Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 44

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, what's up? Welcome to Relatable. Happy Tuesday. I hope everyone had a great weekend and

00:00:06.980 a great Monday. Um, in case you've been living under a rock or you've been asleep since last

00:00:13.920 week, uh, Judge Kavanaugh, now Justice Kavanaugh got confirmed. It was a really big day, a big deal

00:00:21.320 on Saturday. I actually wasn't even home. I don't know why I'm not home on all of these very

00:00:26.180 important political moments. Like during the confirmation hearing with Ford and Kavanaugh,

00:00:30.680 I was on a plane. And then when he was getting confirmed, I was buying shoes. I don't know why

00:00:34.520 I'm a poor planner. I'm an idiot, but I had it on, on my phone. All right. Yeah. I had it up on my

00:00:38.940 phone. And I think everyone in Dillard's was like, what the heck are you doing? Because I was almost

00:00:43.220 in tears listening to Mike Pence say that he was confirmed man. I did not particularly enjoy having

00:00:51.700 to beat this drum every single day, tweeting about this every single second, posting on Instagram

00:00:56.820 every single second. Um, but I did because I felt like it was worth it and it wasn't just something

00:01:02.600 to generate outrage or, you know, for any other reason besides that I felt like this was perhaps

00:01:09.760 the most important political thing that I had been a part of so far. And by be a part of, I mean, just

00:01:15.540 be a tiny, tiny voice in the stratosphere of political commentary and politics in general. Um,

00:01:22.160 but it worked and not me, but just all of us who were supporting him, who were out talking to people,

00:01:29.100 uh, your Facebook posts, your tweets, your conversations that you had with your friends

00:01:33.540 and your family, all of that mattered. And of course, as we talked about last week, uh, the sovereignty

00:01:39.000 of God in all of this. Um, but that doesn't mean that our actions don't have real consequences,

00:01:44.120 good and bad. And in this case, we all banded together and we did really good work. Our calls

00:01:49.180 to our senators are raising awareness about, uh, the corroboration or lack thereof of the

00:01:54.960 testimonies and making sure that people are remembering truth and facts. Now it might seem

00:01:59.780 like no one is listening to us. Um, but the people who were actually affected by this, who were maybe

00:02:05.900 in the middle and then in the end ended up saying, you know what, uh, the truth and corroboration

00:02:11.020 and substantiation is on Kavanaugh's side. Uh, those are the people that you might not hear

00:02:15.340 about in the media that you might not see on social media, but maybe they were affected

00:02:19.440 by the words you said, or the words I said, maybe a public support was moved even just a

00:02:24.780 tiny bit in the direction of truth and justice, which in this case was the direction of Kavanaugh.

00:02:29.500 So everything that you did in this mattered, your call to your Senator mattered, your posts

00:02:34.040 mattered, your conversations mattered. And of course our prayers mattered. Um, so I have,

00:02:40.860 I am just, I'm so grateful that all of this was worth it. Um, that we fought really hard that we

00:02:49.160 pushed back, um, in a way that I think is very noble because we cared about truth. I tweeted this

00:02:55.260 the other day and it's still true. I did not fight so hard for Kavanaugh and for this, uh, entire and

00:03:02.080 fight against this entire narrative on the left of trying to smear his name based on unsubstantiated

00:03:07.080 corroboration or unsubstantiated allegations. Um, because I think that he is going to be, uh,

00:03:14.400 my, uh, ally ideologically. Honestly, there are many concerns that conservatives have with Kavanaugh's

00:03:21.440 record, especially in regards to the fourth amendment, the right to privacy. Um, I, he's not a

00:03:26.880 Scalia. Um, he might be a textualist, but he's probably going to be a lot like Kennedy was. He's

00:03:32.500 probably going to disappoint us sometimes. Um, he hasn't proven himself to be this staunch, uh,

00:03:37.840 constitutional conservative in the same way that for example, Amy Coney Barrett was. Um,

00:03:43.120 so it wasn't about that for me. Like he will probably disappoint me. It wasn't about my ideology.

