Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - July 15, 2021


Ep 455 ｜ Harry & Meghan's Two-Child Policy


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Is it wrong to limit the number of kids you have? What does the Bible say about it? Is it moral to have less than 2 kids? What are the benefits of limiting kids to sustainable levels? And what are the downsides of population control?

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00:00:00.000 hey guys welcome to relatable happy thursday if you are watching this on youtube you can tell
00:00:15.340 that i am not in my studio i know i wasn't in my studio on tuesday i'm not in my studio today it's
00:00:20.820 been kind of a crazy week um but if you're just listening to this i do have my same microphone so
00:00:26.720 i should sound the same so just bear with me what we're talking about today is more important than my
00:00:32.700 changed setting we are going to talk about um parenthood and the reaction to parenthood in
00:00:38.280 children in popular culture and then of course what the bible says about it and it's is this is
00:00:43.400 based on a few news stories um that were sent to me that i think show the different kinds of
00:00:49.740 perspectives that we see in secular culture about having kids so this first uh story that made me
00:00:57.660 start thinking about this was a crazy story that almost just sounded like some kind of i don't know
00:01:04.760 if it sounded like a satirical headline or something that you would have read in like brave new world
00:01:09.500 but populationmatters.org reported that harry and megan are receiving a special award from
00:01:16.260 populationmatters a uk-based charity because they publicly declared their intention to limit their
00:01:21.640 family to two they're helping to ensure a better future for their children and providing a role
00:01:27.880 model for other families so they've got that they've got a two-year-old uh son and then they've got a one
00:01:34.560 month old daughter great i think it's great that they have a beautiful family and if they wanted to
00:01:40.260 limit their family to two kids whatever that's fine but the fact that they're getting an award for
00:01:45.540 limiting how many kids they have to supposedly save the environment is ridiculous the idea that
00:01:51.880 limiting the number of kids you have is actually virtuous that's what i'm uncomfortable with i don't
00:01:57.400 think it's wrong for you to limit how many kids you have but winning an award for that for apparently
00:02:03.180 helping helping the world i'm not really sure that i can be on board with that especially when you
00:02:09.300 consider that i'm not really sure that that is that much of a credit to the future to limit the
00:02:14.160 number of kids that you're having this whole idea of the world being overpopulated and the more people
00:02:19.560 that we have actually being a debit to society and a debit to the world rather than a credit rather
00:02:25.160 than a positive contribution to the future i'm just not on board with that not only is it not biblical
00:02:30.480 it's also not moral and you can lead or you can see what kind of mentality that would lead to to start
00:02:37.800 seeing um every newborn child as some kind of liability as some kind of burden that we need to
00:02:46.780 get rid of and you just wonder if that kind of thinking is also wrapped up in um the the push to
00:02:54.540 uh you know subsidize abortions not just here but worldwide so the federalist reported on this story
00:03:00.680 quote for vowing to only have two children max prince harry and megan markle have received an
00:03:07.140 environmental award from the united kingdom based charity population matters the group dubbed the
00:03:12.300 estranged ex-royals role models for their enlightened decision back in 2019 harry and markle pledged not to
00:03:20.940 have more than two kids out of global sustainability fears i'm sure they're flying commercial too uh prince
00:03:26.720 harry said in a 2019 interview with british vogue that the couple would only have two kids maximum
00:03:33.560 this is just so funny to me that this is being reported as something that is virtuous or they're
00:03:39.000 trying to say it as something that is virtuous as if this is like some difficult sacrifice that is
00:03:44.600 actually going to make the world a better place because he and his wife believe that the earth is
00:03:50.140 borrowed borrowed borrowed from whom uh because surely being as intelligent as we all are or as
00:03:57.280 evolved as we all are supposed to be said harry we should be able to leave something better behind
00:04:02.660 for the next generation see i just have a much more positive view of human beings and especially
00:04:08.020 children than these people do i think that the more children that we have and the more we raise them
00:04:12.780 to be responsible kind good stewards of not just the earth but also the people around them the better
00:04:18.900 the world will be i just don't see human beings as a burden on resources i see them as adding to the
00:04:26.500 goodness in the world even though bad people exist that's absolutely true but we need more good and
00:04:32.080 kind and thoughtful and smart intelligent people having and raising good and kind and smart intelligent
