeted them just to

00:05:55.080 show people the attitude that some people have in regards to this. There were some people under his

00:06:00.460 tweet that said, you know what, maybe you should let those thoughts play out. You should give in to

00:06:05.480 those thoughts if you're going to be that selfish. And so on the one hand, some of the people who are

00:06:10.100 saying, hey, COVID-19, it's going to kill everyone, and I really care about your elderly parents,

00:06:14.800 are also telling someone who struggles with mental health that maybe he should just kill himself

00:06:19.780 if he's going to be, quote, selfish. That's the attitude, not that specific wish of death upon

00:06:27.880 someone, but that's the contradictory hypocritical attitude of a lot of people on the left who have

00:06:32.840 had nothing to say about the health risks of the Biden celebrations in the streets or any of the riots

00:06:40.100 or any of the mass protests where a lot of people were not wearing masks and they were gathered

00:06:44.100 together body to body. But now when it comes to Thanksgiving, gathering with, I don't know,

00:06:50.360 five to ten people safely in your home, maybe even wearing masks and washing your hands and maybe even

00:06:56.420 distance, that is apparently selfish. That is wrong. That is what's going to kill people. That's not even

00:07:02.020 statistically true. It's not logically true. It is not morally correct. And so please do not take your

00:07:08.420 moral cues or your public health cues or your political cues from the people who simultaneously

00:07:15.300 have nothing to say about the public health risks of the gatherings that they deem politically correct,

00:07:21.460 but have everything to say about what you do inside your home with your family. Let's just have a little

00:07:26.900 bit of common sense here. Let's have a little bit of compassion. I'm okay. I'm okay with people saying,

00:07:33.020 you know what, this is a more serious virus than we're thinking, and we need to spread out and take

00:07:38.080 this more seriously than people are taking it right now. That's fine. You can say that, but please,

00:07:44.420 for the love of all things good, apply that standard to everyone. You know, there's a lot of self-righteous

00:07:49.900 people in the media saying, oh, Trump supporters, they're not taking this seriously. There was actually

00:07:53.900 a nurse from South Dakota that was on CNN who claimed that people who are Trump supporters,

00:07:59.980 as they were gasping for air in their dying breaths, that they were saying, oh, this isn't

00:08:05.360 real. Biden ruined everything. First of all, I don't think that that's true. I don't think that's

00:08:10.700 true because even in this interview, she said, you know, it wasn't one specific patient. It was just

00:08:15.320 a culmination. What is that supposed to mean? Either it happened or it didn't. Did you hear those words?

00:08:21.360 Someone dying from coronavirus in the hospital that you were taking care of in South Dakota,

00:08:25.780 who this nurse, by the way, is very active on Twitter as a liberal activist, an outspoken

00:08:31.880 liberal activist on Twitter. She just happened to have these interactions with so-called Trump 0.88

00:08:37.060 supporters as they were on their deathbed in the hospital. Did that really happen? Did it really

00:08:42.640 happen that these Trump supporters said that this was all Biden's fault, that this is not real?

00:08:47.420 Could they just be grasping for something to hang on to because they're dying? Maybe it's unbelievable

00:08:56.600 to a lot of people that they could be slipping into death and it had nothing to do with politics at

00:09:00.800 all. She said it's not any one specific patient. It was just a culmination. Did it happen or did it

00:09:06.560 not? Because if I were a betting woman, which I'm not, but if I were, I would bet money that that didn't

00:09:13.220 happen, that you saw a moment to go viral, which she did. You saw a moment to go on the news, which

00:09:19.780 she did. And so you created this narrative based on what you already think about Trump supporters.

00:09:25.140 And yes, there are people, probably disproportionately Trump supporters, who think this is a hoax. There are

00:09:32.120 some people who think that this is just not real. That number of people is so small. It's so incredibly

00:09:39.280 small. Most people have the attitude, I would say on the Trump side and maybe even on the other side

00:09:45.580 as well, the attitude that I do. They say, OK, yeah, this is a virus. I know people who have been affected

00:09:50.480 by it. I know friends of friends or parents of friends who have gone to the hospital, who have been

00:09:56.640 in the ICU, who have died from it. OK, so I'm not saying this is a hoax. I think most people see it that

00:10:02.440 way. But they say, but hang on a second. The whole person matters. Mentally, we matter. Emotionally,

00:10:08.740 we matter. Those things matter, too. Going to school matters. Going to church matters. And again,

00:10:14.680 people can be trusted to do that in a way that is safe. Small businesses matter. Livelihoods matter.

