Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 435 ｜ Is Virtual Church 'Loving Your Neighbor'？｜ Q&A

00:00:00.000 hey guys welcome to relatable hope everyone is having a wonderful day a wonderful week today

00:00:15.160 we're doing another q a episode and if you're new here i am currently on maternity leave and so

00:00:21.640 we are doing these kind of evergreen episodes where we're not following the news cycle but

00:00:27.440 i'm doing lots of amazing interviews every week and then i'm also doing these q a episodes i'm also

00:00:32.860 doing some topical episodes as well and so in these q a episodes i just take questions that you

00:00:38.440 guys sent me from instagram and i answer them and so i usually only get through a few because they

00:00:45.860 make me think about other things that i want to explain but you guys sent me a lot of awesome

00:00:52.060 questions and so i'm going to answer as many as i can over the next few weeks and if you didn't

00:00:58.080 submit any questions that's okay every episode of these q a's i guarantee has something that maybe

00:01:04.220 you were curious about or wanted to ask me about and so hopefully they will be productive and helpful

00:01:09.460 to you as well the first question i want to answer today is how you respond to someone to a christian

00:01:16.120 who says it's irresponsible to go to church during covid there's been a lot of uh there's been a lot

00:01:23.020 of dialogue a lot of discussion and debate about that from the very beginning now i would say most

00:01:29.100 churches at the beginning of this whole thing about a year ago said okay we're going to just do

00:01:33.940 remote services because we don't know how bad this is going to be we didn't know like we were told that it

00:01:40.080 could be a 20 fatality rate and we just didn't know how terrible it was going to be and of course

00:01:46.840 we thought it was going to be 15 days to slow the spread lol and so we thought this whole thing was

00:01:51.920 going to be very temporary and so i think a lot of churches just said you know not meeting in person

00:01:58.040 for a few weeks is not that big of a deal people are going to be able to do this remotely we'll come

00:02:02.400 back together when it's safer and then the longer this went on the longer we realized that

00:02:08.740 oh this is not going to just be 15 days to slow the spread this is maybe even going to be more than

00:02:14.280 15 months to allegedly slow the spread there were churches that said okay well at some point

00:02:21.560 we've got to meet together because yes as the saying goes the church gathered is still the church

00:02:28.580 scattered no god is not a building no you don't have to be sitting in a pew to experience god or to

00:02:35.440 worship god but those are not the only functions of the church someone who says that a church is just

00:02:42.420 you know about experiencing god or learning about god or worshiping about god singing to god doesn't

00:02:49.040 really understand what the church is it's true that the church scattered or the church gathered and the

00:02:55.860 church is also the church scattered so you can experience all of those things in your living room as well

00:03:03.260 but there is a command to corporate worship and to gathering in person in scripture hebrews 10 tells us

00:03:11.900 this very quickly or very clearly rather in verses uh 24 through 26 and let us consider how to stir up

00:03:21.180 one another to love in good works not neglecting to meet together as is the habit of some but encouraging

00:03:27.400 one another and all the more as you see the day drawing near and sorry that's 24 through 25 and so

00:03:35.380 that's pretty clear and christians during this time certainly faced um threats they certainly faced

00:03:43.120 danger that could possibly kill them that could possibly take their lives and god knew about

00:03:50.360 coronavirus in 2020 when he gave this command this was not something that was just exclusive to this

00:03:58.420 time in space i mean he was talking about the importance of meeting together there are things

00:04:04.160 that cannot be done individually when it comes to worship and when it comes to church that must be done

00:04:11.140 corporately like the edification um of believers in person encouragement having people bear your burdens there is also

00:04:20.840 something about singing together that is different than singing individually um and church isn't just about what

00:04:29.040 you're getting it's not just about these spiritual experiences it's also um it's also about what you can give

00:04:37.780 like what kind of encouragement you can give the gift that your presence brings the comfort that your presence

00:04:44.140 brings to someone else your ability to pray for someone in person all of these things are a part of church