00:04:38.560 thoughtful wise kids uh many experts the federalist goes on to say do not believe population control
00:04:45.440 will actually do anything to help the environment moreover modern population control policies in
00:04:50.380 places like india and china have had very negative consequences like severe gender imbalance and 0.91
00:04:56.000 forced sterilizations of course that is true in china you guys know we've talked about before but you
00:05:01.100 probably knew before we talked about it china's one child policy they forcibly aborted babies up to nine 0.99
00:05:09.580 months gestation for several years in china trying to reduce the population and now there are many more
00:05:16.140 men than there are women because a lot of these were gender-based abortions uh discriminating against 0.99
00:05:21.720 little girls in the womb and also they don't have a younger population that's going to replace their 1.00
00:05:27.680 oldest population and so they're facing a challenge there anytime we try to reduce the population through
00:05:33.920 these means there are going to be humans rights human rights abuses this actually happened in the united
00:05:39.000 states in the mid-20th century or actually earliest earlier 20th century in the eugenicist movement i
00:05:45.400 think there were i read the other day there were like 20 000 people with different kinds of special
00:05:50.500 needs that were forcibly sterilized as children in the state of california alone and thankfully i think 0.87
00:05:55.280 it was in the 1970s that that was outlawed but that was something that was going on in the united states now
00:06:00.920 the article that i read was of course a left-leaning outlet didn't mention that the person who started
00:06:06.320 planned parenthood margaret singer was uh one of the pioneers of eugenics in the united states but you
00:06:13.140 see how all of this is like nothing is new as ecclesiastes says there's nothing new under the sun a lot
00:06:19.780 of the depravity and the hatred of children that we're seeing right now and the fear of overpopulation
00:06:25.260 and the desire for like uh a pure a pure population with no special needs for example like in iceland
00:06:32.300 when uh they decided that they were going to basically abort every child who was diagnosed in
00:06:38.140 the womb with down syndrome now they hardly have any down syndrome children all of this stuff has been
00:06:43.620 going on for a very long time unfortunately it just it comes with it comes with new technology that makes
00:06:49.300 it easier it comes with new political labels that makes it seem more sterilized or makes it seem
00:06:54.620 more moral and now that political label that moral label even is saving the world and saving the
00:07:02.280 environment um and so sadly we see just different forms of depravity evolving in different ways and
00:07:09.520 not only is it depraved but it's also just not true that we need to limit the population in order to
00:07:15.060 save the environment or to save the world as the federalist uh reported harry and megan are known
00:07:21.580 climate fanatics and harry has even claimed that the coronavirus pandemic was a punishment from
00:07:28.900 mother nature for humanity harming the earth just as a side note that just goes to show how religious 1.00
00:07:35.420 i think a lot of professing atheists are i don't know if they profess to be atheist or not but a lot of
00:07:41.400 professing atheists who are what you would call climate change fanatics are very religious about it
00:07:47.220 in that they're not willing to challenge any of the dogmas that they have that they have so firmly
00:07:54.000 implanted in their minds and then they use very religious and almost mystical language like this
00:08:00.660 like this is the earth punishing us we're borrowing the earth and mother nature is punishing us and so
00:08:06.520 i think that this is really just their world their progressive worldview coming out that is probably
00:08:13.080 that probably has more to do with their limit of children than actually any data supporting the idea
00:08:18.560 that it's going to help stop climate change in some way and like i said it seems like some of the
00:08:25.100 biggest climate change fanatics too or i guess anti-climate change fanatics i don't know what you call
00:08:30.680 them they're not willing to make real sacrifices like you're not going to see harry and megan take a
00:08:37.120 dart bus from like new york to texas if they want to travel they're always going to fly private
00:08:41.900 they're always going to travel as much as they want to eat whatever they want to buy clothes from
00:08:47.360 whomever from wherever they want without a thought to sustainability or their carbon footprint or
00:08:53.880 anything like that but because they can win an award for limiting their their children to just to
00:08:59.540 apparently um that is what they are going to do unfortunately for markle and harry their climate
00:09:05.140 crisis cries have largely fallen on deaf ears many point out that if the couple were truly concerned
00:09:10.400 about the global about global sustainability this is going along with what i said i'm reading again
