Ep 691 ｜ Pit Bulls, Assisted Suicide & a Message to Christian Schools
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In this episode, Allie talks about the need for racial inclusion at Christian schools, the dangers of diversity quotas, and why Christian schools need to move away from the idea that race and identity are something that have to be represented in the curriculum.
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Pit bulls. Is it the owner or the breed? I've got a lot of thoughts about this in light of some
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recent tragic stories about pit bull attacks. There's also a tragedy playing out across Canada
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as they increase access to assisted suicide even among minors. But first, I've got a message to
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parents and to teachers and administrators at Christian schools to stay the course and to make
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sure that your school is grounded on the Word of God when it comes to issues of justice and race and
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sexuality and gender. So that's what we'll start out with. This episode is brought to you by our
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friends at Good Ranchers. Go to goodranchers.com slash Allie. That's goodranchers.com slash Allie.
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Okay, y'all. I told you that we would be talking about something controversial. So buckle up. We'll
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get to that in a little bit. There are so many other things I want to talk about today. And even
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as I am speaking right now, I don't know everything that we are going to get into. A lot of it we'll
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have to cover next week because it requires in-depth analysis. And so I promise I will cover
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everything that you guys have been asking me to talk about for the past week and a half or so.
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If you haven't listened to yesterday's episode or the day before where I covered Kanye and Herschel
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Walker and all that stuff, then go ahead and do that because that answers a lot of the questions
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that you guys have been asking me on Instagram. All right, before we get into some of these subjects
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though, I do want to take a minute to just encourage you based on a conversation that I had
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yesterday with a friend. So this friend, kids go to private Christian school and there is a
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conversation going on from the administration to the parents of the students there about things like
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racial inclusion and so-called racial justice. And what this administration seems to be finding
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is that their attempts at diversifying the student body, their attempts at trying to appease the groups
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that are calling for greater representation and changed curriculum and for teachers to be talking to
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white students preemptively about the harm of racism and microaggressions. They're finding that this is not
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enough. That the demands from the group of people who basically want this school to be teaching the
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tenets and the principles of critical race theory are ever-increasing and they are overwhelming.
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And I'm listening to my friend describe this and she's not a very political person. She also happens
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to be a racial ethnic minority herself and she doesn't agree with a lot of the changes that are
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being made and what is being proposed by this private school in order to become more quote-unquote
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equitable and diverse. Doesn't agree with a lot of the complaints being brought forward about a so-called
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lack of representation or the need for curriculum to represent the racial makeup of the entire
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world. And so I know this school. I know this Christian school and I know some people that go
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there and what I need parents at Christian schools, what I need administrators and teachers
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at Christian schools to realize is that it will never be enough. It will never be enough. As soon
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as you start trying to teach students that white means oppressor and that black and brown means
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inherently oppressed, as soon as you try to equate obedience to God or righteousness or compassion or
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inclusion with superficial diversity quotas, you will find yourself going down a path that ends in
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submission to every single cultural demand that is placed on the table today. It will never be enough.
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As soon as you start playing that game, as soon as you move beyond as a Christian school saying,
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hey, everyone is made in the image of God and we are kind to everyone, no matter what you look like,
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no matter what your background is, no matter what your nationality is, no matter what your socioeconomic
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background, we are all equal in worth, equal in value. And according to the gospel of Jesus Christ,
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we are all equally dead in our sin or equally alive in Christ by grace through faith. We do not carry
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the historical shame of people who maybe looked like us hundreds of years ago. We don't even carry
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the sin, shame, and guilt of our own parents. As soon as you move beyond that biblical message
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and you start adopting the language of secular social justice, you start adopting the suggestions
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of people who insist that in order to be truly Christian, you have to treat the white students
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and the black students and the Hispanic students and the Asian students different based on the
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assumptions of the collective oppression of each group, I promise you that you will end up on a path
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to compromise. And while your intentions are pure and are loving and are compassionate and you just
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want to make everyone feel included and accepted, I understand that. As soon as you start treating
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students differently when it comes to what you warn them about, what you chastise them about,
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what you tell them that they can and cannot say based on their skin color, I promise you,
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you are on a path to compromise that will eventually end in you looking more like the world's definition
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of love and inclusion and compassion than the Bible's. Because what we know from scripture,
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what we see over and over again is that God hates partiality, that he does view us all with the same
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inherent value and worth. And we are judged not by our skin color, not by our nationality,
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but by who we are in Christ. And so I just encourage you, parents of students at Christian
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schools, I encourage you administrators and teachers at Christian schools, stick to that message.
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Stick to the gospel. Stick to the Bible's definition of justice, the Bible's definition of love,
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the Bible's definition of compassion, you trying to meet superficial diversity quotas simply to say
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that you do, simply to say that you have fewer white people or fewer Asian people, simply to try to get
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the applause of the world. I promise you it will simply never be enough. Diversity absolutely can be
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a strength. It can be a good thing. It can be something that is beneficial to any community, to any
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entity, to any school, or to any organization. But only, only if that diversity is brought together in a
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unified agreement on core principles. And in the case of Christian schools, on the gospel, diversity for the
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sake of diversity is not a strength that we see outlined in scripture. Like there is absolutely
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no qualification in scripture for the church or for the body of Christ that every local church or every
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local school has to have a particular kind of racial makeup in order to be righteous and holy.
