Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 691 ｜ Pit Bulls, Assisted Suicide & a Message to Christian Schools

00:00:00.000 Pit bulls. Is it the owner or the breed? I've got a lot of thoughts about this in light of some

00:00:05.620 recent tragic stories about pit bull attacks. There's also a tragedy playing out across Canada

00:00:11.700 as they increase access to assisted suicide even among minors. But first, I've got a message to

00:00:20.600 parents and to teachers and administrators at Christian schools to stay the course and to make

00:00:27.860 sure that your school is grounded on the Word of God when it comes to issues of justice and race and

00:00:36.660 sexuality and gender. So that's what we'll start out with. This episode is brought to you by our

00:00:41.920 friends at Good Ranchers. Go to goodranchers.com slash Allie. That's goodranchers.com slash Allie.

00:00:45.900 Okay, y'all. I told you that we would be talking about something controversial. So buckle up. We'll

00:01:00.860 get to that in a little bit. There are so many other things I want to talk about today. And even

00:01:05.600 as I am speaking right now, I don't know everything that we are going to get into. A lot of it we'll

00:01:12.500 have to cover next week because it requires in-depth analysis. And so I promise I will cover

00:01:18.860 everything that you guys have been asking me to talk about for the past week and a half or so.

00:01:22.960 If you haven't listened to yesterday's episode or the day before where I covered Kanye and Herschel

00:01:29.120 Walker and all that stuff, then go ahead and do that because that answers a lot of the questions

00:01:33.980 that you guys have been asking me on Instagram. All right, before we get into some of these subjects

00:01:38.120 though, I do want to take a minute to just encourage you based on a conversation that I had

00:01:44.440 yesterday with a friend. So this friend, kids go to private Christian school and there is a

00:01:53.880 conversation going on from the administration to the parents of the students there about things like

00:02:03.020 racial inclusion and so-called racial justice. And what this administration seems to be finding

00:02:08.920 is that their attempts at diversifying the student body, their attempts at trying to appease the groups

00:02:18.800 that are calling for greater representation and changed curriculum and for teachers to be talking to

00:02:27.620 white students preemptively about the harm of racism and microaggressions. They're finding that this is not

00:02:34.840 enough. That the demands from the group of people who basically want this school to be teaching the

00:02:44.660 tenets and the principles of critical race theory are ever-increasing and they are overwhelming.

00:02:50.820 And I'm listening to my friend describe this and she's not a very political person. She also happens

00:02:58.520 to be a racial ethnic minority herself and she doesn't agree with a lot of the changes that are

00:03:06.240 being made and what is being proposed by this private school in order to become more quote-unquote

00:03:14.000 equitable and diverse. Doesn't agree with a lot of the complaints being brought forward about a so-called

00:03:20.680 lack of representation or the need for curriculum to represent the racial makeup of the entire

00:03:27.580 world. And so I know this school. I know this Christian school and I know some people that go

00:03:36.360 there and what I need parents at Christian schools, what I need administrators and teachers

00:03:42.920 at Christian schools to realize is that it will never be enough. It will never be enough. As soon 1.00

00:03:51.800 as you start trying to teach students that white means oppressor and that black and brown means

00:03:59.260 inherently oppressed, as soon as you try to equate obedience to God or righteousness or compassion or

00:04:08.340 inclusion with superficial diversity quotas, you will find yourself going down a path that ends in

00:04:22.400 submission to every single cultural demand that is placed on the table today. It will never be enough.

00:04:36.900 As soon as you start playing that game, as soon as you move beyond as a Christian school saying,

00:04:44.240 hey, everyone is made in the image of God and we are kind to everyone, no matter what you look like,

00:04:52.920 no matter what your background is, no matter what your nationality is, no matter what your socioeconomic

00:04:58.600 background, we are all equal in worth, equal in value. And according to the gospel of Jesus Christ,

00:05:05.080 we are all equally dead in our sin or equally alive in Christ by grace through faith. We do not carry

00:05:10.920 the historical shame of people who maybe looked like us hundreds of years ago. We don't even carry

00:05:16.580 the sin, shame, and guilt of our own parents. As soon as you move beyond that biblical message