00:09:16.100 from the federalist the little family of four wouldn't live in an 18 671 square foot mansion
00:09:23.000 with amenities and include a library that includes a library gym separate wet and dry saunas i mean that's
00:09:30.880 just necessary i mean that's just something that everyone has who doesn't have both a wet and a dry
00:09:36.500 sauna um a game room a home theater and an arcade they also wouldn't use private jets that have
00:09:43.220 drastically increased harry and markle's personal carbon footprint of course this is always what we
00:09:50.080 see this is just posturing it's what you call a virtue signal you do something that really has no
00:09:56.880 you know lasting effect on you or maybe something that you wanted to do anyway maybe you only wanted to
00:10:01.580 have two kids but because you can get some kind of um award for it and you know that people are going
00:10:07.600 to give you a pat on the back for it you do it without making any other real sacrifices so i just
00:10:13.920 want to make clear that the person who lives in a small house in say the midwest with seven children
00:10:18.840 is doing a lot more to fight climate change than harry and megan are living in their mansion with their
00:10:24.620 only two children all right i'm going to um transition now into talking about this next
00:10:31.880 point which is seeing kids as social experiments all right i want to talk about this very disturbing
00:10:44.040 story so a couple featured on a show called nine months with courtney cox have both transitioned and
00:10:50.840 completely switched gender roles so i know this is going to be super confusing if you're listening to this
00:10:55.820 with your kids might not be like the best episode ever to do that what i'm about to say is kind of
00:11:00.940 confusing and pretty disturbing so this story came up on instagram nine months with courtney cox
00:11:07.020 about this couple having a baby and so here's here's the summary from the post-millennial
00:11:12.780 the baby suckles patrona a two-spirit uh nahua trans woman okay while what while what the biden 0.96
00:11:22.440 administration would call the birthing person a hanu a two-spirit kainai non-binary trans masculine
00:11:30.460 person looks on okay they're trolling us i there's no okay let me translate this for you so um
00:11:36.960 because i've already read i've already read and figured out this story for you uh a two-spirit
00:11:42.100 trans woman this is a man a biological man who identifies as a woman um yes and then uh a hanu 0.87
00:11:52.220 the two-spirit kainai non-binary trans masculine person is actually a woman okay so this woman who
00:12:00.880 identifies as a man had the baby had the baby vaginally and then this man who identifies as a woman and
00:12:08.460 identifies as the mother is actually the father of the baby so in this clip that was going around
00:12:13.960 on instagram from nine months with courtney cox the family can be seen snuggling in bed under a
00:12:19.740 multicolored blanket shortly after the child's birth which was gestated in a hanu's body a hanu lies 1.00
00:12:25.560 topless postpartum belly exposed with mastectomy scars on her chest a beard on her face
00:12:31.020 uh by the side of patrona who holds the child to uh to their male chest i'll say his male chest
00:12:38.540 and uh the woman who identifies as a man asks are they getting any milk the baby is not getting any
00:12:47.740 milk and so not only do they identify themselves as different genders than what their biology tells 0.94
00:12:54.620 them they also are refusing to gender their child and what's happening is in this clip that i'm about
00:13:01.200 to show but if you're listening you won't get to see it is that um is that this man who identifies as
00:13:07.300 a woman is actually trying to breastfeed this child and is very sad and frustrated that uh the child
00:13:13.140 isn't getting any milk oh i have to put it over here so this man who again identifies as the woman says
00:13:22.880 the baby has been able to latch patrona tells the camera as a hanu looks on silently but i've not 0.71
00:13:29.600 been able to produce any milk because you are a dude and you can't breastfeed and this is super sad
00:13:38.520 to me this is super sad and i know that i'm making light of this because it's ridiculous and what else
00:13:43.400 can you do but laugh because if you don't laugh you're gonna cry about it and honestly i could cry
00:13:47.700 about it because this is when it goes beyond that okay you know whatever people do in their bedrooms
00:13:54.280 is none of my business whatever to you know consenting adults want to do however they want
00:13:59.860 to dress is none of my business and of course that is true to a certain extent but you see
00:14:03.980 how this is having an effect on people who don't have a choice like this child doesn't have a choice
00:14:09.920 and is trying and is forced to suckle at a man's nipple who is never going to produce any milk this 0.70
00:14:16.480 poor child who is hungry as all children are i've birthed twice i have breastfed two children i know
00:14:23.400 what this is like they're hungry they want something to eat and you are basically forcing this child to
00:14:29.580 grasp for air knowing that nothing is going to come out of you that is child abuse and if we had