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That's just not how it works. That's not God's standard of love. You stand on the gospel. You stand on
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scripture. You stand on what is true. You stand on what you know about what God thinks of human beings
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and you stand on that biblical definition of equality. You teach kindness, you teach impartiality,
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and you teach love. Do not get into the game of acquiescing to worldly demands for so-called social
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justice. And we'll, I'll link some past episodes about what critical race theory looks like. Most
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people who spout the tenets of critical race theory say that they have nothing to do with critical race
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theory. A lot of things that fall under the umbrella of critical race theory, which is an all-inclusive
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worldview that is diametrically opposed to scripture and to the Christian worldview. A lot of the tenets of
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it sound Christian can sound compassionate, can sound somewhat biblical, but will ultimately destroy
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your organization. And it will neither help the white students or the non-white students in your
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school. So I'm just encouraging. I, you know, I can't, we can't control necessarily what public schools
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do, and they are part of the spirit of this age. They are. They are going to go down the path of
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secularism, even in the most conservative districts. Eventually, the schools that are not
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moored by the gospel will go the way of progressivism. That's just how it goes. It hasn't
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happened to your public school yet. It will. But it can also happen to Christian schools. If you do
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not know what God has to say about the individual, what God has to say about human worth, what God has
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to say about what love looks like and what justice looks like, you are just going to adopt the secular
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terminology about race and justice. And I promise you will end up compromising on everything else too,
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and you will benefit no one. So if any parent or any student has a problem in your Christian school
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with you simply sticking to the gospel when it comes to how you teach your students how to treat
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people, if they have a problem with equal treatment, if they have a problem with your number one goal in
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the school not being diversity or not being some kind of superficial racial quota, but simply
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being advancing God's kingdom by equipping students to preach the gospel to love God and to love their
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neighbor, then let them have that problem. You stick to the truth. You stick to what's right. I'm very
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passionate about that for churches and for Christian schools because we have to be a refuge of clarity and
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of courage in a world of chaos. And like I said, I will link some past episodes on that because I
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really, really, really, really want Christians to know what biblical justice actually looks like
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and what the biblical approach should be to these contentious issues of race and diversity.
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Okay, guys, there's just so much that I want to discuss. I was just saying to my team just a second
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ago that I am overwhelmed with the number of things that I want to talk about. And it's really
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difficult for me to choose. Okay, I think before we get into our pit bull thing, I do want to talk
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about this story that I saw on Barry Wise's substack. And I'm going to write an article about it probably
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for World Magazine because it's just so disturbing and speaks to so many worldview issues that we talk
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about on this show. And the title of this article is called Scheduled to Die, The Rise of Canada's
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Assisted Suicide Program. And it's about this young man who was able to get an appointment with a so
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called doctor. I don't really understand how you can call yourself a doctor and still be actively doing
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harm as your profession. But I guess that's true when it comes to the maiming of the genitalia of
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children who are apparently confused about their gender. Do no harm is no longer part of a real part
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of the oath that some doctors are taking. In fact, I actually just saw as an aside, there is
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a medical school in Minnesota where the students at their white coat ceremony were reciting their
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pledge. And the pledge had to do with honoring indigenous methods of healing and trying to heal
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the oppression that colonialism and white supremacy and the gender binary have placed on people.
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That is terrifying. Terrifying. The people who are in charge of you living or dying believe that the
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gender binary, which is the basis for a lot of unique health problems for men and women, that it's
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depressive. That's troubling. Now, I am not against the medical industry opening themselves up to more
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holistic and alternative treatments that could possibly work. I do think that because the medical
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industry is so in bed with big pharma and because the insurance racket that we have in our country
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makes it profitable sometimes for hospitals not to actually pursue healing but to pursue prolonged
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sickness, like I'm open. I'm open to, I don't know if I'd call it indigenous methods of healing,
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but I am certainly open to doctors allowing themselves to study other forms of healing than
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just putting people on pharmaceuticals and keeping them in the hospital indefinitely. That's fine.
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But to believe that it is a doctor's job to somehow alleviate the alleged pain that colonialism and
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white supremacy and the gender binary is causing, like that's really troubling. But that's what
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revolutions do. You know, that's what progressive revolutions do. And a lot of people, they want the
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revolution, they want the progressive revolution to stop at the point that it may affect them. A lot
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of people who consider themselves woke or progressive really don't want their doctor to be ideologically
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motivated when it comes to their treatment. You want a doctor that can do a good job, that knows what
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they're doing, that cares about their patients, and is just going to do whatever they can to keep you
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healthy and alive. You don't really want them pursuing social justice means when they are trying to
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prescribe you medicine or when they're operating on your heart attack, right? Like you don't want
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hospitals to be trying to meet racial quotas or to discriminate people based against people based on
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their skin color, right? And yet that is what social justice ends up as. But the revolution doesn't
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stop where you want it to stop. And so the progressive revolution, which has now, which started a long
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time ago, the sexual revolution, it started a long time ago, with the breakdown of traditional gender
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roles, even with the rise of hormonal birth control, and taking, and taking apart the family and dismantling
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gender and trying to rearrange a healthy understanding of race to be something that is constantly divisive
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as oppressed versus oppressor based on historic wrongs, all of that is going to make its way into
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every institution. That's what it does. It's in our military. It's in major corporations. It's in the
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federal government. It's going to characterize academia and curriculum and hospitals and the
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medical industry as well. That's just what the revolution does. And this progressive revolution,
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part of it also is the belittlement of human life, is the objectification of human beings,
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because it is a secular and a godless ideology and worldview. Whereas the Christian worldview is
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based on the idea that we are made by God. And because of that, he tells us who we are. He calls
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us male or female based on the body that he gave us. We are made in his image, and therefore we matter.