00:10:20.900 Depression and suicide and child abuse rates matter. Those things matter, too. But we've been told for the

00:10:27.000 past few months that we can't care about those things or else we want everyone to die. It's

00:10:32.580 absurd. It's absurd. And the most absurd part about it, which is why I think there is so much

00:10:37.940 confusion and pushback, is that we have a media, like I said, who will criticize some people for

00:10:44.300 gathering for Thanksgiving. Chris Hayes of MSNBC said, you know, he doesn't know what to say to people

00:10:50.900 who are going to gather for Thanksgiving, whatever. And a few days before that, he reposted,

00:10:57.000 a video of people celebrating Biden's win, some people with masks on, some people not in these

00:11:02.300 mosh pits saying, you know, people really need this right now. So people really need to be gathering

00:11:07.500 in mass gatherings in the streets celebrating a projected Biden win. But people don't need to

00:11:14.140 gather with those who love them the most for Thanksgiving. And it's that kind of hypocrisy,

00:11:20.260 the selective outrage, the selective criticism that seems to be based completely on political

00:11:26.640 affiliation and hatred of Trump. That has caused people to flout the rules and in some cases to

00:11:35.000 flout the seriousness of it. Because you see the hypocrisy of people like Gavin Newsom eating at that

00:11:40.300 fancy restaurant. Andrew Cuomo, who recently said, oh, yeah, I'm going to host my elderly mom for dinner.

00:11:45.440 And then he backtracked on that when he got backlash. When we see these people in power who are

00:11:52.760 forcing down our throats, these arbitrary, unscientific lockdowns and regulations,

00:11:58.120 and they're not following them themselves, the media doing the same thing. And people say, okay,

00:12:04.040 those in power must not take this as seriously as they are telling us to take it. So it must not be

00:12:10.940 as serious. So, but those same people who are so hypocritical and are causing everyone to think that

00:12:16.400 are mad at everyone for not taking it seriously. You're the reason they're not taking it seriously.

00:12:20.860 It's your hypocrisy media. It's your hypocrisy leaders. So if you are the cause of people's

00:12:29.260 questioning, if you are the cause even of people's conspiracy theories, because that's what happens

00:12:34.320 when there's a vacuum created by bad leadership, when there is a vacuum that is created by the

00:12:45.120 absence of truth in media reporting, people are going to fill that. People are going to fill that

00:12:50.740 with conspiracy theory. People are going to fill that with rebellion. That's just what happens.

00:12:55.800 It is bad leadership and bad reporting that has created so much of the confusion. That's not to

00:13:00.900 say President Trump and other leaders don't have any responsibility at all, because there has been

00:13:05.960 some confusion in the leadership there. Absolutely. But it is the hypocrisy, more than anything,

00:13:11.820 of the elites in this country that has created a lot of questioning by a lot of people to say,

00:13:19.660 are these regulations really for our own good or is it about power? Is it about politics? And people have

00:13:28.060 every right to have that curiosity. People have every right to ask that question right now. It is no one's

00:13:35.040 fault, but these liberal leaders, because they're the ones that are cracking down on these harsh

00:13:40.960 regulations and then doing something else themselves and the media who are outraged about people meeting

00:13:46.740 together for Thanksgiving, but they're not outraged by unmasked mosh pits for Joe Biden. It is because of

00:13:53.020 that hypocrisy, because of that bad leadership that people have decided, you know what? I'm done. I'm done

00:14:00.120 with this. These people really resent me. These people really loathe me. They really don't want what's best

00:14:05.800 for me and my family. And I say, praise the Lord. You finally seen the light. The government has never

00:14:10.080 cared about you and your family. That's not to say all politicians are bad or all government leaders

00:14:15.200 are bad. They all go into office saying that they care and that they want to change your life for the

00:14:19.380 better. And there are some politicians that truly do. But the fact of the matter is a lot of them get

00:14:24.580 drunk on power and they don't have any intention whatsoever of relinquishing it. So as I said on

00:14:30.160 Monday, whatever you do, don't vote to give the government more power and more money. It never works in

00:14:36.140 your favor. It never works in the favor of the government either. Like you'll notice some of

00:14:40.380 the most run down cities are led by politicians who run and win on taking care of the vulnerable.

00:14:50.520 And then they never do. They take that power. They take those tax dollars. They become corrupt. They

00:14:55.900 become drunk on power and they don't serve their constituents. It's the cycle that never ends.