00:03:50.680 Yes. Of course it was about someone who's not going to be a leftist judicial activist. Who's going

00:03:54.940 to care about the constitution and the rule of law. Of course that's important to me because I care

00:03:59.640 about the perpetuation and the preservation of Liberty for myself, for my kids, all posterity,

00:04:04.420 but it was bigger than that. It was about justice. It was about, um, all men and women,

00:04:10.640 uh, being able to be confident in our justice system and be able to say an allegation is not

00:04:18.120 enough to ruin my life, man or woman, because yes, in this case it was a man and the accusation was

00:04:24.280 sexual assault, but it could be a woman in another way or, uh, in an, in another instance. I don't

00:04:30.660 want to live in that world. And the argument of course, from the left was, you know, this

00:04:34.720 confirmation hearing, the accusations with Ford, this was not a criminal trial. It doesn't have to

00:04:39.660 be innocent until proven guilty. The burden of proof doesn't have to be on the accuser. And you're

00:04:44.440 right that it's not necessarily a trial and that it was technically a job interview, but don't we

00:04:52.160 want our legislating body, uh, to abide by the basic principle that America was founded on that

00:04:59.780 a person is innocent until proven guilty. Do we really want our legislative body to hold nominees

00:05:06.640 and other elected officials to the standard of as long as you are accused, not even credibly accused,

00:05:12.460 but as long as you are accused, you're not only going to lose this opportunity, but we are going

00:05:17.060 to allow the media and other politicians to drag your name through the mud. Like, is that what

00:05:22.100 we want our Congress to abide by? So even though this is not a trial, um, innocent until proven

00:05:27.560 guilty should be a guidepost. Now that doesn't mean that that doesn't change our thoughts about

00:05:33.700 someone that that doesn't possibly taint, uh, someone's reputation. The fact that they were

00:05:38.480 accused of something, whether it was true or not, of course, those are natural consequences to being

00:05:42.380 accused of something. Um, but as far as real life consequences go or, uh, yeah, real life outcomes,

00:05:48.960 like not being appointed to the Supreme court. I do not think it's justice, uh, to say that someone

00:05:54.720 shouldn't be appointed just because they're accused of something that allegedly happened 36 years ago

00:05:59.880 and cannot be corroborated or substantiated. And I could go into all of the things that even developed

00:06:06.040 right before the confirmation actually happened that again, uh, just proved or helped, uh, helped the

00:06:13.080 support, um, for Kavanaugh and against Ford. There were letters, statements that came out. Her best

00:06:19.720 friend, Leland Kaiser, whom Ford said, uh, was actually at the party at the time. She came out

00:06:25.620 and said she felt pressure by Ford allies, uh, to say that she believed Ford when in reality, she had

00:06:32.220 no idea whether or not she should believe Ford. And she doesn't even know Brett Kavanaugh. She said that

00:06:37.020 she was actually, uh, pressured by people that Ford knows. So if you have not been able to see and

00:06:42.640 piece together at this point that this was a terrible, terrible democratically or Democrat

00:06:48.980 funded smear job, um, against Kavanaugh, then you have your blinders on. But here's, here's the reason,

00:06:57.060 uh, why so many people still have their blinders on. Um, it's because this turned into something that

00:07:03.840 was no longer about Kavanaugh and Ford. This wasn't about this particular case. It wasn't about an event

00:07:09.460 that happened 36 years ago. Um, this became a part of the larger Me Too movement. It became,

00:07:16.300 um, something about feminism rather than the facts at hand. So everyone attached Ford to the Me Too

00:07:23.140 movement and their own story of survival of sexual assault, rather than saying, wow, the facts and the

00:07:29.100 corroboration really don't go in her favor. That's what happens when you buy into identity politics.

00:07:36.160 This idea that if you're a woman, you have to believe this because the Me Too movement and

00:07:41.080 feminism is for women. So you had all of these women hysterically protesting in DC. I'm saying

00:07:46.860 that we believe Ford. We have to believe women. If you don't believe women, then you're a misogynist

00:07:51.340 or you're a rape apologist as the women's march has said. And as NARAL has said, or you don't care

00:07:58.560 about sexual assault, all these things, they're false arguments, but that's what happens in an identity

00:08:03.400 politics, tribalistic society. If you say my tribe believes this, my identity has to believe this.

00:08:10.620 I don't really care what the truth is. This is my mantra. This is my cause. I am going to die on this

00:08:16.720 hill no matter what. That's when facts become irrelevant. What happened was the Me Too movement

00:08:22.100 started as saying, we should listen to her. We should listen to a woman who comes forward with

00:08:27.540 these allegations. And I say, yes, we should listen to her. We should provide her cover. So she feels

00:08:33.380 safe to come forward and say, I was sexually assaulted however many years ago. But then we

00:08:38.040 moved from listen to her to believe her. And between listen to her and believe her, we stopped

00:08:44.200 caring about facts. We stopped caring about truth. We stopped caring about reality. Because this idea,

00:08:50.560 as we've said many times on this podcast of believing someone just because they're a woman is not just.

