Margot Robbie, the star of the new Barbie movie, is being criticized as not very pretty. Also, California Democrats have blocked a bill in the state to make child trafficking a felony. We ve got both of these stories and much more on today s episode of Relatable.
00:00:00.480Margot Robbie, the star of the new Barbie movie, is being criticized as not very pretty or quote unquote mid by those who we might consider in the red pill community online.
00:00:14.160I'm going to talk about why this discourse actually matters is much deeper and is much darker than it may seem on the surface.
00:00:22.480Also, California Democrats have blocked a bill in the state to make child trafficking a serious crime or a felony.
00:00:33.400We've got both of these stories and much, much more on today's episode of Relatable, which is brought to you by our friends at Good Ranchers.
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00:00:52.480Hey, guys. Welcome to Relatable. Happy Thursday. Hope everyone has had a wonderful week.
00:01:00.480Thanks for bearing with me for just the difference in audio and visual just a little bit.
00:01:06.060Also, if you're watching on YouTube, I'm recording remote and will be next week as well.
00:01:10.560But then after that, we will be back in the studio.
00:01:14.080And just a heads up, I wasn't planning on talking about this yet, but we're going to have to talk about it sometime soon.
00:01:19.220I'm going on maternity leave for several weeks come August, in the middle of August.
00:01:26.560But as I have the past two times I've been pregnant, we have prepared episodes for you in advance.
00:01:34.100And so you're still going to have four episodes a week, even during the 12 weeks that I am gone.
00:01:39.700And I just really care about you guys getting really good content.
00:01:43.880And the interviews that we have done and the episodes that we have done, I have been dying for you to listen to.
00:01:50.720It's actually been really hard for me to hold on to some of the ones that we have because they're so good.
00:01:55.820And I know that you guys are going to love them so much.
00:01:58.000I've just wanted to release them so you could go ahead and listen to them.
00:02:04.440And so from mid-August to I guess it's November, I'll be on that maternity leave and you will still be able to hear my relatable voice every day.
00:02:15.960And I'm sure I'll still be on social media somewhat on Instagram, but I will be, you know, largely taking a break.
00:02:23.920But I'll let you know when the baby comes and all that good stuff.
00:02:27.720But yeah, there's a lot to look forward to, even for maternity leave.
00:02:31.120I didn't want to just leave you guys hanging.
00:02:34.740So a lot of good stuff coming your way.
00:02:38.760Now that that's covered, let's go ahead and get into some of the things I wanted to talk about today.
00:02:42.860At the end of the week, especially when I have multiple interviews, there's always so much that I want to get to that I didn't get to discuss.
00:02:48.840So right at the top, I wanted to talk about the story that I saw floating around yesterday on Twitter.
00:02:54.400And that is about California Democrats in the state legislature blocking a bill to make child trafficking a felony.
00:03:03.920Now, you know, when I hear something like this, that is too, almost too bad to be true.
00:03:08.980I always want to approach it with a level of skepticism.
00:03:13.940When I'm seeing conservative headlines and conservative influencers saying something that sounds just too horrific to be completely 100% true,
00:03:25.480I always want to dig into it before sharing my opinion or sharing a headline.
00:03:30.440And that was true when it comes to this.
00:03:33.500And yet I have also been in this news world enough to know that typically, like when you hear a terrible headline like this about Democrats support, say,
00:03:43.160or don't support legislation that protects babies who survive abortion, it does usually end up being true.
00:03:49.920Whereas on the other end, when you hear that, oh, Republicans don't want, you know, poor people to get baby formula,
00:03:56.180you dig into it and you realize that that's not what happened at all.
00:03:59.520So, of course, both sides have the propensity to exaggerate and to misinform and to lie to make their own side look better.
00:04:10.440But again, when it comes to horrific legislation that I see Democrats supporting or really good legislation that I see them fighting against,
00:04:19.560it almost always ends up being a completely true story.
00:04:23.620And that is true when it comes to this legislation, the Democrats blocked in the state of California.
00:04:28.880So here's the headline and the summary is from Breitbart in AP News.