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We have value. We have souls. We have eternal worth. We're not just clumps of cells. We're not just
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arbitrary lumps of matter, but our bodies, our souls, our minds actually have innate value. That is the
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basis for human rights. That is the basis for rights and care and privileges that go beyond what
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plants and animals are entitled to, because human beings are different as made in God's image, and
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therefore our life matters. Therefore it is wrong to take innocent life. That is why God hates murder so
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much that he said the only just punishment in Genesis 9-6-4 murder is actually the death penalty.
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I've talked about the death penalty many times. Also, you can go back and listen to episodes on that,
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where I talk about the importance of capital punishment when it comes to crimes like murder.
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But God cares about the body. God cares about human life. And so abortion is an affront to him.
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It's an affront to the Imago Dei. But so is the next stage of this progressive secular revolution,
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and that is so-called dying with dignity or euthanasia. And that is what this article is about
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in Barry Weiss's Substack. It is about this 23-year-old man by the name of Keanu Vafayan,
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I think that's how you pronounce his last name, who was depressed. He had a sickness. He didn't
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have a job. He didn't have a girlfriend. And so he was able to make an appointment to get
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quote-unquote medical assistance in dying. And basically, he was able to meet with a doctor
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a couple times. And they basically said, sure, we will allow you to die. We will assist in your
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death. And we will basically inject you with a chemical. It'll just take a few minutes. And then
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you'll be out of here. Well, his mom figured this out and tried every way that she could to
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try to stop him from dying. And actually, when she called this clinic to try to get more information
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about this procedure, the doctor was like, oh, you know, if you're interested in it, I'm happy to
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see you as a patient. I'm happy to open you up to a consultation. And we'll see if we can kill you
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as well. This is something that is happening across Canada. According to Canada's Department
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of Justice, parents are generally entitled to make treatment decisions on their children's behalf.
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The mature minor doctrine, however, allows children deemed sufficiently mature to make their own
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treatment decisions. And so we're looking at not just a case of 23-year-olds, which is,
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I mean, still, your frontal lobe isn't even developed. And so not only are you making a morally
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atrocious decision in general, but also you're making it before you can even fully comprehend
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what this means. But also in Canada, they are allowing minors to do this as well. So if a minor,
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I mean, it makes sense, right? Like if you're going to say that a minor can mutilate their body because
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they feel on the inside that they're the opposite gender, if they can make that kind of life-altering
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decision, which ends in sterility and permanent maiming of your body and inhibition to healthy
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bodily functions, then why wouldn't you be able to just decide when you want to die,
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even without parental consent? Like you see the demonic, the satanic, the evil end of this,
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that it always ends in the devaluing of human life. And it's the movement that says that they are the
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ones who actually care about human life and the most vulnerable. Like it is all connected by the
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way. Like you can't take it a la carte. Like this progressive secular movement starts with the idea
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that we are all cosmic accidents and therefore anything goes. It starts with the idea that there
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is no God. And so it's going to redefine sex. It's going to redefine gender. It's going to redefine
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justice. It's going to redefine good and evil, right and wrong, what morality is, even reality.
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So it starts with that and therefore anything goes. And as countries chip away at their moral
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foundation, something will fill the vacuum that Christianity and at least the Judeo-Christian
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worldview wants filled. And that is secular progressivism. And secular progressivism,
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everywhere it spreads, like a cancer kills. And it literally, in this case, kills. It allows for
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abortion. It allows, again, for the brutal maiming of a body for people who claim to be
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confused. It ends in incentivizing crime, incentivizing poverty and homelessness, government
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dependence, taking away the purpose that people derive from productivity and jobs. It breaks down
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the family. It makes fatherhood demonized and arbitrary. It takes away the authority that God
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has given to parents to steward and care for and to protect their children. It destroys everything
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that is good. So you see why voting matters. Like you see why politics matter so much. In a lot of cases,
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it's literally a matter of life and death. And that is part of why I get so frustrated when I see
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Christians who try to be on board with one part of the progressive revolution, thinking that the
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revolution is not going to show up on their doorstep and try to attack their kid and disciple their
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children and recruit their family. It's going to happen. It all starts with the assumption that there
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is no God. That's how you get to a place like this. That's how you get to a place like this.
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Um, there is a doctor that is mentioned in this piece, Dr. Derek Smith, a psychiatrist at the
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University of British Columbia, um, who views the rise in, uh, medically assisted, uh, medically
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assisted suicide deaths as progress. Smith never took the Hippocratic oath. He said, because he thought
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it was archaic. He said, it's about relieving suffering, respecting human dignity, like dystopian.