00:04:52.080 now for those of you who are vulnerable and or you live maybe with an elderly person and you just

00:04:58.540 haven't been able to safely go out in public i do think that there's a lot of grace it's amazing actually

00:05:03.920 that we live in this time where we are able to attend church remotely that we do have the

00:05:09.700 technology to access the ability to be able to hear the gospel from you know anywhere that has

00:05:15.680 internet internet access on earth that's amazing and god uses those tools to bring people to him

00:05:21.800 but at some point we have to assess the risks versus the benefits we have to look at the commands that

00:05:27.640 the bible gives us and says okay like what am i commanded to do

00:05:31.920 and i think also as in all things we have to look at our hearts and we have to look at our

00:05:35.920 motivations and we have to ask ourselves why am i not going to church is it because of this

00:05:40.720 overriding fear of a virus that yes of course it has killed people but has an over 99 survival rate

00:05:47.660 for most people for most people for most groups of people it is just as fatal as the flu

00:05:52.940 now for older populations it is much more fatal than the flu and of course we care about 1.00

00:05:58.180 those populations absolutely but if we're just looking at the numbers that the cdc gives us

00:06:03.680 um it is just it is comparably as deadly for most people under the age of 60 um as other viruses are

00:06:14.440 and so we have to also be very honest with ourselves about why we're not going to church is it really

00:06:20.020 because of this virus is it because you're trying to care for your neighbors or does it have to do more

00:06:26.520 with the fact that you've just gotten used to sitting in your living room when it comes to church

00:06:30.300 rather than gathering and i don't think that that's a good reason to look past hebrews 10 24

00:06:37.540 through 25 and by the way it should also be stated that there are safe ways like if you really are

00:06:42.920 worried about the virus or if you're worried about the people around you there are safe ways

00:06:47.860 that you can gather in person like you can wear a mask if you want to you don't have to be within

00:06:54.520 six feet of people we've been going to church since april last april and um honestly we just don't

00:07:01.460 get within six feet of people and that's not necessarily purposely that's just kind of how it

00:07:06.940 is a lot of people aren't hugging or shaking hands or things like that and so we're still seeing our

00:07:12.220 sunday school class we're still seeing you know seated remotely close to people but most people are

00:07:17.520 just kind of naturally spreading out and we haven't had close interaction with people and if the science is

00:07:23.900 still the same which i haven't gotten any message that it's not that you are in risk of getting it

00:07:30.060 if you are in if you are within six feet of someone then being spread out and being six feet away from

00:07:36.240 everyone except for your family is not a scenario from what we know from the data for spreading the

00:07:43.760 virus and so it is definitely possible it is definitely i think edifying and important to meet in person

00:07:51.060 and still try to protect yourself as much as you can and protect the people around you as much

00:07:55.180 as you can there are so many different ways that you can do that it's so important for the church to

00:08:01.900 continue to be a refuge from what the world is doing like the world is promoting isolation the world is

00:08:07.760 promoting hyper individualism the world is promoting you carrying your burdens or paying hundreds of

00:08:14.260 dollars an hour for someone to carry your burdens and i'm not by the way speaking in general against

00:08:19.160 counseling and therapy i think that those can be very good tools but the church can also and should

00:08:24.720 also be a place for people to be able to unload their burdens it's not the same doing that over

00:08:30.640 the internet it's just not um and so there's going to be people who don't understand that there's

00:08:36.420 going to be people who say it's irresponsible there's going to be people who had nothing to say about

00:08:40.420 the blm riots who had nothing to say about people celebrating joe biden's win in the streets but are

00:08:46.940 very concerned about 50 people sitting six feet apart in a sanctuary and for those people like

00:08:52.940 you don't take your moral cues from them you don't take your directions from them if they're not worried

00:08:58.100 about the spread of covid when it comes to hundreds of thousands of migrants untested infiltrating the

00:09:04.360 united states if they're not worried about the riots and the protests and the mass celebrations

