Ep 36 ｜ The Left Can't Not Be Crazy
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On this day 17 years ago, on September 11th, 2001, a plane crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City, killing thousands of people. On today s episode of Relatable, Allie talks about what it was like growing up in the days and months after 9/11.
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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.
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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.
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I can hear you, the rest of the world hears you, and the people.
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And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.
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Okay, I first want to start with acknowledging that today is 9-11.
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I was 10 years old, and I remember distinctly everything that happened that day.
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I remember exactly what my teacher was wearing.
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I remember that she was crying, and she handed out these enclosed letters and envelopes to all of us.
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When you're 10 years old and you see your teacher crying, you just, you have no idea.
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And I remember our parents came to pick us up early from school, and I remember sitting down in my kitchen
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and my mom opening the envelope and her telling us that there had been plane crashes.
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But I knew, even in that moment, I think I knew it was bigger than just a regular plane crash,
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that there had to be something else for which we were, you know, taken out of school, and everyone was so upset.
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But I remember her saying that we might have to leave Dallas, I guess, because Dallas was a big city,
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and maybe they thought that it could be a target of another terrorist attack,
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that we might have to leave and go to a smaller town.
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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,
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First, you saw the Bush-Gore election and the recount and all of that, and now you're seeing 9-11.
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You guys have had a lot happen in your young years, and that's absolutely true.
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And I just remember, even at the age of 10, the camaraderie and the bravery that surged after 9-11,
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or I really should say the camaraderie and the unity that served after 9-11,
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and the bravery that really existed, not just on 9-11 by all of the heroes that saved people's lives,
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but the men and women who have sacrificed their lives since then to protect our freedoms.
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I just could never, ever repay them or thank them enough.
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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
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to save people's life that you probably didn't even know.
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I am extremely, extremely thankful for the God-given courage that people are given in those moments
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There is no country—I'm about to cry as I'm saying all of this—
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there is no country that even holds a candle to the bravery and to the selflessness,
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to the generosity, to the fearlessness of America.
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George Bush, I know that people have, you know, different opinions of him,
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but the leadership that he exemplified in the days and months and years after 9-11,
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This is something that Krauthammer has pointed out and I think is just so true.
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And he said that, you know, the fact that in every single moment, turning point in American history,
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that God has provided us the man or woman that we needed is enough to make the staunchest atheist pause.
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If you look back, when we needed an Abraham Lincoln, we got an Abraham Lincoln.
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When we needed a Martin Luther King, we got a Martin Luther King.
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When we needed a Ronald Reagan, we got a Ronald Reagan.
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And when we needed a George W. Bush, we got a George W. Bush.
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I don't know any other country's history that is so reflective of God's providence as ours,
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And I just think back to that day 17 years ago and how far we've gotten from that feeling of pride
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in not just our leadership, but our country and who we are as Americans.
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If you look at the numbers, even after 9-11, for the couple of years after 9-11,
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I think it was 2003, that patriotism really soared, that more people than ever said,
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I am extremely proud to be an American and how much those numbers have fallen since then.
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And maybe that can't be blamed on any particular political party.
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Maybe it's the fact that millennials are old and we have a voice
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and we tend to have very stupid opinions about patriotism and politics.
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But I don't want another 9-11 to happen for us to come together and to remember,
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hey, before we're Republicans and Democrats, before we are conservatives and liberals,
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I don't know if it's possible for us to go back there.
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But at the same time, you look throughout our history and you see that when we thought
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that it was impossible for us to come together, when we thought it was impossible to overcome odds,
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I hope and pray that that's not dead yet, that we still have that.
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Um, so God bless anyone who is listening, who has served our country or families of people
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God bless you if you knew anyone, um, that, that died, uh, that day on, on 9-11.
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I just, I pray that all hope is, is not lost and may we never, ever forget that day and,
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Okay, now to transition to, uh, the rest of this podcast is going to be very, uh, different
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because I was gone last week and a lot of you have been asking me my opinions on a whole
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Um, I want to talk about the statement on social justice.
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I want to talk about, uh, the Kavanaugh hearing and just the insanity of, of the, the people
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on the left, the women's March, Cory Booker, Kamala Harris.
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I want to talk about this, uh, really terrible murder.