00:15:03.060 So as I say, the moral of the story is not to not take the virus seriously. It's not to rebel for the

00:15:11.300 sake of rebellion against these tiny tyrants because we should submit to authorities as far as we possibly

00:15:18.640 can without sinning. It is simply to say, you know what is best for you and your family. And right now,

00:15:27.920 it is important for a lot of people to gather together. If you are someone who is struggling

00:15:33.200 mentally, if you are someone who feels like, wow, I think I've slipped into depression or serious

00:15:37.960 anxiety without even realizing it. Like I'm really struggling with loneliness and isolation.

00:15:42.820 Know that you're not alone in that. That is unfortunately a trend that has been happening

00:15:50.020 for the past few months. I know people who have been struggling in the same way. The CDC said

00:15:56.140 they just released an analysis showing a 31% increase in mental health related ER visits among

00:16:02.680 children ages 12 to 17 since the lockdowns in March and even a 24% increase in the ER visits

00:16:09.900 for children as young as 5 to 11. A lot of those, they don't just have to do with anxiety and

00:16:15.820 depression and isolation and oversaturation of screens. That also is not good for mental health

00:16:21.680 for children. It's also because of increased child abuse. When you've got parents who maybe lost

00:16:28.540 their job, they're financially strained, or they have their kids at home all day with them. Of course,

00:16:34.340 in an ideal world, no parent would be mad about that. No parent would be disappointed in that. But

00:16:39.840 unfortunately, there are parents who are. That increases the likelihood of domestic abuse for these

00:16:47.120 children. A University of Wisconsin research survey found significant mental health, anxiety, and

00:16:52.480 depression issues in the high school age population with 65% reporting anxiety symptoms. This is also

00:16:59.380 true of the rest of the population. Like I said, I know people who have been really struggling, who have

00:17:05.120 all of a sudden, not all of a sudden, but over the past few months, slipped into depression and have

00:17:10.460 entertained suicidal thoughts that they never thought that they would have. And that is because human

00:17:15.620 beings are social creatures. God made us this way. I know I say this a lot, but leftist, just the

00:17:22.020 ideology of leftism gets human nature wrong. They believe that human beings can adapt to any new

00:17:28.180 progressive social whim. They can adapt to any new government regulation and that they will be fine.

00:17:34.980 It's just, it's not true. Human beings need community. You need fellowship. And like I said on Monday,

00:17:40.540 there are states that allow casinos to operate, but not churches. There are states that allow

00:17:44.640 strip clubs and abortion clinics and liquor stores to operate at least at half capacity,

00:17:50.460 but churches still have to meet outside or meet online or schools are closed down while these strip

00:17:55.880 clubs and casinos and abortion clinics are all open. It shows the backwards nature of our society

00:18:05.180 that again, these people that are making these arbitrary rules that seem to be discriminating

00:18:09.640 against religious people, discriminating against children. They don't have your family's best 1.00

00:18:15.740 interest at heart and don't be convinced into thinking that they do. The whole person matters.

00:18:21.200 The heart and the mind and the soul matter. Human beings need fellowship. We need church,

00:18:27.580 not just virtual church. You need to gather. Yes, it's true that the church scattered is also the

00:18:35.280 church gathered. Of course, church is more than a building. We know that. But God has called us to

00:18:41.740 come together in corporate worship. And what a privilege it is that we get to do that. You know,

00:18:46.880 there are Christians throughout the world. The majority of Christians, I would say, now that's just 0.98

00:18:52.100 a guess, but at least a large portion of Christians throughout the world cannot consistently gather together

00:18:59.020 out of fear of government punishment because they might be imprisoned. They might be tortured.

00:19:05.620 They might be martyred for meeting together with their brothers and sisters in Christ. That has been

00:19:10.920 true, by the way, about Christians in most of human history. Religious liberty, this idea that's really

00:19:20.000 started in the West, that was a Western idea and then almost an exclusively American idea for the past

00:19:27.240 at least century or so. That has provided a respite, not just for Christians, but people of other

00:19:32.920 faiths too, to practice our faith, to gather together without fear of punishment. Right now,

00:19:39.360 we're going through it. We're getting a small, small, small taste, a small taste and a very mild taste

00:19:45.460 of what it is like to wonder whether or not we are able to legally gather together without fear of

00:19:52.380 government punishment. Well, brothers and sisters in Christ around the world have been,

00:19:57.240 suffering through real threats of this for a very long time. So while we can, Christians, while we are

00:20:03.220 allowed to, while we don't fear imprisonment and punishment, we need to make every effort to meet

00:20:08.760 together. Again, distance, wear masks, don't shake hands, don't hug if that's what you want to do.