00:08:57.880 There is no biblical support for that. There is no logical support for that whatsoever.

00:09:02.760 Believing someone based on their gender. But that's what happened. So all of the people that

00:09:08.240 were stacked against Kavanaugh, they were stacked against him for emotional reasons, because they

00:09:16.220 were told by the higher ups on the left that this is about sexual assault, that this is about the

00:09:23.220 Me Too movement. This is about feminism. This is about women. And if you are for Kavanaugh, you are

00:09:29.000 against all of those things. And you're, you know, a misogynist and a rape apologist, like I said.

00:09:34.220 And people believed that because, again, people don't like being called those names. They don't

00:09:38.840 want to be a misogynist. So like, yeah, I guess I should be against Kavanaugh instead of actually

00:09:43.120 looking at the facts of the case and looking at what is actually true. That is identity politics for

00:09:49.440 you. And it's extremely unfortunate. And one thing that I found so sad, I mean, Alyssa Milano,

00:09:55.040 all of these celebrities were, you know, tweeting these stories of sexual assault. I saw this poor

00:10:00.000 15 year old girl who was standing up talking to maybe it was a senator. I'm not sure who she was

00:10:04.980 speaking to, but she was in tears sharing her story of sexual assault, 15 years old. And it broke my

00:10:11.060 heart. Anyone with a shred of humanity would watch that and say, wow, that's devastating that that would

00:10:16.440 happen to someone. What can we do to help her? But I felt for her not just because she was a victim

00:10:22.080 of whoever assaulted her, but also she was a victim of people on the left who manipulated her

00:10:27.040 into believing that this Ford versus Kavanaugh drama is about her story. That is the manipulation of

00:10:35.480 emotions. That's the leveraging of people's trauma in order to advance your political agenda. And that is

00:10:40.880 wrong because the reality is this particular case was not about anyone else's sexual assault. It was about

00:10:48.240 an allegation. Um, when you start to make this about your own sexual assault, that's when you stop

00:10:55.360 caring about what is true in this case and what is not. And look, as I've said many times before,

00:11:00.900 I have the utmost empathy for victims of sexual assault in anger towards sexual assaulters. Um,

00:11:09.660 I personally have never been a victim of sexual assault. I have been put as so many,

00:11:14.260 so many women that I know have have been put in situations where I'm like, wow, this is really

00:11:18.620 uncomfortable. I shouldn't be here. This person is pressuring me more than I want to be pressured.

00:11:23.960 I've been in that situation. I've never, I thank God I've never actually been a victim, but that doesn't

00:11:29.580 mean that I can't in some way relate to women who have been victimized, who have been abused. Um,

00:11:36.600 I understand that that must be unimaginable trauma. And I understand, I even understand this because

00:11:44.020 I have in some way been able to relate to this. I understand that if you have been sexually

00:11:49.380 assaulted, if you've been raped, whatever it is, you watch Dr. Ford and you have listened to all of

00:11:55.820 these stories of sexual assault and you've said, that's me. That sounds like me. I feel that pain.

00:12:01.700 I know exactly what she's going through. And while empathy is so powerful and while it's so convincing

00:12:08.380 and so compelling, you cannot let that blind you to reality. Because like I said, this is not about

00:12:16.660 sexual assault in general. This is about this particular case, this woman's story, whether or

00:12:22.220 not it can be proved or at least not even proven, but at least substantiated in this man's life and

00:12:28.020 his name that is being ruined. Um, you cannot make it about your story. And I feel badly for the young

00:12:36.440 women who have been told that it's about their story. The young women who have been told that,

00:12:41.260 Oh, if he is appointed to the Supreme court, uh, then that means that these politicians,

00:12:45.900 that the Republican party doesn't care about you. That's a lie. That's manipulation. Uh, Susan

00:12:52.400 Collins, who, uh, you know, the Senator for Maine, we didn't know she was a swing vote. She came in

00:12:57.340 clutch, uh, for Kavanaugh. She delivered this wonderful speech on the Senate floor. I'm really

00:13:03.280 refuting point by point, every single argument that leftists have put up against Kavanaugh.

00:13:08.380 Um, and she just reiterated that there's this argument, this false argument on the left,

00:13:14.060 that if you support Kavanaugh, then you don't care about sexual assault. And she just said,

00:13:18.760 that's not true. She is a supporter of me too. She is pro-choice. She is really in so many ways,

00:13:25.600 moderate and even leans to the left in a lot of ways. And she just very unemotionally and factually

00:13:31.100 kind of tried to assuage any fears or any concerns that people on the left had. Um,

00:13:36.340 and I'll play you just a little clip from her speech right now, but certain fundamental legal

00:13:42.960 principles about due process, the presumption of innocence and fairness do bear on my thinking

00:13:54.440 thing. And I cannot abandon them. In evaluating any given claim of misconduct, we will be ill-served in

00:14:05.660 the long run if we abandon the presumption of innocence and fairness, tempting though it may be.