00:05:26.020 and you start adopting the language of secular social justice, you start adopting the suggestions

00:05:33.560 of people who insist that in order to be truly Christian, you have to treat the white students

00:05:40.160 and the black students and the Hispanic students and the Asian students different based on the

00:05:44.480 assumptions of the collective oppression of each group, I promise you that you will end up on a path

00:05:51.040 to compromise. And while your intentions are pure and are loving and are compassionate and you just

00:05:58.940 want to make everyone feel included and accepted, I understand that. As soon as you start treating

00:06:06.140 students differently when it comes to what you warn them about, what you chastise them about,

00:06:11.660 what you tell them that they can and cannot say based on their skin color, I promise you,

00:06:18.600 you are on a path to compromise that will eventually end in you looking more like the world's definition

00:06:25.060 of love and inclusion and compassion than the Bible's. Because what we know from scripture,

00:06:31.140 what we see over and over again is that God hates partiality, that he does view us all with the same

00:06:37.020 inherent value and worth. And we are judged not by our skin color, not by our nationality,

00:06:44.040 but by who we are in Christ. And so I just encourage you, parents of students at Christian

00:06:51.520 schools, I encourage you administrators and teachers at Christian schools, stick to that message.

00:06:58.760 Stick to the gospel. Stick to the Bible's definition of justice, the Bible's definition of love,

00:07:06.620 the Bible's definition of compassion, you trying to meet superficial diversity quotas simply to say

00:07:15.820 that you do, simply to say that you have fewer white people or fewer Asian people, simply to try to get

00:07:22.840 the applause of the world. I promise you it will simply never be enough. Diversity absolutely can be

00:07:31.040 a strength. It can be a good thing. It can be something that is beneficial to any community, to any

00:07:39.100 entity, to any school, or to any organization. But only, only if that diversity is brought together in a

00:07:50.780 unified agreement on core principles. And in the case of Christian schools, on the gospel, diversity for the

00:07:58.180 sake of diversity is not a strength that we see outlined in scripture. Like there is absolutely

00:08:05.300 no qualification in scripture for the church or for the body of Christ that every local church or every

00:08:13.180 local school has to have a particular kind of racial makeup in order to be righteous and holy.

00:08:19.300 That's just not how it works. That's not God's standard of love. You stand on the gospel. You stand on

00:08:25.260 scripture. You stand on what is true. You stand on what you know about what God thinks of human beings

00:08:33.180 and you stand on that biblical definition of equality. You teach kindness, you teach impartiality,

00:08:42.020 and you teach love. Do not get into the game of acquiescing to worldly demands for so-called social

00:08:54.240 justice. And we'll, I'll link some past episodes about what critical race theory looks like. Most

00:09:01.440 people who spout the tenets of critical race theory say that they have nothing to do with critical race

00:09:08.200 theory. A lot of things that fall under the umbrella of critical race theory, which is an all-inclusive

00:09:14.000 worldview that is diametrically opposed to scripture and to the Christian worldview. A lot of the tenets of

00:09:21.480 it sound Christian can sound compassionate, can sound somewhat biblical, but will ultimately destroy 1.00

00:09:27.500 your organization. And it will neither help the white students or the non-white students in your 0.91

00:09:32.320 school. So I'm just encouraging. I, you know, I can't, we can't control necessarily what public schools

00:09:38.180 do, and they are part of the spirit of this age. They are. They are going to go down the path of

00:09:43.680 secularism, even in the most conservative districts. Eventually, the schools that are not

00:09:49.100 moored by the gospel will go the way of progressivism. That's just how it goes. It hasn't

00:09:53.940 happened to your public school yet. It will. But it can also happen to Christian schools. If you do 0.97

00:09:59.360 not know what God has to say about the individual, what God has to say about human worth, what God has

00:10:05.300 to say about what love looks like and what justice looks like, you are just going to adopt the secular 0.99

00:10:10.380 terminology about race and justice. And I promise you will end up compromising on everything else too,

00:10:15.100 and you will benefit no one. So if any parent or any student has a problem in your Christian school