00:20:15.040 If you want to mitigate the risk as much as possible, there's a way to gather together

00:20:20.220 and be safe. You know better. The church knows better. You know your congregants better than the

00:20:27.520 state does. You care more about them than the state does. You can be trusted to make the best

00:20:33.160 decision for not just your family, but your church family. Hebrews 10, 24 through 26 says,

00:20:38.520 and let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together

00:20:43.200 as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another in all the more as you see the day

00:20:48.740 drawing near. I think now more than ever, we need to stir up one another to love and good works.

00:20:54.960 I think our temptation right now is to get into fear and to bitterness and to resentment. And while I

00:21:00.560 think it's okay to have some righteous anger against hypocritical tyranny, I think that's actually

00:21:05.100 healthy and very good. I think it's very Christian historically. Protestants are the original 1.00

00:21:11.940 protesters. That's where we get our name. We have been the mortal enemy of dictators since the

00:21:18.700 Reformation. Christians in general have been a boil on the back of tyrants for our entire history. 1.00

00:21:28.400 And so I think some of that righteous anger is really good, but we have to make sure it is not

00:21:32.460 characterizing our whole lives. It's not preventing us from honoring the Lord and loving the people

00:21:37.920 around us, especially our fellow members of the body of Christ. So let us consider how to stir up one

00:21:45.700 another to love and to good works. There's no asterisk there to say, except when there is a pandemic or

00:21:54.080 except when there are lockdown regulations, there is a way to love and to do good. Even in those

00:21:59.560 circumstances, the church has gone through much harsher and harder circumstances than we are in

00:22:04.420 America right now. It's important to remember that. And God inspired this word, knowing all of those

00:22:10.980 things, not neglecting to meet together as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another in all the

00:22:17.280 more as you see the day drawing near. I would encourage pastors, look at the other gatherings that are

00:22:25.480 happening. Look at the mass protests, look at the riots, look at the looting, look at the people still

00:22:30.220 going to strip clubs, still going to casinos, still going to get abortions, and tell me that the church 0.94

00:22:35.540 doesn't need to open its doors to the world. The world seems a lot more passionate about meeting

00:22:41.000 together than some churches do right now. That should not be the case. Again, be as careful and

00:22:46.280 cautious as you want to. I do not think you are doing your church or your community any favors

00:22:51.920 whatsoever by keeping your doors closed when many, many parts of the secular world are, are insisting

00:23:00.860 on, on meeting together. And this goes on to say, encouraging one another in all the more as you

00:23:06.660 see the day drawing near. I saw a good tweet today and it was a quote by Charles H. Spurgeon. Let's see

00:23:15.240 if I can, if I can pull it up. I must not have. I thought that I had it on my profile, but I don't.

00:23:23.080 But, um, the, the quote was saying that life goes by moment by moment, second by second. It's like

00:23:31.700 sand in an hourglass and there's nothing that we can do to get it back here. Actually, I have it pulled

00:23:37.920 up. Let me, let me read it. Like sands from an hourglass, time passes. Life is wasted by driblets

00:23:42.820 and seasons of grace lost by little slumbers. Oh, to be wise, to catch the flying hour, to use the

00:23:48.940 moments on the wing. So life has not paused. We have not gotten any extension on our life because

00:23:55.980 of these lockdowns. Um, life is still going forward at the same pace that it was before. We have the

00:24:01.780 exact number of days that we did before the lockdown started. Uh, God says that in Psalm 139, that he

00:24:09.420 counts every single one of our days before any of them come to be. So before we are even born,

00:24:15.400 all of our days are numbered. Uh, what's happening right now doesn't pause our life. It doesn't add

00:24:21.640 a number or a certain number of days, uh, to the span that God has already preordained before we were

00:24:28.680 born. So we still are obligated right now to obey the Lord and make, uh, every use of our time.

00:24:36.400 It's so easy to say, okay, well, when the virus is over, when the quarantine is over, when the

00:24:41.320 lockdowns are lifted, first of all, I don't know if we're ever going back to normal. People don't

00:24:46.540 give up power easily. Um, this is a way to see, and I'm, I'm not, you know, saying that this whole

00:24:53.240 thing is a conspiracy, but I do think some people in power are seeing just how far, just, just how

00:24:59.240 much they can get away with, just how far they can go, just how much they can oppose the constitution,

00:25:04.860 because that is what's happening. They're opposing the constitution, which is supposed to protect us

00:25:09.360 from tyrants, but they know most people aren't going to push back. It takes too long to get it

00:25:13.220 to the courts. And so while the moment lasts, they can just kind of flout the constitution as much as

00:25:18.200 they want to, and they can act as dictators. We still have the obligation under that kind of tyranny, 0.91

00:25:24.900 under these lockdowns to obey the Lord. And one thing that God calls us to do,

00:25:29.540 no matter what unconditionally is to be hospitable. Um, first Peter four and nine says,

00:25:36.140 show hospitality to one another without grumbling. Romans 12, 13, contribute to the needs of the

00:25:41.200 saints and seek to show hospitality. Those are not the only verses that talk about hospitality.