00:04:33.320So we've got some right and left going on here.
00:04:35.840California blocks bill to make child trafficking a felony.
00:04:42.760California Democrats block bill to make child trafficking a felony.
00:04:48.520A Democrat run committee of the California State Assembly blocked a bill Tuesday that would have made trafficking a minor a serious felony.
00:04:56.060The Republican bill had already passed the state Senate unanimously.
00:05:01.440OK, Shannon Grove, a Republican from Bakersfield.
00:05:20.320So Shannon Grove introduced the bill, SB 14, which also notes that California leads the nation in reported cases of human trafficking of minors.
00:05:30.300The inclusion of trafficking a minor as a serious felony would make that crime ineligible for plea bargaining in most circumstances and would require that the crime be included under the state's 1990s era three strikes law, allowing for life imprisonment after three felonies.
00:05:46.840However, Grove noted Tuesday the Public Safety Committee, led by Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer, a Democrat from South Los Angeles, declined to advance the bill.
00:05:56.040Jones-Sawyer is also the author of a bill that would allow judges to use criminal sentencing to rectify racial bias in the criminal justice system.
00:06:05.140So that is CRT speak for saying that judges should issue sentences based on the color of one's skin in order to make up for the disparities that exist because a large, a largely disproportionate segment of the of the black population and the Hispanic population commits crimes and therefore gets sentenced to prison in the state of California.
00:06:31.760And really, this is a national issue as well.
00:06:34.020So rather than looking to fix the disparities in other ways to actually try to get to the root of the problem, rather, he is advocating that judges issue rulings based on partiality, based on the melanin count that you have, rather than the severity of the crimes, rather than making decisions in the interest of public safety.
00:06:56.320And, I mean, this is as anti-justice as you can possibly get.
00:07:00.880Now, this is social justice because social justice is concerned exclusively with eliminating disparities and not actually truth or impartiality or public safety.
00:07:14.980I mean, as we've talked about several times, I know this is just an aside, but as we've talked about several times, especially in 2020, God lays out exactly what justice should look like when it comes to the judicial system.
00:07:26.780And there are four characteristics that we see over and over again in God's law giving to Israel.
00:07:54.360Those are for at least four characteristics of God's justice.
00:07:58.260And so issuing a sentence based on someone's melanin count is the exact opposite of that.
00:08:03.680You can also read James 3 to see what God thinks about partiality and impartiality.
00:08:10.000God hates partiality when it comes really in general, but when it comes to law giving, especially in law enforcement.
00:08:19.360So this guy in the in the assembly, the Democrat, is anti-justice.
00:08:26.080That is why he decided not to allow this bill to advance that would make child trafficking a serious felony.
00:08:33.680So here's what Grove said, the Republican who authored this bill in a statement.
00:08:40.000She said, I had hoped Democrats in the Assembly Public Safety Committee, led by Reggie Jones-Sawyer, would agree to make sex trafficking of a minor a serious felony.
00:08:49.100I'm profoundly disappointed that committee Democrats couldn't bring themselves to support the bill with their stubborn and misguided objection to any penalty increase, regardless of how heinous the crime.
00:08:58.240Human trafficking of children is a growing tragedy that disproportionately targets minority girls.
00:09:02.540And so she's kind of appealing to things that Democrats say that they care about.
00:09:07.260And California is a hotbed because of our lenient penalties.
00:09:11.080The sad reality is that trafficked children across California will continue to be raped and victimized until Assembly Democrats take action.
00:09:19.980SB 14 was voted down in the Assembly Public Safety Committee with six Democrats abstaining and two Republicans voting aye.
00:09:25.760Longer sentences don't actually stop things from happening.
00:09:30.700Assembly Majority Leader Isaac Bryan, a Democrat from L.A., said during Tuesday's committee hearing,
00:09:36.420all they do is increase our investment in systems of harm and subjugation.
00:10:43.600So if y'all can message me on Instagram, comment on YouTube and let me know.
00:10:47.200Like, has there been any objectively good legislation, helpful legislation, just legislation come out of the California state legislature in recent years?