00:09:09.040 of people on the left side of the aisle when it comes to the spread of covid then you don't have

00:09:14.880 any reason to take them seriously when it when it comes to their purported concern of believers

00:09:22.520 gathering together in a safe way in church um so just want to say that

00:09:29.140 all right the next question what do i have to say about someone like don

00:09:41.860 lemon saying that we need a real depiction of jesus so don lemon recently said as i'm recording

00:09:46.820 this i'm recording this at the end of march he recently said you know jesus was black and like

00:09:51.660 this is so important and it always confuses me when people think that this is like a gotcha

00:09:56.740 like people are shocked by this this has been a talking point for several years now that by the way

00:10:02.920 jesus was black jesus wasn't white jesus didn't look like you and i it's almost like you're looking for

00:10:08.520 some kind of reaction from white evangelicals and you're just not getting it it's just like a

00:10:13.740 shrug of the shoulders like okay i understand yes there are depictions from jesus of jesus uh from the

00:10:21.440 west that have depicted him as this blonde hair blue-eyed guy there's also depictions of jesus

00:10:26.280 in china of him as a chinese person their depictions of jesus is all different kinds of ethnicities and it

00:10:32.700 typically reflects the artist um and it is inaccurate to say that jesus looked like a blonde-haired blue-eyed

00:10:42.220 guy it's inaccurate to say that he was chinese we know that he was middle eastern we know that he was

00:10:47.960 galilean um we know in general probably what he looked like but the the reason why it's just not a

00:10:54.100 good point like why i don't care when don lemon says something like this is a way to try to um i don't i

00:11:02.180 don't even know what he's trying to do try to provoke some kind of shock and dismay from white

00:11:08.600 evangelicals from conservative people is because i don't care i don't care if i am worshiping if i am

00:11:17.120 worshiping jesus because of his skin and not because of who he is not because he's god then i'm an idolater

00:11:24.120 i don't have any business calling myself a christian if jesus is if jesus's skin helps you worship

00:11:31.820 him more or prevents you from worshiping him or inhibits your worship then you don't know your

00:11:38.340 savior you're worshiping some kind of cultural idol of melanin um rather than jesus as god so

00:11:46.840 if you are someone who says well i can only worship a brown or black jesus okay well you don't worship 0.87

00:11:52.700 christ that that's not what you're worshiping we don't worship his his skin color we don't worship 0.89

00:11:58.300 his melanin count i mean that's part of why we really don't hear a lot of physical descriptions

00:12:03.700 about jesus in the bible we've got isaiah 53 2 who says for he grew up before him like a young plant

00:12:09.920 and like a root out of dry ground he had no form or majesty that we should look at him and no beauty

00:12:15.500 that we should desire him so it's almost like god is making the point like look his outward appearance

00:12:20.920 is not what this is all about it's about the redemption that he's going to offer you it's about the

00:12:25.940 reconciliation about the propitiation about the sacrifice about um uh him becoming emmanuel him

00:12:34.200 becoming um the the covering and the forgiveness of your sins um also if you are someone on the

00:12:42.480 other side of this who is like well i can't worship a brown or black jesus i can only worship a white 0.53

00:12:46.900 jesus which by the way i've never met that person i've met a lot more people who are much more

00:12:51.620 emphatic about jesus's skin color being brown than people who are emphatic about jesus's skin color

00:12:58.200 being white but hey if you are that person that's also idolatry like that's also a sin that that is

00:13:04.520 also worshiping something that jesus is not and that the bible is very clear it doesn't matter when it

00:13:10.840 comes to our love of jesus and our fidelity to jesus and again like i know that we use this term so much

00:13:18.700 but it has well it has to do with liberation theology which sees in the world in the words

00:13:23.320 of ibramax kindy is not is not something that views jesus as um the sacrificial lamb something

00:13:30.640 that saves our souls but sees christianity as a means to revolutionize society and how it wants to

00:13:37.000 revolutionize society um is always through top-down government intervention it's always through marxism