00:25:46.920 Now that doesn't mean that you have to invite the whole neighborhood to your house and kiss them on

00:25:51.220 the lips. That's not what I'm arguing, but God calls us to hospitality. He calls us to generosity.

00:25:57.680 He calls us to meet together. He calls us to encourage one another and loving good works.

00:26:02.400 And it is our obligation, our responsibility to find ways to do that as creatively, as cautiously

00:26:08.780 as we possibly can. Even under, uh, the leadership of these tiny tyrants that are flouting the constitution,

00:26:16.280 we make every effort to obey their edicts. That's what Romans 13 calls us to do. We make every effort

00:26:22.720 to submit to authorities, but we still have to obey the Lord. And so we find ways to do that.

00:26:28.820 Remember, as we talked about on Monday, separation of church and state also means, um, it also means

00:26:34.560 that the church is supposed to be protected from the state. Most people who talk about separation of

00:26:38.900 church and state just want the state and really the entire public square to be protected from religion 0.99

00:26:44.140 or any religious talk or any spirituality whatsoever. Not realizing one, that secularism is a religion.

00:26:49.720 And number two, that the church is also supposed to be protected from the state in the separation

00:26:54.540 of church and state, uh, principle. And so seek to honor the Lord, seek to glorify God in all that you

00:27:02.280 do. Uh, that includes how you gather for Thanksgiving. That includes how you gather for church. That includes

00:27:08.340 how you show hospitality, how you show generosity, how you encourage one another. This is a hard time

00:27:14.560 for Americans. I'm not going to try to trivialize that mentally, emotionally, spiritually, physically,

00:27:19.500 this is a hard time for us. We haven't gone through something exactly like this at this exact

00:27:25.800 political and cultural moment. And Christians are called to step up. We're not called to hide,

00:27:31.180 as Jesus says, we're not called to, um, hide our, our light under a basket. And again,

00:27:36.560 our responsibility as Christians, our obligation to obedience is not put on pause because there's a

00:27:42.820 virus going around or because there are burdensome regulations. No, we need to step up all the

00:27:48.860 warrant. Make sure that we are ambassadors of Christ. We are the aroma of Christ. We are salt

00:27:54.380 and light. You're not going to add any flavor or any illumination if you're not salty. And if you're

00:28:01.080 not bright, uh, if you are like the rest of the world and all of your views and all of your actions

00:28:07.760 and all of your attitudes, if you are as dull as the secular world and everything that you think,

00:28:15.180 say and do, then you are not fulfilling your obligation of being salt and light for the Lord.

00:28:21.260 And now more than ever, more than ever, it is important that we do that. So again, decide what's

00:28:27.840 best for you and your family. The fact of the matter is, is that, uh, for example, if you look at

00:28:35.140 the, the school regulations that are, that are being implemented in places like New York, they had an

00:28:41.400 arbitrary positivity rate where they said, okay, this triggers a lockdown 3%. Silly. There's no

00:28:48.180 scientific data to back that up. They decide they're going to shut down schools. There are a

00:28:52.720 number of places that have decided that they are going to, uh, they're going to shut down their

00:28:59.200 schools, um, based not on science because there's a variety of sources that say, look, schools are not

00:29:07.980 the places that are the breeding ground for coronavirus. Um, the Dutch government conducted

00:29:13.500 a large study of 44,000 teachers after schools were reopened in May, much earlier than other

00:29:18.080 countries. They found those teachers had a cumulative infection rate of just 0.7%, much lower than the

00:29:24.640 total of 2% of the over 940,000 adults tested in the test lanes in the same period. And so people want

00:29:31.780 to tell you that it's to protect the teachers, uh, and it's to protect the children that schools are

00:29:38.120 remaining closed, but there's no scientific data to back that up, that that's necessary. The CDC,

00:29:42.860 the European CDC concluded that child to child transmission in schools is uncommon and not the

00:29:48.780 primary cause of COVID infection of children whose infection onset coincides with the period during which

00:29:53.860 they are attending school. A study carried out in over a hundred institutions in the UK has concluded

00:30:00.660 that there's very little evidence of virus transmission in schools. Icelandic researchers

00:30:04.980 sequenced all the, uh, all the genomes from, uh, samples of every positive case in the country and

00:30:10.240 failed to find a single instance of a child infecting parents. And so closing down schools also is not for

00:30:16.860 protection from the parents. School closure carried out in Japan did not show any mitigating effect on

00:30:21.600 the transmission of novel coronavirus infection. That is from the International Journal of Infectious

00:30:27.400 Diseases. A recent survey of over 57,000 daycare providers in the U S published in the journal of

00:30:33.460 American Academy of Pediatrics found no association between exposure to childcare and a diagnosis of

00:30:40.940 COVID-19. So this is the work of democratic politicians. This is wanting to, you know, just say

00:30:48.000 that they're doing something. This is the work of teachers unions, um, who want to flex their muscles.