00:10:58.420Or has everything just been a perfect demonstration of exchanging evil for good?
00:11:04.460I mean, has there been any truly bad legislation?
00:11:12.600And the answer might actually be yes, because some of I'm having some memories of these things.
00:11:17.200Has bad legislation actually been stopped successfully in the state of California recently?
00:11:23.560Like, I respect the people who stay there and are fighting hard and are light in that state.
00:11:29.860But man, it's getting more and more difficult to see these as political discussions when it's so clearly light versus dark.
00:11:39.440Not saying all Republicans are saved, not saying all Republican legislation is perfect, not saying being a Republican is salvific in any way.
00:11:47.860But when you look at the things that Democrats support and oppose, it's evil.
00:11:53.340Remember a few weeks ago, when I responded to Obama's inane and wicked tweet, mourning the overturning of Roe v. Wade and mourning the fact that babies have been saved because of a lack of abortion access, because of the pro-life laws that have been enacted as a result of Roe v. Wade.
00:12:42.620Those are all morally preferable to voting for the party.
00:12:47.320That can't even, in the state of California, one of the bluest states, if not the bluest state, bring themselves to oppose child trafficking.
00:12:58.060They can't even bring themselves on the federal level or the state level to support legislation that would protect the lives of children after they survive abortion.
00:13:08.980They can't even bring themselves to oppose in any way the chemical castration of minors.
00:13:14.480Like, that's what the Democrat Party stands for.
00:13:17.380So you don't have to love Republicans.
00:13:19.260You don't have to think Republicans are perfect.
00:13:22.140But there is absolutely no justification for the Christian to vote Democrat.
00:13:57.220Well, yeah, they do these bad things, like support the chemical castration of minors in the state of California, threatening the custody that parents have of their children if they don't support their child.
00:14:11.200We're talking like six and seven years old, switching genders.
00:15:15.820They say that they help the poor and you're judging their policies on their stated intentions rather than on their results.
00:15:21.480If they were really helping the poor, if they were really helping the marginalized, if they were really lifting up those on the bottom, you would see that these blue cities, that these blue states are doing well.
00:15:33.200But instead, you're scared to go to San Francisco with your kids.
00:15:37.220Instead, you don't want to walk around downtown New York City anymore.
00:15:41.640Instead, you can't even go to parts of Philadelphia.
00:15:45.340Denver has become in large parts a tent city.
00:15:49.600Austin is no longer the fun place that it used to be.
00:15:52.240All of these cities that are run by Democrats have become remarkably worse over the past 10 years thanks to the progressive policies that you are using to erroneously justify voting for this evil, wicked, brutal, pro-violence, pro-crime party.
00:16:09.500And so even the justifications, the empathy-laden justifications, the compassion-centered justifications that I hear people give for why, as a Christian, they vote Democrat.
00:16:22.140Because they believe in all this stuff that helps the poor.
00:16:30.780I'm not saying the government doesn't have a role, but do not delegate your responsibility to vulnerable people in society, to the state.
00:16:40.380I know that might make you feel better, that you can feel like you are really compassionate without ever getting off the couch.
00:16:47.040But remember, God loves a cheerful giver, not a giver that is giving their resources out of compulsion, which is what paying your taxes is.
00:16:56.220Like, you're not a good person because you're paying taxes.
00:16:59.180You're forced to pay taxes or you're going to go to jail.
00:17:01.920Okay, that doesn't make you empathetic and compassionate.
00:17:03.940That doesn't make you a lifter up of the marginalized and the poor.
00:17:07.720So I will just say again, and I don't care what kind of backlash this gets.
00:17:11.600It's actually amazing that this is controversial.
00:17:14.260Christians should never vote Democrat, period, period.
00:18:04.340Or are you just voting for them because they believe in raising taxes to give handouts to people which haven't helped in the past 60 years since the welfare state really started taking off even more than it already was?
00:18:42.540Like, this is even – like, I'm thankful for this bill, but it's soft at the end of the day.
00:18:48.540Traffickers should get the death penalty.