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It's always the opposite with these people. It's always the opposite of what is true. Relieving
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suffering and respecting human dignity. You're actually killing a person. Also, I want to say
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like, this is where I say this a lot. Uh, this is where this idea that virtue simply means the
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presence of consent gets you, but consent is not enough to decide if something is moral or ethical
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or even should be legal. That is where hyper individualism gets you. That is where the idea
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that the individual is God, that the individual is sovereign, that we shouldn't be anchored by
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any objective morality or universal truth or any collective set of values or any kind of moral or
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biblical foundation. But you do you, you decide your own truth. You become your own God. You're your own
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arbiter of morality. It's an exchange of the God of scripture for the God of self. And if you are your
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own God, then you will do whatever it takes to worship you. And that means doing whatever feels
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good at the moment, no matter what anyone else says, no matter what ethics or the law or morality
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says. Again, that is the consequence of that. Consent is not enough to determine whether or something,
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whether or not something should happen or whether or not something is good. So I don't really give
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like a rat's patootie, whether or not a 17 year old or a 25 year old or a 55 year old
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consents to being poisoned by their doctor. My belief in human beings is made in the image of God. My
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belief that murder is wrong because we are made in the image of God prohibits me from being on board with
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that. There are a lot of things that people consent to that are not right and should not be legal. Like
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you can allow yourself to think and imagine for one second what some of those things could be. But
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there are actually doctors that have a lot of influence that actually think that this is progress,
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that this is good. This doctor goes on to say it's about recognizing the inherent right for individuals
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to make decisions affecting their health and even their death. Patients who are going to die were
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assisted along the way with high doses of narcotics. The rationale was to make people comfortable. I
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mean, that is murder. And you know, this is not just happening, by the way, with people who have their
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faculties. This is also happening. This is also happening to people with special needs. This is happening to
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the elderly. This is happening to people who are sick. And yes, they might say, oh, technically,
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they consented to this. But very often, the stories that we hear are stories of being pressured to so-called
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die with dignity. It's just a fancy word for murder.
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Also, this is not just happening to 17-year-olds, so-called mature minors. It's not just happening
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to 23-year-olds. This is also happening to babies. There was a study out of Belgium that showed that
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doctors there killed 24 babies in 15 months because they had, quote, no hope of a bearable future.
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So, I mean, what does that look like? What is the definition of that, by the way? Who gets to
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decide that? I mean, I can tell you when you have state-run medical care, when you have Medicare for
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all, when you have single-payer health care, I can tell you who decides that. And it's the state.
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The state will decide who lives or dies. You don't think that could be possibly abused to
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kill not just people whose society deems, whose society deems not valuable, people with special
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needs, but also people who have bad opinions, people who have committed wrongthink, political
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opponents, communities of people that don't want to be, that the government doesn't want to deal with
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anymore. You think that we can't go that direction? I think we've seen at this point that the slippery
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slope argument is not really a fallacy because everything that the conservative right, the
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religious right, predicted would happen, especially when it comes to this sexual revolution over the
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past 10 to 20 years has happened, even worse than we thought. I don't think we ever thought that there
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would be grown adults endorsing things like, quote, unquote, family-friendly drag shows. And yet,
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here we are. I don't think that we ever thought that 12-year-old girls would be getting their
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healthy breasts removed at hospitals like Kaiser Permanente in California. And yet, here we are. I
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don't think that we ever would have thought that boys are getting castrated because they say that
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they're a girl when they're 15 years old. And yet, here we are. And so, anything that you can imagine
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happening as a result of a particular progressive policy, it's just a matter of time. Like, it likely
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will happen. And so, if you allow this in, if you allow to say, oh, well, it's just, if they consent
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to it, or they're having a really hard time, or they're depressed, or they're miserable, but they're
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a mature minor, or they're 25 years old, they're an adult, they can do this. I promise you that opens
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the door to worse atrocities than you can even imagine, and they will all be legal. They'll all be
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legal. So, a little more about this story that was published on Barry Wise's Substack. It says,
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on September 8th, the day after the mother of this young man who was going to commit suicide
00:28:59.980
talked to the doctor, she went to Facebook and she posted, can you effing believe it? The doctor
00:29:06.380
literally has given him the gun to kill himself. I mean, that is what it is. This is no different than
00:29:11.720
giving a suicidal person, a depressed person, a gun to kill themselves. So, rather than saying,
00:29:17.260
hey, there actually is hope, there's purpose, there's community here, let me point you in the
00:29:20.880
right direction. Your life and your body, they matter. It's just saying, you know what,
00:29:26.640
you're absolutely right. It's not worth you living. You would be better off dead and giving
00:29:30.460
them a gun to do that. But because it's in this nice, cushy doctor's office, and because they use
00:29:36.860
phrases, euphemisms like dying with dignity, and because it's used through an injection and not a
00:29:42.840
handgun, apparently that's something that is acceptable and legal. Now, her son did not end
00:29:52.160
up going through with it. He was depressed. He was going through different kinds of health issues,
00:29:57.640
and thank God he decided that he didn't want to die in this way. He didn't want to commit suicide.
00:30:03.920
He didn't want to be murdered by this doctor. He said when he was talking about this that he wanted
00:30:10.500
to be closer to God, and that is why he wanted to end his life. He just wanted to end his pain and
00:30:15.820
suffering. And so, I think for Christians, what we see is not just that like the ethical atrocity
00:30:22.520
that this is, and the horrible assault on the Imago Dei, and just where a lack of morality can send you,
00:30:29.340
but also what hopelessness without the gospel looks like, and without a hope of heaven, and without
00:30:36.960
an understanding of our purpose here on earth, and without knowing Jesus as your fulfillment,
00:30:44.320
and as your healer, even if he doesn't heal you physically in this life, he will make you new and
00:30:49.760
heal you spiritually, and one day you will be fully and finally healed. But he is in charge of your fate.