00:30:54.860 They are suspending, um, holding hostage, really their, uh, taxpayer funded services in states where

00:31:02.940 there are teachers unions to be able to use it as leverage to get the other political non-educated

00:31:09.500 related demands that they have. That's how much teachers unions care about your kids. You should go 1.00

00:31:14.920 listen to last Friday's episode if you're interested in more on that. So these people that are making

00:31:21.160 decisions are not doing it based on science. The same thing with the, with a lot of the other

00:31:26.840 lockdown regulations. So much of it is not based on science. A lot of it is arbitrary. There's no

00:31:33.940 thought to small businesses. There's no thought to your mental health. There's no thought to your

00:31:37.760 emotional health. There's no thought to the constitution it seems. And so, as I say, obey everything

00:31:44.580 you can without sinning, have a positive and a joyful attitude, but be as hospitable as you can

00:31:52.600 be as much in fellowship safely as you can encourage one another. Don't neglect to do good works. Um,

00:32:01.080 do what is best for you and your family, knowing that you can be trusted far more than the government

00:32:05.860 can. That has always been and will continue to be, um, will continue to be my stance on, on all of

00:32:14.900 this. Take it seriously. It's not fake. Make your own decisions. Okay. I want to give a little bit of

00:32:33.180 an update on Georgia, just really quick. Um, so you guys have probably heard that you've probably

00:32:42.500 seen a little bit of all the craziness that's happening with the recounts and with the litigation

00:32:48.700 with president Trump trying to prove fraud. Now, a lot of the lawsuits have been thrown out. Rudy

00:32:56.760 Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, they're still positive about what's going to happen. They feel like they're on

00:33:00.620 their way to the Supreme court. They do feel that they have evidence of fraud in a variety of places

00:33:05.720 where dead people, um, were sent voting, voting registration cards. And they actually voted in

00:33:11.480 some cases where there were software glitches. And so they are going to keep fighting this.

00:33:17.620 Obviously president Trump, as you can probably tell from his Twitter, he would like to keep fighting it

00:33:21.780 as well. Uh, Sydney Powell is also an attorney that says that she has a lawsuit coming of biblical

00:33:27.840 proportions. Now, Sydney Powell was the, as the Trump lawyers made clear, doesn't actually work 0.99

00:33:32.880 for, um, for president Trump, but she was the lawyer for Michael Flynn. And she promises that

00:33:40.000 there's going to be, there's going to be a lot of evidence of voter fraud. And I think they believe

00:33:45.200 that it's going to be decisive in the way of, of president Trump. There's a lot of people right now,

00:33:50.940 uh, on the right who really think that Trump is going to win, um, that he is going to end up being

00:33:58.120 victorious in all of this. Um, it sure, anything can happen. 2020 has been crazy. 2021 could be

00:34:06.300 crazy too. It doesn't look like that's going to be the case though. There's a lot of people who said

00:34:11.460 that they prophesied that Trump is going to win and that that prophecy must come true. I saw a lot of

00:34:18.140 people typically in a particular section of Christianity saying that they got a vision from

00:34:27.040 the Lord and they know for sure they have a strong feeling that it's going to be a landslide. Well,

00:34:31.240 even if the, the cases are true, even if they're proven true, even if the fraud is proven true,

00:34:37.200 and then it's decisive, it's not a landslide. And it's always interesting how those prophecies

00:34:42.680 always are, uh, always are an indication of that person's feelings, like what they want to happen.

00:34:51.120 Um, like I haven't seen someone who is, who didn't vote for Trump or who didn't like Trump

00:34:56.520 prophesy that he was going to win. It's always someone who is diehard MAGA. Then they happen to

00:35:01.960 say that they prophesied that Trump was going to win. There's a difference between desires and prophecy.