00:13:42.900 liberation theology perpetuated primarily by james cone in the 20th century has its roots in the

00:13:49.160 frankfurt school has its roots in marxism those aren't just boogeyman's that's just true you can

00:13:53.060 study liberation theology that's what it is critical race theory and liberation theology for people who

00:13:58.500 profess to be christians like ibramax kindy are inextricably intertwined you guys know critical

00:14:03.840 race theory views the world through the lens of race through the lens primarily of black and white

00:14:08.700 categorizes white categorizes white people as forms of oppressors categorizes black people non-white

00:14:14.200 people usually just black people as uh as on the side of the oppressed and views every american system

00:14:23.040 every institution every even interpersonal interaction um through that particular lens and then liberation

00:14:31.120 theology comes along and says that christianity is supposed to um is meant to liberate the people who

00:14:38.560 are on the side of the oppressed in particular black and brown people from the oppression that has

00:14:44.560 weighed them down not spiritual oppression but physical economic oppression that's what christianity to

00:14:51.920 the liberation theologian um is to christians who profess critical race theory it's wrong i mean it's

00:14:59.940 not based on the bible jesus is not the social revolutionary you see a lot of these people also saying that

00:15:06.160 jesus was a palestinian um that he was a palestinian refugee um socialist revolutionary and he wasn't any of

00:15:17.820 those things palestine didn't exist that he was jewish that's actually by the way people don't realize

00:15:23.680 when people say that jesus was a palestinian like that is a trope that's perpetuated by a lot of muslims

00:15:29.840 in that region to try to claim jesus as their own to try to claim jesus as um as their own prophet and

00:15:37.720 try to strip jesus of his jewishness it's an anti-semitic trope actually in an anti-christian

00:15:43.880 trope this idea that jesus was a palestinian when the region of palestine was not established when jesus

00:15:48.900 was around jesus was jewish he was a galilean he hailed originally from he was born in bethlehem and so

00:15:56.020 um it's just inaccurate it's all an effort to try to make jesus into this marxist political figure and

00:16:03.760 he just wasn't that and he also wasn't you know this american flag carrying a capitalist either and

00:16:11.440 i'm certainly not saying that when we try to make god into our image no matter what it is whether it's

00:16:16.900 a political image or a racial image whether you're on the right or the left the prosperity gospel is

00:16:22.540 typically associated with the right sees jesus as some sort of genie then you've got this narcissistic

00:16:28.960 gospel which says jesus is just a cheerleader who comes along for the right of my life and tells me

00:16:33.700 how pretty i am and then you've got the liberation theology critical race theory jesus that sees him

00:16:38.840 as this black palestinian freedom fighter marxist all of it is wrong like all of that is idolatry jesus is 0.98

00:16:47.420 who he says that he is jesus is who he says that he is in john one jesus is what scripture tells us

00:16:54.780 that he is he is god made flesh he's emmanuel god with us he is the word that was with god in the

00:17:04.720 beginning who is god himself who laid down his life for his sheep so that we could be a sinful people

00:17:13.460 reconciled to a holy god be forgiven and spend forever with him he is lord he is king he is coming

00:17:21.660 back and he is going to avenge all evil that has ever been done in the history of the world he will

00:17:29.080 establish a new heaven and a new earth and he will rule in perfect peace and we won't be having these

00:17:34.740 disagreements anymore and we certainly won't be quibbling over what jesus looked like now i want to read

00:17:40.780 you this interesting passage from j.i packer's classic work which is knowing god now he has a

00:17:47.300 very interesting perspective on this on images of jesus this would include a crucifix by the way

00:17:52.240 but he asserts that it's idolatry to have any depictions of jesus at all and i think he makes

00:17:59.580 an interesting argument in his book he quotes charles hodge first he says idolatry consists not only in

00:18:06.540 the worship of false gods but also in the worship of the true god by images in its christian application

00:18:12.480 this means that we are not to make use of visual or pictorial representations of the triune god