00:14:15.520 We must always remember that it is when passions are most inflamed, that fairness is most in jeopardy.

00:14:28.920 So extremely reasonable. I didn't even agree with her entire speech because like I said,

00:14:32.720 she is pro-choice. She supports Planned Parenthood. Um, but she was speaking to a particular audience.

00:14:38.960 She was speaking to the leftist audience that has grown completely unhinged over this entire thing.

00:14:45.380 Um, and how did leftists respond at least on Twitter and blue check mark leftists respond?

00:14:51.260 Oh, Oh, this is, this is a disgrace. She's such a liar. She's so dishonest. She's so horrible

00:14:57.360 saying horrific things about her and her integrity and her honesty, of course, threatening to, you know,

00:15:03.100 remove funding from her 2020 campaign and all of this stuff. I'm like two days ago, you guys were

00:15:09.020 buttering her up and saying that she's a feminist, that she, she's going to do the quote right thing.

00:15:13.780 I mean, now you're saying she's anti-feminist. She hates women. But the funny thing is I did not see

00:15:19.200 one reasonable rebuttal to anything Susan Collins said. And I mean, she was factual point by point by

00:15:26.060 point. The only thing they heard is she doesn't believe women. She's demeaning victims of sexual

00:15:30.580 assault. Um, no, that's not what she's doing. And she actually explicitly said that's not what she's

00:15:37.340 doing. But again, um, it became entirely emotional for people, entirely emotional, had nothing to do

00:15:45.660 with reality anymore. And look, here's what made me so mad about the crazy people in the chamber who

00:15:54.580 were, uh, you know, protesting and things like that. Of course, we don't know who allowed them into the

00:15:59.980 chamber. That's a whole scandal in and of itself. The people who were, uh, storming DC and ask Amy

00:16:05.880 Schumer asking to get arrested, all of this ridiculousness, just screaming like banshees,

00:16:11.840 ad hominem attacks, you name it. Here's what bothers me about these so-called feminists and

00:16:17.860 these so-called me too advocates that have been just screaming relentlessly over this whole Kavanaugh

00:16:23.540 thing without actually offering any facts to this case is that women, feminist, not feminist,

00:16:29.540 have tried really hard for a long time. Uh, I would say decades to prove that we are to be taken

00:16:39.740 seriously, that we are a force to be reckoned with, that whether we are, um, in the boardroom,

00:16:48.060 in the classroom, whether we're at home, whether we are in Congress, whatever it is,

00:16:53.760 that we can do it, that we can handle it, that we can step up to the plate, that we are not

00:17:00.140 hysterical, that we don't just make emotional decisions. Um, and yet we have these, we have

00:17:08.760 these women, these feminists who have completely ruined that for us, who have completely disproved,

00:17:15.740 um, all of our assertions over the past few decades that we should be taken seriously.

00:17:19.960 And if we have concerns, we're going to address them in a logical, reasonable, calm way. Um,

00:17:26.760 we've proven women have proven over the past couple of weeks that that's not true,

00:17:30.880 that actually we do make completely emotional decisions and that we just, uh, believe anyone

00:17:36.060 who, uh, you know, agrees with our feelings. I think that's such a shame. All of these women who

00:17:41.960 say they're strong and empowered and should be taken seriously, probably need to calm down,

00:17:45.920 like tell the truth and don't rely entirely on your feelings. Um, so of course Democrats have not

00:17:54.860 taken this extremely well. They are already talking about impeachment, uh, which is possible. Um, you

00:18:04.140 have to have a, you have to have a super majority in the house. I'm just making sure that I get this

00:18:10.860 correct. You have to, or yeah, you have to have a super majority in the Senate and something else in

00:18:16.940 the house. Now I forgot. I'm just afraid that I'm going to get the qualifications wrong, but it's

00:18:22.020 possible to impeach someone. Now it's only actually happened one time and it was over 200 years ago,

00:18:26.920 I believe. Um, now a justice did resign a few decades ago under threats of impeachment. Um, but it's

00:18:33.820 very hard to impeach a Supreme court justice. It's probably not going to happen, but of course they're