00:35:07.980 And obviously I've talked before about cessationism versus continuationism and how I feel about that

00:35:14.740 based on scripture. Uh, but I would be very wary of political, uh, prophecies, especially when they

00:35:22.520 are given by someone who is partisan themselves. So there's a lot of disappointed people who refuse

00:35:29.380 to believe that the prophecies that they followed or that they feel that they had are not going to be

00:35:34.680 fulfilled. There's a lot of people who just, you know, that aren't in that camp who believe that

00:35:39.640 there is a fight to be fought, who really support president Trump and wants him to fight this to

00:35:44.000 the end. I am in the camp that says, sure, like fight this to the end. Let's uncover every single

00:35:48.820 instance of fraud, whether it's decisive or not. I care about the integrity of our elections.

00:35:52.740 I even said back in the day that sure, we should have an investigation into Russian collusion. I don't

00:35:57.560 want the Russians. I don't want the Russians infiltrating our elections. And apparently they did try to 0.96

00:36:02.440 infiltrate our elections, but there's no evidence whatsoever that it was decisive in any way

00:36:07.140 whatsoever. And there's no evidence whatsoever. The Trump campaign colluded with the Russians for

00:36:12.060 that. But I said, Hey, I want transparency. I want honesty. I want to know that the integrity of our

00:36:17.580 elections is secure. That's how I feel here too. My feeling is that it's still not going to be

00:36:22.880 decisive for president Trump. Even if we find out that there is fraud, even if Sid, uh, Sidney Powell says

00:36:29.060 really does show all of this evidence of widespread fraud. I don't think it's going to be decisive in

00:36:34.760 the way of Trump. Now that said, do people have a reason to be suspicious? Sure. I think people have

00:36:41.380 a reason to be suspicious. I mean, we've been hearing for the past four years, Democrats say

00:36:45.000 that they will do absolutely anything to get him out of power. And I think that there's also a reason

00:36:50.820 to kind of, um, to, to be a little bit smug about Democrats and liberal activists saying, you just

00:37:00.740 need to accept the results of the election. You're just a sore loser. When they didn't accept the results

00:37:05.640 of the 2016 election, still probably don't accept the results of the 2016 election. Nancy Pelosi was

00:37:11.380 saying in May of 2017, that the election was stolen. So Democrats and democratic media were arguing

00:37:19.380 that the 2016 election was illegitimate, that he wasn't a real president. There were city members

00:37:24.760 of Congress, Democrats saying that he was like Maxine Waters saying that he was an illegitimate

00:37:30.440 president, that we shouldn't call him president. The whole, there was this whole, not my president

00:37:34.540 movement that lasted for four years. And so spare me the sanctimonious diatribes on accepting the results

00:37:40.740 of the election. You people who still haven't accepted 2016 based on no fact whatsoever, except for

00:37:46.820 your feelings. Um, and so I don't really want to hear it from those people, but I am willing to say

00:37:51.960 as someone who did accept the results of the 2016 election, that we probably need to have some

00:37:58.000 realistic expectations about this election, that even if there is fraud, which I believe that there

00:38:03.720 very well could be fraud. I wouldn't put it past the Democrats who said that they would do anything

00:38:08.140 to make sure that Trump wasn't elected. The, the AG of Pennsylvania saying when all the votes

00:38:13.840 are counted, Trump will lose days before the election. I mean, yeah, all of that is sketchy.

00:38:18.800 All that is sketchy. I wouldn't put it past a lot of these people, especially in some of these,

00:38:24.000 um, in, in some of, uh, of these states, uh, and the people in power there, I wouldn't put it past them

00:38:31.420 to be up to some funny business. And I think that we should uncover all of that. We should investigate

00:38:35.980 all of that. I think that Trump should fight it until the end. Absolutely. But do I think it's going

00:38:41.980 to be decisive? I don't, I just don't. I think that Biden will be the president of the United States.

00:38:47.860 And I also think that Trump will concede. I think that he will transition peacefully. That process

00:38:53.200 has already started as a formality, at least. I think that he's going to transition peacefully

00:38:58.180 and that it will be, um, that it will be fine. He's not the fascist dictator that the left has

00:39:04.740 fantasized about for the past few years to make themselves feel like vigilantes for opposing him.

00:39:10.540 He's just a president that they don't like. Um, and just because you don't like a president,

00:39:16.520 it doesn't mean that he is going to refuse to leave the white house and that he is staging a coup.

00:39:21.800 That's the new, that's the new line. Um, but I am hearing some people in the Trump camp,

00:39:28.340 diehard Trump camp, because Sidney Powell has said, look, there's, there's voting fraud. There's

00:39:32.180 voting fraud that's happening, especially in Georgia. That's going to be my first target,

00:39:35.260 she says. So there are, there are people, Lynn Wood, who also works for the president,

00:39:39.620 who says, no, Georgians don't vote. You need to withhold your vote in Georgia. And, uh, because,

00:39:47.060 you know, the governor Kemp and the secretary of state, they're up to no good. They're colluding

00:39:51.540 with all of the fraudsters and the dominion voting systems. And so you need to withhold your vote.