00:18:18.060 or of any person of the trinity for the purposes of christian worship the commandment thus deals not

00:18:24.560 with the object of our worship but with the manner of it what it tells us is that statues and pictures

00:18:30.160 of the one whom we worship are not to be based as an aid to worshiping him images dishonor god for

00:18:36.320 they obscure his glory the likeness of things in heaven sun moon stars and in earth people animals

00:18:41.720 birds insects and in the sea fish mammals crustaceans is precisely not a likeness of their creator a true

00:18:48.000 image of god wrote calvin is not to be found in all the world and hence his glory is defiled and his

00:18:55.040 truth corrupted by the lie whenever he is set before our eyes in a visible form therefore to devise any

00:19:02.460 image of god is itself impious because by this corruption his majesty is adulterated and he is

00:19:09.140 figured to be other than he is of course they are talking about violating the second commandment we are

00:19:16.300 not to make idols we are not to image or we're not to fashion anything um in the likeness of god for

00:19:22.560 the purposes of worship i think that part is important and so this whole conversation about what

00:19:29.380 jesus looked like and how he must be brown or he must be white or he must be palestinian or he must

00:19:35.300 be whatever he is jesus is who he is and he is to be worshiped as he is and again uh trying to say that

00:19:44.860 he has to be one way for us to um worship him or for him to solicit our adoration or our following

00:19:52.420 you're an idolater you're an idolater if that is your mindset you're not a believer

00:19:57.580 i'm just going to be harsh there that's not me that's not me saying that that is scripture saying

00:20:03.880 that you are an idolater if that is your fixation on skin rather than your own sin and the salvation

00:20:10.800 that jesus gives you by his death and resurrection um and so we have to worship him for who he is not

00:20:18.220 who we want him to be not even an accurate depiction of what he might look like that's not

00:20:24.300 important to our worship because again isaiah 53 2 tells us everything we need to know about jesus's

00:20:30.880 appearance it's apparently not very important

00:20:33.800 next question someone asked me what my favorite food is a little change of tune here um you know

00:20:53.840 it's very difficult it's very difficult to say i would say tax max i would say like give me some good

00:21:01.560 queso chips um uh some tacos fajitas i really like fajitas really like queso really like good guacamole

00:21:12.440 if i do say so myself i make really good guacamole it's very it's not hard to do so i don't feel bad

00:21:18.900 about bragging about that the key is i don't do i don't do parsley i think some people put parsley in there

00:21:24.840 i put garlic salts and lime and sometimes feta sometimes peppers and onions sometimes um and a

00:21:36.460 lot of lime juice the key is a lot of salt and a lot of lime juice not too much but a lot um you got

00:21:42.920 to get the ratio right um it's really not hard to make a guacamole though get yourself some soft

00:21:49.340 avocados but you know right before they turn brown which is very difficult to do that might be the

00:21:54.340 hardest part about making guacamole um but that is uh that's one of my i would say few winning recipes

00:22:02.260 good recipes is my guacamole recipe but yeah i would say tax mix is probably my favorite it's probably my

00:22:08.240 favorite food i love fried chicken too love some biscuits i just love bread i love carbs

00:22:14.280 and um i would say though i would say that tax mix has all of those has a lot of carbs i like some good

00:22:23.120 fajitas so you need to think about this you need to ask your spouse this you need to ask your loved one

00:22:28.900 you need to think like if you could only have one kind of meal like one kind of food for the rest of your

00:22:35.400 life what would it be like would it be italian food would it be american food like hamburgers and

00:22:41.320 and fries i know that technically both of those come from different countries but they're very

00:22:45.320 american would it be like and think about everything that comes with that like if you're if you've got

00:22:50.500 italian food you've got a wide range you've got like caprese that you could eat you've also got pizza

00:22:56.440 you've also got pasta you've also got lots of different kinds of bread so you really have a wide

00:23:00.720 range if italian food is what you pick same thing with greek food like you could eat unhealthy i love greek