00:10:21.240 with you simply sticking to the gospel when it comes to how you teach your students how to treat

00:10:26.120 people, if they have a problem with equal treatment, if they have a problem with your number one goal in

00:10:32.660 the school not being diversity or not being some kind of superficial racial quota, but simply

00:10:39.320 being advancing God's kingdom by equipping students to preach the gospel to love God and to love their

00:10:46.520 neighbor, then let them have that problem. You stick to the truth. You stick to what's right. I'm very

00:10:51.960 passionate about that for churches and for Christian schools because we have to be a refuge of clarity and

00:10:58.900 of courage in a world of chaos. And like I said, I will link some past episodes on that because I

00:11:04.680 really, really, really, really want Christians to know what biblical justice actually looks like

00:11:08.580 and what the biblical approach should be to these contentious issues of race and diversity.

00:11:27.580 Okay, guys, there's just so much that I want to discuss. I was just saying to my team just a second

00:11:31.900 ago that I am overwhelmed with the number of things that I want to talk about. And it's really

00:11:36.040 difficult for me to choose. Okay, I think before we get into our pit bull thing, I do want to talk

00:11:42.340 about this story that I saw on Barry Wise's substack. And I'm going to write an article about it probably

00:11:47.940 for World Magazine because it's just so disturbing and speaks to so many worldview issues that we talk

00:11:53.400 about on this show. And the title of this article is called Scheduled to Die, The Rise of Canada's

00:11:59.580 Assisted Suicide Program. And it's about this young man who was able to get an appointment with a so

00:12:08.340 called doctor. I don't really understand how you can call yourself a doctor and still be actively doing

00:12:14.240 harm as your profession. But I guess that's true when it comes to the maiming of the genitalia of 0.96

00:12:19.720 children who are apparently confused about their gender. Do no harm is no longer part of a real part 0.83

00:12:26.760 of the oath that some doctors are taking. In fact, I actually just saw as an aside, there is

00:12:31.600 a medical school in Minnesota where the students at their white coat ceremony were reciting their

00:12:44.720 pledge. And the pledge had to do with honoring indigenous methods of healing and trying to heal

00:12:53.980 the oppression that colonialism and white supremacy and the gender binary have placed on people.

00:13:01.240 That is terrifying. Terrifying. The people who are in charge of you living or dying believe that the

00:13:10.540 gender binary, which is the basis for a lot of unique health problems for men and women, that it's

00:13:17.960 depressive. That's troubling. Now, I am not against the medical industry opening themselves up to more

00:13:27.180 holistic and alternative treatments that could possibly work. I do think that because the medical

00:13:34.620 industry is so in bed with big pharma and because the insurance racket that we have in our country

00:13:41.480 makes it profitable sometimes for hospitals not to actually pursue healing but to pursue prolonged

00:13:49.120 sickness, like I'm open. I'm open to, I don't know if I'd call it indigenous methods of healing,

00:13:55.740 but I am certainly open to doctors allowing themselves to study other forms of healing than

00:14:01.700 just putting people on pharmaceuticals and keeping them in the hospital indefinitely. That's fine.

00:14:07.920 But to believe that it is a doctor's job to somehow alleviate the alleged pain that colonialism and

00:14:16.140 white supremacy and the gender binary is causing, like that's really troubling. But that's what 0.94

00:14:23.720 revolutions do. You know, that's what progressive revolutions do. And a lot of people, they want the

00:14:32.480 revolution, they want the progressive revolution to stop at the point that it may affect them. A lot

00:14:40.140 of people who consider themselves woke or progressive really don't want their doctor to be ideologically

00:14:46.380 motivated when it comes to their treatment. You want a doctor that can do a good job, that knows what

00:14:51.240 they're doing, that cares about their patients, and is just going to do whatever they can to keep you

00:14:55.100 healthy and alive. You don't really want them pursuing social justice means when they are trying to

00:15:01.520 prescribe you medicine or when they're operating on your heart attack, right? Like you don't want

00:15:07.220 hospitals to be trying to meet racial quotas or to discriminate people based against people based on

00:15:13.700 their skin color, right? And yet that is what social justice ends up as. But the revolution doesn't 0.88

