Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 36 ｜ The Left Can't Not Be Crazy

00:00:00.000 I want you all to know that America today, America today, is on bended knee in prayer for the people whose lives were lost here, for the workers who work here, for the families who mourn.

00:00:18.320 This nation stands with the good people of New York City, and New Jersey, and Connecticut, as we mourn the loss of thousands of our citizens.

00:00:31.980 I can hear you.

00:00:39.620 I can hear you, the rest of the world hears you, and the people.

00:00:48.320 And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

00:00:55.620 Hey guys, what's up?

00:00:57.560 Welcome to Relatable.

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00:01:20.440 Okay, I first want to start with acknowledging that today is 9-11.

00:01:27.060 So on 9-11 in 2001, I was in fourth grade.

00:01:32.720 I was 10 years old, and I remember distinctly everything that happened that day.

00:01:40.720 I remember exactly what my teacher was wearing.

00:01:43.460 I remember that she was crying, and she handed out these enclosed letters and envelopes to all of us.

00:01:50.900 And I had no idea what was going on.

00:01:52.400 When you're 10 years old and you see your teacher crying, you just, you have no idea.

00:01:56.840 It's just weird.

00:01:58.000 You kind of feel helpless.

00:01:58.900 And I remember our parents came to pick us up early from school, and I remember sitting down in my kitchen

00:02:06.120 and my mom opening the envelope and her telling us that there had been plane crashes.

00:02:10.380 But I knew, even in that moment, I think I knew it was bigger than just a regular plane crash,

00:02:16.620 that there had to be something else for which we were, you know, taken out of school, and everyone was so upset.

00:02:24.040 But I remember her saying that we might have to leave Dallas, I guess, because Dallas was a big city,

00:02:29.760 and maybe they thought that it could be a target of another terrorist attack,

00:02:33.060 that we might have to leave and go to a smaller town.

00:02:35.320 And I really, I didn't understand.

00:02:38.480 I remember there being a moment a few weeks later when I was at church when I think one of my grandmother's friends said,

00:02:45.640 wow, your generation has seen a lot.

00:02:47.320 First, you saw the Bush-Gore election and the recount and all of that, and now you're seeing 9-11.

00:02:52.260 You guys have had a lot happen in your young years, and that's absolutely true.

00:02:56.560 I remember both of those nights so well.

00:02:58.720 And I just remember, even at the age of 10, the camaraderie and the bravery that surged after 9-11,

00:03:07.580 or I really should say the camaraderie and the unity that served after 9-11,

00:03:11.700 and the bravery that really existed, not just on 9-11 by all of the heroes that saved people's lives,

00:03:16.700 but the men and women who have sacrificed their lives since then to protect our freedoms.

00:03:22.920 I just could never, ever repay them or thank them enough.

00:03:28.440 And I can't imagine just the kind of fortitude you had to have on that day on 9-11 to run into a burning tower

00:03:37.180 to save people's life that you probably didn't even know.

00:03:41.180 I am extremely, extremely thankful for the God-given courage that people are given in those moments

00:03:49.980 when spirits and character is really tested.

00:03:54.760 There is no country—I'm about to cry as I'm saying all of this—

00:03:58.960 there is no country that even holds a candle to the bravery and to the selflessness,

00:04:05.500 to the generosity, to the fearlessness of America.

00:04:09.660 It doesn't even come close.

00:04:12.920 George Bush, I know that people have, you know, different opinions of him,

00:04:17.280 but the leadership that he exemplified in the days and months and years after 9-11,

00:04:23.760 it's exactly what we needed.

00:04:25.860 And I've said this before.

00:04:27.920 This is something that Krauthammer has pointed out and I think is just so true.

00:04:31.640 And he said that, you know, the fact that in every single moment, turning point in American history,

00:04:40.620 that God has provided us the man or woman that we needed is enough to make the staunchest atheist pause.

00:04:49.880 If you look back, when we needed an Abraham Lincoln, we got an Abraham Lincoln.

00:04:56.980 When we needed an FDR, we got an FDR. 0.54

00:04:59.840 When we needed a Martin Luther King, we got a Martin Luther King.

00:05:02.880 When we needed a Ronald Reagan, we got a Ronald Reagan.

00:05:05.980 And when we needed a George W. Bush, we got a George W. Bush.

00:05:09.620 I don't know any other country's history that is so reflective of God's providence as ours,

00:05:18.540 except for, of course, Israel.

00:05:21.460 And I just think back to that day 17 years ago and how far we've gotten from that feeling of pride

00:05:31.440 in not just our leadership, but our country and who we are as Americans.

00:05:36.580 If you look at the numbers, even after 9-11, for the couple of years after 9-11,

00:05:43.540 I think it was 2003, that patriotism really soared, that more people than ever said,

00:05:48.960 I am extremely proud to be an American and how much those numbers have fallen since then.

00:05:54.480 And maybe that can't be blamed on any particular political party.

00:05:59.700 Maybe it's a whole host of things.

00:06:01.260 Maybe it's the fact that millennials are old and we have a voice 1.00

00:06:04.260 and we tend to have very stupid opinions about patriotism and politics. 0.99

00:06:08.520 I don't know what it is. 0.99

00:06:09.940 But I don't want another 9-11 to happen for us to come together and to remember,

00:06:16.280 hey, before we're Republicans and Democrats, before we are conservatives and liberals,

00:06:22.200 we're Americans.

00:06:24.220 I don't know if it's possible for us to go back there.

00:06:27.940 I just don't.

00:06:29.440 I don't know if we're too far fallen.

00:06:31.780 But at the same time, you look throughout our history and you see that when we thought

00:06:41.640 that it was impossible for us to come together, when we thought it was impossible to overcome odds,

00:06:46.700 we did.