00:30:57.280
He is in charge of your destiny. He is in charge of both your body and your soul, and he will decide.
00:31:04.680
He will decide when it is time for you to die, and trusting him in that, and trusting that even
00:31:11.260
when there is pain in this life, that the gospel gives you hope, and that he can give you joy in
00:31:19.020
a peace that surpasses understanding. Like you see what us taking God out of the public sphere has done,
00:31:28.180
and us believing that like the secular mentality about life and the value of life is just that it's neutral,
00:31:35.900
and that that's what we should be teaching in schools. That's what we should be presenting in the media.
00:31:40.700
That's what should be the foundation of our laws. It will only end in fragmentation, in death, and decay.
00:31:50.180
And so Christians, try to abandon that idea that you are the only group of people that has to check
00:31:58.300
your worldview at the door before engaging in the civic and cultural sphere. Progressives don't do
00:32:04.840
that. They have invited their worldview into every single institution, their pseudo-religion,
00:32:10.120
into the law, into the classroom. It's only Christians who are ever told that you're not allowed to bring
00:32:16.100
your beliefs to the table when we're discussing these issues. But we see where that has gotten us.
00:32:22.720
When we no longer believe people are made in the image of God, when we believe that we really are
00:32:26.700
all clumps of cells, anything goes, even euthanizing human beings that are simply going through a hard
00:32:33.400
time. And so this does kind of all go back to the importance of sticking to what we know is true and
00:32:40.960
not allowing the world to influence our views of what the law should be and what is ethical and moral.
00:32:58.340
Okay, let's talk about pit bulls. And I'm not talking about the artist. I am talking about the dog.
00:33:06.800
And this is such a controversial topic. Every time I post about it or every time I say something about
00:33:13.920
it, I get a lot of pushback. Also a lot of support because I would say probably the majority of people
00:33:20.500
are anti-pit bull. But pit bull apologists are extremely enthusiastic. And in my opinion,
00:33:27.880
very often, often, I'm not speaking to all of you, but very often extremely irrational. And it's funny,
00:33:35.240
I'm talking even about those who are conservative, who are pit bull defenders and pit bull apologists.
00:33:41.420
And they will all of a sudden, in my opinion, spiral into what is like a left wing mode of
00:33:47.840
argumentation, literally, from conservatives for criticizing pit bulls and the ownership of pit bulls.
00:33:53.460
I've been called a racist. I do not know what that means. Is it racist because I am against the
00:33:58.800
race of pit bulls? Is it racist because there are black people who own pit bulls? I don't know.
00:34:05.240
But I do want to talk about this because it could save a life. I'm not just trying to poke the bear
00:34:11.340
or poke the pit bull. I mean, I would never poke the pit bull. I like my face. But I read this story
00:34:19.200
the other day and I thought, okay, I'm going to talk about this. It's so controversial. People get
00:34:23.840
so angry about it. But I mean, people's lives in some cases are on the line. And it's this story that
00:34:29.620
unfortunately, or that a lot of you saw that was just so absolutely tragic. And it comes out of
00:34:39.000
Shelby County, Tennessee. I'm sure you saw it reported by the New York Post that this mom was
00:34:44.760
hospitalized after her two kids were killed in a pit bull attack. And so this family looks like a very
00:34:53.360
sweet family doesn't look like people who like, you know, are abusing their dogs or are, you know,
00:35:00.380
putting their dogs in some kind of like illegal fight ring. These look like dog people, a sweet,
00:35:06.520
cute, stable looking family that had these two pit bulls that they really loved. And previous social
00:35:14.440
media posts show that they were a pit bull apologist. And these two dogs out of nowhere reportedly
00:35:22.740
mauled these two children, a five-month-old boy, Hollis, and a two-year-old girl named Lily just
00:35:31.420
outside of their home in Tennessee. And the mother, Kirstie Bernard, 30 years old, she was severely
00:35:38.900
injured by these dogs by her pets that they have had for years and is in the hospital. The children
00:35:46.140
were pronounced dead at the scene, a five-month-old baby and a two-year-old little girl. Reportedly,
00:35:51.800
what happened is one of the dogs went after the five-month-old and just wouldn't let go. The mom
00:35:59.300
tried to get this dog off and the dog wouldn't let go. And then the same thing happened to the two
00:36:08.900
year old as well. And the mom couldn't do anything about it. And that is what happens with a pit bull
00:36:15.280
attack. That's what happens with a pit bull attack because that is how they were bred. That is what
00:36:20.720
their breed does. It goes all the way back to their origins. They were actually created to do this kind
00:36:26.840
of thing to animals. And we just cannot get outside of the nature of what pit bulls are. And people need
00:36:34.200
to recognize that, that it's not the owner, it's the pit bull. I'm not saying that there are not bad
00:36:39.580
owners out there. There are bad owners out there. And there are owners that unfortunately exacerbate
00:36:46.460
the nature that pit bulls have to fight and to grip down on something and not let go.