00:14:35.300 any kind of sane system in our world everyone would be outraged about this but we are told this is
00:14:41.400 beautiful that we should just accept that this that this is great that we can't even talk about
00:14:47.080 this child being a victim of a social experiment which is exactly what either he or she is and like
00:14:54.520 i said i don't know if this child is um a he or a she so we've talked about we've talked about this
00:15:02.700 before well first let me say that obviously and i'm not saying this about all people who just happen
00:15:08.020 to be different or who lead lives that i don't agree with but these people you can tell from how
00:15:12.460 they're talking and what they're talking about and their behavior there is obviously mental disturbance
00:15:17.260 there there is there is a mental disturbance there there has to be mental disturbance to think that
00:15:21.840 this man who is a man who identifies as a woman and wants to be called the mother is going to be able
00:15:27.140 to breastfeed this child now i know that there are instances there are recorded instances throughout
00:15:33.640 history of men being able to lactate but it's actually like this dysfunction that can happen
00:15:39.000 if a man for example is starved for a long period of time it has something to do with the liver
00:15:43.640 that is not something that naturally happens the oxytocin that is actually released both in men and women
00:15:50.500 when a child is born doesn't produce milk because it doesn't have his body doesn't work the same way
00:15:55.580 as it does in women and so anyone who says like oh yeah a man can breastfeed that happened one time 1.00
00:16:02.100 in some like pygmy tribe 3 000 years ago okay it doesn't typically happen that is not typically how
00:16:08.520 it works that's not how god made us and children are more than social experiments and i've said before
00:16:13.660 many times progressivism always uses children as social experiments whether it comes to population
00:16:19.700 control because of climate change whether it comes to the rearrangement of the family or the
00:16:24.900 redefining of the family whether it comes to the rearrangement redefining of of gender kids do not
00:16:30.980 have the ability to consent in these situations and we throw them in there we pretend like human nature
00:16:36.800 doesn't matter like all of history doesn't tell us anything about how human beings are supposed to
00:16:42.660 function in the environments that we thrive in and we say hey hope you adapt and do well and then we're
00:16:47.780 surprised when um a lot of kids especially today are uh unstable um this is super super sad and i'm afraid
00:16:57.980 that we're going to see more of this and this is exactly why by the way we have to be bold enough
00:17:03.660 and i don't even think it should take that much boldness to be able to just say look like a man can't
00:17:08.700 become a woman and vice versa it just can't happen and i'm not even willing to go any farther than that i
00:17:15.800 there was this whole drama on twitter a couple days ago where um tommy laren who i don't interact with i think
00:17:25.760 she blocked me on twitter like a long time ago i've never interacted with her talked talked to her
00:17:29.880 anything like that but she was trending and she was defending um caitlin jenner because apparently
00:17:36.920 caitlin jenner was at cpac and people were yelling at caitlin and calling caitlin all these names and
00:17:45.900 being really awful which obviously i totally disagree with like that is that that is terrible like there's
00:17:51.740 no reason to harass or be unkind to anyone no matter how they uh how they identify well tommy said
00:17:59.760 that she supports caitlin she didn't just defend caitlin against these people who were harassing
00:18:06.340 uh who were harassing caitlin she was um saying that she supports caitlin for governor because caitlin has
00:18:14.300 the same values as her caitlin is a conservative and other conservatives should embrace caitlin and
00:18:23.100 that i disagree with now if californians want to vote for caitlin like i understand that might be a
00:18:30.060 better alternative to gavin newsom i agree but my argument is if conservatives cannot conserve
00:18:37.480 what is the most or at least one of the most fundamental facts of life which is male and female
00:18:44.460 that doesn't mean that the most fundamental fact of life is how male and female always manifests
00:18:48.920 itself it doesn't mean that the most fundamental fact of life is that women have to wear skirts and
00:18:53.120 men have to wear pants or that men have to have short hair and men and women have to have long hair
00:18:57.940 i'm not talking about that i'm talking about the biological reality the biological dichotomy
00:19:02.660 of male and female is one of the most, if not the most fundamental facts of life without which
00:19:09.520 none of us would be here. Like if we accept this idea that trans women are women or trans men are 0.98
00:19:16.620 men, whatever that means, that's some mantra without any actual substantive meaning whatsoever.
00:19:21.560 If we accept that, then we're accepting every absurdity that postmodernism has ever produced.