00:18:40.200 talking about it. Nancy Pelosi said, Ooh, we're going to release the FBI report. She's completely

00:18:45.740 bluffing. If the FBI report had anything remotely incriminating about Kavanaugh, which it doesn't,

00:18:52.200 I guess I skipped that part. There was apparently nothing incriminating about it. We didn't actually

00:18:56.200 get to see it though. If there was anything remotely incriminating about Kavanaugh, if there was even a

00:19:01.160 hint of misconduct, uh, misconduct, uh, towards or about Kavanaugh in the report, Democrats would have

00:19:07.280 already leaked it and they would be completely exaggerating what was in it, but they haven't

00:19:11.700 said anything about it. All they say is that, Oh, it's incomplete. They didn't, uh, interview the

00:19:16.400 right people and the white house stopped them from interviewing the right people. That's a lie.

00:19:19.940 The white house has said, no, we didn't stop. We didn't stop them from investigating anything.

00:19:24.080 They investigated this and that's it. Sorry. And of course we knew that the Democrats were going to

00:19:29.840 move the goalpost on that. Um, but yeah, FBI report apparently, uh, came up with nothing.

00:19:36.180 And so there's not going to be, there's not going to be any reason or any way for them to impeach

00:19:40.960 them. But of course that is what they are threatening. Um, now with all of this absolute

00:19:46.500 madness and hysteria coming from the left, um, they're talking now about getting rid of the

00:19:52.120 electoral college because that's how, that's how, uh, that's how Kavanaugh happened. And that's how

00:19:57.760 Trump got elected. And we need to take away the electoral college. Of course, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

00:20:05.380 has said that's because she's an absolutely uneducated person. I was going to say something

00:20:10.420 more rude than that. She is an uneducated person. The only reason that they're talking about that

00:20:15.680 though, is because Trump won. If Hillary Clinton had won the electoral vote, they wouldn't be,

00:20:19.520 they wouldn't be talking about the electoral college, but they are because they're still

00:20:24.420 sore losers and they're realizing him winning the electoral vote hasn't turned out well for their

00:20:29.720 version of the country. Um, so amidst all of that absolute madness, their fierce, uh, the left's

00:20:38.040 fierce opposition to the constitution and to any kind of morality whatsoever, um, voter enthusiasm for

00:20:46.900 the GOP has gone up considerably. So there was an NBC poll that I read in NPR, um, that analyzed voter

00:20:54.780 enthusiasm between Republicans and Democrats in July. And they compared that to September. I think

00:21:00.060 Republican, uh, voter enthusiasm went up by 12 points since, uh, July. So Democrats were way ahead

00:21:07.340 of us in July, as far as saying, okay, the midterms are really important. We're going to come out to

00:21:11.560 vote. Republicans were less enthusiastic. Now Republicans, Democrats are in a tie. Um, and that is,

00:21:17.520 I guarantee you a direct result of the absolute madness that we have seen on the left. Um, look,

00:21:25.400 I, I've been a critic of Donald Trump. I'm a critic of Republicans. Like I, as someone who is really

00:21:30.700 pro-life, I am not particularly happy, um, about how Republicans have done things. Why are we still

00:21:36.600 funding Planned Parenthood? Uh, why haven't we, uh, funded the wall? Why aren't we doing a lot of the

00:21:44.140 things that we voted these Republicans in to do? Um, so I'm not saying that Republicans are awesome

00:21:51.340 and that that is my pitch to you to vote for them in the midterms, but it would take so much for me

00:21:58.580 to, I don't even know what a Republican, I don't even know if I could not vote for a Republican in

00:22:04.520 the midterms because I am genuinely so scared of what the left has become and the version of the country

00:22:12.140 that they want. Like they have become so unhinged, so, um, so opposed to the constitution, so opposed

00:22:20.740 to patriotism, so opposed to our country's founding to free speech, to, uh, freedom of thought, to the

00:22:27.820 second amendment, to capitalism, that I will do whatever it takes to keep Democrats out. Like if

00:22:35.240 they want a world in which you are guilty until proven innocent to where rape allegations don't have

00:22:40.680 to have a burden of proof, um, then I will do whatever it takes to make sure that they are not

00:22:47.260 controlling this country. I think that's how a lot of people feel about Donald Trump. That's how I feel

00:22:51.960 about Donald Trump as a critic of Donald Trump. It's like, I don't even know what he could do at

00:22:55.920 this point to make me not vote for him. It's not that I'm voting for him or even for Republicans. I am

00:23:01.400 voting against Democrats. I am voting for not Democrats and Democrats are so stupid in that all they have