00:18:49.840A trafficker of minors – like, no three strikes here.
00:18:54.760Like, if you are proven guilty through due process, an impartial process, and you trafficked a person, and you trafficked a minor, execution.
00:19:08.060It's not even – it's not even a question.
00:20:00.980So we've had this conversation that has unfortunately broken down into like a left-right issue in a lot of ways, a Democrat-Republican issue in a lot of ways, the whole sex trafficking conversation.
00:20:14.680You have the left-wing media saying that this is an exaggerated problem, it's not really that big of a deal, and that it has been hyperbolized for the sake of grifting by conservatives.
00:20:29.000I mean, that's literally the reporting that we talked about Monday that's in places like the Rolling Stone.
00:20:33.660It's really disgusting how they are just so brazen and putting themselves on the side, whether they say that they're doing this or not, of sex trafficking.
00:20:43.240The more excuses you make for it, the lower the penalties are, the easier it is.
00:20:47.500And also, the more open borders you are, the more in support you are of sex trafficking.
00:20:52.660Again, whether you admit that or not, as Tim said on Monday, like, sex trafficking knows no borders, but sovereign countries do.
00:21:01.040In that conflict, then, is the opportunity for people to come in and enact justice and rescue those children.
00:21:08.800So unfortunately, that has turned into like a left-right conversation, which it shouldn't.
00:21:12.740I'm sure there's a lot of people who identify as progressives who would say they are against child sex trafficking.
00:21:18.480And yet, it's definitely conservatives who have been the ones talking about it more, especially in recent years.
00:21:26.660And yet, there's this very strange elevation of some segments of the right, which I'm not saying are pro-trafficking, but are definitely pro-objectifying and subjugating women.
00:21:40.420Like I mentioned yesterday, the whole interview with Andrew Tate and Tucker Carlson, what I saw of it was very interesting.
00:21:47.520I mean, it's an interesting conversation to hear between, you know, Tucker and a very, very controversial figure.
00:21:56.700Andrew Tate is someone who says a lot of things that are true.
00:21:59.720He says a lot of things that are true about society, about progressivism, about where we've come as a culture, about masculinity, about responsibility, hard work, discipline,
00:22:11.660that make a lot of people nod and say, yes, finally, someone is saying this.
00:22:15.480But he has also said on camera several times how he has made his money, and that is by making young women, young, I mean, in some cases, young girls.
00:22:27.320He actually said in an interview on camera, he first said, oh, 15, 16-year-old girls.
00:22:32.720I mean, what's the age of consent in the United States?
00:22:38.260Maybe I'll play some of these videos next week.
00:22:40.240And he's talked about how he made his money was taking these girls or taking these women and making them fall in love with him, having sex with them, convincing them because they are now faithful to him, loyal to him, convincing them to do webcam videos for, you know, male customers, I guess, wherever in the world.
00:23:00.860And then taking a portion of the money that they're making.
00:23:06.100Now, that's not even what he's being charged for in Romania.
00:23:10.200I can't say anything about the legitimacy of the charges that he's facing.
00:23:28.960Okay, TikTok, maybe it's not TikTok, but he has admitted, he's talked about very publicly that he basically manipulated these young women into making webcam videos so he can take a portion of the money that they're getting.
00:23:42.680And then he created something called the PhD course, which is short for the Pimpin' Hoes course or the Pimpin' Hoes degree, where he teaches other men how to do this.
00:23:57.540Now, I'm not saying these girls were technically kidnapped.
00:24:00.340I'm not even saying that they were technically, forcibly, physically coerced into doing what they were doing.
00:24:06.740But regardless of whether he is guilty of the crimes that he is being accused of, he is not someone that should be hoisted up as a hero.
00:24:16.960Just because he says some things that are true, we can acknowledge that, maybe says some things that are even helpful for people to understand, doesn't mean that he should be celebritized in any way.
00:24:29.760And yet there is certainly a segment of men who would probably call themselves right wing, maybe they would call themselves conservative, maybe they would call themselves red pill.