00:19:29.820 If we can't even conserve that, hey, yeah, biology matters and a man is a man and a woman is a woman. 0.97
00:19:36.280 Like, do we honestly think we're going to stand up for something as that's less fundamental than that,
00:19:42.820 like the Constitution? And I got all these. I said that basically on Twitter. I got all these
00:19:47.800 libertarians mad at me and saying all Christian conservatives are the reason why Republicans
00:19:52.920 lose. OK, let's like let's tease out that logic a little bit. You're saying because conservatives
00:19:59.800 aren't more liberal, we're losing. If conservatives were just liberal, like if we just gave more
00:20:06.320 ground on more social issues, then maybe we would win more elections. I guarantee you it's the opposite.
00:20:12.480 I guarantee you the reason why so many Republicans lose is because they've got the moral strength of
00:20:19.540 a wet noodle. Like they won't stand up for these controversial social issues because they're scared
00:20:26.040 to. If Republicans had a spine, then they would stand up for a lot of these things that are so
00:20:31.800 obvious. You wouldn't have people like Asa Hutchinson in Arkansas refusing to protect girls' sports and 1.00
00:20:37.500 girls' privacy, but instead citing, you know, the precedent of Ronald Reagan or something like that 1.00
00:20:43.680 to say, oh, yeah, you know, we should just allow parents to allow their child to be chemically
00:20:49.980 castrated in the name of gender transition. No, thank you. I just I don't buy that. And by the way, 0.87
00:20:56.660 even if it were true, like even if it were true that, OK, Republicans would win if they were just
00:21:02.900 more socially liberal. And that's where the Republican Party is going. OK, well, the Republican
00:21:07.540 Party is going to leave me. That's fine. I don't care. You think that's my primary identity? If the
00:21:13.000 Republican Party moves to the left on all the social issues, I won't say a Republican. I don't care.
00:21:17.180 And by the way, I would say the Republican Party is more liberal than me on on social issues in
00:21:22.660 general. Like, I don't think privately, I think a lot of, you know, Christian conservative legislators
00:21:27.460 probably think the same way I do about this, but publicly they won't say so. I would say the official
00:21:32.940 like stances of the Republican Party when it comes to a lot of moral issues are more to the left than I
00:21:38.300 am. And if they just keep going, then that's fine. And I just won't be a Republican anymore. And
00:21:44.900 Republicans can just move to the left. And I'm sure that they will just start winning so many
00:21:50.480 elections when they start saying that the that men and women, that those categories just don't
00:21:57.240 actually exist. The point to this segment, though, was that children are not social experiments. They
00:22:03.140 cannot consent to be social experiments. And they are not like a prize that you they're not like a prize
00:22:13.900 that you win or that you get to put on your shelf to say, OK, I accomplished this in my life. Or I've
00:22:19.340 always wanted to feel like a woman. And so I'm going to have a child and try to breastfeed so I can
00:22:24.740 have, you know, this so I can have this proof that I'm really a woman. They're people like they're
00:22:30.560 people as Christians. We believe they're made in the image of God. They're people with souls.
00:22:34.200 They have requirements for certain kinds of nurturing. I've also said a lot that progressivism,
00:22:39.940 I believe, gets human nature wrong and that in the debate between like between nature and nurture,
00:22:47.160 progressives always pick nurture. They believe that human beings are basically just a product
00:22:51.180 of our environment that we can that people can adapt. Like if, hey, we just implemented
00:22:57.120 communism tomorrow, everyone would just be happy, man. And we would just not want to have private
00:23:03.100 property anymore. We would just be happy for the federal government to distribute everything that
00:23:07.860 we need. How's that going in Cuba? Not very well. Or, yeah, you know, it's fine if we just redefine
00:23:13.940 what genders are. If we just all accept that we're just, you know, genderless, non-binary people
00:23:20.680 and we no longer have gendered bathrooms, we won't have to worry about things like sexual assault and 0.95
00:23:25.760 sexual harassment and predators and things like that. Things that were already seen, by the way,
00:23:30.480 and for example, women's prisons. But they're wrong. Like human beings have natures that just can't 1.00
00:23:36.240 change. And that is one of the reasons why communism and socialism fail so drastically is because it
00:23:44.440 goes against the human nature to provide for yourself, to make a profit, to be able to care
00:23:50.900 for your own family without the infringement of the government, to be able to own private and personal
00:23:56.360 property. And progressivism in general just doesn't believe that there is a human nature that we
00:24:02.260 actually have to respect, but that human nature can actually be changed by the people on top who
00:24:08.760 want to socially engineer society to meet their grand vision of what they want the country to be.