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I don't know if you guys have heard about this that happened in Dallas and how the left
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leveraged it to push this false race narrative.
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Uh, I don't know how much we're actually going to be able to get to, uh, in this 30 minutes,
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Um, so first kind of briefly, uh, the statement on social justice in the gospel was a project
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of John MacArthur, whom we've talked about on this podcast before and other Christian
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leaders, uh, that really, in my opinion, added a lot of clarity to, uh, the biblical stance
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You can just go to statement on social justice.com to read that.
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Um, I would go ahead and read all of it, uh, pray about it, think about it, make sure
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Uh, so here's the part of the statement in particular that I thought was very good and
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So it says under, uh, under the category of justice, it says we affirm that since God
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is holy, righteous, and just, that he requires those who bear his image to live justly in
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This includes showing appropriate, appropriate respect to every person and giving to each one
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We affirm that societies must establish laws to correct injustices that have been imposed
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We deny that true justice can be culturally defined or that standards of justice that
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are merely socially constructed can be imposed with the same authority as those that are derived
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We further, we further deny that Christians can live justly in the world under any principles
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other than the biblical standard of righteousness, relativism, socially constructed standards
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of truth or morality, and notions of virtue and vice that are constantly in flux cannot result
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So this is basically saying what we have said many times on this podcast, that social justice
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as defined today by the modern left, um, and the progressive political movement is not real,
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It demeans one group by lifting up another group based on some arbitrary standard of oppression.
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And unfortunately, too many people are buying into this, but we don't need secular movements
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to tell us what the Bible has been telling us for thousands of years.
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We don't need society to inform our biblical views.
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And it's the same thing when it comes to feminism.
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The Bible already tells me that I am of equal worth and dignity to a man that has been true
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since the Garden of Eden, uh, that I have, I was made in God's image in the same way that
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I might have different roles, but I have the same value.
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I don't need feminism to tell me that I don't need to redeem feminism.
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All I need is to look to scripture to tell me who I am.
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Um, there's been a lot of pushback on this statement.
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Uh, there are a bunch of people in the church who, uh, think that, no, we need to be talking
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We need secular movements to inform what we think about other people.
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Uh, they think that we need to be talking about racial reconciliation and racial issues
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more than we need to talk about anything else, um, that we, uh, that Jesus came to, uh, reconcile
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As we've said many times on this podcast before, Jesus came to reconcile all races to himself,
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that now we who are in Christ are one in Christ.
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That there is neither Jew nor Greek nor slave nor free nor male nor female.
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And what we don't need is a movement that all of a sudden defines people by their skin
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color and defines people by their unique oppression.
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I'm not saying that we can't talk about racism.
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We should talk about real instances of discrimination.
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We should talk about any kind of bigotry that really exists, whether it is individual
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But what we should not do is to buy into this, uh, message of intersectionality that says
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your worth, your identity is defined by the oppression of your racial or your socioeconomic
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This idea of racial reconciliation, which is really racial reparations, um, and intersectionality
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And a lot of people are buying into it and it is just not biblical.
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So I am very thankful for this statement on social justice.
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The pushback that I've seen on it, uh, from other people in the church, it doesn't actually
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Uh, it cites, you know, references to popular cultural trends and norms.
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Um, but the people who agree with it are citing the Bible.
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Uh, speaking of race, a lot of you have been messaging me to hear my take on Colin Kaepernick.
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Uh, for those of you who don't know, if you've been living under a giant boulder or something,
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Colin Kaepernick is the guy who started the whole kneeling phenomenon in the NFL.
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Uh, this is something that apparently, apparently, according to some people in the media that white
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Um, and a lot of white people, I think, feel like that.
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And that just shows you how effective the left has been in promoting this, uh, oppression
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point system that allocates credibility points to people based on, uh, their skin color, their
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gender, their socioeconomic status, their religion, their sexual orientation.
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Um, so I just, so you know, I only have one credibility point according to these people
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So there's my point, but I'm a Christian and I'm white and, oh, dang it.
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So that just, you know, that negates all credibility that I have.
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So thank you to you guys for listening to my very irrelevant opinion.
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But, um, nevertheless, I want to tell you what I think about this.
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Um, my husband tells me that Colin Kaepernick was mediocre at, at football.
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Um, so the fact that he got rejected by all these football teams, isn't all that surprising.