00:06:47.620 That's the American spirit.

00:06:49.040 And I just hope and pray that that's not lost.

00:06:51.380 I hope and pray that that's not dead yet, that we still have that.

00:06:55.020 Um, so God bless anyone who is listening, who has served our country or families of people

00:07:02.240 who have served our country.

00:07:03.480 God bless you if you knew anyone, um, that, that died, uh, that day on, on 9-11.

00:07:11.020 Um, and gosh, God bless America.

00:07:13.660 I just, I pray that all hope is, is not lost and may we never, ever forget that day and,

00:07:21.920 uh, the feelings that we had that day.

00:07:23.980 Okay, now to transition to, uh, the rest of this podcast is going to be very, uh, different

00:07:31.720 because I was gone last week and a lot of you have been asking me my opinions on a whole

00:07:36.680 host of things.

00:07:37.480 So much happened last week.

00:07:39.700 So I want to give my take on all of it.

00:07:42.560 Um, I want to talk about the statement on social justice.

00:07:45.480 I want to talk about, uh, the Kavanaugh hearing and just the insanity of, of the, the people

00:07:52.080 on the left, the women's March, Cory Booker, Kamala Harris.

00:07:55.580 I want to talk about Obama's rallies.

00:07:57.720 I want to talk about Nike and Kaepernick.

00:08:00.580 I want to talk about this, uh, really terrible murder.

00:08:03.280 I don't know if you guys have heard about this that happened in Dallas and how the left

00:08:07.180 leveraged it to push this false race narrative.

00:08:11.540 Uh, I don't know how much we're actually going to be able to get to, uh, in this 30 minutes,

00:08:16.220 but I'm going to try.

00:08:17.040 Um, so first kind of briefly, uh, the statement on social justice in the gospel was a project

00:08:24.080 of John MacArthur, whom we've talked about on this podcast before and other Christian

00:08:28.780 leaders, uh, that really, in my opinion, added a lot of clarity to, uh, the biblical stance

00:08:34.020 on social justice.

00:08:35.000 You can just go to statement on social justice.com to read that.

00:08:41.240 Um, I would go ahead and read all of it, uh, pray about it, think about it, make sure

00:08:46.780 that it lines up with scripture.

00:08:48.460 I think that you will find that it does.

00:08:51.100 Uh, so here's the part of the statement in particular that I thought was very good and

00:08:56.920 very clarifying.

00:08:57.720 So it says under, uh, under the category of justice, it says we affirm that since God

00:09:03.820 is holy, righteous, and just, that he requires those who bear his image to live justly in

00:09:09.260 the world.

00:09:09.880 This includes showing appropriate, appropriate respect to every person and giving to each one

00:09:15.760 what he or she is do.

00:09:16.940 We affirm that societies must establish laws to correct injustices that have been imposed

00:09:23.340 through cultural prejudice.

00:09:25.240 We deny that true justice can be culturally defined or that standards of justice that

00:09:30.840 are merely socially constructed can be imposed with the same authority as those that are derived

00:09:36.620 from scripture.

00:09:37.680 We further, we further deny that Christians can live justly in the world under any principles 1.00

00:09:43.780 other than the biblical standard of righteousness, relativism, socially constructed standards

00:09:49.600 of truth or morality, and notions of virtue and vice that are constantly in flux cannot result

00:09:55.700 in authentic justice.

00:09:57.700 So this is basically saying what we have said many times on this podcast, that social justice

00:10:05.120 as defined today by the modern left, um, and the progressive political movement is not real,

00:10:12.020 true justice.

00:10:13.400 It demeans one group by lifting up another group based on some arbitrary standard of oppression.

00:10:20.400 That is not biblical.

00:10:21.780 And unfortunately, too many people are buying into this, but we don't need secular movements 0.94

00:10:27.200 to tell us what the Bible has been telling us for thousands of years.

00:10:31.640 We don't need society to inform our biblical views.

00:10:34.400 It should be the other way around. 0.96

00:10:36.260 And it's the same thing when it comes to feminism. 1.00

00:10:38.660 The Bible already tells me that I am of equal worth and dignity to a man that has been true

00:10:44.140 since the Garden of Eden, uh, that I have, I was made in God's image in the same way that

00:10:50.300 a man was.

00:10:51.080 I might have different roles, but I have the same value.

00:10:54.980 I don't need feminism to tell me that I don't need to redeem feminism. 1.00

00:10:58.540 I don't need to reclaim feminism. 0.94

00:11:00.520 All I need is to look to scripture to tell me who I am.

00:11:03.760 It already has a message of equality of worth.

00:11:06.800 That's all I need.

00:11:08.180 Um, there's been a lot of pushback on this statement.

00:11:11.240 Uh, there are a bunch of people in the church who, uh, think that, no, we need to be talking

00:11:16.180 about social justice.

00:11:17.320 We need secular movements to inform what we think about other people.

00:11:21.880 Uh, they think that we need to be talking about racial reconciliation and racial issues

00:11:26.300 more than we need to talk about anything else, um, that we, uh, that Jesus came to, uh, reconcile

00:11:33.560 the races to each other.

00:11:35.300 Well, that's simply not true.

00:11:37.000 As we've said many times on this podcast before, Jesus came to reconcile all races to himself,

00:11:42.840 that now we who are in Christ are one in Christ.

00:11:46.020 That there is neither Jew nor Greek nor slave nor free nor male nor female. 0.92

00:11:50.640 And what we don't need is a movement that all of a sudden defines people by their skin

00:11:55.800 color and defines people by their unique oppression.

00:11:58.960 I'm not saying that we can't talk about racism.

00:12:02.100 We absolutely should.