00:23:09.340 to do in order to win over moderate voters. Not me. I'm not moderate, but win over moderate voters,

00:23:14.420 people in the middle, um, would be to not be crazy. Like just be normal and have a conversation and be

00:23:21.840 reasonable for a little bit. I guarantee you, you will win a lot, a lot more people over and you will

00:23:27.680 probably take over the country and enjoy a long reign of the country, but they can't, they can't,

00:23:33.720 they get more and more left more and more radical and their political correctness and their demand

00:23:40.040 for uniformity of thought, um, in their, uh, hatred for capitalism and their love for socialism and

00:23:47.280 totalitarian regimes that I'm like, I, I, I can't even, I, I, I, I will just do whatever it takes.

00:23:54.160 I will do whatever it takes to make sure that you are not in power. Um, and I think that's why voter

00:23:59.680 enthusiasm is up and I encourage you. I mean, you don't have to think the same way I do. Maybe you

00:24:05.400 see things totally differently. Maybe you're an independent and you're not gonna, you're not gonna

00:24:09.280 vote for Republicans in the midterms. I would encourage you to look at the state of the Democrat

00:24:15.140 party and look at the state of the left and remember how unhinged and how cruel they have been

00:24:21.920 over the past couple of weeks and ruining a man's life and how crazy they are now and opposing things

00:24:28.620 like the electoral college in the constitution and think about the future that you want for the

00:24:33.840 country. If I were you, which I'm not, but if I were you, I would do absolutely whatever it took to make

00:24:43.700 sure that Democrats do not take over. And that means I would vote Republican. If I were you, I would

00:24:50.820 campaign for Republicans. I would donate to Republican campaigns. I would, um, go block

00:24:58.500 walking. I would make sure that you are as involved as you possibly can. Now I'm not saying you should

00:25:03.880 compromise your principles. Like if there's a candidate, say he's a Republican and he's just

00:25:07.900 a terrible person. He doesn't stand for anything that you stand for. He's Republican in name only,

00:25:13.600 or he's just done some really terrible things. I'm not saying that you should compromise your

00:25:17.420 values for that vote for the Liberty minded candidate, uh, vote for the person that's going to go to

00:25:23.980 Washington or go to your state legislature and actually fight for your Liberty and fight for

00:25:28.900 your freedom and fight against this crazy insane world that the left is building for us. Like I'm

00:25:35.500 actually scared of that world. I really, really am. And that means I am going to continue to vote for

00:25:42.120 Republicans, even though they might be imperfect and perfect is a lot better to me than absolutely

00:25:49.700 insane and ruinous. So that's where I stand on that. I'm glad to see Republican enthusiasm is up. I want

00:25:56.640 to keep it there. Um, get involved in the local campaigns, talk to your friends, make sure you're having

00:26:03.320 conversations with your friends who are on, on the edge, who maybe don't know what to think. Aren't super

00:26:09.120 politically involved. Make sure you register them to vote. Uh, look online to see when the deadline is for

00:26:14.960 registration to vote for your particular state. Uh, make sure all of your friends are voting. Be that

00:26:20.520 annoying friend. That's like freaking exercise. You're right. That people died for make sure that

00:26:26.520 you go vote. And when you're thinking about who to vote for, think about the values that you want

00:26:30.680 protected for your kids and your grandkids, which should be Liberty, the ability of anyone to pursue

00:26:37.020 their own definition of happiness unencumbered by government regulation. Huh? Okay. So that is all that

00:26:44.900 a couple more things. I just wanted to kind of recap you on that again. Thank you guys for all of

00:26:50.500 your support in, in all of this. Um, I think that we're, I think that we're going to be okay. Like

00:26:56.500 it gives me hope for the country that this actually, that he was actually confirmed. Um, so now I'm going

00:27:01.580 to answer a listener question, and then I'm going to highlight an awesome nonprofit that one of you

00:27:06.960 guys sent me as I promised to do at least once a week. Um, okay. So listener question. My name is

00:27:14.500 Emily and I listened to your podcast often. I grew up in a Christian household. However, about six

00:27:18.880 years ago, I drifted away from God. I currently identify as an atheist, but the idea of believing

00:27:23.520 in God is always pressing on me. Can you answer any questions about how and why God exists and what

00:27:28.800 I as an atheist can do to come to believe in him? First of all, Emily, I think it's amazing that as

00:27:34.540 an atheist, you have this curiosity and this open-mindedness and that you're willing to have this

00:27:40.280 conversation because it's a very vulnerable and a unique place to be nowadays to say,

00:27:45.240 I don't know, but I'm willing to explore. Everyone nowadays has their mind completely made

00:27:51.040 up and they think that if they don't have their mind made up, that it's a sign of weakness.