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Uh, of course there was probably a PR reasoning to this.
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I don't think any team wants that kind of a distraction or a liability.
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Apparently also he was offered backup positions on football teams and he turned those down.
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And do you know why he probably turned those down?
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Because he's probably making a lot of money being the left's newest vigilante.
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Um, he is now the face of this Nike campaign and on it, it says, believe in something, even
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Uh, of course, when this was announced, Twitter absolutely went nuts.
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Uh, conservatives are upset and there are a few reasons for that.
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It's illogical, uh, believing in something, even if it means sacrificing everything.
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First of all, believing in something isn't virtuous.
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Uh, so if I believe in leprechauns and I sacrifice my entire life, my entire savings, everything
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to go chase after leprechauns in Ireland, is that virtuous?
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He's still making money, probably more than he would be if he was still playing.
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Um, the second reason that we don't like this is because this is a slap in the face of all
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of the servicemen and women, whether they're in the police force or in the military, who
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Um, let us not forget that Kaepernick is not just the guy who kneeled.
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Anyway, y'all can correct me on that if you want to.
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Uh, but this is also the guy who wore, uh, who wore socks depicting cops as pigs.
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So when people say, oh, this is not anti-police, this is just anti-police brutality.
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Well, why don't you tell that to Colin Kaepernick?
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Clearly he has deep seated antipathy towards all of cops or else I don't think that you
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And also we take issue with the protest, not because he doesn't have a first amendment
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right to protest on his own time, but because why would you choose to one protest on time
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You're an employee of the NFL and also protest during the national Anthem.
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Um, there have been thousands of men and women who have fought and bled and died for your
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right, Colin Kaepernick to run up and down a field and get paid millions of dollars to
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Um, now, of course, like I said, I, I believe in his first amendment right to protest whether
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The NFL, uh, has a right to create policies that prevent their players from protesting.
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I'm sorry if you don't like that, but you're an employee, you follow company, you follow
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Um, now let's talk about some of the reactions.
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Uh, a lot of people on the right said they were going to boycott Nike and there are a lot
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I mean, I think it's a very good free market way to express your disappointment in a company.
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Um, now there were a lot of people posting on social media, uh, about burning all of
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their Nike gear and about, uh, about like cutting the Nike emblem off of their clothes.
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So the next day Nike stock was down and all of these conservative outlets were like, Oh,
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That's what happens when you use someone like Kaepernick on your ad.
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Uh, but now it's showing that Nike sales are up, uh, that they are drastically up.
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So all the conservatives that tried to make that point right after it happened, didn't
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really have a case to make because Nike actually succeeded.
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What they wanted was to get all of these woke people to start buying their clothes again.
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All of the people who were very mad at one point that Nike was using children in sweatshops
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And so that's why they used an anti-cop protester to promote their brand.
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Now, some of you are saying, Ali, what about police brutality though?
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Shouldn't he use employee or his employer's time to protest something this awful?
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And look, police brutality is, it's a, it's a terrible thing.
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People that abuse their power in order to hurt people that are more vulnerable, no matter
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Any instance, even just one isolated instance of police brutality in which, you know, a policeman
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or police woman abused someone that wasn't doing anything wrong or, you know, unnecessarily
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But this idea that is propagated by people on the left, that there is systemic racism
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Like we never hear about the many white and Hispanic people that are abused by the police.
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Um, and I think it's just a ridiculous, it's a ridiculous narrative.
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Now, like I said, any instance of racism, any instance of wrong abuse is bad.
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But this idea that cops are, uh, specifically targeting black men more than people of other
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races is it's just not backed up by statistics.
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And I think it's sad when we throw all cops under the bus, the majority of which are, uh,
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good, hardworking people that sacrifice everything to protect our communities.
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I don't know why this guy would be hailed as a hero when he really hasn't sacrificed anything
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Um, now that said, that said, there was a very, a very sad, horrible, weird, unfortunate
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story, um, out of Dallas last week where an off-duty cop, a woman, uh, came into an apartment
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And she shot and killed the man in the apartment who happened to be black.
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Uh, we still don't know a ton of details on how this could have possibly happened.
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Uh, she apparently parked in the wrong parking garage.
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She didn't notice the indicators, uh, that, uh, Hey, this isn't the right building.