00:15:19.060 stop where you want it to stop. And so the progressive revolution, which has now, which started a long

00:15:25.800 time ago, the sexual revolution, it started a long time ago, with the breakdown of traditional gender 0.54

00:15:32.860 roles, even with the rise of hormonal birth control, and taking, and taking apart the family and dismantling

00:15:45.540 gender and trying to rearrange a healthy understanding of race to be something that is constantly divisive

00:15:57.780 as oppressed versus oppressor based on historic wrongs, all of that is going to make its way into

00:16:06.080 every institution. That's what it does. It's in our military. It's in major corporations. It's in the

00:16:11.220 federal government. It's going to characterize academia and curriculum and hospitals and the

00:16:19.480 medical industry as well. That's just what the revolution does. And this progressive revolution,

00:16:25.260 part of it also is the belittlement of human life, is the objectification of human beings,

00:16:37.300 because it is a secular and a godless ideology and worldview. Whereas the Christian worldview is

00:16:44.080 based on the idea that we are made by God. And because of that, he tells us who we are. He calls

00:16:50.560 us male or female based on the body that he gave us. We are made in his image, and therefore we matter.

00:16:56.680 We have value. We have souls. We have eternal worth. We're not just clumps of cells. We're not just

00:17:02.080 arbitrary lumps of matter, but our bodies, our souls, our minds actually have innate value. That is the

00:17:12.100 basis for human rights. That is the basis for rights and care and privileges that go beyond what

00:17:19.600 plants and animals are entitled to, because human beings are different as made in God's image, and

00:17:25.280 therefore our life matters. Therefore it is wrong to take innocent life. That is why God hates murder so

00:17:31.820 much that he said the only just punishment in Genesis 9-6-4 murder is actually the death penalty.

00:17:38.860 I've talked about the death penalty many times. Also, you can go back and listen to episodes on that,

00:17:43.560 where I talk about the importance of capital punishment when it comes to crimes like murder.

00:17:47.980 But God cares about the body. God cares about human life. And so abortion is an affront to him.

00:17:55.120 It's an affront to the Imago Dei. But so is the next stage of this progressive secular revolution, 0.55

00:18:04.120 and that is so-called dying with dignity or euthanasia. And that is what this article is about

00:18:11.100 in Barry Weiss's Substack. It is about this 23-year-old man by the name of Keanu Vafayan,

00:18:18.280 I think that's how you pronounce his last name, who was depressed. He had a sickness. He didn't

00:18:24.280 have a job. He didn't have a girlfriend. And so he was able to make an appointment to get

00:18:28.720 quote-unquote medical assistance in dying. And basically, he was able to meet with a doctor

00:18:34.520 a couple times. And they basically said, sure, we will allow you to die. We will assist in your

00:18:42.580 death. And we will basically inject you with a chemical. It'll just take a few minutes. And then 1.00

00:18:47.800 you'll be out of here. Well, his mom figured this out and tried every way that she could to 0.76

00:18:53.200 try to stop him from dying. And actually, when she called this clinic to try to get more information

00:18:59.060 about this procedure, the doctor was like, oh, you know, if you're interested in it, I'm happy to

00:19:04.720 see you as a patient. I'm happy to open you up to a consultation. And we'll see if we can kill you

00:19:09.740 as well. This is something that is happening across Canada. According to Canada's Department 1.00

00:19:15.760 of Justice, parents are generally entitled to make treatment decisions on their children's behalf.

00:19:20.300 The mature minor doctrine, however, allows children deemed sufficiently mature to make their own

00:19:24.880 treatment decisions. And so we're looking at not just a case of 23-year-olds, which is,

00:19:31.100 I mean, still, your frontal lobe isn't even developed. And so not only are you making a morally

00:19:36.720 atrocious decision in general, but also you're making it before you can even fully comprehend

00:19:42.120 what this means. But also in Canada, they are allowing minors to do this as well. So if a minor,

00:19:49.640 I mean, it makes sense, right? Like if you're going to say that a minor can mutilate their body because

00:19:55.240 they feel on the inside that they're the opposite gender, if they can make that kind of life-altering 1.00