00:24:40.120Red pill is a reference to basically seeing things as they really are.
00:24:44.780And as I've talked about a couple weeks ago, the red pill movement has shown itself to be, in a lot of ways, extremely degrading to women, blaming women for all of the problems that society faces, blaming women for all of men's issues and all of men's disappointments and all of men's failures.
00:25:07.760If women would just be a certain way, then maybe men would step up and society would be better, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:25:14.040Like you see this all over Twitter and I'll give some examples today.
00:25:18.200But part of this segment of the Internet that really hates women, that really thinks women are gross.
00:25:24.560And like like I've said before, like there's a very thin line, I think, between this hyper masculine red pill movement and actual homosexuality, because they're just talking all the time about how like terrible and gross women are.
00:25:37.260And how amazing and wonderful and Adonis like men are and how terrible they have it in one part of the conversation is, you know, constantly judging women by their looks.
00:25:49.720And for some reason, Margot Robbie has become the center of this discourse because she's starring in the upcoming Barbie movie.
00:25:57.120Right. And so they are these these men online, you're talking about how Margot Robbie is not actually very pretty.
00:26:12.780And I'm not saying that all these people who who are saying this identify themselves as part of like the red pill community.
00:26:22.240I'm not sure that they would even describe themselves like this, but this is just talking about a phenomenon that whether people realize that or not are really like affecting how they think.
00:26:31.260And so bad Billy Pratt says and this has over forty five hundred likes, two point six million views.
00:26:39.860He's responding to one of the advertisements of the Barbie movie.
00:26:43.420Margot Robbie was cast in Barbie explicitly because she isn't pretty enough to alienate a female audience.
00:26:51.280OK, and here are some more examples, people replying to that.
00:26:55.400And then someone said someone named Nick said this is her without makeup.
00:27:26.720And so there are a lot of tweets like this.
00:27:29.060There are a lot of tweets like this on Twitter that have lots of engagement of saying Margot Robbie is really not that pretty in the 80s and 90s.
00:27:45.560So here are some examples of what I'm talking about, of this whole like red pill, hyper masculine, allegedly world that I think kind of just like characterize or help us understand like why this discourse is even happening about Margot Robbie.
00:28:33.100You probably don't want to listen to this with your kids in the car being horny to look past how annoying a woman is to take an interest in her.
00:29:09.280These tweets have a lot of engagement.
00:29:11.120So the Daily Beast wrote an article kind of about this phenomenon in 2017, about who they believe started the Internet's most popular forum for men's rights activists.
00:29:21.680It's a subreddit called are the red pill.
00:29:25.100And it's known for just like hating women.
00:29:30.040Apparently, there was a representative from New Hampshire.
00:29:34.100Robert Fisher, who admitted writing some of the material.
00:30:24.620You know, a lot of people in these communities say online is basically procreation, having sex with them, you know, all this, all this stuff.
00:30:35.260Now, of course, is feminism as an ideology a problem?
00:31:23.000Like, let's see what we're comparing them to, really.
00:31:26.340I really think it's just a way of making them feel better, stronger on some kind of pedestal.
00:31:33.440The reality is if Margot Robbie showed any of them even just like a modicum of attention, they would be over the moon excited about it.
00:31:43.000But as we talked about a couple of weeks ago when we talked about the whole trad wife culture that is not the same thing as biblical marriage and biblical gender roles.
00:31:53.820It's cosplaying as a secular form of traditionalism.
00:31:57.420Like, and the same thing with, like, red pill stuff.
00:32:01.660Like, there is this undercurrent of hatred and objectification of women that has really been enabled and exacerbated by porn.
00:32:11.100Like, these men who spend all their days talking about how terrible women are.
00:32:14.500One, I think that they're homosexual, probably.
00:32:22.880Like, I think that their brains have been completely mushed up by pornography.
00:32:28.980That they actually think that a natural, beautiful woman is mid or is ugly or is insufficient, is a three, whatever it is, because they have been fed incessantly unrealistic images of women.