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Um, she, she went into the door that she, that she thought was hers.
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She saw a man and what she thought was her apartment and she shot him and killed him.
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Uh, there's just a lot of, of questions about that.
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In my opinion, she had to have been inebriated in some way to not catch on at any point that,
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Hey, this is not your apartment and I shouldn't be taking my gun out.
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And, uh, the victim, his name is, I think it's pronounced Botham or maybe it's Botham Jean.
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Um, he, uh, you know, his family and friends are understandably devastated.
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Um, this guy worked at PWC in Dallas and we actually have some mutual friends.
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He, from every account, he was successful, ambitious, smart, uh, this friendly person,
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uh, apparently, and he had his whole life ahead of him, uh, ahead of him.
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And this police officer should be punished to the fullest extent of the law.
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It wasn't premeditated murder, obviously, but it was manslaughter and it was completely her fault.
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And, you know, it's right that she was charged.
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Um, but sadly, this quickly turned into this political debacle with people saying on social media
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that this was race fueled, uh, it was, you know, uh, a white cop killing a black man.
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We have no idea if this had anything to do with race whatsoever.
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Uh, we have no idea if this had to do with any kind of bigotry or discrimination.
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And in fact, it probably didn't because it wasn't premeditated in any way.
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Um, this isn't really a crime that perpetuates that kind of all cops are racist narrative.
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It is a tragic, terrible event that occurred between two people who happened to be just
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Um, but unfortunately that was not enough for some people on the left.
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Uh, this random guy, as far as I could tell on Facebook, posted a picture that he took
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from the victim's Facebook page where he was with three different girls.
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Uh, well, the guy shared the picture and claimed that one of the girls in the picture,
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Um, they, he wanted to make the claim that they knew each other.
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The girl in the picture was a good friend of jeans, uh, but she wasn't a cop and this
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Well, Facebook being the cesspool that it is, um, it went viral.
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It was shared all across different social media channels.
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The poor girl in the picture couldn't even go to her friend's funeral because people were
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People will literally do anything to perpetuate their narrative.
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Even if it means ruining the lives of innocent people, um, it's just awful.
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And, and they did nothing to help the situation whatsoever.
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That's quite literally, quite literally insane.
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And I'm just praying for his family and his friends.
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And there's really nothing to politicize about it.
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Uh, but speaking of insanity and politicizing things that aren't really that political, um,
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Kavanaugh is hearing, I'm sure you guys have been following it.
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Uh, it started last week and, uh, presidential hopefuls, Corey Booker and Kamala Harris, uh,
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democratic senators had quite the performances.
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Um, at this point, you've probably, uh, listened to a lot of the craziness that was said by them,
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but basically they tried to trap Kavanaugh and all of these ridiculous lies and tried to portray him
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as a right-wing extremist who's a racist and doesn't care about women's rights.
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Uh, Corey Booker tried to convince everyone on every mainstream news outlet, uh, outlet that he
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violated the rules by uncovering some confidential documents that a weren't actually confidential
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and B showed absolutely nothing of consequence.
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Uh, people were dressed up in hands, handmaid's tail outfits.
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I guarantee you that most of those protesters don't even know who Brett Kavanaugh is.
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Um, but it doesn't matter because here are, here are, here are the kinds of emails that,
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uh, people are getting from organizations from like, uh, like the women's March.
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I think I signed up for them a long time ago just to see the insanity that they're peddling.
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Uh, so here's what they said in their email about the Kavanaugh hearing.
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Our future will look like rights being taken away from women and all people of color,
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from people with disabilities, from workers, from LGBTQ and gender non-conforming folks.
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It will look like crumbling infrastructure of a once forward-looking country.
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It will look like contaminated water served to children.
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It will look like women dying in back alley abortions.
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It will look like a wall separating us from our closest neighbors and families.
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It will look like regular people working and earning less while the rich get richer.
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That future doesn't have to be the one we live in.
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We have to continue to build power in our communities and make the politicians who allowed us to get
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Let Congress know that those who are complicit, oh, their favorite word, complicit in Trump's
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What does Brett Kavanaugh have to do with any of those things?
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There is no, there is no evidence, no evidence to any of that whatsoever, but they say it like
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There is no reason for anyone to resist Kavanaugh, except maybe there is some contention with
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his views on the Fourth Amendment, which is really just held by a libertarian.