00:36:53.420
But there are a lot of good owners, a lot of loving owners that have had pit bulls since they were
00:36:59.560
babies. And all of a sudden, the pit bull freaks out one day and mauls them. Hopefully not to death,
00:37:06.980
but in a lot of cases, they do. I mean, there are a few other stories. There are a few other stories
00:37:13.340
like this that I've seen. So this happened in Louisville, Texas. A woman, she had a puppy that she
00:37:21.540
was trying to introduce to one of her friends. And her pit bull that she has, which is 100 pounds,
00:37:25.980
all of a sudden just freaked out for seemingly no reason and tried to maul her friend, lunged at her
00:37:35.620
friend, sunk his teeth into his neck. And so the owner was trying to get him off, trying to get him
00:37:43.880
off his friend. And then she went into the bathroom and the dog made it into the bathroom and started
00:37:53.160
attacking her, completely mauled her, almost took her arm off. The dog tore off two-thirds of Taya's
00:37:58.980
right arm, ate her bicep, and sank its teeth into her leg and foot. And she was screaming,
00:38:05.520
help me, I'm dying, when her daughter and her daughter's husband rushed into the living room.
00:38:11.500
Eventually, she made it into the hospital and she helped, I mean, or she was able to survive. But you
00:38:17.320
see pictures of her apartment. I mean, the carpet is soaked in blood. The walls are dripping in blood
00:38:22.740
because of this attack by this pit bull that she said, and that she would have said, was this
00:38:29.000
loving dog that would have never done something like this. There was another story, North Carolina,
00:38:35.460
July of 2022, where a dog sitter let these two pit bulls, her friend's pit bulls, out into the
00:38:43.320
backyard. And all of a sudden, they turn around and mauled her. Also, July of 2022, according to the
00:38:49.220
New York Post, an elderly woman killed by family pit bull in a gruesome attack on Long Island. This
00:38:54.380
was a 70-year-old woman, and there is no indication that she provoked these attacks in any way. And the
00:39:01.000
pit bulls of her family turned around, viciously mauled her, and killed her. There was also a couple,
00:39:07.720
Greenville, North Carolina, just a couple days ago on October 9th. This couple, Bobby Joyner,
00:39:15.660
82, Annie Joyner, 78. This is, again, according to the New York Post, they were brutally attacked by
00:39:21.940
a pit bull. Thankfully, they just went to the hospital. They had to undergo surgeries for their
00:39:26.880
injuries, but they were not killed. There's a story out of Phoenix, Arizona. A Phoenix woman was
00:39:35.020
attacked by pit bulls, and the owner of the pit bull just decided to run away rather than doing
00:39:42.780
anything. And so I could go on and on. I see these kinds of stories all the time. And I understand
00:39:49.300
that pit bulls are not the only dogs that are biting. I understand that pit bull is a large
00:39:55.240
umbrella category for some different kinds of dogs. But we understand what a pit bull is, right? No one
00:40:01.800
is calling a golden retriever a pit bull. No one is secretly putting a true lab mix into the category
00:40:08.620
of pit bull. According to the United Kennel Club and the American Dog Breeders Association,
00:40:14.660
the official name is American Pit Bull Terrier. And it has certain characteristics that categorize a
00:40:22.140
dog as a pit bull. Almond-shaped eyes, a very heavy and muscular neck, a medium-length tail that tapers
00:40:28.100
to a point, a smooth and short coat, a broad chest. They were originally bred for blood sports,
00:40:33.400
such as bull baiting and bear baiting. And they were eliminated in 18... After those were eliminated,
00:40:40.780
the bull baiting and the bear baiting were eliminated in 1835, they were moved to dog fighting.
00:40:47.360
And in America, they were used to catch dogs, especially trained dog used to catch large animals
00:40:52.480
or as catch dogs. So they were trained to catch large animals and hunting and working livestock,
00:41:00.160
semi-wild cattle, hogs to hunt hogs and to drive livestock. And they were trained because they have
00:41:05.720
such a strong upper body and because they have such a strong bite to grab onto the neck of these
00:41:11.900
animals and not let go. That's what they were bred for. All right? That is in their nature. It does not
00:41:18.880
have to do with the owner. It has to do with the kind of breed. And I just... This is why I say that
00:41:24.720
pit bull apologists seem to me so irrational because they say, oh, it's the owner. So it's the owner
00:41:30.060
only with pit bulls, but with no other kind of animal. Because I promise you, or no other kind
00:41:37.100
of breed, like I promise you that we did not teach our golden retrievers to retrieve. We didn't teach
00:41:43.260
them how to swim growing up. They just knew how to do that. You don't have to teach an Australian
00:41:48.520
shepherd how to herd sheep. Like you don't have to teach labs how to catch a tennis ball and swim in
00:41:57.800
the water. They already know how to do that. Every breed has characteristics that are a part of their
00:42:03.980
nature that were bred into them. And pit bulls were created to hold onto something, hold onto a neck
00:42:11.360
and not let go of it. They were created to be aggressive. There is a reason why they are used
00:42:18.000
as fight dogs. And for example, golden retrievers aren't. Now I know I'm going to get a bunch of
00:42:23.280
comments saying, well, my chocolate lab bit my child and my pit bull helps me make oatmeal for
00:42:30.560
my baby in the morning. And I would let my pit bull rock my infant to sleep. And you don't know
00:42:35.840
what you're talking about. I'm sure that you've had great interactions with pit bulls. I can actually
00:42:40.620
tell like if you have both of your arms, that's a really good indication to me that you have had
00:42:45.020
positive interactions with pit bulls. I'm sure your pit bull is nice. And maybe your pit bull will
00:42:50.220
probably never do anything wrong in its life. And it probably has been really sweet to your babies.