00:12:03.220 Racism is a sin.

00:12:04.540 We should talk about real instances of discrimination.

00:12:07.100 We should talk about any kind of bigotry that really exists, whether it is individual

00:12:12.080 or systemic.

00:12:13.480 But what we should not do is to buy into this, uh, message of intersectionality that says

00:12:20.540 your worth, your identity is defined by the oppression of your racial or your socioeconomic

00:12:27.840 group.

00:12:29.260 Um, unfortunately that idea is pervasive.

00:12:32.960 This idea of racial reconciliation, which is really racial reparations, um, and intersectionality

00:12:40.020 is infiltrating the church.

00:12:42.000 And a lot of people are buying into it and it is just not biblical.

00:12:45.860 So I am very thankful for this statement on social justice.

00:12:49.500 I signed it.

00:12:50.760 I agree with it.

00:12:52.180 Um, it's really interesting.

00:12:53.600 The pushback that I've seen on it, uh, from other people in the church, it doesn't actually

00:12:59.060 cite the Bible.

00:13:00.220 Uh, it cites, you know, references to popular cultural trends and norms.

00:13:05.860 Um, but the people who agree with it are citing the Bible.

00:13:08.800 So it's funny how that works.

00:13:10.540 Uh, speaking of race, a lot of you have been messaging me to hear my take on Colin Kaepernick.

00:13:17.500 I did talk about it on Twitter.

00:13:19.220 You guys can probably guess what I think.

00:13:20.900 Uh, for those of you who don't know, if you've been living under a giant boulder or something,

00:13:25.160 Colin Kaepernick is the guy who started the whole kneeling phenomenon in the NFL.

00:13:29.220 Uh, this is something that apparently, apparently, according to some people in the media that white

00:13:36.460 people are not allowed to talk about.

00:13:39.120 Um, and a lot of white people, I think, feel like that.

00:13:41.760 And that just shows you how effective the left has been in promoting this, uh, oppression

00:13:47.920 point system that allocates credibility points to people based on, uh, their skin color, their

00:13:53.160 gender, their socioeconomic status, their religion, their sexual orientation.

00:13:56.860 Um, so I just, so you know, I only have one credibility point according to these people

00:14:02.120 because I am a woman.

00:14:03.520 So there's my point, but I'm a Christian and I'm white and, oh, dang it.

00:14:07.680 I'm a Republican.

00:14:08.400 I'm from Texas.

00:14:09.240 So that just, you know, that negates all credibility that I have.

00:14:13.000 So thank you to you guys for listening to my very irrelevant opinion.

00:14:16.780 But, um, nevertheless, I want to tell you what I think about this.

00:14:21.220 Um, my husband tells me that Colin Kaepernick was mediocre at, at football.

00:14:26.440 I don't follow football, so I don't know.

00:14:28.020 I'm just believing that.

00:14:29.340 Um, so the fact that he got rejected by all these football teams, isn't all that surprising.

00:14:33.260 Uh, of course there was probably a PR reasoning to this.

00:14:37.460 I don't think any team wants that kind of a distraction or a liability.

00:14:41.720 Apparently also he was offered backup positions on football teams and he turned those down.

00:14:47.200 And do you know why he probably turned those down?

00:14:50.580 Because he's probably making a lot of money being the left's newest vigilante.

00:14:55.940 Um, he is now the face of this Nike campaign and on it, it says, believe in something, even

00:15:01.760 if it means sacrificing everything.

00:15:03.680 Uh, of course, when this was announced, Twitter absolutely went nuts.

00:15:07.620 Uh, conservatives are upset and there are a few reasons for that. 1.00

00:15:11.720 Uh, first reason is because this ad is stupid. 1.00

00:15:14.580 Okay. 1.00

00:15:14.920 It's just stupid. 1.00

00:15:16.140 It's illogical, uh, believing in something, even if it means sacrificing everything. 1.00

00:15:20.680 First of all, believing in something isn't virtuous.

00:15:24.740 Uh, so if I believe in leprechauns and I sacrifice my entire life, my entire savings, everything

00:15:31.200 to go chase after leprechauns in Ireland, is that virtuous?

00:15:35.420 Is that moral?

00:15:36.640 Is that something I should be applauded for? 0.98

00:15:38.380 No, that makes me a lunatic.

00:15:39.960 That's actually, uh, not a good thing at all.

00:15:43.200 Also sacrificing everything.

00:15:45.680 What did Kaepernick sacrifice?

00:15:47.760 He's still famous.

00:15:49.140 He's still making money, probably more than he would be if he was still playing.

00:15:53.000 He is on a Nike ad.

00:15:55.720 Uh, so what did he really sacrifice?

00:15:57.340 A career as a mediocre quarterback?

00:15:59.000 Okay.

00:15:59.340 Um, the second reason that we don't like this is because this is a slap in the face of all

00:16:06.140 of the servicemen and women, whether they're in the police force or in the military, who

00:16:09.620 actually do sacrifice everything.

00:16:12.100 Um, let us not forget that Kaepernick is not just the guy who kneeled.

00:16:15.700 Uh, he, or is it knelt, knelt, knelt?

00:16:18.980 I think it's knelt.

00:16:19.840 I think it's has knelt, but knelt.

00:16:22.440 Okay.

00:16:22.920 Anyway, y'all can correct me on that if you want to. 0.80

00:16:25.220 Uh, but this is also the guy who wore, uh, who wore socks depicting cops as pigs.

00:16:32.440 So when people say, oh, this is not anti-police, this is just anti-police brutality.

00:16:38.340 Well, why don't you tell that to Colin Kaepernick?

00:16:40.480 Clearly he has deep seated antipathy towards all of cops or else I don't think that you 0.97

00:16:46.600 would be wearing socks depicting them as pigs.