00:27:54.920 It's not a sign of weakness. It's a sign of strength. So the fact that you are responding

00:27:59.720 to this kind of pressing that you feel on your heart, which I'll get to that in a second.

00:28:04.260 Um, and the fact that you're willing to reach out to someone like me, who you know,

00:28:08.160 is a Christian says a lot about you. It says a lot about your curiosity, your strength of character.

00:28:14.040 And I just commend you for doing that. I know it's not easy. It's, uh, a hard thing to do to

00:28:19.040 put yourself out there like that and say that you don't know. Um, so I will say that the fact that you

00:28:25.460 are feeling something pressing on you is a good indication that something, something exists outside

00:28:33.940 of you. Otherwise, uh, what would be pressing on you? How can you explain any kind of conviction

00:28:40.720 or any kind of force from something outside of you saying, Hey, maybe you should walk in this

00:28:46.760 direction, or maybe you should be curious about this. So I say as a Christian, that it's not a

00:28:51.900 coincidence that you feel something on your heart and that you have decided to ask this question.

00:28:57.560 So the best explanation, there are so many great explanations that people have come to

00:29:03.200 over the years for why God exists or the best, um, reasoning for the existence of God and an

00:29:10.340 existence of a higher power. One that has really made a big effect on, or had a big effect on me

00:29:16.740 is C.S. Lewis's explanation for a higher power, not even talking about the Christian God yet, but

00:29:22.360 a higher power. He is C.S. Lewis was an atheist, um, highly intellectual and just rejected this idea

00:29:30.340 of human beings needing a God and that became a Christian has a really amazing story. Um, I actually

00:29:36.280 already emailed Emily back and recommended mere Christianity, but in mere Christianity, um, he talks

00:29:42.560 about this existence of a moral law that really every sane person abides by. There's a reason why we have

00:29:50.480 human rights organizations that transcend borders on that really everyone agrees with. There's a reason

00:29:55.640 why the UN, for example, has particular human rights standards that everyone agrees with. And if you go

00:30:01.280 against these human rights, um, you are considered wrong or immoral and you get punished. Um, there is a

00:30:07.640 reason why there is a moral law that transcends all time and transcends all culture. And there's really

00:30:13.020 a few basic things that we can all agree are wrong. Taking an innocent life. Now, again, abortion makes

00:30:21.020 us more complex, but if you, even if you talk to someone who's pro-choice, you would say taking an

00:30:25.760 innocent life is wrong. Abusing someone is wrong. Taking something that is not yours is wrong and

00:30:31.820 immoral. And again, we could have disagreements on what this looks like, but in general, like we believe

00:30:36.700 that for example, slave camps, uh, that are in North Korea and even in China, that that's wrong.

00:30:43.260 That's a crime against humanity that, uh, sex trafficking is wrong. So the question, if you

00:30:49.540 agree that there is some kind of transcendent moral law that all sane and relatively moral human beings

00:30:57.060 have come to agree upon that, I'm not going to take your stuff. You don't take my stuff. I'm not going

00:31:01.500 to hurt you. You don't hurt me. If you do, that's going, you're going to be punished. Um, you have to

00:31:06.340 ask yourself where that higher law came from. Um, it didn't come from the government because it's

00:31:14.080 existed before governments actually existed. Um, where did it come from? Why did we agree on this

00:31:20.840 higher moral law? If a higher moral law exists, that some kind of, that we all agree on some basics

00:31:27.600 on right and wrong, then there has to be a moral law giver. If a law exists, a law giver exists. And if

00:31:34.780 we all agree that there is some kind of moral law, we have to agree that it came from somewhere.

00:31:39.880 And the only, the only kind of thing that can give something that is transcendent, like a universal

00:31:46.480 moral law is a being that is also transcendent. Something that is above government, something that

00:31:51.820 is above human beings. If it has transcended time and culture, then its source is also transcendent.

00:31:58.320 Um, it's not just evolutionary because it actually would be beneficial for me to kill my neighbor.

00:32:04.380 If I feel like my neighbor is entrenching on my food and my survival, it would be good for me to

00:32:10.000 kill him. And yet there is something in the human heart that says, no, that's, that's wrong to kill

00:32:15.220 someone just because I want to. Why do we agree on that? Well, if there's a moral law and a moral law

00:32:22.940 giver, we have to answer for who, who that moral law giver is. Um, and of course, and this is going

00:32:31.220 to take forever and we're already over our time, but so I would encourage you to read C.S. Lewis to

00:32:36.900 go from, okay, there's an existence of a higher power to, okay, how do we get to the Christian God?