00:42:55.420
And it will probably go to its dying day without doing anything. But the fact of the matter is,
00:43:01.540
is that pit bull other more than other dogs are unpredictable. They have something in their genes,
00:43:08.160
in their DNA that we do not fully understand that makes them maul and makes them attack to kill.
00:43:17.660
There are other dogs that attack. Please, please, please do not comment that chihuahuas
00:43:22.220
bite more than pit bulls. Okay. When you, when you can send me stories about chihuahuas mauling and
00:43:29.480
killing toddlers, then okay, like we can, we can have a conversation. I'll do a segment about that too.
00:43:37.700
Like chihuahuas aren't trained in the same way. They don't bite to kill. They can't maul. I'm not
00:43:42.740
saying that other dogs don't attack, but it is in the DNA of pit bulls to maim and to kill. And so
00:43:51.080
I absolutely believe that we should not be breeding pit bulls. Are you kidding me? I think
00:43:58.040
it's absolutely unethical that there are shelters that will call pit bulls a lab mix so they will get
00:44:05.200
adopted out. There is also just propaganda about pit bulls. There's been like this image rehab ever
00:44:14.220
since the whole like Michael Vick scandal several years ago, trying to make it seem like pit bulls
00:44:19.820
are just like any other dogs. There was, there's this quote from, there's a animal shelter in North
00:44:28.340
Carolina, Wake County, North Carolina animal shelters encouraging people to adopt one of the dozens of
00:44:32.400
pit bulls in their shelter in the month of October. Pit bulls might be the most misunderstood dogs.
00:44:37.480
They said surrounded with negative stereotypes and false perceptions. They're sweet as pie
00:44:42.080
when they're loved and cared for. I'm sorry, but that's just not necessarily true.
00:44:48.160
There are lots of pit bulls that are loved and cared for who maul infants. I guarantee you that family
00:44:54.420
in Shelby County, Tennessee, uh, where the baby and the toddler were both mauled to death by these
00:45:00.100
pit bulls. I guarantee you that they were caring for them. Well, it is a part of their genetics.
00:45:16.340
The ASPCA also says all dogs, including pit bulls are individuals. No, they are not.
00:45:22.180
No, they are not. Not all dogs are individuals. You cannot find me a golden retriever that cannot
00:45:27.200
retrieve. You can't find me an Australian shepherd that doesn't naturally herd things. Like you're
00:45:33.300
not going to be able to prove that to me. You're just not. They're not individuals. They might have
00:45:39.860
their own personalities in some ways, of course, but they have characteristics of their breed. Gosh,
00:45:46.980
we are so stupid. People are so dumb. I don't understand how this has become like a political,
00:45:52.380
ideological, emotional thing. All right. Pit bulls are an aggressive breed and they kill
00:46:01.460
when they attack more than any other breed. There is absolutely no reason for it to be legal to breed
00:46:08.380
them. And they should be, it should be by law that they have to be sterilized. It should be very
00:46:15.640
difficult to keep a pit bull because it's about the safety of communities. It's about the safety of
00:46:22.080
families. There was this horrible story I remember reading not too long ago out of Fort Worth. This
00:46:28.900
little girl, she went into her backyard like she usually does and her family had two pit bulls and
00:46:35.160
the pit bulls just mauled her to death. Apparently that's like a sacrifice or that's a risk that people
00:46:41.300
are willing to take. Now, of course, I do believe that we should be careful around any kind of type of
00:46:48.540
dog that we should be cautious, of course, when allowing our kids around them. But we should also
00:46:57.160
be prudent when it comes to what kind of dogs we own and what kind of dogs we allow to, what dogs we
00:47:05.920
allow to breed. There are also some academic articles about this. So according to the National Library of
00:47:11.780
Medicine, an article there, Dog Bites of the Head and Neck and Evaluation of a Common Pediatric Trauma
00:47:17.200
and Associated Treatment, of the dog bites that they studied from January 2012 to January 2013,
00:47:29.080
pit bulls were involved in one-third of the attacks that they studied. 94% of the pit bull attacks
00:47:35.500
required surgical consultation. See, that's the difference between a bite from a lab
00:47:39.760
and a bite from a pit bull. You might have a serious bite from a lab. They might bite. But
00:47:44.960
94 of the pit bull attacks required surgical consultation. 48% attacked without provocation.
00:47:53.520
There is another study from April of 2011, mortality, mauling, and maiming by vicious dogs. And they
00:48:00.280
looked at 228 total patients of dog bites. Only 82 patients reported the breed of dog that attacked
00:48:07.280
them. But 29 of those, 36% of those were pit bulls. Now, remember that pit bulls only make up about 6%
00:48:14.420
of the population. Yet they're making up a large percentage of these very serious dog attacks.