00:33:12.600I mean, I basically wrote a whole book, You're Not Enough and That's Okay, about how women are so easily manipulated by the lies of our culture and how we should change that and how we can change that through the power of the gospel.
00:33:28.800So I'm not someone who is saying, oh, women are the victims of everything here.
00:33:33.360But I also won't say that men are the victims of everything here.
00:33:36.260And I think man-hating, husband-hating online is really toxic and gross when it comes to feminists or when it comes to women in general.
00:33:51.260Jesus Christ gives us something better, that we are all made in the image of God.
00:33:55.740We are not powerless victims, that we ourselves have innate value, and we, through the power of Christ, have the ability to love other people, to see them as fellow image bearers, to see them as people with dignity.
00:34:10.000Not someone who is a source of all of our problems, not someone who needs to be demonized because of their sex or their race, but someone who God made specially with purpose in their mother's womb.
00:34:24.120And then we also see a beautiful depiction of what relationships and sex and marriage should be throughout Scripture in Ephesians 5.
00:34:31.920Once again, God has the answers to the questions, the solutions to the problems that our secular world is facing.
00:34:40.120Andrew Tate is a secular answer to the real problems that feminism and some of the lies of our society have brought to us.
00:34:51.620But a secular solution is no solution at all.
00:34:55.640An anti-gospel, anti-biblical solution is going to lead to just as much loss, just as much despair, just as much brokenness as the progressive secular solution as well.
00:35:29.680She put a video out this week about this, too, about how apparently in these like man forums, there's actually a debate about whether having.
00:35:37.860And sorry, again, adult conversation here, having sex with a woman is actually gay because women basically are so terrible.
00:36:28.240And I haven't I just had haven't had the chance to respond to this yet, even though I did post about it on Instagram.
00:36:33.320Uh, this story came out via CNN, July 7th.
00:36:39.040Um, and the headline is this Kentucky couple furious that state abortion laws meant they could not hold their daughter to say goodbye right away.
00:37:25.940But strict Kentucky abortion laws meant that they couldn't.
00:37:28.720They were furious that the laws meant that they never got to kiss or cuddle their daughter.
00:37:32.180Willow rose to tell her goodbye, which, of course, is absolutely terrible.
00:37:36.440In April, Heather found out that her daughter was diagnosed with anencephaly when Heather was five months pregnant.
00:37:42.040This condition means that her daughter was missing a major part of the brain and would either be stillborn or die very quickly after birth.
00:37:47.800We've talked about this diagnosis before there.
00:37:51.140I mean, sometimes they can live for a little bit longer after birth, but it really is a fatal diagnosis, which is very sad.
00:37:57.560And so I have a lot of compassion, a lot of sadness for this couple who had to hear that news.
00:38:03.540The Mayberries wanted to terminate the pregnancy, so they wanted to have an abortion.
00:38:37.700The abortion is prohibited in Kentucky after the heartbeat is protected.
00:38:41.740It only makes an exception for the life of the mother.
00:38:45.660And even then, the physician has to make reasonable efforts to keep the child alive.
00:38:53.940So they went out of state to get an abortion.
00:38:57.680Their Kentucky Medicaid insurance wouldn't pay for it.
00:38:59.800The procedure would have induced birth, that would have induced birth, would have cost them tens of thousands of dollars when they went out of state.
00:39:12.460Instead, they had to settle for a much less expensive surgical procedure, but that procedure does not leave the fetus intact.
00:39:19.640And so they're talking about a, they're talking about like a D&E abortion, a dilation and extraction, because this is going to be brutal to hear.
00:39:30.700But at this point, the baby is so big, you can't do a suction of the baby out of the womb the way that you can in the first and even into the second trimester.
00:39:42.400You have to dilate the cervix so the baby can come out.
00:39:45.820And we're talking about an almost viable baby at this point, a pretty large baby.
00:39:51.320And so the baby has to be killed first and then dismembered and then taken outside of the womb.
00:39:58.240That way it's a very, very violent way to die.
00:40:01.640And I mean, typically what has to happen is we've talked about before, a needle with poison is injected into the mother's abdomen, into the amniotic sac, sometimes directly into the wiggling living baby's heart to cause a heart attack that causes fetal demise.