00:32:41.900 And then how do we get to Jesus Christ, which is the crux of the Christian faith? Um, but I would

00:32:46.920 start there. I would start with saying, okay, um, how do I fill the gap between what I believe like

00:32:54.420 a moral law and what I see in the world and who actually gave me these things? Why I think this

00:33:00.700 way, why the entire world seems to function on the same moral law clock? Where did that transcendent

00:33:06.420 idea actually come from? Um, if there is something bigger than us that we cannot understand,

00:33:12.720 then why is it unbelievable to believe that there is a higher being that is bigger than

00:33:18.720 us that we can't understand? So if human beings have the ability to say, wow, there's this idea

00:33:24.340 of an infinite that my mind can't comprehend. For example, if you sit there and try to think

00:33:28.680 of eternity, like your mind can't do it, then why is it so amazing to think that there could

00:33:32.860 be a God that exists outside of what our minds can really understand? If we understand that

00:33:37.780 humans are finite, that we can't understand something that's infinite, why would it be unbelievable

00:33:42.080 that there would be a higher power? That's also infinite that we can't fully understand

00:33:45.560 in our minds. Um, so that's where I would start. I would read a reason for God by Tim Keller,

00:33:50.400 read mere Christianity, um, by CS Lewis. Now you might not like all of their, all of their

00:33:55.980 ideas. You might not agree with them, wrestle with them. That's okay. Um, faith without doubt

00:34:00.280 is like a body without antibodies. It's okay to have doubt. Um, it actually makes it stronger

00:34:05.140 as long as you go into the truth and seek the truth in those doubts rather than run away

00:34:09.920 from it. You're going to end up. Okay. God is bigger than that. And he's in control of

00:34:13.760 all of that. And I am so thankful that he is pressing on your heart. That's not a coincidence.

00:34:19.420 Realize that that's not a coincidence. There are plenty of atheists who don't have the same

00:34:23.560 feelings that you do. So I would say run into that curiosity and don't be scared of it even

00:34:28.200 when it makes you uncomfortable. And if you have any more questions, you can always reach

00:34:31.500 out to me. You already know my email because you emailed me. So thank you for your question.

00:34:34.960 Uh, last thing is a nonprofit. So, uh, the nonprofit that I, uh, was sent was save the

00:34:43.500 storks, which I'm already familiar with. Um, I'll read what it is. They partner with pregnancy

00:34:48.380 resource centers and they give abortion vulnerable women. So women in crisis pregnancy situations,

00:34:53.160 uh, a choice that's going to change their lives. They partner with resource centers all over

00:34:58.860 the nation. Uh, they provide the centers with, uh, tools and training, uh, to help connect with the

00:35:05.060 women in these crisis pregnancy situations. They have mobile sonogram units, um, and they are able

00:35:11.220 to go to these pregnancy centers and better equip them to make sure that they are reaching the people

00:35:15.200 in their community. Um, they have already helped save over 4,000 babies. If you guys are, don't already

00:35:21.440 know an abortion happens, I think it's every 30 seconds. So save the stork is going in to that

00:35:27.440 extremely, um, extremely scary and frightening and very vulnerable place for women and providing

00:35:35.240 them with options. So this is, if you don't have a particular resource center in your area that you

00:35:40.720 can volunteer at, or you can, um, send money to then save the storks would be a perfect cause for

00:35:46.620 you to get involved in and to donate to you can go to save the storks.com, uh, to get more involved.

00:35:53.520 I encourage you to do that. As you guys know, I am, um, extremely pro-life. It's, uh, uh, it's a,

00:36:00.200 an issue that I am extremely passionate about. And what I want us to do is to not just make abortion

00:36:06.980 not legal, but also make it not needed, or at least I don't want women to feel that they need it. So

00:36:15.200 that means loving them, providing them with resources, providing them with the tools that

00:36:19.560 they need to make a decision to put their child up for adoption or maybe to raise their baby.

00:36:24.640 Um, and so any, any way we can fill in that gap and offer hope, I think it's amazing. So go to

00:36:29.260 save the storks.com. Uh, thank you guys so much for listening. I hope that you have a great rest of

00:36:34.380 your Tuesday and I will see you back here on Thursday. Thanks.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - October 09, 2018

Ep 44 ｜ And This Is Why We Vote

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