00:24:16.360 All right. Next, I want to actually talk about a positive example that I saw about pregnancy. Well,
00:24:24.460 it's kind of weird, but pregnancy and kids and things like that from a place where I didn't really expect it.
00:24:32.260 Okay. So let me tell you about this one last story that I saw that I thought was an interesting
00:24:42.140 representation of motherhood that you don't necessarily always see in pop culture. So this
00:24:48.020 is Halsey, who is a singer. She shared her new album cover on Instagram where she is holding her child
00:24:55.180 and then she has like one of her breasts out. And she says that she is celebrating pregnant and 0.59
00:25:00.160 postpartum bodies. So this is according to Yahoo Life. Halsey's new album will be released on August
00:25:07.340 27th, 2021. On Wednesday, the bisexual singer, who uses she, they pronouns, released the album cover
00:25:14.300 art, which shows herself sitting on a golden throne with an adorable baby and a single breast exposed.
00:25:19.440 And then Halsey writes this on Instagram in the caption,
00:25:22.540 it was very important to me that the cover art convey the sentiment of my journey over the past few
00:25:26.900 months. The dichotomy of the Madonna and the whore. The idea that me is a sexual being and my body is
00:25:31.940 a vessel and gift to my child are two concepts that can coexist peacefully and powerfully. My body has
00:25:36.800 belonged to the world in many different ways the past few years. And this image is my means of
00:25:41.800 reclaiming my autonomy and establishing my pride and strength as a life force for my human being.
00:25:49.080 Halsey's fans have been sharing in their joy in there. I think that means her. I guess that means
00:25:56.400 Halsey's joy since she first announced she was pregnant in January. Gosh, this they stuff is very
00:26:04.680 confusing to read. It actually reads this. Halsey's fans have been sharing in their joy since they first
00:26:11.220 announced they were pregnant in January. That's very interesting. Well, congratulations to Halsey.
00:26:16.560 One thing that I do appreciate about this, even though it's kind of odd and I obviously don't
00:26:20.620 agree with Halsey's worldview, I do appreciate that she is showing one of the beauties of motherhood
00:26:27.860 and that she is honoring postpartum and pregnancy and that she is showing people that you can have a
00:26:35.480 career. You can also have a child. Now, I don't know about her motherhood tactics or mentality or 0.90
00:26:42.420 anything like that. But I do appreciate that she isn't one of these celebrities that is pushing this
00:26:49.200 kind of environmental nonsense that your child is going to be a debit to society or a debit to the
00:26:55.520 future, a burden on the future. And rather, she's showing the beauty of motherhood and the beauty of 0.76
00:27:00.500 having a child. So I appreciate that. I know it's kind of like a low bar for what pop culture gives us
00:27:07.020 in the way of celebrating motherhood. But I've actually seen a few celebrities recently
00:27:13.680 post about their birthing stories or giving birth at home. And I think that these are all really good
00:27:19.280 things because we live in a time when the birth rate is declining for a variety of reasons, whether
00:27:24.000 it's economic anxiety, whether it's personal anxiety. I think a lot of it has to do with religious
00:27:29.320 and cultural and political changes in general. Some of it might have to do with some kind of crazy
00:27:34.860 environmental activism. But the fact of the matter is, is that children are a blessing. As Christians,
00:27:39.860 we know that for sure. I still get messages from women who are married who say, you know what, 0.98
00:27:45.460 like, I just don't want kids. I'm scared about the world that we're living in right now. I don't know
00:27:51.320 what the future holds. And I don't even know if I'm really a kid person. And I always take the time
00:27:55.940 to talk to these people. I always take the time to tell them, look, like you were put on this earth
00:28:02.820 at the exact time and the exact place that God wanted you. Like it wasn't arbitrary. It wasn't
00:28:09.260 an accident. It wasn't a mistake. And the same is going to be true for your kids. In the same way
00:28:14.180 that God has equipped you to be a part of this generation and to face the challenges that you
00:28:18.900 are currently facing, he is going to equip your kids and your children's children to do the same
00:28:23.780 thing. The last thing that we need is for godly people to stop having kids because we're scared. 0.97
00:28:29.480 If we see the secular world doing that, it doesn't make sense for Christians to react in the same 0.94
00:28:34.380 way. The things that we do, as I've said before, we don't do out of fear. We do out of love and
00:28:39.580 obedience for the Lord. And everything that we see in the Bible when it comes to children is positive.