00:23:05.720 food you could eat super healthy with greek food you could also have a lot of like pita and things

00:23:11.700 like that which is not necessarily that healthy so would you choose that would you use tax-mex you

00:23:16.820 could also you can make tax-mex healthy for sure if you cut out some of the bread that's used um would

00:23:23.840 you do some kind of asian food in my pregnancy i was really craving um i was really craving uh japanese

00:23:32.220 food we have a japanese place close to us that we really like i don't know why but like miso soup

00:23:38.040 just sounded really good it's just sounded really good in my pregnancy and so we've had that probably

00:23:44.420 like every other week which is kind of a lot but you know supporting small business and so you need to

00:23:51.640 think about this it's a very important question what kind of food like what genre of food if you could

00:23:57.940 only eat that for the rest of your life would you would you pick um there's a lot to think about

00:24:04.640 there there's a lot of complexities there's a lot of nuance and so i would just encourage you to

00:24:09.720 consider that um all right the next question is another big question how is intersectionality

00:24:18.580 different than critical theory so intersectionality is a part of critical theory and i kind of already

00:24:23.500 explained critical race theory but there are different forms of critical theories that are not just

00:24:27.860 critical race theory there's queer theory and there's um like uh there's feminist theory

00:24:34.920 gender theory and things like that and they all kind of fall under this on umbrella of the oppressed

00:24:42.060 versus the oppressor it just depends on who you see as those playing those primary characters whereas

00:24:47.580 critical race theory sees it as black versus white and it's really actually not that easy because in

00:24:54.120 critical race theory they would say even someone who is black but who says for example that they're

00:24:58.580 not oppressed that they're you know they haven't been oppressed by white supremacy or that if they

00:25:03.600 don't believe in systemic racism which is the central claim of critical race theory then critical race

00:25:08.920 theory would say that that person is not necessarily truly black like they would say that that person has

00:25:15.760 internalized whiteness and has internalized white supremacy they don't critical race theory doesn't

00:25:20.500 necessarily put for example like jewish people and asian people on their side of non-white sometimes

00:25:27.240 those categories according to crt are white adjacent they would say and so you can see the

00:25:33.480 constant contradictions and just the exhaustion that comes with critical theory all forms of critical

00:25:38.940 theory queer theory is kind of the same way you've got different forms of feminist theory part of that 1.00

00:25:44.600 is standpoint epistemology which is also used by all different forms of critical theory including critical race

00:25:50.320 theory standpoint epistemology you know epistemology has to do with knowledge knowing knowledge the

00:25:56.840 pursuit of knowledge understanding knowledge and a standpoint epistemology says that you find knowledge

00:26:06.060 you can search for truth from your standpoint not from objective reality not from the scientific method it

00:26:14.660 actually rejects those forms of objectivity as as um as holding up hegemony i know i'm using a lot of

00:26:22.280 annoying terms right now but holding up hegemony is like power structure so holding up whiteness it 0.97

00:26:28.840 standpoint epistemology in the world of critical theory it gets rid of that idea of objectivity and says no

00:26:36.020 true truth real truth can only be known from someone's standpoint real truth is actually subjective

00:26:42.140 um and that is how you get this idea of if you're white you can't speak to this or if you're straight

00:26:49.420 or if you're cisgendered or if you're all of these terms because of your privilege and because you're on

00:26:54.920 the side of the oppressed you can't speak to all of these issues you have to have someone who or because

00:27:01.240 you're on the side of the oppressor sorry um but you have to have someone explain this to you who is black 0.97

00:27:08.300 who is gay who is trans or whatever because your privilege your skin color your cisgenderedness your

00:27:16.240 uh heterosexuality actually blind you from real truth so standpoint epistemology would say

00:27:23.180 from the standpoint of the so-called oppressed that is how you get the truth about the world and you see

00:27:31.140 how problematic that is when we see all truth as subjective when we see it all as arbitrary then it

00:27:37.980 just becomes a bludgeon with which to beat the masses into submission i mean that's what we see in