00:40:21.420And then if that's successful, the child dies and is then dismembered and taken out of the womb.
00:40:28.280And so this is the procedure that they had to have at this point in pregnancy rather than inducing labor and being able to hold their whole child.
00:40:39.800And so they are blaming this on the fact that they weren't able to they weren't able to do that in Kentucky because, one, it's illegal.
00:40:47.580And two, they weren't able to do it outside of the state because Kentucky Medicaid wouldn't cover it.
00:40:54.520So is that like so what they're saying is that because they had an abortion, a dismemberment abortion, they weren't able to hold their child.
00:41:13.040And I still have compassion for the diagnosis that you received, but you did not have to abort your baby.
00:41:17.660There are babies born with anencephaly every year.
00:41:22.340And yes, you have to carry that baby to term.
00:41:26.160And then that baby gets to lay on your arms, gets to hear your heartbeat, gets to feel your love, gets to hear your voice, and then they die.
00:41:36.880And so for people who say, oh, my goodness, you would want this baby to live longer and suffer.
00:41:42.320Well, she's going to suffer in the abortion.
00:41:43.980She's going to suffer during her violent murder.
00:41:48.100So would I rather this child be violently murdered, painfully murdered inside the womb?
00:41:53.020Or would I rather this child be given as much chance as she possibly can and then die in the loving and warm arms of her mom and dad?
00:42:04.400Yeah, I'm going to opt for the second because I'm not a monster.
00:42:08.480And so this has nothing to do with the Kentucky law.
00:42:12.800I mean, the Kentucky law did exactly what it was supposed to do.
00:42:15.980They made it as difficult as possible to kill a child just because that child had an adverse diagnosis.
00:42:23.600But CNN wanted to make it and make us think that this family incurred, endured some kind of brutal injustice and had stolen from them the opportunity to hold their child because of Kentucky.
00:42:38.040No, they have stolen from them the opportunity to hold their child because they decided that it was better for their child to be dismembered than to be born.
00:43:06.260You will have to know what the procedure entails.
00:43:08.300You have to understand, like, Kentucky abortion law, what is actually being said here, because this is what journalism is, mainstream journalism is nowadays.
00:43:19.040You start with a conclusion and then you tell the story to try to support that foregone conclusion, which is not what it's supposed to be.
00:45:12.880But it also, like, kids bring an exceeding amount of joy and fulfillment.
00:45:20.340Like, that is the beautiful thing about sacrifice, that the world gets wrong, that Christianity gets right, that sacrifice and generosity and the giving up of yourself, the dying to yourself is actually the most fulfilling and satisfying mode of life.
00:45:35.080Now, I'm not speaking to those people who don't have kids, who want to have kids.
00:45:39.600There's not in that stage of life yet.
00:45:40.900Or maybe that's just not what God has for you, which is totally fine.
00:45:43.560You can find sacrifice and fulfillment, giving sacrifice in other ways, certainly.
00:45:50.620But for people who glorify their child free by choice because of selfishness lifestyle, trying to glorify it.
00:45:59.800Well, I mean, that's a that's a character issue.
00:46:17.840He's done research for a very long time on family structure and what actually brings happiness and satisfaction to people, especially children.
00:46:25.140And so he responded to this with some research.
00:46:28.620And he said this amidst the culture's increasingly antinatalist turn.
00:46:33.960It is worth noting that parents are less lonely than the childless.
00:46:37.980Parents report more meaningful lives than the childless.
00:46:40.280Parents report more happiness than the childless.
00:46:43.680Life for parents is less lonely, more meaningful and happier, according to the graph that he posted.
00:46:48.820This is according to the Wheatley Institution family COVID story, May through June 2021.
00:46:54.840And so 59% of non-parents said that life is lonely some slash most of the time versus 45% of parents.
00:47:02.660Life is meaningful some most of all of the time.
00:47:05.86075% of non-parents say this, but 83% of parents say this.