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So I'm not really sure the Women's March is concerned about that.
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Even if, even if this is their, you know, biggest talking point that he's going to overturn
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Wade, even if he did, and I pray to God he does, that doesn't make abortion illegal, you
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It just means that it's going to go to the states.
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So the states get to decide whether or not they're going to ban abortion or regulate it,
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Um, speaking of absolute, absolute stupidity and, uh, completely vacuous people, let's talk
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Uh, here's a clip of Obama explaining where Trump came from.
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He's just capitalizing on resentments that politicians have been fanning for years.
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A fear and anger that's rooted in our past, but it's also born out of the enormous upheavals
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Um, as other conservatives have pointed out over the past week, uh, this is actually how
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we got Trump, not what he pointed out, but his lecturing in general, uh, not the racism
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that he talks about, not the, not the resentment that he talks about, not the paranoia, not people
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on the left, uh, or not people on the left, you know, standing up for bigotry or whatever.
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It is people like this who are lecturing us about, uh, not being good enough people to
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Basically, um, people who make this claim, there are a lot of people on the left who do, who
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claim that it's white fragility that, you know, is supporting Trump.
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They really don't acknowledge the real and rapid pace at which the moral and sexual and
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political revolution, uh, put on by progressives has moved forward in the past 20 years.
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Um, they don't want to talk about, uh, how much they love to bully conservatives that if
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you don't hop on the progressive express, they are going to run you over.
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And then if we're mad about that, they say, well, what's the problem?
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Why, why don't you like our, why don't you like our tactics?
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And then they wonder why we don't like them and why people would ever support a crazy
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You are why you are why, you know, it's really hard in my opinion, to out crazy Donald Trump
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to out, you know, to out indecency him, if that makes any sense, but the left accomplishes
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That's really difficult, but they do it really well.
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So if they want to know how we got Donald Trump, they shouldn't be looking to white America
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They should be looking to themselves because the fact of the matter is, I think a lot of
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Republicans, honestly, I mean, we know from statistics that a lot of Republicans are even
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They might jump their Republican ship and go over to the Democratic side if Democrats
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All Democrats have to do all they have to do to take over the country for the next 50 years
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So I guess I guess we should be happy about that.
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I hope that Obama continues to have lots and lots of rallies because it's clearly helping
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He's just never going to be able to compete anyway with Donald Trump and Donald Trump's
00:32:00.460
Now, for some of the questions that you guys asked me, the first question is, what advice
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would you give someone who is thinking about converting to the Christian faith?
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Well, I don't know if this is for you or your friend, but either way, I think it's really
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And so I would highly recommend converting to Christianity.
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And what I what I would do is obviously I would pray.
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And the way that you do that is found in Scripture.
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I would start in the book of John and I would read through the New Testament, learn how to
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I would seek out someone who is a Christian themselves, who goes to a church in your area.
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I would look for a godly community and just be really open and honest and say, this is where
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And I just want to learn more about what it means to follow Christ and to to be a Christian.
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Um, they are going to see that as an enormous privilege.
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And if they are truly following Christ, they're not going to judge you for what you know, what
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They're not going to judge you for your past, any mistakes that you've made, how imperfect
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What they're going to tell you is to lay all of those things at the foot of the cross and
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And they're going to guide you, hopefully, into really how to read the scripture, how to study
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scripture, how to, um, ask hard questions and to seek, to seek his wisdom in those questions.
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There's absolutely nothing that scripture isn't going to be able to answer for you.
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And so, um, I would pray too, and be honest with yourself and be honest with God about,
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uh, your concerns, your questions, your doubts, your skepticism, um, what you desire.
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But if you have any, you know, more specific questions about theology or salvation or any
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of those things, you can always email me if you want.
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It's Allie at the conservative millennial blog.com.
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I get emails a lot too, about picking particular, uh, churches in your area.
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Obviously I don't know every church in your area, depending on where you live, but, um,
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So feel free to email me if you have any more specific questions about that.
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Um, did your husband have a rebellious phase like you did?
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Were you anxious or did you know he'd accept your history regardless?
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Now my husband did, I don't know if I want to tell like his entire backstory because I
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think maybe he should probably tell it, but he did.