00:27:44.140 every dystopian novel that's what we see in something like um 1984 where there exists no objective reality

00:27:54.460 outside of what the party outside of what big brother in 1984 tells you and so if big brother if the

00:28:01.740 leading of the ruling party in 1984 told uh tells them hey two plus two equals five then you have

00:28:09.980 no way to actually refute that because there doesn't exist a transcendent reality that is bigger than the

00:28:16.040 people that are in charge that's what standpoint epistemology does that's why someone like iber max

00:28:20.940 kindy will not debate someone like john mcwarder won't have a conversation with someone like coleman hughes

00:28:25.920 won't talk to glenn lowry won't actually have his ideas tested because he he believes in this

00:28:31.500 kind of subjective truth like he believes in the standpoint epistemology that actually can't be

00:28:37.100 argued and the whole thing is is a kafka trap and the whole and the whole thing is a way to make sure 0.80

00:28:43.080 that it can't actually be argued against it's non-falsifiable that's where you get this kind of

00:28:47.940 assertion that um well you're either you are either racist or anti-racist according to iber mexicante

00:28:56.020 you can't actually be not racist and if you deny that you're racist that's actually just proof that

00:29:01.000 you're racist so that's a kafka trap that's like you know salem witch trials kind of thing if you 0.86

00:29:05.760 deny that you're a witch that's actually evidence that you are a witch and so i mean you're for lack

00:29:11.240 of a better word screwed either way and according to whom according to the people whose standpoint

00:29:16.440 has decided what is authoritative truth on this particular subject um and that's why it's better

00:29:22.780 just to get rid of all of it it's not possible to take parts of these critical theories um and

00:29:29.860 apply it to your own worldview they are in themselves a worldview they redefine what truth is they redefine

00:29:37.260 what oppression is they redefine what right and wrong is they have their own idea of a salvation even

00:29:44.620 they have their own idea of eschatology the end times like what the world should look like they have

00:29:50.060 their own idea of what liberation looks like that is contrary to the christian worldview

00:29:54.980 iber mexicante actually said um he was speaking at a speaking at a church and he actually said

00:30:02.400 on video that he rejects the kind of orthodox christian belief that jesus died for our sins

00:30:09.100 and he believes that christianity is actually a form of a revolution like we were talking about to

00:30:14.520 revolutionize society and then he goes on to say that anti-racism is salvation anti-racism of course

00:30:21.500 his definition of anti-racism um is uh is a way to save humanity and so he doesn't deny that humanity

00:30:30.760 needs a savior he just denies that it's jesus and it's actually his own program it's actually his form

00:30:37.460 anti-racism which i'm sure can sell a whole lot of books which is very um which is very convenient

00:30:44.640 that was all a precursor you asked about intersectionality what is intersectionality

00:30:58.800 intersectionality like standpoint epistemology is part of critical theory and it's just a way to try to

00:31:05.880 describe the different identities and the cultural capital that is assigned to each identity that is

00:31:13.780 like a conservative way to explain it someone who is a progressive would not explain it that way they

00:31:17.760 would say it's a way to just understand people and like their different backgrounds and their different

00:31:22.080 um you know the different things they identify as like you've probably seen people say if your

00:31:28.220 feminism is it intersectional i don't want anything to do with it and what they mean by that is that 1.00

00:31:33.860 you know they would say that white feminism has been problematic and so you need to make sure that 1.00

00:31:38.580 you're including like black trans women in your in your feminism um so intersectionality it takes stock 0.99

00:31:46.040 of all of your different identities and it assigns oppression points to those identities and so i have like

00:31:54.580 one oppression point because i'm a woman but i don't i'm you know i don't have anything else other than 0.68

00:32:02.760 that according to this worldview of critical theory and intersectionality i am you know of what they

00:32:09.000 would say a straight cisgendered christian white privileged female and therefore again according to 1.00

00:32:16.680 a standpoint epistemology i can't really know truth i just need to quote listen and learn to other people