00:28:45.820 Now, I'm not saying that it's everyone's purpose to have kids. Not everyone will have kids because
00:28:50.640 not everyone can have kids. It's not God's plan for everyone to get married. And therefore, it's not
00:28:55.040 God's will that that person have kids. But in general, as I talk about a lot in my book,
00:29:03.340 it is. It is one of our purposes for a lot of people who are married to have children. This is
00:29:09.940 what Psalm 127, 3 through 5 says, Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord. So they're not a social
00:29:16.500 experiment. They're not a debit to society. They're not adding to the climate catastrophe. They're not
00:29:22.620 things that are going to take away from the fullness of life. They're not going to enslave
00:29:27.240 us. They're not going to inhibit us from doing all the things that we want to do. They're more
00:29:32.000 important than traveling to all the countries you want to travel to. They're more important than
00:29:35.660 checking off all the boxes on your list of career goals. They're more important than fitting into a
00:29:41.900 certain size dress. They are a blessing, a heritage from the Lord. The fruit of the womb is a reward,
00:29:48.480 a reward. Like how different is that from a lot of the things that we have read today? Not again,
00:29:54.840 not something that we have because we want to put it as a trophy on our shelf. Not something that we
00:30:01.240 just ended up with or fell in our lap, but actually a reward from God. Like arrows in the hand of a
00:30:07.020 warrior are the children of one's youth that go into the future with strength. So the best thing that
00:30:14.780 we can do for the world is to have children and to raise them in joy and in the Lord, to teach them
00:30:22.940 with everything we can to love the Lord their God with all their heart, mind, soul, and strength,
00:30:27.680 and to love their neighbor as themselves. Like that is the greatest contribution, one of the greatest
00:30:34.720 contributions that we can give to the future, whether it's the political future, environmental future,
00:30:40.600 social future, whatever. Raise kids in a stable home with a good and a biblical foundation, with a
00:30:47.700 biblical worldview, teaching them to love God and to love each other and to speak the truth and love
00:30:52.520 and to hold fast to that which is good and right and true. And also to resist so much of what we see.
00:30:59.600 I talk about also in my book, but also here that toxic mommy culture that is constantly ragging on kids 1.00
00:31:05.640 and ragging on motherhood and acting like you are a victim of motherhood and how terrible it is. I'm not
00:31:11.700 saying we can't be transparent about how difficult and tiring it is to be a parent, to be a mom. I think
00:31:18.280 that's all well and good. We need vulnerability. We need encouragement. But the constant joking about
00:31:23.860 how terrible kids are. I meant to mention this at the top. I saw a recent TikTok video that ended up
00:31:30.160 going viral that I actually saw a progressive that I never agree with. She actually ended up slamming 1.00
00:31:35.940 this person who said, you know, F kids. I hate kids. And so many people were sharing that original
00:31:41.980 TikTok video. The progressive influencer who I disagree with on basically everything actually
00:31:47.100 responded to that saying like, look, kids are the most marginalized group in the world. They're the
00:31:52.540 most victimized group in the world. They're the most vulnerable group in the world. It is absolutely
00:31:57.320 our responsibility to care for them, to protect them, whether you have children or not. That should
00:32:03.000 be our mentality about children. They're not objects. They're not social experiments. They are
00:32:09.120 people. They're made in the image of God. They have worth. They have value. And because they're young and
00:32:14.300 because they're vulnerable, because their minds aren't fully formed, we have the opportunity and the
00:32:19.880 responsibility to protect them however we can, whether they're our children or whether they're children in our
00:32:26.540 church or children that you teach or children that you mentor or count or counsel, we absolutely have the
00:32:31.920 obligation and the privilege, I think, of effecting change for generations to come by by loving kids as
00:32:40.660 people, as people, not as some, you know, political object, as unfortunately, we're seeing with many
00:32:49.400 segments of society. All right. That's all I've got for today. I will see you guys back here on Monday. And on
00:32:55.020 Monday, we are talking about modesty. And we will also be talking about Matthew West's
00:33:02.460 Modest is Hottest Song and some of the pushback that he got on that. And then what we should actually
00:33:07.300 be thinking about modesty and what the Bible says about it. So looking forward to that. I'll see you guys then.
00:33:25.020 See you guys then.
00:33:30.520 Bye.
00:33:33.020 Bye.
00:33:34.400 Bye.