00:16:49.740 And also we take issue with the protest, not because he doesn't have a first amendment

00:16:54.880 right to protest on his own time, but because why would you choose to one protest on time

00:17:01.140 that is not your own?

00:17:01.940 You're an employee of the NFL and also protest during the national Anthem.

00:17:06.200 Um, there have been thousands of men and women who have fought and bled and died for your

00:17:12.360 right, Colin Kaepernick to run up and down a field and get paid millions of dollars to

00:17:19.580 do it.

00:17:20.360 Um, now, of course, like I said, I, I believe in his first amendment right to protest whether

00:17:27.380 or not I agree with that protest.

00:17:29.900 Um, but he should be doing so on his own time.

00:17:33.100 The NFL, uh, has a right to create policies that prevent their players from protesting.

00:17:39.860 I'm sorry if you don't like that, but you're an employee, you follow company, you follow

00:17:44.080 company rules.

00:17:44.800 That's true of any company.

00:17:46.340 Um, now let's talk about some of the reactions.

00:17:49.680 Uh, a lot of people on the right said they were going to boycott Nike and there are a lot

00:17:55.480 of people that are against boycotts.

00:17:57.540 I don't really participate in boycotts.

00:18:01.140 I'm not against them though.

00:18:03.580 I'm not, I'm not against boycotts.

00:18:05.260 I mean, I think it's a very good free market way to express your disappointment in a company.

00:18:10.380 Um, now there were a lot of people posting on social media, uh, about burning all of

00:18:18.400 their Nike gear and about, uh, about like cutting the Nike emblem off of their clothes.

00:18:25.020 Like, Ooh, that's going to show Nike.

00:18:27.260 Well, guess what happened?

00:18:28.340 So the next day Nike stock was down and all of these conservative outlets were like, Oh,

00:18:32.860 look, Nike stock is down.

00:18:34.300 That's what happens when you use someone like Kaepernick on your ad.

00:18:39.360 Uh, but now it's showing that Nike sales are up, uh, that they are drastically up.

00:18:46.040 So all the conservatives that tried to make that point right after it happened, didn't

00:18:49.620 really have a case to make because Nike actually succeeded.

00:18:52.980 What they wanted was to get all of these woke people to start buying their clothes again.

00:18:58.460 All of the people who were very mad at one point that Nike was using children in sweatshops

00:19:04.040 to make their gear.

00:19:05.000 They wanted to win those people back.

00:19:06.520 They knew it was a good ad campaign.

00:19:08.640 And so that's why they used an anti-cop protester to promote their brand.

00:19:13.640 Now, some of you are saying, Ali, what about police brutality though?

00:19:19.600 Shouldn't he use employee or his employer's time to protest something this awful?

00:19:26.540 What's wrong with that?

00:19:27.680 And look, police brutality is, it's a, it's a terrible thing.

00:19:32.080 People that abuse their power in order to hurt people that are more vulnerable, no matter

00:19:36.740 what their skin color is, uh, is awful. 1.00

00:19:39.420 Any instance, even just one isolated instance of police brutality in which, you know, a policeman

00:19:45.560 or police woman abused someone that wasn't doing anything wrong or, you know, unnecessarily

00:19:51.180 used force to, uh, you know, subdue a person.

00:19:54.920 I think that's wrong no matter what.

00:19:56.080 But this idea that is propagated by people on the left, that there is systemic racism

00:20:01.820 within our police force is just wrong.

00:20:04.560 Like we never hear about the many white and Hispanic people that are abused by the police. 0.99

00:20:12.440 Um, and I think it's just a ridiculous, it's a ridiculous narrative. 0.98

00:20:16.420 Now, like I said, any instance of racism, any instance of wrong abuse is bad. 0.71

00:20:21.200 And we should, uh, bring that to light.

00:20:23.200 But this idea that cops are, uh, specifically targeting black men more than people of other

00:20:29.760 races is it's just not backed up by statistics.

00:20:33.160 And I think it's sad when we throw all cops under the bus, the majority of which are, uh,

00:20:39.020 good, hardworking people that sacrifice everything to protect our communities.

00:20:43.600 I don't know why this guy would be hailed as a hero when he really hasn't sacrificed anything

00:20:49.060 at all.

00:20:49.460 So that's what I think about that.

00:20:51.520 Um, now that said, that said, there was a very, a very sad, horrible, weird, unfortunate

00:21:00.200 story, um, out of Dallas last week where an off-duty cop, a woman, uh, came into an apartment

00:21:07.080 that she says she thought was hers. 0.83

00:21:10.540 And she shot and killed the man in the apartment who happened to be black.

00:21:15.600 Uh, we still don't know a ton of details on how this could have possibly happened.

00:21:20.260 Uh, she apparently parked in the wrong parking garage. 1.00

00:21:23.160 She didn't notice the indicators, uh, that, uh, Hey, this isn't the right building.

00:21:28.460 Um, she, she went into the door that she, that she thought was hers.

00:21:33.160 It was unlocked. 0.88

00:21:33.920 She saw a man and what she thought was her apartment and she shot him and killed him.

00:21:37.440 Uh, there's just a lot of, of questions about that.

00:21:40.860 And there's a lot that we don't know.

00:21:42.320 Was she under the influence?

00:21:44.060 In my opinion, she had to have been inebriated in some way to not catch on at any point that,

00:21:50.500 Hey, this is not your apartment and I shouldn't be taking my gun out.

00:21:53.480 Uh, maybe she was really distracted.

00:21:55.320 Maybe she was on the phone.

00:21:56.260 I don't know.

00:21:57.440 She was eventually charged for manslaughter.