00:32:23.280 tell me what truth is and if i try to deny that or push back on it it's just a sign of my white supremacy

00:32:28.120 so you see how this is why you say that just like you know rushland ball used to say that politics

00:32:34.220 is um politics is uh show business for ugly people crt is intellectualism for dumb people now when i say

00:32:44.580 that i'm not saying that everyone who believes in crt is dumb because i don't believe that just like

00:32:48.900 not everyone in politics is ugly but it is a way for people who are not very intellectually savvy

00:32:57.360 and who don't have a whole lot of ability to actually reason it is a way for them to feel

00:33:03.440 intellectual because the whole thing is non-falsifiable because it's all based on subjective

00:33:09.080 interpretations of what reality is um and intersectionality is just a way to categorize

00:33:15.560 people your intersectionality has to do with your sexual orientation with your so-called gender identity

00:33:21.680 with your religion and in the world of leftism and intersectionality it is the the white cisgendered 0.86

00:33:30.360 straight christian male that has all of the privilege and therefore must kind of be taken down in some way 0.99

00:33:39.560 um and you know the more transgender and queer and non-christian and non-western and non-white you are 1.00

00:33:48.260 the more intersectional you are and they use these kinds of intersectional identities as the basis

00:33:54.660 on which they decide like who to listen to on certain subjects again if their politics and their

00:34:01.420 ideology that they are purporting are correct that's why they hate people who have intersectional

00:34:05.960 intersectional identities who don't agree with them on everything so that's why for example they would 1.00

00:34:11.620 say that someone who is black who doesn't hold to their the idea that they're an oppressor they would 0.99

00:34:15.520 call them an uncle tom they would call them a sellout they would say that you're not really black or

00:34:19.680 whatever same thing with someone who is gay who might be a conservative they would say that that

00:34:24.680 person is an embarrassment um to uh to lgbtq people how they're selling out how they're self-hating they

00:34:32.940 would say the same thing about me as a woman who is pro-life they would say that oh that's just

00:34:38.340 internalized misogyny and so they will dismiss anyone who has any sort of intersectional identity who

00:34:44.760 doesn't agree with the politics of most people who have that intersectional identity or don't agree

00:34:50.040 with the politics of leftism and try to justify their disagreement by invalidating them again that's

00:34:55.940 the problem with the idea that it's um that's our our study of knowledge and truth comes from a

00:35:03.120 standpoint rather than objective reality it's all a product of post-modernism which questions absolute

00:35:10.920 truth and as you can see that bucks up against christianity john 14 6 jesus says i am the way

00:35:17.600 the truth and the life no one comes to the father except through me we do believe in absolute truth

00:35:23.640 both revealed rev or both general revelation that we see in science that we see in nature and special

00:35:31.460 revelation that we see in scripture that believers have access to and have been given the faith to

00:35:38.080 understand and believe in um and so these two lines of thinking are totally they're totally

00:35:45.020 incongruent not to mention that god doesn't see us by those different identities he doesn't categorize

00:35:51.760 people as oppressed versus oppressor but based on those identities and he doesn't judge us based on

00:35:57.160 those identities you are we are going to be judged for what we say for what we do here on earth and if our

00:36:02.280 name by the by the blood of the lamb is not written in the book of life if we are not in christ then

00:36:10.000 we will suffer eternal wrath but in christ we get forgiveness for all of those things as individuals

00:36:15.520 um and we get to spend forever with him and so no one's let off the hook because of their

00:36:21.120 intersectional identity and eternity just fyi all right that's all we have time for today thank you

00:36:26.960 guys so much for listening i will be back here soon

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Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - June 09, 2021

Ep 435 ｜ Is Virtual Church 'Loving Your Neighbor'？｜ Q&A

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Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - June 09, 2021

Ep 435 ｜ Is Virtual Church 'Loving Your Neighbor'？ ｜ Q&A

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Ep 435 ｜ Is Virtual Church 'Loving Your Neighbor'？｜ Q&A