00:39:56.900 And I've heard some people in Georgia conservative saying, oh, you know, why would we even vote if,

00:40:01.500 if it's rigged against us, you know, one way, you know, one really good way of making sure

00:40:06.880 the Democrats take control of the Senate is not voting and having that attitude. Sure. Maybe

00:40:11.960 there, maybe there is funny business. Maybe there are sketchy things going on, but one way to make

00:40:17.700 sure that you lose the Senate is to not vote. So for the love of everything, please Georgians go vote.

00:40:25.240 Like, have you seen Raphael Warnock and John Ossoff, the things that they stand for,

00:40:30.020 the legislation that the Senate wants to pass, like that is going to have a direct effect on

00:40:35.040 your life and your children's life for the worst for generations. And you are going to put what

00:40:39.620 some revenge against governor Kemp by, uh, withholding your vote. That is the most ridiculous and stupid

00:40:46.600 thing that I've ever heard in my life. I said on Twitter, I said that that's right up there that

00:40:52.740 that's withholding your vote as a Georgia conservative is among the worst ideas in human

00:40:59.680 history, right up there with communism and perms, two of the worst ideas in human history.

00:41:05.100 Um, I actually said bangs on Twitter, but some people got mad at me. And so I had to add a caveat

00:41:10.140 that some people can pull off things. I can't. And so I was just speaking out of bitterness,

00:41:14.480 but perms, I think we can universally agree. Bad idea right up there with communism and not voting

00:41:20.180 as a Republican in the Georgia election for the love people. Come on. So I don't know if there was

00:41:26.480 fraud in Georgia or there was some sketchy stuff that happened in Fulton County. And I think maybe

00:41:30.540 DeKalb County too, with some glitches, but all eyes are going to be on Georgia. It's going to be very

00:41:35.580 hard for them to get away with fraud, uh, in this one. And so please go out and vote, convince your

00:41:42.040 friends to vote, research the candidates, have lunch with your friends, have dinner with your

00:41:47.300 friends, gather with them, tell them, Hey, this is why you need to vote. These are the issues that matter.

00:41:52.700 Here's the threat the Democrats pose to our constitution and to your liberties and to your

00:41:57.440 life and to your children's life, to your children's school. And this is why you need

00:42:01.660 to vote for these Republican candidates. That's what I encourage you to do. Please don't become

00:42:06.120 apathetic. Please don't think that we have this in the bag. Please don't think that it's not

00:42:09.140 worth voting. I don't know what's going to come of these fraud, of this fraud litigation,

00:42:13.140 but this whole movement to not vote in Georgia. Wow. Like, are you a democratic operative? That's such a

00:42:20.440 silly, silly idea. So please, please vote. Please encourage your friends to vote in Georgia.

00:42:25.620 The Senate race really matters. And we'll be talking more about that in the month of December.

00:42:30.720 Um, okay. That's all I have time for. I, uh, hope that you enjoy your Thanksgiving. However you are

00:42:37.880 celebrating, if you are celebrating gathering with your family, or if you unfortunately have no

00:42:43.800 other option, but to sit at home, um, then I hope that you still enjoy that. I hope that you

00:42:50.780 at least are able to binge on some good food. I'm not really a turkey person. I'm more of a ham gal

00:42:56.160 myself. Love me some mashed potatoes. I will be making, um, I'm not gathering with a ton of people.

00:43:02.080 Okay. Just gathering with some people. And I will be making pumpkin pie and pecan pie. We'll be having

00:43:10.120 turkey, ham, and mashed potatoes. I think we'll have chocolate pie, probably green beans, hopefully

00:43:18.020 sweet potatoes, hopefully sweet potato casserole. Um, I don't know what else we'll be having. A lot of

00:43:24.840 carbs, a lot of carbs. Rolls definitely somewhere in there. Uh, I hope that you are planning to have

00:43:30.240 some good food at the very least, even if you can't gather with your whole family as usual.

00:43:35.060 Okay. A lot to be grateful for this year. Don't forget that a lot to be grateful for. If you are

00:43:40.580 alive and if you are in Christ, there is so much, so much to be grateful for forever and ever. Amen.

00:43:46.940 Okay. No episode, no new episode on Friday, but we will be back here on Monday

00:43:51.320 with a fascinating interview that I know that you will love. See you then.

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Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - November 25, 2020

Ep 331 ｜ CORRECTED Tiny Tyrants of Thanksgiving

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