00:21:59.880 And, uh, the victim, his name is, I think it's pronounced Botham or maybe it's Botham Jean.

00:22:05.880 Um, he, uh, you know, his family and friends are understandably devastated.

00:22:11.600 His funeral was, was last week.

00:22:13.960 Um, this guy worked at PWC in Dallas and we actually have some mutual friends.

00:22:19.100 He, from every account, he was successful, ambitious, smart, uh, this friendly person,

00:22:24.940 uh, apparently, and he had his whole life ahead of him, uh, ahead of him.

00:22:29.920 And it really is tragic.

00:22:31.920 Um, he wasn't in the wrong place.

00:22:33.360 He wasn't, you know, doing something wrong.

00:22:36.260 He was probably about to go to bed.

00:22:37.980 He probably was really caught off guard.

00:22:40.220 Uh, it's completely awful.

00:22:42.380 And this police officer should be punished to the fullest extent of the law.

00:22:45.720 I, I don't care that it was an accident.

00:22:47.580 It wasn't premeditated murder, obviously, but it was manslaughter and it was completely her fault.

00:22:53.140 And, you know, it's right that she was charged.

00:22:55.820 Um, but sadly, this quickly turned into this political debacle with people saying on social media 0.96

00:23:02.840 that this was race fueled, uh, it was, you know, uh, a white cop killing a black man. 0.73

00:23:08.120 But the reality is we have no idea. 0.66

00:23:11.000 We have no idea if this had anything to do with race whatsoever.

00:23:14.440 In fact, there's no evidence for that.

00:23:17.180 Uh, we have no idea if this had to do with any kind of bigotry or discrimination.

00:23:23.140 And in fact, it probably didn't because it wasn't premeditated in any way.

00:23:27.160 They weren't in some kind of conflict.

00:23:29.320 Um, this isn't really a crime that perpetuates that kind of all cops are racist narrative.

00:23:35.280 There's no proof to it.

00:23:36.500 It is a tragic, terrible event that occurred between two people who happened to be just

00:23:42.680 happened to be of different races.

00:23:44.720 Um, but unfortunately that was not enough for some people on the left.

00:23:48.800 Uh, this random guy, as far as I could tell on Facebook, posted a picture that he took

00:23:54.540 from the victim's Facebook page where he was with three different girls.

00:23:58.020 All of them were white. 0.82

00:23:59.120 Uh, well, the guy shared the picture and claimed that one of the girls in the picture,

00:24:02.920 the girl on G on jeans, right.

00:24:04.960 Uh, was the cop who killed him.

00:24:07.100 Um, they, he wanted to make the claim that they knew each other.

00:24:10.100 And so it couldn't have been an accident.

00:24:11.920 Well, it turns out that that was not true.

00:24:14.520 The girl in the picture was a good friend of jeans, uh, but she wasn't a cop and this 1.00

00:24:19.840 guy completely lied.

00:24:21.460 Well, Facebook being the cesspool that it is, um, it went viral.

00:24:27.180 It was shared all across different social media channels.

00:24:29.860 The poor girl in the picture couldn't even go to her friend's funeral because people were 0.92

00:24:34.780 sending her death threats and she was scared.

00:24:37.180 That is so sad.

00:24:39.220 People will literally do anything to perpetuate their narrative.

00:24:43.420 Even if it means ruining the lives of innocent people, um, it's just awful.

00:24:48.180 And, and they did nothing to help the situation whatsoever.

00:24:52.260 That's quite literally, quite literally insane.

00:24:55.760 And I'm just praying for his family and his friends.

00:24:57.940 It's such an awful, awful situation.

00:25:00.360 And there's really nothing to politicize about it.

00:25:03.380 Uh, but speaking of insanity and politicizing things that aren't really that political, um,

00:25:10.560 Kavanaugh is hearing, I'm sure you guys have been following it.

00:25:13.820 Uh, it started last week and, uh, presidential hopefuls, Corey Booker and Kamala Harris, uh,

00:25:20.160 democratic senators had quite the performances.

00:25:22.820 Um, at this point, you've probably, uh, listened to a lot of the craziness that was said by them, 0.74

00:25:28.760 but basically they tried to trap Kavanaugh and all of these ridiculous lies and tried to portray him 0.97

00:25:33.500 as a right-wing extremist who's a racist and doesn't care about women's rights. 0.95

00:25:37.740 Uh, Corey Booker tried to convince everyone on every mainstream news outlet, uh, outlet that he

00:25:44.000 violated the rules by uncovering some confidential documents that a weren't actually confidential

00:25:49.380 and B showed absolutely nothing of consequence.

00:25:52.600 Um, it's all political posturing. 1.00

00:25:54.940 It's all idiotic. 1.00

00:25:56.280 Uh, people were dressed up in hands, handmaid's tail outfits. 1.00

00:26:00.800 I guarantee you that most of those protesters don't even know who Brett Kavanaugh is.

00:26:05.340 Um, but it doesn't matter because here are, here are, here are the kinds of emails that,

00:26:12.320 uh, people are getting from organizations from like, uh, like the women's March.

00:26:17.460 I think I signed up for them a long time ago just to see the insanity that they're peddling.

00:26:21.340 Uh, so here's what they said in their email about the Kavanaugh hearing.

00:26:26.180 Our future will look like rights being taken away from women and all people of color, 1.00

00:26:31.000 from people with disabilities, from workers, from LGBTQ and gender non-conforming folks.

00:26:38.140 It will look like crumbling infrastructure of a once forward-looking country.

00:26:42.340 Oh my gosh.

00:26:43.540 It will look like contaminated water served to children. 0.99

00:26:46.680 This is ridiculous. 0.99

00:26:47.780 It will look like women dying in back alley abortions. 1.00

00:26:50.820 It will look like a wall separating us from our closest neighbors and families.