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He went through an even more rebellious age than I did when he was in college.
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And that's actually when he became a Christian and, um, and he told me that before I told
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So maybe that made it a little bit easier for me at that point.
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I remember we went to Chick-fil-A and he was nervous and he sat down and was like, okay,
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I want to tell you X, Y, Z happened when I was in college and I don't know, something
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very calming and peaceful kind of came over me.
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And I just didn't have, I never felt any like, wow, I don't, I think differently of him or
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I just kind of felt like, you know, the past is the past, especially since that was before
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But, um, I just felt like, you know, it's okay.
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And I just think that, you know, when you know, you know, and I, I don't want to just
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say, oh, you should only rely on your emotions when it comes to choosing your spouses.
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You should choose someone who is seeking after Christ and who's going to help you do that
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But also there, of course, is this kind of intangible, uh, thing to knowing who your
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And I just, I just knew, I just knew it was going to be okay.
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You want to marry someone who loves every single part of you.
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Um, no matter what you want, someone who is going to love you unconditionally.
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A, are you a predestination Christian or a free will Christian?
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Uh, I spent the summer at a Presbyterian camp, but it got me, uh, thinking about the difference.
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So I've talked, I think I've talked about this in the past.
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So I believe in something called a concurrence.
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And so I get, I ask a lot of theological questions and get them answered in a book called Systematic
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Not every theological question that I have is answered by that book, but it informs a lot
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of the knowledge and wisdom and perspective that I have on theology.
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It talks a lot about, uh, predestination versus free will.
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And there's something called concurrence in which God is absolutely and completely and
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There is nothing, not a single thing on earth in the entire universe that happens outside
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A lot of people like to say, well, you know, God allowed this to happen, but I don't think
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There is, there's really not biblical support for God kind of stepping back and letting chaos
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Now, how does that coincide with the fact that God never desires, uh, for someone to sin?
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And how does that also coincide with God actually holding us responsible for the actions that
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And of course, um, you know, our eternal destination, whether that is heaven or hell.
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And Paul actually wrestles with this a lot in Romans nine through 11.
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He talks about, you know, how can we hold, how can God hold someone accountable for what
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If God predestines everything, he talks about how, you know, God hardened Pharaoh's heart in
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the old Testament that he loved Jacob, Jacob and hated Esau even before they were born.
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So he clearly predestines his, his favor Ephesians one talks about predestination that we were
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chosen in him before the foundation of the world.
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Um, so I think that there is ample support in the Bible for predestination that he chooses
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us and that, uh, we are any, any profession of faith that we have is just, uh, is a response
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Um, now within that, he clearly holds people responsible, like I said, for their actions
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Um, so there are two things and that's where the word concurrence comes in.
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There are two things that are happening at once.
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We are making real decisions with a real sense of freedom, but he is over everything.
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Now I'm not saying that I can perfectly match those up in a way that makes sense in my finite
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That's one of those things that I just think is infinite.
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It's bigger than any of us can really comprehend.
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Um, but it's kind of, it's, it's both and, um, but, but ultimately, ultimately, because I'm
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a Calvinist, um, I believe that nothing, absolutely nothing, salvation, anything happens outside
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of God's will that, uh, he is intimately involved in all of it.
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I hope this was a sufficient recap for you guys.
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And you can tell me what you like about the podcast.
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If you do have any constructive feedback, feel free to email me at Allie at the conservative
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I did want to say this, uh, and I've been debating on whether or not I'm going to say
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Maybe you guys have stopped listening by now, but I've gotten a few emails about cussing.
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Um, and I don't think I've cussed very much, but I think there've been a few times and I
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A few cuss words here, here and there, not that big of a deal, but you know what?
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The Bible says that no unwholesome talk should be coming out of our mouths.
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And we talk about the gospel and Christianity and biblical living a lot.
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And it's pretty hypocritical for me to use words that don't glorify God.
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And also I know a lot of you listen to this with your children.
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Um, and I want this to be a family friendly podcast.
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And I was wrong and I'm not going to do that anymore.
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If I do, if I forget for some reason, please feel free to call me out.
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And I just say that to say that I really do listen to you guys and your concerns.
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So if you have any more, feel free to reach out to me.
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Of course you can follow me and message me on Instagram.
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That's where I get a lot of questions for this podcast.