00:20:00.880 decision, which ends in sterility and permanent maiming of your body and inhibition to healthy

00:20:08.360 bodily functions, then why wouldn't you be able to just decide when you want to die,

00:20:14.100 even without parental consent? Like you see the demonic, the satanic, the evil end of this,

00:20:21.280 that it always ends in the devaluing of human life. And it's the movement that says that they are the

00:20:26.500 ones who actually care about human life and the most vulnerable. Like it is all connected by the

00:20:31.700 way. Like you can't take it a la carte. Like this progressive secular movement starts with the idea

00:20:37.840 that we are all cosmic accidents and therefore anything goes. It starts with the idea that there

00:20:43.840 is no God. And so it's going to redefine sex. It's going to redefine gender. It's going to redefine

00:20:50.800 justice. It's going to redefine good and evil, right and wrong, what morality is, even reality.

00:20:59.960 So it starts with that and therefore anything goes. And as countries chip away at their moral

00:21:07.140 foundation, something will fill the vacuum that Christianity and at least the Judeo-Christian

00:21:14.400 worldview wants filled. And that is secular progressivism. And secular progressivism,

00:21:19.940 everywhere it spreads, like a cancer kills. And it literally, in this case, kills. It allows for 0.88

00:21:27.800 abortion. It allows, again, for the brutal maiming of a body for people who claim to be 0.88

00:21:33.020 confused. It ends in incentivizing crime, incentivizing poverty and homelessness, government

00:21:39.520 dependence, taking away the purpose that people derive from productivity and jobs. It breaks down

00:21:45.520 the family. It makes fatherhood demonized and arbitrary. It takes away the authority that God

00:21:51.480 has given to parents to steward and care for and to protect their children. It destroys everything

00:21:57.740 that is good. So you see why voting matters. Like you see why politics matter so much. In a lot of cases,

00:22:05.760 it's literally a matter of life and death. And that is part of why I get so frustrated when I see

00:22:11.820 Christians who try to be on board with one part of the progressive revolution, thinking that the 0.95

00:22:17.320 revolution is not going to show up on their doorstep and try to attack their kid and disciple their

00:22:23.200 children and recruit their family. It's going to happen. It all starts with the assumption that there

00:22:31.580 is no God. That's how you get to a place like this. That's how you get to a place like this.

00:22:37.780 Um, there is a doctor that is mentioned in this piece, Dr. Derek Smith, a psychiatrist at the

00:22:43.240 University of British Columbia, um, who views the rise in, uh, medically assisted, uh, medically

00:22:50.360 assisted suicide deaths as progress. Smith never took the Hippocratic oath. He said, because he thought

00:22:56.260 it was archaic. He said, it's about relieving suffering, respecting human dignity, like dystopian.

00:23:02.920 It's always the opposite with these people. It's always the opposite of what is true. Relieving

00:23:07.040 suffering and respecting human dignity. You're actually killing a person. Also, I want to say

00:23:11.600 like, this is where I say this a lot. Uh, this is where this idea that virtue simply means the

00:23:19.020 presence of consent gets you, but consent is not enough to decide if something is moral or ethical

00:23:27.440 or even should be legal. That is where hyper individualism gets you. That is where the idea

00:23:33.660 that the individual is God, that the individual is sovereign, that we shouldn't be anchored by

00:23:39.840 any objective morality or universal truth or any collective set of values or any kind of moral or

00:23:49.160 biblical foundation. But you do you, you decide your own truth. You become your own God. You're your own

00:23:56.680 arbiter of morality. It's an exchange of the God of scripture for the God of self. And if you are your

00:24:04.120 own God, then you will do whatever it takes to worship you. And that means doing whatever feels

00:24:11.360 good at the moment, no matter what anyone else says, no matter what ethics or the law or morality

00:24:18.140 says. Again, that is the consequence of that. Consent is not enough to determine whether or something,

00:24:24.740 whether or not something should happen or whether or not something is good. So I don't really give

00:24:30.280 like a rat's patootie, whether or not a 17 year old or a 25 year old or a 55 year old 0.85

00:24:37.380 consents to being poisoned by their doctor. My belief in human beings is made in the image of God. My