00:26:54.840 It will look like regular people working and earning less while the rich get richer.

00:27:00.480 That future doesn't have to be the one we live in.

00:27:03.760 To avoid it, we have to act.

00:27:06.040 We have to continue to build power in our communities and make the politicians who allowed us to get

00:27:11.380 to this place feel the power of our votes.

00:27:13.400 Let Congress know that those who are complicit, oh, their favorite word, complicit in Trump's

00:27:19.240 white supremacist agenda will be voted out.

00:27:22.460 That is real.

00:27:23.660 That is, what?

00:27:25.180 What?

00:27:26.220 What does Brett Kavanaugh have to do with any of those things?

00:27:29.480 There is no, there is no evidence, no evidence to any of that whatsoever, but they say it like

00:27:35.440 it is the gospel truth.

00:27:37.020 There is no reason for anyone to resist Kavanaugh, except maybe there is some contention with

00:27:43.240 his views on the Fourth Amendment, which is really just held by a libertarian.

00:27:46.600 So I'm not really sure the Women's March is concerned about that.

00:27:50.000 I'm sorry. 1.00

00:27:50.720 They're just idiots, idiots. 1.00

00:27:52.900 Even if, even if this is their, you know, biggest talking point that he's going to overturn 1.00

00:27:58.600 Roe v.

00:27:59.200 Wade, even if he did, and I pray to God he does, that doesn't make abortion illegal, you 1.00

00:28:05.080 raving idiots. 1.00

00:28:06.500 It just means that it's going to go to the states. 1.00

00:28:09.680 So the states get to decide whether or not they're going to ban abortion or regulate it,

00:28:13.880 whatever it is.

00:28:15.160 So it's just a lie.

00:28:16.460 It's just a lie.

00:28:17.800 It's so sad. 1.00

00:28:19.220 Um, speaking of absolute, absolute stupidity and, uh, completely vacuous people, let's talk 1.00

00:28:29.940 about Obama and his ridiculous rallies. 1.00

00:28:32.220 Uh, here's a clip of Obama explaining where Trump came from. 0.87

00:28:36.840 It did not start with Donald Trump.

00:28:40.040 He is a symptom, not the cause.

00:28:49.220 He's just capitalizing on resentments that politicians have been fanning for years.

00:29:00.520 A fear and anger that's rooted in our past, but it's also born out of the enormous upheavals

00:29:08.380 that have taken place in your brief lifetimes.

00:29:11.900 Um, as other conservatives have pointed out over the past week, uh, this is actually how

00:29:19.960 we got Trump, not what he pointed out, but his lecturing in general, uh, not the racism

00:29:26.120 that he talks about, not the, not the resentment that he talks about, not the paranoia, not people

00:29:31.820 on the left, uh, or not people on the left, you know, standing up for bigotry or whatever.

00:29:37.140 It is people like this who are lecturing us about, uh, not being good enough people to

00:29:43.320 be Democrats.

00:29:44.080 Basically, um, people who make this claim, there are a lot of people on the left who do, who

00:29:48.900 claim that it's white fragility that, you know, is supporting Trump.

00:29:52.680 They really don't acknowledge the real and rapid pace at which the moral and sexual and

00:29:58.820 political revolution, uh, put on by progressives has moved forward in the past 20 years.

00:30:04.760 Um, they don't want to talk about, uh, how much they love to bully conservatives that if

00:30:12.140 you don't hop on the progressive express, they are going to run you over.

00:30:17.160 And then if we're mad about that, they say, well, what's the problem?

00:30:21.820 Why, why don't you like our, why don't you like our tactics?

00:30:24.900 We just ran you over with the train.

00:30:26.740 It's not that big of a deal.

00:30:28.380 We're so tolerant.

00:30:29.540 We're so loving.

00:30:30.260 We're so kind.

00:30:31.340 Why don't you get on the train with us? 1.00

00:30:32.660 You evil bigots. 1.00

00:30:33.600 And then they wonder why we don't like them and why people would ever support a crazy 1.00

00:30:38.520 candidate like Donald Trump. 0.99

00:30:40.100 You are why you are why, you know, it's really hard in my opinion, to out crazy Donald Trump 0.72

00:30:46.440 to out, you know, to out indecency him, if that makes any sense, but the left accomplishes 0.95

00:30:53.880 it on a daily basis to out nasty Donald Trump.

00:30:57.940 That's really difficult, but they do it really well.

00:31:00.360 So if they want to know how we got Donald Trump, they shouldn't be looking to white America

00:31:05.100 or even the middle class.

00:31:06.280 They should be looking to themselves because the fact of the matter is, I think a lot of

00:31:10.440 Republicans, honestly, I mean, we know from statistics that a lot of Republicans are even

00:31:14.320 going to the left on social issues.

00:31:15.920 They might jump their Republican ship and go over to the Democratic side if Democrats 0.98

00:31:20.980 weren't so insane.

00:31:24.400 All Democrats have to do all they have to do to take over the country for the next 50 years 0.66

00:31:30.060 is not be crazy.

00:31:32.900 And they cannot do it.

00:31:34.660 They cannot not be crazy. 0.67

00:31:36.580 So I guess I guess we should be happy about that. 0.99

00:31:40.860 I hope that they continue to be crazy. 0.97

00:31:42.480 I I love their craziness. 0.94

00:31:44.440 I hope that Obama continues to have lots and lots of rallies because it's clearly helping

00:31:49.540 the Republican Party.

00:31:50.560 He's just never going to be able to compete anyway with Donald Trump and Donald Trump's

00:31:55.020 ability to engage people in a rally.