00:48:22.240
There is another study, clinical pediatrics, characteristics of 1,616 consecutive dog bite
00:48:29.560
injuries at a single institution from July 2016. Over half of the surgeries required,
00:48:36.160
we're talking about kids over the age of four years old at one hospital, over half of the surgeries
00:48:41.860
required were because of pit bulls. Pit bulls were 2.5 times as likely to bite in multiple anatomic
00:48:48.200
locations as compared to other breeds. Most of the operating procedures were major wound irrigation
00:48:53.740
and closure, more than just a few stitches or eye and eyelid repair. And so this is the reality of the
00:49:03.240
existence of pit bulls. And the media used to be more honest about this. There is this Time magazine
00:49:08.600
article called The Problem with Pit Bulls, and people are freaked out about it. But it talks about
00:49:15.100
the facts that pit bulls make up only 6% of the dog population, but they're responsible for 68% of dog
00:49:20.360
attacks and 52% of dog-related deaths since 1982, according to research compiled by Merrick Clifton,
00:49:26.020
editor of Animals 24-7. Another report published in April 2011 found that one person is killed
00:49:32.660
by a pit bull every 14 days. Two people are injured by a pit bull every day, and young children are
00:49:38.600
especially at risk. Even PETA, the largest animal rights organization in the world, supports breed-specific
00:49:45.000
sterilization for pit bulls. A spokesperson for PETA stands by that statement saying, or stood by that
00:49:54.780
statement at least when this was published, these dogs were bred to bait bulls. They were bred to
00:49:59.000
fight each other to the death. Just because we're an animal rights organization doesn't mean that we're
00:50:02.900
not concerned about public safety. There was also an opinion piece that I thought was good in a
00:50:11.900
Cincinnati Inquirer where Dr. David A. Billmore, he's a professor and director of the Division of
00:50:16.920
Craniofacial and Pediatric Plastic Surgery at Cincinnati Children's Hospital. He's got 30 years of
00:50:22.300
experience, and he says that in his experience, he has seen the kind of damage that pit bull attacks
00:50:33.740
cause on children. He tells in this article different terrible stories about what he has
00:50:40.440
had to do with these pit bull victims. He said that he has had to watch a child bleed to death because a
00:50:45.580
pit bull had torn his throat out. He had to rebuild the skull of a child who has had his ears and scalp
00:50:51.000
torn off. He has had multiple facial reconstructions of kids whose faces have been torn off to the
00:50:56.420
bone. Innumerable rebuilding of noses, lips, eyelids, cheeks, jaws, legs, and hands. He says,
00:51:02.400
based on my extensive experience, I believe that the risk posed by pit bulls is equivalent to placing
00:51:06.760
a loaded gun with the safety off on the coffee table. In my opinion, these dogs should be banned.
00:51:12.880
And it's not even the same as saying that they're putting the gun on a coffee table. It's even worse
00:51:24.100
than that because the gun actually requires someone to pick it up and to pull the trigger, whereas you
00:51:31.220
don't have to do anything to a pit bull for them to attack you. And one argument that I hear from
00:51:37.480
conservatives who are pit bull apologists, they'll say, oh, so you must believe in banning guns, too.
00:51:44.420
It's the same kind of mentality. It's the same kind of rationale. Well, when we have a constitutional
00:51:50.080
amendment that is guaranteeing our right to a pit bull, maybe that'll be a good argument. But it's not the
00:51:56.100
same at all. Again, one, because you actually like a gun is an inanimate object. You can use it for good
00:52:03.580
purposes. You can use it for bad purposes. But it is used to fight the tyranny of the government. And
00:52:09.160
of course, for self-defense, pit bulls do not have the same purpose. And they're not the same at all.
00:52:16.400
So I just find that to be like a really, really strange argument to be made. So all in all,
00:52:23.160
please think twice before adopting a pit bull. Think twice before keeping your pit bull, especially if you
00:52:29.580
have children. I do not care how sweet your pit bull has been. It is something that you have to
00:52:35.660
take seriously. I don't care how great your experiences with pit bulls have been. I am
00:52:42.160
anti-pit bull. My producer, Brie, says that she is an anti-pit bull radicalist. And so we are all on the
00:52:49.160
same page, thankfully, over here. I was really worried that she was going to tell me that she was
00:52:52.640
like pro-pit bull or something. But really, like I find that whenever I bring this up, I get such
00:52:58.660
irrational pushback on it. There was actually someone who told me she's not going to listen
00:53:03.260
to my podcast anymore because of my pit bull criticism. So I just decided to put it all out
00:53:08.000
there in the hopes that maybe someone will take this advice and take these statistics and stories
00:53:12.000
seriously and not own a pit bull. Okay, that episode went a lot longer than I thought it would
00:53:30.380
in a lot of different directions than I originally intended. We kind of just did it on the fly,
00:53:34.700
except for that pit bull part. We decided that we were going to talk about that. That was the
00:53:38.500
controversial piece that I said that I was going to be discussing yesterday. I understand. I am
00:53:42.820
probably going to get a lot of angry messages. And the ironic thing is that people will simultaneously,
00:53:48.300
the message that I will get, like within the same message, it will be, wow, pit bulls are so peaceful
00:53:54.500
and awesome and wonderful. But if I ever see you, I'm going to sicker on you. And I'm like, yeah,
00:53:59.800
it's because you understand that your pit bull has a propensity towards violence. So let's just have a
00:54:05.760
little rationality here. And let's just try to do what is best, not just for ourselves, but also for
00:54:12.020
our neighbors. And that means sterilizing all pit bulls. Thanks. All right, we will be back here on
00:54:17.900
Monday. No, tomorrow. What's today? Today, Thursday? No, so we will be back here on Monday for more. See you guys then.