00:24:46.680 belief that murder is wrong because we are made in the image of God prohibits me from being on board with

00:24:52.660 that. There are a lot of things that people consent to that are not right and should not be legal. Like

00:24:58.520 you can allow yourself to think and imagine for one second what some of those things could be. But

00:25:04.300 there are actually doctors that have a lot of influence that actually think that this is progress,

00:25:11.480 that this is good. This doctor goes on to say it's about recognizing the inherent right for individuals

00:25:16.740 to make decisions affecting their health and even their death. Patients who are going to die were

00:25:22.860 assisted along the way with high doses of narcotics. The rationale was to make people comfortable. I

00:25:28.940 mean, that is murder. And you know, this is not just happening, by the way, with people who have their

00:25:33.600 faculties. This is also happening. This is also happening to people with special needs. This is happening to

00:25:41.840 the elderly. This is happening to people who are sick. And yes, they might say, oh, technically,

00:25:46.620 they consented to this. But very often, the stories that we hear are stories of being pressured to so-called

00:25:56.660 die with dignity. It's just a fancy word for murder.

00:26:11.840 Also, this is not just happening to 17-year-olds, so-called mature minors. It's not just happening

00:26:21.080 to 23-year-olds. This is also happening to babies. There was a study out of Belgium that showed that

00:26:31.040 doctors there killed 24 babies in 15 months because they had, quote, no hope of a bearable future.

00:26:41.840 So, I mean, what does that look like? What is the definition of that, by the way? Who gets to

00:26:46.600 decide that? I mean, I can tell you when you have state-run medical care, when you have Medicare for

00:26:53.460 all, when you have single-payer health care, I can tell you who decides that. And it's the state.

00:26:59.700 The state will decide who lives or dies. You don't think that could be possibly abused to

00:27:05.440 kill not just people whose society deems, whose society deems not valuable, people with special

00:27:14.860 needs, but also people who have bad opinions, people who have committed wrongthink, political 0.98

00:27:24.020 opponents, communities of people that don't want to be, that the government doesn't want to deal with

00:27:29.260 anymore. You think that we can't go that direction? I think we've seen at this point that the slippery

00:27:33.260 slope argument is not really a fallacy because everything that the conservative right, the

00:27:37.460 religious right, predicted would happen, especially when it comes to this sexual revolution over the 1.00

00:27:42.800 past 10 to 20 years has happened, even worse than we thought. I don't think we ever thought that there

00:27:47.700 would be grown adults endorsing things like, quote, unquote, family-friendly drag shows. And yet,

00:27:53.720 here we are. I don't think that we ever thought that 12-year-old girls would be getting their

00:27:57.480 healthy breasts removed at hospitals like Kaiser Permanente in California. And yet, here we are. I

00:28:04.480 don't think that we ever would have thought that boys are getting castrated because they say that

00:28:07.920 they're a girl when they're 15 years old. And yet, here we are. And so, anything that you can imagine

00:28:15.040 happening as a result of a particular progressive policy, it's just a matter of time. Like, it likely

00:28:21.980 will happen. And so, if you allow this in, if you allow to say, oh, well, it's just, if they consent

00:28:29.180 to it, or they're having a really hard time, or they're depressed, or they're miserable, but they're

00:28:34.820 a mature minor, or they're 25 years old, they're an adult, they can do this. I promise you that opens

00:28:41.460 the door to worse atrocities than you can even imagine, and they will all be legal. They'll all be

00:28:47.260 legal. So, a little more about this story that was published on Barry Wise's Substack. It says,

00:28:53.820 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 0.82

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 0.98

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 0.73

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 1.00

00:36:15.280 attack. That's what happens with a pit bull attack because that is how they were bred. That is what 0.99

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, 1.00

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 0.98

00:37:53.160 attacking her, completely mauled her, almost took her arm off. The dog tore off two-thirds of Taya's 0.99

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 0.90

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, 1.00

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 0.99

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 0.96

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, 0.90

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.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - October 13, 2022

Ep 691 ｜ Pit Bulls, Assisted Suicide & a Message to Christian Schools

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