00:31:57.560 So more power to him.

00:32:00.460 Now, for some of the questions that you guys asked me, the first question is, what advice

00:32:06.220 would you give someone who is thinking about converting to the Christian faith?

00:32:10.360 Well, I don't know if this is for you or your friend, but either way, I think it's really

00:32:15.740 exciting.

00:32:18.080 Obviously, eternal salvation is at stake.

00:32:22.060 And so I would highly recommend converting to Christianity. 0.90

00:32:26.240 And what I what I would do is obviously I would pray.

00:32:30.460 And the way that you do that is found in Scripture.

00:32:33.500 I would start in the book of John and I would read through the New Testament, learn how to

00:32:40.680 pray, learn how to study the scriptures.

00:32:42.880 I would seek out someone who is a Christian themselves, who goes to a church in your area.

00:32:49.380 I would look for a godly community and just be really open and honest and say, this is where

00:32:53.360 I'm coming from.

00:32:54.400 And I just want to learn more about what it means to follow Christ and to to be a Christian.

00:32:59.800 Um, they are going to see that as an enormous privilege.

00:33:03.600 And if they are truly following Christ, they're not going to judge you for what you know, what

00:33:07.100 you don't know.

00:33:07.880 They're not going to judge you for your past, any mistakes that you've made, how imperfect

00:33:11.700 you might think that you are.

00:33:13.300 What they're going to tell you is to lay all of those things at the foot of the cross and

00:33:16.380 that Jesus accepts you exactly how you are.

00:33:19.020 And they're going to guide you, hopefully, into really how to read the scripture, how to study

00:33:23.400 scripture, how to, um, ask hard questions and to seek, to seek his wisdom in those questions.

00:33:31.000 Don't be afraid, uh, to be skeptical.

00:33:33.140 Don't be afraid to have doubts.

00:33:34.660 Don't be afraid to ask the difficult things.

00:33:37.380 There's absolutely nothing that scripture isn't going to be able to answer for you.

00:33:41.740 And so, um, I would pray too, and be honest with yourself and be honest with God about,

00:33:48.000 uh, your concerns, your questions, your doubts, your skepticism, um, what you desire.

00:33:53.480 But if you have any, you know, more specific questions about theology or salvation or any

00:33:58.840 of those things, you can always email me if you want.

00:34:01.880 It's Allie at the conservative millennial blog.com.

00:34:03.960 I get emails a lot too, about picking particular, uh, churches in your area.

00:34:09.120 And I like to help that.

00:34:11.540 Obviously I don't know every church in your area, depending on where you live, but, um,

00:34:15.780 I'm happy to do some research on your behalf.

00:34:17.880 So feel free to email me if you have any more specific questions about that.

00:34:22.740 Um, next question.

00:34:26.920 Um, did your husband have a rebellious phase like you did?

00:34:30.080 If not, how did that conversation with him go?

00:34:33.120 Were you anxious or did you know he'd accept your history regardless?

00:34:36.900 Uh, I think that's a great question.

00:34:38.160 Now my husband did, I don't know if I want to tell like his entire backstory because I

00:34:43.220 think maybe he should probably tell it, but he did.

00:34:46.040 He went through an even more rebellious age than I did when he was in college.

00:34:49.500 And that's actually when he became a Christian and, um, and he told me that before I told

00:34:56.500 him anything.

00:34:57.140 So maybe that made it a little bit easier for me at that point.

00:35:00.240 It was really before we even started dating.

00:35:02.200 I remember we went to Chick-fil-A and he was nervous and he sat down and was like, okay,

00:35:05.640 I want to tell you X, Y, Z happened when I was in college and I don't know, something

00:35:11.040 very calming and peaceful kind of came over me.

00:35:15.340 And I just didn't have, I never felt any like, wow, I don't, I think differently of him or

00:35:20.540 I don't trust him anymore.

00:35:21.940 I'm not, I'm not really sure about this.

00:35:24.080 I didn't feel that at all.

00:35:25.040 I just kind of felt like, you know, the past is the past, especially since that was before

00:35:29.260 he actually knew Christ.

00:35:30.580 He's different now.

00:35:31.900 Sure.

00:35:32.120 Is he, you know, does he sin?

00:35:34.420 Is he imperfect?

00:35:35.200 Yes.

00:35:35.600 But, um, I just felt like, you know, it's okay.

00:35:39.320 And I was very honest about my own past.

00:35:42.020 And I just think that, you know, when you know, you know, and I, I don't want to just

00:35:48.060 say, oh, you should only rely on your emotions when it comes to choosing your spouses.

00:35:52.880 Not at all.

00:35:53.680 You should choose someone who is seeking after Christ and who's going to help you do that

00:35:57.320 as well and love you unconditionally.

00:35:58.740 But also there, of course, is this kind of intangible, uh, thing to knowing who your

00:36:05.640 quote unquote soulmate is going to be.

00:36:07.600 And I just, I just knew, I just knew it was going to be okay.

00:36:10.100 And he felt the same way about me.

00:36:12.180 And I'm just so, I'm so glad of that too.

00:36:14.060 You want to marry someone who loves every single part of you.

00:36:17.920 Um, no matter what you want, someone who is going to love you unconditionally.

00:36:22.420 And we found that in each other.

00:36:24.500 So good question.

00:36:26.340 Um, okay.

00:36:26.940 I think I have one more question.

00:36:28.740 A, are you a predestination Christian or a free will Christian?

00:36:33.480 Uh, I spent the summer at a Presbyterian camp, but it got me, uh, thinking about the difference.

00:36:38.100 So I've talked, I think I've talked about this in the past.

00:36:41.180 So I believe in something called a concurrence.