00:47:13.88082% of parents say this versus only 68% of non-parents.
00:47:19.620Like there is just something to the ordering of life that includes the adding on of responsibility, the adding on of obligations, the adding on of sacrifice and inconvenience that matures a person.
00:47:33.180And that maturation, I think, is necessary to healthy development and fulfillment and happiness.
00:47:38.600Again, that doesn't mean that you can't be happy if God has decided that you're not going to have children.
00:47:45.580But I do think it is up to human beings, it is up to adults to find ways to sacrifice, to find ways to inconvenience themselves, to find ways to serve other people,
00:47:55.600to find ways on a daily basis, to not make it all about them, to find ways to even make life more difficult on behalf of other people, to meet the needs of other people.
00:48:08.680I talked about in my book, Trending Narcissism and celebrating and worshiping the God of self, the cult of self-affirmation, this God of self-religion that I've been talking about for a long time.
00:48:22.380And certainly not just me, but I wrote a book about it a couple of years ago, like it has a lot of people say it brings them happiness.
00:48:29.400But then when you get really down to it, like when you look at their lives and when you really talk to them, you realize that they're just chasing after the next high.
00:48:37.680They're just on this hamster wheel to try to find their best self, to find that next thing that is finally going to fulfill them.
00:48:45.760It's finally going to make them happy.
00:48:48.220The pursuit of fleeting happiness constantly, the pursuit of just self-fulfillment is a dead end.
00:49:01.420So whether it's children, which I think that every married Christian couple, except for some few exceptions, I think biblically, you should be pursuing children.
00:49:13.300I don't think that, again, there are some maybe biblical exceptions to that.
00:49:18.220But I would say for the vast, vast, vast majority of Christian married couples, you should be having kids.
00:49:28.100You should or you should not put off having kids for the sake of travel, for the sake of convenience, for the sake of just wanting to sleep in, for the sake of just like wanting your freedom.
00:49:36.760I don't see any biblical support for the idea that kids are burdened, that kids are getting in the way of your travel and career goals.
00:49:42.880And so you should just put them off and not have them.
00:49:45.460There's a lot of wisdom, a lot of discernment in people's varying circumstances that need to be employed.
00:49:50.980A lot of prayer when it comes to how many kids you can have.
00:49:54.880I'm not sure that the Bible gives an explicit answer on that.
00:49:57.860But we do see the principle that children are a blessing, that we are beneficiaries of children.
00:50:03.700Psalm 127, 4, like arrows in your quiver are the children of your youth.
00:50:09.060Some people have a hard time with that verse.
00:50:20.820This world today likes to think that everything that is difficult, everything that is sometimes unwanted or that you don't want to do in the moment is toxic or wrong or should be put off.
00:50:37.340And thank goodness that we have the perfect example in Christ of someone who did the difficult thing, drank the cup on our behalf to show us what love really looks like.
00:51:05.880The chaos is not going to have the final word, the exchanging the truth of God for a lie, the subversion of what is good and right and true.
00:51:29.340And Psalm 37 is such a comfort to me as I remember that, is that I let that give me the peace that sometimes I need when I look at the world and I'm like, oh my gosh, everything is stupid and everything is simple and everything is sad.
00:51:44.920Well, one day Jesus is going to do away with stupidity and sorrow and sickness and sin.
00:51:50.740And there is absolutely nothing that can inhibit that perfect plan of redemption.
00:52:10.740Another announcement for you as we end out the last relatable episode of this week.
00:52:16.740And that is that Blaze Media partnering with the family leader in Iowa.
00:52:24.180They are a pro-family, pro-marriage, pro-life organization.
00:52:27.080They are hosting something called The Summit tomorrow on Friday.
00:52:30.420It is the first presidential forum of the election season.
00:52:33.240Unfortunately, former President Trump will not be there.
00:52:36.540He was obviously invited, but he decided not to be there.
00:52:39.860It's going to be hosted by Tucker Carlson and you've got Ron DeSantis, you've got Nikki Haley, you've got you've got Vivek Ramaswamy, Tim Scott, Mike Pence.
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