00:36:43.760 I don't just believe in it.

00:36:44.640 And I think scripture backs it up very well.

00:36:46.780 Um, I am reformed.

00:36:49.060 And so I get, I ask a lot of theological questions and get them answered in a book called Systematic

00:36:54.760 Theology by Wayne Grudem.

00:36:56.460 Not every theological question that I have is answered by that book, but it informs a lot

00:37:00.960 of the knowledge and wisdom and perspective that I have on theology.

00:37:04.980 It talks a lot about, uh, predestination versus free will.

00:37:09.680 And there's something called concurrence in which God is absolutely and completely and

00:37:14.800 ultimately sovereign over everything.

00:37:16.620 There is nothing, not a single thing on earth in the entire universe that happens outside

00:37:23.060 of his will.

00:37:23.820 A lot of people like to say, well, you know, God allowed this to happen, but I don't think

00:37:29.720 that that is accurate.

00:37:31.360 There is, there's really not biblical support for God kind of stepping back and letting chaos

00:37:36.780 ensue or something happen.

00:37:38.520 He actually preordains all of it.

00:37:40.800 Now, how does that coincide with the fact that God never desires, uh, for someone to sin?

00:37:47.460 I think God doesn't take joy and sin.

00:37:49.100 He doesn't want sin to happen.

00:37:50.320 And how does that also coincide with God actually holding us responsible for the actions that

00:37:55.180 we take, the choices that we make?

00:37:56.980 And of course, um, you know, our eternal destination, whether that is heaven or hell.

00:38:02.720 Um, yeah, that's a very difficult question.

00:38:04.640 And Paul actually wrestles with this a lot in Romans nine through 11.

00:38:08.160 He talks about, you know, how can we hold, how can God hold someone accountable for what

00:38:12.720 he does?

00:38:13.080 If God predestines everything, he talks about how, you know, God hardened Pharaoh's heart in

00:38:17.980 the old Testament that he loved Jacob, Jacob and hated Esau even before they were born.

00:38:23.360 So he clearly predestines his, his favor Ephesians one talks about predestination that we were

00:38:29.440 chosen in him before the foundation of the world.

00:38:32.560 Um, so I think that there is ample support in the Bible for predestination that he chooses

00:38:38.960 us and that, uh, we are any, any profession of faith that we have is just, uh, is a response

00:38:46.860 to his irresistible will.

00:38:49.580 Um, now within that, he clearly holds people responsible, like I said, for their actions

00:38:56.060 within the Bible.

00:38:57.320 Um, so there are two things and that's where the word concurrence comes in.

00:39:01.920 There are two things that are happening at once.

00:39:04.260 God is predestining everything.

00:39:06.560 We are making real decisions with a real sense of freedom, but he is over everything.

00:39:13.000 Now I'm not saying that I can perfectly match those up in a way that makes sense in my finite

00:39:17.640 mind.

00:39:18.180 That's one of those things that I just think is infinite.

00:39:20.540 It's bigger than any of us can really comprehend.

00:39:22.880 Um, but it's kind of, it's, it's both and, um, but, but ultimately, ultimately, because I'm

00:39:30.660 a Calvinist, um, I believe that nothing, absolutely nothing, salvation, anything happens outside

00:39:36.600 of God's will that, uh, he is intimately involved in all of it.

00:39:41.180 So that's my answer to that.

00:39:43.200 Very good question.

00:39:44.800 Okay.

00:39:45.060 I hope this was a sufficient recap for you guys.

00:39:47.900 Uh, thank you for listening.

00:39:49.300 Feel free to give me any feedback.

00:39:51.160 Please leave any positive reviews here.

00:39:54.060 Five stars would be awesome.

00:39:55.360 And you can tell me what you like about the podcast.

00:39:57.320 If you do have any constructive feedback, feel free to email me at Allie at the conservative

00:40:01.320 millennial blog.com.

00:40:02.640 I love your constructive feedback.

00:40:04.400 Oh, one thing on that.

00:40:05.300 I did want to say this, uh, and I've been debating on whether or not I'm going to say

00:40:08.940 it.

00:40:09.080 Maybe you guys have stopped listening by now, but I've gotten a few emails about cussing.

00:40:15.040 Um, and I don't think I've cussed very much, but I think there've been a few times and I

00:40:20.400 really struggled with this at first.

00:40:22.080 At first I was like, whatever, it's fine.

00:40:25.260 A few cuss words here, here and there, not that big of a deal, but you know what?

00:40:29.940 I think that you guys are right.

00:40:31.720 I think that you guys are right.

00:40:32.820 The Bible says that no unwholesome talk should be coming out of our mouths.

00:40:36.680 And we talk about the gospel and Christianity and biblical living a lot.

00:40:40.460 And it's pretty hypocritical for me to use words that don't glorify God.

00:40:44.880 And also I know a lot of you listen to this with your children.

00:40:48.780 Um, and I want this to be a family friendly podcast.

00:40:51.260 So I apologize for that.

00:40:53.160 You guys are right.

00:40:53.960 And I was wrong and I'm not going to do that anymore.

00:40:56.740 If I do, if I forget for some reason, please feel free to call me out.

00:41:00.840 But I appreciate that constructive criticism.

00:41:03.200 And I just say that to say that I really do listen to you guys and your concerns.

00:41:06.920 So if you have any more, feel free to reach out to me.

00:41:09.440 Of course you can follow me and message me on Instagram.

00:41:12.100 That's where I get a lot of questions for this podcast.

00:41:15.000 Have a great week.

00:41:17.040 I'll see you on Thursday.

00:41:17.880 I'll see you on Thursday.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - September 11, 2018

Ep 36 ｜ The Left Can't Not Be Crazy

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